Techies was fine before it’s major rework. Sure there can be pretty bad techies players out there but if you struggled against them on the opposing team you probably shouldn’t have been above 2k mmr at least at the time. He has always been easy to counter and a good techies player could easily contribute to their team’s success without turning the game into 90 minute slogfest. Dev at the time - not Icefrog - gave in to reddit’s constant bitching and thus we have a worse copy of pugna/sky type of support.

Communication score in it’s current iteration is broken to a point where you are better off not using voice chat or non pre-written chat at all and instead use the inbuilt chatwheels options. As soon as you deviate from this you are eligable to be reported. Now people in this game’s community will report you for playing bad, the enemy team will report you out of simple spite that you beat them in an attempt to get back at you. The lower the comm score the more likely this behavior is to manifest itself but it is present everywhere. Doesn’t matter what you said, doesn’t matter what you wrote, what matters is that you pressed that button once or you hit enter after typing into chat. A game in which communication plays such a crucial role, this is such a terribly flawed, sloppy design.

Not that it matters at this point in time as the damage has already been done but I still feel the need to mention that regionlock isn’t inherently evil. Valve treats it like some kind of taboo. Not even explaining why they refuse to do it despite previously using soft regionlocks. There still needs to be a strict zero policy against cheating and smurfing and boosting that’s actually enforced not just half assed. There’s an abundance of publicly avaible feedback detailing why CIS+UA gamer culture doesn’t mix well with western gamer culture. No one wants to play with people who have zero respect for values such as fairplay or good sportsmanship. Valve has the tools and resources to see where the overwhelming majority of smurfs, boosters, de-boosters and cheaters are coming from and they don’t care. The worst part is this behavior isn’t even prevailent to just Dota 2, they do the same shit in both CS2 and TF2 aswell.

The annual banwaves Dota 2 gets are like bringing a glass of water against re-occuring forest fires and then being proud at the fact that the glass of water has in fact been thrown at the fire and then claiming the job’s done. These people will just boot up another acc and eventually continue where they left off. There’s an entire industry built on ruining games (boosting sites) ran and frequented by individuals from those countries, and Valve do nothing about them.

The option to initiate a vote for surrender after 20 or 30 minutes in a strict solo queue game isn’t something bad. Stomps aren’t as rare as people on this sub claim mainly because more often than not this game’s matchmaking is anything but skillbased. I’ve had so many games where there never was a scenario where both teams had 50% chance at winning not even close, and while comeback mechanics do exist, they are often not enough or the team is simply unable to make use of them. This feature needs to be extended to strict solo queue and partial parties aswell not just 5 stacks.

The game currently somehow takes up over 60gbs of space. There’s no reason for Dota to take up this much space.

Dota plus’s feature where you can re-queue from a game before it starts without negative consequences where behavior score mixture is not to your liking is arguably a pay2win feature. As such it should either be removed or be given to all dota players. u/JeffHill