General Discussion - Page 3291

On July 11 2013 06:17 Plansix wrote:

They can limit server access, but that is about it. The rest gets into their weird racist territory where they start filtering by what language people speak.

On July 11 2013 04:39 TheYango wrote:
How the hell do you fix it? It's not like you can block Russian IPs from queuing for English language because that would prevent Russian players who legitimately want to and do play in English from doing so.

The only solution I can think of is moving the Russian servers from Sweden to somewhere actually in Russia so Russian players actually get better ping to Russia than EU, rather than them being pretty much the same.

On July 11 2013 06:12 teapoted wrote:

Only let people pick one. "can't really do a lot about the issue" is just silly. There are a thousand things they could do. They all have drawbacks. But are the drawbacks that bad? I don't believe so.

On July 11 2013 06:07 Erasme wrote:
then go play LoL ? i lurk a lot in LoL gd and they dont seem to complain about russians
superior moba ftw

On July 11 2013 06:29 SilverStar wrote:

Guild wars did language filtering an it pretty much killed the game for me..

On July 11 2013 06:32 Numy wrote:
Thing is with your kind is that even if they could magically remove the russians there will be new "russians" you will complain about.

On July 11 2013 06:29 crms wrote:



I've actually had direct discussion with Eric Tams, a valve dev who works on matchmaking and his philosophy is faster queue times for less balanced games is preferred over longer queue for a more balance game. I think this is the biggest fundamental problem in the matchmaker. I'd gladly wait another 1-2m between games to have a better chance at a balanced game.

I should dig out our old logs from the dev boards, I sent him over 50 replay ids and he went through them all with various feedback. He actually implemented a change based on the replays I sent him! What he did, I'll never know just that he made an 'adjustment'.

On July 11 2013 06:42 Erasme wrote:
as numy said, you most likely dont recognize your mistakes and blame your team. And talking about it here won't change anything, go to the dev forums.

On July 11 2013 07:00 BurningSera wrote:
Honestly at this stage it doesnt matter it was russian/troll or whatever, it was purely because more players joined in, mm failed to adjust the balance and then making games mostly one sided.

The bigger problems with dota2 MM games:
1)Cute players who randomed/picked X hero that he never play or couldn't play at high level -> proceed to derp.
best example: your typical noob mid, 'ya sure this is my first time playing this hero lets go mid and i expect to own'.
2)Selfish player who picked/randomed supprortive heroes but not buying cour/ward and go farm/derp around when team needed them/takingfighting resources with the core heroes.
best example: people who made me to produce that 'how to play support' guide.
3)Asshole players who purposely ruin the games by playing X hero but playing very badly/do a new meta/troll build regardless what happened to the game.
best example: first pick hardcarry, couldnt even last hit, wasting all the freefarming that the team bought him or go for totally retarded items, wasting all the effort of the team. support NA with 30mins dagon etc.

None of the above matters if we are still playing bnet/garena because noobs are everywhere anyway, but dota2 mm artificially making sure there is no noobs in your game and hence if the better player got to play a hero who couldnt make any impact to the game, it would be autolose.

I have been consistently telling the team at the start that: 'team give me freefarm 8mins and i will win the game for you' when i play safelane carry, and it mostly turned out exactly like what i said. While i make sure i achieve that when i am not carrying, and i have seen enough disheartening shit where i made 15mins freefarm time for the carry and he went totally retarded items.

And guess who is usually ruining the game, your randomed ES who started with a QB and rush to safelane, and if you clicked on his profile you will see that he has more than 1k wins. Dota2 MM, best.

Ohboy another rant on the MM >_< hopefully when i come back next time mm would be improved #0expectation.

On July 11 2013 07:14 JiYan wrote:
dota2 noob here, but can someone clarify the matchmaking system while i wait to install the game? I looked around liquipedia and did a quick search but can't get very much information about the MM system, a ladder, or ranking system that players can somehow see how good they are.