Korean server had those rainbow games since 2020, although it took 30+ mins to find a rainbow game. Some players were initially happy to find a storm league game. But as master+ players get split into multiple rainbow lobbies and wintrading bronze-gold accounts get into basically every single high level games, storm league just died in a couple months with somewhat competitive games only happening in public in-houses hosted by Hide. Now with even those custom lobbies gone, there's only bronze-silver queues with everyone playing on smurfs
RUclips algo just send me here and I am happy about the fact to see creators still playing the game. Will always love the game and I am glad to see that people actually still play. :)
Hey, nice to hear! Blizzard has done some balance patches in 2024, so theres at least some people looking at hots every couple of months, game is obv still in maintenance mode, so you cant expect new content - but outside of that, the game is still very much playable and lots of fun =)
Finally I can get into Hasu games from Paper league HandsUp! Honestly if the game had enough players this would not be needed. I know the Master/GMs don't like this change. In my opinion it could be good if people would stick with the match regardless of someone not playing perfectly. This would be a great learning opportunity to see the game live from the pros and feel the difference when someone who knows what they're doing is calling the plays. I can notice a difference between a match from the nations clash and a Hasi SL clown fiestas just by watching. I once faced a GM player in ARAM and got blown away by the mechanics in a casual game. So people would be well off by learning and playing well with others. As we know we don't live in a perfect world, and I've seen so many people in ARAM who just ruin a match by running it down or staying in base with 0 0 0 on damage, kills, heals, after someone is afk at the start for 30s. Even AFKing after someone calls them a bad word. The "AFK just because my feelings got hurt" players don't understand that they themselves are ruining the match more than the "offending other player" as it's a shitty move to AFK when you can just mute the chat and pings from the other "bad player" and continue with other 3 who do want to play. This game is the best to me because it so heavily emphasises Team play, and the best games are when the team overcomes the challenge together. P.S. is M$ bringing us changes in preparation for HGC 2025 as has been foretold hasuHGC :D Edit 1: For the Raynor Banshee change, I believe it means that Banshee will not be deployed, after it's killed, if it happens when Raynor is affected by Stitches Hook. Edit 2: Expanded search is working after 5 minutes on QM and ARAM. I guess they aligned it on Ranked as well. Edit 3: the gm/bronze combo rant.
I am just happy we're getting regular updates. If it is a big issue, I actually have some confidence it will be fixed in the span of weeks or maybe a few months, as opposed to a year ago when I had very low confidence in any future changes.
Haha, Hasu is so used to playing in high rank games he can't even tell the difference between gold and bronze colors. I know all too well, FeelsBadMan.
Hey. Regarding the matchmaking stuff, I don't think it's entirely a new thing. I have a screenshot from April where 3plat2gold were matched against 4 bronze1lowplat when I climbed to master on my smurfaccount. The enemy were not smurves, they were deleted in 8 minutes or so.
the bronze lobbies are responsible for 30% of my winrate, where one guy is mad before the game even started and decides to throw the game. Or the match I had earlier where a plat player was mad he had lost his way to silver 5 and decided that because a teammate wanted to play butcher on braxis holdout, he banned butcher, the butcher picked nova, and he picked murky and completely ignored camps and the top lane. He of course blammed his lose sreak on bad lobbies even though we almost won that match and would have if he had played better than a beginner bot. the less I can have of these guys the better. Now I'm just hoping they'll fix quick plays dreadful matchmaking. 1 healer and 4 tanks is not fair to have vs a normal team with a tychus (I've somehow had this match in solo queue)
NAE here, had a match earlier where we had players ranging from B4 to D1. Current game? Enemy has 3x B1 smurfs, a D5, and a D3. Our team is more balanced in the Plats and golds. Those queue fiestas have been very rare. Mostly, it has been fast queue times with balanced teams.
Im in bronze and defintly getting more wins then before, i think there were a lot of bots that played instead of real ppl and it caused a lot of losing. Bronze silver and gold should be matched togther, gold plat and master togther, and masters and GM's togther
at low ranks you are so used to getting stomped does it matter if its a master player or a gold player. i feel like at least it softens the blow if you lose to a gm player. plus the match making seems to adjust the points. i stopped playing cause i couldnt find games on my server. so if this helps i would consider playing again
Das sollte nicht passen. Wir hatten das damals noch in der Beta als es HL und TL noch gab. Teamligaspiel nach 10 Minuten garantiert war die ersten zwei Mal super. Wenn man aber immer nur stomped oder gestomped wird, macht es keinen Spaß.
Solang beide teams master und bronze spieler haben ist es ja einigermaßen ausgeglichen und denk ich ok so als Notlösung. Aber wenn ein team nur masters hat und das andere nur bronzies dann isses natürlich fucked up und sollte nicht sein. Ansonsten hats halt Vor und Nachteile. Schwächere Spieler können jetz von besseren Spielern aus höheren Ligen was lernen. Spieler aus höheren Ligen können sich zwar nach unten hin nichts abschauen aber dafür kriegen sie wenigstens öfter mal nen game.
Ja, ich glaub wenn die Bronze Spieler als 5man stack unterwegs sind, kanns passieren, dass die gegner auch Master usw bekommen - dann ists natürlich super unfair.
Happy patch day 🎉
HOTS best MOBA
Totaly agree everybody should buy Jenitor skin to show him our love for his work for us!
LETS GO!
Korean server had those rainbow games since 2020, although it took 30+ mins to find a rainbow game. Some players were initially happy to find a storm league game. But as master+ players get split into multiple rainbow lobbies and wintrading bronze-gold accounts get into basically every single high level games, storm league just died in a couple months with somewhat competitive games only happening in public in-houses hosted by Hide. Now with even those custom lobbies gone, there's only bronze-silver queues with everyone playing on smurfs
RUclips algo just send me here and I am happy about the fact to see creators still playing the game. Will always love the game and I am glad to see that people actually still play. :)
Hey,
nice to hear!
Blizzard has done some balance patches in 2024, so theres at least some people looking at hots every couple of months, game is obv still in maintenance mode, so you cant expect new content - but outside of that, the game is still very much playable and lots of fun =)
As a bronze player, I'm scared
Finally I can get into Hasu games from Paper league HandsUp!
Honestly if the game had enough players this would not be needed. I know the Master/GMs don't like this change.
In my opinion it could be good if people would stick with the match regardless of someone not playing perfectly. This would be a great learning opportunity to see the game live from the pros and feel the difference when someone who knows what they're doing is calling the plays. I can notice a difference between a match from the nations clash and a Hasi SL clown fiestas just by watching. I once faced a GM player in ARAM and got blown away by the mechanics in a casual game. So people would be well off by learning and playing well with others.
As we know we don't live in a perfect world, and I've seen so many people in ARAM who just ruin a match by running it down or staying in base with 0 0 0 on damage, kills, heals, after someone is afk at the start for 30s. Even AFKing after someone calls them a bad word. The "AFK just because my feelings got hurt" players don't understand that they themselves are ruining the match more than the "offending other player" as it's a shitty move to AFK when you can just mute the chat and pings from the other "bad player" and continue with other 3 who do want to play.
This game is the best to me because it so heavily emphasises Team play, and the best games are when the team overcomes the challenge together.
P.S. is M$ bringing us changes in preparation for HGC 2025 as has been foretold hasuHGC :D
Edit 1: For the Raynor Banshee change, I believe it means that Banshee will not be deployed, after it's killed, if it happens when Raynor is affected by Stitches Hook.
Edit 2: Expanded search is working after 5 minutes on QM and ARAM. I guess they aligned it on Ranked as well.
Edit 3: the gm/bronze combo rant.
I am just happy we're getting regular updates. If it is a big issue, I actually have some confidence it will be fixed in the span of weeks or maybe a few months, as opposed to a year ago when I had very low confidence in any future changes.
Thats a good point!
Theres some people working on it again, at least every couple of months we seem to get some attention =)
I think matchmaking hasn't been ideal at it's best but now they've certainly overcooked it.
Playing to win tho is the only way.
GLHF :3
Haha, Hasu is so used to playing in high rank games he can't even tell the difference between gold and bronze colors. I know all too well, FeelsBadMan.
Lmao why am I even playing 😂
zzz, im sorry, i can only recognize LIGHTNING rank
Hey. Regarding the matchmaking stuff, I don't think it's entirely a new thing. I have a screenshot from April where 3plat2gold were matched against 4 bronze1lowplat when I climbed to master on my smurfaccount. The enemy were not smurves, they were deleted in 8 minutes or so.
the bronze lobbies are responsible for 30% of my winrate, where one guy is mad before the game even started and decides to throw the game. Or the match I had earlier where a plat player was mad he had lost his way to silver 5 and decided that because a teammate wanted to play butcher on braxis holdout, he banned butcher, the butcher picked nova, and he picked murky and completely ignored camps and the top lane. He of course blammed his lose sreak on bad lobbies even though we almost won that match and would have if he had played better than a beginner bot. the less I can have of these guys the better.
Now I'm just hoping they'll fix quick plays dreadful matchmaking. 1 healer and 4 tanks is not fair to have vs a normal team with a tychus (I've somehow had this match in solo queue)
NAE here, had a match earlier where we had players ranging from B4 to D1. Current game? Enemy has 3x B1 smurfs, a D5, and a D3. Our team is more balanced in the Plats and golds.
Those queue fiestas have been very rare. Mostly, it has been fast queue times with balanced teams.
How many points did you lose/win in that game?
Im in bronze and defintly getting more wins then before, i think there were a lot of bots that played instead of real ppl and it caused a lot of losing.
Bronze silver and gold should be matched togther, gold plat and master togther, and masters and GM's togther
at low ranks you are so used to getting stomped does it matter if its a master player or a gold player. i feel like at least it softens the blow if you lose to a gm player. plus the match making seems to adjust the points. i stopped playing cause i couldnt find games on my server. so if this helps i would consider playing again
Teehee, hope to see some Masters in my Bronze 2 games.
expand the queue, reap the rewards! :D
I think they should add button to turn off the expanded search, i believe most of the people wouldnt want this.
i am still waiting for 10 men morales game 😂
Das sollte nicht passen. Wir hatten das damals noch in der Beta als es HL und TL noch gab. Teamligaspiel nach 10 Minuten garantiert war die ersten zwei Mal super. Wenn man aber immer nur stomped oder gestomped wird, macht es keinen Spaß.
Solang beide teams master und bronze spieler haben ist es ja einigermaßen ausgeglichen und denk ich ok so als Notlösung. Aber wenn ein team nur masters hat und das andere nur bronzies dann isses natürlich fucked up und sollte nicht sein. Ansonsten hats halt Vor und Nachteile. Schwächere Spieler können jetz von besseren Spielern aus höheren Ligen was lernen. Spieler aus höheren Ligen können sich zwar nach unten hin nichts abschauen aber dafür kriegen sie wenigstens öfter mal nen game.
Ja, ich glaub wenn die Bronze Spieler als 5man stack unterwegs sind, kanns passieren, dass die gegner auch Master usw bekommen - dann ists natürlich super unfair.
Make hots great again
@@superstar5042 its already the best.