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Heroes of the Storm |OT3| Chromiehounds

Milly79

Member
I dont usually watch streamers unless they are fun pros and fun pros dont really stream anymore or do it at weird hours since they play the game for a job. But i was pretty surprised with mewn, didnt expect his stream to be so education-focused

W/r/t na and eu this tournament, didnt catch most of it but i dont think the gap between na and eu is too wide. Gfe could beneifit heavily from replacing aka (no free agents tho?), freedom did really well for their first lan, didnt catch any r20 games but their issues arent roster related in terms of play (mebbe communication and draft?).

Mewn educational? News to me. The ones I mainly watch now are Fan, Dunk, Chu (to a lesser extent lately), Alexich (thanks to you guys) and Glogan. But yeah, they're all fairly late/early am streamers.

R20 wasn't there, Tempo was.
 

brian!

Member
Alexich was great in league never seen him on stream but he pops up in my games occasionally.

You should check out mewn's stream atm (tho i think you hate him for some reason?) he has been very educational in the 3 games i saw him play and his actual behavior in game seems aight, like he had an uther say some inane shit about how he was getting dove on and he just muted immediately, didnt respond with some bs or anything. Maybe it helps him play but he's been really good with explaining decisions, calling out errors, communicating with his team (he is one of the few streamers that ive seen so far go all "gee if they dont do this one thing we'll win" and then actually type it into chat), he's just really bad at seeing his own play objectively. Like he'll call out some dumb shit someone on his team is doing, but when he does bad stuff all he does is acknowledge and either try to change the subject or shift blame, but it doesnt really affect the game and it's goofy enough that his chat knows lol

He really does lack a lot of self-awareness tho, he just complained about genji q being "no mana free scouting hur dur" while he was playing li ming lol
 

Alur

Member
mewn has always been fairly descriptive about his games/teammates and the decisions happening IIRC. It's just the character mewn has kind of overwhelmed the original streamer mewn as he's gotten more views and dollars. I feel like he is a bit salty but most of these tirades are meant to bring in viewers and get reddit talking more than they are his actual personality. Once he saw it worked he's kind of blown it out like reynad did in the past.

And I got respect for Glogan. To play the heroes he plays, maintain his rank, and put up with all the BM he takes...that's some thick skin. I've seen him get BM in just about every other GM level streamers stream and chat.
 

Alur

Member
I'd never seen him stream til last night. He was alright, I followed him. He had like 350 viewers at one point which was pretty impressive IMO.
 

Altairre

Member
The last time I watched mewn was before the Genji nerf and he was just ranting nonstop. Not even only about Genji but Malthael and Lucio as well (his Lucio hate was kind of funny at least). Then he tilted super hard and played like absolute garbage for two or three matches. Maybe it was just bad timing but it didn't really made me want to watch more of it.
 

brian!

Member
Hm maybe he's just different now, i havent had much exposure to him before. I just tuned in a little bit and apparently he just spent an hour reviewing a game for his viewers, he's sweating profusely and muttering stuff about how he hopes this can be helpful to ppl, and then someone in chat was all "i didnt learn anything", and he got super sad lol
 
mewn has always been fairly descriptive about his games/teammates and the decisions happening IIRC. It's just the character mewn has kind of overwhelmed the original streamer mewn as he's gotten more views and dollars. I feel like he is a bit salty but most of these tirades are meant to bring in viewers and get reddit talking more than they are his actual personality. Once he saw it worked he's kind of blown it out like reynad did in the past.

And I got respect for Glogan. To play the heroes he plays, maintain his rank, and put up with all the BM he takes...that's some thick skin. I've seen him get BM in just about every other GM level streamers stream and chat.

Glogan can be toxic as well. He has in my games before. But that's kinda par for the course for people who get bullied I guess. His title from today's stream was in reference to when I called him out on it in game
 

brian!

Member
I think im seeing the bad mewn now, his analysis gettin worse, he led his team into awful fights, and he's going all-in on team comp for the reason everything is going wrong (it's not lol)
 

Milly79

Member
dude, i play with everyone (and I'm not that good). I'm not like that at all. If you're ok with a friend of mine tagging along (he's coming from LoL), hit me up.

Dementia#1649

Hotslogs says otherwise...

I'm onto you.

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scoobs

Member
Mewn educational? News to me. The ones I mainly watch now are Fan, Dunk, Chu (to a lesser extent lately), Alexich (thanks to you guys) and Glogan. But yeah, they're all fairly late/early am streamers.

R20 wasn't there, Tempo was.

Ya, idk why but I tend to avoid Chu's stream now. Glogan is my new late-night streamer. Dunk/HORSEPANTS are my go-to when they're on. Watch KyleFergusson and Gorath whenever they're streaming (they're duoing TL together right now, stream is called "Into the CORE" lol)
 

Milly79

Member
haha gg's, good lunara play :D

Thanks man! Was fun, but a little stressful playing with the 13th GM in HL, lol. Definitely gotta do it again soon!

Ya, idk why but I tend to avoid Chu's stream now. Glogan is my new late-night streamer. Dunk/HORSEPANTS are my go-to when they're on. Watch KyleFergusson and Gorath whenever they're streaming (they're duoing TL together right now, stream is called "Into the CORE" lol.

I think since Chu left NA it just hasn't been as good for some reason. I'll watch HORSE from time to time, but I can't say I really care for him. I've never caught Beau streaming and Kyle is too odd for me. The shit he believes people should be doing just throws me for a loop. He thinks too much and it's not like he's better than most of us here.
 

Prelude.

Member
The TL/unranked streams with mewn, dunk, bakery, mcintyre, etc. are pretty entertaining. Yesterday they were doing games with the worst possible comps, like all specialists, all stealthies, stuff like that.

But mewn's fine most of the times, I think he got better and he's generally fun to watch.
 

Alavard

Member
Garrosh release day is upon us. I'm sorely tempted to play nothing but Leoric tonight to counter the hell out of him. Lunara should do nicely as well.
 

Alur

Member
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plain af, like they gave her tassadar base skin. maybe in another tint besides the base one it's ok, but no clue why you'd want that over the volleyball skin tbh.
 

Alur

Member
Yep it's updating here in NA. Maledict can't even be mad about the update lag for EU anymore. It's all NA has left to hang it's hat on. =/

Can't actually log in, though.
 

Alur

Member
Can only wear one at a time mate. And only 3 presets. Would be neat to have a randomizer just for a specific hero that you could feed specific skin/mount combos into and it'd pick one for each game.
 

brian!

Member
tbh tho I feel like this could be intervention for ppl who enjoy hanamura
man it'd be awesome if they just did it over, wouldn't mind if it took a while if they make a fun map out of it
 

zoukka

Member
Anyone else not give an eff about lootboxes? Like I can't even bother to play the Brawls now, I did when they used to give gold from it.
 

Alur

Member
I think most of us have cooled on em since they've severely restricted the ability to purchase what you want from the shop.

It's kind of like what Jon was saying on CORE a week or two ago.

If you look at Brawls as something that you get an ROI from, before you got 1000 gold and a new portrait when a new one was introduced...now, if you're really after something you want out of a loot box or trying to maximize said loot box during the summer event when it was live, it's actually COSTING you gold. So instead of always being a net positive, it's a negative of 250 or more gold each go 'round.
 

Prelude.

Member
I started playing at the end of last year and I skipped my first brawl ever last week. The reward is just not appealing anymore. They should give one loot chest per game, capping at three.
 

Milly79

Member
The brawl this week has been fun and refreshing. I don't mind playing it past the 3 games needed.

When it comes to other brawls I'll sometimes knock them out if the only take 2 games.
 

Milly79

Member
I only had 5 chests to open, but managed to pull one of the new Anub skins.

I really need to be more diligent in stocking up on chests when we know new content is dropping. Sucks when you don't have a stim pack though, progression is still pretty damn slow.
 
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