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It was the exact opposite for me. I've played over 5K hours on both mouse and controller. Mouse came easy. I still can't beam like this on controller. It's so much harder to be a high level player with a controller for me.

The only thing that's easier on the controller for me is to beam people that make very small movements (like very small strafing in place) because aim assist honestly helps too much there. If they are moving in a straight line it might be easier on a controller too, but it's pretty close. Any variation in movement or movement larger than a micro strafe and the mouse is so much easier though. Flicking, single shot weapons like the wingman and shotguns, and long range recoil control and tracking are especially easier on a mouse for me.

Aim assist is OP in those situations where you'd normally miss a few bullets with an automatic weapon with a mouse because someone moved just slightly and your shot is just barely off target. The aim assist will keep you just barely on target unless they make a larger movement. Controllers will one clip targets more often that have a predictable path or small movements because you hit more bullets and don't miss those barely over the shoulder shots. That feels cheap after playing a ton with both inputs because you don't have to aim or do anything to stay on target. Everything else feels harder with a controller to me and a mouse feels so much quicker and more accurate overall.

Despite what people say though, there's a lot more to being good than aim. Movement and decision making can take you far on either input method.

Just out of curiosity and because I do dev work where I track analytics of different OS usage sometimes, why are you using a computer that still has Windows 7 on it? I always wonder why people are still using old tech like this. It's no longer supported by MS as of the beginning of this year, meaning it doesn't get security updates and is highly vulnerable to hackers and viruses. You can also upgrade to windows 10 for free, which is a much better OS in every way.

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

@PhreakRiot, @Auberaun, @phroxz0n, I don't mean to bother you guys but I'm kind of frustrated and hurt right now. Could any rioter comment on the Varus change? I can understand nerfing the AP build, but this nerf is per blight stack, not per ability. That's an incredibly massive nerf when you do the math.

It may not seem like it matters, but please understand. I've played this game now since the beta. And since Varus was released, 90% of my games have been Varus, and almost every game where my team wasn't AP heavy I played AP Varus. The massive majority of my games have been AP Varus. I wrote an AP Varus guide that was pinned for years on the side of the VarusMains sub. For probably ten years now the sub banner has been Varus in a Deathcap partly due to my participation in the sub and excitement for the build.

I played AP Varus long before it was considered good or anything but a troll build and played through years of players abusing me for it - but it's never been basically removed from the game. There is one reason I'm still playing this game after all these years. One. Single. Reason. And I feel like you just removed it from the game, just as if you had removed a full champion from the game.

May I suggest adjusting the nerf to be 2% per stack instead of 1.5%? This is where it was for years and was considered a troll build at 2%. I still played it religiously and had a blast. I just can't at 1.5%. It's more than troll at that point. It was needlessly buffed to 2.5% and that's why it became viable and even powerful with the current items. Why give a champ a needless buff only to nerf the build to nothingness when it's too strong rather than just revert the buff? I've played through this happening so many times to Varus through all the pro play, but this is the first time my build has been unplayable and I've been tempted to straight up quit League.

Thanks for all you do and for all the years of fun. I understand it's your job and you're doing your best. This one just really, really hurts.

In his pants. Duh.

It's like you've never associated with a programmer before! 🙄

(Source: am programmer)

This isn't necessarily accurate depending on what you mean.

Having a full squad and ratting, you're absolutely correct. You'll likely never reach Pred doing that every game unless you actually have skill anyway and you grind a ton.

But my experience is the moment one or two guys from a Masters team gets wiped, you might as well not even look for the third because they're gone. They might respawn by crafting banners, but if they don't have a full team they're not sticking around and they're ratting, and it's the smartest way to play even in Masters at this point.

So the first time I read your title I thought it said "a teaser for my newborn"... And then I looked at the picture...

I was like, "Wow. Now that's one seriously dark humor title right there!" 😳

Masters level player here. Your friend is very, very, very, very wrong. You played that all extremely well. People feel like you should "get in the enemy's face" because they see streamers do it, but streamers only do it because they know they're significantly better than almost anyone they will face and they can get away with that. Go watch a pro game just once where they're against players their own skill and you'll know how stupid it is to say you played bad because you didn't get in someone's face or be more aggressive. They play much more similar to you. I have a Pred teammate that you'd have to drag off the high ground kicking and screaming before he'd move and rarely gets in people's faces. He's an extremely good player. He just plays for the win rather than style or fun and crazy movement.

Things I saw wrong were very minor and I'd say you have impressive game sense and aim for the most part that could take you very high. Here's a small list:

1. Always have your shields pre-selected instead of syringes ahead of time so you can quickly heal without switching

2. When you were up top waiting for them and the caustic ran by, you should have already been ADS'ing looking at the hallway so you could have started shooting the moment the Caustic ran by. You could have knocked him and the fight would have been easier if you were ready for him. I probably would have had my re45 out instead of the scout as well at that range.

3. You probably should have used your phase after punching the Valk and gotten to the middle area behind cover to heal. You knew there was no opponent that way and if the Valk chased you know she'd get shot in the back (it would even bait the Valk into putting her back to your opponent). You were very low and couldn't heal where you were without risking getting knocked at that point. Small thing but probably the right call (although it might have gotten you killed in this circumstance because of the second team, but I don't think you knew there was a second team in advance)

4. You should have shield swapped off the boxes most likely instead of slow healing after the first fight

5. In the second fight, I'm not sure if it was an accident but you shouldn't have dropped off top and should have held your spot of advantage up top there - a.k.a. have been LESS in their face. Once you did drop off though you played it very smart to instantly phase out. If you're up top still, that pressure would stop any rez attempt and you'd force your opponents to be looking up at you when your teammate arrives or look away and let you easily kill them. You also likely wouldn't have gotten so ripped.

6. I'm watching on my phone so I couldn't tell if you had a clear vision of the rez at the end. If you did, you should have cancelled the heal and swapped to your scout and shot at him, forcing him to either stop the rez or get knocked himself, either way being an easier target for your approaching teammate as he would have less health. If he ever looked like he was going to return fire though you would instantly stop shooting and heal behind cover. Your main objective would be to stop the rez and possibly soften him up for your teammate while not getting knocked yourself, and there would be no reason to trade health when you were so low. If you did get knocked, even though you were very unlikely to lose the fight overall at that point, you never know if another team would show up before you got rezzed.

If you couldn't see them but knew they were rezzing, you made the right call to finish the heal (one of the biggest mistakes I consistently see in lower elos is not healing often enough).

I don't necessarily agree either with the other comment that said staying in one place is a bad thing. If you have the position of advantage, you do not give that up unless there's a reason to, and being wraith, if a reason popped up you could probably phase out. You should always be looking for the high ground, and again, another huge mistake I consistently see in lower elos is people dropping from the high ground or giving up their position of advantage when they shouldn't. The only reason you would change positions would be if the position left you vulnerable from an angle that you couldn't cover and thought they could rotate to, if you were trying to surprise or flank them, or if you were out numbered and likely to get overwhelmed by multiple opponents at once (why you see a lot of streamers move a lot since they try to take on teams by themselves).

I was especially impressed with:

1. your restraint, such as not chasing the caustic that was one hp out the door and getting shot in the back of running into his barrels and knowing not to shoot when the second team was together and waiting for someone separated and in the box to shoot,

2. your understanding of the importance of advantageous high ground and holding it,

3. your correct use of cover with using the edge of the high ground as you look down and not revealing more of yourself than you had to.

In general, I would say the biggest thing I saw that you could improve on is speed and comfort with the controls. You should have instantly ADSed at the Caustic running by and probably knocked him but didn't start shooting until he was halfway across your screen. Your healing was slow, clumsy, and delayed with lots of pauses (this gets you killed as getting one more cell off will often be a difference maker). Your looting is way too slow and you picked up things you didn't need like ammo for other guns that will slow you down farther later when you have to drop or swap it.

In general though, keep playing exactly like you're playing and ignore your friend and you'll likely go a lot higher than him unless he's much more mechanically skilled and uses that as a crutch.

You need a video of gameplay my friend, even just some gameplay on YouTube. Maybe it's just day one so nothing's been created yet. I'm honestly interested, but I'm not normally a fan of tower defense games, so I'm hesitant to purchase without a demo or even a video to get an idea of what the game is like.

I play Apex to relax these days and listening to morons that might explode at any time doesn't do that for me. That's why I only play ranked if I know the other two players and I play the other modes without a mic. I might turn it on if the other players sound mature.

I think the new rework is going to be incredible? Leaping around and sticking to walls sounds so fun to me. And how are you calling it the worst rework in the history of gaming when we haven't even seen it in action or even know if it's final yet?

And I think they're significantly better. I might even main him now. I think people just don't understand how cool and well his new tactical and passive will work together. He's going to be like Spider-Man, leaping from wall to wall.

...that wasn't microsoft.

This alone would be a huge red flag for me.

Honestly I feel like this kit could be amazing depending on the speed and height of the jump and whether there are any tweaks to his passive. Imagine being chased by someone and you run into a room and leap up onto the ceiling and cling on, wait for people to run underneath you, and then drop. That's the original promise of Rev's character. Or imagine climbing half way up a wall and leaping off of it to another wall! A fast enough and tall enough leap could be the best escape in the game even, and it could synergize really well with his passive. I honestly can't think of a better tactical to go with his passive if done right.

Yeah, I feel like the hardcore grinders are the most vocal, but they'd get much more benefit from fixing some of the things that make people not finish the game to begin with, like:

• the enemies are too one dimensional. Almost all of them are just "run at you or attack from range in mass" with no other variation.

• most abilities aren't designed around using them strategically or situationally. The vast majority are either spam as much as possible, press every time it's off cooldown, or intelligent combos... that you do over and over again off cooldown against every group of mobs.

• the progression system is mostly stats math with a couple forced predesigned playstyles per class, rather than giving you a lot of choices that actually make much difference in how the gameplay feels or let you build your character exactly how you want. Due to the auto scaling nature of the enemies, you don't even feel the stat changes much.

• there's so much to the build system and most don't even come online or work well until you're high level. They're also just math and very solvable if you have the time to put into it. As a result of all this, instead of a game where people customize their characters the way they want to play and create something that feels unique and theirs and fun to them as they go, everyone just looks up a YouTube video and builds what they're supposed to.

• items are a mess of stats that take too long to decipher what's better, and again, it's just math rather than meaningful options that change how the game feels to play.

You combine all the above and despite having a gorgeous game with an amazing foundation, it feels repetitive and button mashy way too fast and not rewarding enough to design and grow your character.

For example, you should be excited to get every ability point, and every ability point should make a noticeable difference in your gameplay. Instead I've found I often ignore ability points completely for like five levels at a time! Most make such small changes that, combined with auto scaling enemies, I often don't even feel a difference in the gameplay. And new abilities are exciting for about an hour and then it just feels like I'm mashing them off cooldown without much strategy or situational difference and fighting yet another pack of 10 to 20 enemies that spawn every ten feet and do nothing but run straight at me. I love the game but it just gets too repetitive.

In my opinion, improving some of these issues would go a lot farther than focusing on issues people are hitting at the end game.

.dev is bad because before they created the domain it was used in some circles to reference development servers within internal networks, similar to ".lan".

.mov and .zip are much worse though. That was just absolute ignorance and greed.

Pshah. Sounds like something an idiot would say!

Now excuse me while I go try to unload some gamespot stock...

The fact that Google made .dev a domain extension is enough for me to be glad Google domains is dead. Should have never been a domain.