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[Mr. Pedantic]

Just watched a Luminous casts a pub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK_5h6mEmB0

Holy shit, I can't believe I wasted 2 hours on this bullshit.

 

[Zeze]

I said hello to our Anandtech League of Legends folks just now.

I can't wait to learn about LoL from their answers... and did some friendly recruiting.

Wow, look at the LoL scene:

LoL stats: Dota 2 is 300-330k concurrent and 3 mil monthly now (but about to explode with korea & china expansions + open release)

 

[p0rkguy]

http://dotabuff.com/players/42749662
Hello.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

God, where did this Necro is a carry fad come from? Now I get yelled at for playing him as a support. He has NO abilities that contribute to him carrying.

 

[Destiny]

Just watched a Luminous casts a pub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK_5h6mEmB0

Holy shit, I can't believe I wasted 2 hours on this bullshit.

I want my 2 hours of life back!! **SHAKES FIST** at Mr. Pedantic!

PA got 3 Divine Rapiers, lost them all, when she went to get more it cost them the game... and her team was ahead in kills 2/1 ratio... EPIC FAIL!!!

 

[nijikon5]

You guys queue or in-house together? I mostly play with a few friends here and there. I've been playing DotA2 for almost 2 years now ( Yes, 2 years, since after TI1. I was in beta when there was roughly 400-600 people online during prime time ). Anyways, I don't mind playing with new players, just don't be stubborn a la chirop and not a mouthbreathing rager.

Here's my steam profile:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960873223/

 

[SockHaser]

You guys queue or in-house together? I mostly play with a few friends here and there. I've been playing DotA2 for almost 2 years now ( Yes, 2 years, since after TI1. I was in beta when there was roughly 400-600 people online during prime time ). Anyways, I don't mind playing with new players, just don't be stubborn a la chirop and not a mouthbreathing rager.

Here's my steam profile:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960873223/

Solo mid or I feed

 

[nijikon5]

Solo mid or I feed

Solo mid AND I feed seems to be the more common mantra.

 

[Destiny]

Been playing training mode with live people just so I can get the full Sniper outfit - there are people with more wins than me and they are terrible - lost twice in a row...

 

[SockHaser]

Been playing training mode with live people just so I can get the full Sniper outfit - there are people with more wins than me and they are terrible - lost twice in a row...

Games played != skilled

I've played with people with over 1200 wins, which ends of up being 2400 or so games played and they don't even know the basics of the game like stacking and pulling, dewarding, smoke ganks, or even hero skills.

 

[Destiny]

Games played != skilled

I've played with people with over 1200 wins, which ends of up being 2400 or so games played and they don't even know the basics of the game like stacking and pulling, dewarding, smoke ganks, or even hero skills.

Its funny, because they engage when they should not while in a non favorable lane line up, they die, blame me. Lich casts his ulti I run away from my own team mate while he stays grouped with the creeps and dies from the bounces and blames me... when I saw that I just ignored them all when I found out the other 4 qued in with each other and kept doing stupid things...

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I want my 2 hours of life back!! **SHAKES FIST** at Mr. Pedantic!

PA got 3 Divine Rapiers, lost them all, when she went to get more it cost them the game... and her team was ahead in kills 2/1 ratio... EPIC FAIL!!!

I did kind of warn you when I said "I can't believe I wasted 2 hours on this bullshit".

 

[Chiropteran]

when I found out the other 4 qued in with each other and kept doing stupid things...

I'm not sure how the queue system works in Dota, but in LoL a premade was weighed as a higher Elo than a solo queue player. So if you are solo queue and you get stuck with a 4 man premade, the actually skill level of the players in the pre-made will be significantly lower than yours. I don't know for sure if Dota 2 uses the same sort of algorithm, but it often seems like it.

 

[SockHaser]

I'm not sure how the queue system works in Dota, but in LoL a premade was weighed as a higher Elo than a solo queue player. So if you are solo queue and you get stuck with a 4 man premade, the actually skill level of the players in the pre-made will be significantly lower than yours. I don't know for sure if Dota 2 uses the same sort of algorithm, but it often seems like it.

I think Dota is the same. I've been in games with four stacks and they are normally terrible. At the higher levels I think it doesn't matter as much because people know how to play the game so the team aspect gives more of an advantage than lower skill, but on lower level games where people play solo anyway, it really sucks for the soloer.

 

[p0rkguy]

It sucks even more when put into a team of foreigners. Something Valve still has yet to fix.

 

[Destiny]

It sucks even more when put into a team of foreigners. Something Valve still has yet to fix.

That is what I've been getting these past 5 games last night... I was laning with a Omni and he dives a creep wave gets frost blast by lich so he's slowed then he gets spin blade to death by jug with that type of combo there is nothing I can do to save him as Viper- the funny thing is he did it twice before he switched lanes with SK... SK did the same thing but goes after Lich and I follow to help, but this time Lich is at level 6 and chains frost him and I had to spread out from SK to prevent chain frost from killing us both, I only had one chain frost bounce but SK dies due to chain frost and Lich/Jug, then afterwards SK and Omni rages at me all game...

In Battlefield 3 of someone rages me, I just switch teams and whoop their A** the entire game to shut them up... in DOTA 2 I have to stay quiet and play through the game...

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Play in Australian servers. Much less of that bullshit here.

First game as Wisp the other day. Honestly, I don't see what people hate about the hero. If you know how to play support, you play him the same as any other support with some cool perks. If all you play is Riki and Drow, then you'll dive, find out Wisp has almost no solo kill ability, feed, then lose the game.

 

[Clinkster]

Play in Australian servers. Much less of that bullshit here.

First game as Wisp the other day. Honestly, I don't see what people hate about the hero. If you know how to play support, you play him the same as any other support with some cool perks. If all you play is Riki and Drow, then you'll dive, find out Wisp has almost no solo kill ability, feed, then lose the game.

People hate wisp because she (it?) is a god-tier support. IIRC banned in most competitive games.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Ya but all the "I only play one click carry" pubbies hate wisp because they don't know wtf to do.

 

[Destiny]

All I can say is... there are a lot more new players now that the game is officially available to everyone... thinking about making another smurf account...

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

People hate wisp because she (it?) is a god-tier support. IIRC banned in most competitive games.

When I randomed some other guy was like "wisp auto lose gg".

I was like, wtf?

 

[Destiny]

When I randomed some other guy was like "wisp auto lose gg".

I was like, wtf?

Like I said, there are more "funny/annoying" players now that the game is officially released...

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Like I said, there are more "funny/annoying" players now that the game is officially released...

I had another game just this morning where I played morphling. Turns out that 5 of the players in the game had at least 300 wins, and the other 5 had at most 20. The enemy won only because they had one extra +300-win player than we did.

Our sniper was trying for a bloodstone. At least he didn't get arcanes.

 

[{bad}]

i hve seen sniper with arcane do well in high tier... they then max 1st spell

 

[{bad}]

just played a usless game
i got 1260+ wins and all other 9 players hve less than 250 wins.
u can imagine wat wud hve happened.. sniper only carry of my team trying to finish aquila after treads @ 32 mins.

wtf is MM trying to do ??? maybe they want me 2 quit do