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On September 28 2012 04:31 BurningSera wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2012 04:26 Misanthrope wrote:
Just started playing, it's a fun game. I'm wondering though, is there any way to cut down on visual clutter? During team fights I can't tell wtf is going on at all, it's just a blur of glowy fx and health bars. I think it is a common issue for many people albeit from personal point of view Valve has taken alot of good measure to reduce the visual clutter. The aura circle is not even implemented yet! How many games have you played? May be go watch some TI2 replays, allow your eyes to get used to them while being entertained 
I have about 70 hours played. I'm only just beginning to have a vague idea of all the different characters and their abilities.
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Nobody said getting into DotA would be easy (or at least, if they did they were lying).
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On September 28 2012 04:55 Misanthrope wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2012 04:31 BurningSera wrote:On September 28 2012 04:26 Misanthrope wrote:
Just started playing, it's a fun game. I'm wondering though, is there any way to cut down on visual clutter? During team fights I can't tell wtf is going on at all, it's just a blur of glowy fx and health bars. I think it is a common issue for many people albeit from personal point of view Valve has taken alot of good measure to reduce the visual clutter. The aura circle is not even implemented yet! How many games have you played? May be go watch some TI2 replays, allow your eyes to get used to them while being entertained I have about 70 hours played. I'm only just beginning to have a vague idea of all the different characters and their abilities.
Ha i hope you are having a blast! Just be happy now you are new to game and try out anything you can, losing game is fine because you learnt something new anyway!
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Got my ex-LoL-playing-friend into DotA by teaching him the wonders of playing storm spirit.
Here's to hoping he'll stick around :DD
+ Show Spoiler +
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On September 28 2012 05:51 Unleashing wrote:Got my ex-LoL-playing-friend into DotA by teaching him the wonders of playing storm spirit. Here's to hoping he'll stick around :DD + Show Spoiler +
Nice. Storm spirit is pretty fun, hope that encourages him.
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By the way, why don't people counterpick Wisp with Disruptor, anyway?
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On September 28 2012 05:57 Shikyo wrote:
By the way, why don't people counterpick Wisp with Disruptor, anyway?
Do people even pick wisp? Also I thought people pick disruptor anyways? (regardless of whether wisp was picked)
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On September 28 2012 06:12 rwrzr wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2012 05:57 Shikyo wrote:
By the way, why don't people counterpick Wisp with Disruptor, anyway? Do people even pick wisp? Also I thought people pick disruptor anyways? (regardless of whether wisp was picked)
Wisp has seen quite a few games in starladder the past few days. Even without the classic CK/Tiny setup.
actually all these are the same team, mousesports so take it for what it is.
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dendi is so good cause he never dies to smoke... guy is great at smelling that shit and even baiting them to show. goddamn
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what are you supposed to do vs bloodseeker? are you just screwed if he ults you?
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On September 28 2012 11:32 meijin wrote:
what are you supposed to do vs bloodseeker? are you just screwed if he ults you?
if its 1v1, tp out (this is where you always carry tps). and if you say forc-- it doesnt cancel channeling.
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On September 28 2012 06:18 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2012 06:12 rwrzr wrote:On September 28 2012 05:57 Shikyo wrote:
By the way, why don't people counterpick Wisp with Disruptor, anyway? Do people even pick wisp? Also I thought people pick disruptor anyways? (regardless of whether wisp was picked) Wisp has seen quite a few games in starladder the past few days. Even without the classic CK/Tiny setup. actually all these are the same team, mousesports so take it for what it is.
Empire has been playing quite a bit of Wisp as well.
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Dota 2 Update - September 27th, 2012
GAMEPLAY
- Fixed Illuminate going 400 further than intended.
so this actually was a bug and not just me being crazy..
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Oh wow they redid enchantress face textures, now it actually looks fine. Way to listen to the community blizzard
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YO its been like 2 years since i played my last meepo:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tcYcQ.jpg)
+ Show Spoiler +Its a bots game because i couldn't sleep after 10vodka shots and didn't wanna solo queue, in fairness they are unfair bots ok?!
have to say the QWER really make the hero somewhat 'easier' to play. QW tab QW tab QW triple kill!!!!
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On September 28 2012 13:50 BurningSera wrote:YO its been like 2 years since i played my last meepo: + Show Spoiler +Its a bots game because i couldn't sleep after 10vodka shots and didn't wanna solo queue, in fairness they are unfair bots ok?! have to say the QWER really make the hero somewhat 'easier' to play. QW tab QW tab QW triple kill!!!!
I still have the habit of pressing "F" and "E".
I think this is the only hero I had to re-adjust my bindings for.
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On September 28 2012 13:32 FinestHour wrote:
Oh wow they redid enchantress face textures, now it actually looks fine. Way to listen to the community blizzard
lol.
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I can´t empathise all the hotkey problems people keep having.
Years ago I set up my war keys so the main spell I use on every hero is "t", secondary is "r", third is "e", fourth is "z".
Don´t exactly remember why, I think my index finger just rested naturally over t when my pinkie hovered over the "a" button(attack move is the most used command, so there).
I actually set up every single hero individually back then. Every. Single. Hero. Took forever, evaluating which skill I will use how often etc. correcting the setup of certain heroes if I found myself confusing the hotkeys of spells on them.
Only lately I had to actually move my hand a bit more with SC2 grid hotkeys(attack move is on "t", perfect :D) and in Dota 2 I didn´t find an option to bind my itemslots to "space + t/r/e", so I use the row below t/r/e for items now.
Nowadays I use around an entire 3x5 block of keys(from q to t). Never have to learn new hotkeys, just new skills on familiar keys.
Probably an act of retarded genius to develop my hotkey setup around the attack move command^^
Have been happy ever since.
So yeah, I actually get a bit irritated if people refer to skills as q w e etc. as my setup is mirrored and to the side of those hotkeys.
I found it horrible to quickly use "q" or "w" for skills and then click "a" for attack move afterwards.
Then again, some people actually use the fucking numblock for inventory.
/random rant
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I love people who are all happy go lucky at the beginning of the game but when they start sucking or losing they turn 180 instantly
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On September 28 2012 16:52 Mataza wrote:
I can´t empathise all the hotkey problems people keep having.
Years ago I set up my war keys so the main spell I use on every hero is "t", secondary is "r", third is "e", fourth is "z".
Don´t exactly remember why, I think my index finger just rested naturally over t when my pinkie hovered over the "a" button(attack move is the most used command, so there).
I actually set up every single hero individually back then. Every. Single. Hero. Took forever, evaluating which skill I will use how often etc. correcting the setup of certain heroes if I found myself confusing the hotkeys of spells on them.
Only lately I had to actually move my hand a bit more with SC2 grid hotkeys(attack move is on "t", perfect :D) and in Dota 2 I didn´t find an option to bind my itemslots to "space + t/r/e", so I use the row below t/r/e for items now.
Nowadays I use around an entire 3x5 block of keys(from q to t). Never have to learn new hotkeys, just new skills on familiar keys.
Probably an act of retarded genius to develop my hotkey setup around the attack move command^^
Have been happy ever since.
So yeah, I actually get a bit irritated if people refer to skills as q w e etc. as my setup is mirrored and to the side of those hotkeys.
I found it horrible to quickly use "q" or "w" for skills and then click "a" for attack move afterwards.
Then again, some people actually use the fucking numblock for inventory.
/random rant
I agree with you that it's very annoying when people refer to a spell by their hotkey and not by their name. This makes absolutely no sense to anyone who hasn't played the game – and makes every sentence into parodies of discussions between professionals at a hospital with all their technical terms. There is no need to make things complicated by changing the names of everything. The spells should be obvious from their names, and if not, the spell should be explained similar to how it is explained in the tooltip of the ability, not by using fancy technical terms and ways of shortening names. Damage per second instead of DPS, area of effect instead of AOE and so on.
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