[Haxxer]

you know you had a bad team when even the people spectating your match become depressed

[Electric Eye]

i finally got this game, time to download and feed

[DontDoShit]

i hope they change the shop

Looks messy

[Rockersm]

I understand why I stopped playing this game for months, the teammates don't support you and then they blame you for getting ganked. And overall the teammates are shit.

EDIT: Just ran into a really nice guy, I commended him.

[Maruhai]

Rockersm posted:

I understand why I stopped playing this game for months, the teammates don't support you and then they blame you for getting ganked. And overall the teammates are shit.

You're just unlucky.
Play with friends.

[Debauchery]

Rockersm posted:

I understand why I stopped playing this game for months, the teammates don't support you and then they blame you for getting ganked. And overall the teammates are shit.

Sounds like every moba ever.

[BackSapper]

jmazouri posted:

One solution: TF2 style, free-to-play people can only join custom games and matchmake with other free-to-play people, but once they buy something in the shop their account is upgraded to "premium" (which, I believe, is how they're doing it based on some stuff found in-game).

That I think would work, sort of like Heroes of Newerth did their Free to Play model. You can que with other "verified"s or be in the f2p pool.

[Tokagero]

First game as Invoker and I didn't suck :D

He is complicated and has a thing that makes you want to stick to spells that are easy to use (Snap, Tornado, EMP, Alacrity), but I can see why people go "safe" on him (Tornado/EMP) and why pros enjoy him so much now.

Walking Swiss Army Knife.

Edited:

There is also little problem I've noticed that was carried over from WC3.

Buff bar gets filled easily if proper team/items/gamestage occurs. I'd love to see something done about that, guess that is stuff to post in UI at devdota ?

[l l]

All of his spells are easy to use...

[Dr.Scrake]

l l posted:

All of his spells are easy to use...

Why did this get rated dumb

it's true, the only hard thing about invoker is remembering his combinations, but the spells themselves are easy as fuck

[mixshifter]

Rockersm posted:

I understand why I stopped playing this game for months, the teammates don't support you and then they blame you for getting ganked. And overall the teammates are shit.

EDIT: Just ran into a really nice guy, I commended him.

Do you people not play with friends or something? That's really the only thing that got me into this game was the fact my friends wanted me to play it with them and I had a swell time.

[Tokagero]

l l posted:

All of his spells are easy to use...

Easy, as in "very easy".

Icewall might be tricky to place in the thick of combat, meteor makes you think about proper path for it, elementals "should" be ordered to attack around (at least quick control group and attack together), Sunstrike is easy, forgot to mention that too.

Experienced Invokers won't find any of his spells hard or tricky, because they are used to it. But people who get to play him 2/3 times outside of -wtf mode might, thus they stick to simplest of all.

[l l]

Dr.Scrake posted:

Why did this get rated dumb

it's true, the only hard thing about invoker is remembering his combinations, but the spells themselves are easy as fuck

because badunk has a hard on for me, he rates all my posts dumb, I think it's because I outlaned him and denied all his creeps in a fp game one time and he raged the fuck out on mic and ragequit

[The Mighty Boat]

bane fuck yessss

Edited:

l l posted:

because badunk has a hard on for me, he rates all my posts dumb, I think it's because I outlaned him and denied all his creeps in a fp game one time and he raged the fuck out on mic and ragequit

rofl

[That Ninja]

Anyone else not have Dota 2 Test in their games list yet?

[Dogchow33]

That Ninja posted:

Anyone else not have Dota 2 Test in their games list yet?

I don't, it will come soon I guess.

[Belivo]

I just saw Leshrac's true potential, he becomes a rapetrain who overruns entire teams alone as soon as he gets Bloodstone + Aghanim's.
(The Defence with Tobi Wan thingy)

Edited:

What, patch coming now?

[l l]

- Charge of Darkness and Wrath of Nature no longer alert the target to attack the caster if the target is far away.

Oh no.

- Fixed issues with loadouts of Bane, Kunkka, and Sniper.

Loadouts huh...... just like TF2..

[Maruhai]

l l posted:

Loadouts huh...... just like TF2..

I think they speak of suggested items.

[bigbundie]

- Added Co-op matchmaking games versus bots.

[BackflipHatchetAttack]

Finally got this game

Started a match

Oh god what is this I don't even

[CowThing]

Maruhai posted:

I think they speak of suggested items.

That was in the bot section though, so I assume it means they made it so those bots will properly buy the items they need without running out of inventory space.

[Haxxer]

anti-mage is pretty fun when you get battlefury, your farm just takes off then

the first 30 minutes were just complete shit, qop stealing my farm and at the same time trying to survive against a dazzle/jugg combo

[Elizer]

bigbundie posted:

I still want offline practice :(

[lionheart1066]

I'm just trying to wait without going into a frenzy... I wanna play Bane.

[Lance99]

Just restart Steam, worked for me, now it's reconfiguring the content, whatever that means.

[l l]

This is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen, anyone know of anything similar but with Dota?

[Hobbax]

bigbundie posted:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=570

[RagerTrader]

I just got in the beta and played my first game.

How 2 not feedz?

[Dogchow33]

Lance99 posted:

Just restart Steam, worked for me, now it's reconfiguring the content, whatever that means.

Worked for me too, downloading now.

[butters757]

RagerTrader posted:

I just got in the beta and played my first game.

How 2 not feedz?

Play in a private match with bots to learn how the game works before going on to actual public games.
Stock up on Tango in your start-game build. I usually get 2 sets.

[BackSapper]

Wanted to post story in here as it's Dota 2 related, but it's more about Hardware and Software

[RagerTrader]

butters757 posted:

Play in a private match with bots to learn how the game works before going on to actual public games.
Stock up on Tango in your start-game build. I usually get 2 sets.

I know how the game works, lane-wise. I just haven't played a real dota game in like 6 years besides MNC/SMNC. (and like 2 matches of RoI to get the steam gift.)

Edited:

Also, how do you unlock heros? I want to play sniper, he used to be my favorite.

[bigbundie]

RagerTrader posted:

I know how the game works, lane-wise. I just haven't played a real dota game in like 6 years besides MNC/SMNC. (and like 2 matches of RoI to get the steam gift.)

Edited:

Also, how do you unlock heros? I want to play sniper, he used to be my favorite.

all are unlocked from the start

[BackSapper]

RagerTrader posted:

I know how the game works, lane-wise. I just haven't played a real dota game in like 6 years besides MNC/SMNC. (and like 2 matches of RoI to get the steam gift.)

Edited:

Also, how do you unlock heros? I want to play sniper, he used to be my favorite.

Go under store, he costs 600 gold.

And this isn't the SMNC thread.

Wait you said pros? You're refering to SMNC right?

Edited:

You edited the post, well then the answer is above this one.

[The Mighty Boat]

banes chin clips through his torso so badly wtf

[Sharc]

Any pictures of Bane?

[Maruhai]

Sharc posted:

Any pictures of Bane?

[RagerTrader]

bigbundie posted:

all are unlocked from the start

Then why are only a small number of them (around 6) available when I join a match?

[Sharc]

Maruhai posted:

Ingame that is...