I have seen many one sided reviews lately regarding this game.

I want to clear the air and give you the good the bad and the ugly, I have over 3000 hours on this game, and since I really don't care if anyone plays this or not, I'll give this review objectively and honestly. Hopefully you enjoy!

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The Honest Positives -

• Heroes are interesting, unique from each other, and fun to play.
• The balance is very good, if you can play well you can do well with any heroes. You can carry with support, and support with carries, and many heroes are conducive in some way to any kind of playstyle, and it can be good. Some are more difficult than others, but is possible if you are good.
• Casual game modes (unranked), competitive (ranked), and many different types of game modes.
• The coding is very good, tight controls, wonderful graphics, efficient server-side (rarely lags), UI is brilliant, simple to understand but very deep
• Interesting game mechanics, unnumerable strategies
• IceFrog (creator and lead of game) follows stats closely and fixes any issues very quickly and scientifically. Has emotion involvement in the game, and it is palpable
• Intense or relaxing as you want to make it
• Very addicting to play, always a hero you will find very rewarding
• All heroes are OP in their own way, which balances it out, makes them interesting
• The report function is very intelligent and well-thought out, so if u are solo placed with 4 others, they can't all ban you and have you go to low-priority
• The anti-hack coding is very, very good, and I have NEVER in my maybe 2.5k games played experienced a blatant hacker, neither on my team or on the other. It's a very, very positive experience in this aspect.
• Don't ever have to pay a penny and have all heroes available and all modes.
• Weekly tournaments that change your profile and let everyone know you have won (very intimidating in ranked games for opponents).

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The Honest Negatives -

• There's are a lot of children who throw temper-tantrums because they don't get their way, or feel you made a mistake, etc. If you don't immediately mute them and just enjoy the game, you will get angry, tilt, and it will be reflected in the game. Once I learned that, the game became much more enjoyable. Often once they realize you don't care or that they are muted, they will just play, because let's be honest, no-one likes to lose, even trolls. However, realize that occasionally there will be nothing you can do and there will be that one guy who constantly runs up mid and dies 40 times on purpose. And you will have wasted 40 minutes of your time, doomed to lose from the start. The least satisfying and most infuriating experience in my gaming life.
• Players paid to boost are not prevelant, but do exist, and will♥♥♥♥♥♥you
• Peruvians, for some reason, are very vocal and over-bearing on the US servers. Apparently Peruvians get 3rd best connections to US east/west and are everywhere. Without stereotyping, in my own experience, their culture is simply ingratiating to most Americans. It's an aggressive,♥♥♥♥♥♥talking culture inherently, a cultural difference. Just like Koreans are almost always reserved and humble (always exceptions to any rule), so Peruvians are almost always the opposite of that. Sometimes you will be put on teams where nobody speaks English (however, in-game chat wheels translate your commands to other languages).
• Game is a sadistic grind to achieve MMR. Will play an hour to get 15-30 mmr, could lose it next game in an hour long gank fest, and now you're back to where you've started, feeling like you just wasted your evening in the sense of MMR.
• Must actively seek to learn optimized builds for heroes and recognize enemies spells to be more than moderately successful. This takes time, practice, and perhaps research, so the game can be a time-sink.

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TLDR;

Gameplay is fun as♥♥♥♥♥♥ balanced, and rewarding. Use the mute button and you'll negate most of the negative experiences. Feeders happen occasionally, very frustrating, many Peruvians, need to put some time to be good.
Caution: game is addicting and at times infuriating, but always satisfying when you out-skill opponents, and when you have a fun team game shines like the North Star in a dark sky of games.

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