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

[QUOTE=RagerTrader;36072571]And wow, casual fun time. ONLY shows wins, because oh no we can't have people actually having W/L, just how many times he won because we don't want to hurt the feelings of the guy who is 10/90 because he instalocks Bloodseeker.[/QUOTE][img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596971086017203109/BF878866E52441B22881736D676EA93C324376B0/[/img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/OYJ83.png[/img] TITS

[QUOTE=TehWoodPcker;36073149][img]http://i.imgur.com/OYJ83.png[/img] TITS[/QUOTE] I noticed this when looking through the character cards. Valve. I'm disappointed in you.

I love everything about the new UI.

[QUOTE=TehWoodPcker;36073149][img]http://i.imgur.com/OYJ83.png[/img] TITS[/QUOTE] Also Lina. Not Drow though.

Pudges are still the best though

Wait until it's filled in. It's missing 30some heroes.

Holy fucking shit I just had the most heart pounding match 70 minute game where their omni was just in our base through the last half of the game with bunch of farm destroying shit and our silencer and pudge were being stereotypical BRs (they were even on the same clan or whatever) trolling us by pudge just keep hooking us over and over and said they were done and they should just finish us already so we thought it was just a matter of time until they finish us we're down a top and bottom rax and Insect Pugilist (Potato Pugilist from here I think) just says, "lets just push mid who cares if we win or lose" which was the best idea it ended up in a sort of base race scenario and since I was a fully farmed AM (I only needed a relic for abyssal then I would have had manta, phase, blade, butterfly, vanguard, and a battlefury) I just attacked like mad and took a nice chunk every time. They had time for Night Stalker to get instantly dead once then buy back and try again before we barely won what we thought was a lost game. Match ID is 17275930 if you want to go check it out

Protip: if it's late game and you still have a Vanguard, trade it in for a Heart.

[QUOTE=Japancakes;36073546]Holy fucking shit I just had the most heart pounding match 70 minute game where their omni was just in our base through the last half of the game with bunch of farm destroying shit and our silencer and pudge were being stereotypical BRs (they were even on the same clan or whatever) trolling us by pudge just keep hooking us over and over and said they were done and they should just finish us already so we thought it was just a matter of time until they finish us we're down a top and bottom rax and Insect Pugilist (Potato Pugilist from here I think) just says, "lets just push mid who cares if we win or lose" which was the best idea it ended up in a sort of base race scenario and since I was a fully farmed AM (I only needed a relic for abyssal then I would have had manta, phase, blade, butterfly, vanguard, and a battlefury) I just attacked like mad and took a nice chunk every time. They had time for Night Stalker to get instantly dead once then buy back and try again before we barely won what we thought was a lost game. Match ID is 17275930 if you want to go check it out[/QUOTE] Hello that was good match [editline]23rd May 2012[/editline] Earthshakers textures are still garbage

Wow, I fucking love Leshrac. I random him, and the game was going bad. We had lost all our T1 towers, while they still had one, and T2 mid was down. Their lycan, drow, ursa, shadow shaman, and huskar made leaving the base nearly impossible, so I thought we were boned. Then I somehow managed to farm up enough for my bloodstone, we get a wipe teamfight due to Sven, Viper, and I and the game just became fucking awesome. stunnin' and droppin' fools left and right, I manage to grab a Shiva's, and there is nothing the enemy team can do. We push all their towers, and then manage to get megacreeps and win the game. Moral of the story- [video=youtube;rfUYuIVbFg0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0[/video] (Also Leshrac's ult is game breaking if you have enough mana regen.) [editline]24th May 2012[/editline] AAAaaaand the automatic dumb ratings continue.

Have some nyx concept art that someone "accidentally" leaked: [img]http://i.imgur.com/GvMtS.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=TehWoodPcker;36073149][img]http://i.imgur.com/OYJ83.png[/img] TITS[/QUOTE] [img]http://puu.sh/ws3v[/img] I like this new update

There needs to be more blog posts that talk about concept art/their decisions in development rather than the standard weekly hero release post.

If we're going to talk about amazing comebacks, I'm gonna talk about one too. I was playing Windrunner with a friend who was playing Warlock and we had the worst Pudge ever. He was Brazilian. Every time he died he yelled at us. Eventually he died so much he just typed stuff in the chat, in all caps, over and over and over again. "FUCK YOU" "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK" "NOOOOOOOOOOBS" "YOU ALL LOSE" "LOOOOOOOSE" and all kinds of Portuguese which I can only assume is he cussing us out. I was deathly afraid that he was going to start feeding every time he died. Lucky for us, me and Warlock were preforming well. He was initiating, I was shackling like a boss. Our carry, a Shadow Fiend, was not doing that awesome K/D-wise, or even farm-wise. He ended with the most CS and I'm not sure how. Regardless, he had a Blink Dagger and a BKB and was trying to do his thing: blink in, ultie, kill people with auto-attacks. We had a Spirit Breaker who's job was not to carry but to keep the squishy disables off our asses. This was not really working out for the longest time. We would die more than them every teamfight and they would push but we would somehow hold them off. Somewhere around the 50 min mark our Pudge got caught in our jungle and we all happen to be close enough to help him, despite not wanting to because he's been an giant cocksucker all game. It was to the point where, if we lost, we could at least say "Thank God, because Pudge didn't deserve a win." We still wanted to win though. We go help. He dies, but despite the entire fight being a total clusterfuck, we won. Everyone showed up at separate times, a few seconds apart, no one had a focus target, we just ran the fight like it should have been done and we fucking five man wiped them. We have never done that before. We charge down mid like men on fire and down the middle barracks. Creeps happen to be pushing bottom as we do this and we get melee barracks down there too. I don't know how we did it, but after that we knew we won. There was nothing they could do to stop us. We pulled a win out of a place so unknown we don't even know where it came from.

[QUOTE=CowThing;36072818]By the way, new robot courier. [t]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nJcBN7CQO8U/T71_IkDryEI/AAAAAAAACMs/fHV92cJMiTw/s0/courrier.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] :o

We don't need initiators in a pub scenario right? Would 1 or 2 regular stunners work instead of a tide/es/etc.

Even in a pub scenario you should have an initiator.

Are some of the heroes labeled as initiator fine or is it best to just stick with the aoe damage ones (Tide,ES,etc.)

I just realized that Mithril Hammer is an Objectively bad item unless you are using it too build something. It cost 100 more then phase boots can't be bought form the sideshop, and in addition to having the same + damage stat, phase boots have a awesome (albeit non-stack-able) Active. Fuck Mithril Hammers.

[QUOTE=MAspiderface;36073852]Have some nyx concept art that someone "accidentally" leaked: [img]http://i.imgur.com/GvMtS.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] God damn I want to look at ever hero concept art! They better release the concepts when all the current heroes are finished. Or at least sell a book full of them.

[QUOTE=titopei;36074259]Are some of the heroes labeled as initiator fine or is it best to just stick with the aoe damage ones (Tide,ES,etc.)[/QUOTE] You might try Sven. His stun is technically single target, but has an AOE and he can wreck face with only a bit of farm.

[QUOTE=RagerTrader;36074380]I just realized that Mithril Hammer is an Objectively bad item unless you are using it too build something. It cost 100 more then phase boots can't be bought form the sideshop, and in addition to having the same + damage stat, phase boots have a awesome (albeit non-stack-able) Active. Fuck Mithril Hammers.[/QUOTE] This post convinced me that you're trolling. Almost nobody buys a mithril hammer early enough in the game to get it from the Side Shop, and nobody even gets one if they aren't using it to build something.

[QUOTE=Rats808;36074451]This post convinced me that you're trolling. Almost nobody buys a mithril hammer early enough in the game to get it from the Side Shop, and nobody even gets one if they aren't using it to build something.[/QUOTE] It was just a silly observation. And believe me, I HAVE seen dumb-asses grab 3-4 Mithril Hammers before building anything with them. It's as horrifying as it sounds.

[video=youtube;fSY0-l_jj28]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSY0-l_jj28[/video]

6 mithril hammer build is the best, one moment they're mithril hammers, next thing you know they have desolators and bkb's

[QUOTE=titopei;36074259]Are some of the heroes labeled as initiator fine or is it best to just stick with the aoe damage ones (Tide,ES,etc.)[/QUOTE] The "traditional" initiators (Tidehunter, Sand King, Earthshaker, Warlock, Enigma) are far more reliable than every single hero labeled as an initiator. Some people find Puck hard to follow up to. Batrider and Pudge are odd initiators because they don't jump in with a lot of damage, they grab someone away. Brewmaster isn't traditional at all but not that hard to follow up to as a team.

Warlock counts as an initiator? I knew his golem stunned when it was casted but I just thought it was used as a regular aoe stun like kunkka and lina, just a lot larger.

You know, after looking at some of the new portraits, the shadowing on some are really messed up. I don't know how they're angling light to make shadows like that on Queen of Pain. Drow and Riki too. [editline]23rd May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=titopei;36074714]Warlock counts as an initiator? I knew his golem stunned when it was casted but I just thought it was used as a regular aoe stun like kunkka and lina, just a lot larger.[/QUOTE] It's area is pretty much the entire screen and it's range makes it arguably the most reliable initiator in the game. It's so easy. Click and go with no danger.

[QUOTE=titopei;36074714]Warlock counts as an initiator? I knew his golem stunned when it was casted but I just thought it was used as a regular aoe stun like kunkka and lina, just a lot larger.[/QUOTE] Golem used in conjunction with Fatal Bonds and Upheaval can be pretty powerful.