#360 - Into the Nexus: “Mystery Cadence”

• Garrett • Kyle • NotParadox or Guest

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Intro:  Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!

We got kicked out of the Cupid Coliseum

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In the immortal words of Illidan: “In truth, it was I who was betrayed. Still, I am hunted. Still, I am hated. Now, my blind eyes can see what others cannot.” In this episode of Into the Nexus, Garrett and Kyle have concerns. A savagely tone death tweet from the Heroes account let loose the bad news: No BlizzcOnline presence for Heroes of the Storm. While we have received word from the devs that things are still being worked on, it’s up to us to unravel the mystery of future Cadence.

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• Parker A Rooney

News

No Heroes at BlizzcOnline

Schedule is out and so is Heroes...

Key Art released last week - Dark Nexus Deathwing

The Tweet:

Only 9 days left until #BlizzConline and the schedule has arrived from the Nexus!

Don't miss your favorite heroes - with panels streaming across 6 stages! See you there.

The Schedule:

• Blizzard, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo, Overwatch and “Strategy”
• Strategy covers StarCraft, Heroes of the Storm and Warcraft 3
• Artists at Work: CarBot Animation - Listed as a Heroes Event
• Final hours of final day, Strategy stage taken up by Overwatch: How to Draw Tracer and How to draw Margrave Krexus

Blizz_KinaBREW

Hello friends. There's no panel because we didn't have anything to share at the moment. I will say that we have content coming including some of my favorite reworks, new mounts/skins and more. Have a good day!

• Makes us think about all these Art Panels?
• A Critical Role Diablo Campaign?
• Hearthstone Streamer Showdown
• Did Corporate do this on purpose or did the team bow out?
• Would it be an Activision Mistake to bring up heroes?

• If a tweet can affect stock prices?

• Would the audience be happy with an art panel?

Links

• https://blizzcon.com/en-us/schedule

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Let’s look at this History

• November 28th 2018 - Call of the Nexus
• December 1st, 2018 - Queue Complaints of 3-5 minutes
• December 11th, 2018 - Toys Event, Armor Rework, Periodic Catapults, Unit Radii and Experience Change
• December 13, 2018 - J. Allen Brack and Ray Gresko letter
• December 18th, 2018 - Queue complaints of over 5 minutes. 20 minutes for popular heroes.
• December 21st, 2018 - Call of the Nexus “loosened” and “wider pool” for ranked play. Masters Grandmasters now allowed to be matched with Diamond 1-5

Hero Releases

Reworks

CCL Brings in 11k subs per month to Reddit

• Community Clash League (CCL) Season 1 - Aug 20 - Jan 21
• CCL Season 2 - Spring 2021
• Dyrus/MoonMoon/imaqtpie streaming HOTS with 10K-20K Twitch viewers (HOTS streamers normally had 1k-3k viewers total, depending on if Grubby and Fan are streaming) - Nov 2020
• Hololive streamer Amelia Watson streaming multiple times - Nov/Dec 2020
• YouTuber Dunkey lists HOTS as #9 game played in 2020 - 23Jan2021 (Almost 3 Million views)
• League community received massing update with poor reception

Meola

Is the player base shrinking or growing?  How about revenues?  clear that they are not going to invest in new player acquisition and TBF they were aggressive from 2015-2018.  That being said I think the community is owed a road map or state of the game address from the team

• Only 10% of the playerbase plays Storm League
• Vs. AI and ARAM are by far the most popular modes.

Activision/Blizzards Q4 Earnings call almost entirely about Call of Duty

More Remasters Coming

Hearthstone Classic?

This Week I Learned

• Stukov is an incredible Diablo counter
• You can solo abathur comp if you have enough burst. Valeera not Illidan.
• Tank Leoric is the answer to a Johanna pick.
• You can run double support Tank Deathwing.
• Draft lane clear for Sky Temple, then just run away when/if they show up
• I can in fact lose on Johanna
• Any time away from Rexxar is too much time for quality Misha control

Emails

Frollino95

I write this question because I'm in a somewhat peculiar situation in my HOTS gaming experience, and maybe you have some suggestions to help me.

I’m a decent low plat player, but somewhere around 2019 first season the game randomly decided to destroy my enjoyment by removing me about 600 point for every loss and giving me only 100 for every win, dropping me very fast in low gold. My MMR is still pretty high, as confirmed by an extensive collection of data in HOTSlogs and the fact that I get paired almost exclusively against smurf accounts. This situation, combined with the fact that i’m a decent player but nowhere near good enough to carry a normal low gold team against one or two smurfs made it impossible for me to ever recover my rank, and i’m stuck here with my duo buddy, losing game after game vs either smurf accounts or five stacks. Is there a magical way to solve this? And if there’s no solution, do you think there should be?

We gave up after a 20 minute queue and a 21 minute queue (I am diamond 1 and subject to the new rule)

Kyle

I do still struggle with anxiety of joining games with live players. I rarely, if ever, dabble in QM, but never have tried storm league.

The feeling of being bad and letting the team down makes me too anxious to even queue up. I am not the best at mobas, and have slow reflexes. I'm a shift worker, so scheduling to play with others regularly is hard, even if I had friends who played this game.

Anyways, just would like your thoughts, or hear what makes you feel confident in HOTS, or any recommendations!

Much love from Cape Town South Africa!

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Personal Stuff

Garrett

• Follow Garrett @GarrettArt
• NOMOONart.com for Garrett’s stream designs.
• The Angry Chicken: A Hearthstone Podcast
• R2-T2

Kyle

• Twitch.tv/kylefergusson
• Kylefergusson.com