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Heroes of the Storm |OT3| Chromiehounds

Alur

Member
Alright, this is cool and all but how the fuck do you release a Volskaya map without a new Zarya skin?

Also what is going on with Varian's face in that skin. It looks derpy.
 

Alur

Member
I like the map's look and the 3 lanes and the conveyors seem interesting, at least at first blush. My concern is the vehicle.

It's hard af to get just ONE person to get into the vehicle most of the time. Asking two to get in? I dunno man.
 
getting the right person into one is difficult but someone entering usually happens for me pronto.
Oftentimes at poor timings even. Like taking a plant right when the team lost a teamfight and everyone is dead.
 

Alur

Member
Even in Diamond it's often a struggle for who is getting in. Most people just don't want to. The only time it's easy is when there's someone obvious like Murky whose death is meaningless and purpose is ultimately the same in vehicle or out.
 
Interesting haven't had this experience a lot of times. That seems to be one of the few instances people can be agreeable in scrubleague.

People are the worst when it comes to punishers though. Yeah let's contest when they are at 30 already, yeah let's fight them outside the gate,... Just terrible every time and it only takes 1 to completey ruin a defense.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
whoa wtf, information overload out of nowhere? o_O

new map with a cho'gal mech? Anna and Junkrat? Crazy skins?

Yeah boi
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
what skins did you guys catch? I saw the deathwing Dva, tht crazy russian Varian, think I also saw a new Nova skin in there?
 

Alavard

Member
Gonna be nice having another support so soon after Stukov. I love Ana in OW, and I usually hate playing snipers of any kind. I think she'll translate great to HotS.
 

kirblar

Member
There's an interview up w/ Kent-Eric where he says they're being very concious about needing to put out more Main Tanks and Healers and heavily implies at least one more of each is coming this year. (we know Alexstraza is one) Makes me think Firebat might be a straight up Main Tank as well. (especially since the Terrans don't have one yet.)
 

Prelude.

Member
Holy shit, that was out of nowhere. An actually playable Ana, Creepy D.Va, D.Vaka.
Junkrat new global hero? I don't know about Mecha Cho'Gall, though.

Prelude with some really good Jaina play, he seemed to like the other teams cause he put a bunch of rings on them.
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
yeesh Pallytime looks crushed in this video :/

(demonetization related)

Time to move to twitch full time? I see those FGC cats on twitch and they keep getting donations and subs and shit, and fighting games are more niche than mobas for sure, even if HotS is the third in the totem pole of mobas no?
 

Prelude.

Member
He'll be fine, he needs some time. He just started on Twitch, a lot of people probably still don't even know about it. Mewn has 57k followers and Pally is already at 25k. With 200k subs on YT, I think he's the more popular of the two and Mewn gets a lot of money. I gave him my prime sub anyway, it's not like I use it.
 

Prelude.

Member
The objective is not fundamentally flawed like Hanamura's, where you had to get back into a completely empty area of the map to escort a payload and maybe 40ish seconds of inactivity later bump into someone of the enemy team. This one forces teams into the same area, which is how objectives should work. The mech can be a recipe for disaster, though.
 

Alur

Member
Was gonna say, it wasn't clear if multiple points were active or just one. Makes sense to be just one unless there's some kind of visual representation for what lane the mech will hit.

Also, lol @ the Deathwing D.Va trolling. I hadn't thought about it, but that's pretty rich.

EDIT: I will day zero that D.Vhaka skin.


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kirblar

Member
Did Gilly go with the shaved side? Dread looks the same to me more or less.
Nah, just straight and asymmetrical, its so much better than her previous haircuts.

Dread just got his cleaned up, his hair grows fast and he probably needs to get a haircut more often than he does.
 

Alur

Member
ITT kirblar and Alur dive deep into fashion in the world of HOTS

But yeah, hers does look 100% better. Also no more pink pls
 

Drayco21

Member
The leaks promised me a glorious Firebat hero before more Overwatch stuff, that's a bummer.

Those D.Va and Varian skins are amazing though.
 

Alur

Member
Pink hair would be fine if she did it right.

Agreed. Whatever it was she had going on wasn't working with that.

The leaks promised me a glorious Firebat hero before more Overwatch stuff, that's a bummer.

Those D.Va and Varian skins are amazing though.

I also thought Firebat was next according to the leaks but /shrug. I'm sure Firebat is coming so maybe he'll be part of the Blizzcon announcements?
 

Blues1990

Member
I would like Kyle Blackthorne, Sarlac, & Snake Sanders to be included in the game. Aside from the fact that Kyle can fire a shotgun with one-hand (and can shoot backwards!), I want to see how the team behind the game updates these characters. Especially if they keep Kyle's tattered jeans, combat boots, tank top, sunglasses, & battle mullet.

That, and it would be funny to have a one-dimensional villain like Sarlac interact with the big villains of the Warcraft and Diablo games. Like, this dude wants to take over a planet because he's evil. No other reason.

Heroes of the Overwatch.

I'll probably get Junkrat at launch

I know people are ragging the fact that we are getting heavy Overwatch representation. But considering that we got nothing but back-to-back Warcraft characters for a good while, I'm fine with that series taking a backseat for the others taking the spotlight.
 

Milly79

Member
I kind of wish they varied it every time and we didn't get multiple releases of a certain universe.

Also, was this the first time the leaker of heroes was wrong? Didn't he say Firebat was next?
 
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