League of the Storm Game Review

League of the Storm Dota 2 or LoL. In fact, it is difficult to compare it with other MOBAs because it brings variety to the table which makes it unique. Of course, the League of the Storm borrows bits and pieces from well-established MOBA genres, such as leaning, leveling your hero, teamwork, and character archetypes, but it also gives these features their own characteristics.

Blizzards are pretty good at creating entertainment games. Over the years, the gaming community has seen Blizzard refine the essence of what makes their games fun. Perhaps the best example of this is World of Warcraft, an MMORPG that started with a lot of possibilities and features that have been repeatedly refined to give players new ways to play at a faster level, easier search system and faster time. With Loot League of the Storm it is clear that Blizzard is trying to apply the same formula to the MOBA genre. Taking a fun and exciting approach to a MOBA and splitting that formula into a readily available, but compulsively deep game.

League of the Storm begins with a short tutorial that is surprisingly helpful. MOBAs, much like fighting games, are hard to teach new players without hours of practice. This is because each character has a lot of theory and experimentation before coming up with the "best strategy" and even then it is not a sure solution. From StarCraft to Jim Rainer, players learn the ins and outs of HotS through Uther the Lightbringer, a WoW character that takes you into the basics. There are some great conversations between the two, like Rainer asking why he is here in the first place and not getting a vague answer in return.

Soon you will be shutting yourself down and you will see relatively quickly that HotS is just like any other MOBA in the beginning. A team of five was mobilized to destroy enemy bases. Each team consists of five unique heroes, players, and supporting AI minions that span one of two or more lanes featuring the map. Players jump into these lanes and destroy enemy minions to gain experience, upgrade levels, learn new skills and finally fight and hopefully, defeat the other team. This process continues until one group pushes the other group back enough to enter their base and destroy their roots.

This is a super-simplified way of explaining a MOBA but good enough for those who have not played before. For those who have, there are some differences that players will notice with other MOBA HotS. The biggest difference is how casual the game seems. This is due to a number of factors, including team-based leveling, elimination of items of any character, and level-specific elements that quickly turn the tide of battle.

In most MOBAs, leveling is a single activity. Players gain levels by killing minions and thus learn new skills. When fighting with other team heroes, more experience is gained by killing enemy heroes so that if a player succeeds in this way, he can quickly equalize and out-level others. This is not the case with HotS, flattening is a shared activity so when teams are equal through the shared experience pool. This prevents a single player from shining as a team star, a theme that seems to be a big part of HotS. It can be frustrating to want to take a team of people or shine on their own HotS. For me, I found the need for teamwork to be fresh. Teamwork is not only helpful in winning matches on HotS, it is essential for winning because it is designed in-game.

Fighting is a place where this forced teamwork feels like a collapse. As mentioned earlier, team fights are essential in HotS but one reason is that you will have a very difficult time fighting three enemy players with one character of your own. Games like Dota 2 or LoL have skilled players who can wipe out three more players without the help of their team. It’s hard to pull off on HotS, I’ve never actually seen it, because the characters just feel weak on their own. In fact, 1v1 fights often feel exciting when they are long, waiting for the cold to end or for teammates to show up.

Each of HotS's seven maps has its own unique, level-specific features. To control a giant dragon-king on one map you have to control two temples on the opposite side of the map and then in the other you have to collect cash and cash to help the pirates. Features at this level are strategically placed so that the teams engage with each other. You want to place that giant slave or curse on the opposing team so that you do your best to achieve the goal, which often means fighting the other team. These exciting moments of fulfilling purpose while fighting the opposing team are one of the best moments of the game and they often prevent the game from an awkward stagnation where the heroes are afraid to fight each other for 20 minutes.

Like most MOBAs, HotS characters are shared. HotS has the ideal MOBA archetype for fighter, killer and support. They break down into blows and fall into a variety of things to change things up a bit but they basically refer to tanks, damage or healers / buffers. What makes HotS interesting is its inclusion in the "Expert" section. This is Blizzard's way of incorporating a class-type that includes something that does not fit the mold. For example, while some experts do extensive damage to towers and buildings, others may call on animals to help in battle, others have interesting mechanics, such as creating their own reaction points somewhere on the map. These heroes make the game interesting and provide lots of replays in their tactics. It is also worth noting that replaying the same hero increases the level of the hero outside the game which unlocks extra power for in-game leveling.

Unfortunately, most heroes are unavailable from the start and need to be unlocked with real cash or in-game gold earned through the game. Cheaper characters start at around 2,000 gold or 2.99 while high-end characters start at around 10,000 gold or 9.99. Each week there are five characters that are unlocked as free-to-play for all players. It gives a new player a decent selection of at least three major categories but it does not guarantee you an expert, at least from what I have seen. It's a shame because experts all play differently and it's a fair offer to spend money or hard-earned gold for a character you may not like. Of course, Blizzard lets you try out the character in a single-lane game, but rarely lets you tell if the character is worth the money / gold.

In terms of money and gold, the problems in the Hero League are noticeable - the game's ranking system. Playing fast matches is a bit like gambling because you have to select your hero in advance and meet random players who have already met the selected heroes. That means you can’t have five tanks or have a healing or damaging dealer, I’ve made all kinds of matches and some aren’t fun. The Hero League resists this by letting everyone pick and watch their other teammates to form a more consistent team.

Unfortunately there are obstacles to unlocking Hero League for which you have to be level 30 as a character, your profile level will be with you, as well as the 10 characters you bought with gold or cash, in-game characters are not counted. Making this list of characters seems like a crush, because gold doesn't come easily or quickly. Grind Sensation is great on a MOBA when it's in-game as part of the game, but it's not just as enjoyable as part of the business model.

MOBA is an ever-evolving title that grows and changes over time. Blizzard games are often the same, and so a Blizzard-led MOBA could change dramatically in the next few years. Hero League could be open to everyone, more characters could be free-to-play, and items could be introduced, although I don't expect it to be a big draw for accessibility. Overall, the League of the Storm is an isolated experience. Blizzards have done a lot here and a lot of things they have done uniquely. With so much fresh and fun to play as an expert character, the only accessible nature is Blizzard's game development stamp, and the maps are varied and enjoy their purpose. But at the same time the feeling of being humiliated in this meta-game of collecting and equalizing Hero League's unfortunate business models and heroes takes the fun away from the enjoyable parts. Perhaps the League of the Storm can become a great thing over time, so for now you should try to see if you want to experience a different kind of popular genre.

League of the Storm is a crossover multiplayer online battlefield video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment and released on June 2, 2015 for Microsoft Windows and MacOS. The game features characters from blizzard franchises as playable heroes as well as battlefields. Based on the universe of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch. Players form 5-player teams and compete against other teams in 5-vs-5 matches, with an average duration of 20 minutes. The first team to destroy the opponent's main structure, known as the "Kings Core", won the match. Each themed battlefield has separate metagames and secondary objectives for defense, the completion of which gives your team a huge advantage, usually through pushing power. Each player controls a single character known as the "hero" with unique abilities and sets of different styles of play. Heroes gain experience points during matches and become stronger by unlocking "talents" that contribute to the team's overall strategy that provides new abilities or improves existing ones.

Another video game created by Blizzard Entertainment, a community-based mode based on Warcraft III, inspired by the League of Storm Defense of the Ancients. The game is based on a free-to-play, freemium business model and is supported by micro-transactions that can be used to purchase heroes, visual modifications, mounts and other cosmetic components for game heroes. The game of Blizzard is called "Hero Blair" instead of the more common "Multiplayer Online Battlefield" (MOBA).

League of the Storm is not just another MOBA. This is a comment from the company on MOBA whose games inspired the genre Through it, Blizzard sets foot in an area that is deeply familiar to them and deeply foreign to them: a world of chunky characters and a world of competitive strategy that embraces the world of fatless homebrew complexities. As well as what they don’t. It is a studio that has always evaluated accessibility and has recently awakened that belief through the impressive success of Hearthstone. For those who don't play MOBA, League of the Storm is a MOBA, so MO is a MOBA even for those who don't like MOBA.

It would split for that reason, I doubt. When designing the League of the Storm, Blizzard has pushed away many of the ideas that previously defined the genre. Personal leveling is gone, replaced with a team-wide experience bar. Gold is gone, and with it items that enhance your character's abilities. The strategic draft is over, at least until you complete the long climb in a competitively ranked game: for most players, League of the Storm is a game where you choose who you want to play, click 'play' and play.

Doing so will place you on a team of five fantasy heroes drawn from Blizzard's extensive roster. Victory means pushing AI-controlled vines from one side of the map to the other along linear lanes. This means going through gateways, towers and castles which is the amount of defense outside your opponent and the game ends when a team's core falls. Here ends the comparison with other MOBA.

The League of the Storm currently has seven maps, each with a different layout and different purpose set. Building-falling laser weapons help your team to the Sky Temple, capture temples and defeat guardians. Collecting coins for a spooky pirate in Blackheart Bay lets you turn his cannon on your enemy. In Haunted Mines, the entire bottom layer of the map — Title Mine — is a dark hole on the side where you collect nectar skulls to strengthen your team's Hulking Golem.

Individual motives are as diverse as: the reason to leave your alley and fight somewhere else. Sit in one place and click on the minions and as you take control of your opponent's map you will find yourself overwhelmed and with it neutral monsters and bosses who can be defeated and recruited to join one side or the other.

All the heroes start with one passive energy as well as three energies (although sometimes it has an active element) and their team reaches the final when it reaches ten. League of the Storm often feels like entering a Dota 2 match in the middle, and in fifteen minutes you can play a battle situation that would be the equivalent of the last fifty minute epic game somewhere else.

These situations are probably thanks to the generous number of return systems. Games rarely get lost in the first few minutes - although that doesn't stop a certain segment of the gaming community from angrily abandoning matches after an initial crash. The teams behind you get a bonus experience, and the multiplication of optional motives means you can almost always do something to turn your fortunes around - you just have to figure out what it is.

These decisions make the League of the Storm the most accessible MOBA I've ever played. These are an interesting simplification of Jenner's vocabulary, highlighting the most obscure areas of competitive gaming in a handful of actions: attack, defense, capture, collection. Also, it reveals to the audience the basic tactical joy of a five-by-five fantasy war that would never have been attempted otherwise.

Coming into the League of the Storm as someone who has already invested heavily in this genre, I have been able to constantly change my attitude. There are times when I feel like a rally driver on a go-kart track. At the moment I am longing for a game where failure is more significant and victory is more meaningful, where I can use the language of complete privacy instead of a small part of what these games have taught me. I doubt it will be the experience of many existing MOBA players and further brutality in it will completely shut down the League of Storm.

I don't think it's fair. As much as the League of the Storm shortens the genre, it preserves strategic ideas that are more advanced than those that have been removed. With a little perseverance, each player will eventually overcome them: items, skill building, and more. To overcome that obstacle, Blizzard has created a game that is all about map control, time, speed and subtlety of battle. These are things that take time to become completely internal, a set of learning that only comes with experience.

One problem with the accessibility of the League of Storm is that, overcoming obvious obstacles, it takes new players to the strategic depths. Given the apparent ‘relaxation’ of any given map volume and inclination system, it’s easy to lose a quick match and I don’t really know why. Play Heroes as a true 'hero blazer' - Blizzard's favorite word - and you'll find yourself inspired by players who understand a time to fight, a time to hide, a time to sweep the map for purposes.

These considerations are as binding as ‘I will create the next main item’. The League of the Storm loses in terms of systemic complexity and the creative possibilities that come with it, but does an impressive job of introducing new players to the map-wide strategic elements that compel these games to watch and play. Where the game stumbles, it does not stumble because it is accessible.

Although the feel of the game has improved since Blizzakon first played in 2013, the Blizzard set does not match the high standards found elsewhere in the League of the Storm. This is especially evident in the case of the Diablo heroes - in their original incarnation, they are defined as a sense of the power given by each click that causes damage. In the Storm League, that edge has been snatched away. What would be a bone-crushing slam in Diablo 3 becomes a weed thump here.

The League of the Storm avatars occupy far more screen-space than their counterparts in the League or Dota, and combined with many smaller maps make it feel like a big kid in a small sandpit. On the other hand, the capabilities feel rather muted: the spots are smaller, the damage is less, the particle effect is easier and smaller. These two factors contribute in the sense that your personal abilities are limited.

I don’t believe the League of the Storm does the best job of visualizing the blizzard. These games have always looked like a sketchbook of a teenager's life, but now it seems that the sketchbook has been copied many times by corporate photocopiers. Blizzard's last love affair with Popcap is evident in detail - such as the way tarot and gates are screwed into place at the beginning of each match, the Game of Thrones intro-style - but it does not create a general lack of environment for him. Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo Universe, when viewed through the same technical color filter, lose their uniqueness.

Also, at the moment, it’s a little more interesting for both your time and your money. Although the worst parts of account-wide leveling were cut during the beta, you still have to grind to unlock every talent and skill for each character, and if you want to play outside of the Free Heroes rotation, you're looking for enough gold savings for you. Own one or two characters. Must run daily searches weekly. It takes about 40 hours to unlock a ranked game - twice as much if you don't use a premium booster - and it feels like the wrong move in a game that doesn't give you many ways to measure your growth as a player.

I feel comfortable recommending the League of Storm despite this problem. In some ways, I feel more comfortable recommending it than Dota 2, a game that I've given myself enough time. This is because Blizzard has created a MOBA where you don't have to spend your life, not even a whole week, to get something. The benefits for newcomers are obvious. The advantage for existing MOBA players is even more subtle: finally we have a suitable ambassador for this genre. The League of Storm may split, but I hope it won't. I hope this game will show people who don't like MOBA what they are missing

Gameplay

The League of the Storm revolves around online 5-vs-5 matches, conducted through the online gaming service Battle.net, with an average duration of 20 minutes. In each match, the players work together as a team to achieve the final victory, destroying the opposing team's core structure, called the "Kings Core", before the enemy team does the same. To get to the root, you must destroy at least one line of the defensive structure known as "fortress" and "guard". Players can use the help of a small team called "Minion" mercenaries, battlefield commanders and computer-controlled units to attack the enemy more efficiently. Minions grow in groups throughout the game, gradually advancing to enemy bases along enemy lanes. There are currently 15 battlefields available for the game, each with different metagames and secondary objectives for protection.

In all game modes, each player controls one of 90 playable characters (as of November 2020), called a "hero", each with a unique design, strengths and weaknesses. The heroes are divided into six different roles: Tank, Browser, Ranked Assassin, Meli Assassin, Hiller and Support. Initially, no hero is permanently available for use; However, players can choose from a list of heroes that can be used for free from a weekly rotation. Using in-game currency, called "gold" or through micro-transactions, they can gain permanent access to a hero.

Each individual hero brings a set of unique abilities. The Ability Kit has three basic capabilities commonly used from Level 1, a passive or active feature and a strong "heroic ability". Upon reaching level 10, players can choose between two "heroism" that often have a devastating effect and a long cooldown. Heroix is usually the most powerful tool in an arsenal that defines a hero's strength and style of play. A hero can achieve only one kind of heroism in every match. If a hero runs out of health points and dies, he is removed from active play until a response timer is counted to zero, where his base is reborn. Also, a spawn point called "Hall of Storms" allows heroes to quickly recover their health and mind as long as they are in the hall. Spawn points provide protection from enemy damage and the enemy team is not allowed. Get inside.

Experience points, which can be gained after killing nearby enemy heroes and minions, are shared throughout the team. Also, certain enemy structures, such as towers, castles and defenses, will experience the group that will destroy them, as well as occupy mercenary camps. When a team reaches a certain experience point threshold during a match, each hero acquires a slightly increased ability, above that team level, up to a maximum of 30 levels. At each level, players can select a "talent" that provides a new ability or improves the existing one. Two notable power spikes are at Level 10 and Level 20, where the heroes acquire particularly powerful abilities and talents, known as "Hero" and "Storm Talent", respectively. This leveling system emphasizes the importance of teamwork and planning because the work of one player can affect the whole team.

In addition to the talent system, each player is able to use a "heartstone", a capability that allows the heroes to teleport to their base from anywhere on the battlefield after a few seconds of channeling. [10] Players can use a variety of mounts, such as animals, bikes, and clouds, to automatically slow down when moving, attacking, taking damage, or using any force.

Game modes

Tutorials - Tutorials consist of three scripted 'levels' aimed at teaching new players movement, skill usage and other basic controls. The player controls Jim Rainer, who is teleported from the Starcraft universe to the Nexus, receiving instructions from the Utter Lightbringer from the Warcraft series.

Training - A low-experience mode where a player determines the difficulty of beginners against five AI opponents, including four AI teammates.

Vs. A.I. - Players face off against five AI opponents. Before the match starts, players can choose between human-controlled or AI allies. AI difficulty can be chosen before starting a match.

Quick Match - Players choose their heroes before entering a match without knowing which map they are playing on, or which heroes they will meet and go against. This mode sets two teams of five human-controlled heroes on a random map in a Player vs. Player (PvP) style battle against each other. These teams are selected based on the players' past performances to create an equal playing field as well as the roles of the selected heroes. For example, if a player is lined up as a supporter other than members of the other team, they are less likely to be joined by four supporting teammates.

Un-Ranked - This is a draft mode where each team takes a turn to select heroes, usually based on the strength of each hero on that particular map and how well the hero team works. Each team can also ban three heroes so that no team can draft them for that match. Players will be able to practice drafting in the same way as in a ranked game, but without additional stress with a ranked game.

Ranked - Storm League is a draft mode similar to the un-ranked draft; However, players are categorized from Bronze to Grandmaster based on their performance in the game. Players who prefer to compete as an individual or as a team of up to 5 players can play in a Storm League match to meet other players in their area. To play in the Storm League, players must have access to 16 heroes in 5 or more levels (excluding Chogal) and have 50 or more levels in their account. Players will be given ranking points as they will compete in this match which will take them up the league rankings and put them in a more challenging match-up. Player rank is expressed in the form of league tiers and divisions and this rank is allocated separately for each player. Rank is directly determined by the player's MMR and adjusted by fines, such as a liver penalty. The first officially ranked playing season begins on June 14, 2016 and ends on September 13. Each ranked game season lasts about 3-4 months.

Heroes Brawl - Added on October 18, 2016, this game mode has three different subcategories with different rules. Heroes Brawl's rules change every week:

Arenas - Players choose one of three randomly selected heroes and try to complete the objective. The first team to meet the goal will claim victory. If you can win the first of the two rounds, you will win the match. There are multiple patio maps designed exclusively for this mode

Mutators - Unique mechanics change the way you play on the battlefield you already know.

One Lane - One lane battlefield or "stove stone" without any purpose.

Custom games - often used to play tournaments, players can create a lobby and have a predefined match-up of five players vs. five players, the ability to select maps, enable draft mode and allow the protagonist to add AI-controlled And / or six observers.