this is exactly like when league of legends players call league the worst game ever and riot a dogshit company because one character has had 53% win rate for longer than a patch

do you understand how insane that sounds

if in roughly 80 hours i managed to not play a single game where the things i do feel mechanically or strategically satisfying whether i win or lose then i'm either the world's unluckiest person or the game has straight up nothing to offer me

at the game being boring

the best way to lane is throwing yourself at the enemy over and over and ignoring the actual moba mechanics which is boring

getting cheap wins because the game is badly designed is boring

sorry that i feel disappointed because a developer i used to respect made a game which i think looks like irredeemable garbage that looks like it was made with about as much passion as the fortnite team puts into designing the next battlepass cosmetics

btw the fact that the smite 2/smite remake/whatever you wanna call it early alpha comes out literally tomorrow is great and hirez has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

over the past two months i've found strong entertainment value in deadlock by just queueing up with a friend, going into a duo lane and stomping the enemy laners by wholesale ignoring farming and wave manipulation and just peppering them with unavoidable chip damage as every character in this fucking game is ranged for some reason and you can deal damage past your optimal range, only stopping to pop those shitty cash baloons that creeps drop after dying

i'm genuinely shocked that this is a project made by a developer/publisher as wealthy and storied as valve, even battleborn felt more well thoughtout and considered than whatever the hell this is

round based "tactical shooters" or whatever you wanna call them are going through the same thing that arena shooters did in the early 2000s where every new arena shooter release was just a shittier version of either quake or unreal except this time every new release is just a shittier version of either counter strike or valorant

yo u shouldnt be permabanned i dont think

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if we're going to entertain this (genuinely awful and nonsensical by the way) analogy for some reason, what you're doing is more like taking marathoners and telling them that, actually, marathons from now on should replace a quarter of the 42km track length with a swimming section because, as we all know, humans can swim and therefore marathons can't possibly be a real type of a foot race unless the marathoners can display that they're also excellent endurance swimmers

you want 6v6 to be a good format and you like competitive things in videogames so you intend to completely break any semblance of flow or enjoyment to be found in it by forcing a player who generally plays one of the most skill expressive and satisfying to master characters to be relegated to a dedicated gimmick pootis slot

welcome back aimisadick

shouldn't you be doing something else with your free time at work if you're such a forward thinking mastermind than waste time typing genuinely deeply angry sounding paragraphs aimed at us clueless luddites

if the best argument you could come up with in a month is "it allows me to do my joke white collar programming job faster, that's worth the energy footprint of entire countries, you just don't get it" then why even bother necroing

if you're really desperate to play a more confusing third person shooter version of dota 2 you might find it fun but i've played like 6 games so far and it's one of the dullest mobas i've ever touched

the vast majority of moba players already play the two big mobas who are generally considered to be the pinnacle of their genres, why would they transition to a game that's in a subgenre that was historically not successful (the only 3rd person moba that wasn't a dead on arrival failure is smite) developed by a company that has a genuinely horrible recent track record coupled with the worst anticheat in the industry

like i've been playing league of legends for 12 years and i'm sorry but i don't feel like switching games so i can have the privilege of playing dotaborn with day 1 spinbots

there's virtually no point in playing if the loot you get doesn't matter unless you particularly enjoy the stiffest melee combat i've experienced in years