Kerrigan’s old talent to leap to allies. When timed right you could follow a Falstad or Illidan across the map for insta ganks.
Raynor’s old Hyperion CD build. A Card to Play with Puttin on a Clinic was good fun when there was a TLV around and I’d be popping Hyperion 2-3 times during core pushes. It’s probably more consistent these days but back then I was literally the only person I ever saw using it so I felt cool.
My favorite strat was Reinforce Structure on Tassadar
Couldn’t very well kill the golem fast on your own but it damn well couldn’t kill your towers either.
Mines was a my favorite map with all the confusion and whacky chases around the entrances.
I have a folder with all the backdrops for those.
They really did give off a good feeling that made you interested in the hero. Feels a little lacking when they just drop them into the roster and put them on the Featured page.
I did enjoy it sometimes but 99% of it was drop pot and run unless you knew you could win the fight if you stayed. Was extremely annoying to deal with.
Vehicle objectives are cool but there’s too many answers to them. They become an easy stacking target for one, Tychus can shred DK like no one’s business, somewhat the same for Protector but it presents some threats to people that just want to walk up and attack it, DK is dead in the water if charge is on cd.
She was fairly popular before strict buffs the rework. IIRC she had the highest pick/ban rate amongst tanks if only by a slight margin. Maybe second or third highest I already forget.
I loved and hated how that update instantly removed half the split pushs strats from the game.
Many other players.
Sure, I miss a few maps and old hero builds, dearly even.
But what I wish to experience is consistent match quality, teammate and opponent skill.
If we just talk about the game then:
Old GOT
Haunted mines (both old and new)
Old Tassadar
Brawls, all of them
Events always having a lot of content and challenges to have fun with
Animated and interactive hero screens (I still remember the duck hunt Easter egg)
Lip-syncing on new heroes Jaina sprint
If we talk about things outside the game then it’s definitely hero trailers, they were always so good…
Yeah, and not only that, you could REALLY force the enemy to respond a lane and give stuff on the map if you knew how to control minions waves and make a big one. Sure it will deal damage nowadays but not as much.
There were some cheese strats back then like Chen going to a lane and just soaking shots with his shield trait, sure the system had some things to improve, but it was a very unique mechanic and I really liked that.
Zarya getting free shield charge and depleting shots, Varian parrying a volley, anyone with summons
Sylv tower steals are still a thing but I don’t see it happen much these days.
Well it’s more like I have a HotS folder with them in it.
I can organize one out then learn how Mega works to share the link, might be missing one or two.
I’m like 70% sure it’s in the game files if you know how to work those.
Hmmmmmmmmmm looks like I’m missing more than I thought. Deckard’s is one of them, sorry.
Either I only saved the ones I found interesting at the time or it just wasn’t shared then.
I’m working on pulling it up now
Delving through internet past to see how the last guy pulled them out of the files
A lot more difficult that I thought it’d be.
Just going through the files manually isn’t an option until I get some know how
I’ve found the old thread but there’s no mention of how to get started on the file unpackaging, merely that he found then and converted the files from dds to png
Also around the time of the resistance event they stopped having subfiles for the backgrounds and merged them into one, so getting the backgrounds for Orphea and Imperius without them in it wasn’t in the cards.
I miss the lost artistic vision. It was relatively late in the death spiral that the devs stopped pushing Nexus lore. Until then it felt they were still trying to go places and it kinda makes me sad thinking about all the stuff we didn’t get because the game didn’t do well enough financially.
