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[Zafir]

imo, no game is lost at draft

just a bad way of thinking tbh. especially since its not like league or Dota where a large early game mismatch can lead to irreversible lead advantages later on.

Games aren't lost in drafting, but I'd say you can certainly be put at a major disadvantage.

Having only Tyrande and no full healer I'd say is being at a disadvantage unless your team has good coordination in terms of ganking. Which is rather unlikely if you're solo queueing.

 

[brian!]

Games aren't lost in drafting, but I'd say you can certainly be put at a major disadvantage.

Having only Tyrande and no full healer I'd say is being at a disadvantage unless your team has good coordination in terms of ganking. Which is rather unlikely if you're solo queueing.

the second team has very few ways of winning and the first team can pull it off prtty easily i think

i actually prize starfall in both comps for the disengage more than I would prize a full heal, which seems like it would just delay a lost fight

 

[Dice]

Butcher? LEORIC PLZZZZZZZZ

Edit: That guy. "Tyrael.... and he's got no face"

Only in HotS.

Spoiler

Gotta censor the black man's dehumanizing gaze, I guess? :/

 

[kirblar]

2 unnanounced matchups? I bet they're C9/Tempo exhibitions with the new stuff.

 

[Alur]

2 unnanounced matchups? I bet they're C9/Tempo exhibitions with the new stuff.

Where'd you see two unannounced matchups? I hadn't seen that. It would be awesome.

EDIT: This waiting game doe. Apparently my stream never kicked in so I guess it was on stream.

 

[Dance Inferno]

Sounds like they have at least a year's worth of content planned and in process. That's good news.

 

[brian!]

dis music
luv c9 but rooting for berkley

 

[Alur]

Wow my stream never started. Weird.

 

[Dance Inferno]

This is the laziest montage ever.

 

[EscapingJail]

Butcher? LEORIC PLZZZZZZZZ

Edit: That guy. "Tyrael.... and he's got no face"

Only in HotS.

Spoiler

Gotta censor the black man's dehumanizing gaze, I guess? :/

All angels have no face in Diablo.

When he becomes human he gets a face.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Needs Leroy Jenkins

 

[Dice]

All angels have no face in Diablo.

When he becomes human he gets a face.

I thought he was just a wingless angel.

Edit: Pick banter is the worst. I would rather them talk a bit about the player as it is their turn picking like they say a bit about SC players as they are setting up for a match.

 

[Savitar]

Butcher? LEORIC PLZZZZZZZZ

Edit: That guy. "Tyrael.... and he's got no face"

Only in HotS.

Spoiler

Gotta censor the black man's dehumanizing gaze, I guess? :/

None of the angels have a face.

Not as angels anyways.

 

[kirblar]

I'm with Cooby- that Nova pick was fantastic.

I wonder if they got screwed by having to pick in player order here due to no trades.

 

[Alur]

I dig how even the specific all level 20's overlay they use notates who is free this week.

EDIT: Number one player killer hero. Milly79 so hype right now.

 

[Dance Inferno]

Is it me or is this a weird composition for Berkeley?

 

[Complistic]

Butcher? LEORIC PLZZZZZZZZ

Edit: That guy. "Tyrael.... and he's got no face"

Only in HotS.

Spoiler

Gotta censor the black man's dehumanizing gaze, I guess? :/

Yes blizz is racist, you've figured it all out.

 

[Dice]

So weird seeing HotS run perfectly smooth 60fps.

Yes blizz is racist, you've figured it all out.

It's a joke, man. They are the ones who made him black.

 

[davepoobond]

you dont get personally penalized for teaming up with someone who is a leaver right?

one of my friends kept dcing from the game and it thinks he's a leaver haha

 

[Dance Inferno]

So weird seeing HotS run perfectly smooth 60fps.

It's a joke, man. They are the ones who made him black.

Is it so unusual? I run it perfectly smooth at 60 fps regularly.

 

[Alur]

you dont get personally penalized for teaming up with someone who is a leaver right?

one of my friends kept dcing from the game and it thinks he's a leaver haha

You won't get penalized, but I would think you are in his leaver queues while grouped though.

So weird seeing HotS run perfectly smooth 60fps.

It always looks like this for me or when I'm watching non-McIntyre streamers.

 

[Savitar]

You can always say (until they show otherwise ) all the angels might actually be black and thus they are angels....well the ultimate force for good!

Anyways.

Love playing the Garden, so often no one else goes for the terror that you are able to grow. Most doesn't seem to realize you control it. They're either mid map or what not and never bother to look since it's at base. Hell I've seen people pop and run past it with no clue about it leaving me to respawn and then get it myself.

I always feel like singing a musical as I smash through gates.

 

[Complistic]

So weird seeing HotS run perfectly smooth 60fps.

It's a joke, man. They are the ones who made him black.

Ah gotcha. I've gotten so used to drive bys like that lately.

 

[Yoshichan]

Ready to play now. I'm on Mumble

 

[The Lamonster]

did I miss any announcements? looks like a standard game being casted right now.

 

[Twookie]

nah, it hasn't been announced yet

things got leaked tho, which is what people are discussing here

 

[Alur]

Anub too strong.

 

[Dance Inferno]

After five seconds I would have stopped chasing that Johanna and just pushed some keeps.

 

[Xater]

Not even Hero League is safe from dumb asses it seems.

First pick on my team Gazlowe. Right there I knew I am in for a treat. Second pick is Anub and the third Raynor. Then I see the fourth pick already has Sylvanas selected. I say that you should better not pick another specialist with what their team is and us already having Gazlowe. Well picks Sylvanas anyway. I pick Brightwing because well someone has to play support. We get of course slaughtered.

 

[Pooya]

new map looks great but it looks like you only do team fights in here, seemingly two lanes and everything important is in the center.

 

[Strider]

Ima need a Purple Stuff channel in the new Hotsgaf mumble ASAP it's the only way to play is to be on dat purp ya know what Im sayin?!

But srs... Can I get a Purple stuff channel Alur?

 

[Haly]

I think that's a pretty decent team save for Gazlowe. Sylvanas is ostensibly a Specialist but in practice she gets played as a sustained DPS assassin like Zagara.

 

[Savitar]

new map looks great but it looks like you only do team fights in here, seemingly two lanes and everything important is in the center.

Looks pretty cool. I love there are different maps, I can't imagine playing the same old map forever.

Looking at this map as well for some reason kinda makes me want to play on a map that is like chess objective wise.

 

[kirblar]

I think it's 3 and set up closer to Dragon Shire in terms of Layout.

 

[Alur]

C9M showing that class in the end. UC Berkeley better than C9 Vortex?

Spoiler

I'm kidding, kinda.

Ima need a Purple Stuff channel in the new Hotsgaf mumble ASAP it's the only way to play is to be on dat purp ya know what Im sayin?!

But srs... Can I get a Purple stuff channel Alur?

Done. Look above you.

 

[The Lamonster]

Not very excited about The Butcher. Give us Leoric!

 

[Strider]

Done. Look above you.

Thanks!

So now when I say I'm on dat purp... You know what's up.

 

[davepoobond]

You won't get penalized, but I would think you are in his leaver queues while grouped though.

yeah i am. thats fine, though. thanks

 

[SargerusBR]

new map looks great but it looks like you only do team fights in here, seemingly two lanes and everything important is in the center.

This is what i'm talking about. The game really needs more diablo/starcraft themed maps

 

[Alur]

So now when I say I'm on dat purp... You know what's up.

Long as you and brickwalker are on dat purp more often nowadays we will all be happier. We've had some good stuff going group wise on our side of the pond lately. Need moar doe.

 

[Zafir]

the second team has very few ways of winning and the first team can pull it off prtty easily i think

i actually prize starfall in both comps for the disengage more than I would prize a full heal, which seems like it would just delay a lost fight

Well yeah in the second case you can't even really gank. Terrible draft for sky temple really.

First one would probably depend how good the Nova is.

 

[Dice]

Is it so unusual? I run it perfectly smooth at 60 fps regularly.

It always looks like this for me or when I'm watching non-McIntyre streamers.

I always get incredibly inconsistent performance. 50-70fps just walking around, but always hitches when any ability is activated, so even 2v2 fights easily dip into the 30s. And I get the exact same performance from Medium to Ultra settings. The only way I get any better is turning absolutely everything to Low/Off (Edit: Just tested again, and even then it still has the dips on ability activations that drop it into the 50s). It's pretty stunningly shit performance, really. D3 and SC2 run fine.

 

[kirblar]

Murky/Abathur comp? Illidan has to be in there.

 

[jetsetrez]

Damn, that was a good game. Feel bad for UC Berkley, they really should've had that win, the game can swing so fast. Also gotta give these casters credit, they are really good at explaining things to an audience that is probably largely new, while still commentating excitedly. Most MOBA casts are just completely indecipherable non-sense going a million miles a minute.

This between game stuff is fairly cringe-worthy though.

I hope the new content is coming very soon.

 

[Alur]

I always get incredibly inconsistent performance. 50-70fps just walking around, but always hitches when any ability is activated, so even 2v2 fights easily dip into the 30s. And I get the exact same performance from Medium to Ultra settings. The only way I get any better is turning absolutely everything to Low/Off. It's pretty stunningly shit performance, really. D3 and SC2 run fine.

That blows =/. I've seen several people have issues like this. It's strange to me there are so many issues on the backend of this game for folks considering how most of their other games are marketed/molded to fit all ends of the spectrum.

 

[kirblar]

That blows =/. I've seen several people have issues like this. It's strange to me there are so many issues on the backend of this game for folks considering how most of their other games are marketed/molded to fit all ends of the spectrum.

It's because it's so CPU based, IIRC.

 

[Alur]

Double, holla at ya boi. Murky 4eva.

 

[jetsetrez]

New map looks fantastic. Looks just like D3, haha.

 

[Pooya]

try reducing sound channels, it can help quite a bit. The game needs really fast single threaded performance to keep 60.

 

[fedexpeon]

Wow, Butcher has a legit moveset.
Between him and Anub, I don't know which one will be more annoying.