General Discussion - Page 1926

On January 20 2013 06:06 Firebolt145 wrote:
I remember those ghosts, they were pretty much free maphacks.

There was a lot of switching around with weaver's and NA's 3rd skill, I can't remember what happened in between.

On January 20 2013 05:44 TheYango wrote:

Did you play after LoLKing started becoming commonplace to use? People would actively dodge games where you don't pick one of your top 3 highest winrate heroes.

On January 20 2013 05:41 MoonBear wrote:

A question about DotA: What happened to Morphling? Kinda dropped off after TI2. I know he got nerfed hard but was it to the extent that he has no role in a team comp any more?

On January 20 2013 07:26 ControlMonkey wrote:
I don't see why people want a ranking system built into matchmaking. If you want to take this game so seriously, get a team and join a separate ladder.

On January 20 2013 07:10 r.Evo wrote:

This. Not to mention the crap concept of "LOL LAST PICK GO SUPPORT" when the difference between first and last pick is less than ~100 elo unless you are at the very top of matchmaking.

What I'd like to see:
Privately available MMR rating. If you really want to measure your dick, post screenshots. Even IF Valve decides to put in a ranked mode at one point any and all information about how you did in previous games should be hidden from the public. Outside of game information should not have anything to do with the game you are about to play with random people.


Some points that annoyed the crap out of me in League:
-People were able to see what you have high winrates with / what you played recently. Easy to ban out stuff (mostly in 5n5 tournaments), easy to flame people if they don't pick what they are "best" with (ranked matchmaking).

-People were able to see how you did in your last few games. There should be no basis for a comment like "LOL I KNOW WHY YOU LOST YOUR LAST FEW GAMES" - this isn't vital public information.

-People were always, 100% sorted by elo from first till lastpick. While the argument "higher elo deserves earlier pick" makes sense to a certain extent it is also utter bullshit in most other cases. In general, I hope we don't see anything close to the League ranked mode, there have to be other possibilities to make this work.


Sure, for your normal games most people won't bother checking your history or winrates, but as soon as your penis size is on the line playing with random strangers (= visible mmr), this stuff has to be hidden.



PS: What I would still like to see however would be some kind of "notes function" similar to what you have on pokersites where you can make short comments about certain players that are only available to you. It's much harder to be like "Oh, I played with this guy before and he was xyz" in DotA 2 (because of Steam nicks) than it is in most other games.

On January 20 2013 07:50 Itsmedudeman wrote:
Except dotabuff already has every feature you mentioned just no visible rating. And when you play seriously and need to pick supports you can't have people just picking whatever they want. If you wanna just random and screw around you can go play normals which are still ranked, just hidden. The difference in ELO and the difference between first pick and last pick is just a formality for pick order. Hardly matters in dota where I'd say the players aren't one trick ponies usually and can play any role.

On January 20 2013 08:08 Talron wrote:
Can't connect to Dota2 network. Restarting Steam doesn't help. Anyone else having the same problem right now?

On January 20 2013 08:09 ZasZ. wrote:


Getting the same thing here.

On January 20 2013 07:48 Kipsate wrote:
LoL pubs are too serious for me sometimes. Always with the Bruiser top jungle AP mid AD+Support bot

Ill take random all day everyday over that.

On January 20 2013 08:03 TheYango wrote:

The number of people who refuse to play certain roles/insta-pick certain roles would make you think otherwise.

On January 20 2013 08:14 superstartran wrote:



And you can argue with them that they should play a different hero based on your ratings/stats combination. If I'm the same rating as you, and I hold a significantly higher win percentage than you over a period of games, I'm better, no question about it. As such, I should be the one who gets priority on what position I want to play, especially if I want to play a high impact position so I can make the most impact. When you're playing to win pubs, you have to play high impact heroes/positions. It's not a question at all; that's why even when good players play support, they play a team fight oriented hero like Sand King, Earthshaker, Leshrac, Lina, Tide, Lion, Rhasta etc. that can also gank and lane well.

People who don't want a rating system to be visible are just afraid for the most part. If you're good enough at the game, rating system doesn't matter. You're going to win, and you're going to be highly rated. That's all there is to it. Ratings/Stats only determine who should get what positions based on public level play. If someone has a high Kill/Assist Death Ratio, high GPM, and overall high win percentage in the highest MMR bracket, and you try to deny him that, you're only doing yourself a disservice.