What does /v/ think of this?
Valve has been giving out cosmetic dress up shit as pre order bonuses in tf2 for the last decade. How is this new?
>Because warhammer's aesthetics are similar in spirit to much of the Dota universe
Well I guess so. It's a lot closer than other promotional garbage they've put into their games.
If they DOTA-ify the art-style of the items, I have no problem with it at all. WHFB has some amazing designs.
>>335977943
Warcraft is basically Warhammer, so it's not surprised that a mod of Warcraft is going to be highly relatable to Warhammer too.
>>335978218
>Warcraft is basically Warhammer
jej
Would anyone actually be interested in a 40k DOTA clone?
>>335978364
You're right, Warhammer is basically a rip off of Warcraft.
>>335978459
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>Because warhammer's aesthetics are similar in spirit to much of the Dota universe
Well no shit, dota's art style is a bastardization of Warcraft which is a bastardization of Warhammer.
Where's Pit Lord?
>>335978218
wow you're basically retarded
>>335978718
But Dota's art-style is infinitely superior to Warcraft's Saturday morning cartoon reject art-style.
>>335978459
>You're right, Warhammer is basically a rip off of Warcraft.
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Are you underage? Or retarded? Or both?
>>335978218
It's well-known that Blizzard basically copied Warhammer for Warcraft.
>>335978842
Sure...
Was playing DotA back in the day the same as playing ASSFAGs now? Is Dota 2/LoL/HoN better or worse than the original?
I'm just wondering about the people in this thread who can't see that Warcraft is "heavily inspired" by Warhammer. Was your first Warcraft experience WoW?
>>335979516
It's the same, except now they have matchmaking and other modern conveniences like hats.
Dota2 is exactly Dota, LoL tried to simplify the formula, and HoN is dead. There you go.
>>335979516
Dota 2 is better than the original, HoN is the closest to Dota 1 out of all three, LoL completely misses the mark.
Where were you when icefraud killed dota?
>>335977647That sounds really coolIm kinda interested
>>335977759
First time it happens in DOTA
Now the artstyle will be even fucking worse when every shitty Steam release gets items
>>335979860
AXE ATTACKS!
Seriously, though, Axe is fucking cancer again. Thanks, Icefraud, I love pure damage, tanky, fast, cheese-strat using heroes--oh, no, wait, I don't.
>>335979058
>>335978218
Blizz was literally making a Warhammer game before they lost the license late into the development process and had to quickly fix it so it would be an original IP.
>>335979681
Is itgood? I realize I may have been meme'd into hating it even though I spent a decade romanticizing a game I never played just because of that shitty basshunter song.
>>335979860
What happened?
Omniknight can pass off with some Warhammer gear. Alchemist too.
Lina needs a Redeemer hat. That is all.
>>335980190
Blademail is core on every hero now
Get with the meta grandpa
>>335980146
It's hard to tell if you'll like it or not until you actually try it. Good thing they're all free so go download both and see which one you prefer.
Why did GW stop caring about WHFB?
>>335980248
> Not meepo skaven skin
baka desu senpai
Why do they keep updating? Surely there are enough characters to just balance and leave it be for eternity.
I think CA can suck my dick if they expect me to pay real earth dollars for Rome II Reskin: Denuvo Edition
>>335980248
>Sigmar Priest Omniknight
HEALING SHOCK
>>335980307
Oh god what, why?
Which update did this?
>>335980420
>leave game alone
>people get bored
>stop playing
>continuously shuffle around whats OP and whats UP
>people keep coming back to play with new OP shit
>game lives forever
>>335980606
If people get bored of it then it wasn't a good game to begin with. Replay value should come from solid gameplay not to see numbers/levels go higher or for arbitrary changes.
>>335980606
Blademail now returns damage before ANY reduction takes place. This includes armor and magic resistance (including the 25% base resistance most heroes get naturally) and returns it as the original type the damage was instead of magical
So now you can do crazy bullshit as certain heroes like Axe where you buy a blink, blademail and blink in, taunt and return pysical damage BEFORE your 40+ armor reduction takes place
So now blademail is pretty much core on all strength heroes and most melee carries as it makes you literally untouchable during the buff.
>>335980190
Blade Mail now functions similarly to Spectre's passive, in that in reflects damage back prior to damage calculation, meaning the raw damage bounces backwards before armor and mag. resist is counted.
It also now bounces back the same type of damage it was dealt, which fucks over a lot of heroes that try to build armor while relying on spells. Now, Blade Mail will fuck them over even harder.
Additionally, it now pierces all forms of Magic Immunity, so BKB will not save you.
All very fun and interactive.
Anyway, the other thing is that since it's already core for Axe, and Axe already received a buff to Counter Helix, making it pure damage instead of physical, Axe is doing very well.
But the thing that Icefrog didn't seem to consider was that Axe's Call pumps up his armor massively, but taunts in for damage. So, if you pop Blade Mail before blinking in to Call, then the enemies take more damage than you do from their own auto-attacks, and then they take even more damage from the now pure-damage Counter Helix.
Axe is cancer. Fuck Axe.
>>335980730
Guess no game is good then.
>>335981041
Why don't you see this in pro games though? It sounds amazingly good, but you see Spectre at most.
>>335981041
Well good thing every retard up to 6k mmr goes jungle as axe and comes online 13minutes in when every other lane has lost :^)
>>335981173
The patch that changed all this is super new, it only came out a few days ago.
Not many pro games have been played since it's release, and those that have been played have mostly just been pros experimenting. They don't seem to have yet hit on what a lot of pubs have: Axe, who used to be great early thanks to creep-cutting and teamfight prowess, now is solid pretty much all game long, thanks to a series of buffs to his skills that have now been pushed over the edge by the Blade Mail change.
>>335977647
Reminds me of TF2.
TF2 did not end well at all.
I already quit dota. It'll be less painful when I realize in 2 years what it has become.
>>335979446
I have no idea why NP's face is like that.
>>335980145
Yeah, i bet they were also literally making a warhammer 40k game before they lost the license late into development process and had to quickly fix it and name it Starcraft instead.
fuck off.
>>335980730
Literally no game ever will be replayable enough to play forever
>>335981626
They did though, GWS licensed out to Blizzard for both a Warhammer and 40k game
>>335982310
Except No Man's Sky because the universe will implode before we explore the entire in-game universe
>>335982428
That game is the holy grail of vidya
>>335982428
We can also play Civilization 5 for eternity and never have the same map twice. Doesn't mean it won't get boring.
>>335979968
not exactly
>>335983139
Also Thief.
>>335982428
holy shit people who believe something like that are fucking retarded
>>335978459
nice bait mate
>>335980398
because Warhammer 40k made much more money thanks how its pretty much baby first table top game and realised that's all their new kiddie player base likes because it's easier to play and collect compared to Warhammer fantasy, So they decide lets make Warhammer fantasy just like Warhammer 40k so the kiddies will actually like it and fuck our existing customers which we have always taken advantage of and treated like shit with our ridiculous cash grab prices.
