BF4 has been dominating my time on the road. I also have the Strife MOBA beta which I've been playing as it is a casual MOBA (very easy to play here and there). I'll load up Dota 2 tonight though. I'll probably be terrible - haven't played in a while. I'm always decent with Ursa though, or I'll be a b**** and play Drow or Sniper - easy mode on PUGs.
Everyone hates the cheap uber-range carries. Sniper with Shadow Blade is so cheap hahaha. I've just been randoming. However, everytime I get melee I blow. I'm strongest with agi, ranged carries.
I generally random as well, but I haven't played in a while so don't wanna screw the team. It is going to take a few matches to get back to the much more difficult meta game. Heck, in Strife last hitting is shared across the entire map... and no denying.
There are some games I play terrible, but there are others I play pudge. My last game was pretty epic. My team was down to our t3 towers in less than 20 minutes. All our lanes got owned. I built a euls on rhasta and ganked their heroes a few times. Started team fighting and disabled three heroes at a time, which allowed my teammates to go to town on the rest of them. After that, we started turning it around and won.
Tiny is my favorite. Followed closely by Bristle. I like Tanky guys because at times I am too agressive for my own good.
It's much harder than lol. For example if you die, you lose money; you can kill own minions to slow down gold/exp gain for enemy heroes; town portal cost money; woods do not make you invisible but blocks enemy line of sight and etc. lol was designed to be the casual friendly dota.
Just started playing ranked matches today and these games are intense! The first one was close and we won. The second game was down to the wire. Played captains mode and I was left with cm. I was in the middle of building a scepter and one of my teammates said cm's ultimate is useless and told me to sell my items to buy something else. I told him no and proceeded to build it. After 60 mins, one of our main carries decides to go yolo and pushed down mid lane on his own and dies to three of their heroes. The rest of my team told him that was suicidal and that he should've joined us in the other lane to finish off the rax ftw. Their team comes 5v4 to throne us (mid rax and towers already gone) and we fight at our throne. I used my first and second spells to help my teammates kill their carries to no avail and a few of my teammates died. Everyone on my team is like gg and I blinked in and ulted. Killed the rest of their team (three heroes) and won the game for us.
Source 2 engine beta is now available! http://www.dota2.com/reborn/part3/ See my steam name below if you want to team up.
Started playing again after a long hiatus. Added all of you. The current name I'm using on steam is Game of Throws I don't see your steam name? It's a 7.2gb ish download. Graphics and game play is the same, just a slick new UI and different game modes.
Steam: Groux I was able to play one match last night, and the new UI is freaking AMAZING. I also saw a 40ms ping time drop on the US West servers. I believe the in-game graphics will be updated once they get the platform stable. I had one crash last night when I tried to access the shared announcers, but otherwise it worked great for me on my 3.2GHz i7 box with 512GB SSD, 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a two year old Nvidia 680GTX card.
Man, the All-Hero Challenge has been kicking my ass lately. I am continually being teamed with absolute idiots. Last night I was matched with a team of 4, and one of them had 15 deaths at 25 minutes. I didn't play reborn last night, but there was a 5.5GB update for it. So I've only played one game in it thus far and it went well. Although I was pretty pissed when I won my game with Weaver, and it didn't count for the All Hero even though he had the icon at hero select. Also, for those looking to get better - I strongly recommend the following: Purge Gamers - The guy is an amazing coach and streamer. His Twitch and YouTube are gold mines of information. Dota Cinema - They have a great YouTube channel, I refer back to their Hero Spotlights Playlist daily. Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/learndota2, http://www.reddit.com/r/dota2pubs, http://www.reddit.com/r/truedota2
Idiot is a strong wrong. Perhaps he was in a terrible lane situation where it was 1 non-stun vs 2 stuns. Maybe your support didn't buy wards, so he constantly got ganked. Maybe he's the one who's initiating in the team fights, so he dies first. There's so much depth to this game, it's not as simple as scoreboard. Played a funny game last night. My team rushes to tower and takes the barracks, but no one on my team carried a teleport scroll and the opposing teams CW solo pushes and takes our barracks because no one could walk across the map quick enough to stop him. Eventually we lose because of that.
The #1 rule of mobas, is don't feed. The gold and experience swing from each death can be catastrophic, and snowballing is real. All of your points are valid, but after the first few deaths you have to adapt your gameplay to know that your team won't be there to support or initiate of followup. Your only chance in those games, is to carry your team by doing the right thing. I think this thread sums it up - http://www.reddit.com/r/learndota2/comments/390ilv/how_to_escape_mmrelo_hell/
