Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment?

• TacticsConsort@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surprisingly, yeah. It even gets a once-year balance and bugfix patch. Mostly play Brightwing, Dehaka, Deathwing myself, although Kael’thas is fun too

  It may not be the biggest game out there these days, but it’s got a good enough playerbase for matchmaking to work consistently, and it’s still fun to play

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  • cali_ash@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deathwing

    That one is new to me, so I must have quit before 2019.

    I have a lvl 15 Brightwing myself (it probably isn’t the cap anymore). definitly my favourite healer along Uther.

    Back in the day a couple of buddies from StarCraft an other games were trying to get into competitive after the HotS beta and it was a lot of fun for a while. But over time it just felt like Blizzard really pivoted to balancing the game around low elo QM games, which left more and more heros unviable for competitive play. It just took the fun out of it. And of course the entire lootbox shit, I hate it.

    But maybe I’ll spin up over the weekend.

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    • TacticsConsort@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, he was one of the last heroes to get added. The devs knew the writing was on the wall so they focused on adding fan-favourites before the game went into ‘maintenance mode’ and wouldn’t get new content, so we have Deathwing and Hogger (and they’re both great)

      Also yeah there’s no level cap on heroes anymore, I have Brightwing over level 200, she’s absolutely great

      Ironically I found the game had the opposite balance issues before going Maintenance Mode- too much focus on high level competitive play which was getting super ultra hard stomped by Genji and Tracer plus a support. The day our competitive leagues were officially canned, then we got what I vividly recall was the best balance patch ever that made QM and draft league games so much more open-ended and fun to play.

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      • cali_ash@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I remember Genji and Tracer. I suspect they were left a bit overpowered to push players to overwatch at the time. But they are both high micro, high mobility heroes, so I get they are hard to balance.

        I think my biggest pet peeve was when they effectivly removed stealth by changing the effect from the decades old, proven StarCraft kind … to basically a milky outline. And at the time stealth heroes were already terrible in competitive play.

        But I should probably stop being salty about it and try it out again. It’s actually still installed, lol

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