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Jaaaaasper

United States10225 Posts

March 19 2014 01:09 GMT

#99181

On March 19 2014 09:57 Slardar wrote:
When you guys going to shut the fuck up about the souperiyur mobo thing? Imitating that "sc2 daed game" meme oh so clever, so funny.

When it stops amusing us

crms

United States11933 Posts

March 19 2014 01:13 GMT

#99182

On March 19 2014 09:57 Slardar wrote:
When you guys going to shut the fuck up about the souperiyur mobo thing? Imitating that "sc2 daed game" meme oh so clever, so funny.

you're gonna be super mad when HOTS is in open beta, the token term for that is currently, 'superior superior moba'. RIP Slardar.

OuchyDathurts

United States4588 Posts

March 19 2014 01:17 GMT

#99183

Figured the F2P set would be $15 per hero or $35+ for all 3 sets and wards. I'll take $18 all day!

Darkren

Canada1841 Posts

March 19 2014 01:20 GMT

#99184

On March 19 2014 10:13 crms wrote:

Show nested quote +

you're gonna be super mad when HOTS is in open beta, the token term for that is currently, 'superior superior moba'. RIP Slardar.

or should we say super casual

FinestHour

United States18466 Posts

March 19 2014 01:31 GMT

#99185

slardar is viable 1 pos carry
believe the hype

Staboteur

Canada1873 Posts

March 19 2014 02:09 GMT

#99186

I played my bi-annual handful of games of superior moba earlier today.

I don't understand how people make the transition back from Dota 2 to superior moba. Everything just feels -so bad- for someone used to Dota. Even after resetting a bunch of hotkeys I've even forgotten I'm using (f1 to center camera and b for shop, notable examples) strange little things like the chat logs being far from where I'm looking, and seemingly tiny vision produced by wards on the minimap, and unclear damage instances from ranged / siege creeps... Nevermind the game dynamics being completely different, I can't get past the UI and how clean everything feels in inferior moba, as compared to its better younger / older brother.

Kishin2

United States7534 Posts

March 19 2014 02:49 GMT

#99187

What I can't go over is how little there is to do, especially early game. I played League for a few months before the beta was neat and ended up going back to wc3 DotA instead. It's just so much more exhilarating to play.

iokke

United States1179 Posts

March 19 2014 02:50 GMT

#99188

So i googled superior moba and ended up on a lol forum discussing dota/lol
Some was guy saying that dota is very imbalanced compared to lol, using ridiculously op sand king as an example, cause Sand Storm must be massively imba. Think it's time to ditch TL and go to lol forums cause that discussion was pretty amusing

Shaella

United States14828 Posts

March 19 2014 03:03 GMT

#99189

lol forums are really pretty amazing, they're convinced that everything in dota is gamebreaking

Thienan567

United States670 Posts

March 19 2014 03:27 GMT

#99190

Now that Blink dagger has no mana cost, how legit it is on the Spirit bear?

Fwizzz

Philippines4420 Posts

March 19 2014 03:43 GMT

#99191

Korok is streaming again.

Doraemon

Australia14949 Posts

March 19 2014 03:45 GMT

#99192

On March 19 2014 11:50 iokke wrote:
So i googled superior moba and ended up on a lol forum discussing dota/lol
Some was guy saying that dota is very imbalanced compared to lol, using ridiculously op sand king as an example, cause Sand Storm must be massively imba. Think it's time to ditch TL and go to lol forums cause that discussion was pretty amusing

do they talk about mangix...

Kishin2

United States7534 Posts

March 19 2014 03:56 GMT

#99193

What happened with the Dota community and creating content? Back in wc3 DotA, the DotA Allstars forum had a plethora of quality guides on everything. The overall community's enthusiasm for creating similar content was never the same after the Icefrog/Pendragon split. Dota 2 has been out for some while and there's still a lack of people creating educational/humorous/creative Dota 2 content.

I guess the main reason is due to the community being so segregated? Back then it was really only dota-allstars while now it's a split between TL, reddit, playdota, joindota, and maaaaybe dev.dota2.

I think we need more guides like "The Psychology of DOTA" and "The Art of Mindgames".

TheEmulator

28102 Posts

March 19 2014 04:03 GMT

#99194

On March 19 2014 12:43 Fwizzz wrote:
Korok is streaming again.

Yeah, I feel like it's been a really long time since he's streamed.

edit: mike streaming too.

FinestHour

United States18466 Posts

March 19 2014 04:04 GMT

#99195

On March 19 2014 12:27 Thienan567 wrote:
Now that Blink dagger has no mana cost, how legit it is on the Spirit bear?

as good as blink clinkz ofc

LuckoftheIrish

United States4791 Posts

March 19 2014 04:11 GMT

#99196

On March 19 2014 12:56 Kishin2 wrote:
What happened with the Dota community and creating content? Back in wc3 DotA, the DotA Allstars forum had a plethora of quality guides on everything. The overall community's enthusiasm for creating similar content was never the same after the Icefrog/Pendragon split. Dota 2 has been out for some while and there's still a lack of people creating educational/humorous/creative Dota 2 content.

I guess the main reason is due to the community being so segregated? Back then it was really only dota-allstars while now it's a split between TL, reddit, playdota, joindota, and maaaaybe dev.dota2.

I think we need more guides like "The Psychology of DOTA" and "The Art of Mindgames".

Lots of things, probably. Lack of a centralized community, although in the DA days there were also communities like DotaPortal. Lack of motivation - DA used to run fairly regular guide contests. The in-game guide system. And there still are some, like Purge's Welcome to Dota; You Suck, which gets a lot of links for new players.

Dankleteer

United States1430 Posts

March 19 2014 04:29 GMT

#99197

Korok's stream is so legit, dude needs more viewers

iokke

United States1179 Posts

March 19 2014 05:13 GMT

#99198

how are there people at 3000+ mmr that lack basic dota skills? this is not a qq, genuinely curious

For example we had this pudge that had:
no concept of team comp, last picking pudge when we despirately needed support and had no room for another mid
was not particularly skilled, missing most hooks and feeding most of the game.
did not know how to build the hero, including poorish item chioces + maxing rot last. Who doesn't know how to skill pudge..

I understand that 3300 solo mmr isn't that high up there, but most people already have a decent understanding on most aspects of the game. I can also understand someone maybe someone being shitty at team comp or playing his role properly, but being skilled enough in other aspects of the game to make up for that. But I've ran into quite a few ppl like that pudge and am really curious how such a disparity btw them and others in my skill bracket can exist. It felt like silver v diamond in sc2

before mmr was visible I was just assuming that it was someone with lower mmr just being thrown in the match to make up for someone w higher mmr, for example... but apparently not

tpmraven

United States833 Posts

March 19 2014 05:19 GMT

#99199

the new pudge set is causing alot of people who dont play the hero very often to pick him.

I am one of those people.

TheEmulator

28102 Posts

March 19 2014 05:19 GMT

#99200

The problem with 3k players is that they don't have a lot of experience with executing certain plays or dealing with certain situations. Also they may not be amazing at every hero. For example that pudge may have been new to pudge. I remember my first time playing pudge, man it was a mess

In terms of last picking crap heroes. Some people don't care about winning and just YOLO, or they are trolling, or they just felt like picking pudge and gave 0 shits about their team.

edit: also maybe they are just having a bad day. I'm way higher than 3k but occasionally I feed like I'm 1k.