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Dota 2 Beta Thread V: Real Talk Strikes Back [Tutorials]

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JustinBB7

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Release next week seems pretty likely when you think about it. But then again if the summer sale does start, and dota 2 releases at the same time.. just asking for fried servers..
 

KingKong

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Release next week seems pretty likely when you think about it. But then again if the summer sale does start, and dota 2 releases at the same time.. just asking for fried servers..

Yeah I dont think theyll release during Steam sale, plus they said they wanted both Abbadon and Legion Commander. Id say the week of the 21st sounds right
 

JustinBB7

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Damn, wanna see that EG game but gotta sleep. Seems against a noname team though, and for a noname tournament, so I guess that's why they drafted like that..

Still want to see the vod though.
 

Soule

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Wasn't going to watch the ADL stream but that lineup sounded fun, they're killing it too. On the note of guessing when they release, I'm betting on a week before TI3 now. I was hoping for it earlier but in the end I think it's good they've released the tutes before the actual release because the 10 match limited hero pool queue is full of experienced players item farming, would be a nightmare for an actual new player lol.
 
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Official alternative match making system with weekly tournaments, ratings, statistics, ladders, daily prizes, strict rules and separation of regions.

~~~~~~ www.DotA2-League.Net ~~~~~~
Official alternative match making system with weekly tournaments, ratings, statistics, ladders, daily prizes, strict rules and separation of regions.
 

shira

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Bish we gonna need another calldown
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Ugh, just ran into lifestealer + dk + clockwork all with armlets...

We still won in the end (can't armlet at late game when phantom assassin is critting you for 1.5k and force staffs are a good counter to dk stun + LS rage ) but it was a very tedious game.
So many times where we kill off everyone in early game except for the dk and lifestealer and then they waste your time with the armlet toggle as your carries are dead and you have support with no stun trying to right click them down...
Which then in turn means the others have more time to respawn and your reward for winning that teamfight is... nothing since you don't get time to push a tower or push your lanes back out or go roshan or anything.

I know it's meant to be in the game but I don't enjoy this mechanic at all, just like having a treant in the game makes for a lot of early diving or overly arrogant play (treants will still strut right up to you when both they and their lane partner are on 40 percent hp because they think they cannot die) or not being able to gank in lane unless they really fuck up.

It just seems so counter against everything else in the game. (as in the way the game normally works and flows and is rewarding/fun)

/whine
 

Hylian7

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Someone explain the appeal to me of Dagon rush (and I mean your only item is Dagon plus maybe some branches) Nature's Prophet.
I really need to go find that match a month or two back where one did that, and the first thing he did was TP in to steal my kill (Puck) when the projectile that would have killed them was on it's way. That moment needs a gifcam.
 

Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
so are people actually trading keys for those player cards, or is that just people being crazy?
 

BraXzy

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so are people actually trading keys for those player cards, or is that just people being crazy?

Has is been announced/revealed what these do yet? I want to earn a critter egg too.

Random thought: Do you think Valve will release with a special event, to do with critters, which gives us critter egg drops and other goodies? It's either that, or they haven't finished the courier modelling.
 
Has is been announced/revealed what these do yet? I want to earn a critter egg too.

Random thought: Do you think Valve will release with a special event, to do with critters, which gives us critter egg drops and other goodies? It's either that, or they haven't finished the courier modelling.
Yeah maybe they could give us eggs and we could change their colors or something.
 

Kard8p3

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So question about Lone Druid.

If he is too far away from his spirit bear, can his bear not attack? Because that's what it is seeming like, but maybe I just did something wrong.
 

BraXzy

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Why do people abandon right near the start of the match.. It ruins the game, and wastes ages of your time after finally being matched up, connected and started. Grrr.
 

Hylian7

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So question about Lone Druid.

If he is too far away from his spirit bear, can his bear not attack? Because that's what it is seeming like, but maybe I just did something wrong.
That's correct. If you see the sword and x icon above it's head, it's too far away. At level 2 bear though, you get the ability to instantly bring it back to Sylla.
 
In what was possibly the most satisfying game of Dota I've ever played I (Bristleback) made a SB that was otherwise feeding off of our supports buy an Aghs Scepter cause I kept Halberding him so he couldn't do anything.

He seemed peeved. It was great. It wasn't a stomp either, it was fairly close the whole game.
 

BraXzy

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Omg why does this game hate me D: I'm in a game with a necro who has 8 games,8 wins, seems like a smurf (especially since people are 100-300 wins otherwise) but he just keeps feeding so who knows?

Their team greatly out do us in wins, and their only 'bad' played DC'd so we aren't being fed back. Yay.

EDIT: As you can see, I'm slowly raging inside xD
 

juicyb

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Man, the Watch Game Highlights button has been fucked for me the past several days ;( Just goes to the first highlight, shows it, then continues as if i clicked Watch Replay.
 

Servbot #42

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man i think something is wrong with video card, dota 2 lags in the client and it feels so bad. Plus i 'm always getting some strange graphical artifacts :( I guess i should update my drivers
 
There should be an Opt-In to this esports garbage because now it's getting in the way. I should be able to press a button and make EVERYTHING having to do with esports go away: blog posts, replays, tournament promotions, pics of random-ass dudes in my dota, so on. Why the fuck would I want rewards that are pictures of random-ass dudes???? I'm deleting all of them. Stupid as all fuck.
 
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