SteveWinwood
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I fixed it for you without your snark and misunderstanding what my point was.
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Dota 2 |OT2| Ellen Pudge starring in Beyond Two Throws
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I fixed it for you without your snark and misunderstanding what my point was.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Just for perspective.
We got Medusa in January.
We got Tusk in February.
We got Bristleback in March.
We got Skywratch in April.
We got Elder Titan in May.
We got Abbadon in July.
We saw the first materials updates for Bristleback, ET, Skywrath, Abbadon, and Legion Commander in late February and early March blog updates via Cyborgmatt's blog. At present, we're still in limbo on a hero we've been looking at in-game effects and materials for (Legion Commander) since February 20th.
Certainly they had shit to do in August, but all of September and October have gone by. It just feels like a meaningful amount of the Dota2 team are on other projects now and you can feel it, you know? The rhythm isn't there anymore. Can't really expect or look forward to anything.
It'll be here by Valentines Day
SteveWinwood
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Expectations adjusted!
dave is ok
aztek is ok
So then was 2008-2012 dota 2 development slow for you? The claim "Valve makes things slowly, deal with it," is awful because it's completely false. Valve launched LFD2 almost a year after LFD1. Valve released gigantic weekly updates for dota and was working at the speed of a locomotive for quite a few years. Valve works quickly when it wants to. Valve works slowly when they consider a game finished and move on to the next big thing. I ain't buyin what your sellin here steve.
Next are you going to tell me Half Life 3 is taking forever because of "valve time" and slow development? HELL NO! Half Life 3 is taking forever because it probably wasn't in development until a year or two ago, they didn't give a shit. Hell, it might still be in lingo.
JakkuFurosu
Member
this about what I'm thinking.
Bummed like everyone else.....even my gf made little trips over to my area to see what Valve did this year for Halloween (she loved all the TF2 events and adored the Rosh stomping around with bucket and costumes)
Dreams-Visions
Member
It's funny. All of these crazy updates and new features that are very nice...
...but really, people just want Legion Commander. That injection of new flavor that only a new hero can provide.
Though the change of pace that a holiday event brings is often great.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Woke up early to play Dota before work. Lost both matches pretty badly. ._.
My first Captain's Draft match. Their first pick was Meepo, which was a bad sign. None of us played terribly; we were leading in the beginning. And then suddenly their Meepo comes out of nowhere and gets extremely fat, and split pushes us into oblivion. He almost single-handedly won that match for them.
Had an absolutely miserable RD match against a Riki. I was first in line and picked Luna, and our second picked Brood. That's fine. But when our third and fourth picks were Lifestealer and Troll Warlord I knew we were fucked. Thankfully our last person picked Windrunner so we had a support... except we didn't, because she never fucking bought wards or detection so Riki proceeded to get fed out the ass and dominated our team. I even bought sentries but their SD and Bane were actually good supports and quickly dewarded.
My first Captain's Draft match. Their first pick was Meepo, which was a bad sign. None of us played terribly; we were leading in the beginning. And then suddenly their Meepo comes out of nowhere and gets extremely fat, and split pushes us into oblivion. He almost single-handedly won that match for them.
Had an absolutely miserable RD match against a Riki. I was first in line and picked Luna, and our second picked Brood. That's fine. But when our third and fourth picks were Lifestealer and Troll Warlord I knew we were fucked. Thankfully our last person picked Windrunner so we had a support... except we didn't, because she never fucking bought wards or detection so Riki proceeded to get fed out the ass and dominated our team. I even bought sentries but their SD and Bane were actually good supports and quickly dewarded.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Ok that's pretty funny.
Truth is this game hasn't been touch in what, 4 months ? And valve isn't saying anything. We got told we'd have Legion and Aba before TI3, we got Aba and Legion has disappeared. All kinds of updates have disappeared. Dota2 development has effectively stopped, except for tickets and hats. This is pretty baffling considering this is the most played game on steam by far, and most games are updated more often than this. Dunno why you people are making excuse for valve, this game is pretty clearly been abandoned by their developing priorities.
-tetsuo-
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They just released a huge re-balance patch....
Again, that was icefrog, not Dota2 development. The two things are pretty distinct, and IF has always released patches, even if lately he has started to talk even less with his community (not that i fault him). In regard to parity and new modes, Dota2 is still at the same point compared to Dota1.
Valentide?
It is a little unfair to forget Captain draft update ! which biggest aspect except for that game mod ( very hard to make no doubt ! random draft meet captain's mod ) was allowing us to sell/buy many item on the steam market.
That'll be out for Easter
IHeartTSwift
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Watch out for Haly in inhouses guys. He plays the most annoying heroes in the most annoying ways.
shira
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CarbonatedFalcon
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guys maybe they're just working hard on the custom map tools in preparation of fully outsourcing all new content to the community since they clearly don't want to work on the game themselves anymore 
He stole 50 intelligence. 50! And that's terrible.
He stole 50 intelligence. 50! And that's terrible.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Just playing with bots with the Halloween map. ;_;
Ok, to be fair, 6.79 did just come out, and long before the Dota 1 version too. So we have gotten something.
Expectations have been dropped to negative now, I can not possibly be let down anymore. Thanks Valve.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I still can't honestly believe they'd be this tonedeaf and have absolutely nothing planned for the holiday, but it has been fun watching hundreds of people lose their goddamned minds.
shira
Member
I fully expected the message to be: ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ dead GAME
balladofwindfishes
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The lack of Diretide has caused r/dota2 to go absolutely mad. They're raiding r/globaloffensive now...
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are they trying to steal the ghost chickens?
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Wikipedia said:
NOVEMBER FIRST - ADULT SPIRITS WILL COME TO VISIT. PLS BLV
was more like: ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give reconnect button
couldn't reconnect
Pugna continues to be one of my favourites. Loved him before this patch but now he's on another level. So much fun.
Reddit is more cancerous than 4chan.
Dreams-Visions
Member
༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ come get a hug.was more like: ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give reconnect button
couldn't reconnect
Cyborgmatt
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༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Alternatively you can send death threats and extremely abusive harassment emails to stack on top of this ever growing pile via my contact page (please don't
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༼ <3◕◡◕ ༽<3 HUG HIMAlternatively you can send death threats and extremely abusive harassment emails to stack on top of this ever growing pile via my contact page (please don't
Alternatively you can send death threats and extremely abusive harassment emails to stack on top of this ever growing pile via my contact page (please don't
Well now you know what it feels like to be a professional athlete that costs his team a game/signs with a rival team.
Sometimes people get way too serious over a damn game...
GordonHalfman
Member
Dendi is playing in this EEL thing:
http://www.twitch.tv/dendi
I think it's some kind of in house league thing, a lot of streamers have been doing it.
http://www.twitch.tv/dendi
I think it's some kind of in house league thing, a lot of streamers have been doing it.
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