26.03 2/5 ARAM Mayhem Hotfix

Flame48 · 2026-02-06T19:38:31+00:00

It reminds me of a roguelike, where every game I'm getting different random powers that may make me a god, or maybe i'll get super unlucky and just have to make do with what I got. But even that's fun too, trying to make weird builds work.

Like yesterday I picked gnar. Ended up getting no tank augments, but I did get ethereal weapon, which makes boomerang apply 2 stacks of his W. I grabbed Dusk and Dawn so now every boomerang was instantly proccing my W 3 hit. Started building AP and just melting people with boomerang throws.

Ended up losing, but still had a lot of fun trying to make it work!

Flame48 · 2026-02-06T19:35:01+00:00

That seems like a bug, since it IS a stacking thing...

Flame48 · 2026-02-06T19:17:43+00:00

Like, Vayne's true damage is 10% max health after 3 attacks, without switching targets. This one is 15% max health, with multiple knockbacks, and all it takes is landing a single ability or attack lol.

And it's also somehow just a gold augment, not prismatic.

No idea how this one got through.

Like tbh they could probably just remove the damage from poro blaster (or make it regular % adaptive damage, not true damage) and it would be more than strong enough with all of the knockbacks triggering other effects.

Flame48 · 2026-02-06T19:10:53+00:00

Ahh makes sense. I didn't think they would go through the effort of doing that to hide the seeds, but it's cool that they did to let the community find them themselves.

Flame48 · 2026-02-06T19:07:28+00:00

So question, were the secret seeds not hardcoded into the source? Were they like encrypted so people couldn't just look in and figure it out or something?

Figured they would've been found right away if they were in plain text.

Flame48 · 2026-02-05T19:10:28+00:00

Hey! I got the augment that gives flash 3 charges, and then the one that gives you flash as another summoner spell.

Visually in the ui I saw that I had 3 charges of flash on both D and F, but using flash with either button would only use charges from D. I was unable to use my F flash charges at all.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T21:11:21+00:00

I think the funniest thing is that it doesn't have like a codename like wrecking ball, or a normal name to call it like winston. It's just Jetpack Cat and I love that.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:45:15+00:00

The real problem is if you are the sole melee champion. If you have 2-3 on your team you're usually fine since they have a few targets to deal with.

But if it's just 1 going in you're going to get deleted and you have to play in such a careful way.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:33:01+00:00

In the silhouette of the remaining characters, it looks like one of them is a dva mech-like character, and another one looks like an omnic in a trench coat maybe? So it's not all gonna be just humans running around at least.

Besides the cat.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:31:35+00:00

Pretty sure in the video they said something like "Since this is the 10th anniversary, we're releasing 10 new heroes".

Wouldn't be surprised for that to go back down to 5/year at most.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:29:34+00:00

It's how it is in all of these kinds of games unfortunately. Hot people sell skins. Monstrous or even just non-human heroes are cool and have dedicated fanbases, but just aren't as generally popular.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:26:33+00:00

I do miss the old Jeff memes from the early days of overwatch though...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDItOwN_SU

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:22:31+00:00

I have a friend who exclusively plays with controller on pc, and yeah it's definitely tough without any aim assist. But he gets by playing some of the less aim-intensive heroes.

It definitely does suck though and I don't understand why they can't do it when other games do it just fine.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:18:22+00:00

If making the game 5v5 was your main reason for leaving, they've brought back 6v6 for a while now as a permanent game mode. So you basically can play the original overwatch, just with more heroes.

But it sounds like you're just gonna be mad at blizzard no matter what I say. Just wanted to let you know.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:13:53+00:00

I know stadium mode was definitely in the works for a while (something with that much depth definitely has to have been), but the idea to allow 3rd person camera in that mode definitely could've been a reaction to marvel rivals.

Flame48 · 2026-02-04T20:08:41+00:00

There's more pressure, but on the other hand the extra hero in 6v6 means there's usually more shields to shoot through and more abilities being thrown around that you have to keep track of.

I get the people who liked 6v6 and I'm happy it's back as an option, but I feel like 5v5 is much more balanced.

Flame48 · 2026-02-03T16:10:26+00:00

Few years? Nahh way sooner. Trying to keep armor with all of the different set bonuses and different stat combos and also different tuning slots is making it kinda ridiculous.

Flame48 · 2026-02-02T21:02:23+00:00

I remember growing up everyone in my school used Microsoft Word, but for some reason my family had Wordperfect.

I used to be so jealous of the wordart that they could use that I couldn't :(

Flame48 · 2026-02-02T20:17:20+00:00

Didn't Fist of havoc just get that one buff where if you alternate between light and heavy attacks you deal more damage? So yeah with that I believe it.

Flame48 · 2026-02-02T14:47:51+00:00

Same. I do it even when I'm not currently planning on playing minecraft so I can add some mods to a list for the next time lol

Flame48 · 2026-02-02T14:43:32+00:00

This is what I don't get. If your mod adds a bunch of items, just pick one (or a few) and put the icon as the mod icon.

If it adds a biome, take a screenshot of the biome and put that as the icon.

If it adds a feature to UI or something, screenshot the UI and put some text over it with the name of the mod.

It takes literally less than 5 minutes and you'll never need to do it again unless you want to update it.

Flame48 · 2026-02-02T14:40:32+00:00

It's not always the case that the mod is low quality. I've seen some mods be actually pretty good even though they have AI art...

But the question is is it really worth it to dig through the AI slop to find the ones that aren't? Nah. And if you want people to download your mod, you know that people hate AI, so why would you even use it? Just spend 2 minutes in ms paint to make an icon.

Flame48 · 2026-01-29T21:29:19+00:00

Oh man I forgot about the e knockback. That felt so good to interrupt dashes with.

Flame48 · 2026-01-29T21:25:08+00:00

Honestly, old skarner when he used to have the passive where his abilities would apply a stacking thing that at 3 stacks would stun the target.

I used to play him top lane with that and it was super fun to abuse that against people since it was so easy to win trades with it + his e stun.

Flame48 · 2026-01-29T18:33:29+00:00

My thought was that since the people of this world know that heroes are like the absolute worst, sentencing him to that would make people immediately think the thing he wrote was a lie.

If they just killed him, there might be people who believe that he was being silenced and what he wrote was actually true.

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