On January 14 2011 05:08 Nokarot wrote:
I might actually invest $30 in to this. I would love to have all the heroes and not have to grind for them. The $83 bundle is ridiculous but $30 seems reasonable, if my friends play it at least.

Same o/

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

January 14 2011 09:59 GMT

#282

"Nokarot" on US. My ping is only ~100 in EU games though and I've never felt a hiccup, feels like 0 ping either way. Will idle the teamliquid channel after GOMTV is over :O

On January 13 2011 04:23 Wesso wrote:
I used to play this, but 7 skills are just way too much too handle if you never tried dota/hon before

EX skills, too. For those who didnt know, when you mouse over the tooltip, there will be a blue and a red ability (in some cases). If you hold control, you can use your ult meter to use an EX skill.

Southlight

United States11767 Posts

January 14 2011 15:08 GMT

#283

On January 14 2011 18:59 Nokarot wrote:
"Nokarot" on US. My ping is only ~100 in EU games though and I've never felt a hiccup, feels like 0 ping either way. Will idle the teamliquid channel after GOMTV is over :O

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EX skills, too. For those who didnt know, when you mouse over the tooltip, there will be a blue and a red ability (in some cases). If you hold control, you can use your ult meter to use an EX skill.

Or just 1/2.

DarQraven

Netherlands553 Posts

January 14 2011 15:49 GMT

#284

Gonna try this out tonight. Have tried to get into the beta for a while, failed, gave up and forgot about the game. Nice surprise to see it's free now!

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

January 14 2011 23:54 GMT

#285

Went ahead and paid $30 for it. Could have spent another $10 to get the last 4 heroes, but didn't bother. Also, if you get the $30 package, you get enough ~funcom points~ to buy one of the four last heroes, assuming you don't want to go for costumes or whatever.

Got about 10k blood coins, so I'm just saving up so that I can get all the heroes before I start going for the cosmetic stuff :O

14 Posts

January 15 2011 00:00 GMT

#286

I've been playing this since mid beta; still play every once in a while. Add me: hatsoff

DarQraven

Netherlands553 Posts

January 15 2011 02:08 GMT

#287

First impressions: really fun. Slightly sluggish movement controls and some odd bugs concerning movement (for instance: when starting the match and holding A and W, I will only walk forward, not left. And no, my keyboard doesn't suck so bad it can't handle two keys at once.)

Game balance, in my opinion as a new player, probably decent but a little tricky to figure out. For instance, assassin dudes wayyyyy too fast in CTF so pretty much impossible to catch once they have an artifact. Also, invisible. Probably manageable because they're not as strong so they can't get through tight defense, but some maps won't allow that and they will just cloak or jump into the base, grab the artifact and sprint out. Nothing you can do about it if you weren't waiting right there for them.

Another example: all-tank teams in Arena mode. How the hell do you counter that when they smash up any other character in no time and your crowd control spells have a cooldown? Healers just get picked off immediately and you can only *try* to sleep potion them once every 8 seconds. If it misses, you're dead. If it hits, you're dead 3 seconds later. Probably some formation thing I still need to figure out, but it seems odd that 3x the same class would be able to roflstomp a balanced team.

Anyway, I'll play this for a while longer and see if I like it enough to warrant a purchase.

Asdkmoga

United States496 Posts

January 15 2011 02:24 GMT

#288

so is it free? when i click to make an account i dont see anywhere to go that isnt buying T_T... this looks like a fun/harder version of other moba's

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

January 15 2011 02:59 GMT

#289

On January 15 2011 11:08 DarQraven wrote:
First impressions: really fun. Slightly sluggish movement controls and some odd bugs concerning movement (for instance: when starting the match and holding A and W, I will only walk forward, not left. And no, my keyboard doesn't suck so bad it can't handle two keys at once.)

Game balance, in my opinion as a new player, probably decent but a little tricky to figure out. For instance, assassin dudes wayyyyy too fast in CTF so pretty much impossible to catch once they have an artifact. Also, invisible. Probably manageable because they're not as strong so they can't get through tight defense, but some maps won't allow that and they will just cloak or jump into the base, grab the artifact and sprint out. Nothing you can do about it if you weren't waiting right there for them.

Another example: all-tank teams in Arena mode. How the hell do you counter that when they smash up any other character in no time and your crowd control spells have a cooldown? Healers just get picked off immediately and you can only *try* to sleep potion them once every 8 seconds. If it misses, you're dead. If it hits, you're dead 3 seconds later. Probably some formation thing I still need to figure out, but it seems odd that 3x the same class would be able to roflstomp a balanced team.

Anyway, I'll play this for a while longer and see if I like it enough to warrant a purchase.

That bug happens to me at the beginning, too, but only for a second.

Regarding CTF/Arena balance, it kinda changes a bit when you get more heroes (or bought the Champions Edition.) The ones that you start with for free, I would say that Glutton is the most powerful. However, when played right, healer is amazing. Barrier yourself like crazy. Sleep works wonders if your allies don't attack them afterwards (waking them up) and clarity potion can knock people away. Admittedly, it takes a bit of work to learn it, but she can survive quite well. I've lost many games where our teams strategy was "focus the healer" and we got wiped without getting her half down. Given that those heroes are "temporarily available," I think theres a weekly-or-something free champion rotation.

On January 15 2011 11:24 Asdkmoga wrote:
so is it free? when i click to make an account i dont see anywhere to go that isnt buying T_T... this looks like a fun/harder version of other moba's

When you're making your account, it will have the $30 package, the $90 package and then below that, it wont have a picture, but there will be this link that says "Go" or something. That's the free one.

Southlight

United States11767 Posts

January 15 2011 03:43 GMT

#290

My favorite is Psychopomp but I'm thinking of switching to Alch because Alch simply has stronger overall damage prevention... Psycho's monstrous at baiting the other team (and being able to switch bait every 11.5 seconds) but otherwise she feels relatively lackadaisical ;;

She's a great side-healer though if you run that sort of setup because her RMB hurts like hell and you can't stop her from focusing your healer... + she can keep pinging the healer away from the team with her Spacebar.

diggurd

Norway346 Posts

January 15 2011 08:36 GMT

#291

been playing this since beta. its really, really good. pure skills. needs a bigger player pool, download and tell your friends! gogo :D

DarQraven

Netherlands553 Posts

January 15 2011 12:17 GMT

#292

K, started to figure out Igniter a bit more, at least when it comes to surviving melee situations.
Read up a bit on playing that character and apparently he's all about the combos. Aren't too hard to do against non-ladder newbies, but I'm curious to see how it'll go when I hop back on ladder.

Still not sure how to do that with the healer chick (Sleep and Confusion bomb are nowhere near as potent as crowd control spells as Igniter's volcano, Living Flame and Seaing Displacement), but that's my goal for next week;)

KasPra

Estonia983 Posts

January 15 2011 13:00 GMT

#293

^ A newish player LF a team, or rather a group of people, to ladder with and practice.

I like this game a lot.

DarQraven

Netherlands553 Posts

January 15 2011 13:33 GMT

#294

Add me, DarQraven/DarQ (don't know which one to give you, account name or character name :/)

3772

Czech Republic434 Posts

January 15 2011 15:55 GMT

#295

Psycho can pressure people very well, and has solid damage if you can keep the Spirit Link debuff on them.
With Alch, basically you can't afford to make a mistake, such as missing the sleep or wasting the Barrier.
If you can avoid getting hit without using spells (dodging with WASD, and using the pillars and other map features) it helps a lot, dodging charges (mostly Glutton's Rush) is essential (you can sleep them after they miss it, and they are out of the fight for quite a long time, giving you some room to heal up your teammates or pressure someone).

NeonFlare

Finland1307 Posts

January 15 2011 16:05 GMT

#296

I should start playing this again, had tons of fun during beta, playing mainly Inhibitor (it's amazing when you manage to time everything right) with occasional Ravener when melee and Herald when healer, sometimes Astronomer.

Skills and stuff have probably changed quite a bit from then though. Used to play 2's with me as Inhibitor and friend as Assasin as he was pretty good at him and 3's with me as Ravener or Herald depending on rest of the team. Got to the common mid grades, 7 I think, with ease but stopped playing eventually when none of my friends were online.

Though most of custom games felt really easy after some team laddering, unless you got paired with absolutely horrible team and decent/good opponents.

ProgrammerarN

Sweden5 Posts

January 15 2011 18:11 GMT

#297

There will be a 3v3 Tournament hosted by BLGaming in about 50minutes.
Stream can be found here.

MidKnight

Lithuania884 Posts

January 15 2011 19:27 GMT

#298

On January 16 2011 03:11 ProgrammerarN wrote:
There will be a 3v3 Tournament hosted by BLGaming in about 50minutes.
Stream can be found here.

+1.
It's pretty intense.I guess it may be hard to get into if you haven't played the game, but it's exciting, tune in

watrill

19 Posts

January 16 2011 11:50 GMT

#299

For free registration go to https://register.funcom.com/signup/ctrl/register/bloodline/default and choose the free version
+ Show Spoiler [free registration image] +

OR

go to http://www.bloodlinechampions.com/f/playforfree

DrainX

Sweden3187 Posts

January 16 2011 12:19 GMT

#300

I love playing Glutton in random team matches

So nice when you manage to stick close to someone and remain at max buffs. Not uncommon that you end matches at around 12-14 Points/sec if your opponents are bad at avoiding you.