DOTA2

[Polysynchronicity]

yeah, definitely a must watch. it takes a while to really get going, but goddamn does it get going.

[Polysynchronicity]

Most of our LoL -> Dota players have the basics down already, but if you don't, this guy's videos are quite a nice resource.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mylmyzz/videos

[Cerzi]

I like how Valve are trying to make in-game spectating similar to going to a stadium to watch a game, letting you look around the field yourself as well as following the caster's views. But 50 bucks for 3 days of games seems pretty steep.

Would not be surprised if all the tickets sell out though. Valve are clearly the masters of the F2P model.

[tHornton]

I like how Valve are trying to make in-game spectating similar to going to a stadium to watch a game, letting you look around the field yourself as well as following the caster's views. But 50 bucks for 3 days of games seems pretty steep.

Would not be surprised if all the tickets sell out though. Valve are clearly the masters of the F2P model.

those tickets are to attend the physical event, right?

[Jon.J]

I like how Valve are trying to make in-game spectating similar to going to a stadium to watch a game, letting you look around the field yourself as well as following the caster's views. But 50 bucks for 3 days of games seems pretty steep.

Would not be surprised if all the tickets sell out though. Valve are clearly the masters of the F2P model.

those tickets are to attend the physical event, right?

Yeah, pretty sure they are to attend the actual event in Seattle. Think we can still watch via Dota 2.

Where Valve are showing they are masters of the F2P model is selling invite codes for £25 for a F2P game.

[Cerzi]

Ahh ok, that's fair enough then hah.

Yeah, well theyre making a killing all round really.

[Doomed Predator]

Lets hope all the money they're raking in helps improve viewing live games from the client. Every wildcard game I watched had effects lagging several seconds behind and audio channels going dead every teamfight.

[Polysynchronicity]

it's a work in progress for sure - this shit got implemented this week.

i expect next patch to include updates to spectator mode, but who knows when it'll actually be working

[Doomed Predator]

Yeah, I doubt the tournament filters have anything to do with spectator lag. It just can handle multiple thousand spectators just yet because of either hardware limitations or they need to fiddle with the code. Hopefully it will be smoother once the international 2 starts.

[evil edna]

furion guide

start with teleport, dont buy any items, tp to the clifftop, die 3 times to creeps, always sprout foob so he dies, never die to enemys, win game

[Polysynchronicity]

Update is now live.

[evil edna]

no new hats

[Polysynchronicity]

Since I know people will ask:

Phantom Assassin - Treads, Battlefury, BKB, MKB, Satanic

Chaos Knight - Urn, Treads, Armlet, BKB, Heart, Manta

Gyro (this is what I'm least sure of) - Bottle, Phase, optional Aghanims, Manta/BKB/Butterfly/ETC

once i've played them all (or at least seen them played well) i'll look into doing actual guides. at the moment take anything I say with a grain of salt as i haven't actually played any of them yet and have just been reading the r/dota2 threads about them for build advice

[FooB]

new patch summary;-

no luna

no techies

no bristleback

no hats

no fucks.

[ChocolateDigestive]

why gyro? seems a bit out of place since he was relatively terrible. i'd have rather had troll or phoenix personally.

[Cool09]

Randomed pudge yesterday, was mid against gyro. FB him and kept wrecking him and the sidelanes... basically went on one of those "oh god, where is pudge" rampages. Which was needed as everyone else was getting rocked. Our CM was 0-6, our PA (only carry) was 0-5, and we were losing towers left and right.

BUT

We had the super combo.... the combo of PA and ogre magi. 400% crit + frenzy = wtf damage. We held on barely, using buybacks to save the rax and losing two base towers. Finally by 40 minutes we won some fights. By 50 minutes we crushed them and won

Also a couple tips for PA, she can blink strike 1000 distance, so its like a super version of riki's. Remember to blink to allied units or w/e to escape. If you are in a really tough lane, you can last hit with the dagger ability. It does pure damage (double against creeps) and its cheap on mana, with low cd. (like dark lady in hon)

[Polysynchronicity]

yeah, kept getting surprised by just how far PA could blink. depending on the time of day she can even blink on you from out of sight range.

fortunately I was playing AM and had 700gpm, so it did not matter

[evil edna]

i got the rare tidehunter rainbow bone mask drop, oh yeah

[tHornton]

why the fuck do the gigabyte dota masters casters have to be so fucking bad

its by far the best tournament running at the moment with a huge lineup of really good teams, but these faggot australians make this shit unwatchable

[Irion]

spent £18 on the dota store. Used the give a random player an item box, player then disconnects and never reconnects :-(