My experience with games that are past their peak is the complete opposite, so it’s not just this one.
It’s a bit backwards because surely games with lower playerbases would benefit from new players.
However due to the lower player numbers and rampant smurf accounts, new players will be matched up with more experienced a lot sooner than they should.
I wouldn’t mind queueing up for a few games with you or giving you advice to help you improve.
The toxicity is a part of the game unfortunately and we all encounter it. Try not to take it personally (they will be like it with everyone) and just ignore or mute players that are annoying you.
I noticed an increase in smurf accounts after they added the “Mega Hero Bundles”, back to the shop. While adding the bundles back was a good thing for truly new players, it empowers smurfs who only need to get to level 25 and receive the free gems needed to increase their roster by 20 heroes.
This change makes it far less punishing for troll players to just keep making new accounts after they get banned.
But in all seriousness, ARAM can get pretty toxic since there’s no matchmaker so you can get the low rank mentality going on down there. I think QM is best if you’re relatively good because you’ll climb out of the region where trolls and afk players reside.
AI is also good because there’s less at stake. I don’t play AI but I do hear there are afks there for some reason but stakes are low so tensions should be lower.
Some are just people with silver spoons in their mouths while others are total mysteries. I have had, and I quote, one say “It is too early in the day for Elite A.I” to the actively loiter in the hall. It was only two Elite A.I bots to.
Depending on the A.I difficulty it is possible to pull off a win with 3-4 muppets on your team againts bots if you are playing a hero that can do everything decently. It takes a ridiculous amount of effort to lose a vs A.I game even on Elite setting.
Years ago, when I tried AI, I noticed that they eat attacks until they get to a certain health left and then run away. It was easy to farm those AA quests on them.
Not sure how it is now, I don’t find AI appealing enough to delve into it.
Omg yes matchmaker gets the big troll face on as it puts me and my buddy against that 5 man xD and half the time the 5 man has someone(s) from my friend’s list in it!
Oof!
You’re point of view makes more sense in what a while would mean, I suppose. A weekend of playing could get you to 50 no prob. That’s even playing against AI.
The problem is people should do better, or at least try. If we’re gonna talk about how things were in the past, I’m old enough to remember when trash talk in an online game was rare, and that sort of thing got you ostracized; you’d never be able to do group content again if you were constantly toxic. Of course this was before the advent of matchmaking in everything, but my point stands.
It wasn’t like this before. People knew better. And, it’s a damn shame that it often feels like it’s older gamers; who should know better; being the source of a lot of the toxicity. You can always tell when it’s a bitter, nasty old head and not just some punkass teenager.
HOTS is an extremely competitive game. Most players are out for blood and bringing their A-Game to each and every match. Now let’s take a step back for a second…
…instead of being mad at them: Imagine how upset YOU would be, if you were working on a project with a lot of dedication that was very important to you. Only for the boss to hire some goof off the street, to work on it with you, that didn’t really give a crap. Imagine how annoyed and upset you’d be to work with this idiot the boss hired. That’s EXACTLY how these dedicated HOTS players feel when they get matched with somebody who BARELY PLAYES THE $%&#ing game. So maybe now you might be able to relate a bit to how they feel.
The point is, HOTS may not be for you. It’s a very competitive game and long-time player’s can just “sense” when one of their team-mates doesn’t really care about the match. And until you step your game up and get dedicated like them, you’re going to continue to naturally rub others the wrong way like this. It’s just how it goes.
I mean sure I want to win and get competitive but with I doubt the majority of hots players are preparing to join the halls of valhalla every match… except ARAM it seems.
I can count on one hand how many ARAM games i’ve played on one hand however my opinion is that as a side game that I can’t take seriously.
However majority of the rage threads on here seem to be from ARAM players for some reason and they seem very passionate (angry). Logically it seems bizarre but maybe storm leagues a touch more chill and try that instead of ARAM.
You’re not wrong. Remember, too, that new accounts come with a free boost or stim or whatever it’s called now. As you said, a smurf can just level up heroes to level 2, very quickly in vs AI. As they receive enough free gems to buy a hero mega bundle at level 25, this increases their roster by another 20 heroes, making it even faster to level to 50.
The whole level 50 thing is only relevant if these smurfs want to play ranked, all other game modes have no such level restrictions. If the smurf’s intention is to simply troll, many don’t even bother doing so in ranked, (at least from my observations) a good deal of these troll accounts go for the instant gratification of trolling QM or ARAM, probably because the queue times are far lower than ranked.
Aram dont even count that hate from it. You can play from alfa and if your rng give you heroes wich you never play it will be bad game. People wich take Aram serious are so dumb is better automatic mute. Just ignore/mute chat in QM, Unranked, Arams. If you choise go SL there is good have chat up but also you can keep it ignore/mute.