Dota 2 General Chat - I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords

[SevenFiveSeven]

[QUOTE=General J;37658399]So what was in the update? No patch notes or Meepos :([/QUOTE]

[quote]- Made significant performance improvements to model loading and rendering.
- Added iG to the Hall of Fame.

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed a bug where a Blink Dagger could be used post-stun even if it should have been disabled due to damage.

UI
- Settings dialog sliders no longer go to 11.
- The loadout screen now shows how many items you have for each slot (so you don't have to page in and out of each slot to find items).
- The Gold and XP graphs will now update immediately when a broadcaster opens them.
- The Shop combine tree is now animated.
- The center item in the combine tree now shows purchasable border.
- The buyback indicator in top bar displays for 10 seconds.
- Pinging dropped items now prints the item to team chat, similar to rune pinging.

VISUALS
- Beefed up Lifestealer's Open Wounds debuff effect.
- Beefed up Luna's Lucent Beam impact a tiny bit.
- Made some visual tweaks to Keeper's Illuminate projectile so it behaves better when moving across different altitudes.
- Slightly enlarged accuracy debuff effect for Keeper's Blinding Light.

SOUND
- Added new lines to several heroes.

BOTS
- Added Dragon Knight bot.
- Added Skeleton King bot.
- Fixed invisible bots getting stuck trying to place wards.
- Fixed Earthshaker not considering using Enchant Totem to interrupt channels.
- Juggernaut will no longer try to attack when using Blade Fury, he'll just move to his desired location.
- Lina should now use Laguna Blade more appropriately (less killstealing of low-health enemies).
- Bots should now be less likely to bail on a neutral farming target that has a tiny amount of health left.
- Fixed bug that caused bots to select the wrong item to drop.
- Fixed bots always assuming that humans were pushing a tower (rather than farming it) if they were in-lane late-game.
- Fixed bug that was causing too much avoidance from Radiance.
- Fixed bug where Lina wouldn't use Dragon Slave when pushing or defending a lane.
- Fixed towers still causing avoidance for a few seconds after they've been destroyed.
- Bots now better estimate how powerful they are relative to the enemy team.[/quote]
[quote]Fixed dropped item ping chat line not drawing.
New multi-unit display changes:
- added a channel bar to each slot
- selected units are now highlighted, with a special highlight for the primary selected unit
- added a red flash when recently damaged
- you can now click on slots to select / deselect units
Cleaned up grammar in Homing Missile description.
Fixed server crash due to Skeleton King not validating his Hellfire Blast target.
Fixed end-of-game server crash in bot games.
Made Skeleton King and Dragon Knight more likely to be selected by bots.[/quote]

Also this:

[quote][img]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/558700990560944107/0A068DC0E77C50760655E1FC1D6FF2EDFCF3650F/[/img][/quote]

[l l]

[QUOTE=l l;37656293]I bet Valve will do a surprise update.

It's been a while since they've added new heroes but they definitely tested them, they let people at Valve offices and the prelims play em, test patches are a day of testing and it's been quite a few weeks.[/QUOTE]
Well that's lame.

But I bet that the next update will have like 6 heroes.

[S T]

Is anybody else having a really shitty time trying to run this game right now? I either get timed out while loading, or crash every time I get into a game. I swear each update makes my game run 10x worse.

[Proogles]

[QUOTE=Twipsters;37658702]Is anybody else having a really shitty time trying to run this game right now? I either get timed out while loading, or crash every time I get into a game. I swear each update makes my game run 10x worse.[/QUOTE]You're not the only one, but it could just be my computer.

The game was lagging out really badly when everyone spawned after picking heroes, which usually lead to Dota crashing for me. Tonight it crashed when I respawned after dying.

Quit tormenting me Dota I just want to play 1 game, is that too much?

[dogchow33]

I think the reason triple M didn't happen is because 6.75 is inbound, the devs don't want to shock the community with new heroes then give them buffs/nerfs the very next patch. Plus, IceFrog said it's coming after TI2.

[BoxinShrimp]

How does Meepo's ultimate even work? Is it cast to make the clones, or do they only respawn if you die or is it a timed respawn?

[bunnyspy1]

[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;37658888]How does Meepo's ultimate even work? Is it cast to make the clones, or do they only respawn if you die or is it a timed respawn?[/QUOTE]

if one dies all the others die

[Mercilust]

[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;37658888]How does Meepo's ultimate even work? Is it cast to make the clones, or do they only respawn if you die or is it a timed respawn?[/QUOTE]

For every level for his ulti, another meepo will pop up on the spot. 4 total, 5 with agh scepter.

[Banhfunbags]

[QUOTE=l l;37658573]Well that's lame.

But I bet that the next update will have like 6 heroes.[/QUOTE]

Can you stop getting people's hopes up when it's obvious that we're not going to get 20 heroes or whatever next week because everyone is just going to complain about how they got their hopes up for nothing again.

[Banned?]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659119]Can you stop getting people's hopes up when it's obvious that we're not going to get 20 heroes or whatever next week because everyone is just going to complain about how they got their hopes up for nothing again.[/QUOTE]

I don't think anyone gets their hopes up over something Beez tries to predict.

[xpod1]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659119]Can you stop getting people's hopes up when it's obvious that we're not going to get 20 heroes or whatever next week because everyone is just going to complain about how they got their hopes up for nothing again.[/QUOTE]

yeah ok lets all target one person that you believed last time

[l l]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659119]Can you stop getting people's hopes up when it's obvious that we're not going to get 20 heroes or whatever next week because everyone is just going to complain about how they got their hopes up for nothing again.[/QUOTE]
It's been like how long without any heroes?

It's kinda obvious they are going to release more than one...

[QUOTE=Banned?;37659160]I don't think anyone gets their hopes up over something Beez tries to predict.[/QUOTE]
can you just stop

[Banhfunbags]

[QUOTE=xpod1;37659253]yeah ok lets all target one person that you believed last time[/QUOTE]

Maybe I'm targeting him because he keeps making these "optimistic" posts about getting 20 heroes or whatever.

[QUOTE=l l;37659274]It's been like how long without any heroes?

It's kinda obvious they are going to release more than one...
[/QUOTE]

It's been said so many times in this thread that the Dota 2 team wasn't working on the game itself during the International.

[l l]

It's coming close to two weeks since the last international game was played.

[BoxinShrimp]

[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;37658907]if one dies all the others die[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Gilgadood;37659009]For every level for his ulti, another meepo will pop up on the spot. 4 total, 5 with agh scepter.[/QUOTE]

Neither of these answered my question, I was asking what happens after the clones die. How does he make more?

[Banned?]

[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;37659335]Neither of these answered my question, I was asking what happens after the clones die. How does he make more?[/QUOTE]

They always spawn with him.

[Zephyrs]

[QUOTE=l l;37659312]It's coming close to two weeks since the last international game was played.[/QUOTE]

Right. They don't have any travel time or downtime after the event because they are just machines that work. It didn't take months of work to get the international together, and they don't get vacation time.

Sometimes I wonder if the people on this forum have ever dealt with Valve before.

[General J]

I think people are really anxious for Meepo because there was media during ti2 that gave the impression that it was already finished, but I don't think a screenshot showing his his playermodel in game means that he's 100% ready

[Banhfunbags]

When the hell is Valve going to release the "open beta"? The game needs to be free for everyone already because I think the hype is dying down now.

[Terin7]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659557]When the hell is Valve going to release the "open beta"? The game needs to be free for everyone already because I think the hype is dying down now.[/QUOTE]How is the hype dying down? It's been pretty consistently the most played game on Steam for a while now. I don't think the game is at risk of dying if Valve doesn't open it in a few weeks. It'll most likely be sometime in October/November as they finish up releasing the heroes.

[Banhfunbags]

[QUOTE=Terin7;37659637]How is the hype dying down? It's been pretty consistently the most played game on Steam for a while now. I don't think the game is at risk of dying if Valve doesn't open it in a few weeks. It'll most likely be sometime in October/November as they finish up releasing the heroes.[/QUOTE]

I wasn't talking about the game dying for its current players. There are tons of people that are currently waiting for invites for the game(Korea is a good example of this), and they're starting to not care anymore and go to other team RTSs now.

[Banned?]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659692]I wasn't talking about the game dying for its current players. There are tons of people that are currently waiting for invites for the game(Korea is a good example of this), and they're starting to not care anymore and go to other team RTSs now.[/QUOTE]

Since iG won The International it's cause huge hype in China. What are you talking about?

[Banhfunbags]

[QUOTE=Banned?;37659726]Since iG won The International it's cause huge hype in China. What are you talking about?[/QUOTE]

China doesn't represent all gamers.

[Belivo]

[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;37659335]Neither of these answered my question, I was asking what happens after the clones die. How does he make more?[/QUOTE]

This is a bit cluttered part of the video, but what happens is Centaur Warchief focuses one of his clones, once it died they all blew apart basically.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyHQtHX3H8&feature=player_detailpage#t=2601s[/media]

[sp]if it doesn't start from custom point, go to 43:21[/sp]

[Banned?]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659750]China doesn't represent all gamers.[/QUOTE]

No, but it's a massive chunk of DotA player base.

Thinking that hype is dying for Dota 2 is like thinking that hype is dying for the Super Bowl just because it's over. "HOLY SHIT VALVE HAS NOT RELEASED A NEW HERO AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL THE HYPE IS DYING" No, it's just two weeks after The International.

[Banhfunbags]

[QUOTE=Banned?;37659831]No, but it's a massive chunk of DotA player base.

Thinking that hype is dying for Dota 2 is like thinking that hype is dying for the Super Bowl just because it's over. "HOLY SHIT VALVE HAS NOT RELEASED A NEW HERO AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL THE HYPE IS DYING" No, it's just two weeks after The International.[/QUOTE]

What. It's like you didn't even read my posts. Here, let me quote them.

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659557]When the hell is Valve going to release the "open beta"? The game needs to be free for everyone already because I think the hype is dying down now.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659692]I wasn't talking about the game dying for its current players. There are tons of people that are currently waiting for invites for the game(Korea is a good example of this), and they're starting to not care anymore and go to other team RTSs now.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659750]China doesn't represent all gamers.[/QUOTE]

[General J]

Price of invite needs to be lowered to $15-$20, I have some friends that are dying to play dota but the price is just too steep, so they're playing lol instead :| They don't care about the super cool cosmetic items that comes with it, they just want to play.

[editline]14th September 2012[/editline]

Ogre you glad I didn't say Magi

[Banned?]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;37659850]What. It's like you didn't even read my posts. Here, let me quote them.[/QUOTE]

No, I understand. I think people who think hype is dying from people outside the game don't quite understand what they're looking at. Hype is not dying. I'd honestly say that as soon as Dota 2 goes into open beta or full release, either or, the game is going to fucking explode on a level I can't imagine and that Valve are really nervous about (hence the reason why it's not already open besides the fact that all heroes are not in). There were 81k people online at peak today and this is [I]closed beta[/I].

[dual elites]

guys we totally saw the meepo model in game at the international, this means he is 100% finished with 0 critical bugs or polish issues and valve are just holding off on him to be meany poopheads!!

[Maruhai]

[h2]HUGE WALL OF IMAGES, JUMP HERE IF YOU WANT TO SKIP IT:[/h2] [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1209697&p=37661197&viewfull=1#post37661197[/url]

Looking through item schema and trying to guess some of the new items added (there's only the beta names of them right now).
[B]KEEP IN MID THIS IS ONLY IN THE SCHEMA AND MEANS THAT THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION VALVE WILL ADD IT TO THE GAME[/B] (see Blademother set)

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The two videos also have the exact name in the schema.