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Posted March 27, 2014 by Ryan Villanueva in Gaming
 
 

BLIZZARD’S HEROES OF THE STORM GOES ON LIVE ALPHA TEST! HERO SKIN DESIGNS AND VIDEO WALKTHROUGH RELEASED!

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Heroes_Of_The_Storm_AbominationBLIZZARD’S latest MOBA game HEROES OF THE STORM has officially begun their “ALPHA” test.  Invites for the alpha test had already been sent out this month. Along with the alpha test, Blizzard community Manager KEVIN “CLOAKEN” JOHNSON had released a video which would walk the players through the alpha testing phase. Initially the invites were sent to testers based in the US and plans on expanding the test by inviting more players internationally as the test goes on or you could go ahead and sign up for the BETA test through the HEROES OF THE STORM official site. HEROES OF THE STORM is a MOBA game that lets players choose their favorite characters from BLIZZARD’s popular franchises’ DIABLO, STARCRAFT and WARCRAFT. Like most MOBA games the objective of the game is to destroy the enemy base. In the alpha test, players would have access to a number of characters, their matching skins and mounts (vehicles that players can ride to move around the map more quickly).

Heroes_Of_The_Storm_Progress_ScreenThe players who were lucky enough to be part of the alpha test had already made online feedbacks about their initial thoughts about the game. The alpha test does not have a non-disclosure agreement reason why we could expect a number of screenshots and videos of the game soon. So far this we’ve learned about the game in its early stages.

HEROES OF THE STORM would have a rotating set of heroes to play for free. Heroes are acquired by real money purchase or in-game credits. Players start to earn credits once their account reaches level 5. There is an in-game tutorial called Try Me mode that lets you try out a hero first before purchase. The game would be a 5 on 5 match and whoever destroys the enemy base first wins. HEROES OF THE STORM ALPHA currently offers 3 modes PRACTICE (your allies and enemies are bots), COOPERATIVE (human allies, enemy bots) and VERSUS (all humans) mode.   There is also plan to add a RANKED MODE in the future.
Heroes_Of_The_Storm_Kaiju_DiabloIt’s interesting to see some of the early character designs released for HEROES OF THE STORM. Some of the designs include a KAIJU DIABLO, PATRIOT JIM RAYNOR (who looks like a combination of Captain America and Iron Patriot armor), ROCKER ELITE TAUREN CHIEF and ROLLER SKATE NOVA.  In game hero purchases would cost $3.99 (2000 gold), $7.49 (5500 gold) and $9.99 (10000 gold)  while hero skins can bought for $7.49, $9.99, $12.49 or $14.99. Prices aren’t final and could change within the course of the test. In game purchases would be cleared at the end of the test and refund would be issued to the players via credit on their Battle.net account.

We’d keep you posted on this game as more information becomes available for this game. For now let’s enjoy some of the pretty sweet screenshots from the game as well as the walk-through video.

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HEROES OF THE STORM TECH ALPHA WALK-THROUGH VIDEO

 


Ryan Villanueva

 
Your resident all around Flipgeek, from comics,movies,games,toys,music and even sports. A big Spider-man fan raised in the ways of the Jedi,who listens to punk rock and a sucker for chick flicks.