If you’re like me, you spend some (if not all), of your free time watching streamers on services like Twitch.tv play Vainglory. Prior to December, while I was familiar with the concept of streaming games, I had not completely dove into the social aspect on it. What I found within the Vainglory streaming community was a world of great people, friends, and lots of laughs. This … [Read more...]
Join the Vainshame Discord Community
So a couple days ago I posted about the Vainshame Band community, but this was literally an hour before I found Discord. Discord is a free voice and text chat app for gamers. Crystal clear voice communications that works with your online gaming. Forget Teamspeak, Mumble, Skype, etc. This is voice comms made by games for gamers! Its fast, it looks great and it works amazingly … [Read more...]
Join the Vainshame Band Community
EDIT: We had a change of heart. See this post to learn more:Join the Discord Community While the Vainshame twitter account is our bread and butter for interacting with the community, 140 characters can often leave much to be desired...like full conversations. So we've decided to branch out and create a Band DISCORD community. We'd love to have you join the … [Read more...]
Meta: Solo Queue Communication
With the ever changing combat of the Fold, it's hard to stay on top of what the current hero metas are because as soon as one thing is running smoothly, someone discovers a counter. However, one thing that doesn't change is the need for communication. At lower tiers it's possible to ignore allies and still win. At higher tiers it's nay impossible. You can have the best team … [Read more...]
Choosing Wisely: Team Comps and Role Clarification
You’re at the selection screen. You soft-pick Ringo, your mates do the same with Adagio and Ardan. You think to yourself this is a good team comp; you can slow them with Achilles Shot, Ardan can drop his Gauntlet forcing the enemy team into Adagio’s Verse of Judgement. Twenty-five minutes later and you’re staring at a Defeat screen. Your opponents weren’t exceptional, both … [Read more...]