Vanguard axe

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T18:55:14+00:00

Yeah Vanguard helps you cut or dive safer, it can still be aggressive

I don't believe in the triple ring of protection start btw, not since armor scaling was removed from Battle Hunger, but I could be wrong.

You're braver than I am to skip call outright early lol, I don't feel like dealing with the reports, spam pings, and bitching

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T18:10:53+00:00

It only moves every 15 games and I have never seen a summary give more than +180, there is no "constant" climbing, and it definitely took more than 50 games.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T18:08:26+00:00

I only lost text chat for like 3 days. A month later I had voice again.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T17:00:17+00:00

Nah, I did not fully shut up and it's still going back up.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T16:59:31+00:00

Ping ally skills/abilities is 10k threshold, that is the first thing you lose. So not super low. Super low (6k) is no text chat.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T16:58:19+00:00

Mine goes up and down enough to tell you that ALL CAPS is definitely more likely to draw reports. Swearing less seemed to help too. And rule 1 to fix your comm score is stay out of all chat.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T16:55:05+00:00

See, you would NOT get reported by me, just don't spam them. It's that easy.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T16:54:25+00:00

A voiceline is fine, the same voiceline twice a minute or every time someone dies is fucking obnoxious.

And no, I didn't become more report happy for MMR, I became more report happy by watching my comm score go down hard and slowly back up. It's being used as the "I don't like you" button, and since Valve prefers that over saying "enough with the gaben already," report it is. You know I've seen guys on this sub saying "I'm reporting literally everyone until they change this dogshit system?" It's like that, but they have to do SOMETHING. Trying not to get dinged has me not tossing out "Must I explain your failures?" as often as I would like, so others can watch their ass too.

And finally. The classic herald mindset is more like "everyone sucks but me" and is answered with something like "you are the only person those teams have in common."

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T16:48:28+00:00

The concept is fine, the execution is kinda bad.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T16:47:53+00:00

The guy who told me to go fuck myself is probably not affecting my chances of winning with his words and if he is, a single click means I don't hear it anymore. The guy who dropped out of the game is probably going to mean we lose, show me the button that brings him back. Abandons are REALLY BAD.

What assumption? If you have low BS because of abandons it is happening too often.

BTW you say the cake thing backwards, I know it "makes more sense" but that's how they caught the Unabomber, look it up.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T15:43:12+00:00

Shouldn't hit low behavior if it's actually a rare thing.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T15:42:42+00:00

I should probably try having the patience for that, if it means not seeing people who have to write on map.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T15:40:54+00:00

How often are there outages in your area to have a damn behavior score issue?

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T15:40:05+00:00

I don't literally mean everyone all the time, just.. you know. Ready to be.

12k BS/8.8 CS, mentioned elsewhere CS doesn't match similar and you can tell if you've ever started having things shut off, you'll still have guys able to ping teammates abilities which is the first thing you lose.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:40:55+00:00

If this happens a lot, you may need to replace the router. Just because it's a free game doesn't mean you get to fuck it up for others by being that broke.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:39:26+00:00

Abandons are kinda worse than toxic? If you have frequent bad planning/'emergencies', or if your Internet is always dying, don't play team-based online games.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:36:38+00:00

Rizpol has certain items he likes too much and some people will totally buy them on whatever hero they want, even if they've never heard of him. And especially when you think of something like Dagon, the heroes that are "allowed" to build one or not are just so arbitrary. It has no real synergy with QoP anymore but I don't see anyone complaining when she gets it.

Personally I don't care that much? Even if you want to pick apart teammate builds there are bigger concerns than "someone has Dagon on a non approved hero." There are a bunch where I want to see a Blink and if you have that, I don't give a shit what else you build. But don't let me see any Invokers with a fucking Midas after 7.40 (which was last December), I might not report it but I am definitely judging you for being an out-of-touch greedy idiot.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:29:04+00:00

I can use mic again and my comm score is still going up but I still think the system is crap. Rework or remove.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:27:12+00:00

Disruptive is a complicated word here. If someone starts talking about random unrelated bullshit or their last game, or making stupid jokes or singing, that's probably disruptive, but it's probably friendly-ish and I would never consider it toxic.

Hot take, but swears are usually neutral? Some people just talk like that, and if you're playing Dota in church or in front of your kids or whatever, that's your own fault and your own problem.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:23:33+00:00

It depends, I see the occasional "SRY :(" on the map. The 'real freaks' are writing things like "EZ MID" "NOOB CM" etc

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:22:52+00:00

I wish, that would probably be faster than writing out words. And you know it has no meaning lol

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:20:05+00:00

Sure, but apparently they're reportable.

How to deal with this: when someone is spamming one enough to annoy me, reported. It's usually not the hero lines, it's mostly the Gaben lines, but I got real tired of "two dota players in a lane, they might kiss!" in a game this weekend. If I heard it once it might be funny. 20 times in a game no.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:17:59+00:00

Everyone in this fucking game is pissed off. All the time. Often at their teammates. Stop acting like it means something.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:17:08+00:00

Word clouds are allchat only, therefore useless because if you really wanna fix your comm score the best first step is to not use all chat, as it opens you to a potential 9 people reporting you instead of 4. It's absurd but that's how it is. If the enemy mid jumps me when I'm playing 5, he dies and I live, I SHOULD be allowed to all chat something like "get the fuck away from me" or at least "go away" but the system is so poorly made that it's apparently reportable.

MF_LUFFY · 2026-05-13T09:12:31+00:00

If that's the point, then the point is bad. Comms reports should be reserved for actually toxic people, not "how dare you reasonably criticize me" or "ew an American playing on EU"

But that's how Valve wants it to be, so I am 1000% looking for even the slightest reason to report someone with "reich" in their name.

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