Monochromaticx
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sucks that the draft stage spectator screen is still the same
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DOTA2 |OT15| anime only please
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Posted in the other thread but I guess I might as well ask it here too:
Pardon if this has been asked already, but what the hell happened to All Random? My preferred game type of choice and I'm getting queue times of upwards of 30 minutes before I give up. Is the match making broken or is just no one playing it anymore?
Hell, there isn't even any game data for the past 24 hours on Dotabuff:
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches?game_mode=all_random
Has really no one played a single game of All Random in 24 hours? I really want to play again. Is anyone else running into this?
Pardon if this has been asked already, but what the hell happened to All Random? My preferred game type of choice and I'm getting queue times of upwards of 30 minutes before I give up. Is the match making broken or is just no one playing it anymore?
Hell, there isn't even any game data for the past 24 hours on Dotabuff:
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches?game_mode=all_random
Has really no one played a single game of All Random in 24 hours? I really want to play again. Is anyone else running into this?
Monochromaticx
Member
Posted in the other thread but I guess I might as well ask it here too:
Pardon if this has been asked already, but what the hell happened to All Random? My preferred game type of choice and I'm getting queue times of upwards of 30 minutes before I give up. Is the match making broken or is just no one playing it anymore?
Hell, there isn't even any game data for the past 24 hours on Dotabuff:
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches?game_mode=all_random
Has really no one played a single game of All Random in 24 hours? I really want to play again. Is anyone else running into this?
maybe because of the new patch, everyone wants to try a specific hero or their favorite heroes
You would not expect a sudden drop to zero, that'd be insane.
Dreams-Visions
Member
whew fuckin lads
I mean yeah, I guess, but zero games? Hell, even single draft is filled with games. Either Dotabuff is running into problems, or something is busted on Valve's end.
I just find it hard to believe that there aren't at least 10 other people that didn't want to get a game of All Random in in the past 24 hours... hell, this would have been before the patch too. I guess stranger things have happened though.
You can change that back. The selecting a player that is
Nope. Get him or her the Monkey King arcana.
do you think the improved buffs at night are significant? because i thought it was fukken awesome that u might wait until the lycan onslaught at night. or is it more like a nice bonus?
Jesus, watching bulldog play Sylla and the HUD size changes when he switches between the hero and the bear... The entire middle bottom part shrinks down because the bear only has 2 abilities at level 1... This seems awful.
yeah i mentioned this a couple of pages ago, i don't think the UI should change size like that
Dreams-Visions
Member
really? eww.
edit: that's fucking awful. BUT this does tell us it can be fairly easily changed, should they decide to revise some of the layout features.
Damn it. Seems like a missed opportunity by Valve since it'd be a great Christmas present.
Good suggestion, thank you, but I don't think he'd want a Monkey King arcana. Is there a way I can just top up his Steam wallet or something?
shira
Member
Not directly. You can buy a Steam code for X dollars or a physical gift card.
I mean if you were logged into his PC/Steam account you could do it
It changes when you switch between your hero and the courier, which I somehow didn't notice in any of my games, but seeing it now as a spectator is irritating me to no end. I'm liking the new UI, but it definitely needs some customization options. Like please let me put the kill feed back on the left. I can't figure out why they switched it. Imagine if they pulled a League and put the mini map on the right for some arbitrary reason... It makes no sense some of these changes.
Yes they are very significant, he's very much like a reverse KOTL now (I wouldn't say NS because NS is dependent on night, lycan is just given an edge) where you generally want to time your pushes for night, as well as do rosh. Giving your entire team a total of 250+ damage (excluding summons entirely) and 2000 HP for 13s is pretty significant, especially in the mid-game.
I don't think you HAVE to wait for night, but unless you're absolutely stomping, it's much more strategic to farm up during the day and then force fights and take objectives at night. To answer simply, it's much more of a nice bonus than a must wait, but it is definitely an onslaught lol. 400 fukn HP is no joke, 400 hp to everyone? Wew lad. Can you imagine a team of lycan/bm + 1 or 2 other summons based heroes sieging ~20 minutes into the game with +200 HP necros/wolves/boars/etc... and heroes with probably a 40% increase at that stage? Yeh.
While the game in general feels like it's tilting towards late game right now, deathball is definitely back and extremely powerful if you pick a line up for it. Also in the past a push/deathball lineup was on a ticking timer, once you took all the outer towers, the fuck do you do? You can't farm infinitely because chances are the enemy has better cores or lategame and you gotta take those t3's. With the addition of talents and the changes to the jungle + shrines, a deathball lineup that just cuts off the map early and then gains a massive XP lead can actually delay for mid/late-game.
That lineup that was desperate to take t3's at 15 minutes in past patches can just sit firmly in control of the map and hit up those extremely powerful level 20/25 talents before forcing the issue highground, while the enemy lineup is stuck at 10/15 talents. The upcoming competitive games will be very interesting despite lycan being out of CM. Very curious to see how this meta develops and if it will be similar to the 6.84 snowball meta, but with matches trending a bit longer than that particular era.
🙏 I'm sure I'm going to seethe at the Lycan onslaught but this is actually sf sweet.
Maybe I'll try him now 👀
That's a great shout, thank you. I'll grab a gift card from Game
First game of 7.00. 75 mins long, few rapiers here and there. Oh god.
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2842453319
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2842453319
Monochromaticx
Member
Nightstalker + lycan 🤔
trickyhero
Member
So this update seems cool. Good time for a beginner to join in? My favorite hero right now is Lich King. What's your biggest tip for a beginner?
I knew that reminded me of something:
I've come full circle.
I could never beat this stupid game...
Dreams-Visions
Member
go back to bed, Wok.
I dont think its that bad
Most of the talents are fairly simple.
More money
More damage
More resistance
DivineRage002
Member
Force staff him out of his ult, it's that simple.
Oh man first game I tried in the test server I instinctively walked to the steps overseeing the top rune. I realized my mistake about 10 seconds later
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Actually I feel the opposite. It feels easier to gain levels and gold thus "have fun" by getting reliable power spikes even if you're not doing all that well.
In that sense it's way friendlier to play. As for the amount of new info, I think dota 2 was already before talents at the point where it didn't really matter. To a new person who has no concept of what he actually needs to know, that he has to learn a few more things I don't think matters. What matters to them is the experience getting there.
Which like I said I think is way friendlier.
Hydrophobic
Member
Can people see monkey king when he's on the trees?
DivineRage002
Member
Yes, but only if you see the tree itself.
If he's in a tree behind another tree, you won't see him.
Hydrophobic
Member
Aaaah interesting. Good to know, thanks!
rakkadakka
Member
Considering everyone's game knowledge just got reset it's probably as good a time as ever to jump in.
Wok
Member
Shorter respawn time for playmakers.
Hydrophobic
Member
Is anyone playing support buyimg a Helm of Dom now? It definitely seems like a supportish item. Drums made the full conversion, too, so one support could carry those two auras plus a creep aura for not a ton of gold? Dunno if it's good but could help a big group and push lineup.
Does anyone actually prefer the new map to the old one? I know it's too new to have a massive preference for it and the old one has been around for a while so people are more used to it, but has anyone thought "yeah this is so much better"?
I'm not saying the new one is bad, just wondering if anyone thinks the new one is so great that it's completely surpassed their comfortability with the old one.
I'm still having a bit of trouble figuring out what I should be doing (or more accurately, when I should be doing certain things) as a support due to all the map changes, camp spawn changes and the bounty runes in the jungle. I think I've only pulled once in 6 games.
I'm not saying the new one is bad, just wondering if anyone thinks the new one is so great that it's completely surpassed their comfortability with the old one.
I'm still having a bit of trouble figuring out what I should be doing (or more accurately, when I should be doing certain things) as a support due to all the map changes, camp spawn changes and the bounty runes in the jungle. I think I've only pulled once in 6 games.
I just played a match as support and I literally got lost on the map... I thought I was running to the SS from radiant jungle but then I was at my own T2 felt so weird.
I quite like it though quite hard to find junglers though. But that might be because I am still trying to get used to it.
I quite like it though quite hard to find junglers though. But that might be because I am still trying to get used to it.