LoL (League of Legends) thread *UPDATED 12/10/2009*

General Discussion
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DotA 2 Announced

Summary:

  • DotA 2’s gameplay is pretty much DotA. It’ll be updated, but consider this a port to a stronger engine and with added community features and stronger support by Valve and the DotA 2 team.

  • Same gameplay, same characters, same names, new engine and artwork.

  • Artwork will go for a cartoony style with contrast to make it easier to see what’s going on (like League of Legends).

  • Built-In In-Game Chat (this exists in HoN too).

  • Leavers will be replaced with “bots.” The bots won’t be super strong (DotA will not become a single player game) but they will keep up in gaining experience and reduce the disadvantage that way.

  • The big news about DotA 2 is community integration. You will unlock achievements, ranks, and skins not just from gameplay but your interaction with the community.

  • Valve’s big focus is on nurturing a positive experience because games in this genre usually suffer from hostile attitudes to beginners. Much of the innovations of DotA 2 will be aimed at community integration and management. As Gabe Newell puts it, allowing the community to better service the community.

  • Valve will provide tools for the community to make guides for the game. Details aren’t given about this, but it will tie with the game–sounds like guides will be a module attached to the game so items can be recommended as you play along with other build order information. Maybe this will happen when you play, maybe it will be a tutorial mode. We will see.

  • You will get achievements and probably visible status of some sort for how you conduct yourself on the forums. I’m guessing it’s all positive reinforcement, will be interesting if there is any identification of negative posting.

  • The big news is a Coaching Mode. Good coaches will likely get prestige and all pupils will be able to rate the coach. The coaching mode will allow the coach to watch the pupil’s game how they see it (I’m guessing the coach will have a cursor for guidance) and talk to them on a private channel.

-Chanchai

P.S. More Icefrog mystique/publicity/hate… The ever mysterious Icefrog continues to baffle the public with tales of being shady… No idea what is true but he definitely has overall good PR from it… “He’s a genius” according to Valve and his fans. “He’s a shady bastard” says some others… manufactured or true? No idea… but it’s fun. HE’S THE HIRONOBU ITAGAKI OF THE RTS WORLD!!!

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*double Post

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That’s a pretty funny read. It’s DotA II, but we’re importing EVERYTHING. Valve is gonna rake in so much money off of this.

Gabe Newell won.

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Meh just an import

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People feed Garen tanking it up… “HIT GAREN FIRST”… really? Everyone was attacking Garen while I was hitting the squishes first. Really made no sense

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They attack what ever is close and convenient for them.

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ggs yesterday Cam and Airdash. We owned the house. Karathrow don’t be an elitist.

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I also never figured out why some people try and focus on the tank instead of the easily killed squishy champs.

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:mad:

Because they are bad at the game.

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Common sense isn’t common, I suppose.

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All up in dat Kass.

imo.

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I’ve been watching some HotShotGG vids. He rages the same as I do. :sad:

EDIT: Nevermind, he shit talks his team in all chat. I don’t do that.

imo.

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im hyped for the new hero. ima save up ip points this whole week. garen sister !!

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I want a Pentakill.

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Kassadin is a monster he was far and away my best killing hero when I played he just can’t quite be as useful when it comes to late game team fights in high elo matches. That is the problem i had with him though when i first started playing him. That is when i switched to Morgana but Kass seems like he does better against the cast now.

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Kassadin is the shit.

That reminds me, gotta pick up that pre-void skin.

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:mad:

Kassadin go squish. Hes very usefull, aoe snare, silence, and insane mobility.
Unfortunately he still goes squish.
I dont like him.

But then again I only play tanks or pseudo tanks anyway.

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I really wish there was like an auto-ban feature for people who rage quit or just don’t play. I’ve had at least 5 games in a row where one or two people rage quit in the beginning of the game.

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Started playing again. I’ve been having alot of fun playing urgot, feels good to not really care about winning or losing anymore so I don’t rage lol.

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Goddamit Swain, why does he gotta be so shitty? Ive been trying and trying and i feel so fuckin useless. I have a feeling Riot is not gonna do anything about it and Swain is going to be forgotten just like Urgot having no viable placement in the team.