The fact that the entire roster is comprised of familiar faces from Blizzard's biggest games immediately makes Heroes of the Storm more accessible than either DOTA 2 or League of Legends, and naturally sees you gravitate towards faces you know while you learn the basics, before stepping out of your comfort zone and trying other characters. Falling foul of your opponents isn't the end of the world, either you respawn at your Core after a short delay and get straight back into the fight.Įach Hero falls into one of four classes, each of which has unique traits and abilities that can give you the edge in a fight, provide your team with defensive buffs and heals, or temporarily weaken the enemy. With multiple routes to the core, it becomes a balancing act of pushing weak lanes while sometimes falling back to defend, and testing the waters with quick attacks rather than an outright race to the objective. An unending wave of AI-controlled minions marches from your core towards the enemy, slowly breaking down defences until you can rush in and finish the job. Riot Game's League of Legends and Valve's spiritual successor DOTA 2 are the two biggest names in the genre today, but now Blizzard is returning to the fold with a MOBA of its own – and it's bringing the biggest characters from the WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo universes with it.Įssentially an action real-time strategy game where you control one unit from a isometric perspective, rather than an entire army, Heroes of the Storm pits two teams of five against each other in a race to demolish the enemy's Core, a well defended base protected by several layers of defensive walls and turrets.
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This time around, a seemingly random "bomb" appears out of nowhere and drops on the gate right before it opens and the game starts.Blizzard was arguably the company that kicked off the craze for Multiplayer online battle arena games, otherwise known as MOBAs, when the Defence of the Ancients mod for Warcraft 3 became popular enough that other game developers started borrowing ideas from the community for their own titles. Blizzard usually adds some small elements before each game starts to randomly show up and do something, usually as a harbinger of a new hero.
The second tease is coming from the live server. The leaked loading screen and this BlackThorne level are almost a perfect match (Picture: Blizzard) It was captured by Reddit user u/twinklesunnysun, and it shows a pixelated Heroes of the Storm logo on a background that matches perfectly one of the levels from BlackThorne. The first leak is a loading screen from the PTR serves, which got updated briefly before reverted again. If these leaks and teases turn out to be true, BlackThorne will be the second Blizzard character coming from "classic" Blizzard games, after The Lost Vikings.
It looks like Heroes of the Storm might get another Blizzard Classic hero! Several teasers have surfaced today, all pointing towards Kyle "BlackThorne" Vlaros as a new hero in Heroes of the Storm. Nonetheless, the relatively big player base is still passionately playing the game and developers did promise that future content is on its way, and now it seems that we are finally getting the first clues of what that future content might be.īlizzard's classic BlackThorne was released in 1994, and recently reintroduced as a part of Blizzard Arcade Collection (Picture: Blizzard) This foreboding was additionally fueled by the omission of HotS from February's BlizzConline event and rumours of Blizzard's Classic team dissolution. Since then, things have been unusually quiet for Heroes, and the game hasn't got even its regular winter event this year, an ominous sign many fans saw as "proof" that Blizzard is giving up on Heroes of the Storm. It has been 4 months since Heroes of the Storm got its latest hero Hogger, the leader of the Riverpaw gnolls and the Bane of the Elwynn Forest.
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