There’s been two updates to the PTR since it started, one happened in the past few hours, and one happened a couple of days ago. Starting with undocumented fixes, then changes in the one a couple of days ago, and then the most recent patch:
Undocumented:
Fixed an issue causing Diablo’s Attacks and Rexxar’s Melee Attacks to not consume charge-based Evasion effects(Upstage on Qhira, Dodge on Genji). This was an issue introduced last patch, where those effects were reworked
Fixed an issue causing Tyrael’s Law and Order to not apply its damage bonus
Updating several tooltips to remove whitespace and improve consistency, as an example, rooted vs Rooted, and 6 Seconds vs 6 seconds for the cooldown display in tooltips
September 28 Patch:
Fixed an issue with Earth Ally’s new duration display
Fixed an issue causing Raynor’s Banshee to not be able to be pulled by Stitches’ Hook
Fixed an issue causing Tassadar’s Arc Discharge to activate while on cooldown, and activate when not on cooldown(yes, there was two ways this could happen)
Fixed an issue causing Gall’s Will of Gall to grant no benefit
Fixed an issue causing Rehgar’s Lunge FX to be visible in the fog of war
Fixed an issue causing Kel’Thuzad’s Death and Decay channel to be visible in the fog of war
I had a good rating on reddit for suggesting Stitches in ASAM.
We won’t have Pull Party back, but at least give us the hook madness.
There’re other heroes that would fit nicely, at least better than freaking Stg. Hammer.
I guess the gimmick is to still try to keep it somewhat novel, though I think if it’s ‘too rare’ then people will still leave regardless of the matchup so they don’t have to bother at all.
All hammer and leoric is a ‘unique’ gimmic for aram, so they may as well dump jaina, syvl, zeebo, zag, fenix and rag in favor of asam only being banned hero picks: 2 cho’gal and an abathur mirror
Source: Trust me bro. No in all seriously if you gonna claim that then atleast show some data that backs your claim up. Just because you are always leaving your games and forcing everyone els to do the same then it does not mean those who like it is in the minority.
Maybe you dont know the domino effect your behavior is causing to actually know anything you talk about. Once you leave the game or tell others to do the same then those who actually want to play it now have to play 2 vs 5 or get throwed in leaver que becasue of you.
You think its fair to punish other players who want to play it just becasue you dont want to ? Why should other people being forced to play outnumbered for 15 min just becasue you cant accept how ARAM is now ?
You are playing a team game. Then act like it or stick to AI games.
Without access to their internal statistics, I’m just guessing mirrors with those heroes had such a high abandon/AFK rate (and thus leading to even more people getting pissed off and leaving HotS) they just disabled them altogether from the 5v5 mirror.
What I don’t understand is why they added Hammer in it at the expense of all those normal heroes listed. How on Earth is fighting 5 long range artillery heroes more fun than a full Artanis or Sonya battle?
I still think they’re giving too much thought to something which a a lot of players fundamentally dislike. Were I really interested in this I wouldn’t pay much attention to cherry picking heroes, excluding talents or the half hour long circus I am about to queue for. When one team wins, they’ve proven that they understand the hero mechanics much better.
It’s like when I’m queueing for QM, I expect that I will be the only Kael in the game and mirror games rob me of that experience by forcing me to play something I do not wish for.
All the feedback they need can be summed by the star rating system after a mirror match and somehow I can’t imagine that is anywhere close to 2/5, if not for gameplay reasons then for toxicity and players abandoning the game. From personal experience, not even third of these maps reach score screen without some kind of an incident or with 10 fully active players.
By now it is obvious to everyone that all this votes are going directly into the garbage bin. Anyone reasonable with half a brain that actually cares for the game would have turned the page on this circus or at least have made it an opt-in.
I tend to agree. Many of the heroes I enjoyed playing as, ASAM, have been removed. Adding Sgt. Hammer back, and removing a hero like Hogger doesn’t make sense to me, if these changes are to make the mode more fun or less frustrating.
Personal preference, I’d take an all Hogger, all Butcher match any day, over an all Sgt. Hammer.
Well, at least I know where to point the finger of blame in this matter!
