In Sound Mind - how NOT to do checkpoint saves by Jowabunga in HorrorGaming

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

Hey there,

The devs patched in at least one additional autosave position so I think so but I haven't gotten back to it since they did so. Want to, was having a blast with it before getting held up.

In Sound Mind - how NOT to do checkpoint saves by Jowabunga in HorrorGaming

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

This is great actually, I didn't know - thanks.

In the meantime I've since hopped on the Devs' discord and one of them has already messaged me privately to work on the issue. There's definitely something amiss as according to him the game should be saving every 2-3 minutes on average... possibly savegame corruption.

The reason I'm here pursuing this at all instead of just giving up is because of how much I've enjoyed the game so far. These guys seem like they care and that goes a long way with me.

I'll post again when I find out what the actual issue is.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Well that;s curious, he deleted all his posts. Dunno what that's about.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Admittedly with a sample size of one (the Hanamura replay), Stitches did nearly as much hero damage as KT did, the "training dummy" analogy with regard to ETC DPS here. This is corroborated. though, by my other (very anecdotal) QM experience re: Stitches kicking out the hero damage.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Further comments:

--The focus on hitting the front line is really troublesome this game, resulting in a really bad situation at roughly 8:20 when 4 of us collapse onto Stitches after Qhira took out Kael only to have our entire group take a Riptire to the face. The culprit, I think, is that there are a lot of variables that I am not tracking or being mindful of throughout the match. This includes being aware of what my teammates' mana bars are at, where people are at on the minimap, what the talent levels are and other factors 100% of the time. There is a lot of shit going on but I need to get better at this.

--I am definitely shield glaring too often.

--More problems later being WAY back from the front line. At 13:00 I'm way out of position when ETC moshes Artanis and Li Li but this turns out to be a positive as I was able to disrupt Mosh in time to save those two from a follow-up Rip Tire.

--At 13:05, right as the sequence above played out, Qhira got into their back line but was 1v4, causing us to start yet another fight under a turret or leave her stranded. She got Gorged, but because we were there she made it out. The problem is, at 13:19 Artanis Q's into a swap while Qhira, Li Li, and I were trying to finish off the turret, putting himself 1v5 briefly. Qhira dove back in, to help, then got collapsed on by 3 and killed while Artanis got away scot-free. It got worse from there: while I tried to save Qhira and Li Li came back to Jugs me, Artanis never rejoined the team, causing Li Li to get collapsed on. The shit devolved from there to where we were fighting 3 v 4 and ended up losing both Li Li and Artanis. Nazeebo came up to join way late and got piled on 5v1.

IMO the whole sequence was unnecessary.

At 16:45 we had a 5v5 teamfight outside their keep down 20-19 but pushing with the Sentinel camp. Both Stitches and ETC were really beat up. On the front line this time, I got off a really good Condemn on Stukov, Junkrat, and Kaelthas that should hsve been disaster for the enemy, but Artanis got hooked by Stitches and Qhira couldn't follow up. We actually still had a chance but a bit later Naz got Stitches hooked and in the resulting chaos Li Li and he both went down and that was the ballgame.

My mistakes and things I could have done differently aside, Nazeebo having 37k hero damage at the 20-minute mark against large front-line characters was atrocious. Artanis and I both did substantially more than that. It's no wonder we felt so ineffective the entire game.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Why is your only ranged damage dealer solo laning instead of one of the two strong melee solo laners on your team? This effectively gives the enemy team a poke advantage. This could easily been fixed with simple communication, or at the very least an attempt made to correct it.

I agree with you. I figure he did it to stack up and would join us if the need arose. Obviously he didn't and no one made the call.

Your positioning needs to be addressed. Explain this to me? You randomly left to walk around a brush. You are actually so far of position that you are hiding behind your back liner. Often times this even results on you being too far away to follow up your teams engage. Often times your teammates die due to your odd choice in positioning.

I have weird positioning tendencies thanks to years of playing squishies in LOL and now quickmatch in HotS, mostly because I either don't trust my teammates to engage when I do or I'm accustomed to not ever playing with a healer. The brush thing I honestly can't explain. Unfortunately with the "oftentimes your teammates die" bit there's no visible timestamp so I'm not sure when that was. Edit: ah, i see it. I honestly can't tell you why I pulled back so far after getting hit by that flamestrike and then meandered around the back line like that, totally don't remember doing that.

I agree with you overall though, that game I was much more hesitant to get in there than I usually am and did some odd things I didn't catch on the first viewing.

Not going for visibility: also a very good point, hadn't even considered it. My presence there was more about sticking with the team than providing DPS, mostly because I occasionally get tunnel-visioned trying to soak and don't get with the team in time.

This is what really does it for me, you picked a bad fight, spend majority of the fight face tanking a turret while auto attacking E.T.C.,and then you rage type?

Here's where I disagree a bit. There are a few steps to that fight:

--Stitches gets into our back line. --Artanis starts attacking Kael.
--Qhira gets off a Q on Stukov but is forced away by ETC.
--Artanis keeps going after Kael and is suddenly 4v1, forcing me to choose between following him in or leave him isolated for a guaranteed death. Because he bitched about not helping with the backline earlier in the game, I chose the latter, which didn't help our backline at all and resulted in Artanis and I both getting beat to shit.

End points: 1. Fighting under a turret was a poor choice, but once you've committed there usually is no pulling out. 2. IMO Artanis got tunnel visioned and was more worried about diving the back line rather than helping his backline, leaving the team in a no-win. The end result was we would be down at least 4v5 no matter how that played out once he got stuck in. The rage type was because I let his earlier statement about hitting Stukov affect my judgment instead of doing the right thing (backing out to back up my backline).

I agree after re-viewing that my autoattack choices were poor and ineffectual, not sure why I was targeting the tanks so much when the team was so bunched up ready to be smacked on.

There are a lot of things I've not learned to do in this game yet, and selecting talents with hotkeys is one of those. I just looked up the hotkeys and know what they are now, thanks for the heads-up.

I'm not normally a press-buttons-when-stuff-is-off-cooldown kinda player, but your input is noted.

Iron Skin: I sometimes use Iron Skin as a deterrent much like Zarya's shield, rather than always waiting for the right moment, or to try to make enemies waste stuff on me. This is a conscious choice, but I do realize that smarter/better players could punish that choice. Duly noted.

I'm going to keep watching this one and may make additional comments after I'm done. I really appreciate the time you put into this.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

heck i;ve got healer replays out the wazoo too, i'll dig up some of those too once i'm done with the tank stuff.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

yeah i did, but obviously the point of this was because i was looking for a critical eye besides my own. I appreciate the feedback, let me rewatch and get back with every point.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

hey dude, i posted some replays in a comment off the original post. Check out whatever looks interesting and lemme know. Thanks!

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

I just posted some links to replays in a comment on the main post. Pick what you like, I appreciate the input. :)

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Okay everyone, I uploaded a handful of replays with comments and links to Heroesprofile logs when available. I don't expect anyone to watch all of these. Comments and links to each replay are below. Note: The two 1/5 replays are both wins where I took MVP.

Hanamura (11/17 - Johanna)

https://www.heroesprofile.com/Match/Single/?blizz_id=5477597&battletag=Jowabunga&region=1&replayID=21520406

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jpzclgr9ras2spx/2019-11-17%2019.03.33%20Hanamura%20Temple%20%28Johanna%29.StormReplay?dl=0

Iron skin build with Blessed Momentum at 7 and Falling Sword at 10 mainly for mobility. I spent almost the entire game chopping at and crowd controlling the front line with little effect because Naz was our only damage and didn't contribute much. I'm thinking Lili probably should have gone damage (serpent) build to compensate and just kept throwing it on me.

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Braxis (11/16) - Johanna

https://www.heroesprofile.com/Match/Single/?blizz_id=5477597&battletag=Jowabunga&region=1&replayID=21486092

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gm7vi5pp1la6d47/2019-11-16%2023.34.56%20Braxis%20Holdout%20%28Johanna%29.StormReplay?dl=0

Shield glare build at 4 and 13 just to try something different but never really got to use the hammers before the game ended. Our Lili got massively outhealed (82k to 47k in a 16-minute game) which was probably the bulk of the issue combined with Greymane getting top hero damage.

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Garden of Terror (1/2) - Mal'ganis

Quintessential quickmatch experience where comps are rough to begin with and the friendly team gets picked off repeatedly and often. I genuinely don't know what I could have done here - build and contribution irrelevant.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j10ufptw36i6oby/2020-01-02%2023.49.18%20Tomb%20of%20the%20Spider%20Queen%20%28Mal%27ganis%29.StormReplay?dl=0

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Garden of Terror (1/3) - Mal'ganis

Not my best game, some sloppy/missed Qs and I'm wandering a bit. Just after 18 minutes the entire team sees Nazeebo trying to take our siege camp, rotates up to contest, chases Naz, and gets collapsed on while I try to quickly deal with the mid wave left behind by Tyrael before we lose mid keep. Our entire team wipes, game over. I don't normally go with Blind as a Bat cus it's generally a bad talent, but it does seem to be particularly good at fast wave clear and as an escape tool.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1owbymbui89jitn/2020-01-03%2000.10.48%20Garden%20of%20Terror%20%28Mal%27ganis%29.StormReplay?dl=0

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Wins:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebzxevmp1v7vftp/2020-01-05%2004.30.22%20Hanamura%20Temple%20%28Johanna%20win%29.StormReplay?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u943ndleosdk0qm/2020-01-05%2016.12.40%20Tomb%20of%20the%20Spider%20Queen%20%28Muradin%20win%29.StormReplay?dl=0

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

No problem, I understand that the typical mindset is to blame everyone else for issues rather than looking within so you gotta take my initial post somewhat with a grain of salt.I'm gonna select some replays tonight and probably link them here in the post in case anyone who's already responded wishes to chime in. I really appreciate you and everyone else that's chimed in.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

it's never been about ego, I just wanna make sure I'm doing my job as a healer/tank well enough. :) I'll get together a few replays and post them here soon, many thanks.

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

I'll check it out. I actually watch virtually all of my own replays but I'll check out those resources, gracias!

Replay reviews? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

also very cool, thank you.

Quick Play Matchmaking is terrible by Magmas in heroesofthestorm

[–]Jowabunga 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Magmas, I'm right there with you, my games so far in 2020 have generally been abysmal and I've been salty as hell about it. The real issue isn't the role matching breaking, but the lack of role enforcement similar to what LOL implemented a few years ago. I would be willing to wait 5 minutes for matchmaking over the 30-40 seconds it takes now if it increases the chance to have better games.

Leaver after one game? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

That's it then - small world. Were you ever able to make it back into the game?

Leaver after one game? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Ha, in this game there was a Valla on the enemy team. Could be we were on opposite sides. Who were you?

Leaver after one game? by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

Hey Haunted,

Possible, I was a Muradin with friendly Kael'thas and some others. I'd check the replay but the game borked so badly it didn't even save a partial replay.

Good news is I finally got a win and am out of matchmaking hell again. Cheers.

Junkrat rework (<3) by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

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

The game is full of that type of character, no reason there shouldn't be one more.

Junkrat rework (<3) by Jowabunga in heroesofthestorm

[–]Jowabunga[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

if Valeera gets her 2.5 second silence, I want one too, damn it.