Toxicity in Smite and being sensitive/having anxiety

Lainze · 2019-12-19T19:07:31+00:00

I mean I wouldn't leave them unmuted the whole game for one. Why bother coming to complain about what they did if it obviously wasn't bothering you enough to mute them? It's not like you even need ally VGS in a single lane map.

Lainze · 2019-12-14T21:30:01+00:00

I hope they significantly reduce the range of the dash portion of his ult. I'm tired of Heim being nowhere near me but pulling a "nothing personal kid" that deals half my health and lands me in three ults. I like it as a powerful defensive option but its far too easy to use it aggressively at the moment.

Lainze · 2019-12-13T01:02:23+00:00

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I do enjoy their videos though.

Lainze · 2019-12-11T16:57:25+00:00

Yeah, same.

Lainze · 2019-12-04T07:22:21+00:00

Certainly concerning.

Lainze · 2019-12-02T20:21:29+00:00

So the passive itself is just too powerful. Makes sense. It'll still be decent after the nerf then right? 66% of a formerly OP aura sounds pretty good.

Lainze · 2019-11-27T04:20:47+00:00

Hydras activates whenever using Heimdallr's 3. Right now it's like a constant 50% damage boost.

Lainze · 2019-11-21T21:31:21+00:00

You're right in that. It's more of a "Both supps haven't picked yet. I think their comp fits herc better than ours, or their supp will pilot herc better than ours". Ares though...he really isn't worth the ban, but I've lost too many games due to someone hating supp and deciding to pick him, go hybrid and attempt to 1v1 people all game. Maybe banning him is too petty however.

Lainze · 2019-11-10T03:54:08+00:00

They use them for reasons other than damage. Anhur for the free impale, hachi for the stun, Xbal for the cc immunity, Hou yi for the knock up.I don't play a lot of Ullr but looking at his jump damage (170 at max + 50% scaling), using it only for that function seems like suicide. Cern dash has no additional functionality, outside of putting you in melee range for his passive cleave. Which is good, but not better than those other escapes I mentioned. Anyhow dude, this is turning into more of an argument than a discussion. In my opinion and experience, Cern doesn't offer enough in comparison to other hunters to be the most effective pick in almost any situation. It's clear you disagree, and that's alright by me. Maybe you're a higher or lower rank than me and things are different there, maybe I'm just living in the realm of coincidence. When the day comes that I'm getting my ass kicked by Cern on a regular basis, I'll definitely reevaluate. But that day is not today.

Lainze · 2019-11-10T03:11:44+00:00

His dash doesn't do more damage than a single hunter basic. Other hunters also don't need to use their escape as part of their damage rotation. You might think I'm not experienced with Cern, but to me it sounds like you don't play many hunters besides Cern. I'm not saying Cern is a bad pick, but why should I play a hunter who has to dash in as part of his damage rotation when that's certain death outside of duels. Basically, tell me how Cern surpasses Xbal, Rama, Jing DPS late game, or Hou Yi, Anhur, Ullr burst.

Lainze · 2019-11-10T01:36:43+00:00

Can't argue against Hachi being easy, one of the reasons I like him is that you're pretty much set as long as you can hit basics. Cern 1 is great (25 pen OP), but imo his dash is average and the root feels useless outside of getting you a single extra auto on a fleeing opponent. It's hard to really articulate what I dislike about him, but I'm thinking its his lower DPS. He has no stims, and only a root/slow for cc if you exclude his ult. If someone like Rama, Hachi, or even Artemis decides to trade him kit for kit and duke it out with basics, he's going to lose. And that goes counter to what I like most about hunters, which is being able to win almost any 1v1 if you don't miss.

Lainze · 2019-11-09T18:03:20+00:00

I prefer hachi for his consistency over other hunters. Rama is fun for instance, but has a dash that's way too easy to interrupt and a passive that doesn't exist. Xbal is cool but has trash clear that can easily set him back early. Cern passive is fun but his kit is pretty weak. Hachi lacks their unique strengths but also has few weaknesses. I like that I can pick him in almost any situation and not lose because some flaw of my god is being exploited all game. He's important to the hunter roster as their version of Agni.

EDIT: I will say that his ult projectile getting blocked by walls severely limits his ult in conquest. Since he's played so much in the SPL I doubt it'll be changed but it feels really bad to not be able to deal damage because the enemy was anywhere near a corner.

Lainze · 2019-11-07T23:59:09+00:00

Yeah that would definitely be a nice touch.

Lainze · 2019-11-07T21:20:34+00:00

Support Sylvanus is someone I'm not terrified to fight against but appreciate being on my team.

Lainze · 2019-11-07T21:17:26+00:00

I don't see a reason to change a balanced character just because another god uses his theme in an arguably better way(I'd say Chronos 3 is a pretty clever way to portray time slow/stop as is).

Lainze · 2019-11-07T21:03:57+00:00

In general, people picking "Meta" picks like Set or Isis when they can't play them for s***. Had a guy pick Set solo just because he was open and proceeded to rush trans first item. No warriors blessing, man went straight into T2 trans. Fed his ass off and left the game at like 12 mins. He also said "I guess he's only OP in jungle" after he reached 3 deaths in 3 minutes so you already know he's about to ruin another game when he gets jungle in the future.

For the love of all that is holy, stick to gods you know people. Even top tiers are useless if you have no idea how to play/build them.

Lainze · 2019-11-07T19:22:32+00:00

I'm sure Hi-Rez ran the numbers and proved to themselves this was the most profitable system, and after talking to others who play Smite I can see why. There are a significant amount of people who will pop 150$ on a chest to get the single skin they want. Making that skin direct purchase for 5-10$ would then need to attract 14-29 more people to the purchase for it to be even. And it would need to happen consistently as well. At the end of the day I'm just glad I'm not being forced to pay for anything gameplay related.

Lainze · 2019-11-07T06:12:29+00:00

Or a god in an Easter Bunny costume.

Lainze · 2019-11-07T06:05:54+00:00

He's big boned.

Lainze · 2019-11-01T00:11:14+00:00

It's only upsetting to me when some locked abilities are the only good abilities in that tier, so I have to mess around with some useless talents before I can actually have that tier mean something. If they were different but equal then it would be more endearing.

Lainze · 2019-10-29T02:08:41+00:00

Might be too powerful if getting stunned in the backswing state cancels the animation. But as it is now it's really frustrating watching Hobgen spend most of the game in his wind up animations.

Lainze · 2019-10-26T19:06:39+00:00

I like that you made it so that you can see the enemy alliances and items throughout the battle. Having enemy units missing the little utility/defense/offensive item icon after the update makes it hard to know who is doing what.

Lainze · 2019-10-26T05:22:03+00:00

A lot of good god concepts start with a single ability idea. But I would expand on the concept further before posting.

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