DotA2 - Original Thread

[Raul]

I kinda wish I didn't suck at every single carry. I just can't get farmed early and have pineappleheads trying to afk farm dire safe lane as Lich and doing a really good job of taking every CS possible from me while doing nothing about the CM and Magnus who are busy zoning me. I play someone like PL or CK and I just suck and can't get any farm.
Blinkwork is hilarious though.
But yeah anyhow I just have trouble getting early CS as any melee against ranged. Not just as a carry but as any hero (except maybe TA lol).

[Malthe]

This should be labeled "Playing dota 2 on any server" but still funny:

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[Remoir]

This should be labeled "Playing dota 2 on any server" but still funny:

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-picks english as game search option-
-get russian people anyway-

????

[Raul]

Russians queue on every server with every language option checked.

[Salguod]

Were you using the same hero all 4 games, or just playing against the wrong heroes?

Lion twice, venomancer, and warlock. I did a bit better today with Nyx and viper, but something's still off, like not getting my ult off properly. Oh well.

[Malthe]

Good luck finding something more awesome than this:

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Pro tip; You can't.

[Raul]

Okay outhouse desolater is officially the most fun hero ever. lane bully, hard carry. I tried to ult their spawn pool at the end and OHKO them all but they all had like 100 health after :(

[Malthe]

A story about hardship, battling inner demons, friendship and love. Oh and juggernaut.

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Also patch notes:

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- Added Mechanics I for new players!
- Added 7 new item sets to the Dota store.
- Immortal and Tournament items can now be traded on the Steam Community Market.

GAMEPLAY
- Clockwerk: Fixed Power Cogs pulling more than just heroes inside the cogs.
- Huskar: Fixed Berserker's Blood not stacking at the proper health thresholds.
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Mana Leak accumulating mana loss during magic immunity.
- Phantom Lancer: Fixed an issue where illusions made by a player on the other team would create uncontrollable Juxtapose illusions.
- Tusk: Fixed a case where heroes with very small collision size could escape Ice Shards.
- Tusk: Fixed a rare bug where teleporting could cause Walrus Punched units to end up in odd positions.
- Fixed various aspects of Spectral Dagger logic being dispellable.
- Fixed sometimes being revealed if your projectile hits the target after you become invisible with Shadow Blade.
- Improved TP interaction with FoW
- Fixed being able to get units stuck with Telekinesis and Vacuum around the rune area

UI
- Added the ability to examine chests.
- Added a Game History tab to the Team Profile.
- Added checkbox for filtering Live Games to just Team games.
- You can now click on Team names in Live or Recent games to view their team profiles.
- Added a post-game Match Quality survey panel.
- Added an icon to backpack slots if that item is currently equipped.
- Fixed the courier delivery icon popping when the courier collected stash items.
- Fixed courier delivery being delayed by 0.5 seconds if there were no items to get from the stash.
- Fixed courier move orders not clearing the transfer items buff icon.
- Players can now set a custom rich presence status that can be displayed on the UI.
- Fixed Lina's Fiery Soul buff not showing the correct cooldown if it was refreshed with 3 stacks.

BOTS
- When a push is happening into a base, global desire to farm is significantly decreased.
- Fixed a case where bots far from the lane front could thrash into and out of Push Lane mode.
- Single-player bot games now run locally on the user's machine.
- Increased reaction time by about 50% in all modes.

AUDIO/VISUAL
- Updated Arc Lightning's visual effects and sound
- Updated Shadow Shaman's attack sound
- Updated Ether Shock's visual effects and sound
- Updated Mjollnir and Maelstrom visual effects

So, yea, first tutorial is now in dota. And as you can see it is called "Mechanics 1"

[Raul]

Jugg video is hilarious.
Also, I pineappleing love Spectre. I don't know why.

[IllegallySane]

Good luck finding something more awesome than this:

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Pro tip; You can't.

Best video of the week.

A story about hardship, battling inner demons, friendship and love. Oh and juggernaut.

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Also patch notes:


So, yea, first tutorial is now in dota. And as you can see it is called "Mechanics 1"

Ahaha. This is awesome. Someone must have been really bored.

[IllegallySane]

Hey gaiz. DagonOp.





~1 hour into this stream is when it begins. Told by a friend.

http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit/b/373466258

[Dusk]

I hate NerfNow, but that game was awesome. Na'Vi is just too much better than EG.

[Malthe]

Lost and smile will be missed on Na'vi, but KKY and puppey is a duo from way back and funnik has shown some sick potential.
With the bootcamping in china i seriously doubt any other western team can even stand near Na'vi. Although how well they do in china will have to be seen.
G-league finals coming up with LGD.int vs iG soon, i seriously hope LGD.int wins or atleast makes it a very even series.

[Remoir]

Medusa is a satisfying Carry lol >:)

[Malthe]

Dota hit 297k concurrent, hup. 300k will probably be broken this weekend, easily. Wouldn't be surpried if this weekend will have it jump massively.
With G-league finals coming up and everything, it's basically the biggest event outside of the international.

[IllegallySane]

I hate NerfNow, but that game was awesome. Na'Vi is just too much better than EG.

Eh. For me, I check out Nerfnow primarily for the TF2 comics. Also, NerfNow actually made me aware of DoTA 2 before I ever got into it, so in a way if it wasn't for NerfNow I wouldn't have gained as much interest in the game. It's not all that bad, just too many silly people there that go nuts for fanservice and/or those that rage whenever the author makes a comic about X or Y.

**Finished up watching the Dagon match. Laser. Lasers everywhere.

[Malthe]

LAN incoming soon in dota 2 soon. Well maybe not soon, but it is coming and some files for it already exists.

[IllegallySane]

LAN incoming soon in dota 2 soon. Well maybe not soon, but it is coming and some files for it already exists.

>LAN DoTA

My body is ready!

[Raul]

LAN incoming soon in dota 2 soon. Well maybe not soon, but it is coming and some files for it already exists.

Well, there's already single player LAN. Which means you can do some weird stuff like this:

And fun stuff like this:


And there's actually a multiplayer LAN server set up.
theblackroad done in Source? based frog pls stable lan mode.

[IllegallySane]

*stuff*

I was just amused to be able to play DoTA 2 with friends all in one room.

This.... I am laughing so hard over here. And I thought you can't modify DoTA at all.