Dota 2
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"Stories of Dota" YouTube channel publishes one last video before shutting down production - The Entire Story of Dota
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It's very sad to see one of the most high-effort Dota content creators stop. I completely sympathise with their reasons, but I will sorely miss their videos as there were so many heroes I wish they'd gotten to do videos about.
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FYI, there are still files from 2015 in Dota 2 folder, that steam will redownload even if deleted manually, so folder size is floating at 60 GB.
github.com Unused old files in Dota 2 folder (folder size issue) · Issue #2808 · ValveSoftware/Dota-2Your system information System information from steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) in a gist: https://gist.github.com/vort3/13704fffd575e70faad08772a5bc91bd (though this is irrelevant) Hav...
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In-Game Advertisements at The International | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com In-Game Advertisements at The InternationalThe International is a celebration of Dota and the global community of players and fans who support it, providing a chance for everyone to come together and see it played at the highest possible level by the best teams in the world. While the heart of The International is the community — everyone wh...
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Introducing The Ringmaster and the 2024 Compendium | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Introducing The Ringmaster and the 2024 CompendiumThe International doesn't just draw near. Like a supernatural clockwork carnival barker out in a dark forest, it beckons. We're two weeks away from the first games of The International Group Stage, and if you're a fan of professional esports, it's time to get excited. Floor tickets for all three day...
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Where to view recent full professional matches with commentary?
I literally can't find anything. I have no idea where to look. On the dota client, I can only find stream from as recently as... TI3. I can't see any other competitions showing up. I don't see anything on youtube either that ALSO is a full match. NoobfromUA has matches, but they jump around.
So my question is, where do I find streams with commentary? The reason is because ideally they'll go into the reason players are making certain decisions.
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Riyadh Masters schedule has been moved up?
Liquipedia and official website show the games will start in <2 hours. Also it seems both Falcons vs XG, and GG vs Entity are being played at the same time
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Crownfall Act III and Collector's Cache | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Crownfall Act III and Collector's CacheJune has come and, as it tends to do, now left us, probably forever. You'd be forgiven for forgetting all about crowns and them falling dramatically from the heads of fantasy birds and just enjoying your summer — slowing down, taking it easy, having a picnic at the beach or just napping for a while ...
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Dota 2 Short Film Contest 2024 | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Dota 2 Short Film Contest 2024The regional battles on the Road to The International have concluded, and we now know all sixteen teams destined to clash in Copenhagen this September. But there's also another competition to remember — in which the auteurs of the Dota scene grab their pens, friends, and camera lenses and treat the ...
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Introducing the Steam Game Recording Beta | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Introducing the Steam Game Recording BetaThere are millions of Dota players around the world, and every day their adventures offer up experiences ranging from universal (a savvy swipe of an Aegis) to one-in-a-billion (a RAMPAGE by Chen) — including thrilling moments, silly moments, and everything in between. And since the only thing as fun...
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The International 2024 - Direct Invites and The Road to TI | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com The International 2024 - Direct Invites and The Road to TIBetween a massive 7.36 update and Act II of Crownfall, there were a lot of big announcements vying for your attention last week, so we decided to give everybody a few days to process everything before we posted any more big Dota news. But now a new week is upon us, and we're happy to turn our focus ...
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So what are your underrated stars of the patch so far?
Which hero with which facet is stronger than people think? What item build is deceptively strong? Which strategy wins you games?
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BLAST, renowned for top-tier CS:GO events, expands into Dota 2!
BLAST, renowned for top-tier CS:GO events, expands into Dota 2! First major event in Nov 2024, with 4 more planned for 2025. Can they bring fresh excitement to the scene? @dota2 #dota2 #esports https://www.gamingfoodle.tech/2024/05/blast-dota2-esports-tournament.html
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Dota Labs and Crownfall Collector's Cache Voting | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Dota Labs and Crownfall Collector's Cache VotingDota Labs Updates We announced Dota Labs a couple months ago, and since then we've continued to iterate quietly on the features in it as we get feedback and data. "Quietly" is fine, but sometimes it can be useful to be a bit louder so today we're turning up the volume a little: We're happy to announ...
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Watching overwatch cases really puts into perspective what grefing really is
Normally I think someone in my game is "grefing" when they do obviously stupid plays etc.
But watching overwatch cases of an IO teleporting teammates to the enemy fountain, now THATS grefing, and then maybe my teammates isn't really grefing as much as I think haha
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Welcome to Crownfall | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Welcome to CrownfallFor over a decade now, Skywrath Mage and Vengeful Spirit have been ambiguously entwined. Eagle-eyed players noticed that they come from the same town, seem to have related backstories, and might even be dating. Pretty mysterious stuff. Earlier, we dropped a comic that solved those mysteries, but int...
- www.dota2.com Ascension Day
A young princess, betrayed by her sister on the day of her ascension. Her wings torn from her body. Thrown from the highest tower of the Ghastly Eyrie. Left for dead. Found by a god. Turned into a spirit of vengeance. A Skywrath Mage, sworn to serve the murderer of his beloved. His life and powers f...
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Average team coordination of my team vs the luck and skill of the oponents team
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Crosspost, but very relevant to dota
It's just a joke, I don't actually think league players are any better or worse than dota ones.
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Hello, I am a LoL refugee after announcing that they'll be introducing a kernel level anticheat. AMA
I've occassionally played some Dota2 before but I'll be mainly switching to Dota2 after League releases their kernel level anticheat. I mostly play on arch linux (the league of linux community is the best), and I love that Dota2 supports linux natively while I have to literally hack my system and, in the past, patched some binaries to ensure that league barely works on my system. I'd often have the game crash on me right before the game starts because League's spaghetti code can't handle my system.
Overall, I feel like Dota2 is the better game holistically. The UI is better polished, the gameplay is more well balanced, and it doesn't feel like a shithole like League feels like now. I have long been contemplating making the switch, and I feel stupid at this point sticking to League up until they literally kick me out of their game because they want to require a kernel-level anticheat (aka spyware) that will block me from playing on my linux system.
I grew up playing League and I'll miss it, but I love MOBAs and Dotas is the de-facto best there is. My relationship with League can best be described as Stockholm Syndrome at this point, and I'm happy they're releasing me.
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Gameplay Patch 7.35d And Matchmaking Features | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com Gameplay Patch 7.35d And Matchmaking FeaturesWe've just released Gameplay Patch 7.35d (Chen had it coming), and with it a new set of features. Matchmaking Hero Ban Rework Over the last year or so, we've taken a number of visible actions against users of third-party cheats. As we investigate each cheat, we're primarily focused on understanding ...
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Basic Dreamleague S22 Recap
Dreamleague S22 was the last T1 tournament: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/DreamLeague/Season_22
It was played with a format of 2 large group stages and a small finals bracket with the top 4 teams.
Team Falcons continued their domination from the previous tournament (BB Dacha). It seems like the pro scene is a bit shaken up after the last TI and its season, with teams like Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid not really at the top anymore. Apart from Team Falcons, the whole scene looks a bit more even right now. The Eastern European teams, namely BB Team and Team Spirit, also look strong right now, together with some of the Chinese teams, mainly Xtreme Gaming.
As for meta, a selection of the top heroes right now:
For the support role(s), Chen, Batrider, Lion, Mirana, Shadow Demon, Tiny, Enigma, Techies
Popular offlaners include, Mars, Timbersaw, Centaur, Magnus, Dragon Knight.
Mids are Puck, Pango, Dragon Knight, Storm Spirit, Timber, Templar Assassin.
Carries include Naga, Sven, Morphling, Terrorblade, Faceless Void.
Playstyle-wise, there was a lot of focus on individual outplays, particularly from the offlane role. Successful teams had lots of the "meta" heroes in their repertoire and were able to use them to snowball from the laning stage into the midgame, simply securing more farm by pushing the enemy off the map and into defensive positions through outplays in how the map was played, which heroes could be where and how fights went. As such there was a higher focus on teamfight heroes with big ultimates, like Mars, Enigma, Faceless Void, Pheonix, Undying, but also saves against that, like Shadow Demon, also Undying, Vengeful Spirit.
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The International 2024 | Official Blog Post
www.dota2.com The International 2024War banners are being washed clean of blood stains and scorch marks. Trumpets are being tested for their ability to sound the imminent approach of battle. Lanes are getting swept clean of body parts, and the Ancients are getting a good crack replastering and surface buffing. The forest air itself cr...
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Between the Lanes: Denying Denial of Service | Official blog post
www.dota2.com Between the Lanes: Denying Denial of ServiceWelcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota. This is a story about the internet, and how it doesn’t work like it should, wh...
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Dota Plus Update — Spring 2024 (And Dota Labs) | Official blog post
www.dota2.com Dota Plus Update — Spring 2024 (And Dota Labs)Dota Plus Seasonal Update As Spring blooms to life around us, it transports us here on the Dota team to the springs of yore, when the world was new and vibrant. Who could forget climbing that old oak tree by the bridge? Or stealing carrots and turnips from cranky old Farmer Maggot? Or taking that ri...