would u say ur traumatized by brown people in your dota games? may i suggest writing a blog
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would u say ur traumatized by brown people in your dota games? may i suggest writing a blog
Me too, specially since I'm on a slump and I need that W.
manfestival
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I gotta say that I am from puerto rico and know my spanish. I really want region locking. It may prevent me from gaming with dondo and singsing but its a sacrifice I would make to have teams I am more comfortable communicating with.
They dehumanized him thru dota.
Of a game doing this I don't know. But I don't see how it's hard to imagine the region locking only allowing you to search game in the regions represented by the people in your party. Play solo or only with people from your own region ? MM put you in your region server. Play with a friend from another region ? MM put you ( or allow you to choose ) in your or their region server.
shira
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They have way more youtube presence and (replays if I'm not mistaken) compared to BTS and joindota.
So depending on how youtube pays out compared to twitch they could be more profitable??? If they are on youtube streaming (and they perfect chat) that could be gamechanger.
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Region locking ranked until a certain threshold may not be a terrible idea. At some point the pool becomes so thin that the queue times would be unbearable with complete region locking.
It is pretty disheartening to new players to not be able to communicate with team mates and learn what can make dota fun.
It is pretty disheartening to new players to not be able to communicate with team mates and learn what can make dota fun.
Dota 2 certainly requires some pretty good communication at very high levels, but at a low pub level just basic communication through pings and universal phrases should be enough to have a functional team. The problem is not the language barrier, south americans or rednecks, it's just players that refuse to communicate. Sometimes because they don't know they have to, or because the last time they've tried to, all they received in exchange was a bunch of insults. Still, generally being patient and asking people nicely and repeatedly works most of the time, if it doesn't, then you're out of luck.
On a side note, HoN had region locking after a while, it certainly didn't fix bad picks I can tell you that.
On a side note, HoN had region locking after a while, it certainly didn't fix bad picks I can tell you that.
They should just get serious about the language queue option. People from Mexico that don't speak English should be free to queue on US East or West, but they should make sure to queue for Spanish Only if that's the only language they speak. You should also be able to report someone for not speaking the language they queued for.
Telephoto999
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Boo fucking hoo.
There's UNRANKED for those players. For players that want a good, team based environment where they can communicate with their allies without fear of saying anything and being responded with "jajajajaja n00b" ranked should be region locked. ESPECIALLY for Solo Q.
As I said a few pages back, Slardar is now a legit hard carry. And unlike most hard carries who need to get a BF and farm for 25 minutes, as soon as Slar hits 6 he can start ganking and fighting.
People SERIOUSLY underestimate his ult, especially early game. Almost every time im playing solo vs a dual lane ill get an easy double kill, because ill Amp them both and then have them initiate on me. Stun + a few auto attacks and theyre dead.
Juggernauts are especially prone to this. Theyll spin into me, get Amped and then die in 2 hits
http://dotabuff.com/matches/492162007
People SERIOUSLY underestimate his ult, especially early game. Almost every time im playing solo vs a dual lane ill get an easy double kill, because ill Amp them both and then have them initiate on me. Stun + a few auto attacks and theyre dead.
Juggernauts are especially prone to this. Theyll spin into me, get Amped and then die in 2 hits
http://dotabuff.com/matches/492162007
balladofwindfishes
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Why? They have no control over if Valve takes their check box seriously or not. It's a preference, not a hard limit on who you can play with.
Heh, my brother responds with "jajajaja" to every complaint of his play just to get a rise out of people. I've seen soooo much racism thrown around as soon as he types those 2 simple letters, it's almost sickening.
I am from Brazil but its true, some brazilian players are a pain in the ass to play with. They dont communicate, they troll, they dont even speak english. Same thing with other countries and even some american players, but it seems it happens more ofter with us brazilians, unfortunately.
You realize that the person that is whining about shit is you, right?
So you can keep your Boo fucking hoo close to your chest.
Schweinehund
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Servers borked? Trying to do my calibration matches and I'm sitting here for 9 mins...
Steam just came back up.
Telephoto999
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As a european, you don't constantly have south americans ruining your games, so your opinion is pretty much invalid.
I'm not the only one. Just seem to be the only one that has a problem with it on Neogaf. Apparently neogaf has reached some enlightened plain where having their Dota games ruined by south americans doesn't rustle their jimmies at all. A simple google search shows many, many, many others feel the same way about it.
I'm done posting about it.
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Guys i've got an idea, just make dota cost 50$ a month, so dirty poors and brown people and south americans can't play with you noble, rich, democratic-exporting north americans who trust in god and are the simbol of everything's that good and noble and rich enough.
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Telephoto999
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You realize that this comment is more racist, than me not wanting to play with South Americans... right?
balladofwindfishes
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I'm opposed to a region lock not because I enjoy playing with foreigners, but I'm against taking an open game and restricting it more than it should be. I'd rather get the occasional game with a Brazilian than have my game locked up.
Stop playing AP. It's even worse in ranked.
A simple google search will tell you that many many many feel that it's actually always their team's fault that they lose any game.
News flash: people like to blame things on factors other than themselves.
That's why the first sentence in my post was "Valve should get serious about the language checkbox."
Dreams-Visions
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Playing with friends is critical.
How about this...me thinking out loud here...what if a region lock is a soft lock? That is, you queue in your closest region (which is selected by default and can't be changed), perhaps expanding in search to other continents you have checked based on how long you've been waiting in queue. Sounds like a rather hard lock, right? Well how about this solution to friends: if you join a party with friends, you queue in whatever region they are in. The party leader status and region overrides your local soft lock.
The benefit seems clear: If a Russian or Brazilian or Chilean wants to queue USE/W, (s)he can so long as (s)he has a friend in the region (who is actually in the region) to queue with. The chances of someone not speaking english in this scenario are minimized, meaning less games where people can't communicate with each other. Or those of us in the US can play with our homies in the UK on EuroW. It means everyone will have a reliably good pong since the default and strong preference of the search will be around the closest region to them. The concern of not being able to play with friends is eliminated. And so is the burden parties queuing USE from the Phillipines creates for unsuspecting Americans and Canadians is slashed.
The drawback is that you can't queue off of your continent as easily. You need a friend who will be be party member where you want to go available. I've only done this a few times in my 3,000 matches, but I can understand this being inconvenient. I have a friend in India who queues EuroW because he only speaks English and this would be a hit to him, as he would now have to wait for a EuroW friend to come online to play there where now he just solo queues it at will. Furthermore, if you don't have a friend on another continent, it will become more difficult to get one: you'll have to get those friends through partying with other friends. This also doesn't do anything to help regions like Europe where several languages are spoken (where here in the Americas, there are really only 3). I consider these outliers, though. For the vast majority, this would be a major boost to their overall experience.
Now tell me the fatal flaw, GAF.
What I find the funniest is that they are essentially saying foreign players are not as good, period. Which obviously is not true. The communication issue, whilst slightly exaggerated by this, would not change if they spoke English. A troll is a troll, and sometimes they might not even be foreign ( like Ballad's brother). If they are a nice communicative player and they don't speak English they can get across anything they need via the tools Valve has provided.
Waiting for it too since it's also what I spoke about.
You could also make it so after a given time looking for player, it would begin to look in other ( closest ) region; as to avoid the possible "see certain regions becoming completely unable to play at certain times zones because of the lower population. " scenario.
this, i love doing weird accents in pub voice chat and seeing the overreactions i get
i bet half of the "hueheuheuehuehue noob lol" are just americans trolling
Ping.
Playing on the Africa servers, every time an international joins the game they always have a ping of over 300+, which is almost unplayable.
This is the biggest issue i have with people queuing outside their regions.
Why are you safe lane with lone druid lol
balladofwindfishes
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One of my most memorable Dota 2 experiences was a match where it was 2 solo players and a 3 stack. Solo me, a 3 stack of some girl and 2 of her friends, and one Brazilian who didn't speak a lick of comprehensible english.
Through the entire match, the Brazilian would scream into his mic while charging in as Jugg. And he'd do stuff like throw himself infront of CM (the girl) and then make strange noises and try to say stuff in English (poorly) to awkwardly hit on her, like "I do go, yes? Good friend?" while the other two guys in the stack would sort of tease his awkwardness with the language and then they'd play along and battlecry with him.
It was all kinds of a good time to be there.
Also had a sort of similar experience with a Russian who would run into 1v5 man fights, yelling stuff in Russian and then manage to actually win. The hilarious meta commentary from the other two English speakers about his gameplay style was worth it.
Just some anecdotes.
Through the entire match, the Brazilian would scream into his mic while charging in as Jugg. And he'd do stuff like throw himself infront of CM (the girl) and then make strange noises and try to say stuff in English (poorly) to awkwardly hit on her, like "I do go, yes? Good friend?" while the other two guys in the stack would sort of tease his awkwardness with the language and then they'd play along and battlecry with him.
It was all kinds of a good time to be there.
Also had a sort of similar experience with a Russian who would run into 1v5 man fights, yelling stuff in Russian and then manage to actually win. The hilarious meta commentary from the other two English speakers about his gameplay style was worth it.
Just some anecdotes.
I don't think there is a particular flaw, I just don't think we need one. The only issue region locking solves is the language issue and I think there are enough tools in place that people that don't speak the same language can still communicate enough to play at a pub level. You may disagree, and that's fine.
No, we deal with russians instead. From someone who has A LOT of experience from both US East and EU West/East. I would gladly take the US East anytime, until you experience the shithole that is EU matchmaking you shouldn't really complain at all.
here we go
manfestival
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let me tell you about the time I played with a korean, chinese, german, and british guy.
We won.
I preach the truth brother! Amen!
Nope
I'm pretty sure if you are spending more than $5, you can just pay with a credit card like any other steam purchase. Anything lower than that has to be done by adding funds to your steam wallet first.
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