Jest Chillin
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When is this supposed to go live?
Might be live already? There's a pro player streaming himself opening chests right now.
Edit: No, I'm wrong. He must be on the Beta client.
When is this supposed to go live?
I'm decidedly not okay with losing the ability to just directly buy what I want in favour of having to buy premium currency that probably never adds up to exactly the price of the one thing I want. I get tired of that with Smite and other games. I always liked that I never had to deal with it in HotS...
Everything else sounds great though. I'm glad the game is finally getting announcer packs, and loot boxes are always good gacha fun. The smoothed leveling curve sounds wonderful too.
So should I log in and blow all of my currency buying heroes or does that still carry over?
You can still buy whatever you want.
So, since all your levels combine together into one flat account level, I guess it would be a good idea to just get as many characters as you can to at least level 5 before this goes live.
But it's not a direct transaction anymore. I have to buy a secondary currency, gems, probably in predetermined amounts, and then buy what I want. So technically I can still buy whatever I want, but in a scheme that leaves me out money/encourages more spending and requires a needless extra step in the process.
It's fucking archaic and stupid. I can't begin to understand why they'd switch to that instead of keeping the direct transaction system they have in place.
People are actually saying the opposite due to the retroactive crates capping at 70. You might actually be better off waiting for the patch and getting a bunch of quick crates from leveling at that point.
Someone with more knowledge of the situation/game in general can probably give you a better idea though.
No rewards for getting 30+ heroes to lvl 10?
Damn... this is really bad for some of usDepending on your account's total hero level, you can get up to 70 free boxes once it goes live. Unfortunately, in 2.0 every single level gets you a box...so if you're like me and level 600+, you're getting majorly hosed for leveling up all those heroes before the progression system went in.
But it's not a direct transaction anymore. I have to buy a secondary currency, gems, probably in predetermined amounts, and then buy what I want. So technically I can still buy whatever I want, but in a scheme that leaves me out money/encourages more spending and requires a needless extra step in the process.
It's fucking archaic and stupid. I can't begin to understand why they'd switch to that instead of keeping the direct transaction system they have in place.
Damn... this is really bad for some of us
Miss you btw bro. Miss the entire community, despite our small frustration towards each other at the start, I think we handled that pretty well
This is objectively correct.
That's easily Hearthstone.
So now we have loot boxes, gold, shards and gems? Seems a bit much.
I don't see how sprays can really work in an isometric game, and banners seem lame. And lol emoticons wow... Dota 2 ones only work because everyone has tons of friends on steam and uses steam chat, wtf is the point of hots ones.
Also are heroes still all different various prices?
I'll give it a try when it's out again maybe but I don't have that much hope.
With a name like 2.0 you'd think there'd be big gameplay changes or a new engine or something. I don't know a single game that as given friends more issues to play than the hots engine, no wonder it's a dead game. You'd think they'd prioritize that first. Have they fixed that dumb disconnect thing yet? Where you have to alt f4 and relaunch the game to get back in in any decent time if you DC?
Naw, Cata was better and a far less dead game.
The numbers don't lie.
No hearth is and was far far far more popular. It's not my type of game but it's an objective fact.
So, since all your levels combine together into one flat account level, I guess it would be a good idea to just get as many characters as you can to at least level 5 before this goes live.
Really feels like they just throw whatever they can at HoTS to make it stick considering the OW and WoW promo events they do. I installed the game for the genji skin and quickly uninstalled it.
This x1000PLAY THIS GAME GAF. This is the most underappreciated game I've ever played. I mean, it does pretty well, but the amount of creativity, content, support, and improvement this game has received is more than any other game I can think of in the history of video games, aside from perhaps WoW or another MMO. It really is incredible how much they've put into this game, and how amazingly creative its game design is. HotS really should be one of the most popular games in the world.
People are actually saying the opposite due to the retroactive crates capping at 70. You might actually be better off waiting for the patch and getting a bunch of quick crates from leveling at that point.
I could be wrong on this, we don't know many details yet, but apparently existing skin color variations are going to be turned into random crate drops. So it might actually make more sense to get characters to level 8 so you can unlock them first.
I guess having these skins unlocked (and mount colors?) is one of the reasons the 70 crates thing isn't as bad as it initially sounds? Looking forward to more explanations tomorrow.
LOOT CHEST TYPE REWARD FREQUENCY
Common Every Player Level that does not award a
Rare or Epic Loot Chest
Rare Every 5 Player Levels
Epic Every 25 Player Levels
Hero-Specific Every 10 Player Levels
ACCOUNT LEVEL REWARDS
Completed at least 1 Heroes match 5 Common Loot Chests
Every 10 Account Levels +1 Common Loot Chest (35 Maximum)
Every 25 Account Levels +1 Rare Loot Chest (20 Maximum)
Every 100 Account Levels +1 Epic Loot Chest (10 Maximum)
Additionally, because we've reduced the amount of XP needed to progress through later levels, those of you who already have lots of high-level Heroes will now level up—and unlock corresponding rewards—far more frequently than before.
So, since all your levels combine together into one flat account level, I guess it would be a good idea to just get as many characters as you can to at least level 5 before this goes live.
Really feels like they just throw whatever they can at HoTS to make it stick considering the OW and WoW promo events they do. I installed the game for the genji skin and quickly uninstalled it.
Just wanted to make it clear to anyone else who straggles in...do not do what the poster suggested above.
Save those heroes to level AFTER the 2.0 patch goes live in April.
Unless all you care about is combined level. Plenty of the beta players are saying they'd rather have a higher level than more free junk simply because of how people view levels. I'd imagine most of the people who are likely to post in this thread are more interested in free stuff, so what you said is still the best advice.
Unless all you care about is combined level. Plenty of the beta players are saying they'd rather have a higher level than more free junk simply because of how people view levels. I'd imagine most of the people who are likely to post in this thread are more interested in free stuff, so what you said is still the best advice.
Unexpected change w/ the gems- the most expensive $9.99 heroes are now $7.50.
Give it time. They *will* be special-edition lootbox-only season costumes. And eventually, there will be p2w options.
People who operate gambling businesses are not your friends. By selling lootboxes, Blizzard has already proven that they don't give two shits about making money off predatory practices targetting children and the mentally ill. They *will* bend the curve over time.
You're making a lot of assumptions there pally.
5) 2 hours a night, 4 nights a week is pretty fanatical.