Not that I'm condoning such behaviour but the girl should have just taken it in her stride.
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Not that I'm condoning such behaviour but the girl should have just taken it in her stride.
SteveWinwood
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I would think so, need to update the new chest and fix the chaos knight particles and polycount chest bugs
Fragamemnon
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What were the other two lanes like? BH solo in the shortlane, Clinkz mid? Where was clockwork in all this? I think a better way to lane this is to put Ursa mid, Clinkz / Dazzle safe lane-better escape and can last hit under towers ok, BH solo offlane, and a safe lane pulling/jungling clockwerk that you go along with in a wrap-around smoke ganking in your safe lane and replaces BH in the offlane as soon as BH gets 6, which shouldn't take all that long given it's hard to zone out BH with the safe lane heroes radiant had.
Your midgame > their midgame if you team fight and lane decently. You can just trade kills in fights and pull ahead via track gold.
As it was laned, your Ursa needed to play conservative and just not die. Sharing shortlane XP, Luna and Weaver absolutely positively needed kills or they were going to feed track gold hardcore midgame. Your dual lane wasn't bad, but your Ursa went all ham even though he is really squishy vs. that dual lane and fed. Should have just tried to last hit under tower and you could just try to pull whenever you felt like you could. If you two can just not die you should be OK, Luna without levels and without dedicated lane farm is complete garbage and you can gank that lane all day after BH gets 6.
Clock does little in a team fight after he hooks/ cogs/battery assualt for initiation compared to Ursa's sustained DPS. I think you shallow grave'd the right hero.
shira
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Fragamemnon
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lol, bone7 ds/ pld bane, this one was gg from the opening horn even if ee-sama feeds
Pureauthor
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New VP so bad
shira
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Yeah, DS needs to be first ban KP
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Dat Vacuum
I love Dark Seer so much
I love Dark Seer so much
shira
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Can you watch ingame? There is no ticket
edit: Yup you can
Yeah - thanks, or for anyone else you can just open pro teams and find whomever is playing
yeah you can, im watching in game (im in the neogaf chat/guild, if you can join through me)
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even smarter =)
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Don't consider Luna being a stun really, she's just a ministun.
Sounds like the ursa did the wrong thing. Generally ursa can man up on pretty much anything, which is why he wanted to go in probably, but not in this case that early. Both weaver and luna can escape from him easily early on with only a dazzle with him, weaver via invis and luna via highest base ms in dota. He'll just get kited and die, which is probably what happened. What you should have done was pull when it was safe for him and give him support IN the lane when you can, meaning you can't just leave him stranded against double ranged and think he can be fine if you're pulling. He needed to play defensively until level 3 or so for both of you. Then at level three with boots and a point of earthshock on ursa attack the luna. You would need to level your poison up asap to help him with this, at least two points by level 3, maybe 3 at 5 depending on how the lane is going. Luna is really squishy early, you've just got to catch her.
Another approach would to just play ultra defensive. Have the ursa not stray far from tower, you pull as much as you can, and wait for ganks/them making a mistake. This normally doesn't go to well though, and results in you guys getting way underlevelled.
balladofwindfishes
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so...
Update tonight? Remove Summer crate and keys, add Ruby keys and Polycount keys and the items in them, a handful of new sets and
? They also need to fix Chaos Knight being totally broken ASAP. Update today seems likely.
We'll see
Update tonight? Remove Summer crate and keys, add Ruby keys and Polycount keys and the items in them, a handful of new sets and
viper remake
We'll see
Fragamemnon
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KP is so much better when sing is on a solo mid semicarry role and someone else on the team handles initiation (like bone7's bat or dark seer, ee's storm spirit, etc.). I'm not saying he's bad with Puck or what not but he just seems so much more productive for the team when he's not responsible for starting fights.
edit: also, as much as I like aui2000 as a person/player he needs to find a better groove with the team. KP is literally top8 TI4 material (like Dignitas would have been in TI3 if they didn't have deadweight in Sneyking) if they can work out their issues w/ him.
edit: also, as much as I like aui2000 as a person/player he needs to find a better groove with the team. KP is literally top8 TI4 material (like Dignitas would have been in TI3 if they didn't have deadweight in Sneyking) if they can work out their issues w/ him.
SteveWinwood
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Another interesting dotametrics post: Mid Only, Capture Points, and Cognitive Load in PvP
Pureauthor
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Boots Dota best Dota.
shira
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Farting red stars isn't intended?
Shorty11857
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Fnatic won a game, what is this!
That boots steal was hilarious
That boots steal was hilarious
What's a dota patch rofl???
ballad I swear to god, one more goddamn time...
balladofwindfishes
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Heh, I just call it as I see it.
Thanks for the replies guys, was busy so couldn't reply till now. I particularly appreciate the levelling advice from pro, as the guide I'd been following suggested shadow wave and grave first. I still need to get used to thinking through skill builds myself. Guides have helped me so far so I can concentrate on my mechanical skills but I realise this rigid style will be a choke point in the long term, so I'm trying to build a general knowledge of what I need in different situations. All I know for now is that jakiro is my best hero by far haha.
I cringed at that one too
The Technomancer
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Oh this poor Timbersaw
Is Viper the worst character model in the game or is that intended? I know he doesn't have cosmetic slots, might his appearance change when that happens?
After a couple hundred hours learning the game and playing with bots, I played my first real matches this weekend, and loved it. Played in some pugs from the GB channel, so I still haven't experienced solo queue, but I might have to give it a go since setting up even pugs is fairly time consuming and inconvenient. Need to make some Dota2 friends.
After a couple hundred hours learning the game and playing with bots, I played my first real matches this weekend, and loved it. Played in some pugs from the GB channel, so I still haven't experienced solo queue, but I might have to give it a go since setting up even pugs is fairly time consuming and inconvenient. Need to make some Dota2 friends.
SteveWinwood
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He's getting a redesign. He just has old/shitty/beta textures. Riki and Earthshaker used to look ugly as sin.
Some heroes like Viper and SF were some of the first models added to the game 3 years ago and haven't been touched up since. I think it's been confirmed that both should be getting updated models, I would say SOON. But it seems like soon for Valve is anywhere between 1 and 10 years. Development overall has slowed so I wouldn't expect much in the near future unless Valve decides to wake the fuck up and release some sort of mega patch in the next month or so.
OK ARCHIE
I don't think Viper's redesign is going to be too major though. It will likely update his texture, and break him up into like 5 parts so people could make cosmetics.
shira
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Slarjar am cry
balladofwindfishes
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Slardar got a new head a couple years ago. He's one step ahead of Zeus and Viper!
They're not going to let a crate that's expired last much longer, it'll just confuse people.
There has to at least be a schema update to remove the summer crate, unless the 15th at 23:00 was just a suggestion (and considering it passed hours ago, probably).
They're not going to let a crate that's expired last much longer, it'll just confuse people.
shira
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All my crates are gone. And the Lava courier prices spiked.
balladofwindfishes
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They have to convert the keys to generic keys, which requires a schema update. They'll also have to remove the ad from the store, and if they're in the store anyway, might as well add 1 or 2
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It's also not likely they leave the Polycount crate without a name or icon in the game. It's just confusing to people.
SteveWinwood
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So much confusing people.
balladofwindfishes
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I've already seen a bunch of questions about the Summer key on Reddit and the Dev forums.
Over the weekend there must have been 50 threads on Reddit about the Polycount crate and asking what it is.
So yea, confusing.
Ha, what's that from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvXfCbrKVk
The scene the gif is from starts at about 2:07 bu the whole thing is good as has lots of laughing.
I remember that MLG, it was good times. Now sundance doesn't love us anymore, sc2 community so sad
The scene the gif is from starts at about 2:07 bu the whole thing is good as has lots of laughing.
I remember that MLG, it was good times. Now sundance doesn't love us anymore, sc2 community so sad
SteveWinwood
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lemme go buy some quirt summer keys wanna see what theyre all about
XD
Hey, so one of the couriers I had worked on a while ago is finally going to be submitted tomorrow, I'm pumped! Got another one coming within a week or two, but check out the Dota Cinema fails of the week vid to see a preview of the courier, (it's at 6:41) with a lot more pictures and a video of him tomorrow.
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