shira
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Seems Bulba assassinated them last night.
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DOTA2 |OT15| anime only please
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Seems Bulba assassinated them last night.
Sigismundo
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NormalFish
Banned
Wings was showing really strong results before TI. Most folks who were paying attention to eastern dota agreed they were extremely strong.
I thought they were considered t2 in the Chinese scene at the time?
shira
Member
I agree
~60% win clip, with only 12-12-5 in full serires last 3 mo despite sweeping NA Beat
https://www.dotabuff.com/esports/teams/1836806
Compare that with VP who is on an ~80% win clip in the last month - they are peaking for Boston - good idea not to play in DreamLeague
https://www.dotabuff.com/esports/teams/1883502
patch comes after major
NormalFish
Banned
1st in Summit 5
2nd in Nanyang
1st in ESL Manila
4th at WCA 2015
Idk, seems pretty fuckin' competitive to me. Certainly enough that a fair number of people had them in top 4 at TI.
shira
Member
Lower Bracket Finals
EG vs OG
Grand Finals
Winner vs VP
It's really hard to judge those smaller tournaments.
Last place in Manila Major burned a lot of people since they were predicted to win that.
I hope this Monkey is low skill level friendly
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monkey king arcana crown fireOmega Kirby
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So, when the hell will Arc Warden be added to Captains mode? I seriously want to see that hero in action in the pro scene
next patch most likely, unless icefrog deems him too broken to be added and that he need some more iterating
misses bull
Banned
It took like two years for es to be put in cm. So don't expect anything soon.
Monochromaticx
Member
Got my pokemon fix with Black.
Will need another fix in another 10 years
Will need another fix in another 10 years
Monochromaticx
Member
shira
Member
I dont want to buy another 3ds for one game that I may not even have time to play.
Steal one. If the difficulty of retail theft has you apprehensive, take one from a child. Kids aren't very intelligent and are almost wholly defenseless. On top of that almost nobody believes them when they say stuff. Find a kid somewhere in the wild with the 3DS and just take it. What's he going to do? You can run faster and hit harder than he can. If he calls his dad just hide the 3DS in your pants and deny everything.
Omega Kirby
Member
Earthshaker, Earth Spirit or Ember Spirit?
I disagree on that. Gen 5 was amazing.
I really love how they were willing to throw out unnecessary and dated mechanics in the game. Completely removing grid based movement was something I thought Gen 6 would have. No HMs is a godsend. The way they handle choosing if caught Pokemon are sent to the box and being able to manage their hold item right there are something needed for a long time.
I feel like the game took a lot of pages from Shin Megami Tensei IV (and I imagine other games too) such as the weakness showing after fighting the Pokemon once, being able to viewing stat modifications, and other stuff. These are all good things, especially the stat modifications.
shira
Member
NormalFish
Banned
I'm not playing gen 7 because the post game sounds boring and pokemon single players have been shit for years and getting worse. QOL changes are meh.
I don't even know what gen 5 is anymore, they all blur together and they were all mostly crap, if not at the time than definitely in hindsight, after having played this one. This legitimately feels like the first real step forward for the series since it started. Sure the graphics have evolved (barely) over the years, but every one before this one has suffered from the same legacy bloat that has been handed down thru every generation since the first. I'm glad for generations 3 thru whatever the one before this is, because a lot of really great pokes have come out of them, but this is the first time in a looooooooooong while that playing one of these has felt fun rather than perfunctory.
If we get another hero with abbreviation of ES.......
shira
Member
EG rekting house
Yeah this kinda feels like what Nintendo has become.
Being not awful doesn't make it good, but fans are so hungry they'll eat anything and call it A5 Kobe beef.
Yeah this kinda feels like what Nintendo has become.
Being not awful doesn't make it good, but fans are so hungry they'll eat anything and call it A5 Kobe beef.
NormalFish
Banned
How has a game with more handholding than any previous pokemon game made "the first real step for the series since it started", given that the whole premise of the series is going on an adventure, rather than being shoved from dialogue box to dialogue box as the game tells you exactly where to go and when?
close to the edge
Member
Cool to see Chinese pros commentating at the Summit (I think it's Faith_Bian?)
shira
Member
I wish Iceiceice was there instead of kotlguy
Monochromaticx
Member
faith-bian's english is pretty good!
close to the edge
Member
For sure. If you don't speak English at all during your day-to-day life (which is probably the case for him) it can't be easy for him to suddenly speak in front of 60k people.
edit: Also, Fogged is the best.
shira
Member
- a LOT of homeless people: street people, people living in cars
- a LOT of people commute from other cities
Of the people I know that actually live in SF, they are either rich as fuck or living cheque to cheque with most of their salary going to rent.
The level of handholding in this game doesn't really feel any higher than in previous games, just stretched out over a longer period of time (the entire first island, which took me like 12 hours to get thru cause I'm a slooow pokeymanner). Them adding a waypoint on the minimap telling you where to go doesn't make this one any more linear than the last ones. There has always been a critical path in every Pokemon game with a few pitstops off to the side, that seems to be the same here.
Anyways, most of the steps forward this one makes are what people are dismissing as mere "quality of life" improvements. I say they're more a massive refinement of the base mechanics of these games that has been long overdue. My 2 cents anyways.
