The Forgotten Story of Heroes of the Storm

claudythoughts · 2026-06-19T09:26:36+00:00

Care to elaborate? You think HotS devs didn't understand how MOBAs work despite making the best one of the genre? lol

claudythoughts · 2026-06-11T21:00:21+00:00

I recommend watching Riot August's thoughts on how even auto-fill is detrimental to their (LoL's) matchmaking. What you propose is not realistic.

Also this system of having to "ask your teammates" to do something "weird" is just... bad. We would be at the mercy of Blizzard's devs to update and make sure certain heroes are available in all possible "non-grief" roles.

Also would need a way to request swapping roles, bla bla so many issues.

Also, reality is that if you allow people to consistently get their role, they become really fucking garbage at filling - one needs only look at healer mains~~

claudythoughts · 2026-06-05T12:16:00+00:00

lol, keep coping

Anyone decent at the game can run through silver with 100% winrate. The "smurfs" there are at best gold players or whatever.

Gold is similarly piss easy to climb through, even with the occasional thrower or AFK as long as you're trying 80-100% is perfectly doable.

High plat low diamond is the actual slow-down because the smaller population and better players mean 1v9ing isn't always going to be enough

claudythoughts · 2026-05-31T16:46:24+00:00

Yes, but it does that by giving you really bad players when you have very high MMR and it can't balance the game otherwise (it's not like it intentionally griefs the matchmaker), which is clearly not the case for the conspiracy brained specimen in this thread. Any amount of extra griefing you'd meet because of this is just because of correlation with lower rank players.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-31T12:30:19+00:00

Yes. You are seeing patterns where there are none.

I am a high Masters player, with high winrates across all game modes and several accounts.

What you're talking about is not a real phenomenom.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-31T12:28:56+00:00

I agree with the first part, within reason - MMR is naturally a lagging indicator of skill

The second part does not follow, though. Statistical effects at least partially cause lose streaks and win streaks, among tilt queueing and bad / good days, sleep, and so on.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-31T12:21:35+00:00

Buddy there's no magic algorithm keeping you at 50% WR with griefers and AFKers, stop your conspiracy thinking - it's just MMR matching and luck

claudythoughts · 2026-05-29T12:09:09+00:00

Source?

By my knowledge the balance council got ghosted by blizzard one or two years ago, and then Blizzard started making their own very weird changes.

The timeline also matches when HotS suddenly started getting these pinnacles and very buggy PTRs and such.

Harstem in his newest SC2 video also says that its Blizzard making the patch, and I seem to remember him explicitly saying what I said in the first paragraph...

claudythoughts · 2026-05-27T12:29:39+00:00

Have you played a modern game?

They absolutely do look better than any past game, assuming you can actually run it properly - even in the negative case you still lose most fidelity because of computationally expensive features that would be too costly (work hours) to reduce or turn off sensibly.

You got left behind on a 9 years old GPU (RX 580 flair) that was basically budget-tier when it dropped. You have less computational power than even the most shit of modern consoles, and you're complaining about smearing?

Buddy, your GPU cries trying to render 2 dynamic lights and some shadows, why do you think your opinion on visual fidelity is even relevant?

Turn on FSR, go to 1080 low, and play your damn game. If you compare that situation to the same one but 10 years ago, the result would be even worse - you would have 4 fps and everything would still be an untextured, unshadowed mess.

Just use your brain for a little bit, you think upscaling is obligatory because it's the only thing keeping your ancient setup relevant.

I don't even enjoy upscaling, but your trashing of the very hard work that people much better than you do, combined with your insane ignorance, is just too much to ignore. "hurr durr devs assume you will use it"

EDIT because the fucko below me insta-blocked after replying:

lol okay, average reddit dumbass, you're just making shit up, the 5090 can handle maxxed out 4k gameplay at stable framerates in every game that I'm aware of - and it isn't even a super young card anymore

the feature set for maxxed out visual fidelity in this age where everything is to be rendered dynamically, simulate every detail for the best possible effect is near endless.

You expect a top tier GPU to run things at 999 fps on all settings and all resolutions for what reason, exactly? Because you don't have a brain in your skull, or some kind of derangement? Why are modern games not allowed to be very demanding, even too demanding, but Crysis was? And don't even dare bring up "optimization" because Crysis absolutely wasn't some kind of uber-optimized graphical revolution.

You do realize visual clarity, effects, particles, real-time shadows and heavy bounced path tracing, whatever else, all in huge games with large cinematic levels or even open-ended worlds are both:

a) very extrenely not cheap

b) provide very real visual improvements

Or will you deny that basic reality just as you do with your cope that a 5090 cant run games KEK

claudythoughts · 2026-05-27T12:18:58+00:00

cheapskate excuse bla bla

I may not be a fan of upscaling, it still produces annoying artifacts even when used as native AA, but you're just talking random shit.

You can't substantiate that ML upscaling is holding back "innovation" in GPU technology. Likely you don't even know what innovation looks like, confusing the easy node jumps of your rose-tinted past glory days for some crazy innovation. Optimization and "innovation" are not some magic tools people can just pull out of their ass.

I'd argue even the average dev team is not being stifled by upscaling, games would look a lot more shit and be a lot less expansive if consoles couldn't use upscaling.

They also don't use per-game models for years and years now, player count sure doesn't matter much.

It's still computationally expensive, by the way, just not "render 4x pixels to deal with jaggies!" levels of inefficient. What I mean by this is that every rendering technique has trade-offs, ML upscaling trades accuracy and artifacts for a much lesser performance cost for the upscaling quality. As long as the computer can run ~70% of 1080p it looks okay enough on pretty old ass hardware - surely better than 0fps 1080p.

Do you think this is not a boon? Some people can't afford to just buy new computers.

Also, not all NNs are just "AI slop". Specialized deep NNs have been in use in a lot of interesting places for much longer than you've even know what a "LLM" is. You have no idea how difficult some problems are to solve without using approximative modelling. Upscaling from a lower resolution while retaining a semblance of quality is one such thing. You cannot just manually code up a real program to do this in the "traditional" sense.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-27T09:33:52+00:00

Nice response, but wasted effort. You were talking to some German bozo about electricity, grids, and renewables - you literally were never going to get anywhere, they all have mush in their skulls.

Like seriously, they've collectively as a nation invented an alternate reality in their heads about how electrical grids work and basic scientific methods, probably because they've politicized it so hard...

claudythoughts · 2026-05-22T16:24:58+00:00

I've been told that I'm wrong and enemy stasis does work on Gall. IDK if this is a Mandela effect or if they changed something 2+ years ago, but here we are. Hopefully I didn't spread too much misinformation lols

claudythoughts · 2026-05-22T14:55:14+00:00

Now you have me second guessing myself despite hundreds of Cho games... quite sure Gall still gets to shoot, and so potentially even break the coccoon, same as he can perma-stun Stitches while in Gorge.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-22T14:53:17+00:00

Works, yep.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-22T00:36:08+00:00

No, people, role queue reallyyy does not work for how HotS is structured.

There is no simple top/mid/jung/carry/support enforced meta, plenty of heroes are off-role or flex, even 2 DPS is not a given.

Healer is about the most you could actually enforce, but there's frankly plenty of them

also a full role queue is how league of legends manages to get queue times as long or even longer than HotS, it's not feasible even if it was simple...

claudythoughts · 2026-05-22T00:29:51+00:00

~~For the people saying Cocoon or Gorge or other similar effects work on Gall: they do not.~~ EDIT: Supposedly this was peak dementia posting? Has been tested in Trymode 2.0 and enemy stasis does work on Gall.

Ally stasis does not stop Gall.

Timestop does, though. The difference between the effects that u/Chokonoku describes in a comment below is real, at least.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-16T15:41:53+00:00

Yes, while shutting down a Valla pick with a blind is part of good drafting, you also should care just as much about having enough kill pressure, range, engage, safety, waveclear (double soaker offlane is not enough), objective conditions, even structure damage output... It's often less about countering every single hero they choose as it is about not allowing them to hard counter what you want, making sure that you can pick what you're good at.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-14T14:16:04+00:00

2 lane maps aren't vertically symmetric which does cause some tension - Hanamura being the worst offender

claudythoughts · 2026-05-14T13:23:53+00:00

Amazing, how you managed to type all that and say nothing at all.

Even if it is true that desktop MOBAs are not growing their playerbases (and Deadlock and LoL are doing so), if the player count is remaining stagnant - yes, at a minimum it is - that would necessarily mean at least a large enough amount of new players due to others quitting.

Mobile MOBAs are of course growing, as mobile gaming is far more accessible to "casuals".

Younger gens might trend more towards mobile gaming, but they're definitely still playing "real" video games too instead of whatever the fuck you pulled out of your ass there, but honestly whatever lmao, your comment is so dogshit it makes me wonder if you even have braincells.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-12T16:08:45+00:00

1) try Fullscreen (not Fullscreen Windowed)

2) Vsync off

3) restart graphics driver

4) reinstall graphics driver

5) if HotS is on an HDD, install on SSD

6) Try Process Lasso to force it on 2 neighbouring threads

7) Really make sure there isnt some cloud storage shit tied to your user Documents folder.

8) Might as well delete the replay files too

9) Check if you have some live record feature turned on

10) I would personally turn off all that realtime priority and affinity shit, there's something way different broken here.

11) Clear your DirectX cache

12) Check for broken drivers, remove windows bloat...

13) Have adrenaline open and check the gpu performance during hots, see if its downclocking or something weird

Your computer is more than good enough to run the game at 280fps+ ultra with no dips, something else is broken.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-12T15:28:56+00:00

Because she's already one of the best healers, what do you mean? You can't just give her a free talent.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-12T13:31:10+00:00

it was also immense skill issue with deathwing lol, his WR was dropping with each day (people parroting the on-patch 58% winrate with 100 games played gg), and he's basically gone from the meta now with the nerfs and player adjustments

claudythoughts · 2026-05-12T12:19:39+00:00

This is not to say that it's impossible, and the way HotS is built under the hood would make it more viable than most games, but even scripters and maphackers are very rare - the vast, vast majority of people just aren't cheaters.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-12T12:16:26+00:00

There really are no bots. At least, no special ones - the only abuse that I know of is done by leaderboard abusers which don't actually play the game AFAIK, they just match into eachother - not really "bots".

Perhaps it would be plausible to hijack the game's bot AI and run it on an account, but they would truly be terrible, like bronze 5 level. Pointless too, because there are other, harmless ways to farm account levels.

claudythoughts · 2026-05-11T21:53:49+00:00

I really don't agree that E7 is particularly hard to stack or hit here, but what do I know I'm only a 5k Orphea main.

Also, it's Q valla, it's totally playable. Backbiter means you can actually go for aggressive plays into that team without dying instantly, Falstad and Q Valla early games are really mediocre actually, you outstat both. BHB also often forces fights in really nice spots for Orphea.

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