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[Artanisix]

CHOGALL IS THE FKIN BEST

 

[Auteezy]

CHOGALL IS THE FKIN BEST

how do i unlock this guy? are the hots gaffers any good i need a sensei

 

[DrPizza]

I hope we get to see more of Goodkind.

 

[W1SSY]

I didn't know Terry Goodkind was in the Dota lore.

 

[Pureauthor]

Axe now has an Immortal Helmet, an Immortal Shoulderguard/Pauldron, and an Immortal Cape.

He does not have an Immortal Axe.

Hm.

Edit: Goodkind pet plz Valve

 

[Drkirby]

Of course not, he will get an Arcana Axe.

 

[Quesa]

how do i unlock this guy? are the hots gaffers any good i need a sensei

ill take you through a couple of quick ai matches. Just need to win two to unlock him

 

[DrPizza]

Axe now has an Immortal Helmet, an Immortal Shoulderguard/Pauldron, and an Immortal Cape.

He does not have an Immortal Axe.

Hm.

Edit: Goodkind pet plz Valve

Eh, he has various Genuine and Mythical axes, that seems enough. It's his belt slot that's really deficient.

 

[Drkirby]

Fallout 4 has a pretty piss poor main story for the last third, its just sort of falls off. Fun game, I enjoyed it, but it felt sort of empty. What the game needs is a popper expansion to add more quests and give you more choices, but all that will likely be made is DLC that takes place in walled gardens.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

What we need is New Vegas 2

 

[Auteezy]

ill take you through a couple of quick ai matches. Just need to win two to unlock him

i got him. How do you tell if you tell somebody is good at this game or not, seems like their hero league things have nothing to do with your actual match making rating.

 

[Hylian7]

Fallout 4 has a pretty piss poor man story for the last third, its just sort of falls off. Fun game, I enjoyed it, but it felt sort of empty. What the game needs is a popper expansion to add more quests and give you more choices, but all that will likely be made is DLC that takes place in walled gardens.

Something that really bugged me about the storyline, however I'm not done with the main quest yet.

Spoiler

With how paranoid Diamond City was about synths, they considered Nick okay because he was a good synth and saved the former mayor's daughter, and took a bunch of cases. Do you really expect me to believe that suddenly all these people were like "Oh hey, let's go to the synth detective because he's a good synth now!"

That's almost to the stupidity level of "Well the radiation immune super mutant, ghoul, or robot companions can't go in the room full of deadly radiation because reasons! You have to do it!"

 

[TUSR]

where all my dizzy kittens at?

 

[Sigismundo]

What we need is New Vegas 2

Additionally, what we need is Obsidian not getting fucked over by Metacritic scores.

 

[Captain Fish]

That's not really how I expected a comic about Axe to go down.

 

[Chris R]

where all my dizzy kittens at?

dizzy kitten?

 

[Lotto]

i finally get the comic and i feel empty inside. the wait was too long, my lore fix is not satiated. custom map makers pls finish single player dota for valve ty.

 

[Sigismundo]

Does jungle Batrider have any tricks other than 'stack camps and napalm'? I've only ever played him in lane.

 

[DrPizza]

i finally get the comic and i feel empty inside. the wait was too long, my lore fix is not satiated. custom map makers pls finish single player dota for valve ty.

I feel this concept: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3t8au6/valve_should_create_a_dlc_tutorial_story/cx3zqiy would be legit as fuck, but Volvo would never do it. And doing it high quality for all the heroes would be a huge undertaking.

 

[Auteezy]

I feel this concept: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3t8au6/valve_should_create_a_dlc_tutorial_story/cx3zqiy would be legit as fuck, but Volvo would never do it. And doing it high quality for all the heroes would be a huge undertaking.

where the zeus arcana at?

 

[DrPizza]

where the zeus arcana at?

Zeus arcana should be Mario style dungarees.

 

[Drkirby]

where the zeus arcana at?

Arc Warden is going to give Zeus a new look and a pony.

 

[Pyros_Eien]

I feel this concept: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3t8au6/valve_should_create_a_dlc_tutorial_story/cx3zqiy would be legit as fuck, but Volvo would never do it. And doing it high quality for all the heroes would be a huge undertaking.

Maybe if Blizzard's idea of selling mission DLC for SC2 now that they're done with the trilogy work well(or sell well I guess), they'd decide to do the same thing? Story/lore DLC missions for Dota2 would be pretty awesome.

 

[Sigismundo]

Hey, any of you guys have the TI5 EG Doom set? I want one and I have stuff.

 

[Shuggananas]

I feel all the BO3s we've seen so far have been disappointing, the winners never played exceptionally well, it always seemed the losing team was to blame for major mistakes every time, get your shit together guys, I want to see exciting games

I guess the LAN choke factor is real

My predictions for today :
Mski 2 - 1 OG
VP 2 - 0 Alliance
EG 0 - 2 CDEC
Secret 2 - 0 VG

 

[Auteezy]

I feel all the BO3s we've seen so far have been disappointing, the winners never played exceptionally well, it always seemed the losing team was to blame for major mistakes every time, get your shit together guys, I want to see exciting games

I guess the LAN choke factor is real

My predictions for today :
Mski 2 - 1 OG
VP 2 - 0 Alliance
EG 0 - 2 CDEC
Secret 2 - 0 VG

EG 2-1 CDEC
VG 2-0 Secret

Idk where you get your ideas from champ

 

[twobear]

windranger nerf when

 

[Shuggananas]

CDEC have the best carry in the world
VG are odd as fuck, hard to predict a score

 

[Hylian7]

windranger nerf when

Yes please. Sometimes the winrates don't tell the whole story.

 

[twobear]

magnus buff when?

(make the hitbox on skewer bigger)

 

[shira]

http://www.twitch.tv/dotamajor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V20qDMpKARk

LIVE!

Nahaz

My predictions for today :
Mski 2 - 1 OG
VP 1 - 2 Alliance
EG 1 - 2 CDEC
Secret 1 - 2 VG

 

[yarden24]

Yes please. Sometimes the winrates don't tell the whole story.

How do they not tell the whole story? She may be annoying for you to play against, it in no ways means she needs a nerf

 

[twobear]

How do they not tell the whole story? She may be annoying for you to play against, it in no ways means she needs a nerf

Storm Spirit always had a <50% pub winrate but pretty much everyone agreed he was stupid.

 

[Demoli]

Axe immortal is underwhelming but i got a Morphling set from the treasure so tis all good.

 

[yarden24]

Storm Spirit always had a <50% pub winrate but pretty much everyone agreed he was stupid.

Windrunner has a sub 50 winrate in pubs and pro games, it is not comparable

 

[Auteezy]

the way nahaz just talks down on teams is hilarious

 

[M.D]

i honestly can't hear nahaz anymore

i know stats is what he does but srsly shut the fuck up

 

[Acinixys]

Nahaz is the worst

Shouting numbers does not a statsman make

Bring back Bruno please

 

[Red UFO]

n0tail is terminally chill

 

[Auteezy]

Nahaz is the worst

Shouting numbers does not a statsman make

Bring back Bruno please

here's what i can gather as a guy whose major mostly depended on stats and shit. Like real in-depth stats and their significance are kind of hard to explain quickly into layman's terms so he just does this super simple glossed over shit and calls it stats like: "at 16minutes weavers with a desolater win 70% (14/20 games) of the time"

 

[Red UFO]

here's what i can gather as a guy whose major mostly depended on stats and shit. Like real in-depth stats and their significance are kind of hard to explain quickly into layman's terms so he just does this super simple glossed over shit and calls it stats like: "at 16minutes weavers with a desolater win 70% (14/20 games) of the time"

Well he's not gonna talk about p-values and variance and shit is he

 

[kionedrik]

Major LAN P+B

SF is a balanced hero...

edit: OG won so it's +1 for SF (90% PB and 72% WR)

edit #2: Windrunner was played in 7 matches and has a 28.57% WR. Clearly broken...

 

[Auteezy]

Well he's not gonna talk about p-values and variance and shit is he

no but p-values are probably pretty important to tell you what is a significant stat to talk about even in dota. all he does is mention factoids

 

[M.D]

why do we need nahaz on the panel spewing stats at us? what happened to the days of getting cool stats pop-ins at the right side of the screen and the casters discussing it in the game?

i can't stand his head movements either

 

[shira]

no but p-values are probably pretty important to tell you what is a significant stat to talk about even in dota. all he does is mention factoids

Factoids are perfect for reddit and twitch - look at this top upvoted post

Nahaz is now probably one of the best personalities to have on the analyst desk. The amount and accuracy of information he provides is unbelievable.
Thank you for making Dota 2 events and the breaks between the games much more enjoyable !

Valve also seems satisfied with having a PhD on the panel wasting time between games.

 

[Hylian7]

Windrunner has a sub 50 winrate in pubs and pro games, it is not comparable

I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but wasn't Spirit Breaker's pro win rate not very impressive in pro or pub games right before his ult became interruptable? I could be wrong about this.

Windrunner is the FotM hero you see in every single game right now, but she is probably harder to grasp than a lot of other FotM heroes, which probably explains her lower winrate.

Like I said before, all she really needs is a nerf to the latch range on Shackleshot. It is damn near impossible to not be close enough to something you can be shackled to, especially if the Windrunner has Blink.

 

[Auteezy]

Factoids are perfect for reddit and twitch - look at this top upvoted post

Valve also seems satisfied with having a PhD on the panel wasting time between games.

half the shit he says is just made up like when he talks about "OG team does everything together, even enter the stadium together, they are more tight knit than any other team" like how the fuck does he know that shit, and all teams seemed to enter shit together... He's just so full of bull like yeah they need a guy who can kill time and talk about story lines, but nahaz is just so DULL

 

[Demoli]

I really hope the axe immortal being released now doesnt mean the patch is 1 month away or more.

 

[kionedrik]

I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but wasn't Spirit Breaker's pro win rate not very impressive in pro or pub games right before his ult became interruptable? I could be wrong about this.

Windrunner is the FotM hero you see in every single game right now, but she is probably harder to grasp than a lot of other FotM heroes, which probably explains her lower winrate.

Like I said before, all she really needs is a nerf to the latch range on Shackleshot. It is damn near impossible to not be close enough to something you can be shackled to, especially if the Windrunner has Blink.

Bara had almost 65% WR in pubs in 6.78 iirc. I don't recall him being picked competitively however.

Actually Windrunner skill ceiling isn't that high but the amount of farm that she requires to be a massive threat is insane. Add the fact she isn't the best flash farmer and you get that it takes a long time to get to an unstoppable state and by that time other earlier peaking heroes might have taken over the game.

 

[shira]

I really hope the axe immortal being released now doesnt mean the patch is 1 month away or more.

I honestly can't wait for the dessert map.