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DOTA2 |OT14| i give up like your pubs do
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NormalFish
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...huh.
If VP did do this, that's bullshit, but jesus christ I hate that Reddit feels the need to police shit despite being a clusterfuck of misinformation and bias.
Monochromaticx
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It might be true. It pisses me off that the poster is like 100% sure with little evidence
NormalFish
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can build those items on basically anyone. Pick a support that tends to get a decent amount of farm. Kotl or something.
yeah, classic reddit bull.
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Signed.
Sigismundo
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I guess he's mixed race?
Wasn't he a mod?
NormalFish
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black as night
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This flash kid though!?
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This flash kid though!?
NormalFish
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um?
shira
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NormalFish
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femruto is badass as fuck tbh. default skin is laaaaame tho
NormalFish
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Mushihimesama is so hard stage 2 boss is a dickface
I played Mercy for the first time since the release (played her some in Beta). Got PotG on my first time playing her with a triple revive on the payload near the end on King's Row (defense).
Sigismundo
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Man, competitive Overwatch is looking awful shoddy. 2 DPS/2 tanks/2 supports seems to be the gold standard and cheese strats like 5 Tracers worked for about a minute.
overwatch is like hots, the competitive scene is just guna be trash and filled with hackers anyway and artificially propped up and limping on fucking life support by blizzard cuz they don't design games with the 1% or the competitive scene in mind to begin with (they proved as much across all their games and wow arena)
so just fuck the competitive scene and enjoy the game for what it is, relax and yolo for an hour or two a day and release your pent up life anger on that motherfkn dumbass widow picker who cant hit shots to save her life throwin ur games and tha goddam fukn mei who ice walls all ur godlike would be plays of the motherfukn game while u crush kids on junk rat with ur fukn kamkikaze skill and bomb lobber bomberman shit u feel me ??
I hear apparently double Roadhog is a thing. I was hoping having multiple of the same hero wouldn't be the best strategy, save for silly things like 6 of anything.
Also no matter how many times you explain it, people don't understand that like in TF2, defense cannot "push" the payload backwards. It moves back on it's own if no attackers touch it for a certain amount of time. People keep saying "Push it backwards", even though it's better to just set up to keep them away from it.
Sigismundo
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I would but my laptop is a toaster among toasters. I'm not dropping $70AU (that's for the non-Origins version) to pray it'll run at a playable framerate.
Well, The Best Teamcomp at the moment seems to be 2 Tracer/2 Winston/2 Lucio. Pubs are gonna pick that up very quickly.
Double McCree is also popular.
I still have yet to figure out Winston. McCree I sort of get, as my problem was me trying to snipe with the revolver instead of basically using it like an accurate shotgun.
Have you seen those videos of Lucio's skating in circles the pit in Ilios?
NormalFish
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told y'all fools competitive would be super top heavy
You mean balanced teams win games? Burn the fucker down!
Yeah, I figured, but the game is fun in the way that TF2 was, except better.
I would still like "competitive" matchmaking so your teammates stay the same instead of dropping in and out.
NormalFish
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like Anbokr said, Blizzard's approach these days is to make a casual-as-fuck game and not bother catering to the hardcore at all, and then force an esports scene in an attempt to create some air of legitimacy in the eyes of the hardcore and generate revenue through advertising and monetizing events.
That isn't to say the games they put out aren't good, quite the opposite, but they're not going to give a flying fuck about the few thousand active players who actually want features like proper competitive match making, intensive balance patches, etc.
That isn't to say the games they put out aren't good, quite the opposite, but they're not going to give a flying fuck about the few thousand active players who actually want features like proper competitive match making, intensive balance patches, etc.
Sigismundo
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I actually won't be working on the weekend so I am looking forward to Manila as well!
misses bull
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the group stages are the day after my birthday
its likes valve loves me
its likes valve loves me
NormalFish
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wait manila major is this weekend?
misses bull
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NormalFish
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ahhh okay. Good shit, I was hoping to watch it but I'm out this coming weekend.
Sigismundo
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I'm having a discussion with friends about how to sum up Valve (Icefrog), Riot and Blizzard's balance philosophies in a couple of sentences. It's surprisingly difficult.
Except for the fact that they removed competitive from the launched game specifically because people who care about competitive didn't like Blizzard's approach during the beta...
Esports scenes developing around a game is a really good way to increase its longevity so Bliz definitely has a reason to care about its competitive scene. They've been making balance patches based around competitive play since the beta. That won't change.
Just because Blizzard's games are casual doesn't mean they can't be compelling esports. I don't like playing HotS on a competitive level at all and I enjoy watching pros play it. These scenes aren't "forced" they're just a reality of modern competitive gaming. If people like a game and there's money to be made from playing it well, kids who don't want to go to college or work in a cubicle are going to try their hand at it. It'd be dumb for a developer not to try and capitalize on that.
NormalFish
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Changing a game before release and after release is somewhat different. We'll see how it goes from here.
I agree. "Esports scenes developing around a game" really is a fantastic way to increase longevity. But that's a somewhat disingenuous way to put it, as all of Blizzard's games' esports scenes somehow existed before there were good players to populate it. Wonder how that happened.
In a few months we can talk again, but until they walk the walk for at least a bit of time I can't see how they've done much to contradict my take.
Monochromaticx
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the group stages start this weekend. June 7h is when the main event starts.
SecretMoblin
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getting tipped several games in a row as a tiny lil support ;__;
beating an invoker 1k higher mmr than u ;____;
realizing you have to play this shit for like 800 more years to unlock the broken op garbage cheater map
beating an invoker 1k higher mmr than u ;____;
realizing you have to play this shit for like 800 more years to unlock the broken op garbage cheater map
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