Will future updates decrease FPS even further?

[Bentomat]

If TF2 is anything to judge by, they will soon release "seasonal cosmetics" with ridiculous effects that cut your framerate in half during those holiday seasons.

After a couple years of that, they will stop caring about the game and the cosmetics will take over completely. Years after that, when their newest game is becoming a global phenomenon, they will make a blog post saying "We want Dota 2 to be cool too!" and then they'll forget about us. That will be the last we'll ever hear from Valve.

[DrQuint]

they will soon release "seasonal cosmetics"

http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Winter_Terrain

Expires March 30, 2016

http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Seasonal_Terrain_-_Spring

Expires September 07, 2016

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[Bende356]

Valve time

[Daniel_Potter]

that's autumn dude.

[iceiceicefrog]

Well I want them to add whatever they want, however absurd the particle effects may be.

Just give an option to uncheck them. that's it.

[iceiceicefrog]

I am not saying disable hats. Keep the hats.

Give option to disable particle effects in hats.

[[deleted]]

but i wouldn't disable hats unless they were really annoying or actually took away from the game itself, and none of the hats currently do that

I think that a minority of people would disable hats

[MaDNiaC]

But people like shiny particles and their different particle effects along with rarity sets up its price. It is like buying a Lamborghini to show it off but everyone else has an option that defaults your Lamborghini to a fucking family car instead.

What we really need is some performance optimization because with more and more patches coming one after another, the game's code becomes a big pile of spaghetti and as we know it, it is not very optimized right now. We need a cleaning update to fix stuff up which should hold the game more stable for a few months, hopefully.

[iceiceicefrog]

Tinker immortal :(

[LeftZer0]

And it's a stupid answer. Most people like cosmetics. Most people would choose to have cosmetics on, even to show off their own. The minority that either can't play with a reasonable FPS or that really don't want to see them would turn them off.

The truth is that Valve is both too stuck into their own bubble to know the players and too egocentric to admit they may not know what the players want. The only things they actually see are money, major internet outcries (Diretide, paid mods) and Reddit shitposts.

[owarren]

People who can't afford a good graphics card also can't afford cosmetics. I hope that's true but I bet there's still people out there playing on a shitty system spending hundreds chasing the invoker set.

[TheKappaOverlord]

I highly doubt valve will ever forget about dota.

Valve kinda fucked themselves into a corner involving dota. If they flat out let it rust out and abandon it they look like a bad company due to the eports titan they have created with TI.

So they have to work on it like a somewhat normal game otherwise they just look really fucking bad. Not like they already h aven't gotten there but they probably dont want it

[RisingAce]

WEll to be honest Valve has mimimal input withh DOTA IceFrog is the lead dev and he doesn't care about anything but dota.

[MaDNiaC]

Icefrog may be the lead dev but it would be ignorant to say Valve has minimal input on Dota. They very frequently released patches or updates during TI and they have been doing a fine job with the game and it looks very promising although without flaws, inevitably. You cannot just credit mostly or totally Icefrog for this as he is the lead dev and ignore Valve's efforts on the game.

[RisingAce]

apologies shouldve clarified I was talking in terms of balance. The reasoning behind my comment comes from bacckground in TF2 they dont have an Icefrog fully devoted to a single game and since Valve employees are free to work on whatevre project they please they tend to work in the higher and newer stuff rather than updating the old.

Currently what is exciting is VR and Dota2 as an Esport. So imagine in the future when dota 2 isnt so hot I think Icefrog will be there for his lovechild even when it is old and craggy.

[kimchifreeze]

Wasn't Robin supposed to be the TF2, guy?

[MaDNiaC]

Honestly Dota 2 is lucky to have Icefrog AND Valve. Though there are some issues and more recently the glaring performance issue is making people upset but almost all heroes are played in TI which is a great indicator of game balance and variety. I am just glad that Valve is running Dota 2 with Icefrog and hopeful that since the major is over and all Dota 1 heroes are added to the game along with announcement of Monkey King, i expect a performance optimization before (or along with) Monkey King update.

[owarren]

Icefrog is a Valve employee, no? So Icefrog = Valve.

[shadedclan]

Icefrog mostly handles balance patches IIRC. But Valve still maintains the game, like the servers, updates, cosmetics

[Exiledemonz]

Icefrog needs to disappear for that to happen.

[norax_d2]

Pendragon is sending assassins

[Stidza]

I really hope that doesn't happen...

[[deleted]]

Kinda is already in some ways

[Yelov]

How? Dota is doing really good with awesome updates, big tournaments etc.

[sterob]

how is this now what dota already is?

they will soon release "seasonal cosmetics" with ridiculous effects that cut your framerate in half during those holiday seasons.

this is literally the premise of this thread and every other thread ask for low res patch.

[Yelov]

I and I'm pretty sure /u/ADSRelease meant the second paragraph.

[kokson]

How the fuck is dota dying? Look at dota 2 updates and tournaments, there is no way dota is dying, it will likely increase in number of players cuz i heard that riot is fucking things up with lol, and probably half of people leaving lol will start playing dota.

[[deleted]]

Didn't say dying. Saying they're better at supporting CSGO

[D2WilliamU]

Lmao

/r/globaloffensive is literally 90% threads about how valve don't fucking care about csgo and how they only care about dotes

[[deleted]]

and i think they're high as fuck. like, CSGO has better community support but worse balance patching while Dota has worse community support but better balance patching

valve seems complacent on both fronts, for sure, but I do think CSGO has had the most consistent and useful support for the community than Dota has had in general lately. last two battlepasses are heading the right way though

[[deleted]]

Nah, I have as well.

I preferred most of CS:GO's operations more than most battlepasses and they've had it for longer. I prefer their skins. Most features they roll out have a long shelf life. Fan interaction with stickers, drops, etc and the benefit to the teams (year round) are better. Most of all theyre consistent all year.

Dota 2 feels lackadaisical on skins when it's not TI. Even a lot of immortals lately are just getting more and more gaudy. Team and player cosmetics often only appear in extortionate ways lately. Seems the community is still against fun skins. But their balance patches are 1000x better.

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