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Silas Vitalia:
Are any of you folks into that at all?

One of our Eve Sansha buddies was just under pro level with his Syndra, was wondering if any of you others are into this game? I was way into it for a while, but not good enough / melting PC couldn't get much past silver rank in solo que.   When I first played it I hated it so much, didn't understand it, found the whole gameplay ridiculous, and then after I kind of 'got' the mechanics and the like it became fun.

Mizhara:
Their music videos are fucking amazeballs. The whole MOBA thing though... yeah no, Eve's my ceiling when it comes to toxicity, and the whole "Last Hitting" gameplay stuff never struck me as fun.

Silas Vitalia:
Yea so in general 100% agree, with a few caveats.

The last hit farm stuff, it sort of falls away after a while.  Like basically most players are going to play at that average level and you'll get average farm, it's not a thing you have to really freak out about unless you are trying to git gud and push yourself super far.  Average gameplay at a reasonable level will do just fine on the farming front just as a part of playing the game.  And no amount of elite farming will cover bad gameplay and good or bad teammates, IE its more likely that you will beat someone with skill or lose with skill at normal mortal human levels.


The toxicity can be laughable, but easily covered with /mute and /mute all , turn up your music and have fun.

But I'm totally with you the first bit of time I tried the game I had this exact sentiment, I hated the last hit mechanic, I hated the moba stuff, all of it.  Deleted the game for months, and didn't come back for a long time.

Then somehow after I got over that early skill hurdle the game sort of transformed into a really fun tactics gameplay.  If you like the 1v1 matchups you get that, if you like the big team fights, you get that too. Like figuring out the mechanics of champion matchups and strategy and all that gameplay stuff somehow became fun.  There's like 150 different champions to use, and you pick them in this sort of round-robin format vs the other team where each side picks a few then you can ban certain ones and then you pick a few more, so there's this whole gameplay of 'oh this team picked this one champ who'se super good at this, let's pick this other champ that's a really good counterpoint' etc.

But any fun time in the game is equally weighed by literal mental midget teammates, or bad automatching, etc.  They are really working hard on this stuff and it is getting better but it can be a real slog. I haven't played in months though.   

But they've come a long way to letting you pick the role you want to play, and matching you up with a team and opponents of comparable skill.

Best part though, 100% free, as in I played the game for a few years and maybe spent like $10 on some skins that entire time.  They got rid of the thing where you could spend money on little perks and gameplay bonuses, it's all free now.

Anyway no worries not trying to convince anyone of anything just wondered if any of you all were into it

Mitara Newelle:
My boys are into it, they are getting into a local league here with sponsors and everything. Pretty wild.  They are doing $12,000 scholarship for winning team of season I hear.

Morwen Lagann:
I played a little bit about 7 years ago or so with Inara and/or Reppy while I was still in college. Didn't end up being engaging enough to keep me messing with it. It was a little too much like an RTS in gameplay for me, too, which didn't help. XD

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