Hero selection bug guarantees getting one hero 100% of the time

[caypon7]

Considering how popular haze is it shouldn't be possible to play only as one all the time, yet I've been carefully testing and analysing this bug for several dozens of matches straight. Basically, it allows you to bypass current rules and secure hero you want.

Assign high priority to the hero you want to get, medium priority to the hero you never played (have 0 games), low priority to any hero.

Example: Haze high prio, sinclair with 0 games medium prio, vindicta and calico low prio. Now you get haze 100% of the time.

I guess it could be replicated in different ways, the key factor seems to be having hero you haven't played be assigned with lower priority than the desired hero.

 

[micbenso66]

I also accidently figured this out to get 100% calico games. Calico is high, I put Sinclair on med thinking I would get him sometimes and have yet to play him, then Mirage and Moe are set to low.

When i removed sinclair, I immediately got mirage the next game. So since i wanted Calico, i switched it back.

Ive had essentially 100% calico since she came out.

 

[Leftie]

This is a remarkable exploit; I wonder if this is the reason I only ever get Ivy. I've been chalking it up to low pick rate, but perhaps I've been unintentionally doing this the entire time.

 

[micbenso66]

This is a remarkable exploit; I wonder if this is the reason I only ever get Ivy. I've been chalking it up to low pick rate, but perhaps I've been unintentionally doing this the entire time.

Im not really sure if it matters that much. One of my feed backs is the random roster thing is terrible to begin with. You get a random chracter with random teammates who also got random characters against another team in the same situation.

So many times ive had teams where we have no cc but the other team has dynamo, lash, abrams, ivey, infernus, etc. and no amount of items or good positioning will stop you from getting caught some how.

Im hoping they change how they allow us to pick our characters.

 

[savageacrocanthosaurus]

Considering how popular haze is it shouldn't be possible to play only as one all the time, yet I've been carefully testing and analysing this bug for several dozens of matches straight. Basically, it allows you to bypass current rules and secure hero you want.

Assign high priority to the hero you want to get, medium priority to the hero you never played (have 0 games), low priority to any hero.

Example: Haze high prio, sinclair with 0 games medium prio, vindicta and calico low prio. Now you get haze 100% of the time.

I guess it could be replicated in different ways, the key factor seems to be having hero you haven't played be assigned with lower priority than the desired hero.


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Pretty sure this is intentional, if you put the two most popular characters on white, and then any other character on purple, you'll get that other character 98.9% of the time

 

[Leftie]

Im not really sure if it matters that much. One of my feed backs is the random roster thing is terrible to begin with. You get a random chracter with random teammates who also got random characters against another team in the same situation.

So many times ive had teams where we have no cc but the other team has dynamo, lash, abrams, ivey, infernus, etc. and no amount of items or good positioning will stop you from getting caught some how.

Im hoping they change how they allow us to pick our characters.

I definitely don't think random pick will be the standard by release. I can understand why draft isn't a thing quite yet (if everyone bans an OP hero, Valve gets no data on what the issue is), but drafting is a staple of the genre and I'd be shocked if the game releases without it.

 

[micbenso66]

I definitely don't think random pick will be the standard by release. I can understand why draft isn't a thing quite yet (if everyone bans an OP hero, Valve gets no data on what the issue is), but drafting is a staple of the genre and I'd be shocked if the game releases without it.

you can have draft with no bans though.

I would say its more so the game doesnt have the same exact comps every single match because those are the best characters to play so no one plays anything else.

 

[reythepastel]

thank god that over my 1400 hours and 1000+ matches, I still have pocket as my only hero with 0 games (still not gonna use the exploit though cause its pretty selfish)