DotA 2

[Snarf]

modify your net settigns like you would with any other source game

the response time is just fine, its the animations that make you think otherwise

If the solution was that simple I would be a happy man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0YQP4TQdsA

[WombRaider]

that was before the patch that specifically addressed that



even the comments in the video you posted say that.

durrrrrr

[Levykid]

That gif made me smile.
Icefrog originally made HoN. There is a lot of drama between Icefrog and Riot and recently Mspudding and one other employee who's name escapes me have left S2 to "Work on another ARTS" AKA work for Icefrog.
Also I hate Riot and would not be sad if this threw their little chess game out the window.

Curious as to why you hate Riot. So far they've done really good work, even if you don't like LoL, you can't fault them for what they've achieved, since they're now more popular than WoW...

His first post ever and its that.

Also I'm curious to see how dota 2 plans to differentiate itself from demigod in that 99.6% of the dota community are pirates.

Unless you count the HoN peopls, but then wow, 40000 sales and most of them were at greatly discounted prices.

HAHAHAH Demigod. That game differentiated itself by being shit. Well, the game itself wasn't too bad, I had fun playing against bots, but once you got to a point where bots were no longer fun, playing online was a bigger hassle than setting up FFXI at launch...

As for DotA, I've heard that it's going to be free, not sure, not worth paying to get into the beta.

i like Mortred.. her last skill really gives the opponent a very serious damage.. especially when she has enough mana.. l-o-l.. but i'm not so sure if mortred really is a girl or a boy..

This, ladies and gentlemen is a bot. Mortred's ult does not require mana, it's a passive chance to crit. It does do serious damage though... haha. Oh, and if you look at her model in game, she's pretty obviously female... most night elves seem to be.

[Snarf]

that was before the patch that specifically addressed that



even the comments in the video you posted say that.

durrrrrr

Vague mentions of "Server performance improvements" don't fix animations. HoN is just fucking faster.

Curious as to why you hate Riot. So far they've done really good work, even if you don't like LoL, you can't fault them for what they've achieved, since they're now more popular than WoW...

Being good at making money and being good at balancing a game or making intelligent decisions regarding balance to begin with are two different things. Riot refuses to include complexity in their games and LoL will always have a lower skill ceiling than Dota or HoN because of how much they simplified the game. I always recommend people who are new to arts's or aren't going to bother getting good over to it just because it's so much easier to learn.

[Levykid]

Being good at making money and being good at balancing a game or making intelligent decisions regarding balance to begin with are two different things. Riot refuses to include complexity in their games and LoL will always have a lower skill ceiling than Dota or HoN because of how much they simplified the game. I always recommend people who are new to arts's or aren't going to bother getting good over to it just because it's so much easier to learn.

Honestly, they are good at making the game. Maybe it's not the game you were looking for, but it's a hell of a lot more accessible that DotA ever was. You may claim they've lowered the skill ceiling or there's limited complexity, and to some extent you're right, but the game is feels a lot better balanced than DotA was, and in the short time I played HoN it had better balance.

For examples of HoN/DotA imalance, check pretty much any AGI hero, and Omniknight, Enchantress, Invoker, Bane Ele, Necrolyte, and many more, and since the game is updated once every few months, those heroes remain broken for that time.

[Snarf]

Dota 1 perhaps, But Dota 2 has been almost perfectly balanced. HoN is by no means balanced and never will be most likely but I would still rather play it than LoL.
That and unlike Riot Icefrog doesn't fix what isn't broken on a regular basis. There are so many cases of them making absolutely idiotic patch changes that I cannot begin to list them.

[WombRaider]

Vague mentions of "Server performance improvements" don't fix animations. HoN is just fucking faster.

guys this is snarf being completely wrong, providing an example that accidentally proves the opposite of what he was saying, so he changes the argument.

[WombRaider]

the big difference between hon and lol is that in hon every hero is viable, whereas in lol there are some clearly all-around inferior choices

[peteyM3]

wtf you are you nerds raging about?

[WombRaider]

fuck off pete the grown-ups are talking