balladofwindfishes
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why would Valve remove the tickets if there wasn't an actual issue?
they also posted Vidotta's CPF... (social security number in Brazil)
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Dota 2 |OT| To Hell and Back and Back to Hell
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why would Valve remove the tickets if there wasn't an actual issue?
they also posted Vidotta's CPF... (social security number in Brazil)
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Maybe the friend was Lion!
shira
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sokay, the Lion tutorial is the exact same as the Lina tutorial
SteveWinwood
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man why would valve do such a thing
oh you mean the guy who has a history of ripping people off did it? shocking
Win rate + match performance (only works early on I believe).
It took me about 3-4 weeks of duo/tri queueing on a brand new smurf account to go from Normal to Very High. This is with 7-8 or so years of dota/moba experience under my belt.
Technosteve
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so is boots of travel mid lone druid and battlefury bounty hunter the new meta?
nice :lol
Win rate + match performance (only works early on I believe).
It took me about 3-4 weeks of duo/tri queueing on a brand new smurf account to go from Normal to Very High. This is with 7-8 or so years of dota/moba experience.
EDIT: The thing about this figure is that dota used to be a very different game and everything was a lot more casual back then. If I had to say when I started actively trying to get good at the game instead of derping around in -em, I'd have to say around 2009 with Clan TDA games, leading into HoN in 2010 and 2011.
So around 4 years total to go from nooblord to Very High.
cast doom it disables his passive
i think paying people to do things is even better
SteveWinwood
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tusk > husk
true story
turns out some places let you do what you want, be good at it, and get paid for it
its a win for everyone! except for whiners on the internet apparently
true story
turns out some places let you do what you want, be good at it, and get paid for it
its a win for everyone! except for whiners on the internet apparently
maybe they... made a mistake? I mean without Valve going into specifics were kinda stuck and we'll probably never know. But Valve isn't God, they could easily have received a complaint from one of the item modellers that he wasn't being paid enough (when he was), and then pulled the ticket, who knows? Or TPL could truly be scum, either way it's naive to blindly trust one side. Like you I tend to trust Valve more because I know jack shit about TPL and their CEO is crazy shady, but at the same time, it's foolish to think Valve always makes perfectly rational decisions and will never make a mistake or act hastily, ever.
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balladofwindfishes
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It's not blindly trusting one side when you have a known scammer vs a company with a financial interest in ticket sales :/
shira
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he/she Anuxi hasn't been paid either
SteveWinwood
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dont make me use the e word
If the game was finished, then you can say no one has a right to whine and use whatever the hell word you want. Game is unfinished and moving at a snail's pace, hence consumer whining--"bu bu bu it's free 2 play gabe doesn't owe u nuttin," yeah yeah. Finish the goddam game then you've earned the right to release a bug fix update once a month.
balladofwindfishes
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to the majority of people who have never played WC3 Dota, Dota 2 is basically done.
There's also only 4 CM heroes left (LC, Techies, ES, TB), after that the heroes are basically just for fun and that shouldn't really be a priority.
There's also only 4 CM heroes left (LC, Techies, ES, TB), after that the heroes are basically just for fun and that shouldn't really be a priority.
Explain these two. I feel like Chrono being a pause and not a stun is the way it should be. I'm assuming it still went through BKB in Dots 1.
As for the SF Raze, no idea what the beef with that is.
if youve ever played dota 1 the razes there are much smoother and more importantly you can raze while turning which you cant do in dota 2 because sf pauses for a raze but im sure uve noticed that in all ur games of sf
Yes, that is the way it should be. In dota 2 it is a stun, not a pause. It's coded as a stun that goes through bkb btw (in dota 2).
In dota 1 you could raze while turning, in dota 2 you have to turn then raze or raze then turn. Sf needs to come to a complete stop and it makes for a clunkier and harder raze. It's actually part of the reason why hardcore chinese dota 1 players wouldn't switch (and some still won't--i.e. yaphets). After they saw the international $$$, they stopped caring tho.
Also, these are just a few very specific examples of mechanical differences, there are plenty more in the game that will probably go unfixed (icefrog had to manually nerf batrider to get valve to bring him to parity), but it's whatever, they are minor. I'd much rather they finish all the heroes and modes and then maybe look over these issues.
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Just got a fucking abandon because after a crash Windows idled for three minutes on the logo screen and then when I logged in of course Steam needed another three minutes to "verify installation"
balladofwindfishes
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what modes are missing?
ESPORTS?
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Captain's draft. It's like RD mixed with CM, but with a larger pool than RD,
About the Chrono thing, what would it change? Would it just immobilize heroes (for instance you can't Pudge hook people out of them)?
My only Dots 1 experience is briefly messing with the map and AI map by myself. I have played zero real games.
FlutterPuffs
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Magnus skewering your enemies out of a perfect trap you set and they proceed to wipe you out.
I didn't play Dota 1 either so I'm just spitballing, but a pause sounds like any skills/etc being casted would be paused, whereas now I think they're completely stopped, i.e. SF Raze/Ult animation, etc.
Captain Fish
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Won a game as a Tusk today, started in a dual offlane with omniknight.
I feel like he has mana issues, but you want phase boots for the extra critical damage.
I think I've heard you guys say he's kinda bad, but any tips?
I feel like he has mana issues, but you want phase boots for the extra critical damage.
I think I've heard you guys say he's kinda bad, but any tips?
shira
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HTuskar is the best
Had my first game against people where I didn't die. Went 4-0-11 which I'm sure is pitiful but it's only like my 6th game against not bots. My love for dark seer + Ursa was reaffirmed, I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something when a surge on him ends in a kill. Good communication from that player also made things easy.
I don't underdstand the Batrider remark. Doesn't Icefrog work for Valve?
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Yeah, but he's not in charge of dota 2 bugfixes, and probably doesn't have time to work on bugfixes anyway. His job is just to keep balancing the map, the gameplay, and coming up with new heroes.
If you get bashed in chrono, the stun doesn't go into affect until after the chronosphere is over, so add +2 seconds to your lockdown. Also nothing ticks down, so if someone is BKB'd in the chrono it will freeze at whatever duration it was at.
i remember they changed the dire jungle like 5ish years ago or so?
there was some rumors about change of the map near roshan to make it less dire favored, never happened tho
That... Sounds huge! How have they not fixed that?! I'm already thinking about combos with this. I'll need to test things with this.
A few immediate questions that come to mind about it though.
If a Sand King charges up Epicenter and gets Chrono'd before he finishes, does he resume after it ends, assuming he does not get bashed or stunned?
Can Storm Spirit still Ball Lightning through a Chrono?
I'm guessing Doom would almost be like it's current Aghs upgrade.
Are projectiles into the Chrono frozen?
Ok, I am about to go out there with a wild prediction so feel free to make fun of and point and laugh at me.
It seems strange that Valve would inexplicably have no patch this week, a week where people were expecting a decent patch given last week's patch being tiny and the thought that the post TI hangover should be gone. At the very least we could expect another garbage patch, but instead there is nothing.
So what if: 6.79 is coming out very soon and Valve is hard at work implementing the parity changes into Dota 2.
Or
It seems strange that Valve would inexplicably have no patch this week, a week where people were expecting a decent patch given last week's patch being tiny and the thought that the post TI hangover should be gone. At the very least we could expect another garbage patch, but instead there is nothing.
So what if: 6.79 is coming out very soon and Valve is hard at work implementing the parity changes into Dota 2.
Or
they are hard at work getting Terrorblade in the game... If only
This is true. I played 1 from 04 to 08 and recently returned to the game.
The meta is very very different now and the standards have been raised noticeably. Back then, it was almost unheard of to have obs wards in pubs but these days it happens almost every other game, even in low level mm. People also used to just autoattack instead of last hitting but only the very new players do that now. Plus, two in mid used to be the standard instead of the solo mid we have now. Things have definitely changed.
Sigismundo
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rhophiehalul78
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HAHA Im guilty of this. I spent (almost) my entire Dota playtime without no one buying observer wards. I am thinking "150 is a lot and the vision it gives is only temporary, I would rather spend my gold on Guinsoo's Scythe".
I think the ingame guides, the easier accessibility of viewing pro matches, replays and dotabuff increases awareness for higher gameplay performance. Also, the occassional "We need wards."
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