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Dota 2 |OT| To Hell and Back and Back to Hell
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xValentine
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Sorry for the huge gif but this is killing me:
shira
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Sorry for the huge gif but this is killing me:
good fails this week
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=164849715
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=164324318
Not sure why these dudes want to test Blizzard's copyrights. . . again
cubicle47b
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No pro games all week. Fuuuuuuck.
Fake Charlemagne
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I just had to share this, and let me just preface everything by saying that I'm incredibly new. Like "just found out the game has in game character guides" new. But anyway, last night I'm playing a match and it quickly becomes apparent none of our team is either willing or able to communicate. That's fine, I've encountered worse. But then I notice no one is going mid because Nature's Prophet has decided to jungle, but when I offer to swap from top to mid I get refused in broken English. At least he spoke up, so I just let him have at it. Anyway, early game went about the way you might expect for better or worse. A few careless kills, but on the whole pretty uneventful. It was about this time that I went to go buy some items and boots that the goddamned store glitches out on me and an icon attaches itself to my mouse, and other store icons are now stuck to my screen. Along with this odd obstruction comes the revelation that I can't properly buy ingredients to items, and I can't sell from my inventory. I thought about restarting, but since I knew I couldn't communicate a pause, I decided to stick it out instead of risking it. It was around this time when things started taking a turn for the worse. The other team started racking up a lot of kills, and long story short snowballed out of control. I mean at one point they had three times the amount of kills as us, and the levels and items to show it. The game was ours to lose, there's no way around it. The only problem was that for whatever reason they found themselves either unable or unwilling to make the big-play. They were wrecking us in team fights, so they really could have ended it just whenever. Personally I think it was just straight hubris, but whatever. The point is, they gave us time to somehow coordinate a plan based off of a broken series of pings and chatwheel directions that we then proceeded to execute flawlessly. We wiped their entire team, put them on a 70 second respawn, marched our happy-asses into their base and won the day. Was it pretty? Hell naw, but I'll be damned if it wasn't fun. Also not a single one of them said anything post-match. Narry a GG was spotted. I'm really loving this game.
Sgt.Pepper
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GUYS SERIOUSLY THE MAC CLIENT IS FUCKING TERRIBLE
Heavy's Sandvich
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Does it at least have shadows?
GalacticSushiman
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That sounds like fun, do you have the match ID? I would like to see the replay
Interested, but not quite there yet! I want a few more bot matches before I venture out. You can keep me in mind for playing maybe in a week or so, though.
I luckily just happened to hear about those right before I turned on the game for the first time, while doing some research. Damn are they ever helpful! Without them, I'd probably be looking at the screen with a blank stare on my face every time I level up or go into the shop.
Fake Charlemagne
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That sounds like fun, do you have the match ID? I would like to see the replay
Here you go duder, match ID: 256331639
Like I said though, it's straight up ugly for most of the game until right at the one hour mark. Right there is where we make our glorious stand. For reference I'm Fake Charlemagne (obviously
) in the game AKA "the dude who really wants to learn Lina but goddamn that stun is hard to land."Dont worry, I'm quite new myself, but I figured its more fun learning the game together with a few people! I think I'll post everytime I plan on getting a game or two in so we can get a group going.
Oh and, when you go play online, just mention at the start of the game that you are new to the game. To my surprise a lot of people helped me better understand everthing, explaining where I should lane, where I should help. Really this community isnt that bad. Offcourse, I havent played hundreds of hours yet....
Huskar should die instantly when he falls like in God of War.
GalacticSushiman
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Here you go duder, match ID: 256331639
Like I said though, it's straight up ugly for most of the game until right at the one hour mark. Right there is where we make our glorious stand. For reference I'm Fake Charlemagne (obviously
I did not intend on watching all of it, but game turned around at the last minute are always fun to follow
Lina was super hard for me at the beginning, so I feel you.
That said, after a while, she's a BEAST, I did a game last week with like 6 kills in 8 minutes with her - yeah, the other team sucked, but still I got a 'GOOD LORD' from a teammate when he saw the rampaging at 8 mins, felt very good
Enjoy.
do you guys think they will let any other heroes into captains mode? i'd really like to see Elder Titan be played
Not before TI3, no.
I BELIEVE I CAN FL......
Do you think any of the heroes not in CM would be common picks/bans were they added in their current form?
Fake Charlemagne
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I did not intend on watching all of it, but game turned around at the last minute are always fun to follow
Lina was super hard for me at the beginning, so I feel you.
That said, after a while, she's a BEAST, I did a game last week with like 6 kills in 8 minutes with her - yeah, the other team sucked, but still I got a 'GOOD LORD' from a teammate when he saw the rampaging at 8 mins, felt very good
Enjoy.
Haha, thanks man. Yeah she's definitely got some quirks about her, but I agree with you. When you're in the zone, she's an absolute force to be reckoned with. I'm definitely going to be sticking with her as I learn more about the game.
Also, sucky team or no, rampaging at 8min is impressive stuff. The intimidation factor there has to be huge.
Heavy's Sandvich
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Begging and money.
I think Elder Titan is too good of a base breaker to pass up. Centaur could be played as a support ala Spiritbreaker, Troll would make a decent 2 position hero, and the rest of them could be niche picks.
RubxQub
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There's no way they could have expected anyone to be able to complete the book, let alone fill most teams without any kind of trading. You wouldn't be able to get that many unique cards between when they started showing up and now.
I used the dota2wh.com site to get a large amount of cards, and d2lounge to trade around for the harder to get ones.
JakOfTheShadows
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I'm riding high right now. Just got my 17th win (I spectate more than I ever played), and it was playing as Magnus mid. I normally just play supports. My inner pro was being channeled this game. Any play tips on the replay would be appreciated. Fuck this game is good...
http://dotabuff.com/matches/257192434
http://dotabuff.com/matches/257192434
Gully State
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Carry heavy lineups work in the trench because of this hubris you just described. My last game unfolded similarly
http://dotabuff.com/matches/256378309
Yes I was PL...
Edit :Oops linked the wrong match
http://dotabuff.com/matches/256291079 was the match in which our team actually punished a PL picker...
Shorty11857
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Wow the enemy just took two racks from us in less than 20 minutes...that escalated quickly
Make that took our ancient below 20 minutes
Make that took our ancient below 20 minutes
I'm not sure how practiced the pros are with Centaur but from what I hear his Ulti is too good in the right hands and he would be picked.
Keep in mind Im an idiot and maybe he was even added already?
he's not in yet. I'm no pro but in my times playing him I've found his greatest value to be saving carries from getting killed (the global speed boost is amazing). His stun has a really long telegraph so it's hard to get off at early levels without the ult in combo or a blink dagger.
Still playing matches in scrubs league, but when you get in a game where you end up 3V5 because of two leavers that rage-quit early cause they get ganked by Sniper, and then you still manage to hold them off for a good half hour and even carry the game playing friggin Witch Doctor, you know something's up ! xD
I just played Bristleback again and did slightly better than my first time playing him. It didn't help that the other lanes fed like hell and our Faceless Void AFK'd in fountain and abandoned.
I was using Purge's guide and it says Vanguard. I had it by 15 minutes, but is it actually worth it to get Vanguard on Bristleback? He seems like one of the few exceptions if you get it early enough.
I was using Purge's guide and it says Vanguard. I had it by 15 minutes, but is it actually worth it to get Vanguard on Bristleback? He seems like one of the few exceptions if you get it early enough.
shira
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I love when my team goes MKB to counter vanguard.
Wat.
shira
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That's trench logic. We can't hit em so we all need MKB. Game usually ends with like 2 javelins. They don't actually finish them.
The Last One
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Guys, and what about that bloodstone, what is it for?
TriniTrin
war of titties grampa
so witch doctor sucks? i was kinda liking him
Nah Witch Doctor is usually played support, so he isn't meant to carry games.
shira
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e-peen
The Last One
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Someone told me that if you delete it you earn an item. But I can't confirm is this is true.
Armlet.
Fuck, I didn't think of that.
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