Dota 2 QQ thread - Page 826

On November 14 2013 01:44 Kabras wrote:
russian necrolyte goes jungle. doesn't spend any of his starting gold. doesn't come out of the jungle, doesn't buy anything for 20 minutes. at 20 minutes he has no items at all, 4k gold with which he buys a relic. 3 minutes later we lose 2 lanes of rax, he types in all chat "gg team unskill".

On November 14 2013 02:53 HollowLord wrote:
(I wanted to start a thread about bizarre/humerous cases of griefing in Dota 2 but the thread was closed and I was told to simply "stick to the QQ thread". So, here is my OP, copy and pasted from the now-closed thread.)

Every day in Dota is a new day of experiencing the worst the internet has to offer. Flaming, griefing, whining, raging. It's something all Dota players are familiar with. But every so often, something crosses your path. A stray anomaly, an incident so peculiar that it sticks in your mind forever.

It was a day just like any other day. Not really in the mood for solo-queue that day, I called up a few friends on Skype and set up a 3-stack for some fun. I'll never forget that game... We were Radiant side, and I was playing Balanar mid. My two friends were playing support, Chen and Lion. Our offlaner I believe was Syllabear but I can't recall off the top of my head. But it wasn't the offlaner that I would remember on that fateful day, no. I'll never forget his name. Pixel Garcia. He was playing Phantom Assassin.

The game was back and forth. It started slightly rough as the enemy got an early first blood thanks to a 0:00 Invis Rune. But PA was getting farm and when night came I managed to sweep down to the safelane and pick up a double kill. From then on the game evened out while PA farmed... But it wasn't enough. No, not for Pixel Garcia.

Around fifteen minutes into the game, my friend playing Chen stops in his track. "Oh my god, I'm abandoning. Right now." We were confused. What was wrong, dear friend? What had happened to bother you so much? "He ward blocked the jungle..." It was then that I saw them. Sentry wards, a dozen of them. Each one strategically placed to block our entire jungle with surgical precision, preventing Chen from getting any farm or Persuading any creeps. Pixel Garcia had removed Chen from the game, single-handed. A chorus of rage erupts from our microphones. We don't just want answers, we demand them. But Pixel Garcia has no time to respond, he simply sells his items to purchase more sentry wards.

Needless to say, the game ended in a loss as PA sat in the fountain waiting for the end to come. But it wasn't the ragequit that was so strange, it was the conditions surrounding it. We were winning. It wasn't a sure-thing, to be sure. But with PA freefarming up a 13 minute battlefury and my Balanar snowballing fairly effectively we were starting to gain real ground. So why had this player suddenly snapped, seemingly out of nowhere. There had been no event to facilitate it. No teamfight lost, no flaming in chat, no sudden 5-man ganks on the safe lane. It had come completely out of nowhere.

We were stunned, it was the strangest griefing we had ever seen. At their core, every player wants to win. Even the ones who troll, the ones who rage, the ones who don't communicate or even the ones who are bad at the game all want to win. But here was a player who defied that. We had to find answers. And so, like the Homicide Detective who goes through a dead man's computer, we went through Pixel Garcia's match history. Surely there we could find the cause.

Thousands of games. Thousands of hours of Dota. We poured through them, and it was there that we came to a horrifying conclusion. When the clock struck 15:00, Pixel Garcia made a decision. If he was extremely fed, having gotten first blood, second blood, third blood, and started snowballing out of control, he would play the rest of the game out. However if he wasn't fed... it was over. Even when he hadn't died, even when he was doing moderately well, it was over. 0/1/4 wasn't enough for him. 1/0/2 wasn't enough for him. No, he had to be ten kills ahead of the guy in second. Even in cases where his team was completely stomping the enemy it was over.

It was chilling. Here was a human being so obsessed with his KDA that all other aspects of the game were meaningless to him. It was bizarre, it was confusing, but it made a damn good story.

On November 14 2013 04:57 xAdra wrote:
You have the makings of a horror writer.

On November 14 2013 02:53 HollowLord wrote:
(I wanted to start a thread about bizarre/humerous cases of griefing in Dota 2 but the thread was closed and I was told to simply "stick to the QQ thread". So, here is my OP, copy and pasted from the now-closed thread.)

Every day in Dota is a new day of experiencing the worst the internet has to offer. Flaming, griefing, whining, raging. It's something all Dota players are familiar with. But every so often, something crosses your path. A stray anomaly, an incident so peculiar that it sticks in your mind forever.

It was a day just like any other day. Not really in the mood for solo-queue that day, I called up a few friends on Skype and set up a 3-stack for some fun. I'll never forget that game... We were Radiant side, and I was playing Balanar mid. My two friends were playing support, Chen and Lion. Our offlaner I believe was Syllabear but I can't recall off the top of my head. But it wasn't the offlaner that I would remember on that fateful day, no. I'll never forget his name. Pixel Garcia. He was playing Phantom Assassin.

The game was back and forth. It started slightly rough as the enemy got an early first blood thanks to a 0:00 Invis Rune. But PA was getting farm and when night came I managed to sweep down to the safelane and pick up a double kill. From then on the game evened out while PA farmed... But it wasn't enough. No, not for Pixel Garcia.

Around fifteen minutes into the game, my friend playing Chen stops in his track. "Oh my god, I'm abandoning. Right now." We were confused. What was wrong, dear friend? What had happened to bother you so much? "He ward blocked the jungle..." It was then that I saw them. Sentry wards, a dozen of them. Each one strategically placed to block our entire jungle with surgical precision, preventing Chen from getting any farm or Persuading any creeps. Pixel Garcia had removed Chen from the game, single-handed. A chorus of rage erupts from our microphones. We don't just want answers, we demand them. But Pixel Garcia has no time to respond, he simply sells his items to purchase more sentry wards.

Needless to say, the game ended in a loss as PA sat in the fountain waiting for the end to come. But it wasn't the ragequit that was so strange, it was the conditions surrounding it. We were winning. It wasn't a sure-thing, to be sure. But with PA freefarming up a 13 minute battlefury and my Balanar snowballing fairly effectively we were starting to gain real ground. So why had this player suddenly snapped, seemingly out of nowhere. There had been no event to facilitate it. No teamfight lost, no flaming in chat, no sudden 5-man ganks on the safe lane. It had come completely out of nowhere.

We were stunned, it was the strangest griefing we had ever seen. At their core, every player wants to win. Even the ones who troll, the ones who rage, the ones who don't communicate or even the ones who are bad at the game all want to win. But here was a player who defied that. We had to find answers. And so, like the Homicide Detective who goes through a dead man's computer, we went through Pixel Garcia's match history. Surely there we could find the cause.

Thousands of games. Thousands of hours of Dota. We poured through them, and it was there that we came to a horrifying conclusion. When the clock struck 15:00, Pixel Garcia made a decision. If he was extremely fed, having gotten first blood, second blood, third blood, and started snowballing out of control, he would play the rest of the game out. However if he wasn't fed... it was over. Even when he hadn't died, even when he was doing moderately well, it was over. 0/1/4 wasn't enough for him. 1/0/2 wasn't enough for him. No, he had to be ten kills ahead of the guy in second. Even in cases where his team was completely stomping the enemy it was over.

It was chilling. Here was a human being so obsessed with his KDA that all other aspects of the game were meaningless to him. It was bizarre, it was confusing, but it made a damn good story.

On November 14 2013 02:46 -Celestial- wrote:


Ye gods...was he really going for a naked radiance?

Thats some next level farming strategy right there. X-D

On November 14 2013 02:51 deichkind wrote:
OD loosing mid hard to a drow ranger? how is that even possible?

On November 14 2013 08:21 WolfintheSheep wrote:

?

How is OD supposed to win? Drow outranges auto-attacks and Astral, has a silence with even longer range, has a slow to keep him out of range, can do big damage without any mana, will almost never lose Markmanship bonus 1v1...and OD is almost as squishy as she is.

Seems like a matchup where you just Frost Arrow every time OD gets in range and move back a little.

The only dangerous moment is when OD gets to 6 and can nuke you.

On November 14 2013 04:57 xAdra wrote:

You have the makings of a horror writer.