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Libertine
Jun 21, 2004

When I die, I hope they say I made the eSports industry a better place than I made millions of dollars.

SirSamVimes posted:

Why does the concept of friendly advice upset you?

Because friendly advice about how to play is never delivered in the chat box of the video game heroes of the storm.

Pings are good, type when you are dead, if you don't ever die you don't ever have to type.

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Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

Power Bottom posted:



Always remember to turn off your devhax for friendly scrims.

What is the Devhax?

You can get unreleased skins through auto-select, if that is what you are referencing.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

What is the Devhax?

You can get unreleased skins through auto-select, if that is what you are referencing.

The dude in question is someone who works on the game that I'm buddies with. He forgot to de-select the skin before the game started.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Power Bottom posted:

The dude in question is someone who works on the game that I'm buddies with. He forgot to de-select the skin before the game started.

Tell your friend that everyone really wants a Mantid or a swarm of Mantid as a hero in the game please, thank you

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Macaluso posted:

Tell your friend that everyone really wants a Mantid or a swarm of Mantid as a hero in the game please, thank you

That's not even remotely close to being his job, but I'll tell him. Maybe he'll know what a Mantid is and pass it along.

panda clue
May 23, 2014


they do care :unsmith:

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Power Bottom posted:

That's not even remotely close to being his job, but I'll tell him. Maybe he'll know what a Mantid is and pass it along.

Tell your friend to tell whoever's job it is that everyone really wants a Mantid or a swarm of Mantid as a hero, thank you

BrianBoitano
Nov 15, 2006

this is fine



You didn't say please that time :mad:

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Macaluso posted:

Tell your friend to tell whoever's job it is that everyone really wants a Mantid or a swarm of Mantid as a hero, thank you

He sent me this in response.

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!

Power Bottom posted:



Always remember to turn off your devhax for friendly scrims.
Does it do something special when it blows up?

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


It's orange and fiery. Not really much else to say about it.

W.T. Fits
Apr 21, 2010

Ready to Poyozo Dance all over your face.

Power Bottom posted:

He sent me this in response.

Accurate.

Olaf The Stout
Oct 16, 2009

FORUMS NO.1 SLEEPY DAWGS MEMESTER

Macaluso posted:

Tell your friend to tell whoever's job it is that everyone really wants a Mantid or a swarm of Mantid as a hero, thank you

I want a swarm of zeglings, but they'd be even worse than samuro's problem of giving the enemy mass quest stacks.

Spudd
Nov 27, 2007

Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!

I'm late to solo queue chat but I always solo queue as Lucio and kick rear end with him. By the way if you pick Lucio and don't use speed boost constantly uninstall. Watching people play him badly really hurts.

CDW
Aug 26, 2004

Kazinsal posted:

The solution is always to avoid playing with pubbies. This has been standard goon advice for hundreds of multiplayer games over the years.

From the PAYDAY 2 thread:



Harder to do when the primetime numbers for this game tonight in SAgoons was like, 18 people.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Olaf The Stout posted:

I want a swarm of zeglings, but they'd be even worse than samuro's problem of giving the enemy mass quest stacks.

No. Mantid.

Power Bottom posted:

He sent me this in response.



edit: Unrelated I accidentally picked the ink 20 talent instead of Big Tuna Kahuna the other night when playing Murky.

I uh. Might always pick that from now on :stare:

Macaluso fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Sep 28, 2017

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~


Macaluso posted:

No. Mantid.




edit: Unrelated I accidentally picked the ink 20 talent instead of Big Tuna Kahuna the other night when playing Murky.

I uh. Might always pick that from now on :stare:

Making Inky is really nice if you're not against a comp that can instantly vaporise you.

lucifirius
Mar 7, 2016
I wish the camera would zoom out when you use Eye of Horus or whatever Ana's sniping heroic is called. Kind of like Jhin's ult. Makes it much easier to see the immediate area and of where you're trying to shoot.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
I :toot: LOVE :toot: GARROSH :toot:




The throw he's talking about is one of them very nearly avoided us killing them and they managed to slip away with very low health. So I loving just chucked our Auriel at them and they did their ribbon attack thing and it blew them up. It was awesome

Sensual Simian
Jun 7, 2004

summer jorts
Hey Mac, just played a few AI games with you. Sorry about throwing you to your death :twisted:

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
That quick match feeling when you feel like you played superbly and as the enemy core is falling you notice their comp is triple healer, double specialist.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Telling someone who's bad "don't be bad" won't make them better and likely just frustrate them no matter how you word it.

Like don't feed - no poo poo, think it's on purpose? Or even a well meaning "focus their healer" - would love to, if i could get to them past their tank!

Avalerion fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Sep 28, 2017

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Sensual Simian posted:

Hey Mac, just played a few AI games with you. Sorry about throwing you to your death :twisted:

Definitely wasn't me. I haven't played vs AI in a while

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.

Spudd posted:

I'm late to solo queue chat but I always solo queue as Lucio and kick rear end with him. By the way if you pick Lucio and don't use speed boost constantly uninstall. Watching people play him badly really hurts.

Oh so were you the Probius raging at me in this week's brawl.

Spudd
Nov 27, 2007

Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!

John Murdoch posted:

Oh so were you the Probius raging at me in this week's brawl.

Nah, I just get annoyed at streamers. It's unfair to earn that much money and be bad at your job. :argh:

Dietrich
Sep 11, 2001

If you use speedboost all the time, it's less effective. Giving your team unpredictable movement speeds screws up skill shots and can lull the enemy into a false sense of security in regards to their positioning or when they should retreat.

BrianBoitano
Nov 15, 2006

this is fine



Avalerion posted:

Telling someone who's bad "don't be bad" won't make them better and likely just frustrate them no matter how you word it.

Like don't feed - no poo poo, think it's on purpose? Or even a well meaning "focus their healer" - would love to, if i could get to them past their tank!

Your two examples, sure. However, this:

No Wave posted:

See this language won't work.

Something less instructive like "they want your rear end Malth" conveys the idea that they're going to get punished this game for going deep while sympathizing with your teammate.

"Try to be more careful" will set almost anyone off, like drat who wants to hear that when they've already been punished for it.

That's a good plan. In the example of a strong frontline, the less instructive line might be "gently caress, can we even get past their tank right now?" It discourages diving without calling out the diver.

"Someone who's bad" might be someone having a bad day, FWIW. I think the above two examples have very low risk of triggering ragers, and a non-zero chance of helping, so why not v:shobon:v

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Spudd posted:

Nah, I just get annoyed at streamers. It's unfair to earn that much money and be bad at your job. :argh:

Counterpoint: I like it better when the lets player I'm watching is lovely at a game. It's way funnier (see: the Game Grumps play through of Mario 64)

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
If you ever want to see a catastrophe watch MaximusBlack when he's streaming some time (not bearable for more than a few minutes). He's a diamond SC player but he's silver HL because he can't stop tilting his team and himself into losing games.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
Good LORD this game I just had :psyduck:

We had 2 tanks and 3 supports. They other team got like... a regular team. 3 dps, a tank and a healer. We somehow manage to hold them off for like loving 30 minutes. We manage to somehow beat them at objectives (the objectives no joke took I would guess 10 minutes each to finally get the dragon), cause we couldn't kill them faster than they could respawn and come back to us. And honestly if it wasn't for their Butcher being absolutely loving terrible (it took him til level 23 to get his quest complete) we wouldn't have been able to hold on as long as we did. Unforntunatly, a team wipe on us near the end after we got their core down a bunch with our dragon basically lost us the game, there was only so much damage we could put out in a full team fight. The objectives made them stagger around the map, but bunched up we didn't stand much of a chance. So uh hey Blizz maybe don't make the QM matchmaking THAT ridiculous next time.

Still everyone on our team was like "drat gg we did really well for having no damage" so luckily everyone took it in stride

Macaluso fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Sep 28, 2017

YolkaEd
Dec 26, 2013

Macaluso posted:

We had 3 tanks and 2 supports


Huh, I had no idea Medivh frontlined as a tank.

That being said, yikes, the matchmaking on that one.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
Sorry other way around I meant. 3 supports, two tanks.

Dietrich
Sep 11, 2001

Your medivh was terrible, and if your ana and malf both went for DPS builds you probably would have destroyed them. You had three ways to shut down self healing on butcher, four ways to wombo the enemy team with a d.va bomb, and more than enough long range poke damage to keep their ana down (she died twice?)

Don't blame match maker.

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
Props to getting most dmg as Garrosh tho. That alone indicates a nightmare game.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
Anyway, I did have an epic battle with a Johanna that game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwqpttL4OU

Bogart
Apr 12, 2010

by VideoGames
Yeah, I'm not sure how Medivh put out such low hero numbers with such a good frontline. Imo, they should cook in Master's Touch and maybe bump the number by 10 to even it out. Either way, once he's completed the Touch, he should be making GBS threads out his Rifts for scary damage.

Dietrich
Sep 11, 2001

Macaluso posted:

Anyway, I did have an epic battle with a Johanna that game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwqpttL4OU

can't tell if serious...

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Dietrich posted:

can't tell if serious...

You're a real negative nancy :colbert:

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

On the topic of "usefull advice" what do folks expect to happen when they spam 10? I get they are saying they got a level advantage - but what'a the proper course of action there?

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Gustav
Jul 12, 2006

This is all very confusing. Do you mind if I call you Rodriguez?
Get 10...

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