#21 - Into the Nexus: “Title”
• Garrett • Kyle
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Intro: Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!
Ep.20 Corrections
Kerrigan’s talent was changed during an older patch.
The Tyrande builts are old, just resurfaced last week.
News
Hot Fix
Heroes:
User Interface:
Links
Store Changes
Chen Gold Cost Temporary
CM Spyrian: “Moving forward, all new heroes we release will initially cost 15,000 Gold. Once that hero has been available in the Shop for about two weeks, its price will be lowered to 10,000 Gold, though its real-money price will not change.”
Links
Death Knight Skin Removed
CM Spyrian: “we agreed with feedback we received from those who felt that Death Knight Arthas didn't offer enough value to players, so we opted to remove it from the game...
real-money purchases will be refunded with the next account wipe. Once that occurs, you'll be able to use any money you spent on Death Knight Arthas to help purchase something else you may have your eye on.”
Links
Chen Insight
John Hodgson : “Chen's design was a combination of chasing a specific fantasy "feel" and trying to explore new mechanical space. The fantasy behind Chen's trait was heavily inspired by Jackie Chan in Drunken Master, where Chan's character plays a scrappy martial arts student whose goofy fighting style is fueled by strong drink in the middle of a fight.
With Storm, Earth, Fire, we wanted to capture the concept of “chaotic fun” without being overly complicated or confusing to the Chen player. For a long while, we iterated on a multiple-control scheme where the player could control the three spirits individually. Playtesting consistently revealed that players felt it was too confusing to tackle a new control scheme and new ability sets in the short span of time after the heroic was activated. Players had been playing with one set of abilities for the first 10 minutes of the game, and suddenly had to re-learn new controls!”
Links
HOTS Logs
Tracks stats over games.
Their leader board is the current way of telling “whos pro”.
General Stats since the patch :
http://www.hotslogs.com/Default
Links
Patreon Mention: Patreon.com/ITN
Strategy
Sonya Discussion
http://www.heroesnexus.com/heroes/13-sonya
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/14277358646
Emails
Spazz Wesson
G'day ITN crew
just wanted to shoot you guys an email about chen, as he just dropped into the beta.
He seems to look nothing like chen in WoW or is it just me? i mean he is a pandaren but his face is just not right to me.
Rock on!
Spazz Wesson
Agent
Hello Nexians!
I have been watching a lot of heroes streams lately and noticed that, in comparison to other mobas... the turrets and core hit like a 3 week old de-clawed kitten waking up from a nap..(so not very hard).
I am very used to League where the turrets hit like trucks but in heroes it seems they tickle at best.
Thoughts? love the show and cant wait for access...
Agent
Outro
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Into the Nexus is a produced by Amove.tv and Declan H. 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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