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Dota 2 Beta Thread: [Brewmaster]
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Its just final rendered artwork :l
Just give us Shadow Demon and OD for in lane anti Anti Mage and leave the rest.
LYCAN IS OP BECUZ LYCAN IS KILJAEDN AND KILJAEDN AND ILLIDUN WAS BEST FRIENDS AND THEN ILLIDUN WAS LIKE KILJAEDN DO YOU LUV ME 4EVER? BUT KILJAEDN WUZ LIKE NO AND ILLIDUN RUN INTO FROCEN SRONE AND DIE TO ARTHAS AND KILJAEDN HOLD ILLIDUN CORPSE AND HE SAY: "NO, I MENT TO SAY I LUV U 5EVER!" LIKE DIS IF YOU CRY EVRY TIME.
Lol this killed me.
Back from holiday now to perform some euro-cleaves.
Plus there were no heroes on the last two (three? not sure) weeks, it wouldn't be that odd to see them on the next patch. But Valve might be playing with our minds and next update none of them will appear.
Instead: NO NEW HEROES, JUST GABEN COURIER. HAVE FUN
You can uninstall Pando after you are done installing LoL, and it is made by a developer who doesn't hate their playerbase.
You can uninstall Pando after you are done installing LoL, and it is made by a developer who doesn't hate their playerbase.
Just by one who are more interested in making as much money as possible than making their game better.
You can uninstall Pando after you are done installing LoL, and it is made by a developer who doesn't hate their playerbase.
I tried to but it freezes up and I can never uninstall it. Will most likely have to do a brute force uninstall if the problem persists.
are we talking about Riot or S2? I can't tell. Looking at those gold/silver prices on HoN, it's hard to make a distinction.
Well they're both pretty bad, but at least HoN isn't missing features considered standard in the mid 90s. With HoN I get the feeling that S2 knows Dota is going to crush them, so they're just trying to make as much as possible before Dota goes open beta.
such as?
Replays, Spectating, Voice Chat?
The last one don't make much difference. I don't really use dota2 voice chat, the volume is usually low and the quality ain't great. Btw, any console tips to increase it? Some time ago I was looking at the config.cfg and changed a few things but don't know what exactly worked.
Heavy's Sandvich
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If people have trouble hearing my abuse, I just shout loud and clear.
Means a lot to the Chinese I'd imagine.
releasing as many payable heroes/skins/couriers as possible and their CEO tells their customers to "come over with your gold coins".
I really hope S2 is gonna aim at realeasing new games rather than focusing a lot in HoN. The Savage games was pretty nice.
Schweinehund
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I'd probably boot up hon again if they didn't have such a terrible f2p model, and actually had all the heroes unlocked.
I tried playing LoL as well and I can't stand the ingame store and not knowing who is good or bad anymore. If the balance is anything like when I left there were only 15-20 viable heroes at a time. It's amazing how easy it is to last hit in that game after playing dota2 for so long.
honestly once SD with swap hero comes out, that's all we should be playing in inhouses.
inb4 they fuck up sd and u can't soul catch or poison in disrupt
ONCE SD COMES OUT, HE'LL TAKE ANTI-MAGE'S PLACE AS SCUM BAG HERO OF THE WEEK. FURION IS FINALLY FREE TO FROLIC IN THE FOREST AND NEVER LEAVE, ONLY LEAVING TO OCCASIONALLY TO DESTROY BUILDINGS AND THRONES.
Capt.Haddock
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Venomancer.
Drow Ranger?
OmnipotentO
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Want them to add -swap and a concede button.
MustacheBandit_
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Lich, Skeleton King, and Tidehunter are all very simple characters to play and learn. Out of the three listed I would recommend Lich and focus on being a support (ie warding a ton and buying courier and support items) while learning the game. You will be a much better asset to the team as a beginner playing support then you would playing a Carry like Skeleton King and being useless and not properly farmed.
Replays are in the HoN and you can spec one player. Granted, it doesn't have the nifty delay system and multiple player spec that Dota has, but then again Dota missed stuff (like pauze votes and a timer that counts it down).
Swap? Yes. Concede? Not so sure. If someone is delaying to finish a game that you can't absolutely win then I think it's OK to concede but otherwise I think you should keep going until you win/lose. But yesterday I was talking with my GF and she said something I agree: there should be a concede/surrender feature but not in everygame, it should be an option for someone who wants to join in a game with concede and someone else might want to join in a game without concede.
I agree with all of them but SK should go first. And you should also read the CAPSLOCK LEORIC guide.
OmnipotentO
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Lich (press R and stuff dies)
Riki (permanently invis, 'nuff said)
Antimage (pretty much plays himself)
I would say Lich is much easier, and definitely the easiest.
Reasons why:
1) His Dark Ritual grants him mana to cast spells, and automatically denies a creep.
2) Lich is played as a pure support, meaning you will not have to try to last hit your enemy creeps for gold. The two things you really need to do during the laning phase are: harassing enemies, and denying your own creeps.
3) The only items you really need to focus on are courier, wards, phase boots, mekansm, and after that probably a scepter. But wards are your key items.
Check www.playdota.com/learn too.
I have to admit, beginning players for Dota right now have it tough. I remember when I first started, Dota was still very very new, so people just picked any hero they wanted and had fun.
Skeleton King for sure, Sniper is really easy too and you (should) barely die since you're on a long distance most of the time.
Omniknight is a pretty easy support hero, but you need to know what to buy though and what your skills do exactly (though that counts for all heroes)
MustacheBandit_
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i will have to disagree. although super easy to learn (which is why i even listed him), a newbie skeleton king is about as useless as you can be. Avoid being a Carry until you learn the game fully. Your team will thank you.
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this x1000
I agree. But a bad SK is still better than a bad ES/Omni/Venge or something that could ruin things for your team. Also its really a simple and straightforward hero that allows you to focus on your surrounding instead of trying to figure out your skillset and when to use something. Plus his ult.
The servers should be up right now.
Tomorrow evening time is the expected date for the mega patch.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=valve dota&type=server&public=&num=100&pg=1
Should show when the servers are back, rather than sitting in game trying to find a server over and over.
http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=21881&page=3&p=122291&viewfull=1#post122291 going to be down for a bit still.
Should show when the servers are back, rather than sitting in game trying to find a server over and over.
http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=21881&page=3&p=122291&viewfull=1#post122291 going to be down for a bit still.
Gully State
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source?
Do want!
edit: Also yeah Skeleton king was the first hero i learned
So awesome.
I want to avatarize one of those.
Do want!
edit: Also yeah Skeleton king was the first hero i learned
HNNNGGG. Haven't ever bought action figures of any kind, but i would be so over these if the quality would be good.
Schweinehund
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Do want!
edit: Also yeah Skeleton king was the first hero i learned
So many of my favorite heroes, would like Pugna, Kunkka, Veno, and Ursa
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