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Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Minor nitpick but was it really necessary to have me click on each token individually? Overwatch just opens the crate, shows you what you got and lets you open another. Won't be as annoying when not opening 30+ in a row but still.

Overall though not a bad haul, got mostly skins for heroes I actually use. Any of the announcers particularly entertaining? The preview snips all make them sound kind of bland, and why no Alarak announcer?

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Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Didn't realize people don't like blackhearts. My least favorite maps are probably sky temple and dragon shrine.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Macaluso posted:

The AI does not respond to pings by the way

If you ping a bot directly they should follow you, pinging again to release (this also works for dropped players).

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

So that they can try temping you into buying more obviously.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Kind of wish instead of draft or lolrandom you had something like blind pick.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Yea both qm and hero league should stay. Don't see much point to unranked draft though since that's just like hero draft without the rewards. So that's what I'd change to something between the two.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

I don't actually have genji but when he's on the other team I quickly come to think of him as free xp. Maybe they just don't know how to play him though.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

How do people deal with clones from Nova or Samuro in general, hit them anyway, or try to guess the real one and ignore the rest?

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Eh, ideally common items wouldn't even be a thing. Does anyone actually care about sprays and voicelines?

Probably wouldn't even mind if each crate has less stuff in it but it was guaranteed to be something you'd actually want.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

You should just be able to right click stealth heroes to shoot them like normal.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Hope vs ai games as quests is just a one time thing... alternatively you can't delete a quest you don't want to do, or?

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Must be a bug then cause I'm level 300 something and still rolled the ai one. Yea they can be done fast but still feels like a waste of time. :(

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

For me the hardest maps are ones that require heavy splitting - dragon shrine in particular requires someone top and bot and asuming you can hold a third then needs to get to mid without getting ganked there. Had some of my longest games there because both teams just traded a kill/shrine here and there but none could cap the dragon.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Most lol matches when I still played that actually ended in a forfeit, so not even the winning side gets to enjoy their rampage.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Gustav posted:

Why would you fight over the payload? Just leave and wait for them to go away. What are they gonna do, sit as 5 camping your payload for the rest of the game while you soak XP and get forts?

Every game I've been in people escort their payloads as 4 or 5 then go back to lane/merc until the next one.

My experience is 1-3 people pushing the payloads while the rest tries to contest theirs. Lanes are pretty much abandoned (unless you happen to be passing through one) once payloads start popping. I like the map, bit chaotic but reminds me of blackhearts bay with all those random skirmishes all over.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Gustav posted:

If you just push the payload as 5 that's 2-4 free kills when they come to contest.

But then if everyone just pushes theirs then goes back to lane I see how this might be a boring map. Could this be a comp vs qm thing?

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

I just figured taking down a fort makes the next payload shoot twice, is there more to it?

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

But your wording made it sound as if a particular payload gets empoweded rather than just whichever is the next to get a shot off?

If so I guess I'm agreeing with you.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Kashuno posted:

He's saying that his allies will not push his 2x shot and instead stop the enemy's 1x shot

Ah right, that makes sense now. :downs:

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

What do you folks do for Ragnaros? I've bren going with sulfuras build and try play him like a bruiser but finding he's too squishy for that.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

I'm finding most of my losses come against teams with multiple specialists more than anything, especially if we have none.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Matchmaking keeps setting up varian and 4 assassins against 5 assassins, so if he specs taunt the first team suddenly has a tank, putting the tankless team at serious disadvantage.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Yea I don't think he's that much of a problem because unbalanced comps will happen anyway. I'm more bothered by having a Medicith on my team, have yet to see one not be a total deadweight who just flies aroynd in raven form all game. Almost as bad as Novas - you got infinite ammo, if you can't get a sick kill just go and shoot something anyway dammit.

Avalerion fucked around with this message at 10:41 on May 10, 2017

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

THE BAR posted:

They could highlight recommended build paths when you're below level 5 with a character.

They do this in the veteran tutorial so the framework is already there. Not sure how'd you determine the recomended build though as ideally talents should be situational.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Mercy and Thorbjorn are unlikely because they would be thematically too similiar to Morales and Gazlowe I think. Thorb's kit would be pretty easy to transfer if they were willing to add another turret hero though.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

When/against who is that ablative armor talent a good idea?

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Do they have something where some characters counts as a specialist even if they aren't? Cause i keep getting tons of games where one team has two and the other none.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

They do have a support lite category, so some like Tassadar and Tyrrande it tries to group against Abathur and Zarya.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Are you just complaining mech mode lacks out of combat mobility? Cause yea I agree, i intentionally delay calling the mech if i know I'll need to reposition soon, or we wiped their team and we got an objective/fort to push.

If you preffer pilot mode for actuall fights though maybe give Valla a try instead.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

I think it wouldn't hurt if mounting in mech mode made her eject, just without the explosion, and call mech going on it's usual cooldown.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Cuntellectual posted:

It literally can't be more simple than spells do spell damage, attacks do attack damage. :shrug:

Spell implies the stuff Jaina does, and not say, tossing a grenade or slashing with claws. It used to be ability damage which was clearer imo so no idea why they changed it.

Is the armor from Uther's trait and some others just attack armor then? I thought it reduces all damage.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Tried free Murky on a whim, then actually got him from his levelup chest... and he's actually kind of fun and I won all games so far. ...is he actually secretly good?

Also some guy bitched at me for focusing on pushing rather than teamfights, was I wrong? Thought that's how you are supposed to play him.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

I preffer arrow because mind control requires your team to capitalize on it, and most won't.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Why do they insist on making these events "play with a friend". It just makes queues longer (like 5+ minutes...), and I asume people just grab randos from the lfg channel for it anyway.

At least D3 wings are a neat reward though! :D

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Can you queue Cho/Gall in quick match or do you need to be a premade?

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Sindai posted:

I'm pretty sure Tyrande isn't considered a healer by the matchmaker.

She's healer-lite, so matchamking will try put her against Tassadar, Abathur and I think Zarya.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

You should be able to right click the shimmer to attack stealth heroes I think.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Probably in the minority that has no problem seeing the stealther myself, frustration is more about having to watch them dance around in (to me) plain view while my teammates are oblivious. :downs:

They should ad an "enemy here" ping (which would just get ignored anyway but still).

Avalerion fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jul 20, 2017

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Did my placing matches for the free gold and ended up gold rank 1 - would that make my next rankup to plat and a mount?

If so what are good first picks for hero league, and who do you ban in this meta?

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Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Yea, I actually liked it. :(

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