Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 116

On April 14 2012 01:29 Zlasher wrote:
to hornet: You can't have a party of more than 5

to brachester: Nobody knows, who cares, just play lol

On April 14 2012 01:54 PassiveAce wrote:
if you dont know just dont answer -.-

On April 14 2012 03:02 Count9 wrote:
I heard there was something you could do to lower delay in the game, some command line or something, is that true?

On April 14 2012 01:54 PassiveAce wrote:
if you dont know just dont answer -.-

On April 14 2012 05:03 Strykemard wrote:


If there was a simple command to reduce delay, I'm sure Valve would have implemented it directly so that they have a better system. It could just be that you are talking about changing your client settings, like lowering the resolution, so that you end up getting a better performance if you have a not-so-powerful system.

On April 14 2012 03:02 Count9 wrote:
I heard there was something you could do to lower delay in the game, some command line or something, is that true?

On April 14 2012 03:02 Count9 wrote:
I heard there was something you could do to lower delay in the game, some command line or something, is that true?

On April 14 2012 14:20 Dubzex wrote:
Aren't there South American servers? Why don't the Brazilians play there????

On April 14 2012 14:24 Candadar wrote:


This xenophobia is getting out of hand.

No, there aren't south american servers.

On April 14 2012 00:52 brachester wrote:
Not sure if this is a simple question or not but how does the performance bar work? Is it accurate at all?

On April 13 2012 18:09 Midori8 wrote:
What is the meaning of heroes being assigned to Radiant or Dire (e.g. Anti-mage is Radiant, Tidehunter is Dire etc.)? I assumed this meant that they could only be picked by that team in captains mode, but they I watched a game where Anti-mage was Dire. So just wondering what it actually means.

On April 14 2012 14:29 Dubzex wrote:

The problem is, most of the Americans cannot understand Portuguese and the Brazilians rarely speak English. I would like to communicate with my team so I can explain to them how bad they are.

On April 15 2012 07:09 13_Doomblaze_37 wrote:




It's not at all Xenophobia, that implies we're scared of them. We want Brazilian servers because they're generally awful at DotA and they have a bad reputation in most games, AoS types in particular. I've had some decent BRs in my games, but 10x more bad ones.

On April 15 2012 08:03 SKC wrote:



http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/xenophobia
Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries:

Words like xenophobia or homophobia ussually mean hatred on foreigners/gays/etc. I don't think it really applies to hate on a specific nationality, but still, it's obvious noone is saying it's people are afraid of "BRs". I'm pretty sure "Intense dislike" of Brazillans or Russians is something that several people in this forums would freely admit.

And yes, there are south american servers, but they are still a little weird, sometimes you get more latency on them than in US East or it takes a while to find a server. Generally it works fine though, but the queues are longer. That doesn't change the fact that wether they are bad players or not has nothing to do with which server they play on, maybe try blaming the matchmaking for always placing noobs in your team every game, like everyone always likes to do.

Communication issues are one thing, shitty teammates have nothing to do with nationality, if the matchmaking works you should be playing with people around your level. You probally also have played with numerous "BRs" that played well and you had absolutelly no idea they were from Brazil, and also players you though were from Brazil but actually weren't. I personally know people that use Russian/Portuguese names and copy paste phrases just as a joke, it's nothing new. Unless you ping people every game, your statistics are messed up. And even then it would be hard to tell exactly where they are from.

Honestly, it's so common to play with people that don't give a shit about what you say that being able to understand them doesn't really help you much. Pings and simple common phrases are ussually enough. Personally, I don't really blame them all that much. Trying to teach someone how to play is ussually worse than saying nothing. For him, there is no reason to believe you know better, a lot of people have really weird notions on what is good anyway and they are as eager to push their views on others as you are. If you simply followed what everyone says, you could be rushing Vlads/Basher on every melee hero. I have been in several more games ruined by people arguing about silly things than by people simply doing their own thing, nothing more than simply pinging/calling misses/etc. Almost everyone understand things like "back, go, kill X first, bot/mid/top, etc.. Unless the guy is actually new and knows his limits, telling people how to play their hero creates drama more often than it does any good.