[Heroes of the Storm] Coronavirus can't kill HotS if it's already dead #rollsafe

forty

Do you like 4v5s, my friend? Well boy howdy do I have the game for you!

PMAvers

https://twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/1186326286328827904?s=20

MMMig

That image was from the Genji or D.va reveal, wasn't it?

I needed anime to post.

yeah it's the claw marks that everyone thought was Deathwing because ???

MMMig

Trailer leaked:

^{(not real)}

Knight_

i would find it greatly amusing if they made a deathwing skin for diablo

forty

PMAvers wrote: »

https://twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/1186326286328827904?s=20

Tomorrow: "HotS is shutting down!"

Grove

Just gonna be a D.Va rework.

Dibby

fuckin love playing malthael and dominating top lane and killing the enemy illidan 7 times and dual soaking like a motherfucker only for the entire rest of my team of headless chickens to be absolutely completely incompetent and somehow keep spreading KT bombs ad infinitum despite being entirely ranged and then blaming me for that instead (^:

i wonder what that must be like

pressing one button walking away and instantly winning teamfights

that's powerful stuff right there man

MNC Dover

The wife was looking at the quest line for the current event and saw the "Win X game with a friend" part isn't too far off. She just turned and looked at me with a wordless expression.

Sigh....I might have to reinstall HotS for a bit.

I needed anime to post.

Dibby wrote: »

fuckin love playing malthael and dominating top lane and killing the enemy illidan 7 times and dual soaking like a motherfucker only for the entire rest of my team of headless chickens to be absolutely completely incompetent and somehow keep spreading KT bombs ad infinitum despite being entirely ranged and then blaming me for that instead (^:

i wonder what that must be like

pressing one button walking away and instantly winning teamfights

that's powerful stuff right there man

Dibby

hmmm the hots subreddit is shaking now too

PMAvers

Actually, you know would be a great troll?

Deathwing is in... but it's a battleground that takes place *on* him.

forty

I wonder if we will ever see a new Battleground for the rest of the life of the game.

Munkus Beaver

forty wrote: »

I wonder if we will ever see a new Battleground for the rest of the life of the game.

Signs point to no, and we don't need any more BGs.

We have too many as it is.

Inquisitor77

Yeah I was randomly musing at one point that if they were going to make any Blizzard character a map, it would be Deathwing.

Unfortunately, the HotS team has a bit of a rough record when it comes to map design, so if they were to release him as a map I don't think the reaction would go over all that well even in the current no-HGC, SL-is-a-clownfiesta climate.

You know what would be hilarious? If they made him some kind of game-wide event that impacted every single map.

Smrtnik

PMAvers wrote: »

Actually, you know would be a great troll?

Deathwing is in... but it's a battleground that takes place *on* him.

Deathwing is about to roll left..

forty

Smrtnik wrote: »

PMAvers wrote: »

Actually, you know would be a great troll?

Deathwing is in... but it's a battleground that takes place *on* him.

Deathwing is about to roll left..

Joke's on them, he'd never roll left or right because everyone is always team fighting in mid.

Undead Monkey

I take all "leaks" with a grain of salt, but someone snagged this before it was promptly removed:

https://imgur.com/a/vtZkwza

Consider it a SPOILER if you don't want any hints as to what today's announcement might be about.

Neurotika

https://youtu.be/ZGhP77lUqJ4

Grove

Whoa

I needed anime to post.

NOW the game's dead

Munkus Beaver

Now put blackthorne in you cowards

Custom Special

Another two player hero?

I needed anime to post.

deathwing wouldn't make sense as a two player hero

i would assume he's just A Big Boy

Dibby

Custom Special wrote: »

Another two player hero?

Please don't say that

I wouldn't even be able to play him because my friends list is always empty :T

The Escape Goat

ridley is too big for smash

forty

I'm eager to see his mechanics and move set but of course the fantasy of playing Deathwing will probably crumble a bit when you just get soloed down by Illidan, TB Varian, Malthael, etc. since I'm sure he'll just be a bit fat boy hero like Azmodan.

At least he seems to look cool!

I needed anime to post.

it doesn't matter if you make broken heroes anymore because no one plays ranked

milk ducks

I was literally coming here to talk about how Blizzcon is in full-on "In case of Emergency: Break Glass" mode, and to keep everyone excited, the plan is to just announce fucking everything people want to keep them happy and thinking about anything aside from Hong Kong protests. And I was going to ask you guys, what's the bet they announce fucking Deathwing for HotS?

AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

Dibby

milk ducks wrote: »

I was literally coming here to talk about how Blizzcon is in full-on "In case of Emergency: Break Glass" mode, and to keep everyone excited, the plan is to just announce fucking everything people want to keep them happy and thinking about anything aside from Hong Kong protests. And I was going to ask you guys, what's the bet they announce fucking Deathwing for HotS?

AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

course now the question is since Deathwing was announced, well, today

the fuck are they announcing for blizzcon lol

there's no way they can top Deathwing


(also ngl that's been a huge fear of mine. people are angry now but how quickly will they forget or change their minds once the Blizzcon Hypetrain rolls around, hm?)

I needed anime to post.

like they were gonna let heroes of the storm announce something at blizzcon, pfft

milk ducks

Blizzard is in an absolute fucking PANIC at this stage.

You guys think we should announce Diablo 4? Yes. We have to.
They want Diablo II remastered? Fuck it, yeah do it.
Overwatch 2? Get it out there.
What do people want in HotS? What's the biggest, most requested, most hyped-up hero from the very beginning? Fucking Deathwing.

The fact that they're announcing and releasing him NOW is not a coincidence at all.

They're in an absolute fucking panic and they're releasing all the valves at once.

Zek

milk ducks wrote: »

I was literally coming here to talk about how Blizzcon is in full-on "In case of Emergency: Break Glass" mode, and to keep everyone excited, the plan is to just announce fucking everything people want to keep them happy and thinking about anything aside from Hong Kong protests. And I was going to ask you guys, what's the bet they announce fucking Deathwing for HotS?

AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

These things don't just materialize in two weeks, they kind of already needed to knock people's socks off after last year's Blizzcon and all the various other disappointments since then.

Munkus Beaver

milk ducks wrote: »

I was literally coming here to talk about how Blizzcon is in full-on "In case of Emergency: Break Glass" mode, and to keep everyone excited, the plan is to just announce fucking everything people want to keep them happy and thinking about anything aside from Hong Kong protests. And I was going to ask you guys, what's the bet they announce fucking Deathwing for HotS?

AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

They've been teasing it for the past month!

I needed anime to post.

blizzard has been sweating for a year and then the last few weeks upgraded it from "trapped in a sauna" to "sun is going supernova"

BloodySloth

This always needed to be a big Blizzcon, and there's no way they just threw Deathwing and OW2 together in response to Hong Kong.

I think the rate at which stuff is leaking early is probably more related to HK. Like trying to get the good will train rolling before Blizzcon erupts out of scandal as a total trainwreck. But all of this stuff was already coming at us, I guarantee it.

Munkus Beaver

Oh wow.

Deathwing is the perfect @milk ducks hero

He is perma unstoppable and is unaffected by all allied abilities, can't even be hatted by Abathur.

Munkus Beaver

He has the highest DPS ability in the game.

On his Q.

forty

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Oh wow.

Deathwing is the perfect @milk ducks hero

He is perma unstoppable and is unaffected by all allied abilities, can't even be hatted by Abathur.

Brilliant. Lure Ducks back with the ultimate "fuck my team, I'm going to try to win this game by myself" hero.