#83 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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Small Patch
A small patch containing card backs and some optimizations went live this week.
Both the Ninja card back for monthly ranked play and the datamined Heroes of the Storm card back are now in the game, officially.
Also mentioned was "adding support for 64bit iOS devices." This means if you have an iPad Air 1 or better, or an iPhone 5s or better, you should notice a severe increase in the quality of Hearthstone. It is much snappier now. TouchArcade.com had a story up about the iOS update as well.
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HTC Invitational
This weekend saw the invite-only, HTC Invitational hosted online. 16 players competed for a $5,000 prize pool, with TidesOfTime losing out to Forsen in the finals. Forsen took home $2,500.
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Strategy
Midrange Hunter
http://www.hearthhead.com/deck=110814/midrange-hunter
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MysteryMeow
Hello gentlemen and wonderful lady. I was listening to your podcast and heard about the tempo mage deck. Making a copy of it and going into a game, against a lock, I had an awesome moment. So board state, he has a bunch of 1-1 imps and mine has a sorcerer's apprentice. He uses the imps on face. Score 24-6. My turn I unstable portal and get a chormaggus. thus playing it on my turn, along with another sorcerer's apprentice. He then goes face and drops me to 1 health, and begins to Bm at me. Again my turn, I draw fireball ! so with the fireball in my hand I already had plus the 2 I just drew, I play all 3 thanks to the two apprentice's, and swing for face with the chromaggus for a total of 24 damage! Come from behind victory like a boss.
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Yuukisensei
Hello!
I wanted to mention that the Nvidia hearthstone Pro/Am tournament is going to be happening on Twitch May 30 and 31st! https://esports.geforce.com/event/hearthstone-25k/standings/26/52/68/
I am a long time listener who is going to be in the playoffs as one of the 16 amateur players competing! I'd love to have support and well wishes from all of the various irate poultry who make up our wonderful community. So please send your well wishes and good vibes my way. I'm really trying hard to take first place and have been so psyched to get this far!
Thanks for the amazing show and entertainment,
Yuukisensei
Scot
Heh, Greetings!
I’m curious if you all would find a new “Practice” mode in Headstone useful.
I’d propose calling this mode “Science! “ mode. 8-)
Science! mode would be a sandbox where you can set all parameters to test card interactions.
You could control the type of opponent, how many & what cards were in play, in each hand, stack the decks, how much mana, adjust damage or buffs on critters, etc.
This way you could easily test what Dills mentioned when you Faceless Manipulator a Druid of the Fang, Bounce the DotF back to your hand and see that you’ll get whatever it turned into (4/4 or 7/7) back to your hand instead of the original choice card.
Or having multiple Grim Patrons out at varying health, have something that does 1 damage to all critters go off and find out then that critters taking fatal damage do not get out of the way to allow new Grim Patrons on the board to take their place - Only the open spots that were there before the AoE went off will be filled.
I’d find this faster and more flexible than trying to test playing with a friend, or in practice or casual mode.
Seems like this would be something team 5 already has, but that it’s just available to them.
(Like this podcast needs more content for Blizz to hear "yeah - put that in the game!")
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Caleb
This is a bit of a story, but it all is important to understand an issue I think we as a community need to address (no pun intended).
On May the 14th, around 1:00am Reynad accidentally showed his address on stream. For those of you who don't know what happened Reynad was discussing on how he was possibly scammed by someone who he paid several hundred dollars to build a custom guitar for him. To illustrate he showed an e-mail where he was sent pictures of the guitar. Inadvertently when he showed this e-mail on stream it also contained his house address. Over 16,000 people were watching the stream at the time. Reynad immediately turned off the stream and said he's going to the police station because as Reynad said, "There's a 9000% chance I get swatted."
Right after this happened people began posting his address in Reynad's chat, and Kripparrian's chat. The moderators of both chats took proper steps to help slow down the spread of his address.
People immediately, as expected, were posting on the Hearthstone Reddit talking about the event. Here's where I believe something happened that we need to have a dialog about. The moderators of the Reddit removed all the threads that discussed the event. Its not that they just removed the specific posts that had his address listed in them, but removed every thread about the event period. This is the worst kind of censorship, censoring the fact that an event even happened. I don't think that was right.
Don't get me wrong deleting posts that had the address listed is understandable, but I don't think there is anything wrong with people knowing that it happened, and I think it was wrong of them to keep this event from the community.
What do you guys think? Is it wrong to let the community know this event happened? Is it wrong to censor this information?
BTW, Reynad later tweeted, "Won't get swatted, police were understanding. Still dangerous though."
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