Dota 2
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Dota 2 Short Film Contest 2024 | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Dota 2 Short Film Contest 2024The regional battles on the Road to The International have concluded, and we now know all sixteen teams destined to clash in Copenhagen this September. But there's also another competition to remember — in which the auteurs of the Dota scene grab their pens, friends, and camera lenses and treat the ...
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Introducing the Steam Game Recording Beta | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Introducing the Steam Game Recording BetaThere are millions of Dota players around the world, and every day their adventures offer up experiences ranging from universal (a savvy swipe of an Aegis) to one-in-a-billion (a RAMPAGE by Chen) — including thrilling moments, silly moments, and everything in between. And since the only thing as fun...
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The International 2024 - Direct Invites and The Road to TI | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com The International 2024 - Direct Invites and The Road to TIBetween a massive 7.36 update and Act II of Crownfall, there were a lot of big announcements vying for your attention last week, so we decided to give everybody a few days to process everything before we posted any more big Dota news. But now a new week is upon us, and we're happy to turn our focus ...
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So what are your underrated stars of the patch so far?
Which hero with which facet is stronger than people think? What item build is deceptively strong? Which strategy wins you games?
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BLAST, renowned for top-tier CS:GO events, expands into Dota 2!
BLAST, renowned for top-tier CS:GO events, expands into Dota 2! First major event in Nov 2024, with 4 more planned for 2025. Can they bring fresh excitement to the scene? @dota2 #dota2 #esports https://www.gamingfoodle.tech/2024/05/blast-dota2-esports-tournament.html
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Dota Labs and Crownfall Collector's Cache Voting | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Dota Labs and Crownfall Collector's Cache VotingDota Labs Updates We announced Dota Labs a couple months ago, and since then we've continued to iterate quietly on the features in it as we get feedback and data. "Quietly" is fine, but sometimes it can be useful to be a bit louder so today we're turning up the volume a little: We're happy to announ...
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Watching overwatch cases really puts into perspective what grefing really is
Normally I think someone in my game is "grefing" when they do obviously stupid plays etc.
But watching overwatch cases of an IO teleporting teammates to the enemy fountain, now THATS grefing, and then maybe my teammates isn't really grefing as much as I think haha
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Welcome to Crownfall | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Welcome to CrownfallFor over a decade now, Skywrath Mage and Vengeful Spirit have been ambiguously entwined. Eagle-eyed players noticed that they come from the same town, seem to have related backstories, and might even be dating. Pretty mysterious stuff. Earlier, we dropped a comic that solved those mysteries, but int...
- www.dota2.com Ascension Day
A young princess, betrayed by her sister on the day of her ascension. Her wings torn from her body. Thrown from the highest tower of the Ghastly Eyrie. Left for dead. Found by a god. Turned into a spirit of vengeance. A Skywrath Mage, sworn to serve the murderer of his beloved. His life and powers f...
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Average team coordination of my team vs the luck and skill of the oponents team
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Crosspost, but very relevant to dota
It's just a joke, I don't actually think league players are any better or worse than dota ones.
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Hello, I am a LoL refugee after announcing that they'll be introducing a kernel level anticheat. AMA
I've occassionally played some Dota2 before but I'll be mainly switching to Dota2 after League releases their kernel level anticheat. I mostly play on arch linux (the league of linux community is the best), and I love that Dota2 supports linux natively while I have to literally hack my system and, in the past, patched some binaries to ensure that league barely works on my system. I'd often have the game crash on me right before the game starts because League's spaghetti code can't handle my system.
Overall, I feel like Dota2 is the better game holistically. The UI is better polished, the gameplay is more well balanced, and it doesn't feel like a shithole like League feels like now. I have long been contemplating making the switch, and I feel stupid at this point sticking to League up until they literally kick me out of their game because they want to require a kernel-level anticheat (aka spyware) that will block me from playing on my linux system.
I grew up playing League and I'll miss it, but I love MOBAs and Dotas is the de-facto best there is. My relationship with League can best be described as Stockholm Syndrome at this point, and I'm happy they're releasing me.
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Gameplay Patch 7.35d And Matchmaking Features | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Gameplay Patch 7.35d And Matchmaking FeaturesWe've just released Gameplay Patch 7.35d (Chen had it coming), and with it a new set of features. Matchmaking Hero Ban Rework Over the last year or so, we've taken a number of visible actions against users of third-party cheats. As we investigate each cheat, we're primarily focused on understanding ...
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Basic Dreamleague S22 Recap
Dreamleague S22 was the last T1 tournament: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/DreamLeague/Season_22
It was played with a format of 2 large group stages and a small finals bracket with the top 4 teams.
Team Falcons continued their domination from the previous tournament (BB Dacha). It seems like the pro scene is a bit shaken up after the last TI and its season, with teams like Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid not really at the top anymore. Apart from Team Falcons, the whole scene looks a bit more even right now. The Eastern European teams, namely BB Team and Team Spirit, also look strong right now, together with some of the Chinese teams, mainly Xtreme Gaming.
As for meta, a selection of the top heroes right now:
For the support role(s), Chen, Batrider, Lion, Mirana, Shadow Demon, Tiny, Enigma, Techies
Popular offlaners include, Mars, Timbersaw, Centaur, Magnus, Dragon Knight.
Mids are Puck, Pango, Dragon Knight, Storm Spirit, Timber, Templar Assassin.
Carries include Naga, Sven, Morphling, Terrorblade, Faceless Void.
Playstyle-wise, there was a lot of focus on individual outplays, particularly from the offlane role. Successful teams had lots of the "meta" heroes in their repertoire and were able to use them to snowball from the laning stage into the midgame, simply securing more farm by pushing the enemy off the map and into defensive positions through outplays in how the map was played, which heroes could be where and how fights went. As such there was a higher focus on teamfight heroes with big ultimates, like Mars, Enigma, Faceless Void, Pheonix, Undying, but also saves against that, like Shadow Demon, also Undying, Vengeful Spirit.
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The International 2024 | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com The International 2024War banners are being washed clean of blood stains and scorch marks. Trumpets are being tested for their ability to sound the imminent approach of battle. Lanes are getting swept clean of body parts, and the Ancients are getting a good crack replastering and surface buffing. The forest air itself cr...
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Between the Lanes: Denying Denial of Service | Official blog post
www.dota2.com Between the Lanes: Denying Denial of ServiceWelcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota. This is a story about the internet, and how it doesn’t work like it should, wh...
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Dota Plus Update — Spring 2024 (And Dota Labs) | Official blog post
www.dota2.com Dota Plus Update — Spring 2024 (And Dota Labs)Dota Plus Seasonal Update As Spring blooms to life around us, it transports us here on the Dota team to the springs of yore, when the world was new and vibrant. Who could forget climbing that old oak tree by the bridge? Or stealing carrots and turnips from cranky old Farmer Maggot? Or taking that ri...
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ATF: don't huskar the HUSKAR MASTERS
clips.twitch.tv ESL_Dota2Earth - don't huskar the HUSKAR MASTERSWatch ESL_Dota2Earth's clip titled "don't huskar the HUSKAR MASTERS"
ATF to squadix after he lost with huskar
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Longest finger SVG ever seen in his life
clips.twitch.tv ESL_DOTA2 - Longest finger SVG saw in his lifeWatch ESL_DOTA2's clip titled "Longest finger SVG saw in his life"
Falcons vs IG game 1
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MC just got kicked mid tournament by Tundra
Apparently mc had a problem with Pure, moonmeander and zai and made an ultimatum to the ceo of the org yesterday, that either they leave or he will leave. Tundra decided to kick mc right before a match. Mc's replacement for Dreamleague is Laise from Team Klee.
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The Dragon's Gift | Official Blog Post / Update
www.dota2.com The Dragon's GiftWe're hard at work on an upcoming update we're calling "Crownfall", and we're excited to get it finished so you can see what we've been working on. We looked at a calendar and noticed it had been more than a few weeks since the Frostivus update, and we didn't want to make you wait until Crownfall be...
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Keep the ban waves coming
Kind of telling that I'm more excited about ban waves now than upcoming new content.
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What's 天地星AI·固定搭配?
I saw 天地星AI·固定搭配 when participating in a bot match. I googled its meaning in vain. Google translate wasn't much aid too. What does it mean?
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Why am I getting so many griefers in my games?
Here is my match history for the last few games:
- 7552918956 l primal beast running alone and running into enemy alone, globally muted during game
- 7552902567 l pos 5 pudge abandon
- 7552860133 l mid necro rushes dagon ONLY, gets it at 9 mins with 4 deaths. result: 19-0 enchantress opponent on mid
- 7552767327 l long game, pos 5 grim plays very poorly, worthless items, then abandons
- 7550071221 w played as wd, lost of mistakes, played him like 5 times, team won
- 7549980733 w played as lion, same as above
- 7548787204 w 68 min game, pretty normal and close compared to that
- 7548731357 l 7-16 (lvl7 @10 mins vs lvl10 lc) mid np tping behind towers and feeding, vs 536 stack duel victory lc
- 7548485224 l pos 1 pl barely more nw than a support, dying uselessly a lot, lc afk deffensively farming triangle
- 7548416320 l everyone fed meepo, offlaner didnt know how to play his hero
- 7548356120 l cw pos 1, i wasn't good either but he felt insanely useless and died a lot
- 7548301173 l pos 1 dude was straight out afk from the start
I had more or less (rather less) success before, but in the games I lost I there is always one lc mid rushing khanda, or someone who plays their hero for the first time (believe me, I can go on)
I get someone who griefs nearly every single game, and it makes impossible to have fun during games. Worst part is that I have to play the game till the end even if there is 0 chance of any play. What am I doing wrong? In the past there were multiple occurrences of having a really good winstreak, where my team won pretty hard, and I took a good part of it. Even if it was a loss, it was something to learn from, and I could blame myself for the mistakes I knew I made, and it was somewhat close. Then I got griefers for the next matches till I lost all of my advancements.
I seriously doubt that after having such a good winrates at 1.7k mmr I reach 2k, and the skill difference is that much that I have absolutely 0 chance to win, and suddenly everyone in my team plays insanely bad, or griefs. I get a ton of uncalibrated players who usually play awful in my team
I know that I'm possibly not better then everyone, but it always feels like I'm the only one in the team that knows how to play, and nearly always feel like that I was the best in my team. I know this sounds bad, but prove me otherwise, because at this point I have no idea what to do to stop this.
``` MatchID Date Periodic Excessive Reports Excessive Abandons Match Count Positive Matches Reported Matches Abandoned Matches Reports Reporting Parties Comms Reports Comms Reporting Parties Commends Behavior Score 7548356120 2024-01-21 16:02:44 GMT Yes No No 15 14 1 0 2 2 0 0 20 11875 7537612880 2024-01-14 16:34:57 GMT Yes No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 12000 7531262752 2024-01-10 18:18:10 GMT Yes No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 12000
``` My all-time lowest behavior score was 11767 (since the increase to 12k), my comms score is the same
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I really love Crystal Maidens shard... did you know:
Basic patch change, but your clone now gets destroyed by your ult and level 2 Crystal Nova. So you can trigger it whenever you want, clearing waves and jungle camps faster and more easily. Which also means you can put more early points into the Arcane Aura! https://streamable.com/d2stkn
It can be cast during your ultimate. Your Aghanim's Scepter Frostbites everyone standing in your Ult for 2.5 secs... but how about instantly Frostbiting everyone? https://streamable.com/2zg8ro
It disjoints projectiles. Enemy only has projectile interrupts for your ultimate? Ooops... https://streamable.com/pr2ngn
It blocks Pudge hook LOL take that https://streamable.com/3e42q1
Your normal Frostbite has 6 sec CD and disables for 3 seconds... So with Shard you have your very own 9 sec chain disable! (almost, if it weren't for the 0.3 sec cast time of Frostbite) https://streamable.com/9928ap
And I mean of course, you can go over cliffs, but everyone knows that, I just had the video lying around https://streamable.com/mal4vr
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9/10 Banner Placement
\+ Banner Between Two Other Banners \+ Supports Push \+ Relatively Safe \- Not Centered
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BBDacha Dubai 2024: WEU Closed Qualifier starting tomorrow!
liquipedia.net BetBoom Dacha Dubai 2024: WEU Closed QualifierBetBoom Dacha Dubai 2024: WEU Closed Qualifier is an online European Qualifier organized by FISSURE and BetBoom Esports. This Tier 1 Qualifier will take place from Jan 11 to 14 2024 featuring 8 teams.