Next Hero Revealed

[Charge me Doctor]

Yes, you said 4-5, which makes it pretty clear you think 5 is a serious possibility, so yeah, I will carry on, thanks. As for that post, they put a post saying things would be slowing down. 3 months is definitely slowed down, and comes down to only 4 heroes a year, which is a pretty slow release schedule. Then they released a followup post saying they did reduce the team but it is NOT just a "gutted skeleton crew".

4 heroes per year is a lot of heroes to be fair. I am more concerned on rework and balancing work they'll do.

[DesoPL]

One Blizzard employee said that he will be bruiser.

https://old.reddit.com/r/heroesofthe...ll_be/ecr23bj/

And that's makes an question, if class rework is coming along with Imperius.

[matrix123mko]

And that's makes an question, if class rework is coming along with Imperius.

They used this way to talk about heroes for some longer time, but I think it may be a role rework this time. They need to do more fan service now.

[Stormcall]

4 heroes per year is a lot of heroes to be fair.

When the game started we were getting a new hero every 3-4 weeks. We got 16(17 if you count Cho and Gall as 2 separate heroes) in 2015, 15 in 2016, 15 in 2017, then with the "slowed hero release time" in 2018 we still ended up with 9 heroes. Cutting it down to 4 per year is still over a 50% decrease in heroes released.

[Charge me Doctor]

When the game started we were getting a new hero every 3-4 weeks. We got 16(17 if you count Cho and Gall as 2 separate heroes) in 2015, 15 in 2016, 15 in 2017, then with the "slowed hero release time" in 2018 we still ended up with 9 heroes. Cutting it down to 4 per year is still over a 50% decrease in heroes released.

they can't keep the same release pace since the game will be overloaded with heroes and impossible to manage. 4 heroes per your is still a lot if heroes AND update old ones (and practice of leaving old heroes in a ditch IMO is way worse than releasing less heroes).

[Eosia]

Do I need a phone to play him?

[LedZeppelin]

Why cant they make tirion already

i need to play him in hots before this game sinks

[Stormcall]

they can't keep the same release pace since the game will be overloaded with heroes and impossible to manage. 4 heroes per your is still a lot if heroes AND update old ones (and practice of leaving old heroes in a ditch IMO is way worse than releasing less heroes).

Yes, they slowed down the pace in 2018, and even with that slow down we still got 9 heroes and multiple reworks. So with a reduced staff obviously they will have to cut down more of course. So cutting the hero releases by more than half should still allow for reworks too(and keep in mind, not everyone needs a rework).

[Hollycakes]

they can't keep the same release pace since the game will be overloaded with heroes and impossible to manage. 4 heroes per your is still a lot if heroes AND update old ones (and practice of leaving old heroes in a ditch IMO is way worse than releasing less heroes).

This is a really good point worth repeating.

[Theoris]

Why cant they make tirion already

I agree. The Ashbringer or bust!

[Charge me Doctor]

Yes, they slowed down the pace in 2018, and even with that slow down we still got 9 heroes and multiple reworks. So with a reduced staff obviously they will have to cut down more of course. So cutting the hero releases by more than half should still allow for reworks too(and keep in mind, not everyone needs a rework).

I want to believe that they'll up their work on hero rework and balancing (since it doesn't require that much workpower to do, designing and making new heroes takes way more people than fixing/remaking existing stuff), balancing HotS is different from other dota-likes because they have talents instead of items and economy of the game, in best case of these events we will have better balanced game with more healthy heroes (imagine chen, probius, TLV being actually balanced and usable in games?), because each released hero requires (should require) them to get back to all existing heroes and see how new hero will fuck everything up (see Orphea release - she made all other mid-range mages obsolete by simply existing). But if they stick to it too much - they'll end up with bland and uninspired new heroes, so they basically have to release a new hero coupled with bunch of old hero reworks (look up league of legends mage update back in time for how all these things affect each other, they released so much new heroes that old mage heroes became literally obsolete dumpster tier, stuck in shade of new, sparkly heroes with flashy and powerful plays)

[DesoPL]

My guess is tomorrow will be spotlight, and if there will be no voice of Cloaken. Idk...

[ophion1990]

My guess is tomorrow will be spotlight, and if there will be no voice of Cloaken. Idk...

Cloaken voices stuff for SC2 aswell, so he'll probably atleast keep doing voicework for HotS. I'm not sure if it's been confirmed that he's moving to another team either.

[Nerraw]

Cloaken is on paternity leave currently, so it might be some time before we know whether he's actually still on the team or not.