Loot definitely is a big part of it too. There is no RPG-esque leveling or stats, so pretty much everything is based on your own skill or equipment. Finding stuff like artifacts helps you get through certain anomalies (areas that have some event that will mess you up walking through it, like electricity running through a tunnel, or a tornado, or an area where the wind would smash you on the ground)
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Loot definitely is a big part of it too. There is no RPG-esque leveling or stats, so pretty much everything is based on your own skill or equipment. Finding stuff like artifacts helps you get through certain anomalies (areas that have some event that will mess you up walking through it, like electricity running through a tunnel, or a tornado, or an area where the wind would smash you on the ground)
SecretMoblin
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o yea I forgot it had ogre club
Is Anti-Mage even viable this patch? I've lost two games with him recently to the same thing: 20 minute deathball.
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2384724095
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2379925481
The other common factor of both of these games was Alchemist. It's frustrating to have a hero that can't do anything to stop them from grouping up at 5 minutes and rolling everything. I really hate that Alchemist is back in this patch.
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2384724095
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2379925481
The other common factor of both of these games was Alchemist. It's frustrating to have a hero that can't do anything to stop them from grouping up at 5 minutes and rolling everything. I really hate that Alchemist is back in this patch.
Wok
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waxinlyrical
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I had a bug with that yesterday, where a guy on my team had disconnected after picking the hero, and I was unable to pause.
I have had that for some patches some now, sometimes I can pause and sometimes I jsut can't
yeh
So somehow I just completed the "Purchase Phase Boots" mission by completing the "Slow enemy heroes" objectives. I was flipflopping between them during the picking phase and apparently got stuck with a combination of both. So even though the objective was slow enemy heroes, it counted as the purchase phase boots mission when I completed it.
The actual "slow enemy heroes" mission is still uncompleted now. Neat, if a little weird.
The actual "slow enemy heroes" mission is still uncompleted now. Neat, if a little weird.
Wok
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The 43 minute one was effectively over pretty quickly, despite how hard we tried to bring it back. Just for a frame of reference on that...
This game was lost mid. Apparently, OD tried to gank top and bottom (and failed, I guess), while Alchemist picked bottom runes and continued to dominate mid. The first aghanim might have been for WK, which would have allowed to win every subsequent fight.
Anyway, their line-up was scary. To punish that, you cannot do much after the draft.
Based on Dotabuff:
- Io, Chen, Clinkz, Oracle, Visage would have been good picks for game 2384724095.
- Io, Broodmother, Razor, TA, for game 2379925481.
that is exactly what happened to me.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Gotta love the 'zeus KS'd (never mind the fact I was trying to dissuade a haste'd tiny and mirana support from diving my tower) so now I feed' mentality. And the flood of 4 inevitable reports I'll get, lol.
Sometimes 4 stacks are the worst.
Mid-game, maybe, or with a good mana void, but otherwise it seems like it'd be a race to get to the basher + echo vs basher + manta.
Sometimes 4 stacks are the worst.
Does AM really counter slark, tho?
Mid-game, maybe, or with a good mana void, but otherwise it seems like it'd be a race to get to the basher + echo vs basher + manta.
misses bull
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its like im 15 going home from school to play diablo 3 again
Sigismundo
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Try again in a few hours. It's a Blizzard game.
Gentle Rodriguez
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not sure what i expected
Cyborgmatt
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slark can never kill antimage, antimage out splitpushes and farms slark, and slark rly isnt effective without mana and usually builds up a naturally large mana pool due to echo sabre and silver edge. Am blinking on top of slark with manta usually means slark goes oom, cant escape because of pounce, and will die to mana void.
There's no way a sane person picks slark against antimage
There's no way a sane person picks slark against antimage
tell that to my pubs
They can't release the best stuff right off the bat.
Sigismundo
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Can you gift people Overwatch and other Blizzard games via Bnet?
Dreams-Visions
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First Overwatch match, first shot, 100% headshot with Widowmaker.
Gonna be a fun ride.
Gonna be a fun ride.
misses bull
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https://twitter.com/wykrhm/status/734907698278465537 stop playing overwatch and download vulcan
Sigismundo
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My laptop is so old it can't even run Vulkan.
waxinlyrical
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See, this is the same problem I have with downloading the test server for Dota. Why do I want to do QA for Valve for free? Maybe if you gave me some shiny hats I'd be more inclined to do so...
If you have a newer mid range card, it should give you better FPS.
I think it works better with AMD cards than NVidia. I think I get worse FPS with my 760 than with the non-vulkan stuff, but it working on par with DirectX is actually pretty good.
Cyborgmatt
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Yeah so about that...
http://steamspy.com/app/394230#tab-ccu
It already has less people playing than Borderlands 2 which is almost four years old now.
http://steamspy.com/app/49520#tab-ccu
Supposedly he isn't even a Beta tester, his friends are.
Matt, why did you get rid of your Custom Flare on the reddits?
Sigismundo
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I think he's one of Icefrog's boys. I'm pretty confident that Icefrog is still nowhere to be seen amongst the English-language sites.
Cyborgmatt
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The box got unticked for some reason. Whoops.
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