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Dota 2 |OT4| The saga of Vade and ReRixo: the Boat Anchors continues.

I just found this out, might be useful for someone:

If you use the -novid in your start-up commands within Steam, the game makes the mini-map icons unnecessarily blurry/low-res looking.

This is especially noticeable if you use a custom "dota_minimap_hero_size" setting that is larger than the default 600.

I didn't understand why the Test client map looked so much sharper until now. It was the absence of -novid.

Have a go.
 
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Has anyone here noticed that matchmaking is noticeably worse on Sunday? This could be just coincidence, but I notice that on Sunday specifically there is an exorbitantly large amount of fuckheads. Like my last two games in a row there was a captain who muted his team, picked random heroes, put them in bad lanes, and complained to the enemy team the whole time about how terrible his supports were. I am in a pretty low bracket (3k) but this shit only happens so often on Sunday.
 
Has anyone here noticed that matchmaking is noticeably worse on Sunday? This could be just coincidence, but I notice that on Sunday specifically there is an exorbitantly large amount of fuckheads. Like my last two games in a row there was a captain who muted his team, picked random heroes, put them in bad lanes, and complained to the enemy team the whole time about how terrible his supports were. I am in a pretty low bracket (3k) but this shit only happens so often on Sunday.

All the good people are at church.
 
Does anyone have experience running dota 2 from Windows 7 and then Windows 8.1 on the same build? I have been considering the idea of updating from all the good things I heard about 8.1
 
All the good people are at church.

took mine, damn you.

Does anyone have experience running dota 2 from Windows 7 and then Windows 8.1 on the same build? I have been considering the idea of updating from all the good things I heard about 8.1

My brother plays on 8.1 and he hasn't had a single issue with this OS from what I've heard. He did start the rig fresh though, so I couldn't tell you about how the transition could affect anything.
 
Well I just want to know if the performance improves and how the overall experience with steam is too . I only really play dota 2 with a random game occasionally so I mainly care for how dota 2 performs. Also does the lag at the start of the game when everyone loads their character get reduced?
 
Well I just want to know if the performance improves and how the overall experience with steam is too . I only really play dota 2 with a random game occasionally so I mainly care for how dota 2 performs. Also does the lag at the start of the game when everyone loads their character get reduced?

I didn't notice a difference in load times or performance. I'm running it from an SSD.

what the fuck, I just got the Lina arcana as a drop at the end of the match
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*flips bird*
 
I didnt even know arcanas would drop after a game. Always imagined people bought them or got it from that new bloom bounty.

I guess the probability would be 1 -5% for a drop?
 
im going to have an amazing winrate on my signature hero after the patch comes :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Back to work on Tinker? How many wins would it take to undo all the damage you've wrought?
 
Speaking of which, is she a good mid now? Seems as though OO would be good for teamfighting now. So leveling it up to control mid isn't a drawback anymore.
 
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