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

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ABSOLUTE LEGEND'D

SLARK DOTO

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God that series made me so happy. Slark is my favorite hero and it's awesome to see him pick up steam in competitive with Liquid and now aL. ROXKIS was pretty disappointing for one of the favorites coming in.
 
I don't know why some of you guys put your rapier so low. I had it low in east but high in the west. It's not a completely unpopular pickup with gyro in the meta so much nowadays.
 
GAF I'm considering playing this game. I play a bit of Starcraft 2 here and there, would I enjoy DOTA?

Hard to say. I moved over from Broodwar though and heavily enjoy Dota. Doesn't hurt to try out, just be aware that this game has a ridiculously high skill cap and the skill floor requires you to climb some ladders to feel a little stable on.
 
GAF I'm considering playing this game. I play a bit of Starcraft 2 here and there, would I enjoy DOTA?

SC2 and Dota are quite different beasts. There is no macro involved, but the importance of your micro (in this case, most of the time, you control 1 unit, maximum is like 5 or 6) is magnified immensly. A small positioning error will often get you killed against good players. I went from Dota 1 to SC2 to Dota 2 (with some breaks in between and a little bit of LoL) and I love both games. SC2 has become too stressful to play for me, Dota 2 is less exhausting but still has a very high skill cap and tons and tons of strategies.

If you have any friends that already play Dota 2, play with them, let them explain the game to you. That's usually faster than reading a bunch of guides, but that's very helpful too of course. Play against bots first, don't try out too many heroes at first (focus on 2-3 heroes) and get a feel for the game.
 
There were 11 folks spectating when I tried to connect. What could go wrong?

Edit: Still rejected. Now 1585 folks. Trying again.

Edit: I am connected!
 
ROX.KIS vs AL

Game 1+2: Got in after 10 or so tries
Game 3: Never was able to get in

DD vs Empire

Game 1: Got in first try


Hopefully this is a sign of things improving...
 
Are we going to see 50 thousand people connecting on the left side of the window? How do I disable this?
 
Yes but with the 1200 range you can pretty accurately judge everything else based on that. Everything except Clockwerk hook and Mirana Sacred Arrow that is. But even those 2 you can highlight the skill and get a good estimate for their range outside of the 1200 range.

I can either judge based on 1200 range, or I can accuratly pixel perfect display the range. I chose the latter. I really don't want to learn the range of every single spell.
 
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