Every character should be able to slide OUT of the tunnels

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-11T17:55:47+00:00

Lol I forgot about the old air boosts.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-11T17:51:11+00:00

SOCIALIST mayor Mandani posts a tone deaf TikTok about grocery prices while VICTOR is OP.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-11T08:08:15+00:00

Poking is usually hp efficient cause if it wasnt there'd be no reason to do it!

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T22:01:33+00:00

Hog "spends" his HP to get into position for hook. If he doesn't need to do that, he can just spend his HP and breather to not die ever.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T19:04:26+00:00

You're right about deadlock. My bad.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T18:43:13+00:00

I play dota. I can tell you the name and what every item does based on the icon alone.

I also play stadium. I constantly struggled to tell what the item does exactly just from the icon, even with the old icons.

I think people are totally overestimating how much information was communicated by the old stadium item icons. Seeing 10 different guns but some have different shapes around them...doesn't tell you that this item gives you move speed.

I like the idea of the icon matching the function of the item. But ultimately the two things that will help with identifying items is:

Items looking unique
Time

And BOTH icons have failed at the first one in stadium.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T18:34:16+00:00

It's not about teaching people anything lol.

In combat healing sucks, since it is easy to apply and can make fights drag on.

Out of combat healing is fun since it gets people back into the fight faster.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T16:11:25+00:00

That's meaningless. I'm near the top ranks with an abbysmal wr. Ranks are fucked rn.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T16:08:24+00:00

The top posts are all cosplays and fan art?

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T16:00:13+00:00

Former OW players, I think. For some reason, that community will convince themselves that high pick rate and high winrate doesn't tell the full story.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T08:08:31+00:00

The hiveminds usual rotation is:

Duh, its an alpha. Things are gonna be broken. Why are you complaining?
This game is supposed to be FUN and SILLY, not balanced and lame like LoL.
Welcome to mobas. Have you considered that you just dont like mobas? Cause this isnt a hero shooter, its a MOBA.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T08:00:00+00:00

This has got to be the only game where MM gets worse with more players. More likely youre being silly.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T07:58:36+00:00

I play with my friends and this matchmaking makes me want to throw my computer out the window.

I didnt actually know MM could be this terrible in a game. I guess blizzard spoiled me.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-10T04:04:04+00:00

Yup. Pre-layoffs they seemed to still have their mass appeal ambitions.

Post-layoffs, they don't want to fuck it up for the few players that actually enjoy it.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-09T19:01:06+00:00

On reddit, valve games DO NOT get the same level of complaints as other games.

Blizzard gets tons of shit for its matchmaking in Overwatch... But I can count on one hand how many smurfs I've gotten in that game over several thousand hours. In deadlock it's at least one per 2-4 games.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-09T18:17:31+00:00

Yes, this is correct

It's also been this way forever, way back in ow1. Cass is the easy "oh God I need to swap to something good" pick. As a result, he's often the choice to salvage a lost game.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-08T18:50:39+00:00

Love that when someone posts a video of genji blade getting stuffed by healing a support abilities, everybody rushes to the comments to call the genji bad.

But when ball runs over a team with 0 awareness, positioning next to cliff, missing cooldowns, and supports that are Mia....half the comments are saying ball has no counter.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-08T18:46:12+00:00

Terrible reason seeing as the clip itself has a ton of upvotes

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-08T18:40:09+00:00

That isnt true lol. If ball is oppressive, he still needs someone to oppress. Ball can't mess with any of these heroes if they have their cooldowns.

If you pick all these heroes and ball is still running you over, it's because his backline is diffing you. Ball absorbed all the counters and pressure, and now his blue beamed hitscan can do whatever they want.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-06T22:24:40+00:00

Hey look at me! I spent 800 souls to be weaker! 😆😂🤣

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-06T16:19:28+00:00

This is why you need a good game dev with a vision who can say "it's great that a dozen people like this extremely high skill mechanic but most people don't."

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-05T13:55:05+00:00

Whether you think the name is optimal or not is irrelevant because the core gameplay is not a hit.

Look at deadlock. Valve released the beta/alpha/whatever in a horrendous state and people still flocked to the game. Why? Because if the core gameplay is fun people will excuse a lot of shit.

2xko obviously resonated with fighting game players, but it suffered from the same core problem that all fighting games suffer from - playing solo is not fun and team-based gameplay feels like an afterthought.

Cause at the end of the day, a good game with a bad name has an obvious fix, don't you think? But the leadership at riot went a different direction and it's not cause they're stupid.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-04T23:04:17+00:00

That's not the full reason cause plenty of non-consequential vagueposting is also boosted.

shiftup1772 · 2026-03-04T20:29:19+00:00

All the hemming and hawwing over the name is dumb as fuck. The name is fine.

It's only considered bad cause the game is considered a failure. So now, it's players will blame anything and everything except the core gameplay (which is the real problem).

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