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• wondible Member

  July 28

  Lots of 3v3 in the middle. The asymmetry in areas is interesting, although I'm equally bad at taking all of them.

  Tried the opposite of last time - went full energy/supply (Ryme and Alder). My kill counts were higher, but I never actually got full deployment due to constant replacement, and both games we got curbstomped, never winning a single titan.
• wondible Member

  July 28

  Third game as Eris mass supply worked much better. Had surplus energy and even made T3. Was able to split hero to a gem region a few times. I was low in the kill count though.
• CohLysion Member

  July 28

  Gems and Titans

  Topic
  (1.1) - This game mode had some fun going on. Overall, the variation was interesting. The gameplay experience changes throughout, which is kind of cool. A part of this was lack of familiarity; and with more time on this style, it might become easier to parse. As is, though, switching between center, gems, camps and invading kept a quick pace to the game, and I felt like there was more urgency in doing a given phase better. I thought this was a cool higher-order effect (unintended as it may be).

  (1.2) - The titan fights were kind of crazy. The net effect seemed to be zone plates with armies that survived much longer, as each side balanced between trying to impact the opposing armies and titan. It was also a little tough to read what was going on, but that just made it more fun. Long term, don't know, but tonight, these were fun fights.

  (1.3) - The map is feeling a little small, here. I'm guessing this comes from spending more time in proximity to large armies on both sides (eg. in the center during titan fights).

  Units

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  (2.1) - I hadn't played much with the Plated Warrior in the past (such that I don't remember when it appeared, even). I didn't end up building into them too much. I don't feel like it was an obvious read for where/when I'd want them. Whether this would have changed before when they were beefier, not sure.
• grybyx Member

  July 30

  overall this felt really fun the fights in the middle over the titans were an interesting dynamic which felt very cluttered which made micro feel difficult but, it also opened up the possibility of split pushing and due to how long the fight lasted you could potentially due some roaming and taking camps other fountains etc while still contributing in the fight.

  I noticed I was often running low on energy which was a nice change from previous patches where I would just produce bioshards and supply until I was maxed this forced me to choose between fewer higher tier units or numerous low tier units rather than just filling my supply with low tier units then replacing them with higher tier units as I got enough bioshards. I really liked the feeling of having to make decisions like that.

  Something felt weird about the towers etc on the side the titan didn't push on. you just had to push without a titan to kill the shield battery and towers which based on always pushing with titans in previous patches felt kind of awkward.
• Millea Member

  July 30

  The late game feels a lot less frustrating. If a game goes on for a while, it does not feel like one team is ahead and the other team is defending a base forever. Long games happen more frequently.

  However, in the late game, only mid lane matters. I believe it's best to ignore bot and top past 30 minutes and just go mid. I don't like this.

  Here's an example: Gdd2a498d7f0e4b4eb9de6a12a1db55b3

  Also titan fight's results feel very binary. If you don't get the enemy titan's hp down a LOT it just heals back up to full and you have to deal with the full hp titan. This makes a . I'd prefer if they did something like heal a percentage of missing hp instead.
• ItanoCircus Member

  July 30

  I agree with every aspect of Millea's post above. Additionally...

  Though the first Titan or two of full 3v3 combat is intensely interesting, I'm not as interested with 600 Shards banked up, 120+ Energy, and 100/100 maximum upgrade dream army waiting for what feels to be the only game-ending objective. While this is ABSOLUTELY an improvement over making Ion Cannons surrounding a Nexus until the game ends (more engaging, sense of possible comebacks), there is still a degree to which past the 35m mark I wanted the game to end and didn't care too strongly how it ended or who won.

  I feel as if I have more meaningful options due to the structuring of income. Having the top and bottom provide the same resources, but only two lanes for three players was very intriguing. I enjoyed using the space and the gameplay of this to poke around for more Easy camps, take unsecured Towers, play 1v1, and play 2v2 lanes. This to me is an enormous improvement. The timing of the first Titan also allows team fights and creates a single point of focus for battling at around the 4-6 minute mark that I found fun.

  The change in Energy granted by Creeps makes me feel like I should build Energy more often, as I cannot expect to generate enough of it for my needs through the Creeps alone. In previous builds I considered myself to be doing extremely poorly if I EVER had to build Energy, but now I find I build it in scenarios that don't involve me having just lost my entire army. It's possible that the context for making Energy changed for moreso than the balance or act of building it, but it's solid all the same
• tedster Member

  July 30 edited July 30

  The center titan fight is interesting but there are not enough compelling things to do around the map currently to encourage anything but big slugfest. This makes ultra-long-range units extremely powerful and makes skirmish squads feel bad. It also makes games feel almost entirely about mechanics and much less about choices past the 15 minute mark, since you're usually jamming center lane almost all the time or defending against titan/pokes.

  Siege DOES feel better in this mode, as do units like Conduits (who feel pretty overpowered instead of crummy like they did before). It also seems easier to turtle up and tech rush since there's more room to come back late, which might not be a good thing.