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[Indignate]

Here's to never playing All Pick ever again.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Spoon walks next to the cart with the Arcana!

Wow, this seems to be the most advanced Arcana yet

 

[kvk1]

His Bourne music is some of my favourite action music because of how it builds a rhythm and tension by just adding layers and layers. It's also really well synced with the action on screen, which I don't think you get that often with Hans Zimmer and his crew who seem to score most of the films nowdays. John Williams is still the GOAT though.

Completely agree. I won't argue that about Williams, but I always preferred Powell more because his compositions always have a bit more "edge" to them.

 

[Technosteve]

GIVE NEW DOTA 2 MUSIC, I PAID FOR IT GIVE ME ALREADY

 

[Zeth]

Was hoping for new hats to tide us over.

 

[Hylian7]

Players can no longer drop or take other players' unsharable items on the courier
Players can no longer store other players' unsharable items in their stash

HHHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

 

[KingKong]

were people really expecting 6.82? The post TI3 patch wasnt until the end of October

 

[Glass Shark]

The announcer pack seems pretty solid, could replace Bastion for me.

 

[mfaex]

Nothing will ever be the same again.

 

[Randdalf]

The voice of Techies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Bradley_Baker

(if this wasn't known already)

 

[Demoli]

So the conpendium update doesnt even have all the goals? Oh well, can't wait til 6.82 and sf remodel in diretide. Hey, maybe we'll get another hero by march aswell!

 

[Emerson]

So do we wait another month for the rest of the compendium goals or what?

Yeah I'm happy to get a new hero finally after seven months but like I said days ago this patch turned out to be pretty damn small all told.

 

[ksan]

rofl, no balance patch rip dota gg

 

[FlutterPuffs]

Next week?

That's awfully ambiguous. I'm guessing the website will explode tomorrow.

 

[Randdalf]

So do we wait another month for the rest of the compendium goals or what?

Yeah I'm happy to get a new hero finally after seven months but like I said days ago this patch turned out to be pretty damn small all told.

People are impatient, this is the best solution if you're Valve. It allows them to release a major update every month for the rest of this year if they continue to do the annual updates like Diretide and Frostivus.

edit: I'm watching a Techies doing ancients.

 

[Zeth]

Have all items always been unlocked in the test client or did I trigger a strange bug? Literally every item, every slot, every hero.

 

[Glass Shark]

Matt's playing the music on stream. It sounds sooooo good.

 

[Moaradin]

Wait, new music is for compendium people only? I thought that was something everyone was getting.

 

[Aselith]

What day next week? I wanted to Techie during Labor Day!

 

[Kard8p3]

Have all items always been unlocked in the test client or did I trigger a strange bug? Literally every item, every slot, every hero.

arcanas too?

 

[shira]

82.6% sure it will still drop in late September.

After ESL

 

[Zeth]

arcanas too?

Hm, not all. Some missing.

The available items section now links to the market for individual items too.

Some never released items are there too .

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I reckon most new heroes are going to launch with Arcana items now.

 

[Ketch]

What day next week? I wanted to Techie during Labor Day!

friday night, maybe saturday

 

[Sianos]

Kunkka and Shadow Fiend Arcanas in the file? Ooooh

I'm still hoping for surprised balance changes next week as well.

 

[kvk1]

haha, the bots say "good luck have fun" now when a bot game is starting

 

[Haly]

SF model rework to be arcana, kappa.

 

[Chris R]

SF model rework to be arcana, kappa.

BabyRage too broke to buy arcana

 

[Messiah]

haha, the bots say "good luck have fun" now when a bot game is starting

Based Botguy.

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

gafstack #1 is putting up a real fight against gafstack #2 boys: http://www.twitch.tv/dizgb

 

[KingKong]

Kunkka and Shadow Fiend Arcanas in the file? Ooooh

I'm still hoping for surprised balance changes next week as well.

What can they even do to Kunkka? He already has like 10 effect changing cosmetics

 

[Gav47]

Have all items always been unlocked in the test client or did I trigger a strange bug? Literally every item, every slot, every hero.

That was added like a month or so ago. The really expensive/immortal/complex items aren't included.

 

[Bad7667]

So no SF remodel or PA arcana? What do you guys think, still more to come or will that be later this year?

 

[Acinixys]

ALL-HERO CHALLENGE

Do you have what it takes to win a match with every hero? Prove it! Open your Dota profile to begin the All-Hero Challenge and be assigned a random warrior to take on the road to victory. Claim glory, and then move on to the next. Each hero challenge shows you the average number of matches it took for all players worldwide to win with that hero, and to complete the entire All-Hero Challenge, so you'll know how you stack up. Finish the All-Hero Challenge to earn a new trophy to display in your Gallery.

Cool

This actually seems really fun and might force people to play shit that isnt Void/Skywrath/Pudge every game

 

[Sianos]

What can they even do to Kunkka? He already has like 10 effect changing cosmetics

Apparently a viking boat of some sorts?

 

[Skab]

What can they even do to Kunkka? He already has like 10 effect changing cosmetics

According to Matt's stream its Viking Kunkka with Viking boat.

 

[FACE]

According to Matt's stream its Viking Kunkka with Viking boat.

Aw shit son.

 

[SteveWinwood]

GG boys

We had a fighting chance there for a bit. Just didn't push that early well enough and took a few bad fights.

 

[Anbokr]

were people really expecting 6.82? The post TI3 patch wasnt until the end of October

And the post TI2 patch was 1 month after TI2... your point? And remember the October 6.79 release was the whole diretide fiasco, and way too fucking long of a wait. Don't think they want to repeat that again.

 

[Chizzanger]

Took a break from studying to watch that; I thought you guys had it there in the beginning, Steve.

 

[Artanisix]

GG boys

We had a fighting chance there for a bit. Just didn't push that early well enough and took a few bad fights.

GG GUYS

only team to make us SWEAT

 

[SteveWinwood]

sweat baby sweat

 

[Acinixys]

Timbersaw Arcana says Matt

Techies VO is fucking great btw

 

[Madouu]

gg guys, we didn't execute very well but your play, draft and laning choices were far better

 

[Artanisix]

Techies Arcana looks amaaaazing.

Not 7 months amazing, but still amazing.

 

[SneakyStephan]

because singsing strim

Let me preview that vod for you right now:
Singsing buys boots and orb on the 30 base dmg 270ms techies like he does on every hero these days.
Skills 30second cooldown mine or suicide
Dies/gets nothing
'we fuckin lost, this hero sucks'
3-11 and lvl 9 at 20 minutes
drops down to 5200 party mmr
goes back to randoming every game and repicks techies next time he randoms him.

 

[Conceptor]

I'm in there for the techies arcana. Only one I've been tempted to buy...

 

[Purple Cheeto]

haha, the bots say "good luck have fun" now when a bot game is starting

Copying Riot again.

 

[caesar]

Let me preview that vod for you right now:
Singsing buys boots and orb on the 30 base dmg 270ms techies like he does on every hero these days.
Skills 30second cooldown mine or suicide
Dies/gets nothing
'we fuckin lost, this hero sucks'
3-11 and lvl 9 at 20 minutes
drops down to 5200 party mmr
goes back to randoming every game and repicks techies next time he randoms him.

alternatively:
goes mid
murdered by skywrath
'how is this hero balanced?'
'omg we fuckin lost'

 

[Drkirby]

I think you have to use the Victory Prediction Taunt before the horn sounds, so it may actually be a bit hard to get a streak going.

Also, odds on the minefield sign procing a bunch of "on spell cast" abilities?

Also, the lore:

In the storied saga of Dredger's Bight, no business has ever been more reviled than Techies Demolitions. Then again, Dredger's Bight no longer exists. Nor does Toterin. Or even Trapper Town. In fact, if one were to track the history of Techies Demolitions they might notice that shortly after Techies appear, towns tend to disappear.
Like every inevitable disaster surrounding Techies, the obliteration of Dredger's Bight began with an invention. Tasked with designing a safer way of detonating explosives in the mines beneath the city, pyrotechnic prodigies Squee, Spleen, and Spoon developed their most outlandish creation yet: a button which, when pressed, would trigger a distant device to spark a fuse.
Overeager to test their invention, the trio stuffed barrel after barrel with flamesalt explosives, piling every corner of their tiny workshop high with the newly developed remote bombs. From this stockpile they plucked a single payload, burying it in a far away field. As they cowered in a ditch, Spleen pressed the detonator button. Yet after a moment, nothing happened. Confused, he stood up, pressing his button again and again until, finally, an explosion tore a hole in the field. Elated, Squee and Spleen turned toward home just as a massive wave of sound and force arrived to knock them over.
Bewildered, their ears ringing from the unexpected blast, they gathered in the dingy miasma to see a smoking ruin where their workshop once stood. Chunks of wood and stone continued to fall as the yawning crater before them slowly deepened into an expanding pit. The whole of Dredger's Bight shuddered, and then gradually started to slide into the mines below as its panicked residents fled.
Sitting at the edge of their sinking home they grinned and giggled, as giddy at the possibilities as they were oblivious to the scorn of their former neighbors. They wondered only one thing: how could they trigger an even bigger blast?