Ultimate UWC3 Beginner Tutorial - For Players

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Ultimate UWC3 Beginner Tutorial
Ultimate Warcraft3 is a plugin or addon for Counter-Strike which adds a whole new layer of complexity and gameplay to the standard first person shooter. UWC3 is derived from Pimp-Daddy's Warcraft3 Frozen Throne plugin, all of the skills and abilities from War3FT are available in UWC3 but where War3FT is a race-based game UWC3 is a freeform version without any races.

Earning Experience (XP)
When you enter a server running UWC3 you will not be presented with any menus, you may not even realize at first that the game is any different from your normal CS game. This soon changes as your performance in the game starts to earn you experience (XP), and whenever you are awarded any XP a chat message will appear informing you of how much XP you earned. You are awarded experience for the following actions:

Killing or seriously injuring an enemy player which one of your teammate kills (you must have delivered the most damage to the enemy)

Performing CS based objectives such as planting the bomb, defusing the bomb, rescuing hostages, escaping as the VIP.

Using "team-aid" skills for the benefit of your team, such as healing a teammate's wounds or repairing armor for a teammate.

Enhancement Experience (E-XP)
Some servers running UWC3 will be running an addon called Enhancements, which provide an independent flow of experience called enhancement experience or E-XP. E-XP can be used to purchase enhancements to your character Attributes and build a defense system using Resistances. You will be presented with a menu each time you have earned enough E-XP to purchase an Attribute enhancement or a Resistance point, you can see details about these attributes and resistances on our enhancements page. A brief version of that info is available in game, say /help for a menu which has this info.

Strength
In UWC3 your strength attribute helps determine how much damage you can take in battle before being killed. Enhancing your strength will give you an increase in your base level of health.

Intellect
Your intellect is an important attribute that can help your success with various magic-based skills. Different levels of intellect affect different skills as follows:

Intellect 11) Increased success with Impale attacks
Intellect 12) Increased money siphoned with Siphon Mana
Intellect 13) Increased success with Banish
Intellect 14) Increased success with Hex
Intellect 15) Increased success with Bash
Intellect 16) Improved damage with Trueshot attacks
Intellect 17) Adds 2 serpent wards to your arsenal and decreases refresh time for Teleport
Intellect 18) Enhances Big Bad Voodoo to last for 4 seconds

These bonuses are additive, so at levels 18 all of the bonuses are in effect.

Dexterity
Enhancing your Dexterity will give you an improved chance of using your Evasion skills to avoid taking weapons damage. Mastering Evasion and maximiizing your Dexterity can provide a noticable aid in combat.

Agility
Is speed your thing? Enhancing your Agility will provide an increase in your base level runspeed which stacks with Unholy Aura based increases. A master in Unholy Aura with maximum Agility will be a blur on your screen.

Constitution
Your Constitution determines your body's ability to bounce back after taking damage. Enhancing your constitution will allow you to slowly heal when damage is inflicted. Constitution-based regeneration stacks with Healing Wave.

Training Skills

When you have earned enough XP you will hear an audible indicator and a message that you have raised a level. In addition the Skills selection menu will appear on your screen with the first page of skills, some of which are highlighted (the skills you are able to train at level 1) and the others are not. Any skills listed which are not yet trainable display the level needed for you to be able to train the skill. You can return to the skills selection at any time to examine all of the available skills by saying /selectskill. You can also examine the skills and their descriptions.

Abilities and Ultimate Abilities:
Eventually as you rise higher in level you will come across skills which only have 1 trainable level. These are called Abilities and some of these abilities are known as Ultimate Abilities (there are some exceptions to this rule but generally speaking abilities have 1 trainable level). Where many skills are passive (meaning they work for you automatically) most abilities are not, you must issue a command to use them, each ability has a unique command.

Commands can be typed into your console or bound to keys so one touch of a key can use the ability you have that key bound to, this is of course the preferred method. For an example, Flash of Light is an ultimate ability that will temporarily blind your enemy (similar to a flashbang) and its unique command is wcflash. To bind a key to this command you would go into your console (use the `~ key to access the console) and type: bind key wcflash. For example bind c wcflash. From that point on hitting the c key will cause Flash of Light to go into action.

There are a limited number of keys available on your keyboard that are not already being used, so think carefully about the Ultimates and abilities you train and how you will be able to effeciently access them. Some Ultimate abilities are passive, such as Vengeance which will restore you to life one time in each round when you are killed, it is used for you automatically (you do not issue a command to use it).

Another exception is the Suicide Bomber Ultimate which can be used passively or triggered with the wcsuicide command. In the skills selection menu any abilities or ultimates which have a command associated will display the name of the command in the skills menu alongside it.

Brief Skills Overview
Here is a breif overview of the UWC3 skills, and what classicifaction they are in, as well as what level they are available to you.

Defensive/Beneficial Skills
These skills improve your ability to defend yourself against an enemy and/or provide buffs to your personal stats (health/armor/visibility)

• Level 1 Levitation Allows you to jump higher by reducing your gravity
• Level 1 Healing Wave Every x seconds you and your nearby teammates around you gain 2 HP. You will gain XP each time a team mate is healed.
• Level 1 Leather Skin Natural armor enhancement and regeneration
• Level 2 Devotion Aura Gives you added health at the start of the round.
• Level 5 Unholy Aura Gives you a speed boost, weapons will no longer affect your unholy speed
• Level 11 Blink Gives a chance to disable ALL enemy ultimates
• Level 11 Steel Skin [Requires 1 level Vampiric Aura and 3 levels Leather Skin] Upgrades your Leather Skin and allows Vampiric Aura to steal armor from your enemy
• Level 13 Invisibility Makes you partially invisible, you will be harder to see
• Level 24 Evasion Gives you a chance of evading incoming attacks

Mirror Damage
These skills cause harm to your enemies when their shots hit you.

• Level 8 Thorns Aura Your skin grows thorns causing mirror damage to the person who shot you.
• Level 3 Spiked Carapace Similar to Thorns aura with the bonus that your armor may also improve.

Offensive/Damage
These skills increase your ability to deal damage or deal extra damage through your atacks.

• Level 6 Serpent Ward You receive (1 to 3) serpent wards each round that damage nearby enemies ( bind a key to wcward to plant one )
• Level 11 Shadow Strike You have a chance of hurling a poisoned dagger at the enemy (causes poison damage over time)
• Level 9 Critical Strike Gives you a chance of doing double the normal damage
• Level 10 Carrion Beetles You have a chance of sending carrion beetles towards the enemy causing extra damage (causes disease damage over time and slower movement)
• Level 24 Trueshot Aura Does a substantial amount of extra damage to the enemy
• Level 12 Critical Grenade HE Grenades will do a good deal of extra damage
• Level 13 Napalm Grenades Each round your first he grenade will coat your enemies with napalm, anyone they touch will spread the napalm

Disruption
These skills interfere with your enemy's ability to wage combat.

• Level 1 Impale Causes the ground the shake beneath your enemy, making it difficult to aim effectively.
• Level 5 Hex Gives a chance of morphing your enemy into a less than desirable form (whose movements become spasdic)
• Level 6 Bash When you shoot someone you have a chance of rendering them immobile for 1 second.
• Level 7 Banish You have a chance of slapping your enemy and propelling them in a random direction.

Miscellanous/Utility Skills
Sills not falling into the other categories are here, their natures vary.

• Level 1 Equipment Reincarnation Gives you a chance of regaining your equipment on death
• Level 2 Siphon Mana Steal a percentage of the enemy's money, this skill is invaluable for securing the funds needed to wage effective warfare.
• Level 14 Syphon Amo Steals ammunition from your enemy and gives it to you!
• Level 3 Vampiric Aura Gives you a percentage of the damage you do in attack back as health. When used as a component for the Steel Skin skill, you will also have your armor strengthened from your attacks.

Team Aid
These skills aid your team.

• Level 4 Repair Armor (Note: You may only repair armor for a teammate, the ability does not work on yourself. This skill earns you XP through the aid of your team.)
  Each round you are able to repair armor for a teammate needing it.
• Level 4 Mend Wounds (Note: You may only mend wounds for a teammate, the ability does not work on yourself. This skill earns you XP through the aid of your team.) Each round you are able to heal some of the wounds for a teammate needing it. If you are trained in the 2nd skill level of Mend you are able to cure poison for your teammates. If you are trained in the 3rd skill level you can extinguish burning due to napalm grenades or flamethrowers.
• Level 13 Phoenix You have a chance of reviving the first teammate who dies
• Level 19 Fan of Knives Gives a chance of becoming a mole. Moles are disguised like the enemy and will spawn in the enemy camp allowing a chance at a surprise attack. Moles are also likely to be the first player killed in a round, so be on your guard.

Ultimate Abilties
These abilities vary in nature, some provide offensive bonus, others defensive or serve as utility skills. Players may train up to 3 ultimates. Most ultimates will NOT work against people who have blink maxed out, or are wearing the Necklace of immunity.

• Level 8 Teleport Allows you to teleport to where you aim (avoid ceilings).
• Level 9 Flash of Light This ultimate ablity temporarily blinds your enemy (the duration improves as you gain levels)
• Level 12 Big Bad Voodoo Provides invincibility for 2 seconds ( with exception to players wearing a Necklace of Immunity )
• Level 12 Gate Opens a gateway to transport you back to your spawn point and hopefully away from danger
• Level 14 Syphon Amo Steals ammunition from your enemy and gives it to you!
• Level 14 Decoy Spawns a fake of yourself where you aim your cursor
• Level 15 Chain Lightning Discharges a bolt of lightning that jumps to all nearby enemies
• Level 15 Vengeance Your first death each round will allow you to respawn with 50% health ( exception if you are the last living teammate you will not respawn )
• Level 16 Flame Strike Your weapon becomes a flame thrower (1 uses every 20 seconds)
• Level 16 Entangle Roots Allows you to prevent an enemy player from moving for 10 seconds
• Level 17 Suicide Bomber When you die you will explode killing nearby enemies

Magic Items - Shopmenu and Shopmenu2:
What magic-based plugin would be complete without the opportunity to purchase and use magical items? Ultimate Warcraft3 inherits the shopmenu and shopmenu2 from Warcraft3FT, including all of the items available at the time that War3FT version 1.6.4 was released. You can see descriptions in game of these items by saying itemsinfo and itemsinfo2.

The one item I will make note of here because of its importance is the Necklace of Immunity, which costs the player $800 to purchase (from shopmenu) and will protect the player from all Ultimate abilities and some other ones as well (such as napalm grenades and serpant wards).

If you find yourself with $800 after buying your gear at the start of a round you should highly consider purchasing a Necklace.
NOTE: Maxing out your Magic Resistance is the same thing as constantly wearing a necklace - but has some other added bonuses as well.

Resistances
Resistances allow you to recieve lses damage when affected, and gives you a higher chance of completely deflecting the attack recieving no damage.

• Poison Resistance
  Enhancing your poison resistance will give your body an added chance of avoiding poison-based attacks, maximizing your poison resistance will mean never seeing your life slip away after a Shadow Strike.
• Disease Resistance
  Enhancing your disease resistance will give your body an added chance of avoiding disease-based attacks, such as Carrion Beetles and Locust Swarm. Maximizing your resistance to disease will allow you to never worry about these two attacks.
• Electricity Resistance
  Tired of being blasted by a lightning bolt from your enemies? Enhancing your resistance to electricity will add the ability for your body to absorb damage from Chain Lightning attacks.
• Fire Resistance
  Two of the more heinous ways to die in UWC3 are from flamethrower and napalm grenade attacks, which keep causing you burn damage until you drop dead. Enhancing your fire resistance provides two levels of protection, allowing a chance for you to avoid burn damage outright, or if you miss that chance providing a last-ditch chance for you to at least slow down the burning so you can seek help from a medic.
• Magic Resistance
  Your character's magic resistance can help protect against a variety of special magic-based attacks, many of these are covered by the Necklace of Immunity. Working to enhance your magical resistance may allow you to forego purchasing a Necklace leaving other items available for your first item slot.

Player Commands

/war3menu Displays main UWC3 menu
/help Displays UWC3 help menu
/selectskill Displays menu to spend skill points
/selectattrib Displays menu to spend attribute points
/selectresist Displays menu to spend resistance points
/charsheet Displays your personal character sheet with information about your level, skills, attributes, and resistances
/who Displays a list of all players and their levels
/whois player name - Displays the character sheet of desired player. You can use a partial name as well.
/skillsinfo Displays menu for information on skills
/resetskills Resets your skills allowing you to change them next round
/resetattribs Resets your attributes allowing you to change them next round
/resetresists Resets your resistances allowing you to change them next round
/deletexp Deletes all your xp, skills, attributes, and resistances making you level 0 again
/shopmenu Displays menu to buy magical items
/shopmenu2 Displays second menu of magical items
/itemsinfo Displays information about items in shopmenu
/itemsinfo2 Displays information about items in shopmenu2
/level Displays your level and rank
/toggle_lowres Moves the items and ultimates text away from your chat text

Binding Keys
With all the questions out there on how to do this, or that, I figured I would post a small tutorial on how to do this.

First, some terminology:

Console
Console is a utility and command line interface that is brought up by pressing the tilde key (~). On most keyboards this key is directly under the escape key and above tab.

Bind
setting a specific key to a specific action so that when you press the key during game play that event occurs. Binding can be done for the standard keys from the standard menus, but for the mod specific stuff, you will need to bind from console. All bind commands are in the format of: bind key command

(Note: no quotes or punctuation)

Multi Key Binding

It is possible to bind multiple commands to a single button - for example you can bind wcmend, wcrepair, wcdispell all to one key, you can dispell the hex and repair the wounds and repiar the armor of a team mate all at once. if they dont have all of those ailments, it will only do the one(s) that are affecting them.

You could also bind multiple combinations of ultimates -such as Flash of light, entangle roots and chain lightning as an example.

You can multi bind as many items to one key as you like, but be carefull once you do, often times its quite hard to fix the original keys that items were bound to if you overwrite them.

Ecah command needs to be seperated by a semi-colin, and the entire command list needs to be encased in quotes. Spacing doesnt matter.

Syntax:
bind key "command1;command2"

(Note: Quotes and Punctuation REQUIRED)

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Here are the Items that you can bind. I will only tell you the name of the item, and then the command to bind. I am assuming that you have read the above portion explaining how to bind. Anything after the -> is the part to put in the "command" location.


Shopmenus

• shop menu 1-> shopmenu
• shop menu 2 -> shopmenu2

Skills

• Mend Wounds -> wcmend
• Repair Armor -> wcrepair
• Dispell Hex -> wcdispell
• Gate -> wcgate
• Teleport -> wcteleport
• Entangle Roots -> wcentangle
• Chain Lightning ->wclightning
• Serpent Ward -> wcward
• Flash of Light -> wcflash
• Locust Swarm -> wclocust
• Decoy -> wcdecoy
• Big bad Voodoo -> wcvoodoo
• Flame Strike -> wcflame
• Suicide Bomber -> wcsuicide

In Conclusion:
Ultimate Warcraft3 provides a wide assortment of features that enhance CS gameplay and we hope that you find the plugin enjoyable.

If you have any suggestions, problems, concerns, or just any question, please post them and let us know - most of us will be more then happy to help you.