Only thing I don't like about all random is I don't get my random goldAP is random ALL DAY.
Ummm, yeah you do...
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Dota 2 |OT2| Ellen Pudge starring in Beyond Two Throws
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Ummm, yeah you do...
OldAsUrSock
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First by reintroducing fountain hooks. Chen is the least played character and people who use Pudge miss all of the time. The fountain hooks were almost never seen in tournaments anyways. Now Chen is played even less and is a useless hero.
Man, I love me some AM sometimes, that feeling when coming out of the jungle and just wrecking everyone with manta/bfly/heart is amazing.
On an nunrelated note, does anyone have a link to that video with the dota carachters playing Dungeons and Dragons? I can't find the video for the life of me.
On an nunrelated note, does anyone have a link to that video with the dota carachters playing Dungeons and Dragons? I can't find the video for the life of me.
Jeez. I've not played for awhile, had a game just now as TA. Damn it was possibly the tensest I've played. At the start I kept misclicking and doing stupid stuff because of being a little rusty, and with TA you need to be clicking the right buttons and timing them right or you're dead so I had a few dumb deaths and kill losses due to bad play. I didn't really roam early which was dumb.
Partly because of that, and partly because we had a 3 support team, we were getting demolished mid game. Warlock and his golems, Zeus and his nukes, with windrunner at the back ulting all of us and bristle at the front tanking most of the damage, most of our team fights ended horribly.
But we started to pick up the items, me and faceless started getting kills, and we somehow turned it around. It probably seemed more epic because it's been awhile but damn, this is why this game is so fun.
Match ID if anyone is interested: http://dotabuff.com/matches/351475628
Partly because of that, and partly because we had a 3 support team, we were getting demolished mid game. Warlock and his golems, Zeus and his nukes, with windrunner at the back ulting all of us and bristle at the front tanking most of the damage, most of our team fights ended horribly.
But we started to pick up the items, me and faceless started getting kills, and we somehow turned it around. It probably seemed more epic because it's been awhile but damn, this is why this game is so fun.
Match ID if anyone is interested: http://dotabuff.com/matches/351475628
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I
don't
get
it
We pushed as fast as we could. We had both Lesh and Shadow Shaman, both great pushers, we took towers fast. We had a rax by thirty minutes and another by forty. We still couldn't end it fast enough.
I mean what the fuck are you supposed to do? I don't see how you push fast enough unless you also have Pugna and Natures Prophet. Which you're never going to get in a mode that isn't All Pick. Except in AP no-one is going to pick lancer until the last second anyway so then you would just have to always play that four man hyper push strat constantly just in case. Which would get boring as shit incredibly fast.
How the hell do you take the Ancient before Lancer turns on? You can't dedicate two guys to killing him over and over without losing the rest of the map, and thats what you do need to do to keep him from farming, even giving him ten minutes is too much.
don't
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We pushed as fast as we could. We had both Lesh and Shadow Shaman, both great pushers, we took towers fast. We had a rax by thirty minutes and another by forty. We still couldn't end it fast enough.
I mean what the fuck are you supposed to do? I don't see how you push fast enough unless you also have Pugna and Natures Prophet. Which you're never going to get in a mode that isn't All Pick. Except in AP no-one is going to pick lancer until the last second anyway so then you would just have to always play that four man hyper push strat constantly just in case. Which would get boring as shit incredibly fast.
How the hell do you take the Ancient before Lancer turns on? You can't dedicate two guys to killing him over and over without losing the rest of the map, and thats what you do need to do to keep him from farming, even giving him ten minutes is too much.
The Technomancer
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He really only became a problem in the last twenty minutes actually. Oh sure he got a few kills here and there but he was melting to us early on. Most of that is from some good ults he got off lategame
So i don't get it how do u stop the OD from turning on???
The Technomancer
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I need a mode that has bans that isn't captains mode. I can't always get a five stack together even with 120 Steam friends and there's no way I'm risking getting a captain who barely cares and just picks at random so he can play Void or whatever
I feel like that mode exists.
Dreams-Visions
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Against that lineup? Only having one set of rax at 30 minutes isn't enough. :-(
The key is after taking all their outer towers by 20 minutes or so, ward up everything so they can leave safely to begin to catch up. Get Rohan an take a lane or two of rax. Keep them suppressed, then repeat.
I'd have to watch the replay for more thoughts.
The key is after taking all their outer towers by 20 minutes or so, ward up everything so they can leave safely to begin to catch up. Get Rohan an take a lane or two of rax. Keep them suppressed, then repeat.
I'd have to watch the replay for more thoughts.
The Technomancer
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I'm not going to say we didn't make mistakes. But goddamn if any one hero requires that you be completely on point all game its that one. There's no give and take. Every inch you give you never get back.
$250... prize pool... with 64 teams?
Yeah okay Kirbs, put down the liquor and go to bed.
Anyway, milk and I were talking and we have an idea we want to run by you all.
We want to have a mid-tier gaf tourney, and we were willing to throw some money into a pot for it. We think it would be a lot of fun to have the not-us teams play each other, since competition wouldn't be only rollovers, and you all could learn a lot from each other about drafting and playing cm and whatnot.
Anyone interested?
We want to have a mid-tier gaf tourney, and we were willing to throw some money into a pot for it. We think it would be a lot of fun to have the not-us teams play each other, since competition wouldn't be only rollovers, and you all could learn a lot from each other about drafting and playing cm and whatnot.
Anyone interested?
Dreams-Visions
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Yea I hear you. I just feel like...idunno. They had the late game, so the priorities were in the right order.
What was the detection game looking like? With a bat rider and, aggressive wards, shoulda been no issue to pick him off repeatedly.
Also, with the big leadi assumed your team created, why is Morph so poor? He damn near go out farmed by everyone on the other team. Also, where was everyone else's farm? Should have been two free jungles created just for your team with wards.
The Technomancer
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Vision wasn't so great. Part of the problem may have been that we didn't make ganking Lancer a priority. I can't speak for the others but I felt that it would take too much time to keep him down in any consistent fashion and we needed to be moving faster then that. To make a significant dent in PLs farm I think you need to kill him at least once every five minutes and that was time we wouldn't be spending pushing out. As soon as I got my Wards as Shaman we basically began a barrel-down strat where three or four of us would commit to a lane and go in until we had taken the next tower. They would meet us and we'd go back and forth. They usually emerged on top in terms of kills, but not crazily so. At like 30 minutes I want to say they led us roughly 30-22 but we had taken at least six towers and the middle rax. The problem was, well, twofold: OD finally started wrecking us in the lategame and we had to bounce back and forth between pushing and defending to keep the PL army from singlehandedly taking one of our rax in the blink of an eye.
I'm not sure why Morph is so poor. A lot of the kills went towards me or Invoker I suppose because we had a lot of DoT and AoE
wow Valve patching on a saturday, they must really want to release it on Monday http://steamdb.info/app/205790/#section_history
batrider has 1 kill
u wot m8
dude there was a 34-6-14 OD, 34 and fuckin 6. They would have crushed yall that game regardless of a PL. Stick a tuskar there and it wouldn't have made a difference.
AWWWW SHIT now we got ourselves a tournament
The Technomancer
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I wasn't thinking about that being a requirement, as I don't think there are enough people to make enough 100% gaf teams. The more the better, of course, but so long as its headed by a gaffer I think it should be fine. Also I'd appreciate it if you all kept it casual and didn't go out to find some supXgosu`PRO type player to carry you. I'd rather this be more about friendly competition than winning/money or whatever.
From whats already been said to me seems like we have 4 potential candidates already.
edit: speaking of supXgosu`PRO: no kag bros allowed
To add onto bzm's post, it'd just be a cool little amateur tournament specifically for GAFfers. Me and bzm (and possibly a few others) will put down a small amount of prize money (somewhere around $75 - $200), no entry fee, just something neat and fun for the community over the course of one or two days. Would definitely be streamed and commentated. We get a kick out of watching GAFfers stream and this is like taking it to the next step.
Not sure on any details aside from the above (what mode, how long will it go for, format, etc.), but it's something we wouldn't mind getting off the ground in the near future.
Not sure on any details aside from the above (what mode, how long will it go for, format, etc.), but it's something we wouldn't mind getting off the ground in the near future.
Dreams-Visions
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nice try
LGD.int disband confirmed?
I'm playing every hero in alphabetical order (reversed because astroboy is doing it in order).
Let me tell you man, that Pugna/Morphling game was hard.
It's pretty fun though, what you do is this:
1) Get a queueing partner/s (it's more fun as a group).
2) Pick a random number from 1-(# of heroes). This is hero you start with.
3) Pick whether you're going in order (A-Z), or reverse order (Z-A), or some other kind of order as long as it hits every hero once. It's better if not everyone's going in the same order.
4) Every time you queue together, stick with the order, no matter what.
I imagine this would be pretty hectic with a team of 4-5.
I want to see this 6.79 Dreams Dusa.
How'd you decide who's copper tier and who's not?
I think it's pretty much everyone that's not Milkman, bzm, 1.09, Procarbine, Haly, and Anbokr.
I am possibly the worst Alchemist that has ever existed, also the worst Luna, Chaos knight, PA and anti mage
Co-op vs ai exists so I can random into these heroes and discover just how bad I can still be at this game. I don't understand how I can moderately figure out puck and enigma on the fly but attempting to play any carry is just an unmitigated disaster. I think I'm done randoming and I'm just gonna do A-Z while avoiding all the carries.
Also crystal maiden continues to be my new fav hero to play against people, goodbye dark seer.
Co-op vs ai exists so I can random into these heroes and discover just how bad I can still be at this game. I don't understand how I can moderately figure out puck and enigma on the fly but attempting to play any carry is just an unmitigated disaster. I think I'm done randoming and I'm just gonna do A-Z while avoiding all the carries.
Also crystal maiden continues to be my new fav hero to play against people, goodbye dark seer.
If the Hungarians can do it with $150, I should be able to do it with $250. 64 teams is just an upper limit, I would call even 16 teams with a few that are decent a success.
Most of high tier gaf know/have played with each other, and if there's a conflict you can just view a recent replay.
I would say 8, or maybe even 4, over a few days...
Just like what Milk and Bzm are proposing.
I would say 8, or maybe even 4, over a few days...
Just like what Milk and Bzm are proposing.
Milk and I came to the decision Anbokr is allowed to play, cuz hes trash.
Also, no offense to the other high level players out there like pillow, etc, but you guys are banned as well.
The Technomancer
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