[Megathread] DotA 2

[Daraiki]

Sorry to steal the subject away from Kuntantee's issue, but I was just thinking about the first time I played Dota and the heros that had full map ulties. We had a Zues and Me as profit and some-one else... Zues did His ulty- Unknown did theirs, I did Profits and got a penta kill- enemy team wasn't at fountain, but wasn't fighting ither they were waiting at base towers while we pushed. The question is, who was it (hero) that could have gone 2nd to do this... for the life of me I can't remember.

Spectre aka Mercurial

[Finear]

Ancient Apparition?

got a penta kill

watch your words xD

[PizzaSHARK]

If you want to have being cheesy and making people hate life, do a Batrider+Zeus lane. Holy christ that's one obnoxious lane to be against.

[Kuntantee]

well, technically...

Either way, nobody has recently reported such an issue to the developer forum. Some people appear to have some serious FPS issues, though. Does this happen every time you do this or is this a one-time thing? If you're able to recreate it on demand, you should email icefrog about it.

I meant I have no similar problem in any other game. In-game FPS is okay, I have no problems. It's the client(when I'm doing stuff in store, chat, trading etc.) overloading the CPU. Also I really doubt IceFrog would be interested in technical problems. Anyway if this shit continues I'll write it in official forums.

[Longview]

Also I really doubt IceFrog would be interested in technical problems. Anyway if this shit continues I'll write it in official forums.

You'd be surprised.

[Lysah]

Master Frog probably cares a lot about everything DotA related. What started out as a fun personal project for him is going to make him a millionaire as long as he keeps caring.

Well, I don't know how much money he gets from Valve actually, but I can't imagine it's small.

[Lillpapps]

Master Frog probably cares a lot about everything DotA related. What started out as a fun personal project for him is going to make him a millionaire as long as he keeps caring.

Well, I don't know how much money he gets from Valve actually, but I can't imagine it's small.

I can imagine the money that the store in dota cash in every day... Its probably a lot higher than Furions GPM.

[Lysah]

I can imagine the money that the store in dota cash in every day... Its probably a lot higher than Furions GPM.

You guys are silly, didn't you see the 1300 GPM antimage? Furion can only dream of that.

[Longview]

Master Frog probably cares a lot about everything DotA related. What started out as a fun personal project for him is going to make him a millionaire as long as he keeps caring.

Well, I don't know how much money he gets from Valve actually, but I can't imagine it's small.

Valve has a very small amount of employees with regard to their size. Their bar for hiring people is absurdly high, they will only hire people who not only has great expertise in multiple fields - they only hire people who work really well in groups and in social situations. At Valve, nobody is your boss (not even GabeN) and very few people permanently work on one game/project (IceFrog is probably the only one constantly on Dota 2). Every so often, they have everyone vote on each others' deserved salary, and employees get paid based on the mean of these numbers. I'd imagine IceFrog gets voted pretty highly in these polls, even if he was a misanthropist and never spoke to anyone. You can read the Valve Employee Handbook if you want to know more. They give this as sort of a guide to new employees or potential hires.

You guys are silly, didn't you see the 1300 GPM antimage? Furion can only dream of that.

I had 1472 GPM in a matchmaking game once.

https://dotabuff.com/matches/18415301

[Lysah]

Valve has a very small amount of employees with regard to their size. Their bar for hiring people is absurdly high, they will only hire people who not only has great expertise in multiple fields - they only hire people who work really well in groups and in social situations. At Valve, nobody is your boss (not even GabeN) and very few people permanently work on one game/project (IceFrog is probably the only one constantly on Dota 2). Every so often, they have everyone vote on each others' deserved salary, and employees get paid based on the mean of these numbers. I'd imagine IceFrog gets voted pretty highly in these polls, even if he was a misanthropist and never spoke to anyone. You can read the Valve Employee Handbook if you want to know more. They give this as sort of a guide to new employees or potential hires.

Oh that's pretty interesting. Seems like it would work well as long as the company is kept small.

I had 1472 GPM in a matchmaking game once.

https://dotabuff.com/matches/18415301

Awesome, as Tiny too! Furion is so DotA1.

[Longview]

I watched NTH's EternaLEnVy pull 1100+ GPM as Anti-Mage on his stream a while back. >400 LH before 30 minutes. I was watching the game together with two friends in my team, we had drafted AM earlier that day. By the time our AM had Treads+Midas+Battle Fury, EV had two Battle Furies, Hand of Midas and Treads. I was a bit impressed with how well he seemed to hard carry seeing as most he ever does is staying single-digit level until lategame and stack every camp as often as possible.

[Lillpapps]

You guys are silly, didn't you see the 1300 GPM antimage? Furion can only dream of that.

I'll just leave this here and maybe you can understand my post:

[PizzaSHARK]

Awesome, as Tiny too! Furion is so DotA1.

Fed carry-Tiny is just fucking disgusting. Completely game-breaking, though I guess if you let him farm for 40 minutes you deserve it.

[Lysah]

I typed out a big post about how Tiny is the best hero ever but decided not to post it. Suffice to say avalance and toss make it impossible to stop him from farming, at least somewhat. He can farm energy boots with a couple of waves the second you leave lane even if you stack the lane against him. and with just that item he can go jungling and avatoss his way to victory. His weakness, like many other burst heroes, is in his absurd cooldowns.

And once he gets scepter I can believe 1000+ GPM in a good game. Destroying every enemy building on the map sure helps get the GPM up there.

[PizzaSHARK]

I typed out a big post about how Tiny is the best hero ever but decided not to post it. Suffice to say avalance and toss make it impossible to stop him from farming, at least somewhat. He can farm energy boots with a couple of waves the second you leave lane even if you stack the lane against him. and with just that item he can go jungling and avatoss his way to victory. His weakness, like many other burst heroes, is in his absurd cooldowns.

And once he gets scepter I can believe 1000+ GPM in a good game. Destroying every enemy building on the map sure helps get the GPM up there.

It's his passive more than anything else in my opinion because it's the perfect anti-carry ability on a carry that, when fed, can easily crit your entire team for 1500 damage a pop and then wander off and three-hit your rax immediately afterwards. It stuns based on proximity to Tiny rather than your hero's attack type (melee versus ranged), it stuns for a pretty significant amount of time for a passive effect (1.2s) and has no cooldown, and while BKB blocks it, you can forget about stabbing Tiny without BKB up.

Basically, it's NA's Spiked Carapace but better.

It's that passive combined with the frankly absurd amount of shit he gets from a single item (scepter) that makes him so ridiculous when he's fed, IMO. I mean, Tiny has to have the best scepter upgrade in the game. More damage on his Toss combo, bonus attack range, bonus cleave, AND bonus damage versus structures. If they decided Tiny needed to be nerfed, that's where I'd start.

[Lysah]

I don't know, spiked carapace is probably one of the best moves in the game in my opinion. Craggy ranks pretty high on the stupid meter, though.

[PizzaSHARK]

I don't know, spiked carapace is probably one of the best moves in the game in my opinion. Craggy ranks pretty high on the stupid meter, though.

Spiked Carapace was a LOT better when it was more demanding on the NA's part instead of an automatic "I don't need to play mind games, I just mash buttonz lawl" skill.

Craggy would probably be fine if it was restricted to just melee units, not anything within X distance of Tiny. They picked Tiny as a carry? np, get a ranged carry to deal with him (read: Viper.)

[Lysah]

Craggy would be fine if it procced when you hit him, not when you attack. Too many times I've hooked a Tiny only to be instastunned before I could ult and killed because it somehow makes sense for you to get stunned just for thinking about attacking a rock.

[PizzaSHARK]

Craggy would be fine if it procced when you hit him, not when you attack. Too many times I've hooked a Tiny only to be instastunned before I could ult and killed because it somehow makes sense for you to get stunned just for thinking about attacking a rock.

Probably along the lines of you hit Tiny and rocks fall (off his ass) and everyone dies. I'm wondering how the hell those rocks fly out 300 feet in either direction in response to an arrow hitting him, though.

But seriously, just pick Viper. Dude counters the shit out of carry Tiny.

[Hermanni]

It's not like Viper and SD aren't some of the best counters for almost any melee carry as it is.