SteveWinwood
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I'm assuming they just published it as they received it in their forms, so just blame the Peruvians, Russians, and Australians.
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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
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Aris Shadows
Member
Bah, I only got 1 game of Dota today, thats not like me.. We did win, but I didnt even do my Pugna challenge.
SneakyStephan
Banned
This 'daily hero' compendium challenge crap is such a pisspoor idea
People picking heroes that don't fit in your team's lineup at all or that are shit against the enemy team/strategy...
They know they're going to lose but they pick it anyhow
People picking heroes that don't fit in your team's lineup at all or that are shit against the enemy team/strategy...
They know they're going to lose but they pick it anyhow
Cyborgmatt
Member
How was day two for you chaps at home? Did they sort out most of the issues from the first day?
we could actually hear both commentators, some of the audio still seemed shitty.
Yeah, I did it for a while, but then I realized that it is kind of dumb to do these challenges without any foresight.
undu
Member
Nope. Still dropping packets like crazy so the games and commentaries were jumpy.
The audio was much better on the stream, i'm not sure about in-game.
Multistream seemed mostly hitchless on my end.
It was improved, I only had issues maybe 15% of the time today. Commentary still occasionally sounds like it is coming through a 50p microphone and being uploaded by a 28k router. Analyst desk audio was 100% fine today, whereas yesterday it sounded the same as in-game commentary.
Booty Patrol
Banned
This is from a game I just played. I've never hit an arrow like this before. I knew he was going to hook across the river, but I guess I got lucky, too.
http://youtu.be/_VjS4RHu6cA
http://youtu.be/_VjS4RHu6cA
Prophet Steve
Member
It is mostly pretty good, some jumps in audio occasionally which was ingame but that is it.
Sound was a lot better, one of the streams was still dodgy but I can't 100% remember which one (i think it was the ayesee/maelk stream)
Its better, though for one of the streams there was no in game audio, but I think it was a single game thing. A few of the casters seemed to have worse then normal camera control.
In game, its a bit poor. All the effects seem to be delayed half a second, which is annoying.
cackling
UnblessedSoul
Member
Watching dota 2 through the client wasn't a good experience, their mics kept cutting out all the time, along with slight jumpiness in gameplay, sometimes their mics would sound broken. playing a match with the tornament on was also a bad idea, people complaining of not seeing projectiles and 2 people on their team and me and someone else d/ced at the exact same time, failing to reconnect several times before getting back on for 5 minutes then we all d/ced again. then it said the game wouldn't count but still shows loss. Hopefully it improves
ey bro i think you should change to the overhead camera for the arrow
nice play tho
rhophiehalul78
Member
What are your opinions on the top teams after the 2nd day?
Did Cloud9/NAR just get to the top because they bested mediocre teams?
Will they go down after the 3rd and 4th day?
Team Liquid looks very solid though defeating favorites DK, EG and Newbee.
Did Cloud9/NAR just get to the top because they bested mediocre teams?
Will they go down after the 3rd and 4th day?
Team Liquid looks very solid though defeating favorites DK, EG and Newbee.
GlenChivas
Member
I've put in about 160 hours now and I finally feel like I have a grasp on what I'm doing. That being said playing with random people who don't communicate is killing me. No one ever wants to stick together. They just all run off to try and play hero and just end up feeding the other team. So much rage.
If anyone wants to play, add me. Please. I can't take the random team mates anymore. Steam link is in my profile.
If anyone wants to play, add me. Please. I can't take the random team mates anymore. Steam link is in my profile.
I was gonna say, for example Alliance, will maybe come back stronger over the next few days because today they had DK/NB/IG today. So subsequent days might be easier for them.
But, the thing that trumps that logic is that these are all bo1's and anything's gonna happen. After seeing how even things panned out with east vs west etc, it wouldn't surprise me to see a few big teams going home earlier than expected.
I'd still expect Alliance to improve (even somewhat) after some analysis of their day, they aren't awful and can overcome.
They lost against titan too, 1-4 when the only win is against the worst team in the tournament is really ugly at this point.
Second time playing with Puck and I don't usually mid, but this was funny. That lucky first kill and then Lina just raged through the whole game. Can't blame her for that, though.
Well done. A little thing I noticed: you should use your bottle while in fountain so you regen faster and can get back into the fray sooner.
Int team with no carries loses to tinker weaver wow
Pureauthor
Member
Guys.
I am sad that DK did so badly
what do
I am sad that DK did so badly
what do
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Support a real team like Cloud 9.
Pureauthor
Member
anything but that
I feel your pain.
Happy that Fnatic are overachieving (my estimations) anyway. Also what is with these Razor pick ups ? Did like EVERY team realize he was so viable and didn't want to reveal it until TI ?
call_kotaku
Member
From what I understand it's because he's a super-safe pick and most teams are opting to play safe because these are BO1s and they are playing some of the most important games of their lives.
I haven't been watching most of the games, just catching what I can and watching the vods a little, but the stream is really bad. Literally every few minutes, the stream rewinds a couple of seconds and then continues as normal, creating this weird stutter effect where the commentators get cut off and then immediately repeat themselves. It's even happening on the vods.
That's actually a very good assumption, does anyone know the success rate of it so far ?
rhophiehalul78
Member
I now know how to qualify for the main event.
During group stages, create 15 different pocket strats.
Surprise them with the drafts, take EZ win with no chance of retaliation since Bo1.
Advance to main event EZ.
Some team hire me plzzz.
Also, this is a very good picture of Team Liquid:
Here are some interesting stats for the round robin so far according to kpoptosis:
Hero Pick/Ban Rate
Most Successful Heroes
Least Successful Heroes
Fuck. How to format this properly?
During group stages, create 15 different pocket strats.
Surprise them with the drafts, take EZ win with no chance of retaliation since Bo1.
Advance to main event EZ.
Some team hire me plzzz.
Also, this is a very good picture of Team Liquid:
Here are some interesting stats for the round robin so far according to kpoptosis:
Hero Pick/Ban Rate
Mirana and Batrider falling in popularity?
Most Successful Heroes
Least Successful Heroes
Fuck. How to format this properly?
Imp the Dimp
Member
That is an awesome picture
GordonHalfman
Member
You can see some stats here:
http://www.datdota.com/tournament.php?q=285&tournament=The International 2014&p=heroes
Razor seems to be doing only decently, but you can't read much into win rates after 20 games.
Yeah, although there's some good to come from this, in my compendium it was a toss up between Skywrath and Doom for most picked for me, I went with Doom so at least I'm not kicking myself (at the minute) that I didn't pick Skywrath.
Second time playing with Puck and I don't usually mid, but this was funny. That lucky first kill and then Lina just raged through the whole game. Can't blame her for that, though.
Why did you use two tangos back to back ? The regen doesn't stack AFAIK right ? What was that Lina thinking anyway diving that far, she already pushed you out of the lane
rhophiehalul78
Member
Wow. You really need to have the mental health to go through these games. Imagine being told this after a surprising defeat.
Just scanned through the Dota2 twitter and found some interesting pics. Forgive me if this has been seen a lot.
Newbee really feels like the bad guys to me. The DK fiasco (even if it was a misunderstanding) and their taunting of Mushi in the past were stuck in my mind.
Era hanging out with his family inbetween games. His morale must be so high!
h[A]ndsome [A]kke. I hope the Alliance guys get it together.