Lock Pick Mode

[[KtoK]londoahv]

2. It is a competitive mode and focuses on the competitive aspects of the game.
It's a competitive mode... Erm... Ok? So what? A really weird reason that has very little to do with disabling it for randoms.

This point imho has a lot to do with allowing only 5-man teams to join it. I will say ahead that I would like to be able to join it solo, but i wholeheartedly understand why it's 5-man only. If it werent 5-man only, you would get more of the people who just play it for fun and just wont put in the effort to win. Odds are you get that 1 mid hero that says "i'm done" right after giving away fb, or you get people who don't ward or, dare I say it, counterward and start calling people who do as tryhards. Making this 5v5 only pretty much forces each team to play tryhard, and a lot of people who would otherwise join it just aren't able to play like that.

Aside from that, the mode seems to encourage thinking of your team composition ahead of time, and you pretty much can't do that with randoms as you won't know their hero role strenghts an weaknesses. Granted, this happens in other modes as well, but as this is labelled as "competitive mode", neither side will really enjoy a game where 1 team has great composition and the other team is composed of 5 melee hardcarrys. The overall match quality drops like that.

[Iceman_mat]

Just after the bloodbath of DreamHoN comes Lock Pick, the official competitive mode for HoN. This cutthroat mode takes the hero pool to the next level. Unlike the traditional pool, Lock Pick features a "Locked Hero Pool" of six heroes. Of the six, four must be picked in the end. Every action during the picking phase will be done by each team’s captain.

The order of actions each captain will take is as follows:

• Two blind bans. These function exactly as they do in Mid Wars
• "Lock" three Heroes. These six Heroes make up the "Locked Hero Pool" and are unbannable and picked at the conclusion of the Picking Phase
• Ban three Heroes
• Pick three Heroes
• Pick two Heroes from the "Locked Hero Pool". Your team is not limited to picking from the Heroes only your team "Locked", you can freely pick from any of the six. Two heroes from the "Locked Hero Pool" will remain unpicked
• Players may not Ready Up until all ten players have a Hero
• You may still Swap with teammates at any time

This new style of picking will create a unique battle lineup for every game. Some teams may decide to pick universal heros that they know they can dominate and others may pick heroes that throw a curveball into the game play.

Check out Lock Pick’s introduction video here: http://youtu.be/dnuAb_-SFAo

So if I am understanding this correctly

Any new modes will mainly be focused on competive play, which is a low %
The public player base is now just atm's (micro store - buy to win!)
Anything otherwise doesn't matter.

I would say s2'ed but this is pretty much a market trend. Way to keep status quo.


I mean to me it does seem a lot of pointless steps to ban 10 hero's and have 2 people pick randomly from 6 (which they don't have to do). Seems like an attempt to combine Random draft and all pick.

[[FTLE]Popopidopop]

This is a great mixup to play competitive while still getting less popular heroes in the pool ...
Since the captain makes the team pick a solid lineup would be great for pubgames, BUTBUTBUTBUT!!!

U need 4 friends to f**cken play it!@#$!

If u have 4 friends u dont need to force your teammates to play heroes that fit the lineup its when you are playing with pubbie retards u need it so u dont end up with 5 carries or no carries!
Jesus S2 dont u get the point?!

Give smart competitive ppl who might not have too many friends playing the same game (or just friends being currently offline) a chance to play a solid game without getting raped by the retardation of the heard of players who dont think when they are picking their hero.

[Katieeee]

So if I am understanding this correctly

Any new modes will mainly be focused on competive play, which is a low %
The public player base is now just atm's (micro store - buy to win!)
Anything otherwise doesn't matter.

I would say s2'ed but this is pretty much a market trend. Way to keep status quo.


I mean to me it does seem a lot of pointless steps to ban 10 hero's and have 2 people pick randomly from 6 (which they don't have to do). Seems like an attempt to combine Random draft and all pick.

Any new modes? What about Mid Wars? :B

[[VVCL]_Kaiser]

only with a full team! that it's a real team battle

gj s2

ps: i need buy some tokens :S

[MushidoZ]

Seems like a really nice addition to the game.. However, I am also iffy about the forced all 5-man team. I understand entirely why it's made that way, and I somehow have to agree with the points brought up by Kaizer. However, I am also screwed up by the fact I cannot join the game, faulty of not adding "friends", having real life friends that actually like playing this game.

I am not sure how much is listened to from the community (at least don't that don't play competitive), but I would side with one of the recommendations here to allow for a "Check" option where you can choose whether you fight ONLY against 5 man team, or if you don't mind fighting against random loose-bullet teams. That way, the competitive players or those who have a team can still benefit from the mode, while the rest could still enjoy this amazing mode that will make it so the heroes that shine the least are gonna be discovered and played.

ALSO, I have to say I am smiling over the actual fact that when a nerf / buff is proposed to a hero, there is always an army of people crying and saying the hero is fine, as ALL heroes are balanced and fine. Seems we get a lot of "Let them pick bad heroes" comments here. Hypocrisy at its best ^^

[[saxy]Foerdifuxx]

I like the new mode, its a great addition to the already existing Mode-Pool.

...but why no BD-Mode anymore?
because of the missing space in the interface???

[[IaF]Skyve]

I like the new mode, its a great addition to the already existing Mode-Pool.

...but why no BD-Mode anymore?
because of the missing space in the interface???

I guess it's a little bit of that and the fact that is hardly saw any use.

[Iceman_mat]

Any new modes? What about Mid Wars? :B

Mid wars isn't a new mode, it is a single lane map.

New mode?

Heroes of newearth - capture the flag. Flag captures damage enemy bases. Can be done on mid, 3v3 or 5v5 maps. Flag captures damage buildings respectivly. 10 caps win (or set by players). Just an Idea


-Cheers

[DutchFlame]

This is a bit impossible. Since the only way to get into the Lock Pick mode in TMM, is to have a FULL 5 man team. Therefore, if someone does that, then they meant to do it, or are just trolling their team.

no because sometimes TMM games are made with random people from chat channels.

[[MNI]BigBadBurger]

Loving lockpick!!!!!!!

[[MNI]Stitch3s]

Awesome change !

[Iriis]

this is like 5v5 team match like training for comp games so i love the new lockpick mode they got.

[hMY`]

This Mode is More Fun imo..