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Dota 2 Beta Thread 2: Real Talk Discouraged [Magnus, Teams, 6.75b, 150+ Shop Items]

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First time playing naga, went well I'd say:
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(edited pic for reasons only know to me and few steamchatgaffers)
For some reason most of people were ~25 wins, think 1 had 80 on their team and you can see mine in pic.
 
Haha it won't let me join more channels, gotta do it through console but then my game starts lagging. reddit and team liquid are missing. Won't remember channels either, stuck with those 2.

Yeah, chat channels have been buggy for me since one of the last patches. I think starting with the one where we got KotL. At least it left me in the Neogaf channel.
 
Yeah, chat channels have been buggy for me since one of the last patches. I think starting with the one where we got KotL. At least it left me in the Neogaf channel.

It's left me with no one, can't choose another channel either cause it resets after I watch a game or play one.
 
hey guys, kinda have a question. As a support, like veno, am I playing right if I end up with something like 3/13/24? At the end, when pushing the enemy base, everyone ends up targeting the squishy support first so I end up dying, although I manage to get in an ulti, resulting in a decent amount of assists.

I usually build towards mek, arcane boots, then aghanim. So am I playing veno right or should I be doing something else?
 
hey guys, kinda have a question. As a support, like veno, am I playing right if I end up with something like 3/13/24? At the end, when pushing the enemy base, everyone ends up targeting the squishy support first so I end up dying, although I manage to get in an ulti, resulting in a decent amount of assists.

I usually build towards mek, arcane boots, then aghanim. So am I playing veno right or should I be doing something else?

As long as your assists are more than your deaths, you should be fine. But if you're going 3/23/24 then we have a problem.
 
None of my channels save between sessions, it resets every time. Its annoying

You have to create a .cfg file to autojoin channels. Create autoexec.cfg in this folder:
<Steam Directory>\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\cfg

And add this for each channel:
chat_join "<Channel name>"


Just found this :D

first rare find.
I got one of those yesterday by deleting an uncommon. Inspired me to play Sven for the first time in dota2, which was fun.
 
I hit 100!!

Loses >_< 98 wins... And I was at like 96 wins 85 losses a few days ago... boo.

I still get like 350 on SE servers >.<
 
Just had a 25 minute match. Windrunner died from a neutral the first five minutes trying to gank bottom, couldn't farm against NP/Dazzle lane, no Naga ults during losing team battles, and I went 0/4/3 as PA. Why do I play this game?
 
Just had a 25 minute match. Windrunner died from a neutral the first five minutes trying to gank bottom, couldn't farm against NP/Dazzle lane, no Naga ults during losing team battles, and I went 0/4/3 as PA. Why do I play this game?

FOR FUN!!!

Yeah sticking to like one or two games a day from now on. Shit is ridiculous sometimes.
 
Just had a 25 minute match. Windrunner died from a neutral the first five minutes trying to gank bottom, couldn't farm against NP/Dazzle lane, no Naga ults during losing team battles, and I went 0/4/3 as PA. Why do I play this game?

For Fun.

If you learn to not give a shit and random occasionally, Laugh at all the stupidity and you're own mistakes but still learn from it all. It's great fun.
 
Just had a 25 minute match. Windrunner died from a neutral the first five minutes trying to gank bottom, couldn't farm against NP/Dazzle lane, no Naga ults during losing team battles, and I went 0/4/3 as PA. Why do I play this game?


hope you know why I tell people to get good now, because if you never tell someone they suck, they'll always be shitty team mates who never improve, and you'll always have shitty team mates on your team

hope you learned your lesson
 
It can also be a bad thing if there are two team mates telling you the opposite things, I played a game as Keeper and we didn't have any heroes viable in the late game against the oppositions riki, lycan and Dragon knight. I went for the mid push because that was the only way we could win and around 20mins we had their mid tier 3 down and the other lanes were pushing tier 2's. I'm inisisting on rax and a dumb bounty hunter is farming and saying over the mic that he got the late game. Obviously my low level team mates decide to listen to the guy with the mic and 40 mins we got stomped. It was infuriating and once he realised he didn't have the late game he just stopped talking. I check his profile and he only has 18 wins and he was talking as if he knew exactly what he was doing and telling team mates to go for the late game.
 
I've been playing a ton of nyx the past couple days, its been a lot of fun. Been using him as mid, then just pretty much constantly ganking as soon as I hit 6, only pausing to farm when no one is in a gankable position.
Really sets up the rest of the team for late game, since Nyx is not a carry but can easily guarantee that both sides dominate their lane and makes sure they are nice and fat while the other team is underleveld.
Obviously falls off late game, but good at shutting down a squishy carry or support in team fights.

Been starting with regen and gauntlets, going for an early bottle. Then trasitioning to bracer, boots, and urn of shadows, converting those into drums and arcane before building a dagon. At that point I generally either get an ethereal blade or sheep stick, depending on the other team's comp.


Also I've been watching Purge's videos, and his minimap icons are huge. I commented on a video and asked how he did it, someone replied that it was through the console, I checked ,b dota 2 wiki and didn't see anything that would do it, but would be easy to miss. Anyone know how to do this?

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Also I've been watching Purge's videos, and his minimap icons are huge. I commented on a video and asked how he did it, someone replied that it was through the console, I checked ,b dota 2 wiki and didn't see anything that would do it, but would be easy to miss. Anyone know how to do this?

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I have this in my autoexec.cfg (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\cfg)

dota_minimap_hero_size "800"

Default is 600.
 
Just had a 25 minute match. Windrunner died from a neutral the first five minutes trying to gank bottom, couldn't farm against NP/Dazzle lane, no Naga ults during losing team battles, and I went 0/4/3 as PA. Why do I play this game?
This is what happens when you develop a game that is the equivalent of five tight rope walkers attempting to cross between two 50 story buildings while they're all tied together by a chain with a few rusty links. Sometimes one guy slips and the chain breaks so he falls alone. Other times he drags everyone with him.
 
Odd. Do they look like this?

bind "leftarrow" "say_team miss top"
bind "rightarrow" "say_team miss bottom"
bind "downarrow" "say_team miss mid"
bind "uparrow" "say_team re"

Oh wow, thanks! Can't wait to try this. I should have put "typing deaths" in that kryptonite thread.
 
Odd. Do they look like this?

bind "leftarrow" "say_team miss top"
bind "rightarrow" "say_team miss bottom"
bind "downarrow" "say_team miss mid"
bind "uparrow" "say_team re"
This reminds me, I wonder when they plan to hook up the "missing" lines for the heroes (other than the bots). I would think they would trigger when you type "missing ___" or "ss ___" or something like that, kind of like "lol/haha" and "thanks/thx" does.

Also, they should add lines for "gg".
 
Yeah, I like the items for that, makes playing characters more enjoyable and meaningful.
Agreed. I was stuck playing just a few heroes for a long time until I started getting items. I've avoided melee carries for, well, ever, but got a nice PA weapon from the summer stash and have had a ton of fun with her. It seems like that's broken a long standing mental barrier, even if I'm still bad for the most part. Getting late game with someone like PA is just so damned rewarding, and I wouldn't have experienced that feeling yet if it weren't' for Deathwielder dropping.

Speaking of summer items, I have two hammer times (tide weapon). I'd trade a hammer time and wheel of fortitude (awesome tide headpiece from the summer stash) for the Omni summer weapon, Hammer of Holy Words. Trading discussion in the trading thread, but figured I'd mentioned it while on the subject of the summer items.
 
Why does PB not go into the BO5 grand final with a game advantage over CLG? They came through the winners bracket, right? And CLG lost to them?

There is nothing worse than tournaments that don't understand the concept of double elimination. I'm pretty sure TI2's qualifiers had the same problem. Don't make no sense.
 
Looks like it will be 3-0 anyway. I prefer no game advantage myself. Best of 5 starting with 0-0 is more fair for that game itself. But we've already been over this before. Some people want there to be an advantage for the high bracket team and a disadvantage for the lower bracket team.

I personally don't agree a 1 full game advantage should be that though, it's too much to fight back from most of the time.
 
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