Dota 2

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ded gaem

it's like one of the biggest games out there

>barely half a million players a day, an overwhelming majority being third worlders
>has only reached 1.3 million concurrent
Lmao

just wait till the new patch tbqhfamalamabamajama otherwise you'll be stuck potentially learning a whole bunch new shit

Excruciating frustration for an occasional chance of satisfaction.
It's not worth it, even with friends.

just how big is this patch?

The game gets several million per day.
The half a million is concurrent

>dead

Nope, thats total per day. Your game is fucking dead.

likely the largest in the game's history

>dead

Hopefully the new patch brings back american players, I tried it again after 5 months and was stuck in a third world hellhole.
You should just stay away.

you just gotta keep it pma

kiddies version of league of legends

oh, should I play league instead?

Not much honestly for better or worse. Game is still going and huge patch soon, but the community is dead. /d2g/ is a wasteland unless important tournament going on, so don't expect any advice from them.

The game is really self explanatory nowadays though, tons of in game guides and the wiki is really helpful for in depth knowledge about heroes like skill and item interactions. Any ideas what you wanna play as yet?

He's bamboozling you. League is dota with oven mittens and a bicycle helmet.

It can't be bigger than changing the whole map and how and when to stack and ward.

I don't think it'll be a big patch at all, just add the new heroes, maybe change a tree or two on the map and balance some talents.

What's a good way to get up to speed on the new updates since ~1 year?

What do you mean? There's one update a year ever since they cut down on staff.

I haven't played in over a year and so much has changed

Uhh what was the last patch you remember?

Remember comrade, only russian

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I think it was the August 15, 2016 Patch

>1st game on steam for years
>now second
WOW DEAD GAME AMIRITE

Well shit turns out 7.00 is less than a year old, in that case you got a LOT to read up on.

>heroes can no longer put skill points in stats, instead get talents to level up at level 10/15/20/25. Talents are either free stats or game changing skill modifiers depending on hero.
>new map, double ancient camps on both sides, bounty runes spawn in each corner of map, rosh on left side. Jungle creeps only spawn on even minutes.
>new buildings called shrines, gives hp and mana to teammates nearby when you pop them, can be destroyed for 100 gold after first t3 falls.
>monkey king is a bullshit hero
>Bunch of item changes too. Only note worthy I can think of is that mask of madness now gives -5 armor and silence instead of increasing damage taken.

Heroes are constantly buffed and nerfed, talents aren't fully balanced yet. Pugna and Necro is really strong right now.

added to that, Venomancer and Lich are very strong too

can't go wrong with Viper or Ancient Appartiotion either

Oh yeah I forgot, you have a backpack now with 3 item slots. You can't use items in the backpack but you can switch them with your inventory for a small cooldown. No more stolen tranquil boots or lack of room for tp and wards

>Nope, thats total per day
>being a literal retard
steamcharts.com/app/570
I guess today 700k people logged into the game and not a single person logged out

Either you will waste your time and hate it or you'll love it and lose even more time. Just take up a hobby, it'll probably consume less of your free time and you might learn something more useful than being slightly better than the average shitter at a multiplayer right clicking simulator.

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Holy fuck

Thanks for the rundown

Why do people still play techies defensively? Their changes over the years has made them more viable in setting up ganks.

Then again, these are the people who don't understand how much pushing power Techies has at max level

Never played ASSFAGGOTS before, is turtling a thing I can do and win?

Yes. Hard to pull off because your faggot teammates are likely to be turbo retards that rush to the nearest red thing, but you can turtle and win

I ban techies every game, pubs can't be trusted to do well with them. Am I wrong?

A bad time, being called a faggot and a 100hr learning curve.

no. i report techies picker every game and use ban on necro. its literally the only hero i wished he never existed. hate having him on my or the enemies team. granted im 4.7k and havent seen a techies in months ill still report whenever i see him

Things valve did wrong with this game

>Jewing content creators so they get less of a cut, thus making good cosmetic designers leave
>Letting custom games stagnate and die.
>Completely reworking some heroes rather than nerfing/buffing them, which alienate players who used to play them a certain way.
>Majors. The international was enough, but now no 3rd party event is relevant because every team prepares for and participates in the Majors instead.
>Removing the "featured hero" portion of your profile where you get to show off a hero's cosmetics and gems.
>Listening to Reddit's knee-jerk reactions about balance, leading to some heroes becoming utterly unusable for a couple of patches.

It's a genuinely fun game, but it's been managed horribly.

9/10 pubbers play them like pre-rework when it doesn't help anymore. If you actually see a techies go for Blast off! and stasis mines while using red mines to push/deter enemies off a certain path, you should have a good match.

>hehe dota will keep growing you retard
>hehe dota will break the 2 million mark soon
>hehe can't you read graphs? It only went down because it's summer. See you next year

Feels good that MOBAs are finally slowly dying

>Game being 2nd on steam means it is dying

>Game slowly losing it's playerbase in a monthly basis doesn't mean it's dying

ASSFAGGOTS have the best logic. the best.

If it falls below TF2, fair enough.

Until then it isn't dead.

I said it was dead or did I say "Slowly dying"?

you forgot adding a ton of casual friendly changes which made no sense and is contradictory to what they did like adding neutral spawnboxes, tower range and ward coverage.
dota is a game where players can differentiate themselves from others in different ways.
for example if a support player took his time to learn all the spawn boxes and how much vision a ward in a particular location provides he should be rewarded as opposed to people who didnt spend the time to try and improve themselves.
i can name anymore patches and all these casual catering patches are killing the game

Do you have reading comprehension issues? He never said dead, in fact he states growth that was originally projected has plateaued. MOBAfags are truly delusional.

And to be frank, I have a hunch Tencent tanked it and Korean fucked the competitive scene marking a stagger.

Like LoL but with turn speeds

I'm sorry, it's just being a TF2 fag as well I am used to people equating "getting less players" to "ded"

what does tencent and koreans got to do anything to do with dota you retard. you even got the game wrong jesus dont embarass anymore on how much you dont know and just leave

I'm so sorry that you have both autism AND dyslexia.

If you don't think LoL is not relative to every other MOBA you must be viewing the world through a kaleidoscope.

Regarding Tencent, their marketing strategy is not viewed positive towards their consumers with their cheap skin bundles and questionable queues. Korean competitive scene is nothing, but Koreans and Koreans joining every team globally losing that region-pride that Dotards have.

Reworked Techies and Necro are more fun. Yeah nu Necro is bullshit but old Necro is a boring piece of shit to play

*if you think, bleh whatever.

Combining sadist into death pulse was genius.

Techies got removed from the game again and as far as I'm concerned, "old necro" never existed because the concept of the hero was non-workable.

game is dying. old players are leaving and no new players are joining so obviously Valve is trying to make to game easier to cater to casuals. current old players dont like these new patches and leave as well but not as many new players join.
lets be real Valve killed the game with the direction they decide to take

Mental torment from day 1.

>You suck and get shit on by smurfs
>You start getting better, frustrated by your team

Only ways to enjoy this game is to either be very competetive and truly want to gain MMR or just fuck around without a care and have "fun"

Techies was best before Icefrog decided to buff him. I'll never get back the sweet days of salty tears when he was a 30's winrate trashcan.

>Dota will die in your lifetime

Most multiplayer games will die in our life time.

spoken like someone who hasnt played in awhile or is just really out of touch with the game. its been like 6 or 7 months since the last patch its trash

How do you guys know about this new huge patch? I couldn't find any info about it

Announced during the International