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DOTA 2 Beta Thread

im a pretty average LoL player, but i sucked horribly in Dota, despite playing the OP champs my buddies recommended(spirit breaker, skeleton king, lina).

Maybe its just the bot AI, but no matter what, i would get 100-0'd inside of 2 seconds, no matter how far i stood away from the action. The enemy bots would literally run through my team, eating damage, just to come gib me. it was infuriating.

I understand its a slower paced game, less forgiving on mistakes. But theres no way i should be going 1/17 against bots, not with ~800 LoL games under my belt.

Something just didnt feel right about the game.

reply to Jobbie
It's supposedly going F2P. Sorry I don't have a source off hand but I have read it previously. Release day? No idea. Never played the original Dota but from what I've read and played, there's a mix of champs from the original along with similar remakes of champs from LoL and HoN.

So far I've got 65 hours in the beta and love it. It's a lot more challenging than LoL, and actually made LoL much easier to play. The graphics are good but not over powering to the point of needing a beastly machine. Gameplay is solid with few if any bugs for me at least. FUCKING VOICE CHAT! FINALLY. That is a huuuuge problem with LoL that I have, although I have my own Teamspeak 3 server obviously not all random pubs are able to talk to me.
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reply to Jobbie
are you guys planning to migrate from LoL to Dota or stay in both games?

Have to see how dota2 is first.

reply to Jobbie
DOTA2 is very true to the original and I love it. Yes, there will be all the champions from the original.

I got into beta last week and have played a handful of games. With how true it is to the WC3 DOTA, I will be shelling out the money for it.

As far as the F2P model, I'd prefer it to be a game to be bought and you own 100% of it. I do not like how LoL or HoN has gone to micro transactions.

why not?

Is LoL garbage? They're clearly making money hand over fist and the micro transactions don't give you an advantage.
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reply to Gordo74
Some of the good things i have read from the beta:

* Built in voice chat
* Built in replay system and espectator mode
* Improved match making
* No penalty for team for leavers after some point
* Automatic requeue after a champion select leave, since champion select is in game no pregame.
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I'd like to definitely check it out.

My favorite two champs were the Panda guy and the one berserker that had this ult that would do 7 attacks on random targets (or 7 attacks on 1 target if alone).

I'd play cheese and get 5x cleave items and do like 200% damage per swing to everyone in the area. Insta pentakill.
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remember the sniper?

Yeah that guy was fun too. He had good synergy, especially with a butterfly.

reply to Antonica
Maybe we could get some old school WC3 DOTA games going with just BBR folks, even against AI?

I am up for that, lets make it happen.

I haven't done WC3 over the Internet in over a decade. It was either LAN or single player only.

I just uninstalled it, need to bring it back.

I don't know where my original media is and I never registered it on bnet.

reply to Archivis

HoN has had a fucked up business model from the start and they're only reacting to LoL. In my opinion, it's too late for them. They fucked up and now they're in recovery mode. They'll never gain the momentum that LoL has. HoN wanted you to pay full price for a product, like a standard game, then they dropped the price, then they went F2P. It's like an MMO who goes to a F2P model just to try and be relevant.

LoL, on the other hand, has a successful and well-implemented F2P model that allows you to pay for things to save you time, or for cosmetic purposes, but never give you a permanent advantage over your opponents if you never pay a dime.

F2P has to be done right in order to be successful. We'll see if DOTA2 learns how to do it right.
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I liked how LoL had a retail box and currently a digital download that gives you like 20 champions a couple runes and skins forl ike 20 bucks. That is how i got started and it was a great model, i bet Dota will do the same thing.

Right now HoN is out of the picture and its all about Dota 2 and LoL for the serious MOBA scene.
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is there a website to sign up for the dota2 beta?

i wish i had known about the multi-pack before I had started buying champs, would have saved some money, or gotten more champs.