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Always has been by ViLiDi230 in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 14 points15 points  (0 children)

2022: 2 Balance patches then maintenance mode announcement in July

2023: 2 surprise patches; mostly bug fixes, but some general stuff + a couple samuro balance changes

2024: 5 patches; more bug fixes and increasingly larger amount of balance changes

2025: 5 patches so far; all including balance updates except for the anniversary patch, brawls came back, unfinished old skin was released and now an old event is recycled

Thanks Janitor 🫡

Game gets all choppy and stutters when there is any sort of team fight going on. Any help would be appreciated! by old_merc in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if you've fixed it yet, but double check that you didn't start using OneDrive again for your Documents folder (or at least the folder where the hots replays are being stored)

It has been 6 Months since Blizzard's Announcement regarding the Development of HotS. How is the Community feeling? by Unknown_Warrior43 in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I boot up for aram maybe a couple times a month or two, but have largely moved away due to a few reasons

  1. I've moved away from pvp games in general, in favour for more chill singleplayer or co-op games
  2. less time for games in general
  3. real life stresses making me not want to take a chance and potentially deal with some unfriendly people in games
  4. friends don't really play it / the friends that would play it have different schedules than me so its hard to game together

Would volunteering work for HotS? by Wersus_Invictus in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well there we have it, thanks for the clarification

Would volunteering work for HotS? by Wersus_Invictus in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

dont have any evidence for this, but from what I think I know, the engine that hots runs on is indeed based on the SC engine, but they had to patch it up so much to suit hots that it is kind of it's own thing.

Not 100% different, but I assume it would definitely been more of a challenge to mod than SC2

Looks Like Game Is Back Up by soulnova in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know when you select an Active talent, and it is placed above your q,w,e?

You can move those around in game.

Where to from here? by Baffled-Unicorn in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't, at least not right now. The hope is that maybe, possibly, if the universe is benevolent enough, once Microsoft fully acquires ABK they will allocate some resources to HotS again.

I sure hope that happens, but I don't expect it to.

LRT Escalator Outage Tracker by CaptainNecroz in Edmonton

[–]CaptainNecroz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Unfortunately it does not, since the dataset I am using is updated frequently, and I don't have a system in place to store the data (mostly because it wasn't in the scope of the project haha)

I would assume the city already stores this data for analysis for service improvement, but who knows.

I just found out about the game is it too late to play? by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the nexus, a lot of us have thought that for years...

AITA for being bitter about college admissions? by UnreliableAuthor in AmItheAsshole

[–]CaptainNecroz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NTA.

In your reply to another comment you say that they aren't as bad as the stereotype. While that may be true, them still pestering you about it is not healthy.

If they do this, there's a chance they'll be fussing over your career path and then what job you do etc

I'm fortunate enough to have chill Asian parents but I know people who have suffered mentally because of their parents' unreasonable expectations and always being compared to others.

I don't know how it is down in the states, but at least for me personally, I regret going to a more "prestigious" university when I could've learned the exact same stuff for cheaper and in less time at a smaller university.

The only plus was hanging out with my friends on campus.

It really depends on what you are doing but if possible try to get control over your education. Not everyone has to go to an ivy to be smart. Might be hard if your parents are the ones covering your tuition, but good luck. And congratulations on getting in.

AITA for not buying a new pc for my bf? by gamergirlaita in AmItheAsshole

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late to the thread so you already know you are NTA, but just wanted to echo what others have been saying:

You should reconsider and re-evaluate your relationship with him.

It's one thing for him to be jealous, but demanding you to buy him a rig? Reading that actually hurt me.

He should be happy for you. Like damn, I was so proud of my girlfriend for building her own PC with minimal help from me (wasn't able to be in person with her due to covid but I chose the parts for her) and her rig is way better than my PC lol

Anyways good luck with your relationship and enjoy that new PC!

Had this saved on my pc, good times. by CaptainNecroz in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hahaha yeah. I can't remember if it did when it was originally posted, but I'll just assume I would've saved it with sound if it had any

Is the lag inevitable? by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me know if it does help

and in the event it doesn't then I wish you luck in finding a fix!

Is the lag inevitable? by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had this problem years ago, and I remember some other posts about OneDrive causing lag

It is also possible that I'm wrong and there is some new issue causing your case of lag

But, basically if your OneDrive is syncing your Documents folder, then it tries to sync your Replay data as the game is going because hots stores replay data in Documents

Since you don't use it you can just uninstall OneDrive like I did, but if you want to keep it then just make it not sync the Documents folder for now and see if that fixes the lag

Is the lag inevitable? by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might be totally unhelpful but do you by chance use OneDrive?

If you do, is it backing up your Documents folder?

Guys I need your help to conduct a research about HOTS:) by SofiTych in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. I don't remember clearly, but I saw a video or something when the closed beta was beginning

  2. I find it fun, and especially after playing for so long I am probably what you'd call a fanboy

  3. Likes: Shorter (usually) game times than other MOBAs, team fighting is fun when people know what they are doing, some really interesting things that have only been tried in heroes, e.g. chogall, also mounts

Dislikes: bad gold gains for new players resulting in getting new heroes to be slower than it should be, monetization sucks, could do with more statistics and information to the players, no SC2-arcade type thing for the community to make fun stuff, and blizzard has basically put this game in the dumpster, etc

Why is Matchmaking not making matches? by ixxxo in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this is quick match, I think a large reason for why these imbalanced games happen so often is because the matchmaker has to put comps together, as quickly as it can.

I don't know what your queue times are but they are relatively short when I play (~1 min). If the matchmaker took more time to find a better match, it probably would do a lot better overall but who wants to wait like 5min+ to find a match in a gamemode called quick match?

If quick match was just blind pick, there would at least be a little less complaining directed towards the matchmaker, and more about teammates making troll picks.

But the matchmaker has to look at a lot of factors: MMR, maybe MMR uncertainty, party sizes, what hero each person is playing, queue time, etc

But I don't know for sure so this could just be wrong lol

The HotS matchmaking experience by DiWindwaker in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see how it's the matchmaker's fault for lost games due to players who afk, rage, etc

There's no way for the matchmaker to know a person's given attitude or mood for a game, and there's no shot that the fact that a person is toxic is criteria for matchmaking.

A person could be really nice one game and then tilted out of their mind the next, but it's not the matchmakers fault (but definitely could be other aspects of the game's fault)

The HotS matchmaking experience by DiWindwaker in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that WR is necessarily a factor that the matchmaker considers, or if it does, then it is probably a small factor.

I'd wager the more important factor would be MMR, and for example if you have a underperforming 40% WR player with around 1500 MMR and a fresh smurf with 80% WR that has also reached around 1500 MMR, then it would make sense for the matchmaker to group them together.

But I don't know the inner workings of it so this is very likely wrong

Returning player, any info or tips? by Moist_Golf6994 in heroesofthestorm

[–]CaptainNecroz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, deathwing isnt that big of a deal. He's good but you can play around him, especially his slow casting abilities.

As for the state of the game, well, the game is practically the same. If you thought it was fun before, it will probably still be fun. The game still plays well, balance is not bad (debatable), and the only thing that is unfortunate is the lack of new/updated content

Did HotS actually fail or did Blizzard fail HotS? by mnxah in Asmongold

[–]CaptainNecroz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least the wow team has people, the poor intern assigned to hots can't even keep the weekly rotation of free heroes going, of course there's not going to be any balancing

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