Dota 2

[Tensei]

This hero is pretty crazy! actually the other team was just kinda bad

Edited November 19, 2011 by Tensei

[eternal Zero]

First Tensei with the trees. Then some SK with the luckiest timing ever. And a Lina that saved ult for kills. I think the only person that didn't KS me that game was Hemo.

That being said, though, I did end the game at 15/1/18 as Bloodseeker so I can hardly complain.

[Hemophiliac]

I made sure not to ks, unless it was boat or something...

[The Derrit]

sounds like that game went pretty well

[Tensei]

I've said it before in this thread but damn those trees are hard to use properly. You should see that as an incentive to build Force Staff on Bloodseeker though!

E: Yeah we've had some stomps in our favor today, seems like the influx of new testers has a lot of newer players as well.

[Rambo]

I get lost in HoN ALL the time

You'll spin any tale to afk freefarm as wildsoul all game. "sorry guys i couldn't find my bear"

[Tensei]

Oh btw, to enable right-click deny, you have to create a text file called autoexec.cfg and add the line "dota_force_right_click_attack 1" (without the quotes) to it. Then put it in your Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\cfg folder.

Can't explain why, but I get lost in HoN ALL the time, and it's been much less of a problem for me in Dota 2.

The giant GPS arrow that points to where your hero is when they're offscreen certainly helps.

Edited November 20, 2011 by Tensei

[Nase]

well, this is undeniably a good change.

still, another wasted bit of memory muscle i'll probably keep pressing a+rightclick for a while just out of automatism.

[Tensei]

I've been watching

and find them pretty amusing. He's quite bad at the game (especially in the earlier videos), but he just has such a cheerful attitude about everything that it doesn't really matter.

[Tensei]

The Dreamhack Winter Dota 2 event is being streamed here. Been a pretty good watch so far, Luminous (the caster) has some great competitive insight.

E: Also,

made me laugh. I gotta say though, the community has been relatively tame so far, much better than what I expected. Edited November 24, 2011 by Tensei

[Dhsu]

Yeah, amazing what an auto-mute will do.

[Tensei]

If this is true, that would be fucking AMAZING.

-wtf mode is a gamemode without cooldowns or mana costs on any of the skills. If that sounds completely ridiculous, that's because it is.

[The Derrit]

so i played my first game as venomancer and won a 4v5. our team had a mid slardar who went like 15/3 which was hilarious but venomancer's pretty fun even though he's squishy he stays pretty safe with his wards and slows all over

[Tensei]

Veno is one of the strongest laners in the game and he counters solo mid melee heroes super hard if you max poison sting first. Also a great pusher and ganker.

If anyone has about an hour of time to kill, do yourself a favor and watch this game (Second game of the dreamhack finals), it's very back and forth and averages 2 kills per minute for a good amount of time (4 kills before the creeps even spawn).

In other news, I finally manned up and played Tinker in a real game (always worried about ending up in a less than optimal lane with heroes like that), but ended up with like a 10 min Boots of Travel and a 13/4/13 score at the end.

Edited November 28, 2011 by Tensei

[The Derrit]

i want that character you mentioned before with the hard disables

[Tensei]

Bane Elemental? He's not that good or interesting IMO.

Someone found out that there's actually a functional range indicator in the game already that can be activated by console commands or an autoexec.cfg file, it's pretty neat:

The red line indicates the distance your hero has to walk before he's in range to cast a spell, and the green line indicates the range of the spell itself.

Can be activated by making an autoexec.cfg text file in notepad, adding the line dota_disable_range_finder "0", and putting it in the Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\cfg folder.

Edit: You can also add these lines:

bind "leftarrow" "say_team miss top"

bind "rightarrow" "say_team miss bottom"

bind "downarrow" "say_team miss mid"

bind "uparrow" "say_team re"

Function should be obvious. This is why I love the Source engine.

Edited November 29, 2011 by Tensei

[Dhsu]

Awesome.

Bane Elemental? He's not that good or interesting IMO.

I feel like he has a lot of potential, but I always mess it up because a) I suck at mid, I suck at Necro micro, and c) I suck at keeping track of who and where everyone (including me) is during team fights.

So...yeah, I basically suck at the game in general.

[Hemophiliac]

N'aix the lifestealer is now in the game...originally a hero with 3 passives and a bkb effect activated ult.

Now he's way different.

[Tensei]

Yup, he looks appropriately freaky.

His ult is hilarious because you can use it to ride around in an allied creep and then jump out and eat the poor enemy support who was just trying to farm up some gold for wards.

-wtf mode is also in.

E: I didn't even think of combining Naix' ult with certain heroes like Riki, Clockwerk or Nature's Prophet for maximum dickery.

Edited December 2, 2011 by Tensei

[Dhsu]

So does everyone just pick Lina and Lion in WTF mode?

Edit: Can you possess gadgets or something?

[Tensei]

Lion and Lina are by far not the most imbalanced heroes in wtf mode, that honor probably goes to Clockwerk/Zeus.

[Dhsu]

Lion and Lina are by far not the most imbalanced heroes in wtf mode, that honor probably goes to Clockwerk/Zeus.

Haha, I forgot about the globals. Oh man Mercurial would be so annoying.

[The Derrit]

so they have full character win/loss now which is cool i always like stuff like that

edit: i also remember lifestealer pretty well he's not that complicated but it's always fun to surprise initiate with ult and just be like HAPPY BIRTHDAY outta some creep

Edited December 3, 2011 by The Derrit

[Ajax]

I remember when naix used to be incredibly imbalanced. At one point he was a str hero who had an unbelievable agi gain per levelup, ridiculous lifesteal and on-attack debuff that made escape impossible. As soon as you bought him some strength items he could wreck the enemy team single-handedly.

Well I finally got my invite and I am looking forward to some serious death match shenanigans.

EDIT: Oh wait, they haven't implemented "Deathmode" yet. Ho hum.

Edited December 3, 2011 by Ajax

[Tensei]

Blink+ Orchid Naix best Naix. Also known as the "Screw Antimage" build.

They fixed headless Kunkka unfortunately.

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I hope they turn it into an alt skin for him.

Edited December 3, 2011 by Tensei