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Official Madden Thread of Oh We Just Play DOTA2 Now
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I can play mid pretty well to be honest, but as slark I think I was fucked either way. I should have gone with Zeus =/
2 GTX Titans
Don't get crossfire before July 31st. That's when AMD is supposed to release their fix(es). It's broken at the moment. Apparently it's been broken and it wasn't until a new testing methodology came about some months than ago that it was discovered. For single GPU's like you have now they are fine, just missing some of the more advanced features that found in nvidia driver sets. The 7970 is still a beast and you won't get better performance on the green team unless you step up to the 780 or Titan.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
Who was Trasher going mid as?
http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/25/44...r-friends-in-these-polygon-the-verge-e3-party
Just press play and enjoy
He was Shadow Fiend.
Just press play and enjoy
He was Shadow Fiend.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
Really? He's super easy to gank early on. I think slark would be great against him. Especially if you can hit him a couple times with essence shift.
I did notice that Somnia usually levels up dark pact first. You really only need 1 point in that early. You should be shooting to max pounce first.
You should be getting pounce lvl 1, essence shift lvl 2, pounce lvl 3, then dark pact at 4. Then just max pounce as fast as you can while still getting your ult at lvl 6. Hope that helps!
YO THIS WOULDA HELPED LAST NIGHT
Azwethinkweiz
Member
NO ONE ASKED ME!
Thanks, appreciate the advice/tips.
go play your mlb game!
How about we play so early that its actually late?
You were in your spiritbreaker game, I believe
eznark and I are playing today at some point
I see what you're saying. Maybe.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
That game did not end well
Mainly because axe would blink in to tank, taunt, then run away so he wouldn't die.
Also, another game where drow goes 0-10 or something ridiculously bad like that.
Tom Chick sucks!!
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/06/24/company-of-heroes-2-is-a-real-snow-job/
He's pretty much right but it's been long enough that I don't mind CoH 1.5.
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/06/24/company-of-heroes-2-is-a-real-snow-job/
He's pretty much right but it's been long enough that I don't mind CoH 1.5.
What are the lineups for your teams?
Azwethinkweiz
Member
What time?
9 PM EST.
There was a draft on Saturday, so it's just people from that pool.
Same with me probably.
mastershake
Member
That epic Trashcanman/Luke backdoor game never would have happened in madden gaf 5v5 cause we always quit asap
in other news!
Does everyone in the doto |OT| think they are an S-tier know it all? Feels that way sometimes
That game was actually somewhat close though at some point.
Yeah pretty much. A lot of them are also very very good though.
mastershake
Member
Yeah at like 10 minutes in then we lost every major team fights over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
The game lasted over an hour IIRC
Luke and I were doing pretty well though. We got farmed pretty fast. Problem was they kept farming you guys!
The biggest problem was how big CK got at the end. Hence why we needed to do the sneak attack to get mega creeps.
mastershake
Member
So you are saying that as long as you and Luke do well madden gaf 5v5 games will last longer?
speaking of.... i need to go download that replay
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We should try to get some more noob only games in tonight, guys
So you are saying that as long as you and Luke do well madden gaf 5v5 games will last longer?
lol no. That game was completely different. I've lost the point you are trying to make here!
Luke's point was that we don't have to waste time in a game we host ourselves because when it's over it's over. And then you can leave and start up another one.
That MM game where we had the epic finish was actually a close game the whole time because our carries were equally as big as the other team's.
MaddenGAF 5v5 games will last longer once we find a good balance of matchups.
The one that was caught on video? That was pretty brutal. I'm surprised they actually released the whole video and not just the guy's face.
mastershake
Member
I think once all of us noobs learns play a few heroes at a serviceable level then we will have much closer games.
Is CB as good as Brad yet? At least CB is involved in most of the team fights.
So you are saying that as long as you and Luke do well madden gaf 5v5 games will last longer?
speaking of.... i need to go download that replay
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We should try to get some more noob only games in tonight, guys
I'm fine with either. I just want to play more DOTA. Maybe I'll try out zeus tonight.
Ill stick myself right in the middle! Ill freeze atleast 2 guys before i die. Ill take the 2 for 1 any day.
You need a crash course first. I dont think im capable of giving that to you, yet.
http://www.playdota.com/learn
Protip: Don't autoattack
That game would happen in MaddenGAF depending on who got farm. If you and CB had gotten farm in that game it would've been a 10 minute GG.
A huge part about DOTA is making sure the right people get put in the right position which is why Tom and I did 3-1-1 with you guys.
You guys can protect each other in the trilane and hopefully get a kill and he and I get solo XP and solo farm - if we guessed the lanes right (which we usually did) and played the right kinds of heroes (which we usually did), we could pick the game up in the back half.
If you rewatch the game where I was Mirana and Trash was Outworld Destoyer I died 2x quickly and a few minutes later was 4-2 while Tom's Outworld Destroyer is farming.
As a semi-carry, my job was to fill in the gaps for the first 2/3 of the game, get kills and establish early/mid-game presence while trying to generate space for Tom.
That's usually called 4 protect 1, where 4 players roam together to create space for the carry (by pushing other lanes and forcing team fights).
Then, that fifth player, the hard carry, enters the game in the late-mid game and turns teamfights around eventually dominating the game.
The trilane we ran you guys on Lina, Crystal, SK is great in the newbie 3-1-1 and here's why:
Lina has a sweet nuke (wave of fire or whatever it's called) and a targeted unreliable stun (the latter is hard to land, but, that's why we pair her with 2 reliable stuns).
Reliable Stuns are stuns that can be targeted to a player and will hit the player.
A player using the Sand King's Burrowstrike can click target a player and the scorpion will get in range and deliver the stun.
The second reliable stun is Crystal Maiden's Ice Tomb or whatever the fuck it's called.
Why is this trilane decent in early games?
When coordinated Sand King can burrowstrike and stun the player.
Then, Lina puts her stun on the ground near the player or at the stunned player's feet.
Lina's spell has a wind-up meaning it takes some amount of time to cast the spell and then she will re-stun the player.
Next, Lina fires her nuke at the player.
When Sand King goes in on this player, Crystal Maiden should come up and wait until Lina's stun has wore off.
At that point, Freeze the player with the Ice Tomb.
When the Ice Tomb wears off, put the Ice Patch on the ground.
This is free kills FOR DAYS once coordinated.
Lina has a sweet nuke (wave of fire or whatever it's called) and a targeted unreliable stun (the latter is hard to land, but, that's why we pair her with 2 reliable stuns).
Reliable Stuns are stuns that can be targeted to a player and will hit the player.
A player using the Sand King's Burrowstrike can click target a player and the scorpion will get in range and deliver the stun.
The second reliable stun is Crystal Maiden's Ice Tomb or whatever the fuck it's called.
Why is this trilane decent in early games?
When coordinated Sand King can burrowstrike and stun the player.
Then, Lina puts her stun on the ground near the player or at the stunned player's feet.
Lina's spell has a wind-up meaning it takes some amount of time to cast the spell and then she will re-stun the player.
Next, Lina fires her nuke at the player.
When Sand King goes in on this player, Crystal Maiden should come up and wait until Lina's stun has wore off.
At that point, Freeze the player with the Ice Tomb.
When the Ice Tomb wears off, put the Ice Patch on the ground.
This is free kills FOR DAYS once coordinated.
mastershake
Member
Was that our first trilane game? It had to have been the first or 2nd cause Im pretty sure we had no idea what we were supposed to be doing.
In a trilane it feels like we should be pretty agreesive and seek kills to offset the loss in XP. We pretty much hung back and barely even farmed creeps cause the lion/CK combo wrecked us. We had no stuns!! lol
Once we switched to that other trilane (Lina/SK/CM) we were waaaaay more aggressive and we were never really under farmed or under leveled.
I guess I didn't see the game from yalls perspective cause it felt like it snowballed out of control. After having a few pub games like that before, I was mostly just walking around waiting for them to win - then you guys sprung the epic back door shenanigans on them and we were right back in it!