
Good evening, my subjects!
Do you know what tonight is? A storm is brewing. A storm so wide and vast that it will draw together warriors from far distant lands to a single battlefield. Among these, heroes will emerge, and conduct battle across the net. I am of-course speaking of Heroes of the Storm, which unlocks tonight (supposedly) at midnight. We'll see how their servers fare under the onslaught of the inevitable flood.
Am I excited for it? Kinda! Hence the artwork. But I was fortunate enough to get beta access fairly early-on thanks for
Frenor who was kind enough to endow a fennec with a beta access key. Hugs and kisses for you, mister horsie! And then I proceeded to play the game to death. Unfortunately the only 5 or 6 levels in the game (back then) couldn't hold my interest forever. My hope is that the developers have expanded the number and variety of maps considerably, and thus renew it.
What are my thoughts on the game so-far? It looks nice, plays well, very satisfying. Nicely balanced, and we all get to fight eachother as characters from Blizzard's deep and well-established lore. But that is part of the problem that I have with it. They seem to have gone only halfway. We have all these awesome characters that we've grown up with, each with amazing universes that they came from, and yet (at least in the beta) all the levels are new, from unestablished universes. I wanted to snipe Dwarves at the gates of hell, drop atomics on Diablo on the orbital platforms of Korhal, and cloak in the ruins of Aiur. The current maps pale in comparison to what they could have been. A ghost pirate cove? A garden where the plants walk around at night? Who made these decisions when there were so much better possibilities right there for them to use?
So I am holding out hope that SOME established environments will launch with the game tonight. The dearth of existing maps warrants more expansion anyway. But in any case: I'm excited. Look for me ingame. Hint: Its probably a Nova (or Raynor) named "Etheras". ;)
Awesome artwork is of course by
Atryl, who actually unlocked all the characters of Heroes of the Storm without paying anything before beta ended. That's insane. I put in probably 40 hours or so and only had a handful! Kudos to you, mister artist-man. Kudos!
Etheras the Fennec is (of course) © www.etheras.com , which should be up sometime this summer, and will expand to include a host of awesome functionality never-before-seen on the internet. I'm expecting the big furry sites to steal my ideas pretty quick, but I'm actually quite happy with them doing that.
Artwork is of-course based on Nova (Nova kiss? Big 'splosion? And the gun? Yup: Nova). Who is most-likely © Blizzard Entertainment or their parent company (I think Activision owns them these days?)
Want more "Etheras as Nova"? You're in luck! I have another one of those: Ghost
Or more video game tribute artwork? Here are a few more: From EVOLVE, and another from EVOLVE. Here's a tribute to Borderlands (also by Atryl, and featuring Frenor's Horse char). There are plenty more in my gallery, but I want to skip to the first image I ever posted on FA as Etheras, which depicts him as Illusive Man from Mass Effect (only much sexier IMHO). ;)
Or maybe you'd just like to see more sexy fennec by Atryl? You're in luck! In Flight Service, Good With Hands, Numbers, and... Well..., Emperor
Enjoy!
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Do you know what tonight is? A storm is brewing. A storm so wide and vast that it will draw together warriors from far distant lands to a single battlefield. Among these, heroes will emerge, and conduct battle across the net. I am of-course speaking of Heroes of the Storm, which unlocks tonight (supposedly) at midnight. We'll see how their servers fare under the onslaught of the inevitable flood.
Am I excited for it? Kinda! Hence the artwork. But I was fortunate enough to get beta access fairly early-on thanks for

What are my thoughts on the game so-far? It looks nice, plays well, very satisfying. Nicely balanced, and we all get to fight eachother as characters from Blizzard's deep and well-established lore. But that is part of the problem that I have with it. They seem to have gone only halfway. We have all these awesome characters that we've grown up with, each with amazing universes that they came from, and yet (at least in the beta) all the levels are new, from unestablished universes. I wanted to snipe Dwarves at the gates of hell, drop atomics on Diablo on the orbital platforms of Korhal, and cloak in the ruins of Aiur. The current maps pale in comparison to what they could have been. A ghost pirate cove? A garden where the plants walk around at night? Who made these decisions when there were so much better possibilities right there for them to use?
So I am holding out hope that SOME established environments will launch with the game tonight. The dearth of existing maps warrants more expansion anyway. But in any case: I'm excited. Look for me ingame. Hint: Its probably a Nova (or Raynor) named "Etheras". ;)
Awesome artwork is of course by

Etheras the Fennec is (of course) © www.etheras.com , which should be up sometime this summer, and will expand to include a host of awesome functionality never-before-seen on the internet. I'm expecting the big furry sites to steal my ideas pretty quick, but I'm actually quite happy with them doing that.
Artwork is of-course based on Nova (Nova kiss? Big 'splosion? And the gun? Yup: Nova). Who is most-likely © Blizzard Entertainment or their parent company (I think Activision owns them these days?)
Want more "Etheras as Nova"? You're in luck! I have another one of those: Ghost
Or more video game tribute artwork? Here are a few more: From EVOLVE, and another from EVOLVE. Here's a tribute to Borderlands (also by Atryl, and featuring Frenor's Horse char). There are plenty more in my gallery, but I want to skip to the first image I ever posted on FA as Etheras, which depicts him as Illusive Man from Mass Effect (only much sexier IMHO). ;)
Or maybe you'd just like to see more sexy fennec by Atryl? You're in luck! In Flight Service, Good With Hands, Numbers, and... Well..., Emperor
Enjoy!
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This might come off as blasphemy in these circles, but truth-be-told, what I really want is Starcraft levels. Yeah fighting in hell might look cool, but honestly... the only Blizzard franchise that I enjoy is Starcraft. I was watching some of Blizzard's famous cutscenes last night on youtube, and couldn't help but feel that despite the serious/horror overtones of Diablo, its like... goofy cartoony. Demon Hunter has like... machinegun crossbows and grenades. It makes it a so much less scary :P
Also: nice av. Big fan of TR? I recently kinda switched to NC. Got sick of the confusion of red = my team's color, but red under the crosshairs = enemy. I know they fixed it recently by making it configurable, but I only just discovered that :P
Also: nice av. Big fan of TR? I recently kinda switched to NC. Got sick of the confusion of red = my team's color, but red under the crosshairs = enemy. I know they fixed it recently by making it configurable, but I only just discovered that :P
Ahh well, I kind of hoping for a Aiur Map.
Tecnically is possible since SC2 and HotS share the same engine, however it's confirmed that HotS use a different format compared to SC2 but in LotV, is the same as HotS which make us (Editors and Mapsters) believe that we could export/import models, textures and data, etc from SC2 to HotS and vice-versa in a possible future (heroes, minions and other models of HotS are already exported and in sc2mapster)
Making an Aiur map is, Heck, every kind of Starcraft Map is possible to be made, a Wild guess is that they will release starcraft theme map and heroes when LotV come out.
Well, I no longer play PS2, the reason of this is because the game now require a much powerful machine to run it, I discovered this when thinkin in getting back to PS2 when I saw the requeriments,
They increased the requeriment.
hah, it's funny I used play it smoothly with my Core 2 Duo, however that was like two o one year, must be the new patches that changed the graphics.
Tecnically is possible since SC2 and HotS share the same engine, however it's confirmed that HotS use a different format compared to SC2 but in LotV, is the same as HotS which make us (Editors and Mapsters) believe that we could export/import models, textures and data, etc from SC2 to HotS and vice-versa in a possible future (heroes, minions and other models of HotS are already exported and in sc2mapster)
Making an Aiur map is, Heck, every kind of Starcraft Map is possible to be made, a Wild guess is that they will release starcraft theme map and heroes when LotV come out.
Well, I no longer play PS2, the reason of this is because the game now require a much powerful machine to run it, I discovered this when thinkin in getting back to PS2 when I saw the requeriments,
They increased the requeriment.
hah, it's funny I used play it smoothly with my Core 2 Duo, however that was like two o one year, must be the new patches that changed the graphics.
Well you should get back to playing it because the new graphics are freaking GORGEOUS. Its really very pretty :P
I am kinda tempted to resume my TR character now that you can configure the HUD to be less confusing. I always liked them best stylistically. So tactical. So badass. And their lady infil model is super-hot ^.^
I am kinda tempted to resume my TR character now that you can configure the HUD to be less confusing. I always liked them best stylistically. So tactical. So badass. And their lady infil model is super-hot ^.^
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