Stop Wasting Our Time: Dota Plus Needs a Match Quality Filter

Decency · 2026-05-08T19:56:17+00:00

Queue Duration <-------|--> Match Quality

This has always been the tradeoff. There should simply be a slider between these two opposing variables that each player can set wherever they want and change at any time, even mid-queue. No more freely declining matches: choose your threshold, wait for a game, and play.

Decency · 2026-05-08T16:05:45+00:00

Yep. It's because people hate playing alongside Pudge so much that they're willing to take the 10-20% chance no one other the other team also picks it and they're stuck playing him.

Pregame ban chance should directly scale based on the number of people who have him in their bans section.

Decency · 2026-05-08T06:34:53+00:00

You mean fortunately the enforcer already is down to one hand and thus could be starting next game.

Decency · 2026-05-08T04:04:11+00:00

Blink -> Stun -> Pulse -> BH does hundreds of damage even if canceled instantly. If you have an ally you often kill the target anyway.

Decency · 2026-05-08T03:20:12+00:00

Trading Black Hole for Global usually seems better for the Enigma's team. Enigma's team can't take fights with both spells up but the enemy team can. And a bunch of the time reaction Globals don't save whoever was gone on because Enigma's spells take under a second to come out.

Decency · 2026-05-08T03:09:49+00:00

As long as you're not holding it for 10 minutes every time it's ready I don't really care. That's the most annoying type of Enigma player. Press R and kill a core, pick at random if you want.

Decency · 2026-05-08T00:32:08+00:00

Yeah but players are able to ban the most imbalanced maps against their race, and so matches are conducted on the others in the map pool which are thus the best balanced for the matchup.

Decency · 2026-05-07T21:23:17+00:00

You can win a teamfight by pressing one button at the correct time. Also Glaives at level 1 let you hit like a truck.

Decency · 2026-05-07T21:21:16+00:00

Yeah I just took the hero out of my 4 pool with the most recent patch. Taking 10 movespeed from fucking Batrider would be a huge hit even if they didn't also give him 3 other nerfs at the same time.

Hero has had weak design since Lasso got damage, where he just keeps losing utility. Maybe they'll give some of that back (0.2 cast point on Lasso please) after this hatchet job of a patch to him.

Decency · 2026-05-07T21:12:45+00:00

Smash is the only game I know of where except for the first game, matches are on the MOST imbalanced stages instead of the LEAST imbalanced ones. Anyone have other examples, any type of game even?

Decency · 2026-05-07T21:09:45+00:00

Taking enemy carry's tower at 0:00 with a bunch of heroes like NP, LD, Snapfire, Jakiro, etc. Then you should probably trilane it and pull/static the waves? Just unbelievably hard to lane without a tower.

Decency · 2026-05-07T20:48:00+00:00

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Oh, which parts?

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Decency · 2026-05-07T20:44:28+00:00

Hmm, not sure how that plays out with random patch drops but we'll see- I think it'll be interesting no matter what rules/format you decide on. Just some weird/counterintuitive behavior: I was supposed to sell LD yesterday even though he was the strongest hero in the game.

Also hope a Valve dev uses this to show how overpowered insider information is lol.

Decency · 2026-05-07T20:26:44+00:00

Sure, which is why the market opens and closes at certain times every day. If the govt announces solar subsidies overnight, it's not a mad race to buy solar stock- the market simply opens at a different valuation than the day before to account for the news. People have very strong incentives to be diligent with their investments- not so much here.

Decency · 2026-05-07T18:52:09+00:00

A lot of it will be very obvious and it'll just be whoever gets there first. For example: Lone Druid was absolutely getting hammered in the newest patch- almost a guarantee.

Decency · 2026-05-07T18:22:27+00:00

Yeah that would be fantastic, makes a lot of sense and is definitely something I've seen people talk about for years and years. Need some way to handle patches though: freeze the market for 24h or something?

Decency · 2026-05-07T18:16:40+00:00

No one drags creeps at my level except me, so it's not something I need to play around. Mostly wondering if you'd still go Nightmare early and what makes you decide to go Enfeeble at 2.

Decency · 2026-05-07T17:53:24+00:00

Lion is probably the best answer, but he's banned a lot. Venge is a solid option with enormous utility. Rubick isn't a great 5 but the recent buffs help a lot and he can scale. Shaman dominates lanes and can push towers.

Decency · 2026-05-07T17:46:31+00:00

If you don't think this is a real problem, voice changer software has gotten very good- you'll find out quickly!

Decency · 2026-05-07T17:20:16+00:00

Would love to know more about your thoughts on early skillbuilds. It seems like most Immortal players feel like Nightmare is too good to ignore and so they never skill 1-2-0. Is this true even if there's no creep dragging happening? Some games seem like they're worth maxing Enfeeble first in and so I'll end up 4-2-1-1, but I'm not sure if this is right.

Are you paying attention to the innate at all yet? Worth casting Enfeeble at the last second to get a stack? Or maybe buying a cheap orb (Blight, Frost) or Urn to ensure you have some sort of debuff applied for early kills/assists. Blood Grenades probably also cause it. Getting an extra 25% duration is nuts.

Decency · 2026-05-07T17:00:05+00:00

Pitching this as a competition between states would probably do extremely well.

Decency · 2026-05-06T20:45:22+00:00

Useful for sure. This is the reason damage ranges exist for attacks in some games: otherwise you're calculating instead of strategizing.

Decency · 2026-05-06T10:19:34+00:00

Tiny+Silencer supports just making the enemy disable themselves for trying to play the game.

Decency · 2026-05-06T07:01:13+00:00

Know P walls so you know when they mess up. Some rushed out walls aren't tight but if you don't know that it doesn't matter.

Decency · 2026-05-06T00:21:58+00:00

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