While the DotA2 and LoL players are busy arguing each other whether you measure your e-penis flaccid or erect, lets discuss the best MOBA on the market - Heroes of the Storm.
0/10
I still get hype for the character releases even though I don't play much. It's always nice to come back to.
It has some really nice features, but just like any other moba there are a lot of broken shit. Maybe too many.
>>344566770
2 days for guldan
im hyped
>>344564254
Please tell me you're joking, OP. There's no way people unironically play this shit in the CURRENT YEAR.
>Hots
>Best moba
>best
1/10 here's your reply.
About to adopt the decade old shitty pve oriented style when the PTR patch hits live.
I find most Lol players shit talk it because half of them are normies playing, Most DotA players play it or have and just stuck with DotA. I like it but i don't like many Moba's, I find Smite to be better than all of them, but heroes is definetly better than Lol or dota
>>344564254
>MOBA
>>344564254
>the best moba
Even I know that isn't true.
While the gameplay might not have the same depth as Dota2 or LoL, it absolutely nailed two very important aspects that keep me playing
>Game Length
>Map Variety
20-30 minute games are the perfect length for any game session really, much longer and you really strain my engagement. While some maps aren't too great (garden of terror) the simple fact that Blizzard had the balls to deviate from the same boring ass moba map layout that we've had for 14 years garners my respect, and the differences in experience for some of the maps like Towers of Doom are the kind of thing that keeps my interest.
>Best
Fucking please. Blizzard are a bunch of hacks. Besides, Dota 2 and LoL players aren't arguing, Dota 2 is curb stomping LoL players on their dead as shit game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxWKr6xLKI
>>344568505
>taking dunkey's opinion about anything seriously
>literally complaining it's not like League of Legends
and then
>Dota 2 is curb stomping LoL players on their dead as shit game
fuck I got baited
>>344568823
>LoL
>Not dying
>>344568823
When a LoLbaby complains that a game is too shitty even for them, it's bad. HotS is dead as shit and takes no skill to win.
It's barely a game.
>>344569214
>this is what people actually believe
ok
>>344569303
It's what everybody believes. Sorry Blizzbaby, nobody cares about your babies first ASSFAGGOT.
>>344569214
Mobas takes no skill to win, it's just knowledge and timing, this isn't a real sport.
>>344569765
HotS isn't a real game.
>>344569460
>nobody cares
>reply to le thread
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>>344569927
I enjoy this movie, it has better graphics, waifus and it's more fun. LoL and Dota are boring lmao
>>344570161
>implying DotA doesn't have waifus
Your loss, famalama
I'll only come back when Kel'Thuzad is put in the game.
>>344570378
dunno, aren't they just blizzard clone waifus? at least LoL has OC desu
Yeah, HOTS is a blast. It's the only MOBA I still bother to play, coming from challenger in LoL and top 200 in DotA. It's just short and chill.
>>344564254
I play it from time to time, MOBAs in general are pretty shitty but this one you can just drop in and kill some dudes. I will say I've seen some of the worst players I've ever seen in my life in HOTS though.
Again though, mobas are pretty shitty. In fact all team games are pretty shitty, consider picking up fighting games or something.
Can I play this if I don't want to get yelled at by tryhard faggots because I've yet to put in a thousand hours into the game and I suck at it?
Dawngate thread?
>>344566990
I wish we got that D3 support instead. Medeive already spams Q non-stop between shields. Now the new guy spams Q non-stop between drain life.
>>344564254
I have 1000 hours of LoL and 1000 of Dota.
HotS is nice but:
-It's """balanced""" by Blizzard
-you buy heroes like in LoL... but you master them in 3 games
-It constantly and only feels like late game Dota 2 with no buildup and early setup. Exhausting.
-Why would I play this instead of Hearthstone in small bursts?
-Why would I play this in long bursts, and chase its slow grindy minimal rewards rather than LoL's more exciting, varied champions, or better yet Dota 2 where I actually learn and experiment with the full pool every game?
They'll N E V E R improve the reward system or the balance (it's Blizzard!) So I'll probably never play it again even though it's a fine game.
Hearthstone for goofy, Dota for serious. No place for HotS.
>>344571107
Yes
>>344571226
>why should I play this instead of Hearthstone
maybe people don't like card games?
>>344571159
goddamed right in mi feelings
i miss yuou king of masks
>>344571159
Dawngate is the game Riot wishes they made instead of LoL, but not a single person on the development team was skilled enough to make it happen. Non-stop fighting across the whole map, supports were never short on gold, and the characters were allowed to have high impact skills that change the course of the game. It had item stacking too, so if you were a wizard but the enemy team was looking super aggressive you could absolutely stack armor items that gave you +damage on your skills and build against the enemy team, instead of the only defense being even greater offense like in LoL.
>>344571507
The best part of Dawngate was that it got better every patch instead of worse.
>>344571107
>>344571107
Nothing compared to LoL or Dota. In quick match most people just don't care that much but in Ranked you may get angry team mates a lot. In Team rank is the best mode, you can find people to play on /vg/ channel.
>>344572016
>>344571243
Sounds promisiong, I'll give it a shot, thanks m8s.
>>344571226
Mastering your hero is kinda deceiving, what really makes you master the game is knowing what all heroes can do and predict them. it's a simpler game, but just like chess it's a simple game it doesn't mean chess is mindless, maybe if you compare it to Shogi but for what purpose would I spent hours on it when I could spent minutes on chess and then do something else, at least to me it's not rewarding just because I'm spending more time on something more complex.
>>344571159
>>344571507
>>344571776
I don't understand how people actually liked this game, it was basically everything bad about LoL amplified. The only thing it had going for it was the lack of a forced meta.
It was the same spammy, low impact shit as LoL except even worse because 90% of the characters were manaless, the itemization was all really passive and boring and it had zero slot management instead of almost zero, the map was tiny and had way less of a sense of flow and positioning, you get three "get out of dying free" 5 minute cooldowns instead of two, and it was way snowballier than any other assfaggot out there.
>>344570416
/thread
>>344567223
What?
>>344567223
How is that even possible in HotS where they force objectives and you don't actually get anything from killing stuff anyways?
As a 4 year player of league, Dota 2 > Dawngate > League > Smite > Literal Shit > HoTS
>>344577561
>>344577890
PTR patch notes: Lane minions do 100% increased damage to structures
Catapult minions (HotS equivalent of the big buff siege minions) now have increased range and focus structures down, ignoring other lane minions if presented the choice between enemy minions or a structure.
Effectively increasing the value more PvE oriented heroes/playstyles. If your team is crap (Or in QM, your comp is horrible) and can't really contest objectives, it's going to be viable to sort of splitpush around and take enemy focus off of the objective, or present the enemy team with an alternative of "Do we go for objective when this fucker is going jto start splitpushing while we try and do this?", etc, etc.
>>344578231
>Dota 2 > Literal dog shit > Dawngate > League > Smite > HoTS
ftfy
>>344578273
If by PVE you mean pushing, then yeah but I don't see how there's anything wrong with that
Ideally this will make it so it's slightly more viable to strategically push rather than taking objectives in certain situations, which is only a good thing
>>344578498
There isn't anything wrong with it, for too long the game has purely been about team fights and nothing else. In the Alpha, Gazlowe used to actually have value because he was VERY Mercenary centric (Sort of like being a Jungle,r in other MOBAs. HotS has only had that sort of playstyle in the Alpha) and he actually was a bit of a threat because of how much better mercs were back then and all that. Over time, they nerfed Mercs and started churning out heroes with a fuck ton of burst and made easy work of all Mercs and lane minions and shit, so the game just slowly devolved into centering around nothing but team fights and who can burst who the fastest and all that shit.
Really happy about them actually looking to make more siege-oriented gameplay more of a presence because it's been absent since Alpha. This is nothing but good for the game, even though "pro" players are all bitching and shit, fuck them. This is fucking fantastic.
I actually don't play any other mobas, so I can't say whats better. I do enjoy hots when my team isn't made up of brainless zombies.
>>344564254
just bought le funny horse hero
kind broken andi want to fuck it
>>344564254
>>344566770
extremely hyped for Samuro the Burning Blademaster.
HotS is one of those games that I don't mind playing a couple of games in every so often but I cannot for the life of me understand how people can play this for hours on end every day
>>344578273
dont forget health globe buffed for more lane tension.
