*** Official Dota 2 Thread ***

-Yes it is hard.

-Match making doesn't work like that, its MMR and the balance is usually pretty good (can be skewed if a 6k mmr player queues with 4kmmr as generally a 6k will have such a huge impact.)

-Hud is fine for me, you played RTS games before? (Thank god the minimap is on the left like it should be.)

-Could be a 21:9 issue, post on www.dev.dota2.com and ask.

-Not sure what you mean? What items are best to build? Read the heroes before you join the game, pick one and select a guide it will tell you a semi decent item build and read your skills.

-I'm not sure if its like that in LoL but in dota you actually have to support and you can go low cost/high efficiency items on supports especially if low gold income. (Wand is good as it'll allow you to stay in fights longer giving a nice boost to mana and health when used).

-Preference thing, sucks if you're **** at clicking unfortunately, smartcasting is arse to me, hate it.

-Yes you should always get boots eventually (several different types, can be situational.) They aren't slow, there are just turning animations which play a big part in balancing the game, get used to it, no other alternative, when I play LoL or others it makes everything feel floaty and **** now to be honest.

-Yes, just a learning experience, certain abilities make them immune (i.e. Juggernaut spin, one of Pugna's skills makes him immune to autoattack for a short time). Also BKB will make you immune to most spells and Ghost Scepter to autoattack for a certain period of time, its just a learning thing.


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Okay, I can understand why you think it looks like total ****.

Use the fix suggested their or play 16:9 with black bars or something?
 
Shamikebab said:
In fact one of my friends had a good idea, they should introduce a new matchmaking where instead of queuing for a mode, you queue as a position (mid, support, off lane, carry etc) then it puts a team together from that. Sure you'd still get the occasional **** like a CM who goes shadow blade first but I'm sure it's a possible improvement.
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Leads to disastrously boring same games such as lol, even a four carry game of dota can be hilarious and some how work.
 
You can be the best player on the team, make incredible plays and people will still find a way to abuse you, just ignore it or have fun with it and make them more angry :D
 
People put on acts, you don't get viewers on twitch by just being the best player, SC2 has shown that. Need to have a personality(troll/be a dick or a combo of both) even if it is forced
 
Vtec9k said:
VG's strat was trashed even way before the finals. Both EG and C9 knew how to beat them they just couldn't get the 2 games under pressure. Newbee had already cracked it in the main event, I'm just not sure why VG didn't realise and picked the exact same heroes 3 times in a row!
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If C9 knew how to beat them they wouldn't be banking on a very risky roshan at the start of the game, if you trust yourself to win straight up you don't do that unless you do something more imaginative than pick obvious heroes for it and just walk in and do it
 
mrbios said:
As someone that learns far quicker through doing or watching things than i ever have by theory and reading, reading a guide is pretty much useless to me, to have the stance that if you don't read it you shouldn't play the game is pretty narrowminded.

Everyone learns best via different methods, I prefer to play or watch games, i learn things far quicker that way, if that annoys some people in the process then that's their own damn fault for being bad enough to be in my skill bracket.
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You aren't going to learn what that guide tells you in 20-30mins inside playing 10 games to be honest. I learnt the long and hard way by myself on HoN and googling stuff I didn't understand as it came up, if I had access to a guide of that quality it would have saved a lot of pain, Dota there is a lot you ain't going to learn by playing and watching games as it isn't explained or made obvious.

Also if he hasn't the patience for 20 mins to even skim read it he ain't getting decent at Dota as it takes many hours to even begin to understand it.
 
mrbios said:
Honestly i don't even give a **** about being good at the game, i enjoy it as it is, i'll learn as i go and get better over time. What's the obsession with getting as good as possible as quickly as possible? I play the game for fun for **** sake not to aim for the next TI. :/
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Cool, he's complaining he sucks bad and wants to get better to enjoy it, the fastest way to do so is learn before you play not trudging through 100 games to get an idea of it.

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I do wonder how people managed to play the game before the guide was written though. How did the person that write the guide manage to learn all that without a guide! :)
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Several ways, they played many games to learn the very basics of the game (I took this route for HoN), they had a friend who coached them through it or they played similar games that could translate many of the skills

You're complaining about sucking, people are offering you a simple and faster solution at getting better, the sarcastic 'newbee must've read this guide' is silly
 
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Dota just has a worse community and abandons are a common thing even once you get past the noob games, I see them every other game.

Just return to LoL mate, I've played it without ever getting abuse or having people leave, I also really enjoy that you have a specific role so no dumb ass tries to innovate from the way it should be played
 
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