shira
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They edited the stretch goals last year
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They edited the stretch goals last year
Is it necessary that they have microphones the size of their heads?
Dreams-Visions
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I know we talk about this every once in a blue moon, but does anyone know if Valve may take another crack at a more minimalist approach to the HUD? It feels less likely than in the past because they've been selling HUDs, but...there's just so much wasted space that could be given back to the actual game window, it frustrates the fuck out of me.
The space between the hero portrait and the minimap...the size of the area that shows the int/str/agi gain, the space between the inventory and the skill icons, the size of the skill icons, and the size of the quickbuy area all can be so much smaller. They could probably reduce the amount of the game screen the bottom HUD consumes by 50%.
It just seems like in an age of gaming where making HUDs as small and non-distracting as possible (across all genres), where other modern MOBAs like Smite, HotS, and LoL in particular have done a fine job minimizing the footprint of their respective HUDs (while retaining all necessary functionality), Valve would be interested in making sure they're not lagging behind. How much you see on your screen is so important in MOBAs in particular, I would have thought this would have been something addressed long ago.
The space between the hero portrait and the minimap...the size of the area that shows the int/str/agi gain, the space between the inventory and the skill icons, the size of the skill icons, and the size of the quickbuy area all can be so much smaller. They could probably reduce the amount of the game screen the bottom HUD consumes by 50%.
It just seems like in an age of gaming where making HUDs as small and non-distracting as possible (across all genres), where other modern MOBAs like Smite, HotS, and LoL in particular have done a fine job minimizing the footprint of their respective HUDs (while retaining all necessary functionality), Valve would be interested in making sure they're not lagging behind. How much you see on your screen is so important in MOBAs in particular, I would have thought this would have been something addressed long ago.
Marauder Shields
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I totally forgot that Mouz were sponsoring Team Dog, I was wondering who the hell they were.
This makes me sad, I was so hyped to see a "Hello, yes this is Dog" banner at TI4.
I see Twitch chat spamming this, what's the story behind this?
This makes me sad, I was so hyped to see a "Hello, yes this is Dog" banner at TI4.
I see Twitch chat spamming this, what's the story behind this?
I can understand your frustration. The resizeable HUD in LoL was one of my favorite aspects.
I doubt Valve does anything to drastically change the HUD though.
These would give even more advantage to 16:9 players.
Yeah the HUD could be smaller but IMO it wouldn't make a significant difference. Zooming out the camera would be way better.
Shorty11857
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Was that Weaver for Mouz a last pick? Because Fnatic's draft was terrible against it
Yep.
Schweinehund
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OT5 jaysus, gaf's dota 2 community seems larger than leagues. Makes sense since dota 2 arguably has more of a hobbyist community. Also blown away by how many compendium dollars there are.
I'm not a huge fan of esports so right now I'm kind of layin low, need new heroes!
I'm not a huge fan of esports so right now I'm kind of layin low, need new heroes!
He probably made some more comments about kittens/grills like he did a few days ago
Cato the Censor
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Well, perhaps they spend their time trying to get into a culture they are not used to? Try to make contacts? Get into the scene? Win tournaments? Is there a reason they have to justify all of this? Can't they just show what their potential is or isn't throug play?
Seriously, are there any other teams that get hate because they are confident, have some success or have a somewhat well-known caster in their ranks?
Leah Jackson is a really cute human being. She looks very tiny. That's my creepy post for May 17th, 2014. See you again tomorrow.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Dreams-Visions
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Either works for me, yea. I'd just really like to see more of the actual game.
Schweinehund
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Assuming league's OT opened when it was released, we've been capping threads way faster. I feel that the last 3 OT's have open and closed much faster than first two. So either our dota 2 community is growing at a healthy pace or it's Shira.
Dota 2 is definitely not a casual game, so its only natural that the people that play Dota 2 would be more interested in talking about it on a message board.
he said something like "uhuh maybe they played too much mario party".
Challenge accepted!
I like minimalist graphic design. I can't create item cosmetics (have mediocre modelling skills) but would like to take a shot at creating a HUD design since I guess I could pull that off.
I really want a Ward, it would feel a bit wierd to be like "$8.5 Million, WARDS!", but fuck it I want a ward.
► WE NEED WARDS!
maybe if they keep a goal like "every compendium owner gets at least an arcana drop" at say $8 million and it could just be the lina one even, that'd be quite nice.
Might be a first arcana item for most. And honestly most people have contributed around half the price of it by now anyway.
Might be a first arcana item for most. And honestly most people have contributed around half the price of it by now anyway.
StrongArmSteady
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fucking A!
call_kotaku
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So how many people in this game are playing from the GD house right now? 3?
Shorty11857
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Fnatic are looking really weak this series
Gentle Rodriguez
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If you want to use this logic they should only give an arcana to people who have a high enough level compendium. Like level 60-70.
JawesomeJaw
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Sven out punching Tiny aw mannnnn
)From what ive heard the game doesnt even render anything behind the HUD. Its just black. So even if you mod your game with a smaller HUD you get this big black box
no, it was the full mouz team
they haven't just changed their pro profile to the mouz name
The "hate" is more directed at the unprofessional impression they give. Do any other teams spend their time "trying to get into a culture?" I don't even know what that means. I suspect when Maelk joined EG he still focused on improving his play. You don't need five players "making contacts" and outside of "winning tournmanets" most of these hypothesized time sinks would be better performed by the manager than the team members themselves.
There are a lot of players that have to juggle more than Zephyr is right now and still outperforming them. Hell, even MVP Phoenix is doing leagues better than Zephyr. Why the discrepancy? It's a simple handwave to just say they're "bad." Either the team is misusing their time or training poorly. Either way, if they want to be taken more seriously they really need to improve their play.
I don't believe that the majority of criticism is leveled at Zephyr just because they're successful in a scene with the lowest skill threshold or have Purge on the team. The biggest criticism seems to be that they are simply not performing as well as other top teams and showing a much slower rate of improvement. And there were certainly other teams in the past who received the exact same criticism. Red Pandas are an easy one that comes to mind.
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