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Asiina
Apr 26, 2011

No going back
Grimey Drawer
They need to start bringing in characters from other mobas now.

What I'm saying is that I want to play Teemo in Dota.

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drunken officeparty
Aug 23, 2006

valve very carefully made notice that his name is the non legally intruding UNDERLORD and everyone including the casters were like lol pit lord it is

Spudd
Nov 27, 2007

Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!

Asiina posted:

They need to start bringing in characters from other mobas now.

What I'm saying is that I want to play Teemo in Dota.

If your first choice isn't Abathur from heroes of the storm you're incorrect

Kainser
Apr 27, 2010

O'er the sea from the north
there sails a ship
With the people of Hel
at the helm stands Loki
After the wolf
do wild men follow
They should continue the WC3 dota tradition and just reuse models from other source games. Heavy Weapons Guy the hero

Kaglicious
Mar 31, 2011

Asiina posted:

They need to start bringing in characters from other mobas now.

What I'm saying is that I want to play Teemo in Dota.

If not for Pendragon that might have been a thing :v:

MOVIE MAJICK
Jan 4, 2012

by Pragmatica

Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH
Anybody have a link to Purge doing the actual weather imissed it :(

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009
I can't wait for Vengabus the Underlord and his party abilities.

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Bad Moon posted:

Anybody have a link to Purge doing the actual weather imissed it :(

https://clips.twitch.tv/dota2ti/CharmingKoupreyBrokeBack

Spudd
Nov 27, 2007

Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!


:laffo:

Asiina
Apr 26, 2011

No going back
Grimey Drawer

Kaglicious posted:

If not for Pendragon that might have been a thing :v:

Most League champs would need to be buffed all to hell to add into dota, but you could just drop Teemo right in as is.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH

rngd in the womb posted:

Just realized that PL has finally been released after all of this time. Is he the last hero or is there more?

We're all caught up to Warcraft 3 and, hopefully, that means Dota 2 can grow beyond being Warcraft 3 HD and try some new things not possible in WC3 going forward.

rngd in the womb
Oct 13, 2009

Yam Slacker

emdash posted:

that's the last one for now

nice, full parity! if i ever get to play dota2 a bunch of times again, the ABC challenge won't sound that dumb in my head anymore :toot:

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.

Spudd posted:

If your first choice isn't cho'gall from heroes of the storm you're incorrect

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Craptacular! posted:

We're all caught up to Warcraft 3 and, hopefully, that means Dota 2 can grow beyond being Warcraft 3 HD and try some new things not possible in WC3 going forward.

Dota 2 has already gone past WC3 Dota other than Pit Lord.

WC3 Dota is only on 6.83b

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH

Asiina posted:

What I'm saying is that I want to play Teemo in Dota.

Fizz/Slark/Slardar/Tidehunter/Tahm Kench

(You'll notice there's no Naga because I deleted her, naturally.)

Ragingsheep posted:

WC3 Dota is only on 6.83b

Huh. I remember asking why Dota 2 has to follow WC3 so religiously (tower AI subroutines, stacking nonsense, etc) because obviously Blizzard aren't the best game coders in the world and WC3 was barely able to handle what Dota asks it to do anyway. Someone here said that once parity is achieved they'd go out in new directions.

Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Aug 12, 2016

drunken officeparty
Aug 23, 2006

and to think that beta only lasted 6 years where has the time gone

Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH

Thanks friend!

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Craptacular! posted:

Fizz/Slark/Slardar/Tidehunter/Tahm Kench

(You'll notice there's no Naga because I deleted her, naturally.)


Huh. I remember asking why Dota 2 has to follow WC3 so religiously (tower AI subroutines, stacking nonsense, etc) because obviously Blizzard aren't the best game coders in the world and WC3 was barely able to handle what Dota asks it to do anyone. Someone here said that once parity is achieved they'd go out in new directions.

Small things can wreck balance. They've been slowing changed in dota2 over the years and will continue to. But it's not just a matter of "this is a weird mechanic, lets make it make sense!" Doing that would be a disaster. It has to be done in tiny steps. And it has been. Even "small" things like orb mechanics haven't been changed in one fell swoop, it's been a very gradual shift towards being intuitive

Tarantula
Nov 4, 2009

No go ahead stand in the fire, the healer will love the shit out of you.

Man that's just great.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
6 years and the HUD is still a giant blocky eyesore.

Love Stole the Day
Nov 4, 2012
Please give me free quality professional advice so I can be a baby about it and insult you

Asiina posted:

They need to start bringing in characters from other mobas now.

What I'm saying is that I want to play Teemo in Dota.

They can call it DotA All-Stars

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm p stoked that DC are doing so well.

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.
Remaining wishes to see fulfilled:

Have EG v DC in grand finals
Have EG win
Have SumaiL literally murder Slacks as part of the Aegis ceremony

Dominicius
Dec 3, 2011
I just want to see Puppet Master and Nomad again. :(

Also Witch Hunter is infinitely cooler than Lion.

more like dICK
Feb 15, 2010

This is inevitable.
If you don't like slacks or wooing or pit Lord then you need to lighten up and have some fun imo. TI is fun even if you miss a couple words from the commentators

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Zurreco posted:

Remaining wishes to see fulfilled:

Have EG v DC in grand finals
Have EG win
Have SumaiL literally murder Slacks as part of the Aegis ceremony

Eat his heart on stage and gain his power over reddit.
Then you can make the balance good again.

funky not a junkie
Aug 5, 2011
so who decided this slacks guy should spend so much time with a microphone

Knowlue
Nov 11, 2012

I could eat a sea cucumber

more like dICK posted:

If you don't like slacks or wooing or pit Lord then you need to lighten up and have some fun imo. TI is fun even if you miss a couple words from the commentators

I will tolerate slacks in doses. There was just way too much of him

Up Circle
Apr 3, 2008

Craptacular! posted:

We're all caught up to Warcraft 3 and, hopefully, that means Dota 2 can grow beyond being Warcraft 3 HD and try some new things not possible in WC3 going forward.

ur literally 800 mmr dont even talk about the actual game

Drunk Canuck
Jan 9, 2010

Robots ruin all the fun of a good adventure.

All of the casters that got pissed off at wooing are actually babies that have never been to a real sporting event in their life.

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Drunk Canuck posted:

All of the casters that got pissed off at wooing are actually babies that have never been to a real sporting event in their life.

I went to a baseball game once, it was terrible. The beer was too expensive to get smashed enough to have any fun anyways.

Spudd
Nov 27, 2007

Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!

The only time I ever watched soccer was when it was infested with bees vuvuzelas.

What I'm saying is Dota can be improved with the addition of vuvuzelas.

Drunk Canuck
Jan 9, 2010

Robots ruin all the fun of a good adventure.

For that we need a South African dota team to get good.


So... TI13?

Spudd
Nov 27, 2007

Protect children from "Safe Schools" social engineering. Shame!

Also vuvuzela is fun as gently caress to say out loud.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
Group Stages:
EHOME goes 12-2
Fnatic goes 2-12

Main stage:
Fnatic will at the very least go home with the same standing as EHOME and has a shot at doing even better.

Dota is beautiful.

Tweak
Jul 28, 2003

or dont whatever








more like dICK posted:

If you don't like slacks or wooing or pit Lord then you need to lighten up and have some fun imo. TI is fun even if you miss a couple words from the commentators

it is very fun when terrible nails on chalk board things aren't happening, which thankfully isn't that often as far as my viewing has gone

Tweak fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Aug 12, 2016

Equilibrium
Mar 19, 2003

by exmarx
People in here asking for lol champs and hots heroes before Deadwood or Puppetmaster? shameful

Luna Was Here
Mar 21, 2013

Lipstick Apathy

Knowlue posted:

Underlord 4Head

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Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH

Up Circle posted:

ur literally 800 mmr dont even talk about the actual game

I shouldn't reply to you, but I'll let you know it's kind of related. I'm so bad that I'm paired with people who sit and take blasts to the face from an enemy tower repeatedly. To try and win, I have to ask these people if they're aware that they can manually attack one of their own creeps to lose the towers focus. And I have to do this in a way that I don't look like a know it all or make them feel stupid.

The real source of the problem is that lots of people don't know that you can make a tower stop killing you by directly attacking a friendly creep. The tower logic is what it is because it's set up to mimic Warcraft 3, and the intimate details of how they work are collected only on third party wikis. You will just take damage or die to towers needlessly unless somebody else (in my case, it was a video with either Purge or Tobi made for newbies) tells you that you can do that.

It's not logical that attacking your own forces makes towers change targets, and it's not explained, it's just an anachronism from some Blizzard coding 14 years ago. If they broke from Warcraft 3 tradition and just made towers target creeps automatically, newbies wouldn't take damage needlessly because of their lack of knowledge, and experts would see no difference since they were never taking this damage anyway.

Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Aug 12, 2016

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