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Season 19 will see an introduction of a new Custom Game ladder - Direct Strike is coming to W3Champions!
Our friends over at Team OZE (creators of Legion TD) have taken over the Direct Strikeproject in the beginning of this year, and their first huge release of the map - version 4.0, will now be available on the platform.
Direct Strike is a 3v3 gamemode where players' units clash in waves fighting to destroy the opponent's base. It will test your ability to strategise your unit choices and placement, resource management, and ability to counter your opponents' compositions.
As usual, we will see some resets on the other ladders:
There will be a 100% MMR Reset for FFA.
There will be a 25% MMR Reset for Legion TD 1v1, and Legion TD 4v4 RT and 100% for Legion TD 4v4 AT, the last of which makes a return after being disabled amid last season. To ensure fair AT MMR, players will now be required to play at least 25 games of Legion TD on the 4v4 RT ladder before they can queue together with a group of 3 friends.
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1vs1
Total maps reduced from 14 to 13, number of vetoes unchanged
Removed Rune Maul
Terenas Stand replaced with Lost Temple
4vs4
Winterly Magic replaced with Black Forest
Winter Township replaced with Felror Coast
Royal Garden replaced with Blasted Lands
Blasted Lands is a classic Battle Net 4 vs 4 map. A few changes have been made:
Add critters
Fix doodad gaps
Fix wisp trees
Widen a few narrow paths
Add trees near tavern
FFA
Freezing Field replaced with Harvest Of Sorrow
Twisted Grove replaced with Hot Espresso
Vile Reef replaced with Legions Demise
ATR
Removed Tioga Pass, Drake Nostrum, Gloom Stalker, Circumvention and Withering Fields
Added Echo Isles, Twisted Meadows, Terenas Stand, Plunder Isles and Lost Temple
A shoutout to the map makers
A lot of the work you see on the maps that are tirelessly updated every season is thanks to the MMC (Melee Mapping Central) community. You might see names like Tenshi, JaleVeliki, Kaer, Meerel, Mafe, SaveOrcas, rhythmt and more mentioned often but they are all a group of volunteers who love the game as much as we do and have spent a lot of cycles building these maps to be up-to-date for us to play and watch games on. Previously they worked with Blizzard to provide community maps for the BNET ladder. Updating existing maps (like LR, EI, SV, and TM) and improving them is also a significant effort that we want to show them gratitude for. You can always say hello, post suggestions, or join in, on their Discord server:
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