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What a horrible update. The fact that towers don’t attack enemies anymore is really garbage. This is how it use to be a while ago, and it was very quickly changed because it made the buildings feel extremely irrelevant. Really bad choice imo.
Furthermore. Why give aba a boost? He is already OP, in a LOT of games. And no fun to play against! Suddenly, mediocre players can do whatever they want because they have an aba hat.
This update might finally be the reason i quit playing HOTS.
But I had a lot of fun for a number of years, thanks for that at least.
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thank you for this update. it helps me quit the game, since it is now so rigged it is pathetic. i experienced this both as a winner and a loser. as a winner, skillshots that should not hit, now hits for max damage, no matter how bad you play, if your team was assigned by algorithm that it needs to win, still win, even if you go feed in enemy towers. survive with 1 hp, slightly increase speed, very difficult to notice, all this kind of things, when your team needs to win, you win no matter what. same when losing. instant dead in 0.6 seconds, everything hits with max damage, max slow, ZERO chance, your perfect skillshots wont hit non moving target. min damage inflicted in rare occasions when you hit. it is BRUTAL. but again, thank you. it helped me quit.
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Revert this patch right now. Everything about it is horrible and the intern responsible for it should be fired on the spot. This is how you kill what’s left of a playerbase of a once beloved game.
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Looks like a really interesting update with some major changes to the core mechanics of the game as well as to several maps. Can’t wait to try them out, thank you, janitor! Also what a cute little sheep mount.
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Not the best patch… Also the Uther update literally made the hero unusable, i dont think anyone asked for this change, now with with cleanse you have 6 buttons and you have to spam 1 the entire game, also holy shock’s dmg is so trash its unbelieveable
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How did this patch make it to live game I can’t get it. I play mainly QM, and it really became unplayable as it is always the team with the more ranged heros that wins due to the new push mechanics. They usually consist of mostly long range mages and long range basic attackers. All the team needs is a SGT\zagara with some random mage that can poke the towers and they auto win. Melee\gank heroes are nerfed to oblivion with this patch.
Games are way too one sided. Never ever have I played so many 4 lvls difference games.
And lvl 10 in 5 minutes? Average game time is like 10 minutes now? That’s INSANELY bad.
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This is sadly not what heroes needs. It’s need more life and not changes that are so big it makes players not have as much fun. It’s not welcoming for new players to not have the forts and keeps protect them. Really dumb decision. Instead of having that one dev do patches make them slowly make new heroes. I really dont understand the viewpoint of leaving this game behind like this. Also the Imperius Brands not triggering against evasion is dumb. It was the only counter against an Illidan that Imp has. I hope Blizzard returns to it’s best days.
Hmm, finally an update that helps the poorly programmed bots that kept running into the towers and power-leveling the opposing team. I’m sure all of them thank you for this. As for the rest of the few players, well… but great update for the bot programmers.
Cool, i haven’t played much of the new patch, but i’m just happy there’s something happening.
As a slug main I also approve of any more buffs you want to give to Abathur.
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Getting rid of a MOBA core mechanic is insane. The argument that it helps players who already have trouble with understanding the game is not really valid. It simply helps smurfs and causes more snowballing in games.
Game got much less pleasant. They should have left it in maintenance mode.
This will definitely go down as one of the worst patches in HotS history lol
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It’s unbelievable that you’re spending time releasing this patch, which has made everything worse, less fun, less balanced, less of the essence of what HotS has always been and why we liked it. Now it’s impossible to come back. Now you’ve encouraged people to play online alone instead of fighting as a team. For God’s sake, reverse this patch and spend your time adding a new hero, a new map, or new skins. That’s all we want. Leave the gameplay as it was, because it was perfect!
I hope you listen to the community that has been loyal to a game that you haven’t released new content for in 5 years…
so many whiners, what the hell? game’s fine. thanks for still working on it after so long with limited resources
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I dont understand why there are so many bad reviews. There are definitely some problems with pushers right now even on high ranks, but they are not so big.
I would like to see what next update will bring into this game.
You did some really good stuff to return Auriel and Tyrael back into the game. It’s would be great to see other reworks.
Among all healers there is one that may be easily reworked just by switching 2 talents - Whitemane.
Its a good hero, but others are just better. And we have no good variability on talents right now. May be on 13 and 16 lvl.
She doesn’t have good mobility, CC (only 1 tal for this), survivability and etc like other healers right now.
And when we speak about talents there some problems
Tier 4 lvl talents are really strange
On 4 lvl we have two talents that give you good amount of heal from Q or AA and one talent that gives you movespeed. The problem is that when you choose AA you also want Movespeed (“Indulgence“). But we have to choose between them. And This healer really needs this speed, she cannot heal good without it. And because other talents just give us so many heal potential and this not - we have to choose heal.
I think that switching talent “Indulgence“ to 13 lvl with E talent “Lashing Out“ may be a way.
We would have some more playstyles from the start at the game.
This talent is also gives some more heal
And because of this opportunity to spam E more, both other talents on 1 lvl would be much and playable from the start.
Also we would have a choice to have AA build or E build with more Movespeed on 13 lvl.
Its may be not the best way to rework her talents, but its definitely could bring some freshness to this hero.
She really needs something. She is strong, but doesn’t have something to be compatible with other healers that have survavibility or CC or damage or mobilty. She just needs some little change.
Morales also have big problems on high ranks, but its much more harder to rework. She is just good hero for low ranks and bad for high ranks. That’s it just by her design.
Right now almost all healers are playable and its really good to see. And i will hope that you will return other heroes to a compatible state on high ranks like Malganis, Mei, Arthas, Gazlowe, Nova.
At least, that’s my opinion. all other players may have others.