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I am tentatively interested in this, though I don’t know how easy it will be to convince anyone to play with me. It doesn’t look particularly unique as MOBAs go.
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MOBAs are great, just so long as you come in with the right attitude and there's robust enough matchmaking so you aren't getting curbstomped by smurfs or ppl way above your pay grade.I've gotten sucked into a lot of Pokemon spin-off games, but I've never actually understood MOBAs because I am an old, so I'll probably sit this one out...
Like, I started playing YESTERDAY and it only took me a few games to get up to speed; one person's jungle clears get them to 5, they go gank. Support and carry bottom lane, defender/attacker top. Dreadnaw is essential, Rotom is nice but ultimately okay to sacrifice, Zapdos and Dreadnaw can be stolen if you're tricky and on the right kind of character. And, of course, do not overextend or chase ever. Easy peasy.
...then I go run a Jungler, say in chat that I'm going mid multiple times, and then a carry just follows me into the jungle!? Now I can't hit 5 and I can't gank! Like...fuckin'...go away! I had a game where FOUR PEOPLE all went top lane, leaving our jungle open, and only one person bottom. Complete madness! Lucky I went bottom and the other team fed us like crazy and I got MVP...but still!
Yeah, as someone who hasn't MOBA'd, I have absolutely no idea what a single sentence in here means, and I bet you're getting a lot of people pulled in by the franchise skin that are similarly clueless.
(I mean, from reading your whole post, I'm picking up from context that someone needs to go into the "jungle" (is this a lane, or in between lanes? I barely know what a lane is) and... I guess kill lots of NPC mooks to level up and be good at killing opponents? But only one person can do this because the NPCs are limited? Something like that? And I have no idea support classes and attack/defend classes go different directions? MOBAs are weird.)
Certainly not; even in games with bigger rosters, people tend to gravitate to the ones that can do insane damage and make big plays with. Most people don't want to play Support, they want to be Support-ed. Even if they were the minority, there will be tons of them in game. I think I've seen a Cinderace in every game I've played? I mean, yeah, he's way strong, but still. Kinda wild.Is it any wonder that Attackers are the majority right now?
I don't think it's bot accounts, I think it's part of the game. There are definitely 100% absolutely for sure games where you fight bots, but they seem to happen after 2 or 3 consecutive losses. I think it's a mechanic to make it so people don't get upset or tilted at losing multiple games...but it's always super noticeable when it IS bots, and it's so easy that it's not even satisfying. It's almost condescending lolThe problem some of my friends have been having with the game however, is blatant bot accounts making games terrible. I'm kinda shocked there are bots already for this game, and I don't have a lot of faith that Ninty will get a grip on that kind of stuff early.