Heroes of the Storm

It's point and click "crap". Smite is the only game of its type pretty much.

Yeah or whenever they add it, for now she's locked, only free hero is Raynor. And well whatever's in this week's rotation.

They're adding a lot of stuff and changing a lot of stuff, but it's been going pretty slow in typical blizzard fashion. I don't know how it'll end up to be honest, it's pretty fun but yeah gets boring quickly, few heroes, maps aren't balanced and a few aren't that interesting, a lot of heroes are fairly bland, you can't really do too much strategy at the moment unless you group up first(since you pick a hero then queue instead of picking heroes based on what enemy/your team picks), it also sucks if you don't group and end up against a group especially with how reliant on teamfighting the game is.

Game is like over a year from release I'd say, so yeah right now it's not that great. These games are always fairly shitty in beta and especially if the company isn't churning heroes out.

I assume he means an invite, not an actual key, afaik they're still not doing keys and still only tagging accounts, but if you know people you can get your account added on the next invite wave list.

No they haven't added it yet. They have a bunch of options they're working on but like, blizzard pace and all. Stuff as simple as keybindings. No smartcast no hold button to move yet either.

I think blackheart bay isn't too bad actually in terms of snowball, because all you need is one good teamfight where you kill a guy that had a bunch of coins and you can come back fairly easily. Thing is, to make sure no comeback is possible, you need to make sure everyone picks up coins so they're spread out, because when you turn in you want as many people as possible turning in and being at 0 coins to prevent losing them randomly. However quite often it's whoever's in melee range that picks them up and they end up with like 16coins and killing him is basically a huge shift in power. Granted that doesn't help winning teamfights, but eh. The downside of the map is if you're out of buildings, then the enemy team can finish you without having to fight you at all.

The mines is "balanced' because the mechanic is fucking useless. It's the same with the dragon shrine if you have at least 2 ranged(one being an assassin), since you can just kill the dragon and while he does some building damage, it's not that big, plus it's very hard to actually take the objectives all at once if people are half competent.

The worst by far is the curse map, they said they're nerfing the curse next patch but that was like 2weeks ago(granted I expect a patch this week during the maintenance). Atm it's the dumbest map in the game and you can easily win in 5mins even as 5pubs if you get shit going the right way. The random spawns are just a terrible idea overall.

Krassus_sl said:

Keybinding would go a long way for someone like me who has never played MOBA's or whatever this is. Having to right click and hit a button to attack seems clunky to me when I would much prefer to rebind that to left click and #1 etc

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Yeah it's especially pointless since left clicking doesn't do shit in this game anyway. You don't need to check items, mana, level or anything really. Maybe buff durations, but I don't think they even display so it's really completely useless, and unlike dota you don't control more than one unit ever so meh. Can rebind using autohotkey I assume, but yeah they need to get on with those.

He's apparently broken as all fuck. Basically he's a zombie pusher, drop egg in your base(so people can't kill it) and just head down the lane suiciding on the enemy towers until they drop, repeat until lane is dead. Only decent way to counter is to have Zeratul blink inside your base and kill the egg, or well destroy the base so you can find the egg in there.

Biggest downside of this patch so far is they still haven't fixed not getting gold at level cap, and removed all hero bundles, instead adding shitty 1hero+skins bundles. So you can either buy one hero, or one hero and his skins, there's no more multiple heroes bundles.

New UI is also...not really any better. It wasn't very good before, it's still not very good, for different reasons.

Edit: After playing a few games, Murky is actually pretty fucking shit. Countered by MULE talent, does more or less jackshit in combat, he only wins games when the opposing team is twiddling their thumbs not doing anything since he pushes really slowly. Garg Witch Doctor can rape a lane in 30seconds but Murky needs several minutes to do the same unless he's laying his eggs very close, in which case he's easy to counter.