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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
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France114 Posts
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Archas
United States6531 Posts
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
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EnumaAvalon
Philippines3613 Posts
On August 24 2013 20:55 Archas wrote: As someone who is comparatively quite new to Dota than most others here, I've been wondering for a long time as to why the Radiant and Dire sides aren't more symmetrical. I understand that each side has its advantages and disadvantages, but is it really more balanced to have two teams that excel in certain areas simply due to whether they spawn in the top-right or bottom-left? Perfect balance will never be achieved in Dota, especially not from terrain changes, I get that. That said, I wonder why such asymmetry exists. Can someone more enlightened than I (that is to say, any of you :D) please explain the rationale behind the differences between Radiant and Dire spawn? To be honest the diversity of the sides make for good strats like lvl 1 Rosh on Dire or mid pulls for Radiant. To me it makes things more interesting and fresh to not have a perfectly symmetrical map but you're right that it's not perfectly balanced. To this tho, tournaments try to balance it out to teams by giving the choice of pick to the team not choosing their side. | ||
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klo8
Austria1960 Posts
On August 24 2013 20:55 Archas wrote: As someone who is comparatively quite new to Dota than most others here, I've been wondering for a long time as to why the Radiant and Dire sides aren't more symmetrical. I understand that each side has its advantages and disadvantages, but is it really more balanced to have two teams that excel in certain areas simply due to whether they spawn in the top-right or bottom-left? Perfect balance will never be achieved in Dota, especially not from terrain changes, I get that. That said, I wonder why such asymmetry exists. Can someone more enlightened than I (that is to say, any of you :D) please explain the rationale behind the differences between Radiant and Dire spawn? Asymmetric balance is more interesting. If every faction is exactly the same but only with a different color, your games will be very boring. It's much harder to balance of course but it also makes the game much more interesting. Also, the map hasn't changed very much in years. A lot of things in Dota are from the days when it wasn't played competitively, it was a fun map to play in Warcraft 3 and balance was not really something most people cared about that much. When IceFrog took over, he changed a ton of things, but the map never changed very dramatically. There was actually a leaked 6.77 (I believe) Dota 1 map that had a changed Roshan area that seemed more balanced, so it seems like he's thinking about that sort of stuff as well. | ||
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.cyborgmatt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Dota2_SlardarFigure02.jpg) + Show Spoiler + updated here too: http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=994916 must be from the same artist: ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/e/e1/Solemn_Vow_1st_person_RED.png?t=20111213170258) | ||
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Unleashing
Denmark14978 Posts
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w.s
Sweden850 Posts
![[image loading]](http://puu.sh/49ENJ/2d47b9b578.jpg) Diretide 2012 Is this a bug or are we supposed to be able to get items from events after events? | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
On August 24 2013 21:09 MyXoMoPBL wrote: Diretide 2012 Is this a bug or are we supposed to be able to get items from events after events? I think there's a bug where items that could be tagged Diretide are all tagged like that. The items that were actually obtained during Diretide have two Diretide tags. | ||
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SkelA
Macedonia13088 Posts
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
On August 24 2013 21:18 SkelA wrote: Arent we supposed to get the fantasy prizes in this patch? Only thing i saw was bugged compenduim and hats in this patch. Didn't read anywhere that the prizes were supposed to be given this patch, source? The only thing i found was a speculation by Cyborgmatt that they will be given in 1-2 weeks (http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2013/08/dota-2-22nd-august/) | ||
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Andre
Slovenia3523 Posts
On August 24 2013 21:06 BurningSera wrote: At this stage i know Valve simply hate the hero: + Show Spoiler + updated here too: http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=994916 must be from the same artist: What, no please valve. That must be a photoshop or smth. Now I know why u made that "fix slardar's model" group Sera ;; | ||
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BlitzerSC
Italy8800 Posts
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Fwizzz
Philippines4420 Posts
On August 24 2013 21:35 Andr3 wrote: What, no please valve. That must be a photoshop or smth. Now I know why u made that "fix slardar's model" group Sera ;; Fck this shit. | ||
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StoRm_res
Switzerland891 Posts
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Talron
Germany7651 Posts
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Excludos
Norway8279 Posts
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