Dota 2 - "slapping your ballsack against the keyboard waiting for the pretty bars above the enemys h

[SevenFiveSeven]

[QUOTE=Atlascore;35803578]Uh, in case you haven't noticed the test textures look roughly similar to the finished product, Brewmaster or any of the other heroes weren't wearing bright teal outfits during development, their colors were similar to the final product in most cases.[/QUOTE]

Bane got a pretty major overhaul during development.

[IMG]http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/9/9a/Bane.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/archive/9/9a/20120224233352!Bane.png[/IMG]

It's not unrealistic to expect major changes in a character's design during development.

[Maruhai]

[QUOTE=Atlascore;35803616]...

The entire point of the test textures is so the models aren't walking around as gray blobs during testing, it's a basis for the final texture in terms of color, go back and look at any of the other heroes.[/QUOTE]
No it's not.
Valve just wants to see how it looks on the model ingame.

[Haxxer]

"Some people will complain, no matter what you do."

Valve knows this and doesn't give a fuck

[The Luftwaffle]

[QUOTE=butters757;35803776]Bane got a pretty major overhaul during development.

[IMG]http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/9/9a/Bane.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/archive/9/9a/20120224233352!Bane.png[/IMG]

It's not unrealistic to expect major changes in a character's design during development.[/QUOTE]

Doesn't mean the new design doesn't look like shit. Both coloring (however final or not it is) and her armor look completely out of place for her role as an agility-based assassin. Her previous hood design fit her character better, as well as looked better.

[The Luftwaffle]

Chaos Knight on the other hand looks like a total baller.

[editline]2nd May 2012[/editline]

Fucking automerge

[titopei]

[QUOTE=Murdoco;35803588]New brewmaster better get changed back or get changed into something completely new. He looks like a fat squirrel now.[/QUOTE]

His new look is fine.

[Santz]

Chaos Knight can own SK(If you mean Skeleton King) any day lol

Edit;

I prefered the old brewmaster, anyone know why they changed it? Maybe its just cuz they wanted to but I thought everyone loved the old brewmaster.

[The Luftwaffle]

[QUOTE=titopei;35803918]His new look is fine.[/QUOTE]

His new look is... alright. I liked the old look better though, particularly the color of his clothes and gear. Overall I feel that the change was unnecessary.

[CowThing]

Since no one actually posted the image of the new courier yet:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cx98Kh.png[/img]

[The Luftwaffle]

[QUOTE=CowThing;35803964]Since no one actually posted the image of the new courier yet:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cx98Kh.png[/img][/QUOTE]

I need this because of reasons.

[Banned?]

I don't know why you people are complaining about a WIP, not-even-in-game-yet model that doesn't even [I]have[/I] textures yet, just colors for testing purposes.

[editline]2nd May 2012[/editline]

And regardless of how she looks now, everyone is going to fucking love how she looks when she releases so sit down and shut up about it. Geez.

[Belivo]

[QUOTE=The Luftwaffle;35803968]I need this because of reasons.[/QUOTE]

rerr?

[Haxxer]

[t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/541800497200403037/6405C1B017A0E127E74893342DEFC7BB15A6A3E8/[/t]

Lancer is incredibly fun to play

[sWiftyious]

[url]http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2012/03/dota-2-item-schema-update/#more-710[/url]

[Apocalypsewaffle]

[QUOTE=sWiftyious;35805094][url]http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2012/03/dota-2-item-schema-update/#more-710[/url][/QUOTE]

Oh god, literally everything from tf2's item system is in dota 2, with the exception that you can get things like increase drop rate, bonus couriers and ways to buy yourself out of low priority matchmaking :/

[Jericho_Rus]

I'm absolutely okay with the item system. It doesn't hurt the artstyle (yet) and what's wrong with personalizing your character a little bit?

[BloodYScar]

Waaaiit a second. You'd buy these items and just get em for a limited amount of time? Count me out then, thats why i dont play lol

[Jericho_Rus]

[QUOTE=BloodYScar;35805790]Waaaiit a second. You'd buy these items and just get em for a limited amount of time? Count me out then, thats why i dont play lol[/QUOTE]

What, where does it say that?

[Roov]

[QUOTE=BloodYScar;35805790]Waaaiit a second. You'd buy these items and just get em for a limited amount of time? Count me out then, thats why i dont play lol[/QUOTE]
No, if you buy it - its yours. Or alternatively you can unlock it for a limited time via an award/achievement.

[BloodYScar]

Oh. But the REWARDS only stay for a limited amount of time then? Cyborgmatt article states that.

[caesium]

There's crafting and also a mention of recycling, I wonder how that works.

Crafting's a bit weird as there's no "common drop" that can be spent.

[bunnyspy1]

I'm having a blast as lifestealer with my friend playing skeleton king, we fight bots set on "easier".
today was my first day with a positive K/D/A.
games that double as e-sports are hard

[knimren]

[QUOTE=sWiftyious;35805094][url]http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2012/03/dota-2-item-schema-update/#more-710[/url][/QUOTE]

Just opened it, in a new tab and saw this:

[IMG]http://www.abload.de/img/headlru4z.png[/IMG]

:v:

[Reimu]

I like the idea of being able to upgrade your drop rate, especially because I haven't been able to play DOTA 2 enough this week to actually get anything dropped :(.

Bringing over some things from TF2 look cool, others seem kinda lame. Name tags, taunts, couriers, hexes, and certain item switches all seem pretty sweet. But some are so minor that they won't be that noticeable thus defeats the purpose of showing off cosmetics (for better or for worse).

Also I know that the idea of Premium & Trial versions has been floating around for awhile for DOTA, since it was an STS string for at least a few months. IMO it's not a bad idea, and it's a lot more appropriate than even in TF2.

[Bat-shit]

I was hoping they'd charge about $30-40 for Dota2, which would have been a reasonable price for a game with so many heroes/items.

I mean, I couldn't care less about nametagging or taunts and shit for 2-5$ a pop.

[Jakkarra]

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!

YOU WILL NEVER KILL THE REAL PHANTOM LANCER!

EDIT: Also, to those seemingly unhappy with motred's tealness, that's very obviously not a texture, it looks to be an untextured model with dev colours on it. The teal is NOT going to stay. ( i liked her initial design better than this helmet though)

[Tokagero]

If you have Double Damage Rune active, should newly created or active illusions receive it as well ?

I had DD and none of newly spawned (as PL) illusions had it. I can't quite remember the mechanic behind this.

[Gate]

i love some of the new icons
[img]http://dota2.cyborgmatt.com/newicons/updated_0205/ultimate_scepter.png[/img] very close to [img]http://media.playdota.com/items/106/icon.jpg[/img]

also
obligatory patch question
how does one counter phantom lancer? i thought earthshaker but it seems like echo slam damage isnt increased by illusions

[pvt.meh]

Obsidian Destroyer?

[OluapPlayer]

[img]http://www.cyborgmatt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/npc_dota_hero_meepo.png[/img]

''Son, I've seen things.''