Normally I don’t do rants but I really have to for this one after my last game that made me question my sanity and wanting to just want to alt + F4 after the brain explosion I had, also the title is bad, I have nothing on my mind when it comes to a name for a topic, anyways…
Heroes of the Storm has really became something, that I don’t think its even healthy for its own good ever since the death of HGC.
Yes, it wasn’t in a perfect state before it but I feel like its becoming worse with some of the multiple decisions they have taken in the past year which hurts the quality of matches in general. Before HGC, HotS player base wasn’t that poor quality (it was but not THAT type of THAT) in every single match, you had players actually confident enough to do risks even when it comes to Solo Q while players who play so poorly were a very uncommon sight for me in majority of cases, but of course Solo Q was never perfect because randoms were between the chance of “god” or “I stand still and do nothing” (or the “I play [none solo laner hero] and push top fort all day”), so what ends up is if you want the full none tilt induced experience you’d be going grouped to at least don’t get eaten alive by Solo Q.
Other than that, AI & Leavers, a love story, was a constant issue, I would go in details but since they have already opened a topic like yesterday that addressed all my points I was going to put here, I’ll pass.
Anyways to the point that broke the camels back for me was when I wanted to take a break from Storm League after constantly climbing the rankings, so I decided what could go wrong than just playing in a 2 grouped party in QM? The results as follows that would be my worst QM game that I had to experience, and the last was considerably years ago during 2018~, I have never seen such a huge hiccup in the matchmaking that made me just feel bad about everything, both me, my teammates that I don’t even want to see them in my queue again, the enemy team with zero considerable coordination that I would bet they have been seriously depressed out of a match like this for letting a Nova solo lanning against Murky instead of Lunara or Varian.
Game ended up with a murloc hard carrying 99% of the game only to be mowed down by incompetent teammates who couldn’t engage properly to a core push, e.g focus it down as the DPS should be doing, the same probably can be said on the other side, probably the one was struggling out of all the mess this match was probably Garrosh.
Could I do something better in this regard? Definitely and absolutely, I’m not immune to criticism, I’ve watched the Replay, I could have certainly done better in certain areas but I believe this doesn’t closes the case when it comes how much of a mess this match was to the point I got tilted (off screen) over high level players in the 3 digit department that can’t do basic things to the point I’m just holding 3 players on my back while the 4th actually responding and playing properly.
Replay file: Download Link
Can we actually get some sort of better ways to improve education as a whole when it comes to what is being provided in the game? Of course it won’t solve the problem entirely but it will make it less likely frequent especially in Solo Q or none 5-man groups.
As of now and still is, Solo Q is probably the worst experience possible to play the game, this includes Unranked and maybe Ranked (people have been very responsive to work like an actual team, especially platinum/diamond games as of now), by teaching the complete basics when it comes to mechanics you pretty much improve it on universal level all over the board, as of now, the tutorial doesn’t even provide the required info for the player other than how “Cursed Hollow” works and even the veteran type tutorial barely goes into details when it comes to each role, basics like stutter stepping, engaging, solo laning, etcetera.
Otherwise we can have an option to toggle between Forced QM compositions? Not everyone wants to wait 10 seconds only to change from Search a game to and then find me a game in 3 seconds.
I think there are many ways to do so that both enforce the idea of players actually committing more appropriately to their specific role instead of being so confused to the point they act like “What am I doing here?” type of feeling.
Sorry for this long big rant that feels like I’m rambling, but I just want to throw this out of my chest after the last night game, I ain’t quitting this game now, but I surely am taking a break, probably for a week.
tl;dr
- Game has really changed post HGC.
- Quality of matches are all time poor especially in Solo Q while groups only patch this up slowly and painfully.
- Add actual educational content to improve the player base in general like a tutorial on each role, basic tactics, solo laning, you name it.
- Tight up the MM rules.