The introductions of changes are usually fair, at least from my point of view as someone who has played the game now for 420+ hours. It's my form of video game meditation, except the meditation has ridiculous RNG and sometimes I hate it (but I actually love it).īlizzard does a great job of refreshing the game just as it starts to feel a little stale with new cards and heroes. Each game takes about 15-20 minutes, so it's the perfect amount of time to wake up to something fun. babies eat a lot!), making a coffee (always black) and firing up one game of Hearthstone: Battlegrounds. My morning routine now consists of putting my baby daughter, Ayla, in her bouncy seat right next to me (usually after a feeding. That's where I rediscovered Battlegrounds. I needed something to stimulate me to get my brain going, but not too much so as I don't get annoyed. That worked for a couple of weeks, then I just fell off. Then, I tried to meditate for five minutes. I tried once to get 100 pushups in before breakfast as a jump-start to my day - I couldn't get past 10. For some reason, my past routines never stuck. I love establishing routines, especially ones in the morning. One thing you should know about me is that I'm a creature of habit. I poured hundreds of hours into the game and then hit a wall - maybe it was the matchmaking, maybe it was the changing heroes and the meta shifting, maybe it was my dear Nightmare Amalgam being removed from the game. I felt like that was a great start to a budding community, many of whom still jump into chat for our various shows today. Battlegrounds became the perfect chill stream game for me: play a turn, interact with chat, back and forth like a game of table tennis. It was a blast, and I was hooked.Īround the same time, we started streaming a little more on the ESPN Esports Twitch account. This was awesome! The heroes, the cards, the strats - I was winning! Winning is great! I want to win more! I played for hours. I left soon after, vowing never to try it again. It felt weird, not intuitive, clunky even. Now, here came Battlegrounds and it peaked my interest. By this time, auto battlers were becoming the rage: DotA Overlords and Teamfight Tactics were dominating the scene. I dabbled here and there in the past, but got bored while other games replaced it. I was there covering it all for ESPN Esports, and by then, I was a lapsed Hearthstone fan. This Hearthstone game mode was first introduced at BlizzCon 2019. These are the kinds of conundrums I battle when playing Hearthstone Battlegrounds. High risk, high reward.Īnd there is no hero I choose more and win with less than Shudderwock. But then you pick it and play with it and more often than not, you fizzle out quickly. a double battlecry is one of the most satisfying feelings in Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Shudderwock is the thirst trap of this game. This week, we're looking at Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Stuck Inside With is a new series in which, since we're all stuck inside, we venture off the beaten path to explore other parts of the gaming world. Stuck Inside With: A baby and Hearthstone Battlegrounds You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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