Go no lower than an intel i5 or AMD ryzen 5 for the CPU. Make sure the laptop has a dedicated GPU too. Get one with 16GB RAM and an SSD. Anything less and you’ll run into a lousy low frame rate experience.

Depends whether you’re playing Turbo or Ranked. For instance if we’re playing ranked where everybody is of similar MMR then yeah, massive KDA difference over a number of matches would be suspicious and you could weed out the smurf.

However, if you’re playing Turbo, the matchmaker gives zero fucks about who it puts on your team or who it puts on the enemy team. You could get 3 divines and 2 legends queuing on one side and the matchmaker puts them against 3 guardians and 2 archons. It’s pretty messed up. So you’d often get massive KDA differences in that game mode.

The system doesnt actually need to evaluate how toxic or if its toxic at all, it just needs to know if a report was filed shortly after the action.

And there we have it folks - why the comms report button should be removed in favour of simply muting people you don’t like.

Dude anything above 60fps is good. The fact that you’re getting 190-115 during heavy team fights is great.

Supports are absolutely killing it right, especially now that Aeon Disk exists, along with a bunch of other escape items.

I can spot them a mile away. They make suspicious plays (like insta-hexing while they’re running in the opposite direction). They blind blink right on top of you in fog and trees where you have warded and they have no vision. Their profiles always have an anime pic, their accounts are around 500 games played with a previous VAC. And if you watch the replays of the games the cheater was in, you can see their camera POV isn’t even looking at the targets their hero is casting on and attacking. Also the camera will jump around like crazy - almost enough to make any normal person sea sick. What they need is a way to stop them creating brand new accounts the minute they get banned.

Hahahaha best answer yet

I’d be grateful if Valve would stop being so lazy compared to previous years.

OP this forum downvote and gaslight anyone who claims the report system is less than perfect. But in all honesty, the report system has been pretty broken lately. So many people have been creating threads about how their comms scores are bugged and have not moved in weeks.

The report system is lazy by design. There’s very little vetting of rage reports and a lot of the ones that aren’t warranted often end up counting. This is particularly noticeable with regards to comms reports. Nobody reviews those at all.

IMO, if Valve is unwilling to review comms reports, they should just remove the comms report button from the game and let people rely solely on the mute button. It is 100% effective at shutting up vocal offenders anyway.

Length-wise his streams are starting to rival the Lord of the Rings trilogy

I find games in under 60 seconds when I queue for Turbo. I guess most people play that nowadays when they’re not doing Ranked.

It kinda looks like they chose to not re-hire any cosmetics artists this year. Minimum effort on their part. Anniversary sets were sets that already existed in the game - they just changed the colour schemes. Same for Crimson chest - all sets were from last year but given a red repaint.

I was just reminiscing the old days of Warcraft III where no such report system existed. We didn’t need it. People had a lot of fun back then. I dunno what it is - maybe there were just less assholes back in the day. The only reports that got submitted were about cheaters. We’d email the Blizzard anti-cheat team and they’d watch the replay. If a cheater was found guilty they’d issue a ban. Nobody really griefed all that often because almost everybody wanted to win. As for flamers and shit talkers, we just used the mute button. It worked perfectly. Valve’s report system on the other hand, that encourages spite.

Better than 4 pos5 players who all choose supports that don’t have stuns and don’t scale well into late game (looking at you Turbo mode team mates).

Using a VPN can also cause that to happen. If he is using one, try queuing while its disabled and see if that fixes the issue.

I concur

Players made Valve so filthy rich from previous years of battle passes that they don’t even need to crank out news ones now. They can be as lazy as they want. And they evidently were.

So many heroes were untouched that needed buffs though. Patch was half-assed for the amount of time passed since the previous one. Very low effort IMO

Sounds like more excuses for their laziness to me. We’ve seen them in previous years bring out events/battle passes/multiple arcanas and organise TI’s.

The sad truth is, Valve has become lazy and complacent. I’m not buying.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Valve buffed Spirit Breaker in the next patch. They’ve done dumb shit like that for 3 patches in a row. Buffing the already strong heroes and further nerfing the ones that were hovering around 50% win rate.