I thought they had removed farsight with the last rework, whoops.
Scouting drone is worth it vs any kind of gank hero on Malf, I wouldn't really take any other talent than Cleanse on 7 as Rehgar. Being able to remove CC is too good to pass on that hero.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

October 13 2017 01:05 GMT

#862

I know that when an ally leaves the game or drops, I get alerted and his gamertag is replaced with the name of the hero he's playing... but if one of my opponents leaves the game or drops, am I alerted as well? Does the opponent's gamertag get replaced with the hero name too? Or is this information completely hidden, to try and make things less advantageous for the team who still has 5 players?

Aiobhill

Germany283 Posts

October 13 2017 05:41 GMT

#863

You don't get informed, but the tag changes to the hero name IIRC.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

November 29 2017 17:38 GMT

#864

Why does Junkrat frequently say "Rakanishu", when that's the name of a Diablo 2 enemy? Wrong game, etc.

Garbels

Austria653 Posts

November 29 2017 17:51 GMT

#865

From his Fallen skin.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

November 29 2017 19:02 GMT

#866

Ah okay, thanks

DongFeast420

United States20 Posts

December 04 2017 21:10 GMT

#867

There used to be a glitch/technique where if you were playing Genji (or any other character with a dash), you could dash out of spawn and instantly remount if you timed it correctly. I haven't been able to do it recently, has it been patched?

Garbels

Austria653 Posts

December 04 2017 22:07 GMT

#868

Zera is still possible but it seems harder.
No luck with Genji in try mode.
I never use it in game so I didn't notice. Couldn't find anything in the patchnotes.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

February 12 2018 01:30 GMT

#869

Random interesting thing I found: It's no secret that the AI is really, really bad in HotS- from suiciding to *not* following you when you specifically ping them, but I found out that if you can stretch the game long enough on Towers of Doom (to around level 23+), the enemies get stuck in a loop of killing forts and no longer activate altars, meaning that if you cycle around and kill the forts too, the game can be prolonged for a very, very long time. I used this realization to see if level 30 really was the maximum level- and it is- but you can still get a ton of experience (I ended up with half a million exp).

+ Show Spoiler +

Harris1st

Germany6983 Posts

February 12 2018 11:43 GMT

#870

dunno

This is a 50min game, And you had stimpack right? Not worth imho

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

February 12 2018 12:12 GMT

#871

Oh, I didn't do it for the experience gain; I did it just to confirm the level cap

The exp gain was a nice bonus though.

Harris1st

Germany6983 Posts

February 15 2018 09:50 GMT

#872

I came back to heroes after a 4 month break.

Played some pretty good games in the afternoon and some pretty shitty games in the evening.
Is this a general rule now? Evening/night games are just clownfiestas? YOLO draft, toxic, ...

Anyone else having this impression?

EDIT: Playing on EU

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

February 23 2018 10:08 GMT

#873

I'm probably misremembering something, but wasn't there a time when catapults in lanes were triggered by only killing a keep, not fort + keep? Yesterday, I killed a keep in a lane before killing the fort, and for some reason I had the expectation that catapults would spawn in that lane to apply earlier pressure, but no catapults spawned until after I killed the fort as well.

Aiobhill

Germany283 Posts

February 23 2018 14:38 GMT

#874

No, you remember correctly. Dunno, when exactly it was changed; my best guess is either when they revamped or when they removed Hanamura.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44924 Posts

February 23 2018 14:59 GMT

#875

Okay thanks!

Garbels

Austria653 Posts

February 23 2018 15:17 GMT

#876

Hmm, I am somewhat sure it was allways(since release) like this.

Harris1st

Germany6983 Posts

February 24 2018 11:06 GMT

#877

On February 23 2018 19:08 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I'm probably misremembering something, but wasn't there a time when catapults in lanes were triggered by only killing a keep, not fort + keep? Yesterday, I killed a keep in a lane before killing the fort, and for some reason I had the expectation that catapults would spawn in that lane to apply earlier pressure, but no catapults spawned until after I killed the fort as well.

This has been the case for a long time. I think it was changed somewhere around release or shortly after

Aiobhill

Germany283 Posts

March 24 2018 22:43 GMT

#878

BoE, enemy team consists of double warrior, Stukov, Hammer, Gul'dan. They banned Alex and Rehgar. We had Mura, Artanis, Hanzo and a mage, Jaina I think. Deciding between Kara and Malf, I take Malf last pick and we get slaughtered. My healing sucked and people died left and right to Hammer.

What would have been the best support choice? I don't think Auriel, BW, Lucio vs Hammer or Uther vs Gul'dan are viable, I don't play Ana, so among Monk, Malf, Morales, LiLi?

Harris1st

Germany6983 Posts

March 27 2018 17:36 GMT

#879

On March 25 2018 07:43 Aiobhill wrote:
BoE, enemy team consists of double warrior, Stukov, Hammer, Gul'dan. They banned Alex and Rehgar. We had Mura, Artanis, Hanzo and a mage, Jaina I think. Deciding between Kara and Malf, I take Malf last pick and we get slaughtered. My healing sucked and people died left and right to Hammer.

What would have been the best support choice? I don't think Auriel, BW, Lucio vs Hammer or Uther vs Gul'dan are viable, I don't play Ana, so among Monk, Malf, Morales, LiLi?

Maybe Lili for blinds on hammer? Can't really say. Would need to watch replay

zlefin

United States7689 Posts

June 20 2018 16:58 GMT

#880

I'm trying to figure out exactly how much damage buildings are supposed to do in each circumstance, and the numbers aren't adding up; so I'm missing something and I'm not sure what.
looking at damage in game; it looks like heroes and the regular spawn units (i.e. the normal little guys that go down the lines) are both taking full damage from them. while gargantuans and aba's monstrosity seem to take 1/4 of that amount of damage.
so i'm missing some detail that explains that extra halving of the damage. what is it?