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p-hop posted:So basically Enigma from dota, but with a really cool base skin. Count me in. algalon's trait would be that certain abilities fade you to the astral realm for a short time which replaces the background texture with stars and causes you to take increased damage from his attacks and abilities talents to make auto attacks apply it, increase the duration, increase vuln, maybe one that makes collapsing stars leave voids as they die
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So I've added self-assigning roles to the discord server and region specific LFG rooms to make finding a match easier. http://tinyurl.com/sagoons After you join, use code:code:code:
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May 9, 2017 13:02
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^^^ yes, I did that, but what does it do? Is there a way to message people who are @here and in my region? Also, a silly thing from Reddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6CKWLjYf5w
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May 9, 2017 13:12
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So with D.Va's defense matrix. Should you put it over your own teammates, or over the red guys? Or does both work?
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May 9, 2017 13:15
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BrianBoitano posted:^^^ yes, I did that, but what does it do? Is there a way to message people who are @here and in my region? Yes. For example, go to the #lfg-us room, and use @here. That will notify all the @us players. or you can use @us from the #general room. GenericOverusedName posted:So with D.Va's defense matrix. Should you put it over your own teammates, or over the red guys? Or does both work? the red guys.
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May 9, 2017 13:16
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Nice, thanks. Still gonna use SAGoons in-game chat mostly, but if that's dead I'll check Discord. Also: https://i.imgur.com/YmGLQ5e.mp4
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BrianBoitano posted:Nice, thanks. Still gonna use SAGoons in-game chat mostly, but if that's dead I'll check Discord. Amazing
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May 9, 2017 13:34
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Now, the next question. Does it prevent damage to any non-Stitches enemies in the area? Probably not, but that'd be nifty.
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May 9, 2017 13:36
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Nephzinho posted:They've already said Fenix is going to have a death mechanic, there was an interview shortly after Leoric where they talked about wanting to space Fenix out from him so that people didnt' feel like they were too similar. I imagine we won't get Fenix for quite a while since we just got Dva who's got a death mechanic to change forms thing going on. I guess it makes since for them to use it on Dva since I imagine way more people know who she is these days vs a starcraft 1 dude.
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May 9, 2017 13:42
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Dietrich posted:So I've added self-assigning roles to the discord server and region specific LFG rooms to make finding a match easier. Can you turn off @everyone? @here is fine, but @everyone spam is dumb.
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May 9, 2017 14:25
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You can turn it off for yourself if you'd like. It's under the server settings option.
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May 9, 2017 14:27
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I'm so excited that I will be able to buy D.Va outright with the free gems I got when 2.0 came out  And I'd still have some left over!Also I'm in the PTR menu right now and I have no idea if the music that's playing is new or not but it is BUMPIN
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May 9, 2017 14:28
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Toshimo posted:Can you turn off @everyone? @here is fine, but @everyone spam is dumb. No easy way to do that. The @here and @everyone permissions are one in the same. If they split it out I'll lock down the @everyone and only use it for announcements. For now you can disable getting notified on that for the HOTS GOONS server.
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May 9, 2017 14:49
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Dietrich posted:No easy way to do that. The @here and @everyone permissions are one in the same. If they split it out I'll lock down the @everyone and only use it for announcements. For now you can disable getting notified on that for the HOTS GOONS server. That's not really a problem when people can just ping @eu or whatever instead of @here, though.
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May 9, 2017 14:53
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So I'm doing these 3 games in AI on the PTR to get the gems to buy D.Va to try her out in an actual game (it's the PTR guys just give her to me), and so I figured I'd gently caress around with Alarak. I've tried him before but I just didn't understand him because I didn't get why his ability to push people away from you was all that useful. I figured out BY ACCIDENT how that drat move works. I had no idea you held it down and then moved the cursor in the direction you want it to go. There's a lot of moves in this game where I feel like Blizzard isn't super clear on how they work, and this is totally one of those moves. Even with his description where it says "toward the targeted area" I didn't understand what that mean and thought well I just don't get this ability I guess. I feel like the description could do a better job at explaining how that move works. In any case, that move went from me being like ??? to !!!. I want to try Alarak in a real game later now
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e: ^^^ if you're interested in a hero, check their champion spotlight. Watch it at 2x speed if you don't have 4 minutes to spare. Blizzard should absolutely make things more clear, but in general watching someone else explain the champion is a good way to get some basics down. Server settings don't matter. If TCJimbo wants to play, you'll get a SA private message, a text, and a telegram. BrianBoitano fucked around with this message at 15:03 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 14:59
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A pro tip for potential alarak players, bind self cast W to a side mouse button or something easy to hit. When you self cast telekinesis it always casts on you in the direction you are moving. It makes it so you can always use it to scoot yourself in the direction you're already going 100% of the time without having to worry about dragging the mouse or miss-aiming.
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May 9, 2017 15:09
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Self cast is also ALT by default so you can just ALT + W to push yourself forward. I saw an Alarak that used his W exclusively to shove himself. It was hilarious. Why shove their one out of position guy into your team when you can shove yourself into the middle of their team?
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May 9, 2017 15:14
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Alarak seems like the kind of dude who has incredible power and only uses it to gently caress around to get on everyone's nerves so maybe he was role-playing
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May 9, 2017 15:19
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100% of the teams you'll see on PTR will have Alarak/Tyrande/D.Va and I can say that a good Alarak will be very frustrating to play against. His stupid silence thing lasts forever and he does some pretty scary midrange damage for a melee assassin.
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May 9, 2017 15:20
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In Hanamura it's fun to be Murky, bribe a turret and set it up near their payload, wait for the solo Greymane or whoever to show up and fish+octograb him within range of the turret so it gets to shoot at him for 3 seconds on top of the octo damage and the fish explosion, then slime his rear end on the way out.
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May 9, 2017 15:31
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https://soundcloud.com/hammehlore/dvabase-pissed-p10-converted
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May 9, 2017 15:45
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Shibawanko posted:In Hanamura it's fun to be Murky, bribe a turret and set it up near their payload, wait for the solo Greymane or whoever to show up and fish+octograb him within range of the turret so it gets to shoot at him for 3 seconds on top of the octo damage and the fish explosion, then slime his rear end on the way out. On his way out? All that work and setup and you don't even get a kill?
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May 9, 2017 15:46
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the more i play hanamura the more it surprises me how a map like this was produced so late in the games life cycle. the wide open lanes and fighting areas reduce the effectiveness of so many heroes by a precipitous amount. it feels like not much testing went in to it
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Relin posted:the more i play hanamura the more it surprises me how a map like this was produced so late in the games life cycle. the wide open lanes and fighting areas reduce the effectiveness of so many heroes by a precipitous amount. it feels like not much testing went in to it I feel like that is the least of the issues. A map where some heroes are bad is pretty good design.
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May 9, 2017 15:53
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I am surprised that they haven't reduced Bribe's value on Hanamura yet though. Make the big camp require 2 bribe stacks and boom, more balanced easy (?) fix. Maybe Blizzard doesn't see Bribe comps win too much to be worrisome.
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May 9, 2017 16:02
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BrianBoitano posted:I am surprised that they haven't reduced Bribe's value on Hanamura yet though. Make the big camp require 2 bribe stacks and boom, more balanced easy (?) fix. Maybe Blizzard doesn't see Bribe comps win too much to be worrisome. Changing mechanics to work differently on a different map would be the worst.
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I had a really bizarre QM game on Hanamura that was 2 tanks, 2 support, medivh vs 3 tanks, 1 support, cassia. It was a ton of fun because the fights never ended and by the time you'd kill one person the last person you killed had already respawned and rejoined the fight. It was just a non-stop brawl that came down to 1-1 core health and was decided by who won the fight over the boss. It was also the easiest game of Medivh I've ever played and I think I had master's touch finished by level 8.
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May 9, 2017 16:06
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BrianBoitano posted:I am surprised that they haven't reduced Bribe's value on Hanamura yet though. Make the big camp require 2 bribe stacks and boom, more balanced easy (?) fix. Maybe Blizzard doesn't see Bribe comps win too much to be worrisome. It's fine because bribe stacks are hard to get on Hanamura and the camps don't push lanes.
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May 9, 2017 16:09
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Kashuno posted:Changing mechanics to work differently on a different map would be the worst. It would still take half as many bribe stacks as it takes on the original bruiser camps. To make it work exactly the same it should require 4.
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May 9, 2017 16:09
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SKULL.GIF posted:No I mean we crushed them like seashells beneath our heels. Cho'Gall couldn't get near Leoric without his health dropping like a rock, and since this was Braxis Holdout, that meant they could never really contest the two beacons. We got three straight 100-0s and won in like ten minutes. Were we in the same stack? Had that happen in one of my games last night and it was hilarious. Exploding bone armor talent against chogall is also fun since it does damage based on max health. Also to piggyback off the Hanamura sapper discussion earlier (I didn't know Hanamura had that), I also learned last night that the siege units on Towers of Doom will damage the core if they get all the way through.
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May 9, 2017 16:11
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Gustav posted:It would still take half as many bribe stacks as it takes on the original bruiser camps. To make it work exactly the same it should require 4. 1 guy costs 1 bribe is what I mean when I talk about mechanics
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May 9, 2017 16:13
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's fine because bribe stacks are hard to get on Hanamura and the camps don't push lanes.
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May 9, 2017 16:16
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That's ok because Brightwing isn't good
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May 9, 2017 16:18
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Froghammer posted:Depends. Falstad's and Nova's are kinda hard, Brightwing's is frighteningly easy. Nova's isn't too bad because you get stacks from hero kills. Murky's is decent as well because you can drop a W every time you go near a lane to get stacks, and he only needs 8 per charge.
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May 9, 2017 16:19
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Kashuno posted:1 guy costs 1 bribe is what I mean when I talk about mechanics But that's a terrible metric of the mechanic. You don't bribe "guys", you bribe camps. No one goes to a bruiser camp with 2 bribe stacks to cap 2 guys. On old maps you need 4 before you can go, on Hanamura you need 1, that's how it is. You can argue it's balanced if you want, but it's inconsistent as all hell. e: Also not balanced.
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May 9, 2017 16:25
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Gustav posted:But that's a terrible metric of the mechanic. You don't bribe "guys", you bribe camps. No one goes to a bruiser camp with 2 bribe stacks to cap 2 guys. On old maps you need 4 before you can go, on Hanamura you need 1, that's how it is. you do bribe guys? Whether or not it effectively is "I bribe every guy at this camp" is not the point. The point is you need 1 charge for every dude at a camp. You can say "hm they probably shouldn't use the bruiser icon here" and make it like a cross or + or something but not that it should cost more per unit at a camp because that doesn't visually make sense e; I'm not arguing about balance I'm talking about game/map design.
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Polio Vax Scene posted:That's ok because Brightwing isn't good BW will become more relevant if D.Va is popular after Lucio's nerf.
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Brightwing would be cooler if he was more like Puck (DotA2) tbqh
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