chaR

I had such high hopes for Black Ops, turns out to be a terrible game that I played for litterally one and a half weeks & havnt played ever since.

So I went back to HoN.
Now HoN got a major update, that pretty much fucked over the game completely & is the biggest dissapointement I've had ever since some fucked up patch in WoW.

Result: I'm terribly bored with no game to play atm (though maby that's a good thing, seeing as I have exams soon) :[.

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oneinchwunda

He's bored of it...

Fallout: New Vegas? Visit some old games that you didn't get a chance to play properly because of CoD/HoN etc.?

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Olaf Vikingsson

Patch notes?

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HBK

If you haven't tried it yet, get Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Best survival horror EVER, it'll guarantee you some fun for a period at least. Play it alone in a dark room with headphones for best effect.

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Concurred. It's the first horror game that I honestly find can be a little hard to play at certain points due to the tension - it can be incredibly effective. Great Lovecraftian atmosphere, I love that shit.

chaR

Let me quickly boil it down for you:

HoN 2.0 introduced some new features:

> EM is gone, but so is EM%, yet no statreset. So in every pubgame you play now, you're stuck with EM players n you can't insta notice it anymore. Like I played this game, 1800 first picking legio, then rest of my team gets pesti, cd & succu, after which I want to get demented & he tells me to pick sand wraith. After which he tells me ds isn't a support after which we lane it me solo the long lane, pesti mid, legio in the jungle & succu/cd bot. 1700+ game, 1800 legio. After looking at his stats, it showed he was an EM player.

> They introduced casual mode instead, which is EM, but 10x worse. 800GPM carries are average.

> The patch was about the new matchmaking, yet they locked matchmaking so nobody can play it yet.

> New shop system where you can buy stuff. You get the coins from buying them or playing MM. OH WAIT HEH

> 2 latest heroes been shitfuck broken for 2 weeks now, nothing being done bout them (atleast yet)

> Public games have become useless because of the focus on MM, it's like semi nostat. But again, MM is still locked, which is the main focus of the patch.

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Olaf Vikingsson

OH LAWL

How did they fuck up so badly again? Surely, they learned their lesson a LONG time ago.

EDIT: I've laned Succ/CD before. I think it was even with you guys.

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It was cancerous. ;_;

EDIT: Lack of free one-way homecoming stone (only TPs to base but another optional global ability gives you Post Haste) makes a BIG difference. Aside from that and the increased relative effectiveness of carries, it's basically the same game now.

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Olaf Vikingsson

Bump?

I just read the casual mode analysis that came in the latest newsletter. Casual mode is League of Legends...

This is actually a good thing. LoL is a decent game. It's just worse than HoN for players who are actually good...

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Well the EM% is shitfuck annoying, but there are still diff ways to see it I guess. 550~XPM will equal EM, average gametime of aprox 35mins will equal EM, etc..

Casual mode is pretty damn bad really. There is no way to keep a carry down, since ganking him barely does anything. Gaining more gold per ck/hero kill adds up to the fact that carries are more on roids in CM than they ever were in EM. I played one game of CM n insta rocked a 630GPM magebane while I was competing with 4 other ppl for farm. Only 4 hero kills on top of that.

We got to play the new matchmaking for the first time yesterday (they opened it up for 2hours ~.~) & it was pretty nice really. Team MatchMaking is gonna be awesome if it works out properly. The one game we played was a complete stomp, but that mainly was due to our MM ratings being really low & the system still having to establish itself I guess.
The way you earn coins (to buy skins, taunt, etc...) is fucked up though. Promotes KSing like expected. It doesn't leave supports completely in the dark, but defo doesn't promote supporting (50wards grant 5 coins, yet you get way more coins for killstreaks, for getting bloodlust, etc...). Currencywise, it's fairly acceptable though. They don't rip you off n basicly force you to buy coins. It doesn't require an outrageous amount of time to get enough coins for an item.

Latest 2 heroes still broken like fuck (one is literally unkillable when you pop his ult, the other one endlessly spams nukes due to their low manacost), though S2 seems to have always balanced stuff right, so I'll trust them on this to .

Public Games are still in the same spot I guess, but when MM works properly I doubt i'll care about this anymore.



I don't really care that much atm though, I got exams all of january, so by the time Im playing seriously again, I suppose it'll be working smoothly (or atleast I hope it will). You better get your ass back online by then to yo

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CM will actually provide a viable transition into the standard game, though. At the very least, it'll be better than EM. It's much easier to babysit a newer player during the laning phase than it is to do so midgame and that is what CM seems to help with grasping. I know that I personally grasped laning FAR before I truly understood map dynamics, ganking and being effective in team fights.

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