So I got a couple of games in tonight after everyone and their mother got a beta invite. I'm amazed at how terrible the game is performance wise, considering how minimal shit be. Tons of lag everywhere and ridiculous load times for some people to get in the game. The lobby/game system is just plain old confusing.
As for the actual game, it's sad to see the Dota influence ripped so heavily. Wish they had looked to other AoS too. ToB and EotA especially got so much right that it's kinda silly to just disregard the both of them. Also it's amazing that they built a whole new system and still managed to include Dota's fucking terrible pathing.
I played three games, first picked Jeena first or w/e the wind Jaina is called. Seemed to be complete bottom tier, a healer who can barely heal and her KoL nuke was not nearly as well implemented as it used to be. But whatever, I tried to squeeze that shitty bubble for all it was worth.
After winning that, mostly because the other team was terrible, I looked over the support character list (Which is really cool feature, though I'm sure it has more to do with the storefront they want to present) and found Morgana. A DD root and some sort of massive aoe, sign me up. Oh and another bubble.
To cut to the chase, I saw later when messing around in some menus that Morgana was the highest rated character or something and was completely unsurprised. I went 9-0-9 in my second time ever playing this game, not having much of a clue what the enemies I were facing could do or hell whether or not any given animation was friendly or not.
My biggest complaint, outside of how unambitious the thing is, is that there's seriously fuck all to do at the start of the game. As far as I could tell, there's no attack move, no denying, and no other characters to control. My left arm pressed a button maybe three times in the first five minutes.
I can tell the ones saying the talents and runes don't matter have never played WoW.
This isn't wow, that entire list doesn't make up for being able to dodge a single aoe or getting an extra whack in. The actual stat bonuses a level 30 has are rather meaningless.
Oh yea the positives: This game had a *much* more relaxed atmosphere than any Dota match I've ever played. My last game devolved into a teleport-die-alt-tab fest and it caused one guy to go nerdrage and pretty much everyone there laughed at him. I can very much see myself getting in a game before sleeping or something if people are gonna be that chill. Game still took too long after it was over though.
