sorijealut
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That's not 109, gd, milkman playing against merrini right? ho ho
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Dota 2 Beta Thread 3: Gunnar Optiks Required [Faster Loading]
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I had someone today who went 3-18. Fed their Bloodseeker to unstoppable levels.
Most of those people never get picked except once in a blue moon.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Just noticed when Milkman said something in all chat, lol.
Apparently, in Dota 1, if you repick from a character, the character should be unable to be selected at all. If that was added back to Dota 2, you could do silly things like Pick a character you don't like, and repick right after, to keep the other team from being able to get them at the cost of 100 gold.
I am the opposite, any time a PL gets picked that team has a 80% chance of winning. If Ezalor is on the team the chance goes up to 90%.
I once tried the Eza + PL combo myself and picked PL. Most boring game ever. My friend just gave me mana all day while I spammed Spirit Lance into death. Then I just farmed all game and came out with Radiance + Diffusal to finish the game. People couldn't kill me because of illusions and Doppelwalker.
That was my first time playing Pl and I haven't played him again since them. The hero puts me to sleep.
shira
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I get one every game, Treasure of the Forbidden Lotus
Has anyone got one of these after submitting a report: feeding/abuse/ability
Which results in a message - action taken.
I think that is why I have so many of them.
The Technomancer
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Well just had my first game as Nyx. Fun hero, especially since it was an All Random game and the enemy team was Shadow Demon, Windrunner, Lina, Drow and Clinkz
He can work as a solo laner or dual lane with a good support. Not the best laner but certainly better than his jungle now.
Imma report someone now in game. lawl
Sigismundo
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I can't remember if it was you guys or Facepunch that were saying Skadi Enigma was garbage but I found one out in the wild.
It's funny because he's not doing very well.
Pureauthor
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2-3.keys
So how come no one told me Visage was so awesome? I've played 4 or 5 games with him and have won every single game. Picking up more kills than I usually do as a support, by far. Still working on making my familiars as useful as possible but I think I'm doing alright with them. I do have some issues with clicking and moving them sometimes when shit gets hectic. Just have to get used to them when they're hot keyed up.
Visage is awesome! I have problems landing the stun with the familiars... usually I keep them off to the side until there's a fight, then I just right click them onto someone followed by a haphazard stun. I'm always worried about feeding them since that 100 gold bounty is so juicy.
His nuke is amazing if you can get into a position to keep it charged through a fight. The damage consecutive fully charged nukes puts out always surprises me a bit.
hahaha cell phone!!! Late game familiar important for stun.
close to the edge
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Oh God, Pinoy Dota is hilarious. 36 kills in 15 minutes. Dreamz' courier almost died, but then they used the bottle that was on the courier to heal the courier (I didn't even know that was possible).
CarbonatedFalcon
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Speaking of - I need to try bottle crowing some time. Haven't done mid in awhile or with a hero/situation that would make the most of it, but in pubs the courier always seems to be everywhere to the point where it might not be that viable. For example, I was playing Naix the other day and showed up to an (relatively) early game fight and ended up dying, but it probably wouldn't have ended like that if other people hadn't been monopolizing the courier - I had something like 2 completed items in my stash, but couldn't get them out to me, and had no reason to go back to base.
Just lane him as a normal carry on the safe lane. I won a game with him yesterday in 30 minutes. He pushes so hard.
poppedcollar69
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gotta hit those boats
Schweinehund
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I usually don't have that hard of a time landing torrents/boats, but I don't play against organized 5 man teams. I would think a team deadset on running kunkka would run with a magnus, enigma or shadow demon as well.
Pai Pai Master
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How do you open those lotus chests? I got one but couldn't do it with a regular key.
You can't yet, and nobody knows what's in there.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Yeah if it's not Valentine's Day related, I've got no clue. Unless it's Chinese New Year I suppose.
Treasure of Dark Implements was just a random January-only thing, so who knows.
Treasure of Dark Implements was just a random January-only thing, so who knows.
balladofwindfishes
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with TF2, they usually release special crates a week early to get a bunch of them in the system, and to build hype.
Seems they're doing that now with Dota. We'll probably get them filled this week.
From what I've heard, the dark crate wasn't really that successful, so they may be looking for ways to improve that.
and I wish they'd add crate items to the store a little sooner than like 6 months later. Those poor contributors...
Seems they're doing that now with Dota. We'll probably get them filled this week.
From what I've heard, the dark crate wasn't really that successful, so they may be looking for ways to improve that.
and I wish they'd add crate items to the store a little sooner than like 6 months later. Those poor contributors...
If that were the case they would be released on the day of the event not prior to it. People will just delete the crates if they can't open them. I would.
Pureauthor
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I wonder how the money for key sales from crates gets split up for creators.
They've released early crates before in TF2. And delete them? People cannot resist their mysteries!
SteveWinwood
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Really now? When that came out I know people were going nuts over the pudge stuff and most importantly the Lina hat. I've seen everything from that crate out in the wild BUT the Disruptor mount.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Best item in that one was the Lina hat, which was only uncommon. I only opened one and traded the Jugg sword for the hat. If the hat was rarer, I would have opened more because I really wanted the hat.
I'm pretty sure I read once that it's 25% of the cost of the key, if your item is the one that gets opened. Don't know if that's really fair to the people who created the rarer items in the crate though. May be different for the limited time chests vs. regular ones though. The legal agreement pretty much gives Valve full control - you basically surrender all rights, and they're allowed to do anything with the pricing scheme in terms of discount or making your stuff free without your consultation.
balladofwindfishes
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Looking here the dark crate items are less diverse than the Frostivus items.
tbh I would have switched the Sven sword and Lina hat and made the Pudge hook rare. The Pudge Hook and Lina Hat were the most desired item in the crate and both were only uncommon. Quite frankly, nobody cares about Sven swords.
That's why you gotta make sets! Though getting one of your items in the game period definitely helps your chances for later items. There were a few popular TF2 item makers who got their items in almost at lightning speed due to their quality and the fact that Valve has handled their items before. Hell, look at Anuxi now. They can't put her sets in fast enough.
ps Anuxi make a Lich set and I will send you my credit card info.
balladofwindfishes
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With TF2 and the Halloween crates, each item got 7% of the key sales.
But that seems super low, but I made 8 times as much from the key share than I do from regular owls being sold.
I don't really know how Dota does it, but I imagine it's fairly similar.
Problem right now, I see, with crate items is it's kind of a curse for contributors. While in TF2 it's a nice fat paycheck, and then steady income after that, in Dota 2 it's one fat key check and then nothing for half the year until Valve gets bothered enough to add them to the store.
They need a better system for drop/buy items. Right now it's all manual. For awhile items dropped as soon as they weren't "new" on the store and crate items were added within a month or two. Now we're sitting on a pile of previous crate items not in the store, and dozens of items that don't drop despite not being labeled new. They need a more automated system for this, because they don't seem to remember to implement it as new items become not new anymore.
The contributor could make a ton of money from the Lina hat in the store. Trouble is that won't be possible to half a year because of Valve :/
I just made a thread on the dev forums with my concern
But that seems super low, but I made 8 times as much from the key share than I do from regular owls being sold.
I don't really know how Dota does it, but I imagine it's fairly similar.
Problem right now, I see, with crate items is it's kind of a curse for contributors. While in TF2 it's a nice fat paycheck, and then steady income after that, in Dota 2 it's one fat key check and then nothing for half the year until Valve gets bothered enough to add them to the store.
They need a better system for drop/buy items. Right now it's all manual. For awhile items dropped as soon as they weren't "new" on the store and crate items were added within a month or two. Now we're sitting on a pile of previous crate items not in the store, and dozens of items that don't drop despite not being labeled new. They need a more automated system for this, because they don't seem to remember to implement it as new items become not new anymore.
The contributor could make a ton of money from the Lina hat in the store. Trouble is that won't be possible to half a year because of Valve :/
I just made a thread on the dev forums with my concern
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