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Khorne posted:23-2 in my last 25 croak games boys. MMR grind is dumb as poo poo in this game. It's like your point gain doesn't line up with the internal evaluation of rating after the placement period, because every game is like me (gr10) with a gr9 vs gr11s or gr10+gr11 with the occasional gr12s thrown in, usually on the other team. Most of the games were 3-0 or 3-1 wins also, so that's not why the grind is taking ages. Keep in mind that win streaks raise your uncertainty, which has a negative effect on your shown skill rating. Once you reach the point where you aren't winning the great majority of your matches, your shown ranking should shoot up as your uncertainty falls.
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Sokani posted:Keep in mind that win streaks raise your uncertainty, which has a negative effect on your shown skill rating. Once you reach the point where you aren't winning the great majority of your matches, your shown ranking should shoot up as your uncertainty falls. Except this doesn't really happen at all. When you stop winning, you don't magically start gaining points even for losing matches, so there's nothing in place to make "your ranking shoot up".
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AWWW YISSS PATCH TIME BABY (Tomorrow): http://steamcommunity.com/games/504370/announcements/detail/571221603308573812 2 new heroes, bunch of Halloween content, and a fuckload of balance changes. Looks great!
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AttackBacon posted:AWWW YISSS PATCH TIME BABY (Tomorrow): http://steamcommunity.com/games/504370/announcements/detail/571221603308573812 The main 4 heroes actually got some good/interesting changes.
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Dang those are pretty substantial. Rook getting a "dodge" is gonna take getting used to.
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These patch notes seem great. I love that they didn't just gut the current powerful heroes (which I guess would be Shifu, Ashka, Paloma?). The Rook changes seem really interesting - giving him a pretty short cooldown ability with iframes in Crushing Blow sounds really rad. Very interested to see how that turns out. I've been maining Varesh for the last week or so and I'm totally unsure how his changes will play out. The Tier 2 changes seem pretty rough - I felt like he got a good power bump in 2s with the heal on the shield Battlerite, and a nice bump in 3s with the longer snare when Shattering the Corruption debuff. The Silence duration buff being moved here seems pretttyyyyyy strong, though, as that's the one you're always really trying to shatter anyway. Tier 3 is really interesting, I think all the options are pretty good! I liked the Judgement on Wuju paired with Return from Tier 1, and it still looks good, but a bouncing Hand of Judgement there seems like it might be able to compete with double Wuju. Tier 4 looking pretty weird now. Either way it doesn't matter because I was a Seeker main in BLC and will almost certainly be transitioning to Jumong. Harbinger was super sweet too, and since I didn't really click with any of the melee guys in the original roster I'm excited to have a new one to try. Now all I need is some Blood Priest and I'll be feeling really good. Super amped to check this out tomorrow.
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Patch looks good even though my boy shifu is getting a small nerf, but I'll probably like Jumong a lot so I might get a new favorite.
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Removal of Freya's guaranteed incap makes me sad. Kind of hyped about 5% more move speed on croak.
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Catch me as the future #1 seeker NA. Heard it here first boys.
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quote:Concerns have been raised about the introduction of Unranked potentially splitting the playerbase too much. This concern is something we had in mind when we implemented the system, so let's do a deeper dive into how it will work and how we will prevent this. I guess thats a way to splitting the userbase as much. I'm curious as to what it will actually be like in effect though.
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I think it sounds fine, and agree that in 99% of cases people will just play as if it were ranked anyway. I think it's possible at the high-but-not-top-100 level people might try to game it a bit where queues are so sparse, but I doubt it'll last and also don't actually care if it happens.
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quote:If anything, this change should actually result in overall faster matchmaking queues. Basically the system will attempt to match unranked players versus unranked players and ranked players versus ranked players, but when enough time has passed without the system being able to find a suitable match, the matchmaking will allow unranked and ranked to play against each other.
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HMS Boromir posted:This part makes no sense to me. How could splitting the playerbase and merging it again when matchmaking takes long enough possibly make queues faster? Because it solves ladder anxiety and other psychological blocks to playing the "serious" game mode.
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Because it solves ladder anxiety and other psychological blocks to playing the "serious" game mode.
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Well, versus not playing at all, probably.
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Oct 20, 2016 21:35
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Huh, they will make me choose between nice axes on Bakko and thie shield charge, both of which are key to my current playstyle. At least Pearl is untouched as far as I'm concerned 
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Holy hell those Varesh changes are strong. A bouncing judgement and the shield giving movement speed plus damage is really useful. If you shatter your judgement debuff during the inhibitor shield that's 23 dmg I think. Other HoJ shots during the shield and debuff would go up to more than 30 per hit, and corruption about 14. The shield can be used to get out of bad positions if your wuju threw you out of position. God drat even the other stuff is good. Perma corruption? 3 stack shatters on that is like 3 seconds of crippling movement, and then silence increase in t2 is also a giant hit, which gives you almost enough time to ex m2 + E your opponent for another silence. Hell just keep corruption on them forever for the dmg and heal debuff. AWESOME. I can't play this weekend unfortunately, but boy I'm looking forward to smashing fools.
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The Jade changes are kinda disappointing, but drat those Sirius changes own. Also fuuuck I want that moose mount  
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Hi, haven't played since late September, Is Iva still good & fun and the best character in any game ever?
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Minrad posted:The Jade changes are kinda disappointing, but drat those Sirius changes own. HEy real cosmetics!
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Bread Set Jettison posted:HEy real cosmetics! Gallery of all the new cosmetic items/mounts/skins. http://imgur.com/a/3yWXC
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Whenever I play competitive MP games I tend to gravitate towards characters that have a pull and also I love skeleton dorks and spinning. I'm gonna play the heck out of Ruh Kaan, is what I'm saying.
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Geekslinger posted:Gallery of all the new cosmetic items/mounts/skins. Spiders are so In this year
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Countblanc posted:Spiders are so In this year need dat spider xbow for lucie
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I need spooky moose so bad
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Judging by the few voicelines he has in the menu - did they hire Elias Toufexis as the voice of Jumong?
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Good thing they're not actually splitting it anymore! Are you on all the drugs? 
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Kikas posted:Judging by the few voicelines he has in the menu - did they hire Elias Toufexis as the voice of Jumong?
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Guys, mister spooky scythe is really fun
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SirSamVimes posted:Guys, mister spooky scythe is really fun In my first handful of games people left after round 1. Some seeker on the other team who never did more than 50 damage in a round said "have fun being gr7 forever scrubs". Khorne fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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Update: both the new heroes are fun as gently caress
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SirSamVimes posted:Update: both the new heroes are fun as gently caress
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I feel like the reaper guy is bad cause he is super easily kited and the bow guy is bad because anyone who has a counter will clown on him without even trying, but that's just what I've been seeing in trench tier to be sure.
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I mean reaper has a dash, a port and a hook which I feel makes him kinda hard to kite.
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SirSamVimes posted:I mean reaper has a dash, a port and a hook which I feel makes him kinda hard to kite. The F (originally R, but if you didn't switch R and F in the keybindings I dunno who you are) is the only skill that is not extremely predictable and telegraphed, I mean he is more mobile than freya but she is literally the garbagest champ in the game bar none. Has anyone gotten a halloween drop from a normal gold chest?
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The new Rook is pretty amazing. There is a lot more survivability and mobility to him, especially due to the new and awesome battlerites. Two dashes?
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I have been bethorered by Croak's dadbod for a while, I have somewhat ascertained for myself that the look is due to his nipples being much too low on his chest, but why he has any niples at all is still a mystery to me.
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The new skeleton dude ult is real bad. It takes away your ability to dodge or shield, and you move as slow as molasses. Popping it is a free "kill me" sign. Everything else about him is pretty cool.
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Megasabin posted:The new skeleton dude ult is real bad. It takes away your ability to dodge or shield, and you move as slow as molasses. Popping it is a free "kill me" sign. Everything else about him is pretty cool. Yeah but his EX spacebar is broken as gently caress, I dunno why nobody uses it.
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