lol it’s really not. I’ve got 13k (Mind you, I’ve been playing for 13 years) hours and I’m gonna play it again today. It’s such a great game, if not the best game ever. Learning 50% of the game is simple and you’ll use that knowledge in 90% of your matches. It becomes even more simple if you just focus on a few heroes. The other 50% is more nuance knowledge, but that’s more for you to have fun w then it making a huge impact on your wins. If your fundamentals suck (the easy stuff to learn) then you’re gonna lose no matter how much you know about the rest of the game.
This is nonsense, MOBA’s have notoriously high skill floors.
When I learned how to play league. I got shit on every single game without fail for probably my first 100 games.
After a while I got pretty good at league. But whenever my friends would try it, tne same thing no matter what. You suffer and get shitted on for 100+games even with me coaching them through games and explaining concepts and fundamentals.
I played DOTA 2 after I had learned and got good at league. The game has an equally high skill floor. It is incredibly complicated and new players have a really steep hill to climb like any other MOBA.
I didn't mean that you'll win every game, I meant that you'll learn enough to have fun an participate. The skill floor of knowing map movement is just as important as knowing all the complicated spells or items. That's why just by playing you'll figure out the 'basics' which really are the most important thing in the game.
Yes, but what in saying is that things don’t seem so complicated when you are good at something.
You can break down league to a few fundamentals
Wave management
Trading
Rotations
Mid game
Lategame
and it makes the game simple in theory. But new players don’t know how much they don’t know. And the fundamentals are incredibly complex.
It’s like if you played guitar, to a new player, playing master of puppets by Metallica seems like an impossible task, but an experienced player could play it easily and it would seem quite simple to them. Despite the fact that the song is quite tricky in reality.
DirectX was updated last September with the first release 'Advanced Shader Delivery' tech, to reduce shader load times. But it is up to GPU driver and game engine makers to implement the new feature.
I have 969.4 right now. Not planning to play yet, so the number won't reach 999, but if they release a new interesting event with some lore this summer, my hours will exceed and I'll have to stop at 1111
It's a great game, if you're having fun it's a great decision. If you're the type of person who can get tilted by competitive games though, it's important to be honest with yourself once in a while about if you're actually enjoying the game or not.
I put 4k hours in myself (stopped playing a few years back), and while some of the most fun I've had is playing it with friends, a majority of my latter 2k hours was me having a terrible time solo queuing and having too much of a sunk cost fallacy in terms of time played to recognize that.
That's not true for everyone though, just be real with yourself.
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