Angelus Errare
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No one ever says thanks to me for the battle bonus 
Dota 2 Beta Thread V: Real Talk Strikes Back [Tutorials]
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spindoctor
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Doesn't seem like I have any message then. Unless I'm not seeing it?
Is the LPQ punishment temporary? I seem to remember reading that once you went into LPQ, you wouldn't get out until the game was out of beta but at this point, who knows when that'll happen or if it's even true.
No one ever says thanks to me for the battle bonus
Strange. People always thank me for the bonus. I do wish I could get more games where more people have the compendium. The stacking bonus can go crazy high if half the server or more are running it.
The LPQ alert usually present at the map, before you search. And you'll get another notification when a match begins.
LPQ is temporary. Not sure how long now, but I got sent to LPQ 4 times---each for 1 abandon during Diretide event (shitty connection at the time, but it was totally unfair really) and it was all less than 24 hours.
Earthstrike
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My average games has about 4 people giving the compendium bonus. Noone says thanks because its kind of expected that you're going to get a bunch of compendium bonuses. This is probably because people actually watch and learn from the pro games out of the trench tier.
Just had a game where 9 out of 10 had them, feels good.
I do wonder if a part of it is people thinking I'm actively giving them a bonus instead of being an automatic thing
Poetic.Injustice
Member
When are we getting a new hero?
Schweinehund
Member
would anyone like an infinite crisis preferred access key? It boosts your chance of getting into the beta.
Wanted to see if there was any takers before I give it to inferior other dota game gaffers.
Wanted to see if there was any takers before I give it to inferior other dota game gaffers.
SteveWinwood
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Angelus Errare
Banned
I'll take it D:
We just got three with the new patch mang.
Wat.
finalboss2
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what makes you think its dead in the water? its not even public yet, has tournaments every week, just had a huge update and is played by more people then the next 10 games combined on steam.
Well when I looked in this thread a few days ago people were just going on about the game being dead due to no patching really occurring, just didn't know if they were being serious or just talking shit.
Stop listening to boken's troll posts.
Earthstrike
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his base attack damage is low and he is really squishy, these are the weakness you must try to exploit. AFAIK, pushing the creeps to his tower gives him a hard time. He also has trouble with rune control due to his move speed and lack of quick move skills (blink, puck's illusory orb, magnus's charge, etc) If you are having trouble last hitting against sniper, it might be the case you didn't invest enough of your early 600 gold in items that boost your base attack damage.
It is a joke due the fact Valve is slowing the patching between weeks since the qualifiers are going on
The game is huge and it's on a closed beta, it's going to be bigger than if Valve plays their cards right
Because he has no escapes without spending 3000g and there's actually a decent amount of exposed space in mid where you can be ganked. However, in low level games no one thinks about rotating/smoking to setup a gank mid so very few new players punish it.
Additionally, a fast level 6 on sniper doesn't have the impact that RP or Dreamcoil does in shutting down other lanes.
spindoctor
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Thanks for the info. I'm not seeing any notifications anywhere in the client so it seems I'm good for now. Valve really should outline this whole LPQ setup somewhere on their blog or something.
4 people giving the bonus is a good game for me. At least half my games have only me with the compendium. The other half might have 2-4 people. 5 or higher is very rare.
Almost 3.5 million unique players per month and between 100k-300k people playing at any given time. You decide if it's dying or not.
Snipers base damage is garbage, he'd get out last hit hard by most of the good mids. Not to mention he's slow and squishy as hell, he'd get solo killed really easy. This is of course assuming he's against an actual good mid hero, which isn't really a guarantee in pubs.
Maybe that's it. I always cannot out last hit him as Tinker and can never get any fucking farm.
Dendi actually played a tournament game with Sniper mid a week or two ago. Didn't do fantastic since he has no escapes, but they won.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It definitely doesn't feel like it. I was laning against him with Queen of Pain like two days ago and at level 4 or so three auto-attacks from him took out like half my health. It made last hitting miserable.
You were probably getting hit by his mini stun which definitely hurts early on. Also a lot of snipers get considerable amount of damage stats because they usually don't go for fast bottle.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah Headshot is utter bullshit. The 40% chance is ridiculous.
Heavy's Sandvich
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40% of the time it works every time.
CarbonatedFalcon
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That is the sound of someone that has accidentally soulcatchered a bunch of lane creeps.
Anuxinamoon
Shaper Divine
Dude Shadow demon is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
So I just got my ass handed to me twice during my coaching session on defensive tri lanes. So much different than pubs. Holy shit.
I'm so used to the carry dictating the lane, when actually its MY lane and I tell everyone else wtf they would be doing. The role reversal was a total wake up call. When the vid uploads in a few days I'll share it here.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I don't know why but Shadow Demon and Lion are the two supports who I just absolutely suck as. I just cannot get the hang of being useful with them.
SteveWinwood
Member
Sorry you're bad at shadow demon?
That and not knowing not to Disruption enemies late game.
Yeah, I was offlane in a dual lane with a Bounty Hunter against a Drow and Wisp. It was horrible.
I'm terrible at Shadow Demon. I'm in general terrible at support, but SD is a whole different level of terrible.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I posted in the wrong thread. I like Dota
Head of Vengarl
Banned
SD is awesome! One of my favorite supports. All of his skills are awesome! I prefer to max Shadow Poison early because you can harass like crazy.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
What
the
FUCK
Just had a game where my friend and I were paired up with three people who had less then ten games each. Our Sven was on his very first game, and his friend Bounty was smurfing to try and teach him, thinking that a low level account would pair them against similarly low level players
It didn't
We lost terribly because we were essentially 3v5, our Sandking also had like three wins under his belt and clearly had no idea what he was doing. And this was unique to our team, the other team was all people of about me and my friend's skill level
Why THE FUCK did Matchmaking pair us up like that?
the
FUCK
Just had a game where my friend and I were paired up with three people who had less then ten games each. Our Sven was on his very first game, and his friend Bounty was smurfing to try and teach him, thinking that a low level account would pair them against similarly low level players
It didn't
We lost terribly because we were essentially 3v5, our Sandking also had like three wins under his belt and clearly had no idea what he was doing. And this was unique to our team, the other team was all people of about me and my friend's skill level
Why THE FUCK did Matchmaking pair us up like that?
Pretty sure it'll rank your enemies up instead of down if you have a mix.
it does.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It didn't
had a shitty start in this game last night, but then momlet kicked in.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/208874007
cant help but think 6.78 SB is going to be way too strong in pubs.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/208874007
cant help but think 6.78 SB is going to be way too strong in pubs.
it did.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The first thing Sven did was accidentally take control of the courier and send it out to die to the enemy creeps
It didn't
What order should I be buying meepo's core items? I've watched the Purge Plays Meepo video and some of NoTail's stream of him pubbing, and it seems like most people agree the most important mid-game items for him are treads, scepter, and blink dagger. They all seem so important, though. Without treads he feels really squishy, scepter makes farming so much faster, and without blink it feels tough to initiate on someone. The scepter seems to make the biggest difference, but it's also the most expensive. Any advice?
Also, after I have those three, what should I be spending my money on? Items that boost stats seem to be the most useful, since they benefit all the meepos. Is buying 1 or 2 ultimate orbs better than something like reaver, AC, or heart?
Also, after I have those three, what should I be spending my money on? Items that boost stats seem to be the most useful, since they benefit all the meepos. Is buying 1 or 2 ultimate orbs better than something like reaver, AC, or heart?
I like Tranqs / Scepter / Blink -> Reaver Sheep, you can typically get Scepter very quickly by stacking hard camp with one of your meepos.
So you don't get treads?
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