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I received an invite to the test and have two DoTA clients in my steam games list.

Quick Q: Which is the actual game client please ? cheers



**edit** Dota 2 test ** do'h!
 
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Got an invite from pc gamer and had a little play last night.

Think I would enjoy it if I had any idea what to do. Would be helpful if there was some sort of guide to read...
 
Sleeve88 said:
Got an invite from pc gamer and had a little play last night.

Think I would enjoy it if I had any idea what to do. Would be helpful if there was some sort of guide to read...
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The learning curve is steep, I recommend you find a character you quite like soon as possible and then just keep playing it over and over until competent.

My first character was Luna , enjoyed using her. I now use Nightstalker mainly.
 
Ive been a HoN player for a few years now but have moved to the DOTA 2 scene for a few months now and all i can say for any new player is just pick random and play some bots to learn the heroes. Theres no point imo in playing public games until you have a good general feel for the game. Youtube is aslo a GREAT resource where you can learn the basics of the game and the important stuff about the game as a whole. When you find a few chars you feel confident with i would suggest than going back to youtube and looking for other player guidance to the char so you can improve your skills on it. Dont expect to master DOTA in a few days, it will take time.
 
Ok shall have a scout around for info.

Im not sure what the actual aim of the game is, to protect your tower things?
 
Play with bots (trust me) until you understand using the shop quickly, the map, lane fighting and a couple of heroes. If you want a great hero to learn early I'd always tell people to try Lich because of his great lane control (which will set your team up for a great mid game) and his ultimate is cracking for teamfights - unless you have creeps around at least.

Aim of the game is to get their centre base item dead, it's protected by two big towers (aka tier 4 towers).

Anything with a stun will be good if you're just starting out as everyones overall gold is likely to be lower than a mid-to-high skill games so CC/abilities will be more pronounced than items that can mitigate or influence the game. Vengeful spirit (aka veng) is a good example of this type of hero (an agility support although you can carry with her if you kill enough), Sven another (melee with a fantastic aoe ranged stun)

Whatever you do, do not play the following heroes when you're new. You will not enjoy the game -
invoker (Skill cap is extremely high, you'll just feed trying to change his 9 spells)
Meepo (Far too easy to die with, lowest win-rate of any hero)
Chen (Extremely team orientated, high micro required)
Wisp (you rely on your team mates for everything, they won't understand what you do)
Possibly Naga Siren (your ult is Extremely powerful but unless your team understands you, you might just save the enemy instead of killing them).

Heroes that absolutely ravage in starter skill games if you're looking to prey on the weak:
Riki (you may end up being called a "Riki-picker") - stealth from 6, no one buys dust early on.
Clinkz (Good damage, easy last hitting with passive, escape, can 1v1 anything after an orchid)
Brood/Dark seer (dominates lanes beyond belief if you dont counter)
Lone druid (if you can micro your bear)
 
I always went with Bloodseeker or what ever his name is. I havent played this game for agggeeessss lol

Might have to update and have a crack at it tonight after work not sure yet! I will be so bad at it.
 
I got the beta yesterday with PC magazine.

My steam is saying I also can gift two. Is the gift for the actual beta or is it a gift for just the spectator mode? Anyone know?

Great game by the way. I just played a few game with bots. I think I'm going to play the Dragon Knight for a bit :)
 
Sleeve88 said:
Ok shall have a scout around for info.

Im not sure what the actual aim of the game is, to protect your tower things?
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Depends on your character really. I'm by no means an expert but I play Dazzle, who's basically a healer, so I support a 'Carry' class in one of the lanes normally.

At the start you pretty much just farm the lanes. So hang around the areas where the opposing bands of 'creeps' come together. Don't auto attack them, but keep moving and try to nab the last hit on ones that are close to death. Similarly, if you press 'A', you can do the same to your own team's creeps. This denies the kill to the opposition and therefore the resources.

Then you need to use your money to buy things from the store. It might be worth looking for guides on what is recommended to buy for your character. Similarly you can see what skills are recommended for when you level up.

After a while people will start to push more onto the oppositions towers, and certain classes will roam to gank or jungle (killing the neutral mobs in the forest).

It is a very steep learning curve for someone unfamiliar with this type of game, but there are plenty of YouTube tutorials for noobs.
 
If you can get past the flaming and the abuse of being a noob its a great game. But you will get this from Lol, HoN

I tend to start on LoL its a much easier game and less of a learning curve.
 
Wouldn't mind some steam names of people from OCUK I can play with.

Recently picked this up and I love it, currently level 3 I think and I know what I am doing (with viper anyway)

I've been trying to get to grips with broodmother over the last few days.

Anyway just wanted some friendly OCUK peeps to play with, as my friends play HON or LOL, this is the first MOBA style game I have played, I tried HON after this and it just felt dated in comparison.
 
I don't know if the newer players from here want to maybe set some nights up to learn the game, I'd happily help a group of people as helping just one usually throws you in to high an MMR with me and we'll get stomped.

If you are new and playing and notice your team doesn't have a courier, buy it, it'll help out everyone even if they are terrible russians.
 
Purdy said:
I don't know if the newer players from here want to maybe set some nights up to learn the game, I'd happily help a group of people as helping just one usually throws you in to high an MMR with me and we'll get stomped.

If you are new and playing and notice your team doesn't have a courier, buy it, it'll help out everyone even if they are terrible russians.
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I would definitely be up for this.

Really want to play the game. Just seems so complex, with no real guide as to what to actually do.
 
People would need to be willing to read a bit before hand though, to point out what runes do and stuff, how the timers work and all that is a lot of information to pass when playing a game.

Ideally people have read about stuff even if they don't understand it and it is a matter of explaining roles, what to buy when, where you need to go and what to do.

But yes it is very hard to write a guide on what to do/how to play without actually getting the feel for it, but there are good guides on the basics explaining items/stats/runes/roshan/jungle/easier heroes to start with.

If a decent number are interested I'll start a thread with relevant information and hopefully attract new people as this thread doesn't get much love and I think it gets ignored :p
 
Purge's one is really good, you just need to be willing to put time into learning the game to get the most from it, and learning a bit of russian to troll them back
 
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