Heroes of the Storm: What we know

[soulyouth]

the beta opt-in is now on the beta setting page on battle.net was spamming f5 lol

[Deleted]

blizzard allows all of their content to be posted freely to youtube unless there is an NDA on it.

Ah, good guys Blizz

[Deleted]

Oh my fucking god that looked epic! Would love if that video was longer. xD But missed a good hero from WoW to counter Lich King from WoW, like Thrall.

[AlereanJr]

Holy shit that's badass. Can't wait...gameplay footage anyone ??

[valax]

thanks
/10cars

[Golden Yak]

Hah, well, they were clearly having fun with that cinematic. Must've been nice to be able to use all those sweet character models again!

[kail]

The coolness....

very nice, can't wait for blizz to post it and enjoy the HD video and sound.

[McNeil]

Looks cool, but I kinda wanted to see more Warcraft heroes. Never cared about Starcraft and Diablo, yet they were pretty much the only ones with screen time

[Deadite]

Looked like a Space Marine about to fight a Khorne Bloodletter at first.

[Maxilian]

Hi there, i will try to post here all we know about the game so far...

we already have the page of the game online: http://www.heroesofthestorm.com/es-es (sorry that's the spanish version)

and we have these 2 videos:

Cinematic


Gameplay sneak peek


Developer Interview


So from these videos and the page we can see these:

CHARACTERS

In the web page we can see:

Naziba (Witch Doctor)
Illidan Stormrage
Valla (Demon Hunter)
Tassadar
Malfurion Stormrage
Diablo
Arthas (Lich King)
Gazlowe

From the Cinematics we can see:

Nova
Tyrael

From the Gameplay Sneak Peek



Stiches (Abomination)
Tauren Chieftan (Marine)
Barbarian
Wildhammer rider
Uther
Abathur

Chen Stormtout (appear at 0:46 of the gameplay video)
Anub arak (appear at 1:30 of the gameplay video)
Tyrande Winterspring (appear at 1:31 of the gameplay video)
DON'T KNOW YET (appear at 1:34 of the gameplay video)
Jayna (appear at 1:35 of the gameplay video)
Azmodan (appear at 1:37 of the gameplay video)
Zagara (appear at 1:43 of the gameplay video)
Muradin (appear at 1:52 of the gameplay video)
Zeratul (appear at 1:52 of the gameplay video)

From Developer Interview we can see:

Thrall

We also have:


From these picture the only new characters that we can see are:

Sylvanas
Tychus Findlay


I was going to post way more things, but im pretty sure many other people already posted it so..... i will leave it here

[iggie]

The main question is, any kind of goblin techies?!?

[Jabbaprime]

What we know (atleast what I remember reading a long time back)

Is is a DotA based game
It will be free
It will be easyish (no last hitting all people around a creep get gold, no denying)
Micro transactions will be abundant (as with F2P games, you can get mounts for characters)
Don't know if will follow Dota2 Model (you can play all heroes directly) or LoL Models (Grind for points or buy them with real money) Really hope it is the dota2 model
Towers have a different mechanism than Dota2 & LOL
Several different maps/battlegrounds
We do not know if blizz will follow Dota2 model (community creates models/couriers/huds/etc..) or LoL (company creates everything) I hope it is the dota2 model, but with blizzard I am not sure anymore
Duplicate heroes can be played in the same game

All that ofcourse can change, I am personally really excited for it, thought I will probably still play dota2 mainly and this game on the side! Here is hoping Blizzard makes an awesome game

[kail]

Looks great and loving the ideas put it.

2 Concerns include the last hitting mechanic and the fact that the maps and structures seems to be based only one Warcraft. Hoping they add in SC maps in as well.

ATM my stoked lv is through the roof for this game.

[Deleted]

/drool

that prince arthas looks incredible!!

this game getting its own sub forum like lol and dota?

[DrMcNinja]

MURCABLO! Diablo the blue Murloc! YAY!

[Deleted]

oh wow, that blue diablo skin!

i must have this game!

oh my god that ETC skin!!!!
tauren with awesome hair!

[Ceirus]

Ya, Gazlowe is a goblin tinker, hes on the website.

[Longview]

Below are all the features relevant to competitive play:

Experience is shared between all players on your team. If you kill a creep, a player, or a tower everyone on your team gets the experience.

There is no gold and there are no purchasable items.

You start with all of your skills, and with each level they increase in strength. It is not like Dota 2 or League of Legends where you choose between skills to level as the game proceeds.

Every few levels you can choose between a few talents. This, in a way, makes up for the lack of items in the game. This is where players make reactive decisions based on how the game is playing out. In some cases it's better to have one talent than it would be to another. On the character I played all my talents, save for my ultimate, were passive.

You get your ultimate at level ten.

You get experience while you're dead.

At the moment there is no benefit to last hitting. You get no extra experience.

Aimed abilities have a League of Legends like crosshair to indicate where your skill will go.

On the map I played it was possible to collect items on the map that would spawn extra strong creeps that would walk down the lane. The items were contestable and were a typical source for fights.

You have a spell that sends you back to spawn similar to the mechanic you see in League of Legends.

There are no teleportation scrolls. You use a mount to travel around the map quickly.

Both my character and my mount had a variety of custom skins to choose from.

source: http://www.ongamers.com/articles/ini...storm/1100-69/

this looks meh at best on paper

[Deleted]

did i spy a malfurion?

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source: http://www.ongamers.com/articles/ini...storm/1100-69/

this looks meh at best on paper

well im surprised theres no gold/items. not sure thats a good decision or not.

[obao98]

This is AMAZING. Literally everyone I know that plays some sort of MOBA game is drooling over this. I play Dota2 and mostly LoL (lvl 30, over 80 chars, 20+ skins, 900+ wins, play for over 2 years), and I can safelly say that from what I've seen, this game has put LoL and DotA2 to shame. I've no doubt that HotS will dominate the MOBA scene. I'm sorry, but Dota2 and LoL will have no chance against HotS. Blizzard knows how to make games and release masterpieces.