I'm playing WC3 with mouse controls this time, feels very much like Freelancer. However, this appears to break the afterburners on ships. All the guides / manuals say that TAB is afterburner. However, when you're using mouse controls, you have to double right-click and hold down the right click button to afterburn. That should help anyone having issues chasing down missiles

TAB worked fine a few months ago. Not sure why you have this problem. Mouse has nothing to do with TAB. Plus I used mouse with TAB with no problem anyway and played to the end with it.

From my notes: afterburners hold tab (~ to toggle)

I will assume its from confusion due to the age of the game. I have it too. That is why I finally made notes on it. When time goes by even exiting this game isn't fun.