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DOTA2 |OT14| i give up like your pubs do
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Imp the Dimp
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Anybody attending Frankfurt next week? If anybody wants to meet up, I'm in. I'm extremely charming irl.
This is awesome. They make such excellent content, glad to see they are getting some recognition from Blizzard and their massive OW community
i read this as "shit post if you are ok"
i'm not sure if that was a freudian slip surfacing how i actually feel about shira or not
shira
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daijobu daijobu
Wok
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The reason the games are so good is because it was a technical prowess at that time on Playstation & Playstation 2. A bit like Naughty Dog's games nowadays on PS4.
It is a series that stopped when Naughty Dog went on Jak & Daxter.
Sgt.Pepper
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I am learning all sorts of things about my city I wish I hadn't.
Had a random dumb idea for a Arcade game mode: "Back in my Dota"
Basically it would be the ability to play matches on previous patches, since strangely the game does not support that. Unless all this information is available somewhere, it might be a pain in the ass to amass all the information about the heroes during that patch, as well as all the map changes. I thought if I can't find it anywhere, the logical way to do it might be to use the Dota 2 wiki to look at the changes in the latest patch, and work backwards for each patch.
The only thing is the last few patches wouldn't be incredibly interesting. I think the stuff people would really want to see would be stuff like back when Track used to give armor reduction, or even further back when Diffusal used to build into Manta and Manta still had mana burn on it.
Basically it would be the ability to play matches on previous patches, since strangely the game does not support that. Unless all this information is available somewhere, it might be a pain in the ass to amass all the information about the heroes during that patch, as well as all the map changes. I thought if I can't find it anywhere, the logical way to do it might be to use the Dota 2 wiki to look at the changes in the latest patch, and work backwards for each patch.
The only thing is the last few patches wouldn't be incredibly interesting. I think the stuff people would really want to see would be stuff like back when Track used to give armor reduction, or even further back when Diffusal used to build into Manta and Manta still had mana burn on it.
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Need the old hero icons
Yes, I think that would be part of it.
However I think it would be worth keeping some of the modern conveniences of Dota 2 such as the spawn box display.
waxinlyrical
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Not that strange. Keeping everything working forever in software development is a *lot* of work.
None of you DotaGAF folk will be at E3 right?
Sgt.Pepper
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Who
fUKing liquid guna single-handedly get my hero nerfed
I feel like this feature was around for Source 1 for a while back in the day, and it was at least just the previous patch.
I won't be at E3 to answer your question.
I think private lobbies used to be able to go back one patch?
Yeah, that's what I'm pretty sure was the case. I remember there being a "tournament" and "latest" version. I don't know if it rolled back one balance patch or not. At the very least, it was in the era when heroes were added to the game almost every week, and those heroes weren't in CM for like 2 weeks after they were added. Case in point: Centaur Warrunner.
waxinlyrical
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Right, I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's work to make sure the engine can run the last patch as well as the current patch. It's a LOT of work to make sure all patches from the entire history of Dota can run as well. The fact that they removed it suggests that it's either a) a lot of work to keep working or b) not worth doing for Source 2, or both. My money's on both.
Yeah, that probably is the case. It makes sense, especially given how thin their Dota team is probably spread.
I'd like to find somewhere that has all the previous numbers, skill descriptions, etc from previous patches. The only way I know how to do that would be the working backward method.
For much older patches, I could just find the WC3 map floating around and use that. I don't know if the top of my head if you can tell stat gains from WC3 though. I suppose you could figure them out by leveling up, but it would be much faster if they were just there.
Older patches not necessarily, as there would be stuff we would consider so out of whack. If anything, no one probably wants to go back to any patch within the last three years. Anything beyond that will probably be interesting enough though. I'd like to see the courier shield again.
waxinlyrical
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Dota 2 wiki has some of this stuff, but only in a "what's changed" format, as opposed to a "what are all the numbers in this patch" format.
See http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Bristleback#Balance_changelog as an example
Yeah, that's what my plan was on working backwards. It's doable, but again, would eliminate a lot of tedious work if there was just a table of all the heroes and their information for each patch.
Some of the much older patch notes (like mid 2005-2008-ish) have really vague patch notes like "increased strength gain a bit"
SecretMoblin
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I hope the art is uprezzed, I'd buy it again for a very cheap price
that final "puzzle" still pisses me off (yes hylian you went in on me over it before)
never played the sequels because I care more about the puzzles than the story and the puzzles in 999 were basique
I sold the watch from the original 999 preorder thing for like $50 a few years ago lmao
that final "puzzle" still pisses me off (yes hylian you went in on me over it before)
never played the sequels because I care more about the puzzles than the story and the puzzles in 999 were basique
I sold the watch from the original 999 preorder thing for like $50 a few years ago lmao
NormalFish
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Missed this. Good shit. I haven't played VLR since I didn't want to play the original on my old DS.
Monochromaticx
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There is a 6.83 custom game mode. The problem is that nobody is playing it (and it was a horrible patch$
I'd imagine surely it will be basically an HD version of the DS version. The absolute worst thing they can do is plop the iOS port onto Steam. That would be hilarious if they actually pulled that stunt.
VLR will probably come soon after. I'm honestly surprised they actually announced 999 this early. A week or two ago Aksys was saying that they were looking into Steam ports for 999 and VLR.
Yeah, that patch was awful. I'd like to play with more hilariously broken stuff like Anti-Mage with 2s Blink (this was a thing a very long time ago, back in WC3). He also had what we now know as Nyx's Mana Burn instead of Spell Shield.
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I would have put the clockwerk brow emoji but the extension isn't working
edit: No subbing necessary! Just scroll down or Ctrl+F "Yankees"
I would have put the clockwerk brow emoji but the extension isn't working
edit: No subbing necessary! Just scroll down or Ctrl+F "Yankees"
shira
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shira
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Confirmed: this is a Vulkan-specific issue.
NormalFish
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its rainy and windy and scary right now 
shira
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NormalFish
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glad the MVP game is first, thinking i should catch up on sleep tonight.
Sgt.Pepper
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dumb off-topic question
how do you let text be the default 2-step verification for google instead of the authenticator?
how do you let text be the default 2-step verification for google instead of the authenticator?
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