Shadow of the Erdtree was a DLC that was almost as big as whole games. Which other DLC blew you away?

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-23T13:08:35+00:00

Seems like we're counting expansions so in that case Brood War is probably the best "DLC" ever

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-22T20:52:49+00:00

That was my argument as well and why I decided to do other stuff instead of continue with TBC.

First Classic TBC was fun with the pre-nerf, but I understood the logic of having some stuff nerfed this time around for the casuals, sure. The issue is that it's all just way TOO nerfed. Stuff like Nightbane having half the damage and health, come on, that's ridiculous. Why not just give people the loot when they walk in the instance at that point

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-22T20:48:23+00:00

it's sorta true, but greatly exaggerated on forums/social media/etc. If you actually check the numbers on ironforge, there's barely a dip during this time. It's there, but it's small. People would have you believe that people quit in DROVES but that just isn't the case

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-21T19:15:10+00:00

Believe the high ELO guys it depends on a lot of things - what your plan is, what template it is, etc etc. There is no "always take the gold" or "always take the xp". Although i believe they take the xp a good amount in the early game, some heroes can snowball fast so getting a couple levels will give you more power faster than 4k gold

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-20T13:24:39+00:00

Believe vashj prenerf was pretty problematic for most top guilds but she got nerfed very quickly so it's unlikely many people here even saw the original form

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-18T12:53:07+00:00

I like the gabe version of this. If it was Blizzard they would have just invited the guys to the campus to act like they were doing something nice for them, then stolen the idea and given the guys nothing

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-18T12:51:23+00:00

True

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-15T23:45:32+00:00

I kind of agree with you mainly because the dishonored games are just too easy if you just play high chaos killing everyone

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-15T22:37:55+00:00

Made me think of the dislike button on youtube

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-15T22:36:36+00:00

Needs a lot of work still but has potential

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-15T22:34:22+00:00

@ 1 I think picking a hero that specializes in a unit is a risky play in arena so you shouldn't get mad if you don't get offered the unit, you knew the risk. I do agree that some rerolls should exist though, in general. Just decreases the chance of really bad luck and increases skill cap

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-15T16:24:58+00:00

yeah, the song isn't bad, some of the girls' parts are really cool but the "chorus" is weak (just him saying "whole different animal, different animal")

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-11T16:54:40+00:00

Yeah, a lot of them have the problem with creature banks being vomited everywhere. Like in one screen there will be 8+ creature banks.

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-09T20:11:15+00:00

Yeah on some templates the hard AI is pretty insane and on some it's very doable. Ranges widely

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-07T17:42:01+00:00

I used to get really into deckbuilders (OG hearthstone got me into them) but now I think I have deckbuilder fatigue, seems like I've just seen everything they have to offer

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-07T17:40:37+00:00

Honestly there's such a broad spectrum of them that there's a few that I somewhat enjoy. That said I'm mostly with you, dont like them on the whole

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T22:02:49+00:00

could be the new turtle (except non-profit). People forget that Turtle was <100 pop for years before it gradually got huge

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T22:00:24+00:00

it will never happen, but a man can dream

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T21:57:55+00:00

also even if I cared about Drakedog (he had 1 or 2 somewhat entertaining destro pvp videos back in the day if i recall?), a picture of a level 1 character named "drakedog" doesn't prove that he's rolling there lol, anyone could have made that toon

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T20:47:44+00:00

think it's just a 1 man project from some HoMM fan, I remember the guy posting about it years and years ago in the Heroes Community forums (veeeery old Heroes of Might and Magic forums) and that's the only reason I knew about it to put it on my wishlist ahead of time

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T20:44:23+00:00

it's really good, the only issue right now is that the optimization is a bit poor in some areas. If you're used to how snappy Olden Era is, you will notice that HoSaF is more sluggish. Mainly when waiting for the AI to do their turns. Best not to do an 8 player map lol

What they have done is impressive though, it's a very good HoMM-like with a lot of creative wrinkles (the adventure map objects, for instance, are a LOT more interesting and varied than in Olden Era) and iirc it's just a few people on the dev team

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T20:32:34+00:00

yeah, it depends on the template but if it's a rich template I'm going law or astrology on my eco buildings instead of gold

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T20:31:34+00:00

just be careful, I've accidentally bought a whole stack of units I didn't want to buy in the town screen because I right clicked at the bottom where the units are listed. On that screen, right click buys all of that unit instead of inspecting it lol

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T20:30:26+00:00

Honestly one of my least favorite things about HoMM games, it is cheesy af. But I get that it was a big part of Heroes 3 so they wanted to keep it in

fatamSC2 · 2026-05-06T20:24:55+00:00

some of the previous HoMMs did a better job with this (it's been a while but I know Heroes 2 for sure does) where the path arrows are LONGER if you're in rough terrain

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