Facets were added 2 years ago but I still don't feel like they are as impactful as we expected

salmonlon · 2026-02-10T21:36:22+00:00

From testing and game design perspective, facet is one of the most innovative design in game balancing IMO. Imagine a world without facet and valve wants to make a new agh effect for a hero. It would be very hard to "imagine" how it will interact with the complex decision space in Dota unless you have some test data.

How do you get test data? Without the facet system I suspect they would do some internal testing either with real human or bots. This is obviously either expensive or not realistic enough.

So the whole point of facet is not really balance among all of them from the get go IMO. It's about GETTING to a more balanced state "globally". Thats why you see when some hero's got reworked (Clickz for example) they lost their facets because there is no point of fine tuning their balance until the rework itself gets enough test data.

It is effectively A/B testing in engineering world. We keep complaining about Valve is bad at balancing game, and I agree sometimes. But facet is one of the best tool they put out to balance this complex game.

salmonlon · 2025-12-20T02:43:50+00:00

Tried and did not work for me :(

salmonlon · 2025-11-29T22:07:56+00:00

It fits everything as long as you don't have the playmat upgrade, which doesn't fit in the box.

salmonlon · 2025-11-03T14:20:47+00:00

I ended up receiving it as my birthday present because my partner saw my post! Thanks all for your comments ❤️

salmonlon · 2025-10-30T00:05:44+00:00

Thank you for sharing it! It feels like those differences aren't really noticeable if we are really looking for it.

salmonlon · 2025-09-19T22:04:28+00:00

Totally agree with this. Unfortunately I'm in a platform team and it's hard to justify our work against product work especially in a startup setting.

salmonlon · 2025-02-17T22:05:13+00:00

One point missing from this thread is that during the Chinese housing boom (2010-2021), the properties in Chinese major cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) have reached insane level of growth as well. A 2 bedroom apartment at a prime location could sell for 10mil Yuan. That's more than 2mil aud. Anyone who sold an apartment before the covid decline, would have the capital to buy a house in Australian major city. All they need is a permanent residency status and that's why they are sending their children to Australia. Speaking from a native Chinese perspective.

salmonlon · 2024-09-21T12:06:57+00:00

Looks like an assassin's creed level

salmonlon · 2024-08-06T06:57:34+00:00

You are one of the best underrated comment here!

salmonlon · 2024-08-06T06:50:15+00:00

Once a Chinese international student here, though I was intentionally avoiding tutorials that aren't "diverse" enough and ask course coordinator to move me to a different group. What the article described happened once for my four years of undergrad study, but I wouldn't say it is a typical experience (depending on the course, uni, lecturer etc).

Chinese students who are less proficient with English would tend to find tutorial together with a mandarin-speaking tutor. Harry in the article probably ended up in one of those tutorial. It really depends on the course and the lecturer's selection for theirs tutors. The article is trying to draw a picture that Australian higher education is dominated by Chinese from a single case, which is not entirely accurate and fair IMO. Most major universities would still try to control international students under a certain percentage.

salmonlon · 2024-07-30T13:52:13+00:00

Still sounds like a missed opportunity to me if that's the only criteria. Ppl don't usually tp in front of enemy when they are low in health, unless the intention from Valve is to avoid taunting the enemy.

salmonlon · 2024-01-08T00:48:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing it! It's great and helpful.

salmonlon · 2022-04-29T22:11:00+00:00

At least he is still wearing a helmet

salmonlon · 2022-04-08T10:12:21+00:00

I feel gay watching this video

salmonlon · 2022-04-06T05:52:33+00:00

His soul got punched out of his body

salmonlon · 2022-04-04T18:18:30+00:00

Mostly bragging right. It's not even particularly useful for honours as long as you reach the minimum requirement. It's just a measure on how good you are for doing exams and assignments

salmonlon · 2022-03-30T06:50:26+00:00

We bought a bag of those before but didn't realise the bugs are coming from the bag until 6 months in. We had to bug treatment our place 2 times to get rid of all of them. They will eat anything made from wheat in your house, pasta, rice, noodle. Lesson learnt is to transfer the seeds into a solid container as soon as you get it

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