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Heroes of the Storm |OT| Pretty sure that Abathur is AFK

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Yoshichan

And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
"matchmaking, matchmaking, matchmaking... that's all that really matter to us right now".
- Dustin Browder, Blizzcon 2015
 
The 20% were things go wrong, they really go wrong. And this 80/20% an average, some players can be experiencing more positive matches, while some experience more awful ones. The closer to the middle you are, the better your matches likely are, the higher or lower you are, the bigger some of the swings can be.

That said they're working on a new matchmaking system they'll likely be going over in tomorrow's HotS panel.
 
Cho'Gal is this month with Lunara and Greymane next. Tracer is down the road.

Lunar a looks broken as fuck. Mobility and vision in this game is so premium

I imagine Lunara's leaping ult is about as safe Kael'thas wading into the middle of an enemy team.

Also how is a wisp any different from Far Sight or other global/AoE vision skills that don't involve the visible sentry drone. Kael'thas, The Monk, Rehgar, Tass...so many other heroes have vision skills.
 
"Can you talk about matchmaking"

Dustin is saying it's working 80% of the time as intended.

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Cho'Gal is this month with Lunara and Greymane next. Tracer is down the road.

no not greymane, why, why Blizzard, why?
 
Eh, it's Hearthstone now, which I am not really interested in. Looking at the schedule the next HotS panel is tomorrow at 11:30 in Hall A. State of the Game.
 

Dr. Buni

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like, I'm not even talking about her ass but rather her whole design from top to bottom is just fantastically designed and yes I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm attracted to the design!

And yes I do realize she's not real :p

edit: wait so I can't even post legit Tracer pics now without it being called 'porn' ._. WHAT?
That's kinda creepy o_O
 

Maledict

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Jesus Christ the overwatch thread is just full of the most gross toxic stupidity I've seen in a long time. No-ones discussing the game, just endless whining about the fact you have to buy it and imaginary futures where people project their worse fears.

Also the dota2 comparisons really piss me off. It's stupid. Dota 2 is unique, no-one else other than Valve and steam could do that, and yet it means people know expect complete high production value games completely for free. I know Kirblar has talked about it as well, and I hate to use the phrase because it sticks in my throat after mass effect 3, but gods are a lot of gamers entitled idiots.
 

Strider

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Jesus Christ the overwatch thread is just full of the most gross toxic stupidity I've seen in a long time. No-ones discussing the game, just endless whining about the fact you have to buy it and imaginary futures where people project their worse fears.

Also the dota2 comparisons really piss me off. It's stupid. Dota 2 is unique, no-one else other than Valve and steam could do that, and yet it means people know expect complete high production value games completely for free. I know Kirblar has talked about it as well, and I hate to use the phrase because it sticks in my throat after mass effect 3, but gods are a lot of gamers entitled idiots.

Yea I stopped Reading that thread a while ago. Was just rolling my eyes at some of the posts.

Community side >>>>>>>>> gaming side
 

Ketch

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Cho'Gal is this month with Lunara and Greymane next. Tracer is down the road.



I imagine Lunara's leaping ult is about as safe Kael'thas wading into the middle of an enemy team.

Also how is a wisp any different from Far Sight or other global/AoE vision skills that don't involve the visible sentry drone. Kael'thas, The Monk, Rehgar, Tass...so many other heroes have vision skills.

Different because it's her E so she's not giving up any damage talents to get it.

If KT just had farsight without having to give up fission bomb or range on E or whatever tier it's on it would be sick.

On mobility: At 20 KT is often seen blinking in towards enemies. Now imagine if his blink had two charges and you got it at 10. So I don't think it's actually that risky.
 
Different because it's her E so she's not giving up any damage talents to get it.

If KT just had farsight without having to give up fission bomb or range on E or whatever tier it's on it would be sick.

Imagine a vision tool replacing Lapsed Gravity, Flamestrike or Fission Bomb. Yeah KT passes on a talent that increases damage of an ability for global true sight but Lunara straight up has one less damage ability. She's like a Dota support in that she's a support without a heal, she has DoT's, debuffs and vision tools.

I think she's a support hero that's been classified as a ranged assassin to avoid being called a shitty support.
 

Ketch

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Her damage values aren't known yet but yea if she's got the same damage as a KT or valla with all that mobility and vision then they'll she be stupid strong, which is what my original post was about
 

kirblar

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Her damage values aren't known yet but yea if she's got the same damage as a KT or valla with all that mobility and vision then they'll she be stupid strong, which is what my original post was about
Everything about her screams poke. (Even has Nazeebo's DOT)
 

brian!

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just watched the arena video

"when considering a new mode for the game we thought itd be cool to create a play experience that you could never prepare for, something quick and easy that you could jump into, but would require even more flexibility and adaptation out of players"

kappa
 

Ketch

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just watched the arena video

"when considering a new mode for the game we thought itd be cool to create a play experience that you could never prepare for, something quick and easy that you could jump into, but would require even more flexibility and adaptation out of players"

kappa

Are you sure you didn't just watch the quick match video by mistake?
 
I don't understand kappa. I just know it's twitch chat related and my brain reels in horror when I watch that spam stream fly by in the few moments it takes me to hide it.

pretty sure I just stealth admitted to being old and/or out of touch

Her damage values aren't known yet but yea if she's got the same damage as a KT or valla with all that mobility and vision then they'll she be stupid strong, which is what my original post was about

Dude, how else are they going to sell her at hero launch?
 

brian!

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the honor of china
dont stream and driiive ketch

omg this is amazing

"actually we haven't met before" is probably top 10 esports moment
 
While I'm rooting for Cloud 9, all I know is this: whoever is the champion better have a team comp that includes Mechatassadar, medic uther, and then maybe Demonic tyreal. Then some jaina, sylvanas, or zeratul, or even Candy King mauridin. Selfish but I want a discount on that Mechatassadar...
 

Werd

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Was there any kind of Arena timeline given? Sounds like they are still working on it so months off?

Definitely interested, looks fun and gives new players another avenue to try other heroes.
 

brian!

Member
next series
gia's comp is like they literally perused a tier list, probably had a tab up on the heroesdraft tablet

the way the casters look straight at the camera while talking to each other unnerves me
 

brian!

Member
Waaaaaaats happening?

it's gia vs. yl, yl beat them on spider map

gia picked like the worst comp for the map and got crushed

really appreciate casters going in on the lightning breath sounds
both comps are pretty good this time, mura and diablo gotta go beaszt if gia want to win
lightning breath can actually do prtty good work here even tho i would never recommend taking it ever

yeaaaaah gia is just outclassed
next series quick pls!
 

brian!

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wish ppl could ride on etcs back during stage dive

watching yl actually stall when you are supposed to stall in boe T___T been traumatized from my games
love yl picking etc early twice and being like, look, he works with everything ok
 

Alur

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Zuna is the one who gets stung, the others have to come in and clean up? Zuna feeds scorpions?

RIP Zuna. You will forever be a meme in HOTS.

EDIT: LOL, Braveheart: "Tempo Storm we will crush you"

Then the analyst panel is smalls to talls.
 
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