Paragon: Move OVER Overwatch

[Nirgon]

https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/heroes

Free to play weekend ..... RIGHT NOW

[Grubbz]

will bomb like battleborn, nothing can enter the moba market with league, dota2 and smite still around.

[xKoopa]

I think paragon has the potential to be a really nice game, but it also looks kinda simple and boring

Will have to test it out sometime and see what else gets added during beta and stuff

[JurisDictum]

will bomb like battleborn, nothing can enter the moba market with league, dota2 and smite still around.

Well Blizzard has a lot of money to throw at it. There is a kind of economy of scale in the gaming industry where those with enough capital can create games that generate more profit.

Nothing is going to replace DotA2 and League completely, but I think Smite might be vulnerable. Overwatch is most comparable to smite out of the 3.

Unless they had strong objective evidence this venture would be profitable, they would have never done the project anyway.

[Nirgon]

Paragon heroes appeal to me

Overwatch ones look ... weird :/

prob somethin' wrong with me tho

[maskedmelon]

I don't understand how people find time to enjoy all these games. I can scarcely secure enough time for elfquest and anime and am sorely deficient in the latter of late :(

Will try to check this out though.

[JurisDictum]

I don't understand how people find time to enjoy all these games. I can scarcely secure enough time for elfquest and anime and am sorely deficient in the latter of late :(

Will try to check this out though.

The great thing about MOBA's is you can squeeze quick games in here and there. I think one of the reasons there more popular than MMOs is because you can be good at them without sacrificing most your life to the venture. "Good" =/= "Top League" however.

Fortunately for most people, they have a self-esteem building ranking system that lies to you about how good you are. I remember I finally got to gold with a lot of practice (and I mean I belonged there, didn't just get a lucky win streak). That was like 10% of the population at the time. Now gold is like copper used to be and the new gold is "Diamond IV" or whatever the fuck.

But I guess that's what the people want.

[xKoopa]

big problem with league right now is queue times though

spend 10 mins in queue, few mins doin bans and picks, then someone dodges and you get another 5 mins in queue, repeat

spent about 30 mins last night setting up a game that was over at ~23 mins


this is for a normal game, these queues used to be like a minute or two until they changed it to "dynamic queue"

[maskedmelon]

The great thing about MOBA's is you can squeeze quick games in here and there. I think one of the reasons there more popular than MMOs is because you can be good at them without sacrificing most your life to the venture. "Good" =/= "Top League" however.

Fortunately for most people, they have a self-esteem building ranking system that lies to you about how good you are. I remember I finally got to gold with a lot of practice (and I mean I belonged there, didn't just get a lucky win streak). That was like 10% of the population at the time. Now gold is like copper used to be and the new gold is "Diamond IV" or whatever the fuck.

But I guess that's what the people want.

Only MOBA kind of thingy that I've played would be guild wars (assuming I understand MOBA correctly) and that just for the beta. I expect I will be bad and remain bad, but become less bad. Never been good at fast paced things. I am slow to react, tend towards panic and cannot focus, haha! That doesn't prevent me from having fun though ^^

The ranking revision you describe reminds me of D3 difficulty iirc: normal, hard, super hard, extra super hard, etc. (those weren't the actuall descriptors, but that is effectively what they were). We can't have easy or extra easy though, because how would people feel about themselves if they had a hard time clearing those lol ^^ Kinda like the clothing size revisions some retailers rolled out a few years ago. All about how we feel about ourselves hehe. People just have a hard time acknowledging they aren't always super ^^

[iruinedyourday]

this looks dope ima try it nirg c u real soon

[DMN]

Don't really gives a rat's ass about either of them. Played my lifetime fill of arena co-op shooters all the way back in unreal tournament assault game mode. the game all these others have ripped off ever since.

[AzzarTheGod]

https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/heroes

Free to play weekend ..... RIGHT NOW

No invite yet on the free weekend. I like what I am seeing so far but don't see myself spending without sitting in the seat for a test drive.

I was hoping to get in tonight but seems there is a delay on weekend approval (however small or large idk)

[AzzarTheGod]

I'm convinced if you aren't registered before the weekend you don't get the weekend invite.

Hopefully tomorrow proves me wrong.

[Swish]

big problem with league right now is queue times though

spend 10 mins in queue, few mins doin bans and picks, then someone dodges and you get another 5 mins in queue, repeat

spent about 30 mins last night setting up a game that was over at ~23 mins


this is for a normal game, these queues used to be like a minute or two until they changed it to "dynamic queue"

If support was more widely appealing in ranked the queue times would drop a lot, but it means having to rely on other players not to be shitty which is a big ask in the MOBA world lol

[Skew]

Looks like a cross between Star Wars battlefront and Guildwars. If you have the attention span of a goldfish should be a good game.