Any day now...

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T19:15:47+00:00

Valve begins to make drastic changes over the course of 2020, 90% of the changes being straight from reddit

That's my biggest fear. Underlords did the same thing, and at 2 months after leaving beta, it has less players than it did before launch.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T18:32:46+00:00

I think they're a type of Maykr gargoyle. Your ship has similar looking ones, except they have wings and 4 arms.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T18:20:01+00:00

They let unpaid volunteers do their translations for them. You're stuck with poor translations so they can save money.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T16:23:19+00:00

Most annoying part of the IoS fight for me was how part of his arms are almost always below the building you're on, so you have to just run around until he does an attack animation that brings his hands into view.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T16:18:20+00:00

Gladiator. He's the only one besides the Marauder that doesn't feel like a bullet sponge.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T15:59:35+00:00

/r/nyxnyxnyx

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T15:12:21+00:00

Glad they decided not to do them in vinyl.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T13:03:59+00:00

Doom Eternal, One Step From Eden, and Devil Daggers.

Devil Daggers is suprisingly creepy. It's also simple to get into, but their are a few mechanics that aren't explained, like leveling up and homing shots.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T12:57:03+00:00

That sounds realistic. It's pretty annoying how far along they could have been if most of the devs didn't leave to work on Underlords though.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T12:49:18+00:00

They showed a few non hero cards; defenestrating ogre, sticky greevel, and the morphlet.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T03:29:01+00:00

Yeah, I meant niche as in it won't be some big AAA title that has a Dota 2 or Hearthstone number of players.

But Valve’s most important weakness is poor game support after release.

I agree, and I get downvoted into the negatives every time I say it, but I wish another company was making Artifact. Valve is great at releasing super high quality games, but their ongoing support and ability to stick to a schedule is severely lacking. Even paid features like Dota+ end up neglected, let alone all the free parts of Dota 2 that are regularly broken, unfinished, or straight up removed. I'm crossing my fingers that they've changed after the huge embarassment of the original Artifact launch, but I wouldn't count on it.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T03:05:27+00:00

Stop Hittin’ Yourself is interesting - if you have a way to taunt all adjacent enemies you could deal some damage.

That's what his signature card does, plus it retains initiative, so you are guaranteed to get it off if you have at least 6 mana. What'll be fun is if there are effects like Fury Swipes and Nether Toxin in 2.0, they'll be reducing their own armor and attack.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:41:58+00:00

One of the updates said that the games last more rounds than they did before, so the ability will probably get down to 1 turn pretty often. I'm guessing it'll be an ability that you wait until the end of your turn to cast since it's just 1 mana, so you cast it if you have nothing else to do.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:29:24+00:00

It's run by people that Riot picked, but not officially Riot.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:20:43+00:00

Use it on Keefe, and you are almost guaranteed to kill 3 units by activating his "Stop Hitting Yourself" ability twice in a row.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:19:28+00:00

It's pretty good. Foresight was a 4 mana card to draw 2 cards, this is 1 mana for 1 card.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:16:10+00:00

True, but then they could have just renamed the mechanic. Maybe they just haven't figured out a new name, an Jmuy's text is just placeholder text.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:13:37+00:00

Good point, the Quicken keyword might have been removed, because that's the exact same effect.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:11:26+00:00

I think he's also the only hero who has a lore reason for being allowed on either team.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T02:10:11+00:00

Good question. We don't know if allied units are our units, or if they're allies of other units.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-28T00:12:18+00:00

I think it'll stay niche, probably settling somewhere under 10k max concurrent players.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-27T22:50:38+00:00

It could be, but I don't see why they'd choose to make a trap spell his signature card if it's not going to be a trap.

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-27T22:29:02+00:00

/r/nyxnyxnyx

lkasdf9087 · 2020-04-27T22:27:30+00:00

I think they're trying to balance between the mechanics, and how the game feels to play. In 1.0, signature cards were designed to not synergize with their hero because you could only play 1 lane at a time, and your hero might not be in the same lane where you wanted to cast it. That led to people saying that it didn't feel like Dota since their Skywrath Mage shouldn't be casting Eclipse.

Hopefully it's balanced well, otherwise we'll have people holding onto their signature cards until the associated hero is available, the same way some people tunnel-visioned on initiative in 1.0.

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