Defense of the Ancients 2

Well, all i want is a extension to the page, containing the vast amounts of new tropes now, which gradually expand as dota 2 releases new content.

Generally, the main problem right now that I see from playing the game for about 2 hours (Dota 2) is the matchmaking process. It takes forever, literally, you get 9/10 people connecting to the game, then the 10th person declines to join, placing you back into matchmaking for another 10 mins until you actually get a game.

Also, another problem which would end up hurting them is the fact that Ice Frog wont want to change the game so much from the original Do TA, so it'll essentially be the exact same game, except with matchmaking, VA, and better graphics and models.

The game itself also isn't very friendly to new players, seeing as how Do TA from WCIII wasn't very new player friendly either. Perhaps a matchmaking system like Lo L's or similar would help the newer players and maybe even a tutorial could help the newer players get a hang of the game.

Also another thing: the bashing is kind of worse now that people can actually use mics in game without the use of vent or anything.

edited 24th Nov '11 9:22:29 AM by FoBJo

-The Underpaid Asian Gamer-

^Actually, DOTA 2 might yet have the Coaching feature from Team Fortress 2 put in and I heard about players being able to write tutorials for other players that they can read in-game or something.

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

^ Yeah, I heard about that somewhere, although it could be very helpful yet very unhelpful to new players in terms of the coaching. If perhaps only certain players were nominated to coach new players then perhaps it could work. Although many people have different play styles and the play styles of the coaches might not be the best for newer players.

Also something maybe they should consider for Do TA 2 is showing the range of which the spell can be casted, such as in a circle showing the range of the spell (i know they have a cir le for target Ao E spells) this was done in Lo L and it seemed pretty helpful for the newer players

-The Underpaid Asian Gamer-

Why's this thread so far behind? Dota 2's a pretty big upcoming game... Are not enough invites going out so far?

Anyway, I got my invite like 2 weeks back. As a complete Dota newbie, with some experience in League of Legends, I'm pretty happy that my IRL friends are pretty good at the game. I've been slowly picking it up, and my favourite heroes are the supporty ones with big nukes.

Favourite heroes at the moment are Ancient Apparition for his awesome skills and auto-attack animation and Kunkka for his awesome design.

Bump!

Anybody got a suggestion on how to get an invite?

Pray to the RNG. Beta invite get!

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

I take it this last round of invites was pretty wide, because I got an invite.

I've never really played a MOBA before. I'm going to go in with my lack of experience and mess things up a bit.

Awesomenauts will be a nice entry level MOBA when it comes out.

Jonah Falcon

You got one? seriously? Jesus, how did you do. I said I had 250 hours of experice with moba (league of legend), and I still haven't got one. I wish it was easier ;_;

I'm going to have issues. I do know how heroes work but the shop is an enigma to me.

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

I just got an invite. :D I don't even know where to start...

First key to interpreting a work: Things mean things.

How do you guys even receive an invite? By e-mail? on steam? How? I'm just curious as to where I must check.

I got an email telling me, and it just showed up on my list of games on Steam. There are also a couple websites that claim to give away codes, but I just filled out the official questionnaire thingy.

First key to interpreting a work: Things mean things.

I got an invite. Have zero experience with this genre so it could be interesting.

Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.

Finally, a DOTA II invitation is mine!

So tell me, what kind of welcome I can receive as a new player? Is it much harder than League?

What does MOBA stand for, anyways? I've only heard the genre called AOS before, or of course DOTAlike.

The sheer volume

of voice clips is amazing. I doubt I'll actually pay to play a sequel-copy to a game I was horrible at, but depending on the price I might buy this game just to support Valve.

Good lord, just tried a bots game with a necromancy dude, I think he was called shadow something. Anyway, I had no idea wtf was going on. I hoped I could ask advices from other players, but for some reasons they all abandonned me.

Is there a tutorial that I missed for this game?

Got an invite last night. Having only played HoN for a few hours and Rise of Immortals for a few hours, this should be interesting.

Will probably main Juggernaut, he's apparently quite beginner-friendly.

Also, isn't this meant to be free-to-play with a cash shop?

Got my invite this weekend.

I can't be the only one on TV Tropes who plays this, right?

I AM TEEMO. I AM ETERNAL.

There's at least two more of us! I've only played a handful of games though. Juggernaut and Silencer. I'm pretty bad at it.

More practice I guess. Too bad about not really having the time.

Well, I don't play much now but I got an invite... If you didn't notice from my earlier post...

Anyway, I'm not making much time right now for DOTA II, between skyrim and lol. Maybe with some people to go through the learning curve, but not much action on this thread.