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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
Poll: Invictus Gaming vs NewbeeInvictus Gaming Win (13) 62% Newbee Win (8) 38% 21 total votes Your vote: Invictus Gaming vs Newbee (Vote): Invictus Gaming Win (Vote): Newbee Win
Poll: PSG.LGD vs Invictus Gaming VitalityPSG.LGD Win (21) 95% Invictus Gaming Vitality Win (1) 5% 22 total votes Your vote: PSG.LGD vs Invictus Gaming Vitality (Vote): PSG.LGD Win (Vote): Invictus Gaming Vitality Win
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Predicting iG and LGD to win the first round, then iG and TnC to win the second
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Papua New Guinea504 Posts
Kind of boring match for today
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Go tnc!!
pande - Can you link the pedia page to the main tournament now since group stages are done? Removing the team logos and having only fixtures on the main ppst is an excellent space saver.
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China vs China's always pretty random, TNC's pretty random and OG's just weird right now. Going with iG and LGD for both series though. I'm still expecting the LGD lb run.
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This tourney also SA wasted a slot, losing all games.
Why doesn't Valve try giving Oceania a qualifier slot? I am sure they won't be worse than SA at least.
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Newbee will just knock out better chinese teams just to lose the next round against western teams. That's why some of the chinese fans dislike them lol.
I'm more impressed by the crowd on a weekday
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On May 18 2018 14:48 arghyad1 wrote: This tourney also SA wasted a slot, losing all games.
Why doesn't Valve try giving Oceania a qualifier slot? I am sure they won't be worse than SA at least. I think it's because SA has the greatest number of active players after Russia and China.
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Why no english caster for in game spectators...???
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On May 18 2018 14:52 Nevuk wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2018 14:48 arghyad1 wrote: This tourney also SA wasted a slot, losing all games.
Why doesn't Valve try giving Oceania a qualifier slot? I am sure they won't be worse than SA at least. I think it's because SA has the greatest number of active players after Russia and China.
I think Australia takes part actively in other E-Sports, CS atleast. With a bit of initiative from Valve they can turn out to be a nice region.
I am not saying cut off SA, but to add Oceania too.
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On May 18 2018 14:55 arghyad1 wrote: Why no english caster for in game spectators...???
you're not missing overly much
i wish they'd just let bsj talk (also that's not something i ever expected to say lol)
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wait a missed 2 minuites, how's q lvl 5.5 at 8 minutes
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Technically, sea has the largest dota population.
Aus doesn't deserve a region of their own when they are only 0.5% of the dota population. They have problems even filling up players in higher tier mmr.
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Aus has also had some fairly successful teams in the past (AL/N9 I think?).
If the player population in Aus grows significantly it would be reasonable to give them a slot, but right now they're behind, India, Dubai, and South Africa as far as a region that doesn't have a reasonable qualifier to participate in (from what I understand SEA is playable, though not ideal).
Why is a chef casting a main stage game, anyways?
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This cast has a spectacular lack of synergy, damn.
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This game was slow and boring for such a long time, now it's scrappy megas vs megas
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Full health DK? Sure OHKO
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Life - armor - nothing saves you of the mighty $#$ crit...
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That was a sick ending wow.Big plays after big plays and then this Kunka Hero just wins
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OMG Sccc...!!
66 mins, both side megas; What a start to the day.
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Looked like Boboka had single-handedly won it for IG, than sccc crits and wins
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dude that game was bonkers
there was a guy with multiple accounts purposely spamming ResidentSleeper for some reason
weird, mayb tryin to make chat bad for dota2 (in hopes of hyping LoL maybe hahah idk)
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Game was ResidentSleeper all but the last 5 min....
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well i ddid tune in at the 4th roshan before the end
its straight 20 mins of craziness
i tuned in late prob
anyw here's hoping SECRET to find back their form n puppey stop picking funky unrehearsed heroes
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Oh china cheesy segments, how i missed you
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
iG Vitality are awful man, how did they even get top 6 in DPL, awful lol
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On May 18 2018 17:28 Pandemona wrote: iG Vitality are awful man, how did they even get top 6 in DPL, awful lol
awful but they can still get NW advantage midgame
probably because bounty timings
that 4 bounty thing worth like 2k teamgold
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lgd still playing at their day 2 level
also kyle's been really damn annoying this game
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Is it just me or is this patch actually wayyyy slower than the previous ones?
LGD has looked like winning for the last 15 mins and still no barracks and now we have a 45+ min game. Also roaming seems to have died out.
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Does games just take longer between Chinese teams. Feel like PSG won 15 minuttes ago but still goes on.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
Think Chinese slow play is back, TI5 esc. When Meracle bought back on naga, they then took Aegis on LGD, they had a window of a good 3-4 minutes where no buyback on Meracle and an Aegis on the storm, how about they go for a rax or teamfight and try to win the game. Instead LGD backed off cleared out illusions and farmed XD
How do you lose 5 rax with a naga on your team and not going across your side of map for 20 minutes WTF XD
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Game's bad, cast's worse.
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game was almost over there if ONLY TIDE hits his refresh WTF
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
Finally game is ending, iGV against megas and Half bought rapier!
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i duno man it feels plenty awesome
if IGV was a higher tier team, this game would classify as unique-pick-hype-bonkers game
LGD already played it super clean given theyre up against THAT NAGA
how else could it be played
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Really don't see what people like about Kyle as a caster.
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Finally its over.
Kyle is good when he is interested in the game and totally meh when its some clownfest/one sided stomp
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yea kyle is kinda okay
but today he hypes games just to put it down thru sarcasm, it gets kinda weird when repeated 10-20times
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Wtf was that small comic about Notail?
Is that something they are doing this tournament?
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 18 2018 18:20 LennX wrote: Finally its over.
Kyle is good when he is interested in the game and totally meh when its some clownfest/one sided stomp he's really bad at casting china vs. china. they're boring, but he makes them worse by being a bit of a child about them.
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
i love spectre but i almost never like when teams pick it lately. i don't think she's there yet.
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Is Spectre good with Distruptor? Seem like good combo.
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 18 2018 19:18 Sapaio wrote: Is Spectre good with Distruptor? Seem like good combo. not as good as you would think, disraptor doesn't offer much defensive for spec. if you get an advantage you're great, but you're a spectre so that doesn't happen very often.
clock is the much better combo hero for spec
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
yeah OG's midgame is just too shitty against slark/doom/lesh
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You need a lineup that is strong at wave clear to complement spectre, or at the very least a snowballing lineup with extremely strong lanes. No idea what OG's game plan was.
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good game by OG, but i think an earlier radiance owns that game. very obviously, they wanted to 5-man after a certain point and tank through a buyback warlock ulti. maybe he doesn't even get the golems out between cyclone boulder cyclone. they had tools to lock down a slark and keep him down for a good portion of the game, but the fast BKB and being unable to find him as opposed to sandking meant they inevitably take a bad fight.
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
2-0
newbee drafting themselves out of the dumpster. OG drafting themselves into it.
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This is honestly hard to watch. I've never liked OG but seeing them implode like this is painful even to me.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
idk man i suppose to feel bad for OG but that game was hilarious somehow
that lycan roflmao
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 18 2018 20:57 dragonswarrior wrote: This is honestly hard to watch. I've never liked OG but seeing them implode like this is painful even to me. is it an implosion if this is about the quality of play they've had for the last few months? their only even slightly impressive result this tournament was going 2-0 against Mineski.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
Maybe Newbee finally turning a corner, would be finally good to see as they have been awful for 6 months it feels lol. OG need to replace fknmad and re address their line up as they will be cannon fodder in TI otherwise.
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 18 2018 21:10 Pandemona wrote: Maybe Newbee finally turning a corner, would be finally good to see as they have been awful for 6 months it feels lol. OG need to replace fknmad and re address their line up as they will be cannon fodder in TI otherwise. yeah i honestly think it might be worthwhile to do a roster swap sooner rather than later. they're not getting a direct invite playing like this with this roster.
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They aren't eligable for a direct invite regardless of their play, as they removed Resolution after the rosterlock deadline.
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first OG had miracle and notail when both were at the peak of their meta heroes then he left..
then they had ana a player they didnt realize that his playstyle was trading blowtoblow with the entire enemy team, often waiting for the last second to dodge spells with BKB (watch his replays@ youtube, he a total trade-blows-with-u carry) - (might be a stupid decision nowadays), but it does turn teamfights 180* on its head when he alone absorbs most spells when the enemy team thinks they got free food.
then the META changed more n more into drafting oriented, where picks outshadows most kinds of outplays 90% of the time, and also his heroes got shoved aside (ember n invoker) then he got kicked
then they had reso who ALSO got sidetracked by a META change where the game became all about PUSHING (before the ganking meta) then he also get kicked
idk if they supposed to lose faith again meta is meta man the core of the team is the teamwork if they feel good playing with each other they should just stick with it, unless if someone cant really keep up
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On May 18 2018 21:25 Nocticate wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2018 21:10 Pandemona wrote: Maybe Newbee finally turning a corner, would be finally good to see as they have been awful for 6 months it feels lol. OG need to replace fknmad and re address their line up as they will be cannon fodder in TI otherwise. yeah i honestly think it might be worthwhile to do a roster swap sooner rather than later. they're not getting a direct invite playing like this with this roster.
They can't get invited no matter what since they have already changed Roster once outside the approved period for roster change.
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 18 2018 21:27 Sr18 wrote: They aren't eligable for a direct invite regardless of their play, as they removed Resolution after the rosterlock deadline. forgot about that. might as well go all in lmao
who's the nordic god on panel?
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Chef Josh, Complexity's manager
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gg, i think lgd lost this game
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man does LGD understand
that 4v5 lost battle at btm, without Tinker
leads to 4 Bounty Steal, its a 8k gold swing
lol thats bad, this team is looking bigheaded now an express route to upsets and downfall
playing very sloppy very fast, even if they win, this is an indicator of bad upcoming performances
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
this fight is so fucking weird.
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Ame bought back to dive a t3 lol
LGD are playing like they don't care and have taken very throwy fights. I guess they understand that TNC's gold is going to a qop and an omni but they could've probably won earlier
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How do you kill a 6 slot qop and omni tho?
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
TNC just doesn't... take... structures... they win a fight or get an advantage and they just get no towers. i don't know if they can ever really take base
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this game is pure madness...
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Cmon TNC, keep it going so Kuku can get his level 20 and finally have a little money.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
Kuku playing the hard 12 position this game, ouch poor guy! even with the 180gpm talent guy is at 4.6k 5k! networth at minute 60 xD
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
omni has 10k gold banked. why.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
What the hell just went on in that fight lol?
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omni is the former pope who lost his shit and becomes serial killer instead but still with papal outfit
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Omniknight has gone full T-800.
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I thought LGD had lost for sure when tinker diebacked, and then...
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why maybe often dies with no reason ?
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
wow, what a weird game but congrats to tnc? i think that's who won? i'm still pretty confused
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an indicator of downfall for the LGD stack
it lasted A WHOLE WEEK omegalul
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On May 19 2018 00:00 Snakesneaks wrote: why maybe often dies with no reason ?
suspect positioning
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Cmon lgd gemme dem tokens
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reminder that this team won a major and beat liquid ezpz
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 19 2018 00:39 Faruko wrote: reminder that this team won a major and beat liquid ezpz on a different patch though. they looked incredibly dominant on that patch, less so on this one.
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tbh i said that exactly like 3 days ago
On May 16 2018 22:43 Faruko wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2018 10:23 Atreides wrote:On May 16 2018 07:35 Sn0_Man wrote: wow r u flaming #TheKing? I watch a LOT of NA dota when I’m not fishing. Even when I don’t play the game. Ya I’m flaming the shit out of sneyking and Yawar I thought it was a fluke they won a qual (let’s be real if they hadn’t team would have fallen apart in a week) but them winning a minor is uhhh. I’m still in a state of disbelief. Rip EG On the other hand. NA dota bois. Gimme those TI quals slots. i mean LGD won a major and now they are playing bo1 for elimination seems to me that the new way of patching the game is changing the game fast, who knows, maybe alliance wins ti7 lol
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 19 2018 00:49 Faruko wrote:tbh i said that exactly like 3 days ago Show nested quote +On May 16 2018 22:43 Faruko wrote:On May 16 2018 10:23 Atreides wrote:On May 16 2018 07:35 Sn0_Man wrote: wow r u flaming #TheKing? I watch a LOT of NA dota when I’m not fishing. Even when I don’t play the game. Ya I’m flaming the shit out of sneyking and Yawar I thought it was a fluke they won a qual (let’s be real if they hadn’t team would have fallen apart in a week) but them winning a minor is uhhh. I’m still in a state of disbelief. Rip EG On the other hand. NA dota bois. Gimme those TI quals slots. i mean LGD won a major and now they are playing bo1 for elimination seems to me that the new way of patching the game is changing the game fast, who knows, maybe alliance wins ti7 lol apologies for not keeping up with ur post history dawg
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United States15275 Posts
I think Maybe should go Aghs after Mjolnir. It destroys lategame SF and the bear.
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
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On May 19 2018 00:55 Nocticate wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2018 00:49 Faruko wrote:tbh i said that exactly like 3 days ago On May 16 2018 22:43 Faruko wrote:On May 16 2018 10:23 Atreides wrote:On May 16 2018 07:35 Sn0_Man wrote: wow r u flaming #TheKing? I watch a LOT of NA dota when I’m not fishing. Even when I don’t play the game. Ya I’m flaming the shit out of sneyking and Yawar I thought it was a fluke they won a qual (let’s be real if they hadn’t team would have fallen apart in a week) but them winning a minor is uhhh. I’m still in a state of disbelief. Rip EG On the other hand. NA dota bois. Gimme those TI quals slots. i mean LGD won a major and now they are playing bo1 for elimination seems to me that the new way of patching the game is changing the game fast, who knows, maybe alliance wins ti7 lol apologies for not keeping up with ur post history dawg i mean to agree with you dude
like this new patch thing is actually hurting the game, i'm all baout fast patches but not big ones, the whole new bounty and no gold on towers denies is super big and should be saved for a different patch tier
heroes balance and small changes are great for these tho.
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On May 19 2018 00:49 Faruko wrote:tbh i said that exactly like 3 days ago Show nested quote +On May 16 2018 22:43 Faruko wrote:On May 16 2018 10:23 Atreides wrote:On May 16 2018 07:35 Sn0_Man wrote: wow r u flaming #TheKing? I watch a LOT of NA dota when I’m not fishing. Even when I don’t play the game. Ya I’m flaming the shit out of sneyking and Yawar I thought it was a fluke they won a qual (let’s be real if they hadn’t team would have fallen apart in a week) but them winning a minor is uhhh. I’m still in a state of disbelief. Rip EG On the other hand. NA dota bois. Gimme those TI quals slots. i mean LGD won a major and now they are playing bo1 for elimination seems to me that the new way of patching the game is changing the game fast, who knows, maybe alliance wins ti7 lol LGD are fine, by the looks of it. If anything currently LGD is like 3 years ago a highliner of a Chinese meta and this is a good place to be as a LGD fan.
OG on the other hand probably wouldn't have got annihilated 0-2 by Newbee on the previous patch...
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Vatican City State2902 Posts
On May 19 2018 01:09 Faruko wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2018 00:55 Nocticate wrote:On May 19 2018 00:49 Faruko wrote:tbh i said that exactly like 3 days ago On May 16 2018 22:43 Faruko wrote:On May 16 2018 10:23 Atreides wrote:On May 16 2018 07:35 Sn0_Man wrote: wow r u flaming #TheKing? I watch a LOT of NA dota when I’m not fishing. Even when I don’t play the game. Ya I’m flaming the shit out of sneyking and Yawar I thought it was a fluke they won a qual (let’s be real if they hadn’t team would have fallen apart in a week) but them winning a minor is uhhh. I’m still in a state of disbelief. Rip EG On the other hand. NA dota bois. Gimme those TI quals slots. i mean LGD won a major and now they are playing bo1 for elimination seems to me that the new way of patching the game is changing the game fast, who knows, maybe alliance wins ti7 lol apologies for not keeping up with ur post history dawg i mean to agree with you dude like this new patch thing is actually hurting the game, i'm all baout fast patches but not big ones, the whole new bounty and no gold on towers denies is super big and should be saved for a different patch tier heroes balance and small changes are great for these tho.
sorry that was unnecessarily sassy on my part. I definitely agree with you. frequent patches should be used to correct under/overperforming heroes or even items, not to significantly rework game mechanics. i think it would be different if frequent patches were making the game actually more enjoyable to watch, but I've found that pro games have bounced from incredibly sloppy in the last patch to being completely decided by the draft or the first fuckup in the midgame in this patch. it's also kinda devaluing the DPC qualification process in my mind. teams that figure out a particular meta or have a style that suits a particular patch can win a tournament and then if the new patch doesn't suit them, they'll look like T2 teams that should go through the regional qualifiers. i don't think that the combination of the DPC system and the frequent patches is a good thing.
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@Faruko @Nocticate
I think Icefrog wanted to make drastic changes before the 2 week cycle experiment was announced. My first impression was similar that the two week patch cycle would be too frequent and may produce many knee jerk changes. After seeing a lot of the patches though, I think Icefrog wasnt happy with the game and how certain fundamental changes to the mechanics were made and he wanted to remedy that before TI. He was going to make big fundamental changes regardless. He needed to use the two week cycle to rapidly test and to implement drastic changes/reversal gradually. Without the patch cycle change, at most he had 2 number patches that he could tinker with. Maybe there was some validity to the rumours about IF being unhappy with some of the changes in recent years)
Imo the game is going to be great if it becomes 6.81ish (pre comeback gold) in terms of gold/exp mechanics + the 7.00 map changes, QoL, Talent tree. Talents really help balance the value of Exp vs Gold. Before talents, almost all power spikes came from big item purchases which was why as the top teams got better at macro and controlling sources of gold, games felt decided after 10-20 minutes. Comeback gold (6.82+) was just a cheap and quickfix way of trying to give the losing team a source of gold.
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