Dota 2

#1
So, does anyone else play Dota 2? I've become addicted over the past few months, and am always looking for more people to team up with.

For those who don't know, Dota was originally a mod for Warcraft 3. Gameplay is 5v5 arena-style matches (online or with bots), and at the beginning of each game you pick from a list of ~100 "Heroes" with varying abilities and seek to destroy the enemy base. Valve approached the guy who made Dota and basically said, "Hey, if you strip out all of the warcraft names we would pay you to develop for this game and sell it on Steam." And thus we have Dota 2, which is mechanically almost identical to Dota 1, bug fixes and patches aside.

(Should this have gone in Everything Else RPG? Dota isn't really an RPG, and I don't know of a general gaming section...)
 

BloodRedSword

Well-Known Member
#3
LoL is a but imitation for noobs.
 

WizardOne

Well-Known Member
#4
I play dota HH, my steam name is Antithesis Alpha, feel free to throw me an invite and we can play together a bit.
 
#5
WizardOne said:
I play dota HH, my steam name is Antithesis Alpha, feel free to throw me an invite and we can play together a bit.
Added you. My steam name is Hardcore Heathen, so you should recognize it :p
 
#7
Thanks for the move, Wata. Totally forgot that we could do non-fanfiction related game discussion over here. The update to the TFF Gamers Steam Group was also much appreciated.

And I'm off for my first game with WizardOne; hope I don't muck things up too badly.
 

WizardOne

Well-Known Member
#8
Hardcore Heathen said:
Thanks for the move, Wata. Totally forgot that we could do non-fanfiction related game discussion over here. The update to the TFF Gamers Steam Group was also much appreciated.

And I'm off for my first game with WizardOne; hope I don't muck things up too badly.
We played two games, we won one and lost one. Was good fun!
 
#10
It looks like The Elder Titan is coming in the next patch. Yet another hero for me to suck with, oh yeah!

And Real TFFers didn't lose that one game. That one game was lost by an incompetent Bat Rider and a Venomancer that didn't speak English. I somewhat contributed to the loss, but Keeper of the Light sort of just bends over when there's a Lion and a Lina on the other team. Got headshotted all game =\
 

Ninsaneja

Well-Known Member
#11
I go by Time Travelin' Tim on steam. I play HoN, Dota 2, and various other games not related to the subject at hand.
I am a decent player... had to make a smurf in HoN so I could play with my friends at 1400 because my main is ~1610.

I've been playing HoN lately so dota 2 is bound to confuse me slightly again :(
 
#12
Ninsaneja said:
I go by Time Travelin' Tim on steam. I play HoN, Dota 2, and various other games not related to the subject at hand.
I am a decent player... had to make a smurf in HoN so I could play with my friends at 1400 because my main is ~1610.

I've been playing HoN lately so dota 2 is bound to confuse me slightly again :(
Added you.
 

Grunt

Well-Known Member
#13
New patch for dota is out, so we can expect the parity patch some time next week.

Anyone else happy about the necrolyte buffs? :D
 
#14
More happy about the nerfs to Phantom Lancer and Magnus. And they fixed bottle crowing and the Lone Druid bear! And two of my favorite heroes (Timbersaw and Kunkka) are getting buffed!

All in all, a good patch. Ton of Aghanim's Scepter upgrades for heroes who will never have an Agh's, but whatever.
 
#15
So apparently Dota 2 is a real sport now, with real betting and game rigging scandals and everything!

http://www.dotacinema.com/news/roxkis-disqualified-from-starseries-after-betting-scandal
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#16
Just played an awesome game with Heathen over there, and gotta say, Crystal Maiden + Lina top is really, really good.
 
#17
The sisters synergize well.

In other news, apparently [A]lliance made it through the pools of TI3 undefeated, which completely bones my compendium pick =\
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#18
I bought the compendium, I just have no idea on how to even open it up.
 
#19
Go to your Dota player profile and it'll be in there. You just click on it, then click in the bottom right/left corner of the pages to move right or left. To get to your Dota profile, just click on your name when you're at the main menu.

You also should have gotten a courier with the Compendium, the Smeevil. There are various things you can do to make the little guy cooler (you unlock new colors and mounts for him through doing various TI3 related things). Watching replays from the TI3 (including qualifiers) will make him glowy. You can watch replays from the in-game client by going to the Watch tab, selecting Tournaments, and looking through there. If you just want to get credit for watching the game to make your courier better, you can just watch the Highlight reel, which is only like 3 or 4 minutes.

Also you can get free items by watching tournament games through the Dota client (or through Twitch, if you link your Twitch and Steam accounts), provided you've bought the ticket for the tournament. (For the International games, the Compendium is your ticket.)
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#20
Well, I guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

/idle on stream
 
#21
We have an enormous patch that's just gone live.

Read about it here.
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#22
Oh wow, this is making buybacks useless unless THEY'RE RIGHT IN YOUR BASE ATTACKING YOUR TOWERZ
 
#23
violinmana said:
Oh wow, this is making buybacks useless unless THEY'RE RIGHT IN YOUR BASE ATTACKING YOUR TOWERZ
Ragebacks are getting punished hard. The biggest change mechanically is actually the Bloodseeker one - we have a hero moving faster than haste! 522ms (haste) was a mechanical limit of the WC3 engine, but it's stuck around until now. You can run from fountain to fountain in ~8 seconds now...in theory.
 
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