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DURRHURRDERP
Profile Joined May 2006
Canada929 Posts
October 08 2010 20:55 GMT
#81
its still on the game list but got bumped down a ton of pages (it should be moving up steadily though)
"I am an iconic role model for everyone aspiring to be better at League of Legends." - Roffles
Alaron
Profile Joined August 2010
United States225 Posts
October 08 2010 21:40 GMT
#82
On August 25 2010 01:47 beradical wrote:
If you really do want to play a game of this nature, I, personally, suggest League of Legends.

It's by far the best DotA style game out, and it's completely free!

(This is of course only when you're bored of SC2 )


Very biased response. If you liked Dota in any form play HoN. Its like DotA on steroids.

LoL is free but it is full of nothing but imba heroes that are picked every game.
alphafuzard
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1610 Posts
October 08 2010 23:10 GMT
#83
On October 09 2010 06:40 Alaron wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 25 2010 01:47 beradical wrote:
If you really do want to play a game of this nature, I, personally, suggest League of Legends.

It's by far the best DotA style game out, and it's completely free!

(This is of course only when you're bored of SC2 )


Very biased response. If you liked Dota in any form play HoN. Its like DotA on steroids.

LoL is free but it is full of nothing but imba heroes that are picked every game.

the best DotA style game is......DOTA!
surprise surprise
more weight
TexSC
Profile Joined June 2010
United States195 Posts
October 10 2010 04:48 GMT
#84
The new character, Dustin.Brawler, is pretty good. He falls behind a bit late game, though, but is very string early and mid game.
Who is dayvie aka David Kim? find out -> http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/David_Kim
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 09:44:53
October 10 2010 05:52 GMT
#85
he's only good cuz of those dumbshit mini goliaths, and cuz of that he farms a lot and stops most garbage melee heroes.

anyone that want to play casuals, add me anch.347. i consider myself a okay player and not <1 ratio.
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 09:44:24
October 10 2010 09:39 GMT
#86
Just played a 4v5 game and got triple Mandrake on the team.
Owned them so bad with magnitude and molten lance

http://i53.tinypic.com/4jkh8g.jpg
if anyone cared here is the replay.
[url blocked]
myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
October 13 2010 02:24 GMT
#87
Dropped headfirst into my first game, I've got hundreds of hours of dota/lol experience but knowing what heroes and items do beforehand would've been... helpful. I picked the reaper dude because I saw he could build turrets. He did not disappoint :D

Anyways all my rl friends have stopped playing DotA but they do play SC2. I'll be playing this more.
it's my first day
Deleted User 62283
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
385 Posts
October 13 2010 02:37 GMT
#88
I don't like the game - to many balance issues, not enough depth to the game play.

Ill stick to HoN, for my DotA like needs.
Xanbatou
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States805 Posts
February 25 2011 19:39 GMT
#89
I realize this thread is old, but this is the largest SOTIS thread.

Anyways, last night I started playing this for a change of pace and I thought it was really interesting. Of course, all my teammates hated me because I had no idea what I was doing. I played a couple games with different characters and decided I really liked Mandrake. He seems pretty cool and I got some hilarious kills with martyr. If you have faster movement speed and someone is weak and isolated, you can just follow them until they die lol. I like his ultra or w/e but it seems like it takes forever to use so its not very good as an OH SHI- move. =(

I also tried out that hybrid that knows the surge spell, and he seems pretty cool although I don't understand how to use him.

What other characters are good? I have actually never played DotA before, so I don't really understand the basics..I was sorta just trying to kill stuff.
thebigdonkey
Profile Joined September 2010
United States354 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-25 22:07:41
February 25 2011 22:06 GMT
#90
Imo Mandrake is probably among the most OP characters if you are playing with a team that knows how to play. And even if you aren't, you can pick up tons of cheap kills just lancing in the center, turning on martyr, and stunning them right when they land.

Zealot and shadow are incredibly strong too and tassadar, both snipers, and erekul are easy to play as well. Boros is fragile early but does stupid damage if you make it through the early game without dying and falling behind. Basically, the best advice I can give you if you are learning the game is to learn to not die before you try to learn to kill. That means learning to not take unnecessary damage from creeps and towers so you can stay in lane longer and also means detecting situations where ganks are coming and back up to safety. If you think it feels unsafe, just back up to your tower.

The number one cause of annoyance for experienced players toward new players is when the new players die too much and "feed" opposing heroes to the point where they are too strong to kill. If you avoid that, you shouldn't have many issues with your teammates.
AlphaDog
Profile Joined June 2010
46 Posts
February 28 2011 18:29 GMT
#91
On February 26 2011 07:06 thebigdonkey wrote:The number one cause of annoyance for experienced players toward new players is when the new players die too much and "feed" opposing heroes to the point where they are too strong to kill. If you avoid that, you shouldn't have many issues with your teammates.



Sotis has a mumble server to organize inhouses. Another method would be joining the sotis public channel in sc2.
ket-
Profile Joined April 2010
97 Posts
April 30 2011 16:23 GMT
#92
Bumping this as I just started this mod today, and I'm a bit annoyed that EVERY single game has 1 or 2 guys lagging the shit out of everyone which causes at least 1-2 leaves right away.

I'd be interested in playing some games with reliable people just for fun but at least being sure who you're playing with/against isn't gonna be one of these. From the results of my search I couldn't find out if there's any teamliquid sotis channel so I assume there isn't, but I'm just curious to see if there are many people out here still playing it as if yes, we might be able to do a channel to find others to play with (and if enough do play, can even fill a complete room I guess ).

Back on topic : is the mandrake still that op? I barely see anyone use it, and I've only tried a few classes myself. I decided to go for ghost and "master" that one a bit before switching and trying out others.
HiyA is bestest.
Xanbatou
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States805 Posts
May 06 2011 07:46 GMT
#93
On May 01 2011 01:23 ket- wrote:
Bumping this as I just started this mod today, and I'm a bit annoyed that EVERY single game has 1 or 2 guys lagging the shit out of everyone which causes at least 1-2 leaves right away.

I'd be interested in playing some games with reliable people just for fun but at least being sure who you're playing with/against isn't gonna be one of these. From the results of my search I couldn't find out if there's any teamliquid sotis channel so I assume there isn't, but I'm just curious to see if there are many people out here still playing it as if yes, we might be able to do a channel to find others to play with (and if enough do play, can even fill a complete room I guess ).

Back on topic : is the mandrake still that op? I barely see anyone use it, and I've only tried a few classes myself. I decided to go for ghost and "master" that one a bit before switching and trying out others.


Mandrake can be pretty damn strong still, if you gear him correctly (get a TPI) and know how to play him.

Also, Unix is godly if you gear him for time scale and use a TPI right before using your ultimate. You can do ridiculous amounts of damage.
vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
May 06 2011 08:19 GMT
#94
I have about a two year experience with DotA before trying SotIS for the first time last night. It was quite interesting. I have to say my dota mechanics did carry over and I was able to last hit/deny very easily. I also managed to stay alive while I figured out what the hell all the heroes did. Seems fun. Wish there were more choices for heroes though :/
Aka XephyR/Shaneyesss
Xanbatou
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States805 Posts
May 06 2011 08:45 GMT
#95
You know, after I first played this game I got pretty into the whole DotA thing (never played one before til sotis). This prompted me to try HoN. I have to say, I vastly prefer sotis to HoN, even though the latter is more balanced and polished. HoN just seems so slow to me.
Drewx
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia15 Posts
May 06 2011 15:39 GMT
#96
On May 06 2011 17:45 Xanbatou wrote:
HoN just seems so slow to me.


Same thing puts me off HoN, all the characters bar are few feel too slow. Hell even the big slow guys like tiny and tide in Dota seem to move faster than most characters in HoN. SotIS seems about right in comparison only wish it had more variety in terms of Heros just too few from what I'm used too.
ikarigendo
Profile Joined December 2009
United States99 Posts
May 06 2011 22:37 GMT
#97
On May 01 2011 01:23 ket- wrote:
I'm a bit annoyed that EVERY single game has 1 or 2 guys lagging the shit out of everyone which causes at least 1-2 leaves right away.


If you want balanced games with good players and no laggers, you need to pay the Sotis inhouse games. Details for how to join can be found on their website.

Personally, I find this the most rage inducing game, but it is still pretty fun. Much less stressful than starcraft, because the apm required is so much lower. I can relax and play some Sotis, while I can never relax and play starcraft (if I do relax, I will get completely steamrolled).
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14104 Posts
May 06 2011 23:08 GMT
#98
I tried to play this with and got rolled

was fun though
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
June 24 2011 05:56 GMT
#99
This game has improved a lot since I last played it.

BTW, I liked how in DOTA they had the banlist checker thing.

Too bad bnet 2.0 sucks so much ass that isn't even possible.

My favorite part is how every other game 1 or 2 people disconnect from the lobby while the game is starting. Man, battle.net 2.0 is awesome!
Ruscour
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
5233 Posts
June 24 2011 06:39 GMT
#100
On June 24 2011 14:56 travis wrote:
This game has improved a lot since I last played it.

BTW, I liked how in DOTA they had the banlist checker thing.

Too bad bnet 2.0 sucks so much ass that isn't even possible.

My favorite part is how every other game 1 or 2 people disconnect from the lobby while the game is starting. Man, battle.net 2.0 is awesome!

You necro a thread to whine about bnet 2.0?

Banlists were awful in WC3, it worked in a perfect world but if your internet cut out and you were disconnected and you never get into another game again.

It's hilarious that you cite people disconnecting in SC2 when in WC3 there was absolutely no punishment either.

The SotIS forums are a far better place to discuss this. I personally do not enjoy it as a DotA player, but I'm sure Blizzard DotA will be far less clunky.
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