Heroes of the Storm (HoTS) General Chat Thread

Dcully · 14-02-2015 1:04pm

I decided to buy the founders pack and take a punt and im really enjoying it.
Win / Loss isnt good something like 3 wins to 7 losses so far but im doing ok in terms of takedowns / deaths as im pretty cautious.

Havent enjoyed a MOBA as much as this.

YouSavedMyLife · 14-02-2015 4:41pm

Dcully wrote: »

I decided to buy the founders pack and take a punt and im really enjoying it.
Win / Loss isnt good something like 3 wins to 7 losses so far but im doing ok in terms of takedowns / deaths as im pretty cautious.

Havent enjoyed a MOBA as much as this.

Got an invite to the beta last night and played a few games. I like what they are doing with the focus on objective control, but the team levels and the feeling that i can't outplay my lane opponent with superior mechanics make it feel somewhat shallow. Will give it a few more tries as i enjoy the range of maps and the familiar Blizzard Heroes

YouSavedMyLife · 16-02-2015 6:26pm

Game is strangely addictive. Why, i don't know

Dcully · 16-02-2015 6:37pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Game is strangely addictive. Why, i don't know

Its blizzards dark magic at work :P

I cant get enough of it, its insanely addictive.

Pyjamarama · 17-02-2015 2:23am

Dcully wrote: »

Its blizzards dark magic at work :P

I cant get enough of it, its insanely addictive.

It's great fun. Even if they seem incapable of understanding that stitches needs proper nerfs.

Played a quick game as abarhur today and one of the guys was rocking with the Vikings. So many possibilities my head still hurts from it. Had to Valla it up after it to relax.

Orizio · 17-02-2015 12:17pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Game is strangely addictive. Why, i don't know

Its got that Blizzard polish. Plus its much easier and quicker than LoL/DOTA and so it doesn't make you feel as bad.

I'm already beginning to lose interest in it after a couple of weeks though. The maps don't help - that one with the ship is awful gameplay wise, as is the haunted mines.

dibkins · 17-02-2015 5:51pm

Can you use abathur ult on vikings?

Dcully · 24-02-2015 5:16pm

Anyone up for some bonus xp playing with a friend add me Cully#2309

delta36 · 05-03-2015 9:52pm

Got into the beta (unless it's become open and I just didn't realise), looking forward to see what it's like.

FYI for anyone else, I didn't get an email telling me I was in the beta, it just appeared as downloadable in the Blizzard launcher.

Kirby · 09-03-2015 6:14am

I got into the Alpha last year and played for a bit. I returned this week and its a lot of fun. Balance changes are good. They tend to nerf the guys who need it. They need to work on Illidan at the moment. He's incredibly strong. The pro's complain about zeratul but he has a high skill cap....random pug Zeratuls are always garbage. A monkey can play Illidan to a high level.

The matchmaking needs work too. If your team has a support and the other doesn't, it's a walkover. They need to fix that. I've started to just play Uther to ensure my team always has a healer.

Dcully · 09-03-2015 3:45pm

Kirby wrote: »

I got into the Alpha last year and played for a bit. I returned this week and its a lot of fun. Balance changes are good. They tend to nerf the guys who need it. They need to work on Illidan at the moment. He's incredibly strong. The pro's complain about zeratul but he has a high skill cap....random pug Zeratuls are always garbage. A monkey can play Illidan to a high level.

The matchmaking needs work too. If your team has a support and the other doesn't, it's a walkover. They need to fix that. I've started to just play Uther to ensure my team always has a healer.

Went 37/2 with zeratul over the weekend, then again we had a team who soaked up damage while i stealthed around and played the assassin role jumping players with 25% health left :P

Sprog 4 · 28-03-2015 1:37am

If anyone wants a beta key give me a pm.

Skerries · 28-03-2015 4:39am

I have keys as well

IgsTer · 28-03-2015 1:49pm

Ill take one if theres one still going?

Skerries · 28-03-2015 2:06pm

IgsTer wrote: »

Ill take one if theres one still going?

I have sent you a key

BKtje · 29-03-2015 12:37am

Got some keys, drop me a pm if you'd like one.

cherryghost · 02-04-2015 4:33pm

Promising so far and the skill level is quite good from the games I've played so far. It needs a lot more content to pull me from Dota 2 but I'll be keeping my eye on the updates coming up on this.

IRL_Sinister · 08-04-2015 9:31pm

Got 4 keys today if anyone wants just PM me. First 4 will get.

Dcully · 10-04-2015 12:32pm

I have some keys also, first to pm etc etc.

cherryghost · 13-04-2015 8:15pm

Also have a spare key if anyone wants it

Stormhawk88 · 14-04-2015 7:44pm

I have spare keys for this too if anybody wants them shoot me a PM.

Dcully · 10-06-2015 1:06pm

Very surprised more boardsies arent into this, im finding it a great game.

cherryghost · 10-06-2015 1:09pm

I play it now and again but I don't enjoy the sheer simplicity of it. I find Dota more complex and rewarding.

YouSavedMyLife · 10-06-2015 8:18pm

I feel like i want to play it but every time i do play it, win or lose i feel so unfulfilled. Like im just going through the motions and the only thing i have to put any thought into is where i want allocate my talent points. Its for casual players that don't want to invest much to learn a new game or for people that have low skill levels. It the trend in Blizzard games these days anyway bar Starcraft, but the only reason that has such a high skill ceiling is because of how immensely popular it is in Korea and as an E-sport.

I don't expect much from Overwatch, sadly...

cherryghost · 11-06-2015 10:23am

I never said I disliked the game, I just enjoy the more complexity and variance involved in the other MOBA games. I can see where HoTS scratches a certain itch but it's not for me.

Shiminay · 11-06-2015 5:48pm

As someone who tried League and who ran smack into the learning curve so hard that I knew there was no point at all in looking into DotA, I decided to give this a look a couple of nights ago and I found it's stripped down style much, much more approachable. I'm in my late 30's with a 50-60 hour/week job, I don't have time to learn a whole encyclopedia's worth of Heroes, Spells, Gear, Perks, Buffs, and whatever the flip else you're just expected to know on day one. I've only tried a couple of public games too and the players have been really helpful in saying "go here and do this" when I said "I'm a total n00b, I have no idea what's important, please feel free to give direction" (which is the exact opposite of my experience with League and the main reason I dropped it so quickly).

I also really like that the maps are different and offer something new each time you play.

YouSavedMyLife · 12-06-2015 12:18am

Shiminay wrote: »

As someone who tried League and who ran smack into the learning curve so hard that I knew there was no point at all in looking into DotA, I decided to give this a look a couple of nights ago and I found it's stripped down style much, much more approachable. I'm in my late 30's with a 50-60 hour/week job, I don't have time to learn a whole encyclopedia's worth of Heroes, Spells, Gear, Perks, Buffs, and whatever the flip else you're just expected to know on day one. I've only tried a couple of public games too and the players have been really helpful in saying "go here and do this" when I said "I'm a total n00b, I have no idea what's important, please feel free to give direction" (which is the exact opposite of my experience with League and the main reason I dropped it so quickly).

I also really like that the maps are different and offer something new each time you play.

There Rope, this guy just confirmed what i said, its a casual MOBA

Dcully · 15-06-2015 7:20pm

For me a non MOBA veteran HOTS is just a hell of a lot more action packed.
I personally got bored of other MOBAs and lost interest rapidly.
The real depth of HOTS comes from trying to counter your opposing teams heroes builds with your builds.

Reality_Check1 · 17-06-2015 9:05pm

Played this to level 12 just to get the free card back in Hearthstone. Cant see myself sticking with it tbh. Very mechanically unrewarding. ALthough I will admit the objective based maps are cool for something different to do

Dcully · 24-06-2015 1:21pm

I have 45k gold waiting to buy a few heroes.
Probably buy a solid tank and healer or two,and a few assassins.
I already own, tyrande,raynor,valla,diablo,muradin.
Cant decide which healer/support i prefer,played them all and enjoyed them all to a certain extent.
Likewise im unsure of another tank to buy, i love muradin but tempted to buy johanna and stitches.
As for assassin maybe zeratul and a few more.

cherryghost · 24-06-2015 1:23pm

Changed thread title.

B00MSTICK · 15-07-2015 4:28pm

I've just started playing last week. Any point in starting a "Irish HOTS players" thread? I don't feel like looking through the SC2 thread for Bnet IDs!

I've found it enjoyable so far and the fact that you don't need to commit an hour per game is a big plus.
As a LoL player there are certain aspects I miss regarding the variance/items etc. I find its harder to snowball/carry due to some of the above and the global XP which can be a bit annoying but that could be my lack of experience too.
If I'm crushing my lane and I get an early kill or two it doesn't really matter that much which is what leads to the comeback mechanics.
I think it relies just as much on the team comp as other MOBAs (possibly moreso) so am looking forward to giving HL a go.

cherryghost · 13-08-2015 7:19pm

Interesting chart depicting the games getting longer as the mechanics increase

Stormhawk88 · 16-08-2015 11:35pm

If anybody wants to team up let me know BNet tag is Nerobear #2862

Stormhawk88 · 28-08-2015 3:27pm

Anybody else getting massive lag for this since yesterday?

I use to get the occasional lag spike but this is just ridiculous. The game is unplayable for me at the moment.

Stormhawk88 · 01-09-2015 5:32pm

RopeDrink wrote: »

To be honest, I get less lag in HotS than I do League. Any time there has been net issues it's been 99% my end, whereas in League I'd often get unexplainable DC's or 'attempting to reconnect' whilst my internet is working perfect.

I understand it being maybe the ISP, modem or my PC but the degradation in games was gradual at the start and then just spiked. I've been to the forums and the complaints about latency and connection errors are staggering and Blizzards reply was "well we're not seeing any latency issues on our side". The amount of complaints was pretty staggering with a forum wide cull on lag threads.

Stormhawk88 · 03-09-2015 12:37am

That was brilliant I must go watch the rest of them now:D

Pyjamarama · 02-10-2015 1:05pm

European champs on atm. Dignitas vs Liquid. Looking forward to this one...

Nody · 05-10-2015 8:03am

Pyjamarama wrote: »

European champs on atm. Dignitas vs Liquid. Looking forward to this one...

That third game in final between

Dignitas and Navi

is every definition of epic (look at those

Navi

picks!)

billian · 24-04-2016 10:27pm

Is there much of an Irish HotS community any more? I just started playing about two weeks ago and I'm very much enjoying it!

IRL_Sinister · 11-05-2016 9:11pm

billian wrote: »

Is there much of an Irish HotS community any more? I just started playing about two weeks ago and I'm very much enjoying it!

I've literally had the game sitting in my library since closed beta. Didn't bother installing it then. Decided a couple days ago to install it and give it a go, considering it's free, and I'm having fun. Can't see how it could turn competitive though (not that I care about that anymore but it makes it more entertaining when you can appreciate a "pro" player so much more).

Orizio · 19-05-2016 2:58am

Zero chance of it being competitive. Think that is well accepted at this stage.

Stormhawk88 · 03-06-2016 10:57pm

Two good plays. I love those videos.

Stormhawk88 · 03-06-2016 11:28pm

Same whenever im bored tend to give them a look will def give him a sub and watch a couple more.

Doodleking · 30-06-2016 6:13pm

Heroes of the Storm is now available on Amazon only for $19 :woot: Cool

Julbak · 22-09-2016 12:16pm

I'm playing it almost every day for an hour or 2 after work/gym, anyone wants to join for a couple rounds? I can download team speak if necessary.

fixXxer · 26-04-2017 4:04pm

I was thinking of picking this us as it seems to be linked to some interesting Overwatch skins. Any idea where the cheapest place to get it would be?

billian · 27-04-2017 1:07am

fixxxer wrote: »

I was thinking of picking this us as it seems to be linked to some interesting Overwatch skins. Any idea where the cheapest place to get it would be?

The game itself is free to play. As long as you log in to the game before May 22nd you'll get to choose a free bundle with 20 heroes (there are four bundles to choose from, they can be found at http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/megabundles/ )

The game throws free gold at you at the early levels of the game, so you can definitely play it F2P if you really want to.

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