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Dota 2 |OT4| The saga of Vade and ReRixo: the Boat Anchors continues.
- Thread starter Teknopathetic
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Thanks, I'll try direct quotes when I encounter these types of players.
Valve needs to make it so you can bind a single button to share a bottle, and it just works. Maybe I'll see if there is a way I could bind Alt + Item2 to like G.
Edit: Found something minor that I don't think many will notice, the amount of time it takes to be flagged as AFK is now 6 minutes.
Edit: Found something minor that I don't think many will notice, the amount of time it takes to be flagged as AFK is now 6 minutes.
tsunami643
Member
On the flip side, Valve needs to make it so you can bind a button combination to share a ward. I was trying to put down an observer immediately after taking a T3 tower and they kept ending up on the floor because the game thought I was trying to hand it to a six-slotted ally.
I tried changing my hotkeys away from HoN style once, couldn't get used to it, that shits way too deeply ingrained at this point.
By this, you mean you tried to 1v5 but ended up feeding because you missed all your numpad hotkeys right?
No, I mean I carried my team by clicking my items manually every time I rearmed.
With that draft, the only thing I can think of excessively aggressive warding and constant ganking pressure. You really don't have carries that can deal with their team or any viable counterpush to deal with zoo pushes.
Blinks and travels all around and just punish any time anybody tries to split push solo, keep the lanes out and don't let them fight near objectives. Even if you wipe them, if they have the creep positioning their army would still take out whatever you're trying to protect with the howl buff.
At best to hold them off at full strength Alch would have had to go battlefury for his farming item and then cleave up all the summons with the bkb to tank the necros popping, but that means your team would have control the rest of the team fight perfectly so that Alch has free reign.
That matchup is just hard for your team no matter what. You need perfect agression or perfect defense.
I have to have an item (usually blink) bound to my spacebar. makes it much easier to panic blink
On the topic of hotkeys, I have a system in place so that I don't have to think too much when I want to use an item.
ALT + W is always boots, ALT + E is for movement items (blink, force), ALT + A is dagon or heals, ALT + S is usually non-active, but if it is, it's something I don't need to use in battle often because it's harder to press. ALT + D is Black King Bar.
The first slot is Space Bar. I don't use ALT + Q. I use that for orchid, sheep or Eul's. Stuff that you need to be able to use at a moment's notice.
ALT + W is always boots, ALT + E is for movement items (blink, force), ALT + A is dagon or heals, ALT + S is usually non-active, but if it is, it's something I don't need to use in battle often because it's harder to press. ALT + D is Black King Bar.
The first slot is Space Bar. I don't use ALT + Q. I use that for orchid, sheep or Eul's. Stuff that you need to be able to use at a moment's notice.
i didnt uninstall in the first place i just stopped playing for like a month
every time i tried to play, i remembered losing to you and all of my fighting spirit would leave me instantly
)))))))))))))also i learned that i can hold a grudge over a game for a very long time
)))))i hate you
)))))))))))yes im still mad about that match :')))))))))))))))))))
Marauder Shields
Member
Have a question regarding OD. Every now and then I'll see an OD player do the following combo; Astral --> Sanity's Eclipse while the enemy is still Astralled. I've always thought this was idiotic since I assumed that the ult wouldn't hit an opponent that was astralled. However I've seen this combo performed enough where I starting to think that I might have this wrong. Does this combo work?
SteveWinwood
Member
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hello steven
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Member
Ah k ty. Learn something new every day.
Figured that was the case. The Brew pick was very questionable. While SS was great at picking the rats off, the rest of the team wasn't doing much. Tree was giving up waaaaaay too early. He blinked outside of base to ult their whole team between the top and bot rax, right outside the wall. Really bad spot to blink to, and it pretty much sealed the deal. I'm sure I could have done some things better but I did what I could.
I have somewhat of a system but it isn't as distinct as yours.
basically, ALT + Q is always boots, ALT + E and D are whatever i deem to be my most important 2 items, because index finger.
ALT + W, A, S for whatever else.
so why hasn't milk been playing him?
SteveWinwood
Member
Just waiting for people to realize that omni and undying are broke as shit.
And brew and ogre.
It's helpful to always know where your keys are so you don't have to check in the middle of a fight. Especially BKB and disables.
Sadly they are still melee supports that can't carry and have only slows, so they can be really hard to find a home.
That ult wrecks a lot of blink initiation heroes. Heros like Earthshaker and Puck have a lot of trouble counter initiating against him because that AOE silence is deadly when placed well.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
i didnt uninstall in the first place i just stopped playing for like a month
every time i tried to play, i remembered losing to you and all of my fighting spirit would leave me instantly
also i learned that i can hold a grudge over a game for a very long time
i hate you
yes im still mad about that match :')))))))))))))))))))
Hate makes you strong
I still think omni just needs some help getting assists, either by adding a burn to degen aura, or by valve making a change that gives you assists for recently healing people that just got a kill.
Unless you're a Euro.
i didnt uninstall in the first place i just stopped playing for like a month
every time i tried to play, i remembered losing to you and all of my fighting spirit would leave me instantly
also i learned that i can hold a grudge over a game for a very long time
i hate you
yes im still mad about that match :')))))))))))))))))))
LOL. If it makes you feel any better I still feel as bad about it today as I did when it happened.
call_kotaku
Member
Don't you get assist gold just by being within the radius of the kill? I thought the assist stat didn't actually have any gameplay relevance
tsunami643
Member
You are correct.
Go watch the DK-IG BO3 games. Best dotos I have seen in a while.
Imp the Dimp
Member
I wonder if I can get away with watching Twitch at work
I hope I'll be able to when I start my job. I have a tablet I can pull it up on and have it on my desk.
Imp the Dimp
Member
I'll do just that #yolo
I legit was only listening and didnt realize the game was over
Something I really want, and I probably could write a script for it: Camera position hotkeys.
This is something that StarCraft did where you could save a position of your camera sort of like a control group. It would be invaluable in this game. I could probably write a script to do it too, however I'm not sure if that would come to a moral grey area if it's cheating or not. I would have to use something Autohotkey or maybe even Python.
This is something that StarCraft did where you could save a position of your camera sort of like a control group. It would be invaluable in this game. I could probably write a script to do it too, however I'm not sure if that would come to a moral grey area if it's cheating or not. I would have to use something Autohotkey or maybe even Python.
Not what I mean. I mean while you are playing, being able to move the camera somewhere and hit (some key) + 1 and then you hit 1 and the camera jumps to that spot. I know this was a thing in StarCraft.
It always seems to happen to me that I badly predict which games are going to be serious and which ones are going full retard. I enjoy high quality games where people are smoke ganking early, building fast BKBs instead of going Midas, supports counter-warding and everything.
So I'll get those games where I think "alright let's pick a good support hero to make sure we have a balance" but the rest of the team thinks "alright let's pick a safe lane carry and I dont give a fuck what anyone else wants to do."
Then those games where I'm just so frustrated from shitty ones that I say fuck it and random and what the hell sure I'll jungle bloodseeker, it turns out to be a mega try-hard game and I'm totally out of place and fucked.
Can't even pick em lol
So I'll get those games where I think "alright let's pick a good support hero to make sure we have a balance" but the rest of the team thinks "alright let's pick a safe lane carry and I dont give a fuck what anyone else wants to do."
Then those games where I'm just so frustrated from shitty ones that I say fuck it and random and what the hell sure I'll jungle bloodseeker, it turns out to be a mega try-hard game and I'm totally out of place and fucked.
Can't even pick em lol
I don't really understand what the benefits of this would be, why not just ping and then press space to look there?
Renoir
Member
Same here playing both roles now.
Every one lleaves without the donkey.. I guess I'll pick up the bill.
No one buy wards knowing fully well we're going against a purge.
I guess I'll pick up the bill.
We still lose.
Btw. How do iI check for this mmr stuff. I go to my match history I don't see any listing for it.
God Enel
Member
Do i just have to copy that in the console?
holy shit you can do that?
anyway, the benefit is so that you can have 4 map locations in memory, and you dont have to ping and do that each time.