Played on Apr 20th. Afternoon. PC.
I was able to get into the alpha of this game. There's not that many people playing at the moment. Mostly just developers who are really good. The game is basically like playing two games of OMD at once. It's a lot of fun. Right now the bots are too strong now... so strong.
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Played on Apr 20th. Evening.
The community isn't there yet and it's difficult to get into a game regularly, but when you do it's pretty fun. But I after one game everyone seems to disappear or go into a different match then you could be stuck waiting forever. That'll change as more people get in though.
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Played on Apr 21st. Evening.
Played a couple of really close games. Really liked playing as Gnoll guy and Big barbarian guy.
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Played on Apr 22nd. Afternoon.
Messed around with some Heroes I hadn't played before versus some bots.
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Played on Apr 22nd. Evening.
Played one game as Temper the minotaur and did terrible with him. He's really squishy and I couldn't figure out how to use him well. Then played a game as Hogarth and had a lot of fun. He is way more tanky and hard to kill. He has a great pounce attack that stuns guys. He's probably the most fun I've had with this game.
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Played on Apr 23rd. Evening.
Had two really great games playing as Blackpaw. He's probably my favorite to play now. The second match came really close. We were winning but the other team had a good push and was able to pull out the victory. It's great being in the alpha because we all get to chat up the devs. Especially after the match.
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Played on Apr 26th. Evening.
Played 3 games tonight. The first one was with a lot of new folks and we were crushed. I could have played better though. Had one really close game as Smolder. The devs just added a new test deck that had the Ice Amulet one it and I fell in love with it. It doesn't freeze guys like it did in the other game, but it just would rip through groups of enemies. The match came so close. It ended with a 0-2. Then I had another game where I played the Warmage and we just wrecked the other team with so many bears.
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Played on Apr 28th. Evening.
Played as Bloodspike for the first time and he was a lot of fun. I'm surprised I'm enjoying the melee characters so much since I never used the melee weapons from the previous games.
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Played on Apr 29. Evening.
There was a new patch today and I popped on to play a quick game to check it out. They made it so the earlier waves were a bit tougher and I honestly didn't notice that much of a difference.
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Played on May 1st. Evening.
They released a new map for testing. It's a three lane gigantic map and is totally broken in some areas, but still a lot of fun. I played three games on it.
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Played on May 13th. Evening.
They patched in a deck builder finally and I was messing around with that in game for the first time. Had a couple of games. There was a lot of new folks who didn't quite know how to play just yet. There was one guy who was only playing for about a week or so and was very cross with the new players. It was pretty hilarious how much of a bitch that guy was.
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Played on May 14th. Evening.
Played a couple games with the new patch. Really like the lightning ring and ice amulet.
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Played on May 15th. Evening.
Played two matches on the community stream as Blackpaw and didn't do so hot either time. Messed up my deck and forgot to put a ranged attack in it.
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Played on May 16th. Evening.
Oh man. Had some really awesome games tonight. The last one came so close. The hot thing right now is Glory Seekers, an auto ballista that aims for players. Places a couple of these down really deters pushing at the cost of having traps that hurt minions. Really cool concept, but a bit over powered right now.
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Played on May 22nd. Evening.
Had a big problem with my mic not working and only got a few games in once I got it working. They toned down Glory Seekers now, but they're still pretty good.
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Played on May 27th. Evening.
The devs were holding an event tonight for Alpha players versus the Best of the devs. I played them in two matches and lost both. Then played two match maker games are lost both of them. Boo. I think I'm really like playing as Smolder now though. She's a lot fun.
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Played on Jun 5th. Afternoon.
They released a new patch that began testing the leveling and f2p stuff. We all started at level 1 and start with basically nothing. But once you gain a few levels it opened up pretty quickly and they added a bunch of new cards.
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Played on Jun 6th. Morning.
Played a co-op match just to grind for levels a bit. Level 7 now. I've been experimenting with taking out my opponent's back doors first and it's been working fairly well against both AI and player teams.
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Played on Jun 6th. Evening.
My back-door attacking strategy doesn't really work against players who know what's up. Ah well. It's still nifty.
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Played on Jun 7th. Afternoon to Evening.
Played a whole bunch of games. The last one came down to 1 - 0. We would have lost if I hadn't closed the gate to our rift room. So close.
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Played on Jun 7th. Evening.
More games! Lost most of them. Played with a lot of newer folks who don't really know what they're doing, but still had some good matches. It was great hearing the one guy over the Team Speak discover everything for the first time. He was adorable.
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Played Jun 9th. Evening.
Just played a few games.
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Played Jun 10th. Evening.
Just played a few games.
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Played Jun 12th. Evening.
There's was a big new patch that reset everything and added 3 new heroes. I got one in a drop called the Prospector and really like him.
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Played Jun 14th. Evening.
Lots of new players on today. I was able to get a few games late at night which is great. It's a bit annoying when the new guys make some many mistakes, but we had some good games regardless.
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Played Jun 15th. Evening.
Played a game against some of the best in the community. Phew.. those guys are really good and our team was super unorganized. It was brutal, but we were able to at least get a couple waves in so it wasn't a complete blow out.
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Played Jun 26th. Evening.
Last day of the Closed Alpha! Had couple of good games against the community team "Cake." Lost both, but they weren't full sweeps. Then we had a chance to test out the new version of the 3 lane map for a couple of hours and found a whole bunch of really amazing movement glitches.
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Played Jun 27th. Evening to Late Evening.
Start of the Closed Beta. Nothing much different about the game other than a bunch of new players and a revised 3 lane map. Had a bunch of fun with the fellow Alpha players on the Team Speak server.
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Played Jun 28th. Late Evening.
Played a couple of games with just random people. Had a few good games.
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Played Jul 9th. Evening.
Finally have internet in my room that is fast enough to play online games. There was a big new patch recently that added a bunch of new art and dashboard stuff. It all looks great! There does seem to be a issue with ping now.
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Played Jul 12th. Evening.
Got Bored of EVO and wanted to play some of this. I had a lot fun hanging out with the other players on TS. Had a couple good games that went on for too long, but more than once I encounter some fairly new players helping out other new players and it warmed my heart. I didn't see a single toxic player. Hopefully it'll remain this way.
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Played Jul 13th. Evening.
Played 5 or 6 games while watching the EVO finals. The last game was against most of the folks in the TS and my team ended up winning but it was pretty close. I've been playing as defender pretty much exclusively.
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Played Jul 14th. Evening.
Played some matches. Forgot to add it to the list.
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Played Jul 16th. Afternoon to Evening.
Played for a couple hours. Had some great Pub matches and then did a great custom game against other folks in the TS.
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Played Jul 18th. Evening.
Another awesome night of mostly alpha player games. The one guy, Baehl, was drunk the whole night and it was pretty easy to mess with his head.
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Played Jul 19th. Afternoon to Evening.
There will be a big patch on Tuesday where all account progress will be wiped, but there will be a bonus if you are at a certain level. So a lot of folks are trying to get to certain levels before then. I had a lot of really good games this session and a couple of bad ones. We really want to keep the OMDU community friendly and I've been taking down names of toxic players.
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Played Jul 19th. Late Evening.
Decided to hop back on after getting pizza. Had such a great night playing with everyone. One of my best nights.
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Played Jul 20th. Evening.
Fuck the International, Let's Play some OMDU. I played a bunch of games and hung out with people on the TS. We had fun, but I left a bit early to do some other things.
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Played Jul 21th. Afternoon.
Played a pub game and it was really good. We were winning until the other team got a good push through. A very exciting and tense game.
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Played Jul 22nd. Afternoon to Evening.
NEW PATCH DAY! Lots of new stuff added. New characters (Sir Winston, The Kobold King), new gear (arcane bubble), new everything. It's too much to go into detail here, but the game feels so much more complete and enjoyable. I spent most of it just playing Co-op to get to level 10.
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Played Jul 23rd. Evening.
Had a couple games with the new team match maker. Won some lost some. I really like playing as the new hero, Sir Winston, but right now it's a bit overpowered.
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Played Jul 24th. Early Morning.
Decided to pop back on and play a few games. Some of the other regulars were on and we had fun teaming together. Won every game, but we were against mostly random solo'ers.
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Played Jul 24th. Evening.
Just played some games. Did a little solo matching and some team matching. Had some pretty good games. Lost one when I got into a game that was being officially streamed.
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Played Jul 25th. Evening.
Played more games, gained levels, had some fun. There was a new patch today that helped balance out some of the overpowered heroes a bit and things are better. While in team match we were up against the other group of folks from the TS and crushed them. Then we had a game were we played against mostly new people and they were doing really good but we came back and one of them instantly opened their gates and DC'd. Fucking lame.
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Played Jul 26th. Evening.
Had a bunch of need games. There's some regular in the TS who is kind of annoying and I wish he would leave. He's not very good at the game and talks about sort of nothing at times. We humor him, but still. It can be pretty grating. Anyway we had some good games and only really lost one.
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Played Jul 30th. Evening.
Had some games tonight with mostly random folks. Started to have that feeling of "we're losing because someone else is fucking up and not doing what they should be doing." I've been thinking a lot about where traps should be placed and the team should be spending their resources. Unfortunate I've haven't had the chance to play with some of the best players to test that stuff out like I wanted to tonight.
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Played Jul 31st. Evening.
Right now there's is a big problem with wave 2 and 3 being too strong for defenders to do much against. Particularly the Hunter Rush. This is where players put a bunch of level 2 Gnoll and Pride Hunter cards in to rush the defense with 15 player seeking minions. There has been a lot of discussion on how to fix this so it's not as effective.
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Played Aug 1st. Evening.
Had some great games but had one where I had to deal with some toxic whiny players. Boooo.
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Played Aug 6th. Evening.
Had a couple games. Did a custom game against Team Cake and our team got pretty handily crushed.
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Played Aug 9th. Afternoon.
Had a couple of solo queue games. They were all alright. Lost a couple. Won a couple. I tried a different hero each game which was a nice change of pace.
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Played Aug 10th. Afternoon~Evening.
Had a ton of games through out the day. Had a lot of discussions with folks about strategies. Team Cake was looking for another temp person and ask me to join so there's that.
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Played on Aug 11th. Evening.
Had a couple of games.
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Played Aug 14th. Evening.
Played about 2 or 3 matches then decided to go do something else for whatever reason. I was kind of tired.
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Played Aug 17th. Evening.
Just played two games and lost both. Was going to play more but wasn't really feeling it tonight.
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Played Aug 18th. Evening.
Had a few games with some people on the Team Speak. Won 1 and lost 3. haha. I experimented with this new strategy as the Sorceress and it works great if you set it up right, but if you don't then she feels pretty useless.
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Played Aug 19th. Evening.
Had a couple games with and against on the official stream. Had some good games and played mostly as a the Master.
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Played Aug 22nd. Evening.
Played a bunch of games. Some on stream, most off. Friday nights are when the rest of the group have their drinking night and tend to be a lot fun. Tonight was a lot of fun.
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Played Aug 25th. Evening.
Had a bunch of games and won most of them. I really like playing as the Sorceress with boulder chutes. She can solo waves even when people are pushing them with that set up. It's brutal, but not over powered because if she dies or isn't near them then she's kind of useless.
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Played Aug 26th. Evening.
Played a single game on stream.
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Played Aug 27th. Evening.
New patch today. Added a new hero called Tundra, which I didn't really like playing, and a bunch more traps and gear. It's pretty good, but I was feeling frustrated and annoyed the whole time for whatever reason.
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Played Aug 29th. Evening
Had a couple of good games tonight. The last game was a 5v4 that lasted like 40 minutes.
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Played Sept 5th. Evening.
Played a couple of games while chatting with folks on the public Raidcall server.
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Played Sept 13th. Evening.
Played a game. There wasn't a lot of people on though. Very few of the regulars too. It's unfortunate because I've been thinking a lot about this game, but haven't seen a lot of people play it at the moment.
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Played Sept 14th. Evening.
Had a bunch of games as Smolder. I haven't really played her since the alpha and she was a lot of fun. Lost most of my games afterwords because we were up against a couple of guys who were really playing well together.
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Played Sept 23rd. Afternoon.
There was a new patch today and I got a friend of mine a code. We played a few co-op matches before she had to go.
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Played Sept 24th. Afternoon.
Played a single match around the time the stream happens. It seemed like very few folks where there.
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Played Oct 23rd. Evening.
A bunch of regulars got together to play and we had a couple games. There was a lot of new stuff since I last played and I was very rusty.
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played Nov 18th. Evening
I've been having major computer issues and haven't be able to use my main computer. There was a new patch tonight that added a new character. So I installed it on my laptop. It runs fine with the settings turned down. Though it was very difficult to play without my desktop's mouse. I do like the new character. She's pretty cool.
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Played Nov 19th. Evening
I switched my mouse to the one I was using on my desktop. It's much better. It'll still take some getting used to on this computer though. I think I'll have to turn down the graphic settings even more.
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