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They used the old Warcraft2 crest of Gilneas on the bike instead of the lovely new one from wow I hate how much i love this
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skipThings posted:They used the old Warcraft2 crest of Gilneas on the bike instead of the lovely new one from wow It is (was?) on one of Varian's shields too.
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Dec 1, 2021 15:48
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Sacred Sweep [Q] Cast speed increased by 50%. Cast finish time increased from 0 to .0625 seconds. What does "Cast finish time" mean? Did they increase the speed of the animation but also made it longer...??
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Dec 1, 2021 16:24
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My guess is you're animation locked for .0625 seconds after the actual sweep finishes.
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Dec 1, 2021 20:21
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I'm resurrecting this thread from the grave now that Bobby Kotick is gone! Every time I launch this game I have to download a 137mb patch. Anyone else?
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imagine dungeons posted:[...] now that Bobby Kotick is gone! [...] Hah. Also, here is a fun game: do a guess on how many years of HotS development could have been funded by the cheque he receives will he finally does leave.
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Jan 22, 2022 12:34
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imagine dungeons posted:I'm resurrecting this thread from the grave now that Bobby Kotick is gone! Every time I launch this game I have to download a 137mb patch. Anyone else? Reinstall probably fixes this, as annoying as that would be, if the repair function doesn’t work. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7655
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Jan 22, 2022 12:41
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Mierenneuker posted:Hah. That is for sure a major bummer to think about. At least 1 years. Nybble posted:Reinstall probably fixes this, as annoying as that would be, if the repair function doesn’t work. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7655 Thanks pal, repair fixed it.
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Jan 22, 2022 13:38
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imagine dungeons posted:I'm resurrecting this thread from the grave now that Bobby Kotick is gone! Every time I launch this game I have to download a 137mb patch. Anyone else? You know he isn't gone yet right Also they should make a giant Murky statue like Overwatch heroes get, thank you
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is Microsoft cool with being the #3 MOBA or whatever? because damnit this is the only fun MOBA i've ever played.
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Jan 22, 2022 20:57
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I have to admit I am cautiously optimistic about Microsoft maybe sending some development dollars back to HotS. It's the only MOBA I've ever actually enjoyed playing.
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NeurosisHead posted:I have to admit I am cautiously optimistic about Microsoft maybe sending some development dollars back to HotS. It's the only MOBA I've ever actually enjoyed playing. This! It’s not much hope but it is at least some!
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Jan 23, 2022 00:16
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Same. There's pretty much nowhere to go but up at this point, so why not hope for up?
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Good news for smug Apple dickheads like myself, the bugged target indicator will be fixed soon: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/t/main-thread-apple-m1-macs-unable-to-see-ground-effect-indicators/46473/263
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Idle thought that just occurred to me with the new Hearthstone expansion announcement: Reno Jackson is the best new hero that will never appear in HotS.
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I haven't played in ages, but the Probius changes from a while ago ruin my entire method of playing him. You build pylons and towers to push, and you pop the ult to make them zap enemy buildings. Probius pushes hard like that's the thing that makes Probius unique. A lot of the other push/non-PVP heroes were nerfed long ago, it's sad to see Probius finally fall to the same fate. He was the last holdout of "specialist" heroes that were reassigned to other roles. Is he fun to play in his current state? The biggest draw for me was always the fact that their voice line that sounds like "WHIRRR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-OW" is extremely loud and I would type "*horny robot noises*" when I used it and it riled my team up so I would probably play Probe no matter what happens to the skills and talents. The most recent set of skins look great, and are making me want to come back and play a few hours each day to get them.
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In my opinion he's way more fun now. Probably did lose some structure pushing power, but he still melts waves like nothing.
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I had MOBA cravings and tried some Dota 2, which I hadn't played since like 2014. The changes since then are huge, but most heroes still feel exactly like they did back then. I can still go bracer/wraith/talisman and boots into battlefury on almost every hero. Then I played some HOTS, which I haven't played for at least half a year. HOTS just feels so much better to play. Talent picks are so much more interesting, because all the cruft of last hitting and item farming have been rolled into them. It looks better too, since Valve has stopped caring about the screen being readable and every hero has skins with obnoxious particle effects. I reluctantly went to HOTS years ago, and I'm so glad I did.
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you're suppose to post that kind of stuff on a blizzard sub for easy karma, there's no karma here pal
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I still play it sometimes when I want to be lazy but also listen to a podcast.
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I started playing it again just in the last few days and the whole time I play it now I just can't stop imagining what it might look like today if they hadn't pulled the plug. The gameplay is as engaging as it ever was but the match quality is... actually about the same as it was, too. I really should've tried more Ranked back when it was alive. I choose to believe that Microsoft is going to re-launch it next year and nobody can stop me.
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Well, it’s not like it can get LESS support.
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imagine dungeons posted:Well, it’s not like it can get LESS support. It could get shut down
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Machai posted:It could get shut down It must generate some sort of income, otherwise Activision would have already shut it down.
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Ballpark figures put the HGC at six million a year and if you think of Esports as basically glorified marketing campaigns (because that's what they are) then it was presumably generating a lot more than that to cover it. But it's tricky because of the cross pollinization with other Blizzard games and the fact that it's on the launcher. Basically the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts, but if I had to guess I'd say it's still a very good earner and could easily justify a dev team, but I'm basing that on the fact that Blizzard has historically made terrible business decisions and the fact that they wanted Overwatch to succeed at the deliberate expense of all of their other properties (I recall some story about one of the execs absolutely hating that they were still supporting SC2). In other news, ah Quick Match, never change: 
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Kalko posted:(I recall some story about one of the execs absolutely hating that they were still supporting SC2). the scuttlebutt is that said executive hates RTSes as a genre and is part of the reason that reforged got almost zero funding and was such a horrible failure idk i see a solidly balanced team composition w/ a healer, a caster, two ranged dpses, and a frontliner 
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Played Tychus for the first time since coming back. God drat is the Minigun on-hit quest good. Not only does it let you shred enemy hero HP for the entire duration of a teamfight, it also goes DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING as you shoot them. Those dings are high octane gamer fuel injected straight into my brain. I can't stop. gotta shoot the guys and go ding ding ding. I'm a bad, bad man.
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Just had a game where the enemy Zeratul killed us 23 times and we still clawed it back for a win. Frustrating character to play against but I'm Tracer so I can't complain much.
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Kith posted:idk i see a solidly balanced team composition w/ a healer, a caster, two ranged dpses, and a frontliner Not sure if serious, but this is the thing that used to get me about weird QM comps, where I knew how to play every hero so every time I'd look at my terrible comp I'd be thinking well if they do this and this then we'll be ok, but in the absence of tanks or good dive the side with the easiest pokes generally wins these clown fiestas, which was the case here:  Li-Ming and Valla, and Mephisto to a lesser extent, can just poke for days and win any objective which relies on area control (basically all of them but in this case it was Cursed Hollow) and like most Artanis players at my level all they have to do is keep spamming the swap and nine times out of ten they hit air but that tenth time they get rewarded with a free kill and probably a team wipe. I think heroes like Li-Ming (or ranged in general) will always be popular in QM because they have a low skill floor and they're 'safe.' There's plenty of heroes that can counter them, of course, and you can theorycraft a win for any comp on paper, but a lot of the time the counters are more costly to execute in terms of precision and/or timing (so, basically, they require more skill) than the low-effort orb spam or whatever so the safer, lower value play wins out in the end. But HotS is still a great game and I love it.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:Played Tychus for the first time since coming back. God drat is the Minigun on-hit quest good. Not only does it let you shred enemy hero HP for the entire duration of a teamfight, it also goes DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING as you shoot them. Those dings are high octane gamer fuel injected straight into my brain. I can't stop. gotta shoot the guys and go ding ding ding. Sometimes I absolutely clean up as tychus, and sometimes I feel like I may as well just give the AI the wheel. Unfortunately I'm not good enough to determine what factors drive those outcomes. Stands to reason since I just slam ARAM every time. But yeah that quest noise is straight mindless exileration, and his AA and D build are hilarious against stitches Diablo or etc late game. I know I'm doing good if their tanks start loitering in the backline.
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Kalko posted:Not sure if serious i am shitposting as hard as i am physically and mentally able
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BRJurgis posted:Sometimes I absolutely clean up as tychus, and sometimes I feel like I may as well just give the AI the wheel. Unfortunately I'm not good enough to determine what factors drive those outcomes. Stands to reason since I just slam ARAM every time. If Tychus is allowed to autoattack, he does massive damage. You get the best bang for your buck shooting huge HP heroes, but he can also focus down low HP heroes just as fast. Especially if you take the attack speed quest instead of the D talent quest that goes ding ding ding. He is countered by blinds, but also by the enemy jjust going in and slapping your poo poo around. He has no real counter in his own skillset if he gets focused. The key to doing big damage as Tychus is teamates that enable you to keep shooting. Peeling heroes off of you, disabling heroes that are going to stun or blind you, big AoE slows that force them to get kited while you walk away or retreat and get mowed down. Sometimes you don't need any of that, because the enemy team does not trying to stop you from shooting. They want to kill somebody else, so you just get to ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding and make people die.
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BRJurgis posted:Sometimes I absolutely clean up as tychus, and sometimes I feel like I may as well just give the AI the wheel. Unfortunately I'm not good enough to determine what factors drive those outcomes. Stands to reason since I just slam ARAM every time. one time a dumbass friend of mine tried to pay me money to write guides for all of the heroes, and i got through like four or five before the blizzard scandal hit and i jettisoned. shockingly the HOTS forums are still online, and the one i did for tychus can still be found. if you're not interested in clicking a link (understandable), the rundown looks like this: quote:Tychus. Big man with the plan. Supposed to be a tankbuster, can kill Valla in less than four seconds once he has Level 4. Genius balance. honestly if you want to take in the rhythm instead of the bigger they are then go for it, just have fun with dumb hero game however you want
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Had a blast playing with some old friends where we did gimmick teams. Valla supported by Morales and Ana. The two healers would drop their buff ultimates on Valla (huge +attack speed, +move speed, +mana, +spellpower, +skill cooldown) and heal/cleanse her while she ripped through 5 heroes in 5 seconds. GIVE VALLA ALL THE METH Fat Guy Team. Stitches, Cho'gall, Butcher, Deathwing. I would hook a hero as Stitches with Butcher nearby ready to charge, and Deathwing would drop onto them. Cho'gall split soaked two lanes while we murderballed until Butcher could solo a teamfight. All stealth team was pretty difficult but we managed a win. Zeratul, Valeera, Nova, Samuro. Fifth was supposed to be Tyrande with the lvl 10 team stealth ult, but he went Tassadar instead and took shadow walk as a copout. I was Zeratul and took Void Prison for the first time in like 5 years so we could freeze two or more enemy heroes and set them up to get instantly deleted when the time stop ended. Tassadar got to push a lane uncontested because the enemy team wanted to fish for kills on our fragile blob of stealth heroes. He did some heavy lifting by just slowly pushing down his lane all the way to their core. Did an all healer one vs AI and I got top hero damage by a huge margin as Malfurion. If you can consistently land roots and take the treant talent at 1, that little tree dude hits HARD. Was around 450 damage per attack when the match ended.
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Still, two years later, feel like the biggest self-own this game made was the change to the matchmaker and roles of Heroes. It happily generates lineups where one side has a functional, if not role, tank (Xul, Zarya, etc.) then doesn't the other, then consistently the team that has a frontline wins, both for & against. Extend this also to 'Tank' role Heroes who then can elect to talent Damage to the point they're squishy - The Varian problem. Being able to settle whether you'll win or not at the loading screen is just... annoying. Shockeh fucked around with this message at 06:31 on May 8, 2022 |
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That's what happens when you make the leap from "casual party MOBA" to "drafting esport MOBA" and then lose your playerbase. In theory it's a better design for the game, but in practice it's completely reliant on your game remaining popular. I feel the urge to repeat this advice from long ago:Kith posted:Do not heed the siren call of public matchmaking unless you have no care for yourself, as it will unmake you and your legacy also.
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As with many things moba, it shakes out better when you're playing with friends and can have several people on the team adjust to the team comp's deficiencies than just you yourself trying
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I have much better match quality in QM than in ranked, I don’t even bother with ranked anymore.
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Shockeh posted:Still, two years later, feel like the biggest self-own this game made was the change to the matchmaker and roles of Heroes.
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No Wave posted:Which matchmaker change was this? I think he means every Hero being pidgeonholed into "competitive" roles like assassin/tank/healer instead of their original designs and designations. I think this is the OG blizz post about it: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/heroes-of-the-storm/22921910/hero-role-expansion
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