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Dota 2 Beta Thread 2: Real Talk Discouraged [Magnus, Teams, 6.75b, 150+ Shop Items]
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Riverfield
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BrLvgThrChmstry
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It was amazing! ...first competitive match I've watched and wow. That Dendi fellow is something else. And the farm on that Druid. And the jungling Pugna. HOW!? seriously, I can only dream of being that good. I'm getting better though...
scorpscarx
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How stable is this game? It crashes on me like every 1 in 5 play sessions. My computer is fine.
I think it's you. I've never had, or heard of anyone having, problems even close to that before.
Same, a crash once or twice during the 6 months I've had this game maybe. But not once every 5 games.
Gully State
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It was great too because all of puppey's standard junglers were banned, and then they picked shadow demon so he couldn't do that either (he's done it recently) and he's still like fuck you I'm gonna jungle an int.
Gully State
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poppedcollar69
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Man, I just can't bring myself to tell my teammates what to do (buy wards, quit it with the ion shell so I can farm, etc).
And perhaps some of those l's would be w's if I had.
And perhaps some of those l's would be w's if I had.
This type of stuff is why I hope Valve keeps the way smoke works with Jungle Creeps, it opens up stupid tactics like this.
Cydonian__Knight
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Does anyone know if VODs of the Na'vi matches today are going up anywhere? I was at work and didn't get to see them. 
Looks like League of Legends is adding a Spectator mode, and I have to admit, if it works as well as it is shown, I am impressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqT14k6BsC0&feature=g-u-u
Notable features are the fact that you can actually rewind in a live game and play with the speed controls, and that the directed camera has a function that allows you to tell it that you want to watch something else, and disable the bulk of the hub. There also doesn't seem to be any delay in rewinding, which is something that LoL's Engine completely trumps source in.
Lets see if Valve will try to outdo them even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqT14k6BsC0&feature=g-u-u
Notable features are the fact that you can actually rewind in a live game and play with the speed controls, and that the directed camera has a function that allows you to tell it that you want to watch something else, and disable the bulk of the hub. There also doesn't seem to be any delay in rewinding, which is something that LoL's Engine completely trumps source in.
Lets see if Valve will try to outdo them even more.
Stahsky
A passionate embrace, a beautiful memory lingers.
Does anyone know if VODs of the Na'vi matches today are going up anywhere? I was at work and didn't get to see them.
I think you can dig around for them on Purge's twitch.tv channel. GGnetPurge or something like that
So... it's basically Valve's spectator mode with worse controls, information and camera views but with the ability to rewind?
Schweinehund
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I hope it comes out as fast as magma chamber and the model updates came out.
So basically, tied in with rewinding/slow mo, the level of control/editting that professional sports games have? That would be pretty amazing. Have the casting going on one page, be all wtf just happened and hop on to the other screen to rewind to a certain point while still seeing the live game in progress on the main screen and fullscreen/pip a replay made on the fly to viewers on the main screen... Now my hopes are too high and I'll be disappointed with what valve does do.
Does anyone know if VODs of the Na'vi matches today are going up anywhere? I was at work and didn't get to see them.
http://www.twitch.tv/ggnetpurge/b/316325651
It's the second set of matches, a few hours in.
Well, the Spectator feature is supposed to roll out in the next patch on Tuesday.
I'm still a bit bitter about Magma Chamber.
Cydonian__Knight
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Gully State
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Can someone explain to me what the purpose of smoke was for jungling Pugna? After watching it, I realize that there's almost no way you could jungle Pugna like that in a normal pick up match...but still pretty cool nevertheless
I definitely agree. You have to put gold in to get gold out, and it could potentially open the jungle to more unconventional heroes. Provided it isn't wildly unbalanced (doubtful, the Pugna merely obtained the equivalent of solo lane XP/gold [though probably less of the latter]), I think it'd be a clear win from a game mechanics and strategy standpoint.
Sgt.Pepper
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I changed my mind about Crystal Maiden. THAT FROSTBITE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYQN9Q0PnE
I know this is the third time I've posted this in this thread, but it's one of the reasons why I love Puck. Puck's kind of hard to get the hang of, but once you do, you will be extremely helpful to your team. There's an old saying "A good Puck player is a good Dota player."
Dreams-Visions
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Nothing like going 20/5/15 with Death Prophet only to lose because everyone on the team is clueless, including the 0/7 Omniknight who buys a fucking RADIANCE instead of a Sheep stick or something to disable the enemy carry.
What possesses an Omniknight...with no kills in 40 minutes...to decide the best way to help is to buy a RADIANCE?????????
!!1?!??
What's your real plan.
What possesses an Omniknight...with no kills in 40 minutes...to decide the best way to help is to buy a RADIANCE?????????
!!1?!??
What's your real plan.
RukusProvider
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I have all sorts of issues with steam games if I use IE as my default browser. It's the weirdest shit and took ages to narrow down. Now I use Opera and things are fine.
Risible
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Anyone got a link to the game? Everyone's raving about it, I'd love to watch it.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
I was reading this guide on SF and it talked about basically animation cancelling with him.
Does this still work in Dota 2?
Does this still work in Dota 2?
Played a game last night where our Invoker randomly said out of nowhere: "Shit I gotta go" and then he left after like 5 minutes into the game. Then the enemies team Alchemist started trash talking saying how easy the game was (they had all our towers). To top that off my friend got a BSOD so it was 3vs5 for another 5-10 minutes.
We won and Alchemist who was still talking shit the entire time left before we took the thrown.
Feels good.
We won and Alchemist who was still talking shit the entire time left before we took the thrown.
Feels good.
Sadly, the majority of Dota 2 players are fapping increasingly hard over damage items, while arguably being weaker than CC items or minus armor items. Radiance is great on some heroes, but Sheepstick is almost always better on the majority of heroes. MKB is great, but having a few cheap early items early game such as Eul's, Medallion, Mek, Pipe and Force Staff is even better to pull the game towards you.
But yeah, bad players making bad calls.
Matchmaking is bizarre.
I was in a game with an Invoker that had 430 odd wins. The next highest was 46 (on either team). Despite that, however, he wasn't particularly good. He went 7-5-7 which was the best for his team, but there certainly weren't any huge plays coming from him. His profile even said that Invoker was his best character. I found it funny when he tried trash talking because we bought a gem. Oh noes, we're getting one item to shut down the best player on your team.
We won but 'twas strange.
I was in a game with an Invoker that had 430 odd wins. The next highest was 46 (on either team). Despite that, however, he wasn't particularly good. He went 7-5-7 which was the best for his team, but there certainly weren't any huge plays coming from him. His profile even said that Invoker was his best character. I found it funny when he tried trash talking because we bought a gem. Oh noes, we're getting one item to shut down the best player on your team.
We won but 'twas strange.
Yeah it is very strange sometimes. Had someone with 4 wins yesterday in my game. The average wins of the rest of the players was probably 200-300.
Risible
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Holy crap, how did I miss that. Thanks for pointing it out for me.
Technosteve
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panda in a pro game, i don't think panda is all that great of a hero except for his amazing ulti.
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