Dota 2

porchrat said:
They have a desert map for Overthrow called Desert Duo. Don't think I've seen an actual 5v5 traditional dota map with desert terrain.

Also can someone tell me how the hell I voice to my team instead of to my party. I've all but stopped playing Reborn now (despite it having seemingly better ping and framerates for me) because I'm having to type everything to my team instead of being able to voice. I can't seem to find any hotkey settings for the voice chat stuff in Reborn. :(
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Settings -> Audio -> choose a button to push to talk to team instead of party. Or you can have open mic to party and push to talk to team. Works quite well..
 
GhostSixFour said:
Settings -> Audio -> choose a button to push to talk to team instead of party. Or you can have open mic to party and push to talk to team. Works quite well..
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It is in the audio settings? I could have sworn I checked there and couldn't find it. Meh will have to look again tonight. Thanks for the help :)
 
RIP Source. The changeover to Reborn is officially complete - and SA servers are ****ed. My last game I went 9/10/16 as Luna (I had a rough lane, ok?!). Post yours!
 
Since the Reborn update thing kicked in, the South African servers seem to be down.

Is it like that for everyone of should a round house kick my PC soon?
 
Haven't played since last weekend, so not sure what everyone is talking about, guess I'm in for a surprise come this weekend by the sound of things :(
 
How is server finding and ping on the reborn client?
 
Handz said:
Since the Reborn update thing kicked in, the South African servers seem to be down.

Is it like that for everyone of should a round house kick my PC soon?
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Ya, looks like the SA servers were down for a bit last night, but I had a quick check this morning before leaving for the office and they seemed to be back up

Deadmanza said:
Played my first reborn game last night, was a pudge wars, all of were local players from what I could tell.

Ping was good, I rekt.
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I saw that you were playing that last night. I always try find a Pudge Wars game (never played it before) and I can never find a thing.

I've played a few skill shot wars. Fun, but **** ping.

Reborn clearly has its issues and bugs, but I'm looking forward to it. Played a few games before it became main client and overall was pretty impressed.

Biggest pain for me though is that when the game doesn't register a right click or that you used a skill.
 
I'm liking the source 2 engine so far, and the performance boost is welcome, especially on opengl.
 
Some things never change. After winning 5 games in a row I keep being grouped with completed idiots.
1st game with 4 support and 1 carry with only me being a true support and the other trying to either carry or tank. Was a complete fail.
2nd game im Void with ES as support and he decides after 5 min I can solo lion while he and mid goes bot only to die god only knows how many times with only 1 kill to show for it. So I get no farm and enemy mid gets free farm. Complete fail.
3rd game no wards from the 2 support and only 5 man once at about 30 min mark with score already 35/14 in enemy favour with WD in jungle the whole time.
Is it just me or does this happen to any1 else?
Hate solo pub games.
 
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Doom5003 said:
Some things never change. After winning 5 games in a row I keep being grouped with completed idiots.
1st game with 4 support and 1 carry with only me being a true support and the other trying to either carry or tank. Was a complete fail.
2nd game im Void with ES as support and he decides after 5 min I can solo lion while he and mid goes bot only to die god only knows how many times with only 1 kill to show for it. So I get no farm and enemy mid gets free farm. Complete fail.
3rd game no wards from the 2 support and only 5 man once at about 30 min mark with score already 35/14 in enemy favour with WD in jungle the whole time.
Is it just me or does this happen to any1 else?
Hate solo pub games.
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Why play solo in the first place?
 
Rickster said:
Why play solo in the first place?
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Friends were all offline or playing something else so, had no choice.
Even tried ranked on EU servers but the ping is just to high to really enjoy it and local ranked is dead or was never really alive to begin with.
 
Doom5003 said:
Friends were all offline or playing something else so, had no choice.
Even tried ranked on EU servers but the ping is just to high to really enjoy it and local ranked is dead or was never really alive to begin with.
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Make some more Internet friends, it does wonders.
 
Matchmaking IS still a problem, though: I had a game recently where a guy kept feeding and didn't really look like he knew what he was doing. The other guys I was playing with (we were a 3-stack) kept flaming him. I decided to check his steam profile and he had only played 70hrs (we had thousands of hours combined). How is the fair on people who have a lot of experience, and expect everyone else in the match to at least have a similar level? More importantly, how is that fair on the noob? I gave him a bit of coaching throughout the match (we were all noob once) but it was too late, the damage had already been done.

And then we have that other group of complete ****s - the ones who just want to waste other people's time. My 3-stack had the pleasure of playing with trolls. Both had Russian names, but their steam profiles had Afrikaans updates. The Wisp bought the courier and left it in his inventory for over 10mins, pretending to not know to activate it. His Pudge buddy tried to build a radiance. And they fed. A lot. Worst part was that the other team took their time finishing the game, even though they were all almost six-slotting and fat because of the trolls. 55mins of pure fun.
 
Anyone else having issues just finding a match? The timer seems to reset it itself randomly, and I start over from 00:00, but never find anything on any game mode. :mad:
 
The Voice said:
Matchmaking IS still a problem, though: I had a game recently where a guy kept feeding and didn't really look like he knew what he was doing. The other guys I was playing with (we were a 3-stack) kept flaming him. I decided to check his steam profile and he had only played 70hrs (we had thousands of hours combined). How is the fair on people who have a lot of experience, and expect everyone else in the match to at least have a similar level? More importantly, how is that fair on the noob? I gave him a bit of coaching throughout the match (we were all noob once) but it was too late, the damage had already been done.

And then we have that other group of complete ****s - the ones who just want to waste other people's time. My 3-stack had the pleasure of playing with trolls. Both had Russian names, but their steam profiles had Afrikaans updates. The Wisp bought the courier and left it in his inventory for over 10mins, pretending to not know to activate it. His Pudge buddy tried to build a radiance. And they fed. A lot. Worst part was that the other team took their time finishing the game, even though they were all almost six-slotting and fat because of the trolls. 55mins of pure fun.
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You clearly don't understand how matchmaking works, so I'll explain it one last time for those that missed it.

5 players per team (lets work on total 10k mmr)

Radiant players (will use this as your 3 stack team)
1: 3000
2: 2500
3:2000
4:1500
5:1000

Dire Team:
1:2500
2:2300
3:2300
4:2000
5:1500

These are just random numbers to make up 10k, but that is pretty much how it works. It is however a lot worse on SA servers due to the small number of active players.

Take for example early mornings, you might end up with one 5k player paired with a 1k player. The main goal of matchmaking is to combine all 5 players on a teams mmr so that it matches as closely as possible their enemies combined mmr.

It's really that simple

These figured dramatically improve on EU servers, you will pretty much always end up playing with people on your own skill level, unless they smurfing, which happens now and again.
 
MMR also makes provision for stacked(party'ed) teams, usually placing better players on the other team.

Anyone want to join a social-competitive guild where it makes it easy to party up with other people? I find that the solo queing experience rather toxic. I am just looking to create an environment where we can at least function properly as a team, rather than have no courier,wards,5 carries etc. I don't mind losing, I just hate having to wait 20 min for the enemy to close out a game because we lost in picking phase.

http://www.dotabuff.com/players/87505789
 
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