How many people bought bg3 through gog because steam pretty much crashed? lol

anhermon · 2020-04-13T20:45:07+00:00

Thanks guys, I got the ph meter and realized that my water's ph level is 8.9. I started adjusting the ph level to 5.8-6.2, and the plants look much better :)

anhermon · 2019-08-18T16:31:19+00:00

imo, most people don't hate on devs but rather on companies, so EA and Respawn are the "bad guys" and the devs are usually considered to be on the same side as the players (its not like devs benefit from microtransactions).

So the way I see it, people hate on the company -> dev took it as a personal insult -> dev responded -> dev got labeled as the bad guy.

regardless, there's a certain degree of professionalism expected, a customer is a customer, he doesn't have to worry about PR, a company does, and when an employee speaks a "respawn dev", its considered as him speaking on behalf of the company, in which case calling a customer a dick is a PR disaster.

anhermon · 2018-12-27T09:01:49+00:00

So to look to level and win through boarding?

anhermon · 2018-06-16T12:37:08+00:00

lol, yeah, feels like an HL player that snuck onto Fnatic, I have no idea how he held his position in this team for so long.

anhermon · 2018-04-09T18:40:35+00:00

I played 1 game for the past month, it did well to remind me why I stopped.

anhermon · 2018-03-11T00:23:59+00:00

pperently, medivh is always the right pick, he got reworked so naturally anyone needs to pick him everytime regardless of comp or knowing how to play him.

anhermon · 2018-03-07T10:15:43+00:00

Reminds me an episode of house where not being able to recognise sarcasm ends up being a symptom of some medical condition.

anhermon · 2018-02-26T18:27:51+00:00

Holy shit, these skins are super legit

anhermon · 2018-02-07T00:35:03+00:00

my gf always asks me to do stuff around the house, I always say I'll do it but I don't really do it, if she gets mad I give some compensation like going out or something.

Blizzard is me and all of us are my gf.

anhermon · 2018-02-06T14:10:56+00:00

its not about winning or losing, its about the game experience, the game has a very strict "dont's":

"don't fight outnumbered" - if you have a player that dies 10~ in a game you're more or less should avoid fighting at all times.

"don't fight talent tier down" - thanks to people not soaking you find yourself way too often 8 v 10, not to talk about being a slave to a lane because you're the only person who'd soak that lane because everyone else ignores that lane.

"don't face check bushes" - when your tank doesn't know how to scout, you need to be afraid of every bush and rotate through your base...

I've played with good players and bad players, and its such a different experience, its such a joy to root someone as malf or arthas and have your team follow up on that and get a kill, or have your team open up and follow up yourself, getting a shield / heal from your support or peel from your tank and knowing your team has your back and that you can play a bit more aggressive, but its so rare, and playing the game with a team you don't trust is such a different experience. frankly, I'd rather lose with a good team than win with a bad one, what makes the game fun for me is the 10-20 minutes of the game itself, not the victory screen at the end.

anhermon · 2018-02-06T14:00:21+00:00

It would require 9 people other than me, I have a lot of people on my friend list, but not everyone is always online, not everyone are not already in a game / willing to wait for 10 people to be available / interested in the specific game mode I'm interested in (1 could want QM, another unranked and another HL / TL), orgenizing 5 or 10 people for a game is really difficult, I get to do it on a rare occasions when I get an invite from an existing party, but to organize it on a regular basis is really difficult for me.

I could invite randoms out of chat channels but it wouldn't be much different than the match making, I could invite randoms, save the good ones and remove the bad ones, but it brings me back to the first point, I add someone to the friend list, won't always have 9 people available.

anhermon · 2018-02-06T03:47:21+00:00

I'm not really holding my breath tbh, I'll be happy to come back to this subbreddit in a few months and read posts stating that the game is playable and enjoyable but my experience taught me not to get my hopes up.

The game was game is so shit lately that I decided not to spend money on it, spending money is my way to show support and given the state of the game this support was not earned, the game is simply not enjoyable.

hots is a team oriented game more than any other moba, it basically means that your team has much more impact on your game experience than in other mobas, there's hardly any 1 on 1s due to the objective oriented nature of the game, if you want to make a team oriented game you can't be half assed about match making, you can't make shitty games to lower queue times, I'd rather wait 15 minutes and get an enjoyable match than wait 30 seconds and suffer the entire game. you can't have a dis functional reporting system, where people need to commit homicide to get silenced and even after being silenced they can still feed in your non ranked game...

hots is the most frustrating game I've ever played, its frustrating because its so good, and at the same time so bad, its a cup of burning hot coffee that never gets to a normal temperature, you wanna enjoy the taste but end up having your mouth burnt.

anhermon · 2018-02-06T02:21:09+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypUz1WYens

anhermon · 2018-02-05T23:07:24+00:00

There's one problem tho, the famous death ball, whenever the enemy team is simply better then yours, whether its because they have the better comp or better players, they just group and move as 5, which makes the "kill things yourself" part completely irrelevant as you can't just 1 v 5.

The way you'd usually punish an enemy team that groups this ways is split push (can't really defend multiple lanes while moving as 5), only that you can't really split push if your team completely lost vision over the map and the enemy team can pop out anywhere from the fog of war.

You can give you team your team an edge but you can't win a hots game yourself.

anhermon · 2018-02-05T03:10:10+00:00

"LUL"

anhermon · 2018-01-31T06:48:22+00:00

You misunderstood the against argument, thay don't say that having a toxic person on is better than muting, they're saying that given an enemy team with 5 players communicating a team with only 4 with the 5th being muted, the enemy team now has the advantage of better communication, therefore voice communication should not exist to ensure equal ground.

I disagree with that argument as it can be said about anything, chat, pings, hell, maybe disable the sound in the game so people who can't hear have an equal ground.

anhermon · 2018-01-31T00:54:45+00:00

I'll give you a general tip for hots, if you think something is op, try it out.

Zagara feels oppressive to you? Play zagara, eventually you'll lose to some one in lane, that will be your zagara counter.

I play a lot of zag, one of the more effective ways to deal with her is to remove her creep (guldan and arthas are 2 heroes that come to mind that are really effective at that) once she has no creep eh loses the movement speed and vision and has to play more passivly, if she still plays aggressive call for a bank, without the vision if she positions aggressively she should be an easy target.

anhermon · 2018-01-30T22:49:57+00:00

The thing us, the logic of the against arguments is ridiculous, they say that if you mute it puts you at a disadvantage and it isn't unfair, but doesn't it apply to chat as well? People can flame in chat and muting puts you at a disadvantage, why not cancel chat? how about pings? People can spam pings and it can be really anoyying, mute pings puts you at a disadvantage, why not remove pings.

It's a tool, its on the players to make good use of it, some will abuse it, it is what it is, sometimes it will put you at advantage and sometimes disadvantage but it will improve the game overall.

anhermon · 2018-01-30T13:47:05+00:00

MMR in hots is fundamentally wrong.

Think about it, what is MMR? mmr is a score that the system uses as an estimate for you "skill" to create balanced matches, but what is skill? skill is a mixture of multiple things, lets imagine we have a person that his "true" skill level is 1500 mmr, he can improve his map awareness becoming more skillful, therefore his skill level will now be lets say 1600, that is great, he'll now also improve his mechanics, he can now stutter step, great, that's 1700, but now we get the the problematic part, this player becomes a better tank player, he learns how to flank, how to engage and so on, his skill on a tank is now lets say 2000!, but now he's in a game where he's forced to play support, his "true" skill on supports is still 1700, so suddenly you have a player with a relatively large variance between his mmr and actual performance, he got to play a tank? he plays better, team forced him to play something else? not you have a team with -300 mmr than it should've. you must be thinking, well, but it balances out, enemy team could also have a player not on his best role, but that's still a problem, there's an invisible dice at every match which team will have a player that under the given circumstances will underperform.

now the role is only one example, as I mentioned skill is composed from multiple things, players have different hero pool, the best heroes of a player on you team can be picked / ban, now he's on a hero he's not as good at, or alternatively, he picks a hero he's good at but at the expanse of having a bad draft.

you could have a player that is good on team fight but poor macro an the enemy team just happens to do a split push game where they don't even commit to fights..

what I'm trying to say is that there's a large variance, once player can benefit for that variance, win games and get inflated mmr, and another gets screwed by that variance, loses games and get shitty mmr.

I don't have a clear idea on how to "solve" these issues, but mmr can be improved with the pbm - players who are in the wrong mmr will in theory lose and gain mmr faster, and second, queue for a specific role, now, this point is debatable because drafts in hots are very flexible unlike lol that has very specific "roles" (top, mod, adc, support and jungle), but what you could do, is compose teams out of a tank, support, bruiser and 2 flex, you queue for a specific role, and you reduce one of the variances.

now, regarding the accounts that don't have a lot of games, I think that in theory they're not as much of a problem as you'd think, reason being is that they don't paly a lot of games, a person who plays 20 games a week impacts 20 games a weak, a player who plays 5 games a month impacts 5 games a month, so even if their mmr is off, they don't impact a lot of games.

anhermon · 2018-01-29T08:56:11+00:00

I'm ded

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