It's on game pass, so me and some invaders at least have it already. I played it a bit, didn't really get into it, but then there was not a quality party gathered up at that point.

Give shout and I'll join up, I have it installed.

Finals already, time really flies.

Oh yeah, the Centaur aghs, and Enchantress Shard (causes all creeps, neutral/allied/enemy to attack a targetted hero), were the ones that caught my eyes as kind of bonkers new ideas.

A lot of others I really like too though: Bounty Shard now gives invis charges and they can be used on allies (seems a very legit support thing), Doom aghs makes the ability Doom also affect a small aoe around the target, and Doom can cast it on himself to just have the aoe. Seems very possible that it'll be core Doom playstyle to get aghs and blink and have actually instant un-linkens'able full doom on someone.

OK, patch looking pretty bonkers. Lots of new weird shard/aghs effects not least, but also a new lane creep, which is kind of fundamental: https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.32

Wow, we'll have to agree to disagree I think, the musical stings are indeed short, but my experience is that they're so rare that they cannot possibly get repetitive (and I found them really charming). Like a little piano twinkle when the sun rises sort of thing. But if you really don't like them there indeed isn't a lot of variety to them.

And, yeah, as far as I understand switch emulation is super-good, and there's a few unique games on the platform.

It is a lot of fun, absolutely recommend everyone give it a try whether on the switch or emulated.

Unfortunately my travel plans got messed up pretty bad by a protracted pilot strike (and some inflexible circumstances, in that I am attending a conference up until the moment I would have headed to Birmingham). As such the travel has gotten real expensive, and I can't really defend the trip anymore. Sorry all, hope you have an excellent time.

My BYOC and PC rental tickets are up for grabs, I am not going to try to shadily resell them, so in case someone can use them go ahead (I seem to recall that for at least the BYOC ticket the name doesn't matter, but don't take my word on that, and I am very unsure about the PC rental ticket).

Bob struggling for a hero to play has his prayers answered though:

Good for all clocks, but I am pretty sure it makes it perfectly workable to play core clock again. Big part of the problem with it was that it didn't really kill waves very well.

Here we gooo!

Fixed:

Fixed:

Not even distantly fixed:

Lot of other pretty big changes, but those were pretty egregious.

It is kind of interesting how my Game Pass hitrate is like 50% on free download -> actually significantly play, when my hitrate on Steam, where I pay for the games, is probably a fair bit worse.