And then you say.
Thanks for being on the same level as BZM I guess.
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And then you say.
Thanks for being on the same level as BZM I guess.
I hope they add a sell from stash option soon, I hate being unable to sell items when I get the wrong thing. "I wanted Wards, not a second Courier!"
Over 8 hours of VA and counting. Hope they have the VA on hand, since I would love more rivalry lines.
Wow 8 hours, impressive. And yeah, rivalry lines is the one that's in short supply.
SteveWinwood
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I hope they add a sell from stash option soon, I hate being unable to sell items when I get the wrong thing. "I wanted Wards, not a second Courier!
Over 8 hours of VA and counting. Hope they have the VA on hand, since I would love more rivalry lines.
They still add lines to tf2 every once in a while. They'll come and do more for dota 2 for sure.
I am so ashamed of my behavior Sanjay. How will I ever make it up to you???
I was only returning the favor.
Didnt they also record lines for some fan maps in L4D2? I thought I remember them doing that.
Feed me in Dota 2.
I'm so bad I fail at feeding.
Freakinchair
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How about puppetyu... oh.
That was me. TIDEHUNTER!
Sorry about the last hits and stuff you guys. I am still learning the game and I gotta turn off auto attack. I also need to memorize the quick binds to using items so I can use blink dagger better.
I love that your Avatar is Tinker, but you never play him.
Stahsky
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you didnt carry THAT hard. It was my first 2 times playing as jungle Enchantress, so what did you expect?
he has to right? he should be forced.
we know this
Stahsky
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I've had the beta for almost 3 months now and most of my time spent has been screwing with the mechanics against bots. This is my last week of the semester. It will be great to dive in this properly. Played an actual match with ES earlier today and went 14/7/20. Juggernaut went 0/11. We won, so it was all good. ES is a lot of fun. I like Axe too.
Bots are dumb and not fun, but I like to test the waters with unfamiliar heroes.
it's the life of the dota pub player. play with gaffer or friends if you want to play carries then.
Speaking of which, do we have a Dota Beta Neogaf Steam group?
Better to get into Mumble
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RaGMasTeR90
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My friends finally got an invite and one of them never played DotA nor LoL or HoN before. His first game was with Huskar and he got 14-17-9, pretty good for a beginner ^^
One question for you guys. If i make a party with him and he invites me, do we get enemys resembling his skill level (he chose beginner, i chose experienced) or is it mixed?
One question for you guys. If i make a party with him and he invites me, do we get enemys resembling his skill level (he chose beginner, i chose experienced) or is it mixed?
It matchmakes based on the rating of the highest rated person in the party, so it'll match you against other experienced players.
The_Player
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Hey Sebulon, how about adding previews of the new heroes appeared since the beta started?
Join the club. I'm not really good enough to dish out the carrying and still prone to dying a lot as a support, though if the teams are relatively balanced I end up doing at least decently, likely as the team assist whore.
I've tried playing with bots and while they're entertaining enough for a romp and I can play carries, there's no semblance of teamwork with bots being what they are and it doesn't prepare you for actual games. Nothing really beats real world practice.
Hope Valve fixes the Tinker bug in the next patch before people start exploiting it. Right now it is possible to make it that all the bots spawn in a single spot, and stay there till they do their full damage. They more or less can cause any enemy that walks into the spot to explode.
Also, I miss the old bots on the enemy team that would instant kill you early game. Now that was good practice.
Also, I miss the old bots on the enemy team that would instant kill you early game. Now that was good practice.
"What, you think I'm harassing you? Don't mind me, I'm chasing you ALL THE WAY TO YOUR INNER TOWER AND STILL SURIVING THE WALK BACK!"
Don't know if it's a skill issue per se. A good support is hard to play since positioning and map awareness are so important. You also generally can not escape since dagger and/or bkb are not the items to go for (except as luxury items). I do initiation pretty well too, so who knows...
Anyway, a little story about payback that some may relate to. So I was in this game, playing Lich, and we were just being demolished. Top solo lane lost, jungle fed their team, mid lost and we lost to a trilane. Haven't been beat that bad since ever.
The game after, the same guy who trashed our mid with NS in the previous game shows up. Predictably, he picks up AM. I pick WD and my team smartly picks up NS and Puck. Puck especially was vocal about shutting AM down before he takes off. Long story short, AM and his lanepartner Venomancer got shit on about six times before level 10. Malediction and Death Ward + silence of puck and NS is so great versus that hero. He ragequit the game around 25 minutes in. Not a bad player either. Sweet, sweet justice.
On anther note, Valve may actually have to add more servers soon. They "only" have 3000, but at the rate of Beta Expansion, in a few weeks they could easily have 30k players playing at one time. Plus, at least a 100+ servers at any time are being used by only 1 or 2 people in a practice game.
Only a mater of time before a region hits capacity.
Also, I wonder how Valve even deals with Spectate servers. Is there one spectate server for every game server? Just how much in resources is it taking to host each instance of the game? They are going to need a huge number of servers if they reach the popularity of LoL.
Only a mater of time before a region hits capacity.
Also, I wonder how Valve even deals with Spectate servers. Is there one spectate server for every game server? Just how much in resources is it taking to host each instance of the game? They are going to need a huge number of servers if they reach the popularity of LoL.
The_Player
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Puck is officially my waifu.
I can almost guarantee each server can host multiple games running at once as separate processes. Either that or it is virtualized. Also, spectator mode uses the same server the game is playing on, unless its a proxy, to watch the games. You connect to a different port.
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