Heroes of the Storm - November 20 PTR Patch Notes |
- November 20 PTR Patch Notes
- Upcoming "2018 Gameplay Update" Developer Q&A - November 29
- Introducing: Performance-Based Matchmaking
- Leaked New Winter Veil Skins
- Hanzo PTR Hidden Skins and Mounts
- Back in Black Friday 2017!
- Why make Ghost Protocol an additional (1) ability when you could just activate it with (D)?
- I asked my boyfriend to draw Alexstrasza and here's what I was given
- Blizzard needs to put HL/Competitive rework as their priority
- Announcing the Gold Club World Championship
- McIntyre - Three Important Components to playing Ranged Assassins
- The new game play changes on the PTR definitely make HotS feel more like a complete MOBA.
- Winter Veil 2017 Loading Screen/PTR
- DunkTrain Returns to Competitive!
- Now that the PTR is here, can we get any kind of dev input on the "Walls" changes?
- How the new Camera looks in 21:9.
- I drew some dragons!
- Day[9] plays some hots - 2 hour yt vod
- Best of Rich | Mechanical Legend
- Rejoice! Gameplay Update Patch on the PTR Today!
- What Trying to Complete Malthael's Last Rites Quest Feels Like
- Scared and Confused by the Rosterpocalypse? Me and Yitbaus (manager of Roll20) are joining Trollin HGC tonight to break it all down!
- New Junkrat Change on PTR: Simple Geometry
- Play Hanzo in Try Mode through this link
- Mewnfare goes for Boss [PTR]
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| Upcoming "2018 Gameplay Update" Developer Q&A - November 29 Posted: 20 Nov 2017 03:53 PM PST Greetings, Heroes! Mark your calendars—we're hosting a Q&A here on r/heroesofthestorm on Wednesday, November 29 at 12:00 p.m. PDT! We've assembled a crack team of seven Heroes developers to answer your questions about the 2018 Heroes of the Storm gameplay update that just hit the PTR, including the new camera perspective, stealth rework, changes to the early game, mercenary camp updates, voice chat, performance-based matchmaking, and more: Attending will be:
The Q&A will last roughly 1.5 hours, so make sure to post your questions in the thread we'll be creating on the morning of November 29th. See you there! Please note: We'll also be asking players from non-English speaking communities to partake in the Q&A by submitting their questions to the Community Managers representing their regions. As such, you might see a few Blizzard Community Managers posting questions (in English) on behalf of their communities during the Q&A. Feel free to upvote any questions you'd like to see answered. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Introducing: Performance-Based Matchmaking Posted: 20 Nov 2017 10:29 AM PST
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| Posted: 20 Nov 2017 12:11 PM PST Not really sure the "how," but people were putting special links in chat and clicking on them would show skins not yet available in the Collection/Store. We've got new skins for Malfurion, Kharazim, Valla and even Malthael! https://i.imgur.com/gxGgJcc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wNBsO1f.png https://i.imgur.com/oY4qlq0.png https://i.imgur.com/RwnKFVd.png Edit 2: Added Malthael thanks to u/TheManaStrudel Edit: Trying to capture some of Valla's new animations (for some reason, my screen recorder wouldn't start, so only pictures for now): Rain of Snowmen: https://i.imgur.com/x3d2Roi.png Hungering Fairy Wand: https://i.imgur.com/QuQY1O7.png Multilights w/ Snowball Arsenal upgrade: https://i.imgur.com/y2uZggP.png [link] [comments]  | ||
| Hanzo PTR Hidden Skins and Mounts Posted: 20 Nov 2017 01:31 PM PST Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/Je3uW • Hanzo basic skin (4 colors) + Farstrider skin (5 colors) • 4 Winter Veil 2017 skins + 1 Winter Veil 2017 mount • Next season ranked play reward mount (both basic and epic) • Older heroes skins recolors In-game links included - you can check any of these out! Send links into in-game chat, then click them. UPD: i don't know if there are any tints for Winter Veil 2017. These are only i could find. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Why make Ghost Protocol an additional (1) ability when you could just activate it with (D)? Posted: 20 Nov 2017 11:21 AM PST Blizz are making Ghost Protocol baseline. Fine. But why have it as an extra skill, when it could just be the active action for her trait? [link] [comments]  | ||
| I asked my boyfriend to draw Alexstrasza and here's what I was given Posted: 20 Nov 2017 12:36 PM PST https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/185867888241016832/382264167920304130/2017-11-20_22.16.04.jpg I apologize for the crappy cam quality :P But I wanted to share and encourage my boyfriend to keep up with drawing/art and that he draws even more of my favorite HotS characters _^ [link] [comments]  | ||
| Blizzard needs to put HL/Competitive rework as their priority Posted: 20 Nov 2017 03:17 AM PST As a decently new (3 months) player who hit GM in Korea and NA, I want to say that I fell in love with the game, but the matchmaking system has been horribly designed and left behind. Now it's actually affecting the competitive scene and killing the game. One of the Korean pros said that in his retirement stream one of his reasons for quitting was there's no future prospect in the competitive scene due to the weak amateur scene (HL), and either RRR or Raven (The two disbanded teams in Korea this season) have said that one of their major reason for disbanding was the difficulty of recruiting players due to the weak player pool due to HL. They have said that ranked is the practice ground for amateur, pros and the scene is destined to crumble if the practice ground is weak. I believe other players in Master/GM would also agree, the HL system is a joke right now. Many players opt into smurfing or just playing QM only because of it. Instead of putting manpower and resource into other things, can Blizzard please focus on the things that matter? Even from the top of my head, I can come up of things that should be basic for a competitive moba.
What disappoints me the most is that most of these changes are very easy changes, it's easy to implement. Korean HoTS players are jokingly calling their game "Game-like" (Basically saying it's not a full/actual game) because of how poorly designed some features of the game are. I love the game and I became very involved in the last 3 months as I quit my other games and started HoTS, but it hurts me to see the game lose players and get ridiculed for such basic things. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Announcing the Gold Club World Championship Posted: 20 Nov 2017 09:49 AM PST
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| McIntyre - Three Important Components to playing Ranged Assassins Posted: 20 Nov 2017 10:00 AM PST
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| The new game play changes on the PTR definitely make HotS feel more like a complete MOBA. Posted: 20 Nov 2017 05:11 PM PST The changes to lanes are actually a lot of fun to play with. I got to play a Xul game on the PTR just to see how effective a push champ can be and even with the changes I was able to push a whole lane down in just two or three waves. The towers not running out of ammo didn't seem to be as oppressive as it was made out to be. Likewise the health globe changes are amazing. In my Illidan game I really felt like I was being rewarded for aggressively forcing my opponent back out of the lane just long enough to grab the globe. The stealth rework was harder to really see the fruits of, the PTR games I've been in have had no less than 3 to 4 stealth heroes in it, so maybe when the changes go live it'll be easier to see (ha) the changes. So far so good Blizz! Keep it up! edit: Forgot about the camera changes too! Going back from the PTR to the normal servers, it's night and day. I need those camera changes live asap. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Winter Veil 2017 Loading Screen/PTR Posted: 20 Nov 2017 10:15 AM PST I made a screen from the PTR and the new loading screen which likely reveals a new Malfurion Winter Skin [link] [comments]  | ||
| DunkTrain Returns to Competitive! Posted: 20 Nov 2017 06:13 PM PST
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| Now that the PTR is here, can we get any kind of dev input on the "Walls" changes? Posted: 20 Nov 2017 02:20 PM PST /u/felewin has posted a well-argumented topic not so long ago regarding the wall changes (automatically destroyed once a Gate Tower dies), especially in regards to Heroes that can interact with structures. This still very much remains an unaddressed issue, it kind of feels conveniently ignored, so could we get anyone to chime in on this at all, perhaps /u/Travis? [link] [comments]  | ||
| How the new Camera looks in 21:9. Posted: 20 Nov 2017 01:51 PM PST With this aspect ratio you can actually see the whole lane in one screen, wall to wall. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 20 Nov 2017 02:44 PM PST As you might notice from my name, I really like dragons, so I'm super happy to finally see a full dragon form in the Nexus :D So I also felt like doing some drawings: Alexstrasza chasing down Kael, Leo and Murky in dragon form: https://twitter.com/Drakoni13/status/932658171168149509 Kinda Yin and Yang with Alex and Hanzo dragons: https://twitter.com/Drakoni13/status/932740351059689472 Enjoy \o/ [link] [comments]  | ||
| Day[9] plays some hots - 2 hour yt vod Posted: 20 Nov 2017 07:51 AM PST Playing some azmo and probius with his comunity it seems. Ive only seen him play the game once before after the alpha days, and i know hes well loved so i figured id share for anyone who mossed this. Gamplay starts after 10 min or so. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Best of Rich | Mechanical Legend Posted: 20 Nov 2017 05:03 AM PST
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| Rejoice! Gameplay Update Patch on the PTR Today! Posted: 20 Nov 2017 07:08 AM PST All of the changes announced at Blizzcon should be available for testing on the PTR today (tomorrow at the latest)! Get hyped! Season 3 ends on December 12th, which is three weeks away tomorrow! Since the PTR is supposed to last three weeks, the devs said they want these changes to launch with season 4, and PTRs have historically started on Mondays, today should be the day! Send us those Patch Notes, devs! [link] [comments]  | ||
| What Trying to Complete Malthael's Last Rites Quest Feels Like Posted: 20 Nov 2017 08:01 AM PST
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| Posted: 20 Nov 2017 11:24 AM PST That's right friends! At 730pm eastern we'll be running through every change, every rumor, and analyzing all confirmed rosters for the 2018 HGC season. We'll also dive into a discussion that's been floating through the community--What makes a Super Team? Are they good for the scene? Can any of them work? You'll get insight from someone who has been in the thick of all these crazy roster shennanigans--Yitbaus, manager of Roll20 Esports. I'll also be there, which is neat! Come join the TrollsGG crew and friends tonight on https://www.twitch.tv/trollsgg Edit: We live!!!! [link] [comments]  | ||
| New Junkrat Change on PTR: Simple Geometry Posted: 20 Nov 2017 07:39 PM PST As you can see in this link, Junkrat can now see the geometry of the walls and structures close to him, making it easier to bounce grenades off the wall! It was shown that Hanzo had the same feature it seems, so maybe it was mentioned before... but I didn't see anything in the patch notes for Junkrat, so I figure'd it might be good to make note of it here. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Play Hanzo in Try Mode through this link Posted: 20 Nov 2017 11:47 AM PST battlenet://heroes/hero/98/Hanzo Send a message into in-game chat containing this link, then click it. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 20 Nov 2017 12:34 PM PST
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![Mewnfare goes for Boss [PTR]](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/zY-dMFqyPeTmnYUKepAvn4ZQhCb8nl2UbRQRG449BsQ.jpg "Mewnfare goes for Boss [PTR]")
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