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Dota 2 |OT| To Hell and Back and Back to Hell
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WTF is that tinker model!!
this is how tinker is supposed to look:
he is a green goblin, not a blue old dude. gross
That tinker is trash compared to our purple god
Someone needs to make Gendo glasses for tinker now.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
How. I can't even open Twitch atm.
shira
Member
If your video card can handle it, you should at least demo a high frame rate monitor to see the difference in last-hitting and overall smoothnosity. Not a major difference but I guess the price has been dropping. 120Hz monitors were expensive just last year. This one is only $100 bones more and 144hz.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236313
Some people can tell the difference, some can't.
Good hero. He's fine though.
I had the same reaction when I was finally forced to rebuild my desktop. It's remarkable we managed to play so long on low settings.
poppedcollar69
Member
geez that Puck is getting abused
Don't ask people why they aren't doing something. Seriously, take it from someone who plays in front page matchmaking all the time. All it does is serve to demoralize and puts you in the arrogant "I'm way better than you why don't you have the game sense I do" position, which no one likes. If you want Prophet to split push, tell him straight up, hey man, enemy is pushing mid, or we're pushing bottom, you should split push top and force a reaction.
Learning how to communicate effectively with your teammates will go a long way towards having a better gaming experience.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Dagon V rush umadbro?
SteveWinwood
Member
At least he isn't cliff jungling.
Oh wow. There was a sand king in my game with 100 wins, so not exactly brand new to the game. He made so many randomly stupid moves and comments it was laughable. I was CK, he told me I should initiate every fight....
Our enigma used his ult on almost all their team when they were in our base, he stood around the tower waiting for.. idk something magic to happen.. like an epicenter? -.- But this one stood out for me for sure:
Our enigma used his ult on almost all their team when they were in our base, he stood around the tower waiting for.. idk something magic to happen.. like an epicenter? -.- But this one stood out for me for sure:
shira
Member
Do you have a trench smurf account? I don't think you feel our pain.
Pop-psychology only works to a certain type of rational person. The furion's in trench are the ones trying to cut down every tree in the map before they respawn or delivering rapiers to enemy fountain.
Your team has a Jakiro mid and then CK and Slark are laning together in the off-lane. Wat.
Edit: Just realized Radiant has a Drow Kunkka lane and AM SK lane so they make your team's lanes look great in comparison.
Yeah it was a messed up game.. The guy who picked last was, guess who, sand king. So Jakiro went mid, IDK, it was a fail from the start.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
I've been thinking of making a Twitch account so I can stream some Doto. I have 15/5 Mbps internet (Verizon Fios). Is that enough to stream with?
Thanks for the suggestion. I probably won't get it because I've already bought the monitor and I'm too lazy to return it and buy a whole new one just so I can have a maybe-noticeable smoothness increase. But when I'm on the market for a new one, I'll keep this advice in mind.
It really is. I can't wait to play all those games that my laptop couldn't run.
Thanks for the suggestion. I probably won't get it because I've already bought the monitor and I'm too lazy to return it and buy a whole new one just so I can have a maybe-noticeable smoothness increase. But when I'm on the market for a new one, I'll keep this advice in mind.
It really is. I can't wait to play all those games that my laptop couldn't run.
Pastafarian
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Am I the only one who is having a problem with the chat servers? It always says there are 0 people in the room, and others don't see when i suggest invites.
I am no expert on the subject but I believe that should be sufficient. My friend streams at a decent quality with less bandwidth than that. I think another relevant aspect is whether or not your PC is capable of doing it as I believe streaming is taxing on your CPU and GPU. Regardless the best way to find out is just to try it!
JakOfTheShadows
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Dendi is demonstrating a new level of baller status for eSports which involves having your crew be on stream with you in the background. I hope they blow up for him when he makes big plays too.
22k now haha. More than most tournament streams!
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Ok cool. I just built this PC so my GPU and CPU should be able to handle it. I'll make a Twitch account and try it out today or tomorrow. I'll put the link in here so you guys can tell me if the connection is shit or not.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Well there's no tournaments on today (for some reason). So a big gap to fill. And everyone loves watching Dendi.
And I don't know if my connection is stable enough that I'd want to stream Dota. Upstairs where the source router is located it's more than capable, but there's severe degradation through the powerline adaptors bringing it to the computer I now play on downstairs (still don't know why it's so bad). WiFi doesn't penetrate (stongly enough for a good connection) through the floor either.
I may stream myself working on Dota cosmetics when I'm more comfortable with the process. I don't think people would want to watch me being fiddly with things I'm still figuring out myself.
Schweinehund
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What does archie predict for hero this week?
Always bet on techies
You'll get a new bot and you'll like it!
Nothing.
Well, there you go Hylian. As it should be
I knew it! I was damn sure that should work. Bug report that Puck silence doesn't stop it!
Edit: http://www.playdota.com/mechanics/Invisibility
close to the edge
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So I just randomed PL in an All Pick game, solo queue. Dude who has PA selected as a hero calls safe lane. I'm like okay, someone pick support, we can dual offlane. Rest of the team picks Mirana, Invoker and Lina. The dude proceeds not to pick PA but Earthshaker and inisists on going carry ES top. My choices were "fuck this guy" and farm top lane with ES and Lina or dual lane bot with Mirana. Well, top lane it is. ES was of course stealing my last hits and mass-pinging whenever I tried to take them. We of course ended up losing the game because I was underfarmed and the loss was blamed on "noob PL". To be fair, I didn't farm well after the laning stage but we also never had any wards up and they had a lot of icky silences and bought a gem which made it hard for me to show myself.
Queued again immediately after and randomed Enchantress. Was an easy stomp but not because of me (they had a jungling Alchemist who died like 5 times to our Bloodseeker because he dropped low while jungling) At least we won.
Queued again immediately after and randomed Enchantress. Was an easy stomp but not because of me (they had a jungling Alchemist who died like 5 times to our Bloodseeker because he dropped low while jungling) At least we won.
You have to get through the trench to get out of the trench. I did it years ago, I know what kind of people are there. I got my BATTLE SCARS.
There's a certain way you talk to people you don't know in dota. Asking them an aggressive after-the-fact question like "Why aren't you split pushing while we're dying?" serves absolutely nothing other than to put said person on the defensive. You put them in the position where any answer they give isn't satisfactory.
"Because I was farming," "No, you should have been taking a tower instead."
"Because I didn't see it," "How do you not see us all dying 4v5?"
"Because I didn't think to split push," "Do you know how to play your hero?"
"Because I didn't want to," "Well guess you don't want to win then."
It's a loaded question and it's just not good to talk to people in that way. Is there a chance that the person will be an idiot anyway? Sure, but that doesn't excuse you from being mean and stooping down to their level. Be a better person, communicate better, do everything in your power to make the game better.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Concurrent numbers finally growing at a decent rate. Up 12,000 from the previous record.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Dota2 is gorgeous, it'll run maxed out on modest hardware too.
It's pure game theory, really.
Your feeder is a jerkface:
You flame them with venom and vitriol. They flame you right back.
You ask them nicely. They ignore you or flame you.
Your feeder is just a newish/bad player who needs some guidance:
You flame them with venom and vitriol. They lash out at you.
You ask them nicely. They consider following your directions.
Expecting people to listen to you after yelling at them just doesn't work in the majority of cases, whereas asking nicely actually has a slight chance of working.
Your feeder is a jerkface:
You flame them with venom and vitriol. They flame you right back.
You ask them nicely. They ignore you or flame you.
Your feeder is just a newish/bad player who needs some guidance:
You flame them with venom and vitriol. They lash out at you.
You ask them nicely. They consider following your directions.
Expecting people to listen to you after yelling at them just doesn't work in the majority of cases, whereas asking nicely actually has a slight chance of working.
Schweinehund
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SteveWinwood
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but you dismissed everyone saying it would go up and that they were actually throttling
could it be
:O
you were wrong
This reads like Pascal's wager.
I had the worst game in all my years playing DOTA genre games yesterday.
There was this Tiny and Beastmaster who where friends (i checked their friends list after the game to confirm). From the get go the courier was being fed everytime it spawned, this wasn't the big problem. By the 20 minute mark i'm owning as Sniper with like 9-0-5 and the rest of my team minus the Beastmaster and Tiny and decimating the enemy and it looks like a easy victory and we had the clear advantage in towers, over double the kills and the enemy team was on the defensive.
Then all the sudden the Tiny purposely throws 3 of us (minus his friend) on a rock. Well we can't get it off it, you know why? Remember how i said the courier was being fed the whole match on purpose? Well we can't TP off the stupid fucken rock, we are stuck there until the enemy finds us and kills us. When the enemy finally did kill us the Tiny still kept on throwing us in unreachable places we couldn't get out of. While all this was happening the Beastmaster and Tiny where claiming ignorance (while sitting in the fountain) in All and Team chat and telling the enemy to report us....
What could of being the easiest win ever was destroyed by the most vile scum these MOBA communities are known for.
These things need to happen
There was this Tiny and Beastmaster who where friends (i checked their friends list after the game to confirm). From the get go the courier was being fed everytime it spawned, this wasn't the big problem. By the 20 minute mark i'm owning as Sniper with like 9-0-5 and the rest of my team minus the Beastmaster and Tiny and decimating the enemy and it looks like a easy victory and we had the clear advantage in towers, over double the kills and the enemy team was on the defensive.
Then all the sudden the Tiny purposely throws 3 of us (minus his friend) on a rock. Well we can't get it off it, you know why? Remember how i said the courier was being fed the whole match on purpose? Well we can't TP off the stupid fucken rock, we are stuck there until the enemy finds us and kills us. When the enemy finally did kill us the Tiny still kept on throwing us in unreachable places we couldn't get out of. While all this was happening the Beastmaster and Tiny where claiming ignorance (while sitting in the fountain) in All and Team chat and telling the enemy to report us....
What could of being the easiest win ever was destroyed by the most vile scum these MOBA communities are known for.
These things need to happen
- You should be able to see who is manually controlling the courier when its not delivering an item
- Game needs that Tribunal system LoL has
- Game needs vote kicking system HoN has (make it 9 out of 10 votes needed). This doesn't help with friends that are trolls though.
- Disabling help should disable able Tinys throwing ability, because trust me i tried disabling the troll throwing me and he could still put me in unescapable areas.
Just need achievements man. And the 2 remaining ancient camps!
Head of Vengarl
Banned
This
milk
It's weird how a lot of adults play this game and basically make the "he started it!" excuse when someone calls them out for acting like a shithead. If you've made it out of high school, you should be old enough to know how to act in group/team settings.
PillowKnight
Member
I really hate these sorts rhetorical questions, sometimes I even insta mute people who ask them. They're almost as bad as just straight up raging.
SteveWinwood
Member
Having a 9 out of 10 vote to kick sounds like the worst possible thing.
Pascal's wager is closely related to decision theory, yes.
Have you played HoN? Because often it works when you get an obvious troll intentionally feeding. I personally think it should be 8 out of 10 votes needed though.
Also why do you think its the worst possible thing?
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Let's not get ahead of ourselves - everyone was advocating an explosive bump.
This is still chickenfeed compared to based teemo and friends.
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