Shuggananas
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Seriously just take a hero with a spammable slow and you're good
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Dota 2 |OT13| 6.86, our Pit Lord and savior
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Kind of a bummer that you have to "win" for the challenge stuff to stick, but I suppose the alternative is people joining a game to do it, then throwing to end the game faster. And I have no doubt that's exactly what people would do if it were allowed, lol.
Gentle Rodriguez
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The issue is more that they'd put in zero effort into winning the game and only focus on doing the challenge, even if it involves them feeding a lot.
Like with the stun challenge I can just play earthshaker, buy 50 mangos or clarities and just waste my stun every time it's up until I got my challenge. Now imagine like half the players doing this, it's horrendous.
Ye
Remember how garbage the PA arcana event was?
It would be like that but a million times worse
I thought that was how you normally played when we stacked?
I think teamwork actually improved in that event. People were running around trying to gank and countergank and coordinated stuff in order to fulfill the challenges.
As it is people focusing on challenges is causing them to lose focus of remembering they still have to win and fighting with teammates when someone else's kill steal or fighting for farm stops them from getting to to their quest item on time.
It's frustrating but eventually I'll get it, I just wish there were more viable options than spamming just the couple of heroes with the longest or the lowest cooldown stuns.
It's frustrating but eventually I'll get it, I just wish there were more viable options than spamming just the couple of heroes with the longest or the lowest cooldown stuns.
Even at my scrub mmr people actually played like a team during the pa event. Vision everywhere, plenty of missing calls and responses to minimap pings, less crazy dives and stupid builds. i liked that event way more than the recent yearbeast Aka pick zeus or warlock because the refresher effect from the yearbeast makes them stupidly broken.
Gentle Rodriguez
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No I lose games unintentionally, which is arguably worse.
The difference is that trying to fulfill that challenge improved your overall chance of winning(one team helps out their carry, the other tries to keep her unfarmed) even if it did lead to some cancerous behaviour.
I still laugh when I recall that time you bloodraged the enemy gyro.
Gentle Rodriguez
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It made so much sense, "yes I bloodrage the gyro and he dies quickly", but then
Will never bloodrage enemy carry again.
shira
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WUT? That was so much fun. It was like CSGO Dota
Find the PA or kill the target. Hats were on the line.
Good lord the BM that would come out if you could fountain farm the PA before the throne falls.
Gentle Rodriguez
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For anyone that's doing the 100 second stun challenge, you can Nightmare your allies with Bane and it'll count. So you can just secure the win(get megas or whatever) and then start a nightmare train.
shira
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Azubu stream
Lower Bracket (Elimination Bo3)
EG vs CoL
Secret vs Newbee
Upper Bracket Semifinal (Bo3)
VG vs Ehome
OG vs LGD
waxinlyrical
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PA Event was by far the most fun for me out of all the event-type games so far. Granted, PA's like one of my favorite heroes, so I'm inherently biased.
What made it work for me was that it was a very tiny, organic addition to the normal game rules. You're still playing normal Dota, i.e. you want to kill the enemy's ancient. You still need a balanced line up, i.e. no constant selection of deathball heroes like the Year Beast event. PA's team just has an incentive to get PA to kill a certain target first, and the target's team has an incentive to kill PA first.
The fact that rewards were only given out if you win meant no one on my team had any reason to give up. Even if we didn't fulfill the contract, you had the satisfaction of winning the match and denying the enemy team rewards.
What made it work for me was that it was a very tiny, organic addition to the normal game rules. You're still playing normal Dota, i.e. you want to kill the enemy's ancient. You still need a balanced line up, i.e. no constant selection of deathball heroes like the Year Beast event. PA's team just has an incentive to get PA to kill a certain target first, and the target's team has an incentive to kill PA first.
The fact that rewards were only given out if you win meant no one on my team had any reason to give up. Even if we didn't fulfill the contract, you had the satisfaction of winning the match and denying the enemy team rewards.
shira
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What about the buy 10 chests challenge? Are you going to do that one too?
Ahh watching dumpster tier players buy their first MKB or watching PA go shadowblade to dodge the contracts.
NormalFish
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Division PvP looks sick as fuck
Hell yeah.
Cyborgmatt
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Whoever had the shop CTD with integrated graphics that has been fixed now. Ty for the heads up.
NormalFish
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Looks like it has the potential to get pretty repetitive past like 20 hours, but if the loot is good and the community isn't too stupid... Hell of an MMO, honestly.
Yeah I wrote this in another thread: MMO hooks implemented correctly in a Tom Clancy faithful setting is like the dream.
My only concern is the same as yours, that there will be little depth after 20-30 hours, or large periods of content drought that slowly dwindles the playerbase.
They've said things like this in the past: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-division-aiming-for-endless-gameplay/1100-6423160/
But you never know with Ubi.
Oh, this is live.
I was waiting like an idiot for something funny to happen.
Also, not reading the "live" in the URL.
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the left is channel (can change if it's spotty) , middle is video resolution quality (with bottom being the lowest resolution) , the right is the option for the live comments with orange being on
Cheers bud.
Is there a surefire counter to the Lifestealer Radiance + infest dragon shenanigans? I've beaten it before, but I felt like it was more a result of the other team doing it poorly. Most supports and disables are useless against it. What's the answer? Solar Crest? Something else?
Heavy's Sandvich
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armour reduction
True, was utterly frustrating to play against. I was Ember in a game against it just now, I talked to someone else and got the advice to rat more with my BoTs, proabably would have won with that.
Sigismundo
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What non-shotgun builds can Morphling use? SnY --> Skadi or something?
NormalFish
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pretty sure they'd argue Assassin's Creed or Watch Dogs has "endless gameplay" too, so yeah...
dude your avatar's back
Valva has actually destroyed Dota 2. What the fuck is any of us even doing anymore?
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