3 Lanes is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[Nikki]

If you lose lane, you lose the game. No way to farm or pick back into things because less lanes means less objectives/lanes to defend, which means the enemy is constantly pushing your ♥♥♥♥ in with no counterplay, especially with blatantly broken heros like Calico who ruin the game while Valve takes months off balancing the game on vacation.

Here's an idea, lets ruin the game before it even launches by changing it from 4 lanes to 3 and completely destroying any semblance of balance or fun. Great idea team!

[swatbot26]

"If you lose lane, you lose the game" Simply not true

[gtsaf0]

Lost all lanes in a recent game and we got back and won, but I do agree that 3 lanes feels weird after months of 4 lanes.

[Sh4dows]

i kinda prefer 3 lanes style

[HighLanderPony]

Oh no! Games might end before 40 mins. /s

So anyway...

[Nikki]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Oh no! Games might end before 40 mins. /s

So anyway...

Every game since the update has been long and drawn out, with the team in the lead refusing to push to end so they can farm more. It's awful.

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Nikki:

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Oh no! Games might end before 40 mins. /s

So anyway...

Every game since the update has been long and drawn out, with the team in the lead refusing to push to end so they can farm more. It's awful.

And that's the fault of the game how?

[clevercleaverclover]

focus on improving boss

[clevercleaverclover]

plus this is alpha, they are testing it for now and may roll it back later

[SuspiciousBarrel (perma muted)]

It's great, learn to play.

[{disaster} Take]

Originally posted by Nikki:

The funny thing is, there's a rubberband bounty system in play that potentially just rewards you for dying, so when you are losing the lane, you are actually, secretly (shh) closer to winning that the people who are winning lane.
Oh, and there is counterplay, it requires planning in advance, though.

[Butra]

I like the 3 lanes more than the 4 lanes.

[Brochelle]

No one is having fun anymore.

[Bug Guy]

Less lanes actually means its easier to defend lanes. 4 Lanes meant it was quite difficult to stop a rat player from sneaking up and taking a guardian or walker from under you. You had to have 3 players available to go to the other lanes if there was a team fight while your lanes were pushed in. Meanwhile they could commit 5 to a fight and have 1 player sneak up and take 1. Now its harder to do that, and equally easier to keep your lanes pushed up since there is 1 less to worry about. Overall I think the change to 3 lanes has been much better for the game, as interesting as 4 lanes was

[Blue]

Killed the game for me. Not so much the actual 3 lanes, but rather the way matches flow now. Always longer games, easier to go and farm neutrals, but harder to sneak an objective.

[S7.RainbowDash]

3 lanes is so much better. More action, more rotations, faster group gameplay and objective taking. 4 lanes was a slog.