I have tried new set for DH today. Too clunky to play , even with 1 generator. As strong as the wet paper. T16 and it has problems with survival. Nothing interesting in the set’s mechanics. Set skin is steam-punk oriented, but it uses strafe when it can be spike trap/caltrops set (aka trapper)…
The state of the game looks really disappointing , especially when you consider how good and fluid combat is. Please, Blizzard. Release the kraken, I mean, release the dev kit and made full offline mode that wont be compatible with online. Let the modding community flourish, maybe you will get something from this too. Look what people did with Median XL mod for example.
Please, consider this as a suggestion of a fellow member of the community.
for sure. modders can easily save it and finally bring usable content out. only for what? the game is so bad and the reputation of the company is deep in the basement.
and devs manage to release bad sets out after a few years. (Work for such a set is less than 4-8 hours). and for modders they have to ADAPT and publish tools for further development. but when i look at what they’ve been doing in the last 7-8 years, i don’t think they can even do THIS till d4 release.
However, if there would be a mod, that comes close to quality of D2, we have something to do until D4 is out. Plus, they can literally plagiarize the ideas and use them in D4 - D3 will live on due to this (private servers possibility) , they will have free ideas/code/feedback for what we , as a community, want. Imo, worth it, isnt it?
the problem is, modders bring a lot more content than there will be in d4. I’m not exaggerating here. and players know better what others want. so the game will be much more interesting than now. and d3 has useful graphics. with mod extensions you can easily play it for more than 5 years. especially because new content is actually coming.
all this means that an empty flop like d4 is not bought. what for?
Clearly not the case.
More like the future is here and it is 1% online
Blizzard failed hard at securing the rights to DOTA. That is on themselves.
But in the end, they are not worse off than if DOTA had never existed. Contrary, DOTA likely made them sell more WC3 copies.
I’m perfectly fine with game publishers throwing in more clear restrictions into the EULAs on rights for mods made in their games.
Like Shadout mentioned, DotA if anything helped blizzard even if they didn’t get the rights to it.
On top of that the failure of Heroes of the Storm was not that it wasn’t called DotA. It’s that it’s just not a good game. It being called DotA wouldn’t have saved it.
Blizzard may think that the future is online but the overall narrative around here that it is that way for gaming in general is blatantly false.
Most of the games I’ll be getting this year include offline modes.
offline games must create a credible world. however, their developers have no idea about it.
do you remember thief 2 for example? absolutely blistering atmosphere. mixed feelings behind every door. or wow in the first months was also something unique. there they gave a lot.
but now they really only bring senseless garbage. You can see that in the stupid dialogues and quests for children. the music doesn’t take away either and is switched off immediately.
I think Minecraft, Skyrim, Conan Exiles, Fallout 4, and a huge slew of other games beg to differ…
And that’s not even getting into how some older games still see mods being made, even today. DOOM, Quake, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight and many many more…
The era of modding is as strong as ever.
