Please join me for an Ask-me-anything session live on twitch!

This will happen on Monday at 11am PDT. See this link for the time in your local time zone: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=January+20th+11am+PST

I'll also go over all the new updates and I'll be answering questions from the community live on twitch at https://twitch.tv/FizzerWL .

If you can't make it but still have a question, leave it as a reply in this thread and I'll go over it on stream. You can view the recording after it's over.

EDIT: It's over! You can watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/7y6XcL-J9WA

Edited 1/20/2025 20:38:59

Do iPhone users have a chance of seeing emojis in the future? Asking for a friend

(Thanks for all the hard work though. I like the thorough update notes as well.)

Will you update the descriptions and photos on the ios/andriod app stores? The photos seem a little dated on the ios store.

Thanks for the latest update, it's good to see Warzone gets better everytime an update is added.
I noticed a trend that a complete new idea is added, then in later updates bugs and feedback is used to improve the new ideas.
I believe this will keep Warzone popular for the players and I stay, even after all these years, enthousiastic about Warzone.

I have some ideas for the future.

Auto games and quickmatches are based from templates already exist, but I believe this can be more extended:
It would be nice if there is an option/button for auto-games, quickmatches and for players to create a game with randomized settings and view them before creating.
I think it would increase the awareness of all the possible settings and how this turns out in games, making the warzone games even more divers.
I would not go too crazy, to avoid to get errors or unplayable situations if some settings are combined (think about local deployment on maps with overlapping bonusses, or high neutrals with a low base income).
A randomizer button for selecting maps would also be nice
For myself I've created a excel randomizer to create randomized games and improve these where needed.

Another general idea.
How is the gap filled in games between starting players and loyal players?
I have the idea the games in the open tab are mainly for 50+ levels, but it is not fun if you've a low level and losing games because a high level player joins (I don't have that problem with my level)
Maybe it is a good idea to have a maximum level for joining games this to prevent beginning players losing too many games.
Or multiplayer games to let players learn after they can defeat AIs. AI is in general way easier to defeat then real players
Maybe it is good to come up with more ideas so beginning players stay for a long time.

A third idea: the option to make Spherical maps from a map. the planet is a sphere, not flat.
I don't know if this is graphical possible. I know I played Risk II where it was possible to put the map in a sphere or flat, whatever you like. This is an old game, in these times I hope more like a google earth idea where you can zoom and turn the sphere in all directions.

A fourth idea:
Make fast attacking orders for multi-attack.
on a big map it is really time consuming to make many multi-attack orders. It would be nice if there's an option to make a attack in just one click with instead of opening a dialog, if an attack needs to be specified then it would be nice if the dialog can still be opened.

Last idea for now.
I noticed the autopilot AIs are always making less inteligent orders then players in general. Is it possible to create smarter AI to play the game? I would also be intereseted in more information about making an AI for Warzone, is this possible?

Thanks for reading this and hope this helps for future ideas and updates.

Would you be willing to train a “stockfish” type of AI that looks at all the solutions to a reasonable depth and finds the best one based on that. As a result you could make a unbeatable AI. Or would you be willing to train an AI off of top player’s games to make a realistic human AI?

Because we all know that the current AI sucks and does not play the game at more then a new player’s skill level.

What is your spirit animal?

Regarding the CW API:

1. Can you add a string with the name of the templates?
Manually building a looking table of id to name and keeping it up to date with any changing templates that we (hopefully) get in the future, sounds like a lot of effort to do (especially keeping it updated), and is prone to human errors.
Alternatively having to do an additional API call just to find the name of a template, if that is even possible, also doesn't seem like the most ideal solution to me.

2. Does the CW API work for open timeslots? E.g. just return the list of templates without any player data or something like that?

EDIT:
3. Just like with template names, please include the player names as well somewhere.

Maybe add an optional parameter for names in the url, so that those who want to do mass data gathering can just get the ids they need, while the people that just want to get full data for a single slot don't have to make ~60 API calls per slot to get the names for the players.

Edited 1/19/2025 20:37:44

Any updates on the court case?

Is it true that in CW, the templates added through community voting appear with much lower frequency than the others? If yes, what's the goal of this design?

According to data gathered by 7ate9:

Season 58
SEAD: Appearances: 60
ComBomb: Appearances: 63
SE1W: Appearances: 62
S1v1: Appearances: 65
CommLD: Appearances: 64
MALD: Appearances: 64
Volcano Island: Appearances: 24
French Brawl: Appearances: 23
Guiroma: Appearances: 22
Strat Greece: Appearances: 29
S2v2: Appearances: 41

source: https://www.warzone.com/Forum/808954-clan-wars-template-balance-data-suggestions

Edited 1/19/2025 16:42:39

Do you keep up with the https://www.warzone.com/Forum/805005-issues-groups thread, or would you prefer us to send in bug reports?

Is it intentional that the CW API gives back PlayerIDs instead of ProfileIDs?

Other than identifying a unique player, they can't be mapped back to the actual profile on WZ.

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Edited 1/20/2025 19:06:27

Put tourney invites in next update, pretty please?

https://www.warzone.com/Forum/768811-put-prerequisites-tournaments-settings

In the last update, this feature request was completed: https://www.warzone.com/Forum/773589-position-attack-orders-list

It's interesting that the order numbering only appears if you issue over 30 attacks. Why is that so? :p

Edited 1/20/2025 19:15:14

Any ideas to rework the map of the week system at some point? It feels like most good maps that deserve to win it never show up, while it only shows new maps that aren't always so great. Who is picking those maps?

How is your doggo doing? Post a new pic to the puppy thread sometime :)

https://www.warzone.com/Forum/713436-free-puppy-thread

Hi Fizzer! Happy New Year!

Would it be possible to implement the option of other types of tournaments, such as the cup/league type? As I suggested in the Feature Requests Forum:

https://www.warzone.com/Forum/796684-cup-new-tournament-type

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