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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    We had some good games last night! You weren't always bad and wrong!

    Except for the person who told Risi to jungle as Doom. They are a bad person.

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  • Crazed LlamaCrazed Llama Registered User regular
    Heleor wrote: »
    Biosys wrote: »
    first game ever as pudge

    miss 90% of hooks

    spend entire game complaining about lag

    living the dream 8-)

    And yet we won anyways! People only remember either the incredibly awesome hooks or the incredibly lame misses. I don't think you had any of the latter, so it's all good. :)

    If you need some tips on being a terrible Pudge I'm available.

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  • mizakmizak Registered User regular
    I've been kind of ignoring this game because I thought i'd just get yelled at every time I played so I'm not in the loop as much as I could be, how do you guys get beta keys?

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    mizak wrote: »
    I've been kind of ignoring this game because I thought i'd just get yelled at every time I played so I'm not in the loop as much as I could be, how do you guys get beta keys?

    http://www.dota2.com/survey/experience/
    Hope you're lucky.

  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    mizak wrote: »
    I've been kind of ignoring this game because I thought i'd just get yelled at every time I played so I'm not in the loop as much as I could be, how do you guys get beta keys?

    The getting yelled at problem isn't half as bad in DOTA2 as it is in league of legends. Clearly that mostly has to do with it being a limited beta with a much smaller sample of assholes. But you will be fine, and if people start getting uppity, muting them is easy to do.

  • mizakmizak Registered User regular
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    mizak wrote: »
    I've been kind of ignoring this game because I thought i'd just get yelled at every time I played so I'm not in the loop as much as I could be, how do you guys get beta keys?

    The getting yelled at problem isn't half as bad in DOTA2 as it is in league of legends. Clearly that mostly has to do with it being a limited beta with a much smaller sample of assholes. But you will be fine, and if people start getting uppity, muting them is easy to do.

    Yeah I'm hoping so, I did the survey that Peewi posted. I wanna try it since I played a gajillion games of dota back in the day but if there still 99% meaniepants I'll have to find people to play with.

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  • SkabSkab Registered User regular
    Can always join us in our inhouses and match making groups as well.

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  • mizakmizak Registered User regular
    Skab wrote: »
    Can always join us in our inhouses and match making groups as well.

    That'd be sweet, hopefully I get a key from that survey.

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  • CreamstoutCreamstout What you think I program for, to push a fuckin' quad-core? Registered User regular
    Biosys wrote: »
    first game ever as pudge

    miss 90% of hooks

    spend entire game complaining about lag

    living the dream 8-)

    I always get a chuckle when someone is messing up and the "lag" excuse comes pouring out.

  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    Peewi is a professional at sniping kills off people with Witch Doctor :<

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  • Dac VinDac Vin S-s-screw you! I only listen to DOUBLE MUSIC! Registered User regular
    The Dota 2 pub experience

  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    I love devouring the big wolf on doom

    I love it

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    Beasteh wrote: »
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  • Dac VinDac Vin S-s-screw you! I only listen to DOUBLE MUSIC! Registered User regular
  • Dac VinDac Vin S-s-screw you! I only listen to DOUBLE MUSIC! Registered User regular
    Doubleposting: I have finally won my very first non-bot DOTA 2 game!

    As Invoker. Tons of losses with me trying to support, and I finally win with one of the least noob friendly heroes of all. I think I like him too, and I'll be sad when empnado doesn't work anymore.

  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    Dac Vin wrote:
    Doubleposting: I have finally won my very first non-bot DOTA 2 game!

    As Invoker. Tons of losses with me trying to support, and I finally win with one of the least noob friendly heroes of all. I think I like him too, and I'll be sad when empnado doesn't work anymore.

    you are the cancer killing dota

  • VicVic Registered User regular
    Dac Vin wrote: »

    This is incredible.

  • Dac VinDac Vin S-s-screw you! I only listen to DOUBLE MUSIC! Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Senshi wrote: »
    Dac Vin wrote:
    Doubleposting: I have finally won my very first non-bot DOTA 2 game!

    As Invoker. Tons of losses with me trying to support, and I finally win with one of the least noob friendly heroes of all. I think I like him too, and I'll be sad when empnado doesn't work anymore.

    you are the cancer killing dota

    It's survival of the fittest. You empnado like the best, or you exort with the rest.

    Dac Vin on
  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    so this game needs a concede option. you cant have an anti-AFK function and no concede function. I shouldnt have to march into the jaws of death over and over again untilt the other team is satisfied and decides to push. Its fuckin stupid to have to play out an utter stomping. If my whole team agrees its over, why cant we concede and leave? I forgot after years of HoN how much I HATED having to play out these losses.

    also: the scoreboard is enormous and unwieldy and on the wrong side of the screen besides. WTB tiny HoN scoreboard. There's a lot I like about the HoN interface actually.

  • ProspicienceProspicience The Raven King DenvemoloradoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Still crashing on 3 out of 4 computers. So weird. The only one that seems to run it is my roomate's Alienware (laptop), and his desktop is WAY more powerful than that thing. All drivers updated, yadda yadda haven't heard back from valve yet.

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  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    so after my 6-0-11 win as witchdoc its 3 losses in a row.... I blame myself for not getting level 2 veno ult till 14. yeah. that'll do it... oh yeah and feeding riki solo as mirana. man I'm bad. :(

  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    valiance wrote:
    so this game needs a concede option. you cant have an anti-AFK function and no concede function. I shouldnt have to march into the jaws of death over and over again untilt the other team is satisfied and decides to push. Its fuckin stupid to have to play out an utter stomping. If my whole team agrees its over, why cant we concede and leave? I forgot after years of HoN how much I HATED having to play out these losses.

    also: the scoreboard is enormous and unwieldy and on the wrong side of the screen besides. WTB tiny HoN scoreboard. There's a lot I like about the HoN interface actually.

    that sure is an opinion if I ever saw one

  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Italax wrote: »
    Peewi is a professional at sniping kills off people with Witch Doctor :<

    Is it really my fault when it's super easy to do?

  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    Peewi wrote: »
    Italax wrote: »
    Peewi is a professional at sniping kills off people with Witch Doctor :<

    Is it really my fault when it's super easy to do?

    It's my own fault really for hitting everything with Venomancer's ult.

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  • hadokenhadoken Registered User regular
    Senshi wrote: »
    valiance wrote:
    so this game needs a concede option. you cant have an anti-AFK function and no concede function. I shouldnt have to march into the jaws of death over and over again untilt the other team is satisfied and decides to push. Its fuckin stupid to have to play out an utter stomping. If my whole team agrees its over, why cant we concede and leave? I forgot after years of HoN how much I HATED having to play out these losses.

    also: the scoreboard is enormous and unwieldy and on the wrong side of the screen besides. WTB tiny HoN scoreboard. There's a lot I like about the HoN interface actually.

    that sure is an opinion if I ever saw one

    The scoreboard is annoyingly huge, but on the upside it isn't there all the time and the focus on getting a good kdr kinda goes away, at least for me.

  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    so this game needs a concede option. you cant have an anti-AFK function and no concede function. I shouldnt have to march into the jaws of death over and over again untilt the other team is satisfied and decides to push. Its fuckin stupid to have to play out an utter stomping. If my whole team agrees its over, why cant we concede and leave? I forgot after years of HoN how much I HATED having to play out these losses.

    also: the scoreboard is enormous and unwieldy and on the wrong side of the screen besides. WTB tiny HoN scoreboard. There's a lot I like about the HoN interface actually.
    Senshi wrote: »
    valiance wrote:
    so this game needs a concede option. you cant have an anti-AFK function and no concede function. I shouldnt have to march into the jaws of death over and over again untilt the other team is satisfied and decides to push. Its fuckin stupid to have to play out an utter stomping. If my whole team agrees its over, why cant we concede and leave? I forgot after years of HoN how much I HATED having to play out these losses.

    also: the scoreboard is enormous and unwieldy and on the wrong side of the screen besides. WTB tiny HoN scoreboard. There's a lot I like about the HoN interface actually.

    that sure is an opinion if I ever saw one

    yup! :D I mean... the whole post is my opinion man. Nothing snarky to say about the concede vote?

    @ hadoken, it is kinda nice to have your stats tucked away. but its useful to know when allied ults are up, or how much gold theyre holding, and other such stuff.

  • PookiepooPookiepoo Registered User regular
    There is a small diamond under each ally portrait up on top of the screen. When it is green, their ult is up. When it is red, it isn't.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    No snarky comment about concede because everyone's been over that and nobody wants to go over it again.

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  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    Page- wrote: »
    No snarky comment about concede because everyone's been over that and nobody wants to go over it again.

    it just seemed like a weird thing to snark about, given that: 1) my whole post was clearly just my opinion and 2) there was a big honking snarkworthy topic discussed in the rest of the post.

    @ Pookiepoo thanks! I use that too, but its nice to see how many seconds left till that crucial enigma ult, or how close doom is to his relic or whatever. maybe its just me but I find myself checking the scoreboard a fair bit for things other than my score. though, again, the huge size of the scoreboard sort of discourages having it open all the time or tracking one's score closely, which is actually nice. maybe put the non-score info on the portraits on top? is it there? maybe hover over menus?

    also: theres no ingame way to track ones GPM while playing right? that'd be useful

    people seem remarkably even-tempered compared to HoN. and I don't think I've run into a team of incomprehensible, terrible foreign players yet.

  • BadwrongBadwrong TokyoRegistered User regular
    valiance wrote: »
    people seem remarkably even-tempered compared to HoN. and I don't think I've run into a team of incomprehensible, terrible foreign players yet.

    Was in a game last night with some when me and Khac did a few rounds. One of them was busy playing with their mic in the spawn for about the first 5 mins. I was crystal maiden in lane with tide hunter, I harassed the enemy a ton and gave him so many chances to get a kill with my slow and freeze... eventually he went for a kill when I wasn't close by and gets killed. Then all I see in chat is "blah blah crystal maiden, blah blah"... he did this a few times... another foreign player in top lane fed just the same, blaming khac (enigma) for not doing whatever he thought he was supposed to do in order to magically keep him alive.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    How would knowing your gpm during the game be useful?

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    To know whether or not you're fulfilling the QUOTA

    duh

    Edit: why is there no option in the Report menu for "is a LoL player"? Every time I see someone leave spawn with boots and a salve I want punch my monitor

    Senshi on
  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    The items in your inventory should be a really good indicator of that.

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  • SkabSkab Registered User regular
    Senshi wrote: »
    To know whether or not you're fulfilling the QUOTA

    duh

    Edit: why is there no option in the Report menu for "is a LoL player"? Every time I see someone leave spawn with boots and a salve I want punch my monitor

    I'm a league player and I don't leave spawn with boots and a salve. Your logic is flawed.

    League is a good game. People really just need to get over that fact.

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  • CreamstoutCreamstout What you think I program for, to push a fuckin' quad-core? Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I would like to see the ULT indicators switch over to a little countdown timer when the ULTs are on cooldown. I'm for any improvements that can be made to help team synergy without affecting the overall balance of the game.

    Showing peoples GPM realtime would probably hurt team chemistry more than help, I think it should stay in the spectator realm.

    I'm going back to -AP (all pick) until they implement a swap function, -SD (single draft) isn't the same without it. Too many players get pigeonholed into heroes they can't play and it results in headaches.

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    Skab wrote: »
    Senshi wrote: »
    To know whether or not you're fulfilling the QUOTA

    duh

    Edit: why is there no option in the Report menu for "is a LoL player"? Every time I see someone leave spawn with boots and a salve I want punch my monitor

    I'm a league player and I don't leave spawn with boots and a salve. Your logic is flawed.

    League is a good game. People really just need to get over that fact.

    except it's not

  • SuMa.LustreSuMa.Lustre Registered User regular
    league's a decent game

    that's not as good as dota

  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    Boots first has been the sign of a terrible player since before lol even existed. It was what everyone did in easy mode.

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  • Crazed LlamaCrazed Llama Registered User regular
    question: would sheepsticks "stack" if i have 2 i can cast 2 hexes right?

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  • P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    no, multiple copies of the same item on the same hero share cooldowns (usually...)

    /edit: the case I was thinking of was multiple bottles, which still share the cooldown but you get all the charges

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Skab wrote: »
    League is a good game. People really just need to get over that fact.

    actually it's not

    I play it and it's fun, but that ain't a good game

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    Beasteh wrote: »
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