Imp the Dimp
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Can somebody sum up why Tobi was embarrasing and awkward yesterday? Couldn't watch the stream sadly.
edit: Did James bang Jess?
edit: Did James bang Jess?
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Dota 2 |OT5| TECHIES!!!
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Taco_Human
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Oh wow. I can't tell if I got some Legendary Pudge Tassels after a game because it just dropped for me or because I got it because I bought a compendium. EIther way, I don't really want it. I don't know what I could get for it if I traded.
Sell it on the market then
No it's not
Tart Toter 9k
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That's nice, you could get about 4/5 Euros for it on the market!
Was worth 7 a couple of days ago :/
The game isn't over till you've won!
It seemed like it would of had an interesting story. Then they decided they would have none of that, and rewrote the entire plot.
Also, the big issue with winning a "won game" early is teams simply don't stop defending and pushing T3 towers is really damn hard.
Please tell me how I can win when our only carry has died 5 times during the laning phase, is buying 20x sentry wards, is feeding the courier and is idling in the base.
Now I'm waiting for the courtesy stomp in my favour because of enforced 50% winrate. It usually shows up every 5 or so losses.
I still feel the Bot early game AI got nerfed at one point. They used to have deadly reflexes and timing, and the exact moment your HP fell low enough to kill in a combo they would execute it flawlessly.
They always have sucked in the later part of the game sadly.
ashecitism
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Hmm, after playing Battleblock Theater a lot, I think an announcer pack would be rad.
Meanwhile at 56% winrate...
I see what you did there.
We must be talking extremely low level then. If I play Puck against them they break the Dream Coils every time.
balladofwindfishes
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Pudge arcana would be the most boring thing ever.
Also Valve is going to have an awkward time finding a slot for it that doesn't conflict with already valuable items (so don't expect a hook, back or head item). I just don't want it to happen at all, especially since a Pudge arcana isn't even out of the realm to be added without a vote, while some heroes, like Io or Jakiro have no chance without this vote.
Also Valve is going to have an awkward time finding a slot for it that doesn't conflict with already valuable items (so don't expect a hook, back or head item). I just don't want it to happen at all, especially since a Pudge arcana isn't even out of the realm to be added without a vote, while some heroes, like Io or Jakiro have no chance without this vote.
It's already too late! Also chat is so mean to DPM
I would love a Pudge Arcana. Way more shit Pudge pickers for me to destroy mid with PotM of the Moon/Necro/DP/Wisp/Void
Basically any hero really
I thought we were talking about every god damn game
Seems like the matchmaker has succeeded in placing you in the correct skill range then.
The enemy bot AI still is better than the friendly bot AI.
After 10 minutes this happens over and over: "Pushing top" -> Team gets wiped. At least you can keep pinging one of your towers until they go back.
Dreams-Visions
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my favorite:
"Go on Viper!"
"I'm out!"
*Viper triple kill!*
>____>
speaking of, fuck Viper bot.
I also like:
"Roaming bot to gank"
half a second later:
"Going back to mid/top"
" I'm going to run into this corner and just die as I'm being chased! Next level jukes!"
I was teaching someone that was brand new to Dota in a co-op bot game once. Our team was all humans. The Drow bought no items and I said "Drow, you really should buy some items. Do you need help on which ones to get?" and got "STFU and play ur own champ" She laned with Chaos Knight and they both quit 10 minutes in. I was Tinker and we still won it though. My friend was playing Lich.
Fucking League scrubs.
Almost this exact thing happened to me. I told a DK he should buy a TP. His response: "Don't tell me how to play my hero noob"
LD has so many items already thoughhhhh
My hands still have PTSD blister scars from Mario Party 1 so anything afterwards is better.
On a more on topic question, when looking at dotabuff match recaps the abbreviation HD / HH means Hero Damage / Hero Healing ?
They're still doing casting at the house though I haven't tuned in because I listen to the BTS crew for the American qualifiers.
I think there's more factors going into this than "people lazy on a couch." For one, all streams are competing with views since TI is free and it's really hard to compete with their in-client spectator tools especially since the audio tracks are included. Then, of course, there's four different games (of varying quality) and often two different English broadcasters all splitting the views.
The couch, however, has nothing competing with it. We had lots of people say prior they just want to have some entertaining commentary and don't care about professional casts so there's clearly an appeal for this style. At some point, the knowledge and "professionalism" of the pro casters just won't mean much to a lot of people who already have a strong (or perceived) knowledge of the game. That Capitalist is a less popular caster from the supporting English studio competing with a lot of other similar options and the game client itself may have more to do with his disappointing viewer numbers than some kittens and a sofa.
I also think the couch had 10k less viewers last night during the tie-breaker games which I feel demonstrates more people prefer the serious casting than Big Brother Dota. It's novel and new more than anything else.
Gentle Rodriguez
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That's kind of sad, people like that probably abandon Dota after one game even though they might enjoy it if they took the time to learn how it works. Watching some Purge casts a Pub videos I realized that a lot of players do some random shit in their first game, get trashed by the one player that kind of understands item and skill builds, and then leave the game forever. Maybe if there was some kind of way to help out those players, like coaches assigned to entire teams or something.
Yeah, that's correct. TD = Tower Damage as well
Enforced 50% win-rate, what?
The funny thing was I was nice to that guy and offered him help.
That also happened long before coaching was implemented.
its going to be amazing! Europe is going to be good too.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Well those people are hopeless cases, but I bet there's tons of people that would like some help getting into the game but don't know anyone personally that could help them. I know I spent tons of time watching pro games and streams before I ever felt confident enough to start playing actual PvP, and I know I'm not the only one that was so intimidated by the depth.
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