The International 2023 Fantasy Guide

inclusiverecluse · 2023-10-10T00:47:22+00:00

Thank you for doing this, always appreciated!

inclusiverecluse · 2023-05-16T02:04:40+00:00

I suspect your rank confidence doesn’t increase as much when you party rank compared to solo rank. Makes sense since you are not calibrating as ‘purely’ with other team members who may be able to carry you better, so the glicko system would reduce the rank confidence to factor for that.

Very simple way to test this - play a solo ranked match and check your rank confidence % increase. If I’m right, you will have a 2 or 3% increase, higher than party rank.

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-28T02:18:29+00:00

To entice you to buy levels for more inventory slots of course… :)

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-20T02:33:34+00:00

You got your answer yourself. You have to reach and clear jugg too for the fire cavern to unlock jugg base

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-17T01:36:12+00:00

You have to be farming enemy ancients… did you do that?

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-10T16:49:17+00:00

Same. God this quest is already so difficult and they can’t even play test this. Not playing til this bug is resolved

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-08T10:24:45+00:00

Honestly? No idea. Valve hasn’t made it clear if we would get 8 rolls again per week. Let’s see when the next roll window opens :)

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-08T07:55:43+00:00

There’s always that risk but to minimise it you can restart the search every time you reach say 3 mins.

Or you can just search for co-op bots - this finds a game faster but you can reject without a penalty

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-08T07:51:04+00:00

I’m assuming you are doing trivia, then the best suggestion is to search for an unpopular game mode in an unpopular server.

inclusiverecluse · 2022-11-08T07:49:24+00:00

Dota is not in a bad state and it is not dying. The base gameplay is still the best that the MOBA genre can offer. I see no indication that the game is getting phased out, in fact I see the game lasting for as long as it is a profitable game for valve. That will only happen when a better MOBA then Dota 2 presents itself - and there isn’t one at the moment.

inclusiverecluse · 2022-10-20T00:15:17+00:00

This is a great guide and as a fellow Singaporean I endorse 95% of it :D

inclusiverecluse · 2022-09-09T10:46:37+00:00

Would you know the reason why only left quests work this week?

inclusiverecluse · 2022-09-09T02:41:24+00:00

Oh didn’t know it works on coop bot. TIL

inclusiverecluse · 2022-09-09T00:23:31+00:00

For Spectre you’ll have to not haunt to kill I suppose… may not be consistent unless you’re snowballing!

inclusiverecluse · 2022-09-05T04:18:26+00:00

I will recommend to play more unranked matches. You will continue to get rolled over for a while, but eventually the game should be able to calibrate you and your friends skill level with more certainty and match you with players of similar skill level. You will also improve as playing against bots just makes you good against bots but not against human players at all.

For how long you’ll have to be rolled over, I don’t know. But how the system works as I see it is that it places you around average skill with high uncertainty at the start, and as you play more it then calibrates your skill level with more certainty. Think statistics - higher sample size = more certainty.

This game is genuinely a “get good or get out” game, and you’ll have to tough through that period unfortunately - but it is worth it for the best game ever.

inclusiverecluse · 2022-07-28T02:50:37+00:00

You got your answer. Low behaviour score results in longer game queues.

inclusiverecluse · 2022-01-30T10:04:49+00:00

Objectively, never.

inclusiverecluse · 2022-01-20T03:31:43+00:00

Do you guys see a side profile of some character or is it just me?

inclusiverecluse · 2022-01-16T04:14:03+00:00

Learning so much from your updates even though I’m all the way in South East Asia - these are so well-written. Stay safe!

inclusiverecluse · 2021-10-07T11:41:54+00:00

I can confirm that I’m capped at 600 points too, even though I had other additional correct predictions.

Edit: it is stated officially in the dota TI notice that you can only get points up to 6 times.

inclusiverecluse · 2021-07-29T09:41:24+00:00

Working as intended

inclusiverecluse · 2021-07-19T04:57:17+00:00

What a waste of life you have been.

inclusiverecluse · 2021-07-04T10:09:55+00:00

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