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Long as it's consistent I don't really care all that much either way. Does tend to add a bit to the story when it's part of a translation (or someone being very careful about usage, at least), but most of the time the writing/dialogue can be adjusted so it's not necessary fairly easily and it usually doesn't add that much regardless.

As per teneb, basically. It varies based on work, or more precisely usage -- quality of the translation if it's translated, the writing if it's not. They can be a positive or a negative depending on the particular instance.

Ah, danke. Yeah, that... definitely an "If get, get later" title. The comments on crashing and optimization is... not something I want to deal with. Let them fix it, or fans fix it, and then get it (when it's on a deeper sale >_>).

... huh. I thought those boulders had an AoE effect to 'em. Which. They don't.

Isn't there some kind of unit that has a ranged rock-like attack that hits a full square? My memory hasn't completely borked on me, has it?

Though, with the fire/death bless, if you've got an AoE weapon, will it effect the full thing or just the main hit?

Oooh. Yeah, I could see that. It always kinda' felt like folks were surprised by how much the dude was chunking their health for...

In other news, rumble in the abyss was pretty delicious. Took a while to get going, but once it got going...

E: Eeehehehe, just scored a 56 to 80 win. Rengar on the other team with 39 kills, playing swain for the first time in my life :V

Ended up going almost full tank, 'cause rengar basically oneshot me like five times. Thornmail/banshee's/aegis, ended up killing their core with a teammate while being wailed on ineffectually by a hecarim

You can mod in catapult/arcing fire units fairly easily, iirc. Would really be mostly an issue of changing their attack/attack sprite and giving them long range -- the regular arrow trajectories work well enough for the effect. They're not used very often -- I think about the closest thing to them are some of the giant nations and their boulder throwers -- but the mechanics for it are there. Easy de-crew would just be one of those second shape thingies, akin to the oni, where the first form is flimsy and the second isn't.

Dunno what's so hard to understand, ha. You've got an aoe stun cone that can't actually stun anyone with two brain cells (unless you've got someone else running CC, I guess, and I suppose it's got that slow, too, but landing the damned thing is...), you got the same shield (that gets immediately popped in ARAM, and I never liked, anyway), you've got the minion toss (which is actually nice, though the non-minion effect is... not that impressive), and you've got... the ult. I don't really have words for the ult. I mean, technically it's a stun? But it's... very telegraphed, and very irritating to actually aim. Trying to curve around a turret on the abyss ended up with me ramming into the wall instead (and more or less in the middle of the enemy team). Passive's neat, though even with the speed buff talent it's... not easy to get in range of anyone. And in ARAM, there's probably friends nearby to CC/nuke you. Does usually get folks to scramble around, though, which is nice.

... basically, the maybe is because he never actually lands a stun, even though he has two :V Can see him being good in SR or somethin', but the abyss seems like it's pretty much his worst-case scenario. Just about the only thing he actually gets to consistently use there seems to be the E...

Though... going ADC sion in the abyss seems like it would just be flat suicide. You can't build the stacks to get infinite health, and that shield is about the only thing that stops you from just getting flat wrecked. Well, slows down the process.

No worries about tricking myself into going back into solo queue, though. I never played solo queue to begin with This is the first time I've played actual PvP instead of co-op vs ai since... probably the first handful of games I played, years ago -- I'd wager I've played <10 PvP SR or dominion games, heh, despite playing LoL off and on pretty much since the first year it went public. Also the load time for anything except the abyss on this computer is just shit, complete and total shit. Game could really stand a preload option of some sort.

E: P.S. I am freaking terrible at playing kayle

Somehow ended up with 2nd in kills and assists on my team, though. Also most deaths >_> 10/13/25 Pretty sure I just accidentally KS'd a lot...

also just noticed they changed will of the ancients. Whoops. I think I've built that thing three times without noticing it's not an aura item anymore...

There's a mod that has 'em, for what it's worth.

I coulda' sworn bogarus or somethin' had similar critters too, though, just... without the beak hat.

E: Oops, indeed.

... soooooo. Anyone checked out the AoM dlc? Reviews seem somewhat lackluster, heh, but if anyone's got some first hand opinions to share...