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does preference language affect opponents?

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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
March 23 2015 02:05 GMT
#1
i put in my dota2 queue setting I prefer chinese, does it mean I'll get chinese opponents more often? Or is it only to match teammates?
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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44236 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-23 04:15:49
March 23 2015 04:14 GMT
#2

probably not .. you want chinese opponent go play perfect world server.

also
http://www.liquiddota.com/forum/dota-2-strategy/454971-simple-questions-simple-answers
this is a quote
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
March 23 2015 05:06 GMT
#3
right i play on perfect world server when i'm in China. this pretains only to when i play USE USW
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ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22211 Posts
March 23 2015 15:36 GMT
#4
i think the matchmaker TRIES to match similar language preferences together, but it doesnt prioritise it
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NubbleST
Profile Joined July 2011
United States86 Posts
March 24 2015 00:06 GMT
#5
When Valve first implemented language preferences, there was a blog that said it was primarily for teammates, and only moderately affects opponents.
xXxUnseenxXx
Profile Joined March 2013
United States230 Posts
March 26 2015 02:31 GMT
#6
On March 24 2015 09:06 NubbleST wrote:
When Valve first implemented language preferences, there was a blog that said it was primarily for teammates, and only moderately affects opponents.


However the issue lies that we know this is incorrect, as I get majority Spanish speaking individuals in my games on US East. I think someone told me that if you deselect language preferences, you are more apt to get teammates that speak your language versus selecting "English" preference - as this is a default setting that automatically is selected (therefore, a majority of players would not deselect it, etc.)
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NubbleST
Profile Joined July 2011
United States86 Posts
March 26 2015 10:14 GMT
#7
I think that's just confirmation bias; my games are perfectly fine (also USE). Most of my S. American pubs know enough English to play Dota competently. Sometimes you get people who flame in Spanish, but they'll still know things like "b" or "rosh" or whatever.

It's been too long since the language update happened, but I could have sworn I had to select English and the default was set to no preference.
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