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Shadowlyger posted:Important: Were you playing with other people, or with AI? They are even worthless if you are playing someone like Kael'Thas. That is... until you get infinite living bombs at level 20, because then you ace them with a single bomb. Next time I'm playing AI vs AI to decide on a skin + mount combo I'll just quit it, there is no punishment for that.
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Mierenneuker posted:They are even worthless if you are playing someone like Kael'Thas. That is... until you get infinite living bombs at level 20, because then you ace them with a single bomb. Can't you just use Try mode for that?
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Mar 23, 2018 09:47
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Last time I checked Try Mode had no way to try a skin AND a mount, even if you already own them both.
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Mar 23, 2018 10:18
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Shibawanko posted:Oh come on stukov...
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Mar 23, 2018 13:19
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So this is a thing: https://www.speedrun.com/Heroes_of_the_Storm There is a leaderboard for each class, where you try to 1v0 (you + minions vs only minions) 3 maps in a row...  There's also 5 player vs 5 AI, with a leaderboard for each map:  Via reddit I have no interest but perhaps some of y'all "play the game vs. AI to relax" guys can get competitive too 
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Mar 23, 2018 13:21
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Gul'Dan would be the best hero for that 1v0 challenge IMHO.
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Mar 23, 2018 13:35
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schmitty9800 posted:stukov... Moths are flying out of my gold wallet, I need to complete a few more quests to be able to afford him. Better use Morales to complete these quests quickly.
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Mar 23, 2018 13:54
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Dietrich posted:Gul'Dan would be the best hero for that 1v0 challenge IMHO. Prove it
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Mar 23, 2018 13:56
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Dietrich posted:Gul'Dan would be the best hero for that 1v0 challenge IMHO. The current leader is actually Zul'jin. 17m23s.
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Mar 23, 2018 13:57
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Kyrosiris posted:The current leader is actually Zul'jin. 17m23s. Have there only been 3 runs submitted or does this only show the top 3 runs?
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Mar 23, 2018 14:05
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Reminder that, for some weird reason, they time it from first game through end of 3rd game including downtime between games so 17m23s doesn't really work out to 5 1/2 min per game, it's a bit less. Hopefully if you want to compete you already own an SSD e: Dietrich posted:Have there only been 3 runs submitted or does this only show the top 3 runs? Looks like only 3 submitted for Assassin in the current era. There's a filter to show "obsoleted runs" from before SPEEDRUN META-DEFINING reworks
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Mar 23, 2018 14:06
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BrianBoitano posted:Looks like only 3 submitted for Assassin in the current era. There's a filter to show "obsoleted runs" from before SPEEDRUN META-DEFINING reworks Lol 4 runs submitted total.
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Mar 23, 2018 14:15
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As s/he writes in the reddit post, "While we currently have a community of 5-6 players". They seem to hope that it will catch on now though.
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Mar 23, 2018 14:23
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BrianBoitano posted:Reminder that, for some weird reason, they time it from first game through end of 3rd game including downtime between games so 17m23s doesn't really work out to 5 1/2 min per game, it's a bit less. I mean that's normal for RTA timing.
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Mar 23, 2018 14:25
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Shibawanko posted:Oh come on So be tassadar
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Mar 23, 2018 14:33
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Here's my daily-chat contribution : the zero-overlap trifecta! I thought they abandoned the system where you keep getting dailies based on what you've been playing recently. Or did they and this is just random?
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Mar 23, 2018 14:50
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Kalko posted:Here's my daily-chat contribution : the zero-overlap trifecta! Looks like you're in for two games of unranked draft.
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Mar 23, 2018 14:54
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New Brawl! Looks like it's weird-orientation ARAM with lots of conveyor belts:  (snipped from random twitch stream just so I could see the map) Most important part is  it's only 2 games to get the loot chest
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Mar 23, 2018 14:56
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Dietrich posted:Looks like you're in for two games of unranked draft. I wish. I would play it over QM all the time but it simply doesn't pop in Australia. Ever.
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Mar 23, 2018 14:58
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HL then?
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Kalko posted:I wish. I would play it over QM all the time but it simply doesn't pop in Australia. Ever. There was a pro player from Australia that queued for 24 hours, and only got a game after he made a reddit thread about it, causing a bunch of other Australians to also queue.
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Mar 23, 2018 15:10
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BrianBoitano posted:HL then? I am kind of curious where it would place me but being reminded exactly who my peers are in this game always makes me sad.
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Mar 23, 2018 15:11
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Honest question: Why do people seemingly play only to finish the quests and want to play the absolute minimum number of games to do so? Do you not like the game but feel compelled to keep doing the quests? Do you only play Murky but still want to stockpile gold for some reason?
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Mar 23, 2018 15:26
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Because people with real lives and jobs and stuff can't spend hours and hours grinding on a dead gay moba so they just do their dailies.
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I still enjoy the game but I've been playing pretty sporadically for the last six months or so as the friends I used to play with lost interest and other games came along to distract me (Civilization 6 expansion, R6 Siege, Gwent, Slay the Spire, etc). I really enjoy leveling heroes (RIP master skins) but doing that solo even with a stimpack feels like a huge grind. HotS is the background game I play when I don't feel like opening something else. The core gameplay is incredibly solid and I still love grabbing each new hero. I was disappointed that they're slowing down the hero releases now because lately the only times I've binged have been new releases, but eh, what are you going to do.
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I get it. I used to only have time to play on the weekend, which means I'd "lose" quest opportunities since Mon + Tue + Wed quests would prevent Thurs from popping a new one. Those times, I'd try to find 15 min to do two AI games. I can also see novelty junkies bored of HotS in general but doing the chore quests in AI to keep awash with gold so they can buy the newest hero, jam them for a week, then quit playing "real games" HotS until the next hero is released.
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Kalko posted:I still enjoy the game but I've been playing pretty sporadically for the last six months or so as the friends I used to play with lost interest and other games came along to distract me (Civilization 6 expansion, R6 Siege, Gwent, Slay the Spire, etc). I really enjoy leveling heroes (RIP master skins) but doing that solo even with a stimpack feels like a huge grind. Yeah, the game is okay, but now that most of my friends have moved on I only do half a dozen games or so a week. If that. It also feels more stompy. A lot of my games in gold league end with one side never losing a fort. And I can't think of a single comeback in forever. The winner feels determined early, but its still gold league so the teams won't end when they can so the games go on forever. I played a game last night where the enemy team was at 18 to 15, wiped us while defending a keep and they didn't lose anybody. So they should demolish the keep and hit the core right? No, instead they sprint all the way back to get the siege camps on their side of the map. Games take forever. JIZZ DENOUEMENT fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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BrianBoitano posted:New Brawl! nothing makes me want to watch twitch streams more than the streamer staring directly at me the whole time
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The much slower hero release schedule coupled with the news that a bunch of developers have been shifted off this game to work on overwatch killed most of my desire to play. Most of my friends haven't logged in in weeks. poo poo I haven't played in weeks, not sure why I still follow this thread.
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Olaf The Stout posted:... a bunch of developers have been shifted off this game to work on overwatch "This seems like typical reddit sky-is-falling-ism. Let me check on the health of the game mysel--    e: we won't really know until we get 2017 financials. I could listen to the recording of the Q4 2017 investor's call but 
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Gettin to this thread late but it’s a crime that Loudmouth Larry isn’t an announcer
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No Wave posted:I've never played AI vs AI. I think the scariest AIs now are Garrosh, Alarak, and Probius, and their best map is tomb of the spider queen (ai is still hopeless on less standard maps like BHB and Braxis). They're quite decent at Cursed Hollow as well. You still need a very terrible team to lose ofc (one of my teammates for the Kel'Thuzad loss had hundreds of ai games played and a 92% win rate). The AI has gotten a lot more aggressive in general over the last chunk of patches. They'll happily dump on a single lane if they're unopposed and they stay on top of camps to a fault - on Sky Temple they'll take their warrior camp then beeline over to take your warrior camp. After a certain point they'll take boss if they have the opening. They're actually better than they used to be on BHB. They're more aware of the objective and since they're more proactive about camps they can actually build up some gold to turn in. It's still pretty lopsided though. I don't think there's any maps they're particularly bad at, actually, but I also regularly get teams that can't handle objectives, never take camps, and certainly aren't aware enough to check boss, so. BrianBoitano posted:Looks like it's weird-orientation ARAM with lots of conveyor belts: The map was previously used in a Protector brawl. It sucks a whole lot, because the conveyors are a death trap and not fun at all and instead of a proper push camp you get turrets.
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The AI is also now perternaturally good at dodging skillshots. Even ones that they shouldn't be able to see because you're invisible/they don't leave a marker.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:29
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Doesn't Overwatch itself outsource a bunch of art of skins and such?
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Kurieg posted:The AI is also now perternaturally good at dodging skillshots. Even ones that they shouldn't be able to see because you're invisible/they don't leave a marker.
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The AI is also insanely hyper-aware of its capabilities now. I've seen Varian bot escape stuff with his E and Alarak is smart enough to self-W when needed. I really hate their allergy to specific skillshots because it makes certain heroes arbitrarily garbage to play. They'll bathe in lurking arm all day until they drop to 20% HP, meanwhile they'll do everything in their power to avoid being hit by a single tick of blizzard.
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Olaf The Stout posted:The much slower hero release schedule coupled with the news that a bunch of developers have been shifted off this game to work on overwatch killed most of my desire to play. What's the source for this?
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I think the slower release schedule makes sense. They have a huge roster now and while not as big as day league of legend they can divert some resources into a different game for a little while. Aside from Superman(lol) blackthorne and a rock and roll racer as fan picks I think they’re in a good spot for blizzard ips
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this morning I duo queued into TL with a friend of mine. The three stack we got paired with said they wanted to go cho’gall auriel, sure. My buddy first picked chromie to try to bait them into a counter build. I went blaze, then we got auriel. They loving banned Cho in the second ban phase. Absolutely savage snipe. we still beat them 20-0 in like 11 minutes
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Number of heroes isn't really the problem with this game, it's a bunch of other stuff. They need to divert resources into fixing maps and existing heroes as well as the ranked modes. So far it seems they are doing a couple hero reworks, hopefully we don't go forever without a peep after Fenix.
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