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DOTA2 |OT15| anime only please
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Imp the Dimp
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Excited to play a game this evening.
I think it's currently bugged at the moment though? They aren't showing up like they did in the test client anymore.
Eduardboon
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7.0 killed my framerate. Can't get over 90 anymore during mid-game with a 970. Used to be 120 locked. meh. Makes the gameplay a lot less fluid.
well, if you reduce everything to its simpler characteristics, dota 2 is also a fairly simple game as well.
i'm just saying that the knowledge required to be ''competent'' at the game just grew exponentially. a new player now ''need'' to know 400+ skills and the interactions of those skills with other heroes and items plus 800+ talents and the interaction of those talents with other heroes and items.
but i guess most of dota players doesn't even know a large percentage of the skills in the game, so this wont change much, people will just stay ignorant and feed like always.
The phoenix balance change we were all waiting for.
Captain Fish
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I generally like the update. The more open UI is nice, and the hero seems fun. The clicked other target pop-up is a stroke of genius! Being able to change options without leaving the map is great too. The changes to pre-game are awesome as well, I especially like being able to buy items before going to the map.
They really need to fix the attribute thing. Having each attribute and what it increases and how much is probably even more important with the Talent stuff. A talent level up hotkey would be nice as well.
Oh, also they said the old hud skins would work fine, but the ones I have cover up the edges of the minimap. I noticed at the Radiant top and bottom barracks.
I also noticed the bots seem to be pretty broken, with the offlane remaining empty as some of the bots on either side just chill in the jungle.Then as the game went later, the bots on my team didn't really push or defend, staying in the high ground and jungle despite having tier 2s. Not sure if that's going to be fixed or if they're gonna basically crowdsource that with the programmable bot stuff.
They really need to fix the attribute thing. Having each attribute and what it increases and how much is probably even more important with the Talent stuff. A talent level up hotkey would be nice as well.
Oh, also they said the old hud skins would work fine, but the ones I have cover up the edges of the minimap. I noticed at the Radiant top and bottom barracks.
I also noticed the bots seem to be pretty broken, with the offlane remaining empty as some of the bots on either side just chill in the jungle.Then as the game went later, the bots on my team didn't really push or defend, staying in the high ground and jungle despite having tier 2s. Not sure if that's going to be fixed or if they're gonna basically crowdsource that with the programmable bot stuff.
I really dislike the new Rosh placement. It seems so arbitrary
At least on the original map, and when they moved him away from the dire mid lane, his pit still felt like a natural extension of the map
Now its just a massive turd in the middle of the river.
They would have been better off stealing more ideas from HotS and just putting him under the river, like the underground portion of the Haunted Mines
At least on the original map, and when they moved him away from the dire mid lane, his pit still felt like a natural extension of the map
Now its just a massive turd in the middle of the river.
They would have been better off stealing more ideas from HotS and just putting him under the river, like the underground portion of the Haunted Mines
Monochromaticx
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CM with helm of the dominator
Get koblold foreman to go fast
Dreams-Visions
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This new HUD is awful.
your eyes are awful
SecretMoblin
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all the games I was spectating (and played) were really long
not my cuppa tea
also new necro is eh, the bb prevention would have won my cancerous game last night
not my cuppa tea
also new necro is eh, the bb prevention would have won my cancerous game last night
Pureauthor
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New UI is worse than old one.
If you want to be minimalist, be minimalist. But don't remove useful information that I need to glance at. And why the needless rearranging?
If you want to be minimalist, be minimalist. But don't remove useful information that I need to glance at. And why the needless rearranging?
shira
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League of Legends
shira
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I really want to see him played in captain's mode.
Rat King doto?
Doesn't seem interesting
I'm enjoying Legends of the Dota Storm immensely.
I'm loving the talent tree, it further strengthens the ability of heroes to play as either core or support flexibly, and is just plain more interesting than skilling stat attributes. Big coup as mechanical depth and bang for buck goes.
Haven't played MK yet but I love heroes who interact with map elements (trees and items in this case), and he looks hilarious and novel. If they stripped either of those things from him I'd be really bummed out.
I'm loving the new map, how active it seems to the old one, and how much you benefit if you're active roaming. MK terrain is stunning. Worth the purch.
I'm loving the new HUD also (even with having to relearn how to use it). Scan/Fortify parity is overdue (I actually remember it's there now) and has space for additional team skills, I like the minimalism, I like that it tucks away info I don't need constantly, I like how the level and talent tree are combined into one space, I like it being hooked up to more game states, and I like the sleek sliding in and out as needed for (much more adaptable).
I'm loving the talent tree, it further strengthens the ability of heroes to play as either core or support flexibly, and is just plain more interesting than skilling stat attributes. Big coup as mechanical depth and bang for buck goes.
Haven't played MK yet but I love heroes who interact with map elements (trees and items in this case), and he looks hilarious and novel. If they stripped either of those things from him I'd be really bummed out.
I'm loving the new map, how active it seems to the old one, and how much you benefit if you're active roaming. MK terrain is stunning. Worth the purch.
I'm loving the new HUD also (even with having to relearn how to use it). Scan/Fortify parity is overdue (I actually remember it's there now) and has space for additional team skills, I like the minimalism, I like that it tucks away info I don't need constantly, I like how the level and talent tree are combined into one space, I like it being hooked up to more game states, and I like the sleek sliding in and out as needed for (much more adaptable).
no one plays arc as a rat anymore since the rapier changes. He was battle warden 100%
SecretMoblin
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Also nu-techies seems entertaining, I'm glad Fraud & Co. also realized that keeping parts of the the game more lighthearted works for more popular and better MOBAs. The mah serious lore people can take a seat all the way in the back.
I don't mind the 4x4 pixel items in the shop interface that much but I wish there were an easy way to hotkey buying certain items.
power
I don't mind the 4x4 pixel items in the shop interface that much but I wish there were an easy way to hotkey buying certain items.
power
Way too early to form a concrete opinion, but after 4 games yesterday, so far I really really like the new map. There's all kinds of new high ground in the jungles that will take a lot of getting used to but seem like they could be super advantageous in spotting ganks. A lot of the creep camps seem to be easier to kill, where they have to path a certain way to hit you but you still have access to hit them. The addition of bounty runes and boosted exp books makes leveling supports so much less painful than it was previously.
As someone who played a lot of support before, I feel like it's going to be a crazy adjustment to figure out how to support in this jungle. Stack timings, rotation timings, where to ward, it all feels completely foreign to me. Exciting stuff. Haven't been this excited to play Dota since 2013.
At this point i wouldn't be surprised if we got the max level rescaled to 20 and the talents to start from 5, so that we get no "dead" levels like we do now (19-21-22-23-24). They can rescale the needed exp so that you still need the same exp to get to 20 than you do to get to 25 now but have skilling decisions more important than they are now. Also talents at 10 feels a bit a late for supports imho, but maybe they're not. We'll see i guess.
Tried to play 1 game with all minimal settings, everything looked like a big blur and had 15 fps, but still won and my pc overheated anyway. Time to open up this shit soon i guess.
Tried to play 1 game with all minimal settings, everything looked like a big blur and had 15 fps, but still won and my pc overheated anyway. Time to open up this shit soon i guess.
I only observed games last night, but my FPS was in the 90s instead of where it was pre 7.00 (~120+)
UI being heavily based on html/css/js makes me wonder how easy it will be to have custom HUDs working in game shortly? If it's easy enough to enable, I know I'll work on mine to customize it how I'd prefer to see it.
UI being heavily based on html/css/js makes me wonder how easy it will be to have custom HUDs working in game shortly? If it's easy enough to enable, I know I'll work on mine to customize it how I'd prefer to see it.
LucidMomentum
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I still forget scan is a thing.
Also everyone saying this update is like League has no clue what they're talking about.
In League you really just need to remember:
-Jungler rotation (where they started dictates where they'll be in a few minutes)
-Ward placement (typically in the bush so you can deward, but guess which one it was)
-Dragon timing (if you even care to take it, they tell you if it's one worth going for anyways)
-Itemization on enemy heroes (updates when you're in vision of them, no need to click)
-Who has their flash / etc. on cooldown
And then the rest is not dying more than the other guys and CS.
Heck, I tried explaining creep equilibrium, pulls, stacks, and denying to my LoL playing friends and it blew their minds.
Dota has so many intricacies and I love it. Always something to improve or work on.
I think Riki is going to be pretty fuckin good this patch tbh. There's so much free money/xp with there being so many runes. I'm liking his aghs, but idk how useful it really is, though I guess it gives him a nice stat increase. I haven't managed to have a game last long enough for me to get his lvl 25 talent, but I really think a 7 sec cd smoke with a 6 sec duration, plus a +250 cast range if you take that talent at lvl 20 is nothing to sneeze at, both because of the silence and the 70% miss chance.
Nope
Guess they forgot to add it
This game is nuts though. 15 minutes of nonstop fights. Im loving it
What the fuck am I reading? This has to be among the stupidest thing I've ever read.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1specie
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1specie
Merlini should stick to casting.
I wouldn't say it's stupid, but the metaphor seems entirely unnecessary.
New to tortured metaphors?
Wok
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To me, it's pretty clear this is not the IceFrog block anymore. Something happened to the frog, or he retired, I don't know, but there are new people working on the game and they are crazy Blizzard-fanboys.
Captain Fish
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Merlini calling it an IceFrog Block instead of an IceFrog Brick makes me think that the whole Funland metaphor is happening in Minecraft.
https://twitter.com/wykrhm/status/808722839251480576/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
seems topical
lmao no
seems topical
lmao no
shira
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Didn't know Rouge One had massive re-writes and re-shoots
#notsurethiswillbegood
Maybe it's also eyestrain because you have to look at the tiny hp/mana bar
How the fuck are you supposed to keep scanning the entire screen
#notsurethiswillbegood
Maybe it's also eyestrain because you have to look at the tiny hp/mana bar
How the fuck are you supposed to keep scanning the entire screen
While I like the sleek aspect of the new UI; I have to agree with some of the people experiencing dizziness/headaches -- I feel like the new UI is just too small and I'm having to strain to look at things. Hope they allow the current iteration to be the minimum size and then scale up from there.
I do wish there was also a selection to display KDA/LH permanently, I hate pressing alt every minute to see my last hits and the like.
I do wish there was also a selection to display KDA/LH permanently, I hate pressing alt every minute to see my last hits and the like.
VISAGE IS SO GOOD
Holy cow. What a hero.
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2844161830
And i kinda fucked up my skill order pretty badly, but it didn't end up mattering...at all.
The new gravekeepers cloak in SO GOOD.
Don't sleep on this good boy
Holy cow. What a hero.
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2844161830
And i kinda fucked up my skill order pretty badly, but it didn't end up mattering...at all.
The new gravekeepers cloak in SO GOOD.
Don't sleep on this good boy