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Benjef
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom6921 Posts
August 05 2012 13:37 GMT
#3241
Game never seems to save my settings? Everytime I close it and come back it sets back to what it was previously, so if I try and join a new channel / change my server settings it doesn't save for them for the next time I come on and i have to do it all over again.

Currently stuck on US east/europe and I just want europe .
<3 | Dota 2 | DayZ | <3
Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34501 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 13:40:41
August 05 2012 13:39 GMT
#3242
Daed > MKB if you have high attack damage already. MKB > Daed only if you're a low base damage hero, someone like Windrunner or QoP.

TA almost always gets Daed instead of MKB.

edit: Obviously MKB gives you true hit which is needed in some situations.
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kaykaykay
Profile Joined July 2012
Singapore637 Posts
August 05 2012 13:42 GMT
#3243
On August 05 2012 22:39 Firebolt145 wrote:
Daed > MKB if you have high attack damage already. MKB > Daed only if you're a low base damage hero, someone like Windrunner or QoP.

TA almost always gets Daed instead of MKB.

edit: Obviously MKB gives you true hit which is needed in some situations.


Or the mini stun which stops TP.
Thanks!
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34501 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 13:46:44
August 05 2012 13:46 GMT
#3244
Ministun is more of a 'cherry on top' rather than the reason to get it. It's simply not dependable enough.
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kaykaykay
Profile Joined July 2012
Singapore637 Posts
August 05 2012 13:47 GMT
#3245
Btw is there a way to check apm in game?
Starve the ego, feed the soul.
Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34501 Posts
August 05 2012 13:51 GMT
#3246
Nope, not to my knowledge. Why do you need to anyway?
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Qbek
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Poland12923 Posts
August 05 2012 14:07 GMT
#3247
On August 05 2012 22:37 Benjef wrote:
Game never seems to save my settings? Everytime I close it and come back it sets back to what it was previously, so if I try and join a new channel / change my server settings it doesn't save for them for the next time I come on and i have to do it all over again.

Currently stuck on US east/europe and I just want europe .

Check steam cloud synchronization, it might be turned off somewhere in steam, thou it should save it anyway if you don't change PCs. Also for some ungodly reason your cfg files might be read only ( possible if you downloaded one from somewhere, they don't save if the author made them read only)
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kaykaykay
Profile Joined July 2012
Singapore637 Posts
August 05 2012 14:21 GMT
#3248
It was a feature i always enjoyed in the wc3 version. :/
Starve the ego, feed the soul.
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
August 05 2012 15:03 GMT
#3249
On August 05 2012 22:47 kaykaykay wrote:
Btw is there a way to check apm in game?

You can do it in the console with the command "dota_apm", but it only displays in the console.
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Benjef
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom6921 Posts
August 05 2012 15:25 GMT
#3250
On August 05 2012 23:07 Qbek wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2012 22:37 Benjef wrote:
Game never seems to save my settings? Everytime I close it and come back it sets back to what it was previously, so if I try and join a new channel / change my server settings it doesn't save for them for the next time I come on and i have to do it all over again.

Currently stuck on US east/europe and I just want europe .

Check steam cloud synchronization, it might be turned off somewhere in steam, thou it should save it anyway if you don't change PCs. Also for some ungodly reason your cfg files might be read only ( possible if you downloaded one from somewhere, they don't save if the author made them read only)

Thank you will double check shortly ! And yeh I switch some pc to laptop alot depending on where i am so its probably cloud sync.
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InfernoStarcraft
Profile Joined May 2011
Australia136 Posts
August 06 2012 08:21 GMT
#3251
Are the only coordinated team strategies pushing or team fight? where do heroes that don't emerge for ~20 mins (ie morph) fit into that? is banking on your hard carry a strategy in of itself?

I ask because I don't understand how the dota 2 metagame works. Aside from new heroes I don't understand what makes teams pick uncommon heroes beyond it being a good pick at the time or vs a particular combination of heroes etc etc.
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TheArtisan
Profile Joined January 2012
Australia26 Posts
August 06 2012 10:46 GMT
#3252
hello i haven't open any chest before, but can u get announcers from opening a chest with a key?

like the pirate announcer
hello everyone
Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
August 06 2012 10:55 GMT
#3253
On August 06 2012 17:21 InfernoStarcraft wrote:
Are the only coordinated team strategies pushing or team fight? where do heroes that don't emerge for ~20 mins (ie morph) fit into that? is banking on your hard carry a strategy in of itself?

I ask because I don't understand how the dota 2 metagame works. Aside from new heroes I don't understand what makes teams pick uncommon heroes beyond it being a good pick at the time or vs a particular combination of heroes etc etc.

It has been explained to me this way : Ganking strat > Pushing strat > Turtle strat > Ganking strat. And you can do a 4 protect 1 but it's kinda out of flavor.
I can't really explain you the picks because I don't understand it very well :p And for the last thing, it should appears to you if you play more, imo it only comes with experience when you draft
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34501 Posts
August 06 2012 11:04 GMT
#3254
I think right now the pushing strat is much stronger than the others. There is a reason why all the top tier heroes are great push/counterpushers.
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Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
August 06 2012 11:07 GMT
#3255
Bh is getting picked more and more. Pushing strat is just prefered because of NaVi 'why win in 50min when you could win in 20'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
Qbek
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Poland12923 Posts
August 06 2012 11:27 GMT
#3256
A very big part of dota is what the top teams are currently most practiced with. If a team comes out of nowhere with a unbeatable (by current strats) strat, things will get shaken up a bit. Normally thou metagame changes with one hero at the time. The best thing is it's mostly not influenced by any balance patch directly
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Yacobs
Profile Joined March 2010
United States846 Posts
August 06 2012 12:57 GMT
#3257
Why is it OK for Tinker to push all the lanes constantly but people flip out when NP does it?
lozarian
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1043 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-06 14:04:18
August 06 2012 14:04 GMT
#3258
On August 06 2012 21:57 Yacobs wrote:
Why is it OK for Tinker to push all the lanes constantly but people flip out when NP does it?


Because tinker with tens of thousands of golds worth of items is an ungodly ball of rapid fire, unkillable, mobile death. Furion with thousands of golds worth of items is a substandard autoattacker, and directly takes the gold, at random, from people who were trying to get it there and then, whereas tinker is focused on cleaning up non populated lanes.
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ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22212 Posts
August 06 2012 14:14 GMT
#3259
Tinker should only be pushing out unfarmed lanes. He has control over it, whereas furion doesn't
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
InfernoStarcraft
Profile Joined May 2011
Australia136 Posts
August 06 2012 16:27 GMT
#3260
Thanks for the explanations .

I hope the game moves a little bit from the ultra-mega-chicken-tower-melting into a bit of ganking. As a a big time spectator I really like seeing people play different heroes, or even the same heroes in different ways.
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