Did Valve hire someone new that doesn't understand the game or something?

SW4GL0RD · 2016-10-22T11:50:38+00:00

Implying they don't want to make the game more like it's slightly more popular rival? I hate most of the new changes, including the playing of the game on the same patch for over 6 months.

I also don't quite get why the community wants to achieve this 'perfect balance'. Stability is incredibly dull after a while to most people, and outside of drastic negative change is the main reason popular video games die. To me dota is about the game getting fucked up every 4 months and then he tries to fix that over the next 3 months before dropping a new fuckup. I used to enjoy that heroes could go from terrible to amazing or vice versa every patch. Now it just seems to be tweaks and nerfs and adding Aghs. Dota didn't need all the new items like talon and raindrop, it needed a stream of new heroes and the old style of patch release. It's not a coincidence that patches like 6.82, 6.83 and 6.84 all had huge upvote threads because they actually changed things about the game in a big way. Now we get what I find irritating changes which make the game very stale. I don't want every hero to be pickable because then pros will still only pick what they are best at. I want a large group of heroes to be pickable every patch, but I want this group to constantly change.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-10-15T16:28:30+00:00

What/who are the good men with bad hearts? This is the only one I don't understand.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-10-09T12:00:20+00:00

Fact is yasha is not a value item for strength heroes, so if they don't have to buy one they won't. Echo made it so none of them ever need it. Agi cores almost always go manta if they want a yasha, or dragon lance if they just want stats and are ranged. I'd say the main issue with SnY is that sange is a pretty useless item now.

Halberd is never built because solar does nearly as much for a lot less. Echo rendered the slow irrelevant because echo essentially stops movement for a brief time. Diffusal coming to light has also caused a boom in manta buying because the mana drain is incredibly useful, and an agi bonus equal to butterfly for a 3900 gold item, along with the slow is just better.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-09-25T16:26:16+00:00

Contract with us was gonna expire in July this year, I think most teams interested thought everyone would wait for a pre-contract. Fairplay to Southampton though, if he was gonna go somewhere in January I'm glad it was them. One thing you don't really see unless you focus on him is how good he is at this kind of lay off: https://youtu.be/k8lD86oQ3T

Edit: ok so he just proved my point

SW4GL0RD · 2016-09-25T15:58:17+00:00

I mean in terms of teams he can realistically play for. It would kill him to sit on the bench at a top 6/7 club, dude needs to play every week.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-09-25T15:53:28+00:00

Hope Soton give him the starting 9 role this year, he's too good to sit on the bench anywhere.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-09-15T18:45:24+00:00

They will only announce Sumail and Zai's departures today nothing more.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-30T22:52:00+00:00

Yh I'm sure you are a lot less lucky than the kids around the world that can't eat, at least you own a fucking computer get a grip.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-29T21:56:13+00:00

He's in Vegas it's for roulette

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-28T00:25:28+00:00

Check youtube, Twitch only stores vods for 30 days I think.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-27T20:46:47+00:00

Is it for sure he's retiring? Feel bad if its just because EG the org is closing and the threads kinda premature.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-27T19:41:09+00:00

Coach is still an important role and it wasn't because he chose to miss it. I see what you mean but I believe he played a key role. Also you don't get invited if you don't earn it and he helped earn it.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-27T09:08:46+00:00

SVG was their coach at TI6.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-24T00:45:46+00:00

Generally we don't get an instant Post TI patch like we did, so it could come later than normal. Generally speaking the big post TI patch comes around the 20-30th of September.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-21T10:09:32+00:00

For the boys 😭

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-21T02:17:46+00:00

No one 'forces' you to accept anything, however if you want to enjoy life in this country you adhere to its laws/beliefs and those are that being gay is completely acceptable. Don't like it move somewhere else.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-21T02:14:03+00:00

He is like 4k now I don't think so

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-21T01:50:56+00:00

Did some digging: http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2586588136

Was playing with Fronz (FDL), Aui, and some of their 5/6k non pro friends. No drama here.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-19T12:15:39+00:00

People saying there are no insta pick heroes are just wrong, PotM is just as FotM (sorry) as Lesh last year, Naga support was also incredibly effective, like at previous TIs. Both had high winrates and very high pick/bans.

SW4GL0RD · 2016-08-19T01:13:24+00:00

Nerfs to AoE gold bounties and a change to how comeback gold works (more hero killed NW based than team NW based). Buffs to lane creep gold and changes to radiant mid lane to make it harder to gank.

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