Heroes of the Storm - It's like if Blizzard made Smash Bros. but not! - Games

[QUOTE=Linkuya;48097274]Fixed it, just had to wait on that screen for a very long time I think this game is great and all, but it's so poorly made on a technical level. The game should never run be running at less than 60 FPS for me, but 40-30 is the norm. It's always felt so unoptimized for me. Now after this patch even menus are lagging and choppy. A lot of people are reporting overall big framerate drops in game as well.[/QUOTE] worst thing is when your game randomly lags out and disconnects you while you're running away and the game puts a bot in your place that instantly runs into the enemies

[QUOTE=Jzzb;48101012]When's Leoric supposed to be out anyway, next week? Week after next? A month?[/QUOTE] Yes.

The game is using the sc2 engine, the sc2 engine isn't supposed to be optimized, it's supposed to work on pretty much anything, just not work well.

Well, I guess that explains quite a bit.. I wish it was on another engine though. It's kinda painful to play the game when optimized games are such the norm. Like, this is the only game in my library that has these kinds of issues and as petty as it sounds, it does kinda detract from the game when I know it'll run poorly by default. Here's to hoping it runs better down the road, I feel like they'll majorly address it if the game really picks up steam.

I really don't know why, but switching to borderless window mode drops me from 60fps to about 40 in HOTS and SC2, when it tends to have almost no effect in other games. That's the only issue I've had in terms of optimization in these games, really. Except rarely for some reason I think it tries to use my laptop's shitty onboard graphics and I have to lower settings to about minimum or restart my computer in order to be able to play decently.

Do you guys think Duriel would be a better Anub'arak skin or Abathur skin? Also do you guys think I am too hopeful for hoping that blizzard add more skins than they announced? [IMG]http://www.thanatosrealms.com/diablo2/bestiary/monsters/duriel.jpg[/IMG]

Yeah I don't know how the game handles skins but I thought there were some included in the update but I didn't see any. Whoops, wait I just got a small update maybe that was it.

[QUOTE=Linkuya;48108425]Yeah I don't know how the game handles skins but I thought there were some included in the update but I didn't see any. Whoops, wait I just got a small update maybe that was it.[/QUOTE] Butcher was the only hero this month, next comes another hero with its mount, a diablo skin and a mount. Same the next after that - at least that appears to be how they've scheduled things.

It looks like the XP cap has been removed, or at least significantly increased. [quote]Over 5 mil exp still getting exp, i think the cap is gone entirely. I just hope it stays that way...[/quote] [url]http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/18300620504?page=1[/url]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OTJZKhU.png[/IMG] I don't think I have ever seen a character get such a big drop in win % before.

[QUOTE=gepperman;48119678][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OTJZKhU.png[/IMG] I don't think I have ever seen a character get such a big drop in win % before.[/QUOTE] Getting closer to 50% is a positive thing, though.

Wow, the butcher is actually really fun. I like him a lot.

[QUOTE=gepperman;48119678][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OTJZKhU.png[/IMG] I don't think I have ever seen a character get such a big drop in win % before.[/QUOTE] Yeah, those healing talents got nerfed hard. All the good ones removed and their replacements aren't quite so great. The half-second less of polymorph is more significant than some might think as well, and both the talent that increases polymorph length and damage vs polymorphed targets are in the same tier, so that kind of sucks too. All that said, I'm still enjoying and doing alright in my bw games.

Thank fuck though. Brightwing before this patch was broken. I don't think I lost a single game with her, even if I probably played only maybe 7-8 games.

Nerfing everyone that nova can practically instakill and leaving Nova alone is equal to buffing Nova.

You know, maybe a decent nova tweak would be to make her stealth active rather than passive, making players maintain it themselves rather than leaving it automatic. Obviously it would still require her to be out of combat, but that might make it an interesting transition making the players need to manage more maybe that's not a good change, but from what I've seen, Nova's are terrible players outside of being good at picking off weak players.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MdhlmWd.png[/IMG] It's just getting worse for the little faerie dragon.

[QUOTE=gepperman;48125645][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MdhlmWd.png[/IMG] It's just getting worse for the little faerie dragon.[/QUOTE] Nerfing a hero shouldn't involve taking away all of their good talents and lowering their heals.

I feel every hero should have multiple viable skill builds, that's when they are balanced.

i played giz that was the first game i've ever gotten a really trashy team yelling at me, even though the other team kept getting the webweavers

I was playing on the Sky Temple place, taking a Merc camp as Gazlowe when the objective dropped. I wanted to finish up before going, so the Muradin goes "you fuck" "Zeavan" "fuck you". I simply went "hmm?" and he went on a tirade about how I wasn't doing the objective and was a piece of shit and we were going to lose because of me. We lost anyway, cause the Muradin had died, like, 10 or so times and we couldn't team fight to save our lives. Also, I hate this month of heroes because Muradin and Falsted are super annoying to play against.

well my problem is i play hammer a lot, but giz doesn't have the self-heals or escaping abilities like hammer, i like the turrets but the stupid laser takes too damn long to charge and isn't even useful for pvp. he does great siege damage but siege is pretty useless when you can't get your hero anywhere near the enemy's forces or buildings

Gaz's laser is super shit and everyone goes Robo-Goblin even though Grav-O-Bomb is [I]fucking amazing[/I] and all you need is someone like ETC or Johanna to initiate and it's a free team stun.

Got 10 with Rehgar and his master skin after like 8 hours of solo queue losing streak

So I go on and on about how Sonya is shit and all that, and I think she still is, but soloing bosses as soon as you hit 10 is pretty fun. [editline]6th July 2015[/editline] [t]http://i.imgur.com/6nNR0e3.jpg[/t] Some people.

So how is this still holding? Does anyone think this game can hold it's own for a while before it dies? I just quit WoW for a while so I might be playing alot of this, Hearthstone, and Fallout TTW for a while.

what?

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;48131889]So how is this still holding? Does anyone think this game can hold it's own for a while before it dies? I just quit WoW for a while so I might be playing alot of this, Hearthstone, and Fallout TTW for a while.[/QUOTE]It's a Blizzard game, it prints money

Playing against Zeratul and/or Nova just isn't fun. I don't care if they are good or bad, but it's annoying when you have to constantly keep an eye on the ground around you. Every game without them is like double the fun.

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;48131889]So how is this still holding? Does anyone think this game can hold it's own for a while before it dies? I just quit WoW for a while so I might be playing alot of this, Hearthstone, and Fallout TTW for a while.[/QUOTE] While the game itself isn't the best thing ever and would probably crash and burn very quickly (there are way too many MOBAs trying to be "super casual friendly" right now, none of them is doing too well.) if it wasn't owned by Blizzard and/or had iconic Blizzard characters: It's owned by Blizzard and has iconic Blizzard characters. It probably won't get more popular than LoL nor DotA (hell, it probably won't kick Smite from it's 3rd place.), but won't die so easily.