Hylian7 said:
*img*
Reeeeeedonkulous, but it's probably because only a few thousand are in beta right now.
It reminds me of the early days of HoN matchmaking. As more and more players get invited, I'd assume matchmaking won't take as long.
I'm loving the beta right now though. In the few days I've had it, I've put about 20 hours into it. My friends who are avid HoN players don't like the "delay" that's in the game right now. I'm thinking it might just be because the animations in general take longer, but I would say there is also just a small, but noticeable delay for when you give an action and when your character does the action. I've mostly gotten used to it at this point. However, my friends still aren't convinced on Dota2 yet, and are still playing HoN (also because not all of our group has keys). I would imagine that in a few months time once the game becomes more complete and polished that they will change their minds.
For my hero choices, I've been loving Riki, Lina, Lion, Lich, Earthshaker, Tidehunter and Venomancer. I didn't realize Shadow Shaman was Polly from HoN until last night, so I can't wait to give him a try now too!
I've also spent a lot of time playing with the bots. They definitely need to get improved though. Right now they are way too aggressive around towers to the point that they will die within the first minute or two because they would try to gank as soon as we got close to the tower. If a new player to Dota would play against them, I fear they may get the wrong idea about how aggressive to be. With each update though, if there's any changes to the bots, I generally like to check them out to see how they've improved.
Oh, and if you do play with bots, I've found that for whatever reason, the bots on the dire team tend to do better so I generally join them.
*Edit* About concede, I'm actually a fan of it NOT being in dota right now... I've had multiple games where we were turtled in our base, managed to get enough creep and hero kills in base that we got good enough counter items to actually push and win. If the game had a concede option everyone would have tried to concede when they get rax (including me). It's pretty awesome when you manage to turn things around though and win.