>What is Paragon? Paragon is a new MOBA developed by Epic Games, owner of the Unreal Engine. Powered by UE4, it has most of the trappings of other MOBAs: 5v5 objective-based games, heroes, lanes, towers, minons and so on. With a fantasy sci-fi aesthetic to it, the game is available on PC and PS4, featuring cross-play and cross-progression. It is currently in open beta.
>What's special about Paragon? Similar to SMITE, Paragon uses a third-person behind-the-back camera and WASD controls instead of a top-down view. Unlike SMITE, this game takes full advantage of the Z-axis: you can aim up or down and there's multiple levels of elevation. In addition, Paragon uses a card system, which is, for all intents and purposes, a player-customized item shop for individual characters that you build before the game; cards can only be earned with in-game currency, meaning you can't buy power.
>Do you unlock heroes? No. Like DOTA 2, all heroes are free to everyone. What you can purchase with in-game currency is a character's Master Challenge, which essentially lets you unlock extra skins, taunts and boosters.
>What's this "Monolith" update? The Monolith update, released on December 6th, is a paradigm-shifting update that changes the entire game. There is a new and smaller map, everything moves and fires faster, stats and cards have been changed and rebalanced, there's a new hero notation system, and more. The game is unrecognizable at this point, and all past players are encouraged to give Paragon a second chance and see if they appreciate the new experience. youtube.com/watch?v=C7Ha3S4h4Vk youtube.com/watch?v=sO-wIUkH0vM epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/v35-release-notes
I'm stuck at work so I haven't played yet but I am not liking what I am seeing.
I'm seeing alot of roving death balls. Call them gank balls now.
Teams are just roaming the map in groups and ganking using all of the line-of-sight changes.
Jackson Campbell
I've played a couple of rounds so far and I have to say that i don't like the update. The map is waaaay too small and the reworks (sevarog, grux) just suck. I mean, whats with that grux pull?? What is this shit? And don't get me started about the Sevarog Ultimate. Also why did they have to delete Legacy? It was a great map and it was great when the matches took 45min +. Honestly 31.8 min average playtime? Who came up with this BS.And this weird new system with standart and ability damage. Also the cardpower (playing on german client, don't now the english term) is rubbish. I "grew up" with the alpha and beta, maybe that's the reason i won't play this game no more.
All in all it was a huge dissapointment. 0/10 will play again.
Ian Carter
>Also why did they have to delete Legacy? Because nearly all the problems that plagued the first version of the game (travel mode leading to easy ganks, lopsided changes to speed up the game, etc) was because Legacy was too big.
>And this weird new system with standart and ability damage. Standard damage is basic attacks, and ability damage is from abilities. This is to standardize everyone and not split people across the physical/energy damage split they had earlier. It also allows you to better appreciate a character's given scalings, especially with the new universal Power stat.
Andrew Perry
I think it was way better with physical/energy. But it's just my point of view
Eli Butler
I can see where you're coming from. SMITE has physical damage and magical damage as well, and it allows you to guard separately between them. Paragon decided to allow you to build around damage SOURCE instead of damage TYPE.
Levi Ortiz
Lvl 27 here
Loved old paragon (playing since alpha) but seriously the update sucks
MONOLITH UP MY ASS
Paragon name is zod18 Add me if you want to play with a retard
Justin Sullivan
Remember to play three matches before judging it!
Jace Howard
I'm having a very hard time swallowing this update. It makes it even harder for idiots to know what to do, and it's not like Paragon lacked them beforehand.
Nathaniel Bailey
Gotta learn the new map. You can't get away with bullshit picks in character select anymore.
Cooper Johnson
Are you still unable to finish a build without getting card packs?
Bentley Rivera
Cool a Paragon thread
Grux pull was broken you fuck, good riddance.
>playing Sevarog
Eli Walker
So we forming a party or what? IGN is Agasio.
Carter Murphy
Since the map is smaller, the Grux pull was made smaller to compensate.
Zachary Torres
Only played a few games personally, gonna play more and figure out what heroes I'd like to stick with. They completely fucking ruined Belica for me.
>can barely even hit the full minion wave anymore >no base damage on her ult(literally hit someone for 90 damage at half mana) >game is fast as fuck and STILL no smartcast option for her knockup
Never playing her again
Greystone on the otherhand is pretty good.
Charles Clark
I've always loved Murdock and Grim. I feel like Grim's ult needs to scale better but he gained a bit more survivability now since you can slow and just turn around and run away when before you couldn't. Still wish his knockback was easier to aim.
Landon Sullivan
Countess's teleport needs more range
You can't even catch up to a Gideon or Grux
Andrew Brooks
Wait.
That thing with wings is a woman?
Dylan Wood
A gynoid, technically, but yes.
Angel Hall
>Belica ruined FUuuuuuuuck shes the only person I could lane with.
How is jungling in the update? How did Rampage and Crunch sift out?
Ayden Cooper
Yeah it sucks man. Her bomb is like 30% the size and unless you combo it with her stun(which is clunky as fuck now) you wont hit anyone ever.
The drone is also a lot easier to just walk away from since without travel mode people don't have to commit anymore.
Christian Bennett
i forgot about this general you guys died weeks after gaining some momentum. Having tripfags make the threads and making multiple discords probably didn't help. Maybe you guys can make it to a month if this update actually makes Paragon fun.
Wyatt Carter
Update is shit so I doubt we will last a week this time.
Christian Rodriguez
Does this game have sexy melee (not ranged meme) girls and skimpy skins.
Cameron Gray
Oh look the waifu fag no we dont have skimpy skins or sexy melee girls now fuck off
Matthew King
They should've just changed the map name to deathball-o-rama-land.
That's what they have created. Epic are fucking morons.
Evan Parker
>Female >Sexy >Melee You have two options, and they're both assassins. One is a svelte shadowstalker...
Nathan Cook
>Check out the game because of Monolith update >16 heros
Luke Taylor
...and the other is a vampire.
Samuel Gonzalez
Epic morons amirite
Easton Collins
Epic!
Zachary Hughes
Someone post the booty pics.
Jeremiah Lewis
what dogshit elo are you guys in lmao
Fucking dumbass casuals can't into a traditional moba map so they cry their eyes out. Let me guess you played Kha/Grux/Iggy on the old map and can't collect your free wins anymore? Fuck off.
There is no death-ball meta outside of bronze. Learn to ward. There's no excuse this time when blink cards are 15 fucking seconds and travel mode isn't a thing anymore.
Evan Parker
t.nigger jew Steve
your game is shit and no amount of defending will change this. next time don't make a cross platform moba that uses card system instead of traditional item system like every moba that actually has a major playerbase.
Andrew Phillips
>smite >major playerbase
almost got me, heres your (You)
Jordan Johnson
>look a game made by shit-rez is just as bad as ours >this is somehow a good thing
Gavin Davis
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Caleb Morris
Your opinions are wrong
Colton Butler
THIS is the power of Unreal Engine 4.
Nathan Anderson
>want to try out Sevarog >take him into the jungle in solo vs. AI >get shit on by minions >recall after just one camp because I whiffed a siphon
What cards should I be using to jungle
Hunter Taylor
You don't need to just siphon to get stacks anymore. ANY ability you kill with gets you stacks now.
Lincoln Powell
>sevarog >jungle
Anthony Gonzalez
help
Jason Hall
I got stuck in the ground as Greystone after leaping off one of the pillars
Had to rejoin the game
Tyler Ramirez
Noobie meme stack when??
Brayden Gray
So what you're saying is that Khaimera is the only jungle-worthy hero in the game
Wyatt Gutierrez
user...
Hudson Fisher
According to the new hero notation, you want Wild heroes if you want to win the jungle, on top of Assassins and Gankers. >Wild Heroes have tools which enable them to be effective clearing Jungle camps early in the game. >Assassins have abilities that allow them to create and exploit favorable conflicts with out-of-position and solo Heroes. They will improve team map control and vision as a result. >Gankers excel at setting up quick, safe kills. According to Epic, the heroes who best fit those tags are Khaimera, Grux, Feng Mao, Kwang and Rampage, with honorable mentions to Crunch, Greystone, Countess and Kallari. If you want to play Sevarog, you'll want him in the off lane.
Wyatt Lewis
>Sevarog Ultimate
was improved
Justin Sanders
Grux, Feng, Rampage, and even Greystone with the right setup all jungle better than Sevarog
Michael Murphy
I feel dumb now. I usually play mid laner or support and I was stoked to try a new role
Ryan Sanchez
You can always go in the off-lane and try to survive a 2v1 against a support/carry.
Adam Reed
Just play Riktor and grab them into the tower if they get close
Nolan Barnes
Tbh this game only caught my attention because I quit league and saw a snap of dekkar (I think) in another thread. Butt now it looks like they shit all over her in monolith and I don't know if it's even worth the 11gb to try anymore.
Dylan Ross
>mfw LoL added those meme plants and it wasn't a joke
Cooper Gray
she wasn't nerfed like people think she was
With the pace being so much quicker now, being CCed for 5 seconds is a lot worse than it used to be
Lincoln Davis
Countess has a better butt anyway and she's viable
Dominic Reed
So what hero is OP atm?
Jaxson Hall
Iggy
Benjamin Miller
Belica is picked like every game cause she op fuck that gay user
Eli Davis
What? Stop being a fucking sheep user, dekker is widely over powered right now
Eli Wilson
I believe it. With the faster pace and quicker deaths, CC is much more valuable. That's why stuff like Greystone's ult-revive now does a range-dependent slow instead of a knockup/stun.
Nolan Nguyen
Greystone is broken
Jonathan Ross
Why the fuck doesn't Epic include hero stats and scaling?
Jacob Green
How the hell do you fix the god awful dithering/interlaced effect on transparent textures, mostly apparent on characters hair but also on trees and such. It's been there since I first tried this game and still remains after the recent update.
Owen Turner
I think they will eventually, especially with the revamped notation and damage system; it's more important to tell how differently characters scale from each other.
Same guy. After some testing I noticed that it is actually the effects quality setting that is causing this. With everything down and off except for resolution scale, everything looks as good as you would expect it to, character hair looks solid, not grainy/dithered at all. After turning up just effects one notch, hair is now again grainy and shitty looking. WTF Epic?
