#5 - Into the Nexus: “Title”
• Garrett • Dills • Kyle
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Intro: Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!
News
No Beta Before Summer
Via a discussion on the French Heroes forums:
"The only thing we've announced is that it WON'T BE BEFORE summer, so it's at minimum summer. We haven't announced a date at all; it could be a long time after summer.. If you want more technical details on alpha, do not hesitate to visit our dedicated section.
With regard to the obligation to have another Blizzard game, this is not the case. You can register even if you have no other game on your Battle.net account."
Google Translated.
Links
Potential Cursed Hollow Balance Change
We are experimenting with a change to the way Cursed Hollow's curse works so it doesn't reduce the HP of forts by half. Internally, we think it's addressing the issue without going overboard as far as changes we could do go, so it might/probably will make our next patch.
Links
Discussion Topic : Hostility in MOBAS
Heroes game director, Dustin Browder talks with Eurogamer:
"I've joked with the team about removing team chat altogether - that was a less than popular idea! But we will keep attacking this problem until it's gone, or as gone as we can get it."
What Browder thinks needs the most work at the moment:
“a lot of players are feeling frustrated that they can't shine, they want to be a superstar. So there's a bunch of systems that we want to get into the game as soon as possible to see if they work. We've got some ideas towards that direction. We want to get them in and show players who's the best player in their game”
Just posted today:
Going forward we will be banning Heroes game accounts for players who have been found to be repeatedly AFKing, leaving games, or determined to be toxic in Heroes of the Storm, and as we do with all Blizzard games, we will continue to monitor the game and take action as needed.
http://www.heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/news/14167549
Links
Random Info
Useful Hot-Keys
http://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/24r4sv/useful_hotkeys/
Merc Kills XP
Hero Kills XP
Strategy
Dragon Shire General Discussion
http://heroesofthestorm.gamepedia.com/Dragon_Shire
Hero Spotlight: Illidan
Do you think they need to nerf him more? how do you respond to his meta ult? -Dday
http://www.heroesnexus.com/heroes/10-illidan
Emails
Pertti
You talked about ways to make Deathwing work in the game. They could have him be in human form most of the time, and give the Hyperion treatment to his ultimate dragon form, so you'd only see his shadow and the fiery destruction below while he's transformed. That would solve the problem of having him block everyone's view, and they could make him as big as they wanted to. His dragon form could still be controllable and you'd get a different set of abilities for the duration. Targeting might be problematic, but he could just be invulnerable as a dragon if the duration and the cooldown was set well.
Shawn
I somehow got into the alpha, however, none of my friends have gotten into it. Do you have any ideas on how to find people to play with? Keep in mind that I haven't actually played the game yet however I am a League of Legends player so I am not a total moba newb. I am at work so I don't have access to my Btag. I also play a lot of hearthstone.
Shane
Merc camps! When is it a good time to go for them? What ones are more important? Are they better on certain maps?
I have found that in all the really even games I've played the winners ended up being whomever grabbed the most merc camps. They clearly are very important, I just never know when is a good time to push for one.
Outro
iTunes Thanks
Into the Nexus is a production of Amove.tv. You can see more about this and all the other A-move shows at Amove.tv. You can also email the show at ITNcast@gmail.com or continue the conversation over at forum.Amove.tv.
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Thanks to Brian Griffith, the musician responsible for our intro music. He can be found at briangriffithmusic.com or @briangriffith on twitter.
NOMOONart.com for Garrett’s stream designs.
Dill’s where else can everyone find you?
The Instance - The World of Warcraft podcast so you don’t have to
TortureCast - A podcast by and for fans of the San Francisco Giants
MGA MedioCast - A podcast about the Mediocre Golf Association
And Kyle where can you be found?
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