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Dota 2 Beta Thread: [Brewmaster]
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Sorry, not been my day today.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
This sucks. My ISP had a problem and I lost connection in the middle of a map, now I got 1 abandoned game in my record. 
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
No Brewmaster yet?
I guess I'll try out Shadow Demon. He looks pretty fun.
I guess I'll try out Shadow Demon. He looks pretty fun.
This is why I keep trying to get my friends into the matchmaking. They don't want to leave bot games because they're worried they'll be a hindrance to their team. If only they knew...
S&Y redeemed by Milk
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"WHAT THE FUCK, REALLY?"
on Shadow Fiend
"WHAT THE FUCK, REALLY?"
Seriously though your SF had me rolling and kept me from loosing my rag too. 
yes I know, people don't wanna play with bots first and you find dudes at like their first game in any moba.
but not a single ward at rosh was your fault. xDEdit: Whoops, where the delete button?
could have taken 2 rax with a ward there.
Schweinehund
Member
I agree.
Lycan with a chance of syllabear.
All this dire lovin makes me think they'll atleast show pity and add sylla with lycan. That and the ability icons.
ez to get a monster kill against players like that kunkka.ultimate sf build
Dreams-Visions
Member
ultimate sf build
I want to try that with Lina once. Treads + fast Deso + SnY + SnY + SnY + Y + maxed out passive.
cast a spell and watch the rage flow.
Hindsight is an awesome thing.
Technosteve
Banned
I played with a guy that played Chen in lane, instead in jungle. We asked him what's the point of him playing a hero that's dependent on creep spells with out creeps. He said its how he plays Chen. I'm not a pro but I am pretty sure Chen is not a last hit lane guy.
I had an epic match with some GAFfers. It was one guy's first game, I was playing a new hero, and the other guys had like multiple 100+ win people on their team. They were pounding our base at around the 20 minute mark, but we managed to come back. We still lost, but we had some amazing pushes and we gave them a run for their money. The final kill score was something like 50-15, but we managed to survive for almost an hour and had a real shot at winning at some points.
IHeartTSwift
Member
Cosign.
Haha, Nature's Prophet is fun to play. Can't believe they let me take their top tower and Bot tower with all their aggressive plays
Gully State
Member
I had an interesting match the other day in which my friend, who's new was completely sucking and one of our teammates basically lost it on the voice chat (queue dat DOTA ire- F bombs..fag this...etc..)). I told the guy to relax and that my friend was new and his personality completely 180'd. He then proceeded to apologize profusely to my friend ("I'm so sorry...I didn't know you were new...I'd never knowingly yell at a beginner like that ...my bad.." ). He was then super nice the rest of the game ...I commended him as well..
throwawayname
Member
Who's ready for Lycantomorrow?and Syllabear
pub games overload incoming. first to pick wins.
ghost scepter.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
fnatic taking forever in Mouz game, might have to forfeit.
uh? In that situation you always need a ward at rosh.
Was a bit bummed to see mTw drop both of their games today after beating CLG yesterday with the same lineup. I'd like to see them be competitive again but it just isn't working out for them.
edit: Morphling becoming popular, picked again.
Yeah, it's been a long fall from Dreamhack, even then there were significant cracks starting to show in the team's foundation. Can't see Synd leaving the scene anytime soon if he still has a desire to play, but mtw's fate kinda seems up in the air at present (even if he wants to stay).
Wow, middle of the day Test update:
GAMEPLAY
- Added Lycan!
- Enabled Shadow Demon in Captain's Mode.
- The Stable version is now updated to the Latest version.
- Added All Random game mode for private lobbies.
- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak not having an aoe targeting cursor.
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes killing couriers.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed illusions procing Jinada's critical strike.
- Clinkz: Fixed a bug with level 2 Death Pact not gaining the .5% damage buff.
- Mirana: Fixed Arrow getting blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Morphling: Added timer to Replicate that shows up as a buff.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment stealing Intelligence from illusions.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being castable on Warlock Golem.
- Queen of Pain: Fixed being able to dispell Shadow Strike
- Razor: Fixed Static Charge damaging friendly units and towers. Note that towers can still proc the ability.
- Razor: Fixed Static Link damage from being purgable.
- Shadow Demon: Fixed attack animation time
- Shadow Shama: Fixed Serpent Wards having instant attack point (instead of 0.3)
- Storm Spirit: Fixed attack projectile speed
- Sven: Fixed Storm Bolt not stunning nearby targets if the primary target became magic immune while the projectile was traveling.
- Venomancer: Fixed being able to dispell Venomous Gale, Poison Sting and Poison Nova
- Warlock: Fixed Golems having incorrect magic resistance.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse forgetting its history when upgraded
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Death Ward projectile speed being too slow
- Fixed Diffusal Blade's mana burn effect going through Magic Immunity.
- Units that are smoked can now be revealed by magic immune enemies.
- Fixed some abilities having incorrect durations against creep heroes (like Dismember).
- Fixed Disruption being castable on Warlock's Golem.
- Fixed gold over time being very slightly off sometimes.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit not showing movement speed in the stats area
- Fixed Fountain projectile speed being too fast
- Fixed Furbolg attack point being too high
- Fixed Black Drake projectile speed being too fast
UI
- Added setting for ambient creatures in the Advanced Video Settings.
- Advanced Video Settings is now versioned and will automatically update this release
- Undroppable items are no longer put in the stash when near the fountain.
- Items will no longer move when they are attempted to be picked up by a unit with a full inventory.
- The courier can no longer pick up certain items (Aegies, Rapier).
- Hooked up XP graph button.
- There is now a different ring effect for the primary unit when you have multiple units selected.
- Fixed second courier not being controllable if enabled by a courier
- Fixed bug where you could cast your ultimate by pressing either the Ability 4 or Ability 5 keys, on a 4 ability hero.
- Added setting to draw hero icons as default in the minimap. Alt will show X's and O's.
BOTS
- Increased bot ability usage reaction time by about 50%.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up or destroy teammates' items on the ground.
- Increased bot desire to defend their base.
- Fixed nasty bug that would often cause bots to idle in their current location when wanting to go defend.
- Bots now get an added desire to attack a hero that Bane has Gripped.
- Bots no longer random their heroes. They will now try to build a somewhat reasonable team comp based on hero role, stuns, and melee/ranged, and do so over the entire hero selection phase.
- Reworked bot lane selection logic. They should be smarter about which lanes they select, and who they pair with.
- Changed how human pings affect the bots' desires to push/defend. Should be more consistently powerful now.
- Bots in lanes with carries will try to avoid stealing their farm.
- Fixed a few cases where bots would oddly try to cast abilities at neutral creeps (such as when pushing or defending a lane).
VISUALS
-Improvements made to some of Shadow Demon's effects.
GAMEPLAY
- Added Lycan!
- Enabled Shadow Demon in Captain's Mode.
- The Stable version is now updated to the Latest version.
- Added All Random game mode for private lobbies.
- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak not having an aoe targeting cursor.
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes killing couriers.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed illusions procing Jinada's critical strike.
- Clinkz: Fixed a bug with level 2 Death Pact not gaining the .5% damage buff.
- Mirana: Fixed Arrow getting blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Morphling: Added timer to Replicate that shows up as a buff.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment stealing Intelligence from illusions.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being castable on Warlock Golem.
- Queen of Pain: Fixed being able to dispell Shadow Strike
- Razor: Fixed Static Charge damaging friendly units and towers. Note that towers can still proc the ability.
- Razor: Fixed Static Link damage from being purgable.
- Shadow Demon: Fixed attack animation time
- Shadow Shama: Fixed Serpent Wards having instant attack point (instead of 0.3)
- Storm Spirit: Fixed attack projectile speed
- Sven: Fixed Storm Bolt not stunning nearby targets if the primary target became magic immune while the projectile was traveling.
- Venomancer: Fixed being able to dispell Venomous Gale, Poison Sting and Poison Nova
- Warlock: Fixed Golems having incorrect magic resistance.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse forgetting its history when upgraded
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Death Ward projectile speed being too slow
- Fixed Diffusal Blade's mana burn effect going through Magic Immunity.
- Units that are smoked can now be revealed by magic immune enemies.
- Fixed some abilities having incorrect durations against creep heroes (like Dismember).
- Fixed Disruption being castable on Warlock's Golem.
- Fixed gold over time being very slightly off sometimes.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit not showing movement speed in the stats area
- Fixed Fountain projectile speed being too fast
- Fixed Furbolg attack point being too high
- Fixed Black Drake projectile speed being too fast
UI
- Added setting for ambient creatures in the Advanced Video Settings.
- Advanced Video Settings is now versioned and will automatically update this release
- Undroppable items are no longer put in the stash when near the fountain.
- Items will no longer move when they are attempted to be picked up by a unit with a full inventory.
- The courier can no longer pick up certain items (Aegies, Rapier).
- Hooked up XP graph button.
- There is now a different ring effect for the primary unit when you have multiple units selected.
- Fixed second courier not being controllable if enabled by a courier
- Fixed bug where you could cast your ultimate by pressing either the Ability 4 or Ability 5 keys, on a 4 ability hero.
- Added setting to draw hero icons as default in the minimap. Alt will show X's and O's.
BOTS
- Increased bot ability usage reaction time by about 50%.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up or destroy teammates' items on the ground.
- Increased bot desire to defend their base.
- Fixed nasty bug that would often cause bots to idle in their current location when wanting to go defend.
- Bots now get an added desire to attack a hero that Bane has Gripped.
- Bots no longer random their heroes. They will now try to build a somewhat reasonable team comp based on hero role, stuns, and melee/ranged, and do so over the entire hero selection phase.
- Reworked bot lane selection logic. They should be smarter about which lanes they select, and who they pair with.
- Changed how human pings affect the bots' desires to push/defend. Should be more consistently powerful now.
- Bots in lanes with carries will try to avoid stealing their farm.
- Fixed a few cases where bots would oddly try to cast abilities at neutral creeps (such as when pushing or defending a lane).
VISUALS
-Improvements made to some of Shadow Demon's effects.
Also another patch with just a single hero and some bug fixes.
Jeez Ikuu, always the downer.
At least we're getting patches with heroes now.
throwawayname
Member
All random mode for private lobbies \o/. Go for MM next week please!
Togglesworlh
Banned
To be fair, if they keep this pace until all heroes are released, it means Dota 2 won't reach parity for over a year.
I'm hoping after a while they'll be done with features and can focus purely on heroes... but I also suspect art is the biggest thing holding heroes back, and finishing features won't speed up art production. Waw wawwww.
SteveWinwood
Member
Ahh, wolverine.
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