Hello,
Since you have taken up updating our beloved game Warcraft 3, could you please consider bringing back the 45-second waiting window when a player is lagging, instead of just dropping them from Battle.net? Alternatively, you could implement a reconnect system similar to what Gabe N did in his games, giving players a 5-minute window to reconnect to the match. We are living in 2026 after all, and we would love to see the game evolve. Right now, a simple disconnect results in an instant, frustrating loss.
Thanks.
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No one is “dropping you.”
And the Waiting For Players box and timer was and is trash.
A real solution would be a proper ability to reconnect and rejoin a game if you disconnect or if you crash. the waiting for players screen makes the game stop completely for everyone, which sucks, and pretty much everyone just mashed drop players as soon as the game allowed them to.
The entire reason it’s different is due to the fact that games are hosted on servers via a proxy, instead of being peer-to-peer like the original game was. In most respects, a server based system is far superior as one person lagging doesn’t ruin the game for everyone else, only they have to deal with their lag directly.
We do need a reconnect/rejoin feature. But “WAITING FOR PLAYERS” is not it. I fully support a real solution, just not the half-baked hard stop with a timer that was originally created for the game’s peer-to-peer networking system it originally used.
Also, this is not a bug report, so if you could please move your thread (you can do this by editing the original post) to the main forum which is actually for feedback, it will be seen by more people.