At the ActivisionBlizzard Analyst Day Webcast, Mike Morhaime announced that the Map Marketplace would be coming with HotS, and that Blizzard DotA would be a new game mode in HotS as well... He said game mode, not map or mod. This means that we'll be able to "quick join" Blizzard DotA matches on a Ladder, exactly like how we do in Melee. Seems like a great idea... Automated Matchmaking system, ladder, etc for Blizzard DotA.
Night of the Dead by Ability1
Night of the Dead has received a major update just recently and is slated for some even bigger ones once the Heart of the Swarm is released by Blizzard. For those of you that don't know what NotD is, you can check out all previous videos/trailers released by Ability1 over the last year or so in his thread. Essentially, NotD is an 8-player co-op survival game, so think: Call of Duty Nazi Zombies, or Gear of Wars' Horde Mode.
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Posted Sep 25, 2011I enjoy this map, but personally I'm still waiting for redscull to port SWAT: Aftermath to SC2... which is never going to happen. That game is the best zombie survival game I have ever played including all wc3 and sc2 customs, CoD Nazi Zombies, and AAA zombie horror games.
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Posted Sep 10, 2011this is what inspired my zombies map... nice job guys... if i could i'd join up with ya
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Posted Sep 10, 2011"Mad World" is great song!
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Posted Sep 2, 2011NOTD looks very polished and the UI looks amazing. While I'm not a big fan of this kind of gameplay, I must say thank you, to the team behind it and other mapmakers, to still take the time to make quality maps in a place where most have given up.
Concerning blizz's dota, I'm cool with that as long as they don't lock people who don't have Hearth of the Swarm out of it. IMO it's a very smart move to counter Valve's, especially after the cheap move of trademarking DotA.
Also, I personally LOVE when compagnies/tv shows do cameos (ie: family guy/simpsons/futurama) in their other franchises so to have diablo, warcraft and starcraft mixed all together is just nerdgasmic!
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Posted Sep 1, 2011I'm sure they'll explain it at blizzcon.
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Posted Sep 1, 2011Called it. Actually though, check my post history and it will be there :)
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Posted Sep 1, 2011I guess blizz really don't want valve to monopoly the dota market then. Smart move, an additional game mode on an existing service to compete with a complete game. The problem though is that the engine must be really improved in HotS for this to happen. Either way, its good for us.
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Posted Sep 1, 2011I love the UI, Nice Job.
and... GO BLIZZARD DOTA, HOTS, AND ALL BLIZZ STUFF!
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Posted Sep 1, 2011May wanna fix those semitransparent building doodads in the second trailer.
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Posted Sep 1, 2011I have to say, that the story trailer is awesome!