Dota 2 General - /d2g/

After this thread, Naga will finally stop eating this fish, edition

>INFORMATION & GUIDES
Latest patch: dota2.com/news/updates/
New players: purgegamers.true.io/g/dota-2-guide/
Wiki: dota2.gamepedia.com/
Blog: blog.dota2.com/
Lore: dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=35923
Guides: steamcommunity.com/app/570/guides
Cosmetic simulator: dotaloadout.com/
Competitive Scene: wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Main_Page

>STATISTICS
dotabuff.com/
opendota.com/
datdota.com/

>NEWS & STREAMS
joindota.com/
gosugamers.net/
liquiddota.com/
Streamlink Twitch GUI: github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui

>COSMETIC ITEM BETTING
dota2lounge.com/
dota2.vpgame.com/

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>thirty memes early

>NEETs literally not allowed to queue anymore

RIP

>He SO new that he doesn't remember the first solo queue
It sucked because huge queue times
t. Salty juiceshitter since 6.82

FUCK YOU VALVE, BEING BROWN IS ENOUGH SUFFERING DON'T TAKE MY DOTO AWAY

You guys were wrong about reddit. Say what you want about them, they just single handedly saved this game.

>alone nerds have forced a TEAM GAME to be played solo

Where are the so-called new memes?

So are you entering your phone number?

Maybe if they did this two years ago the game would still be enjoyable.

DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK

>Literally the best thing to happen to dota in ages
>And the third world subhumans that inhabit /d2g/ are acting as if the game is finally dead
>When their autistic selves don't even play the fucking game to begin with
You retards are fucking retarded.
Dota 2 is notorious for having an extremely toxic community. One that's so bad it literally drives away new players. This is literally the best thing to happen to Dota 2.

I hope you all start sucking Reddit's dick because it was their constant bitching that finally made Valve do something about it. Reddit is the saviour of Dota 2.

>ruin gameplay to make it more approachable to new people and casual players
>you need a phone to play
Ummmm???

Just a matter of time before someone hacks where they store the phone numbers. You know those crazy guys who threaten to kill you if you don't give them mid? Now they might actually be able to.

newfags and casuls will surely be normie enough to have a smartphone

POST WEBSITES THAT LITERALLY SAVED DOTA. NOT SO FAST Veeky Forums

Enjoy giving gaben your phone number LOL

>ruin gameplay
Literally nobody thinks this except retarded dotard shitters who don't even play the game anymore and wish the game was like WC3 Dota Allstars. Go watch some more TI2 replays you retarded fuck.

>You need a phone to play
Ranked? Yeah. Feel free to keep playing unranked though because that's where shitters like you belong.

>yfw you'll no longer have to play with uncouth third world vermin

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ICEFROG SAVED DOTA YET AGAIN?

youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

>the only people who play are NEETs
>ban them from playing
what's the end game here?

strawpoll.me/12790441

VERY IMPORTANT POLL

I'd give him more than my phone number if you know what i mean

dota is not save

you already had to give it for market and other stuff like steam guard, nothing new

ive been playing unranked matchmaking exclusively since 2012, what the fuck i hate valve now

I'm a NEET and even I have a smartphone.
How the fuck do you not have a phone number in 2017?

>dota 2 on the decline.
>lets introduce an update that requires a phone to play.

This doesnt change anything, every peruvian 13yo kid has a phone.
Solo queue is nice tho.

t.peruvian lad

>mfw people are so dedicated to their digital epeen number that they'd rather not play dota at all than play unranked

Solo queue option is in Options > Advanced > Misc (On the right).

no changes to unranked you idiot

>Dota 2 on the decline because on-top of the game being hard to get into for new people, the extremely toxic third world community constantly bars new players from enjoying the game with their rampant toxicity
>Valve introduces an update that will put those toxic shitters where they belong - in the trash
Thank fucking god.
Dota is fucking saved.

oniichan, give me your phone number

>with this update have issued a permanent ban to a large number of recently-detected bot accounts
psst
check the steamcharts
watch the numbers nosedive

fuck off yossi you ugly ruski

>still no perrito gordito hero

dotards??????????

Don't call him names just because he can't read user.

Guys, what's going to stop third world shitters from just entering their phone number? Surely valve isn't going to filter by country or area code.

hoards of 14yr old peruvian monkeys without phones are left with unranked as their only option

the problem isnt fixed, the toxic players just shift elsewhere

a ton of them dont have phones

yes they do

Based

>nadota is dead
>the only people who play it are south american and pinoys
>nuke pinoys and south americans

this kill the game retard

valve is forgiven

If you've been playing unranked only, then it just reverts to how it was before ranked even existed.

Dude, the cheapest smartphones out there cost around $5~$20. They do.

>tfw have two phones
NICE TRY VALVE
NICE
FUCKING
TRY

so 700k peak to about 500k peak now?

>tfw 6 smurfs
>tfw obtained 6 phone numbers from my workplace
ahahahahaha, reddit continues to make the game deter people but they still cant stop me

>everyone is solo
>equal lack of team synergy and communication on either side

VALVE
BASED
AS
FUCKING
SHIT
HOLY
FUCK

Weird, I remember this picture having a better looking floor.

Or was it the desk?

so just like normal dota then?

>nadota is dead
The professional scene is a mess sure but NA Dota is far from dead my retarded little dotard.

I mean that's a small possibility but to be quite honest, 500,000 people is still a fuck load of people.

Which is terrible,

Valve should promote team play over solo play.

It just be like in CS:GO. One rank for everything.

>he thinks thirdies are the only people responsible for a toxic community
>doesn't realize the pure autism of nadota
i've had multiple games with na losers screeching nigger over their microphones because one thing goes wrong

Where were you when Dota 2 was saved?

Valve just killed this game by requiring a phone.

Rest in piss you shit game.

POST YOUR FAVORITE

INT
STR
AGI

HEROES

>CSGO already higher than Dota
it's happening.....

I GOT
TWO PHONES
ONE FOR THE SMURF AND ONE FOR THE BOT

mfw people won't even get this.

mmr is just a number user
enjoy your thirdie queue

>Not having a phone to begin with
Nobody will miss your 2k third world NEET ass. Kindly kill yourself.

? Only literal slobbering retards and homeless people don't have phones

i was playing nu-xcom
when d2gułag say
dota is save
ok

>offlane enchantress

this shit is fuckin broken, bitch has more ms with no boots then 90% of the heros with boots.

It's not that they don't have phones, it's that they'll need to spend EVEN MORE money to play a free game on top of their overpriced net cafe hours.

Thirdies also usually have multiple accounts so they can switch accounts instead of playing LP.

OGRE MAGI
EARTHSHAKER
FACELESS VOID

yea only during this time, NA has more csgo players than dota players

during any other time we're higher though

>already

in summer 2015 this used to begin like hours ago and would last like 8-10 hours

then cs go died off and now it's slightly coming back again as dota is dying off

SMURFS GET OUT OF MY RANKED REEEEEE

but then you have to play enchantress

I'm a hikki neet with no friends and I don't have a phone, do I count as the former?

>it's that they'll need to spend EVEN MORE money to play a free game on top of their overpriced net cafe hours.
Uh, says who?
If they already have a phone then... nothing really changes?
Do you read the shit you post, retard?

Nobody gives a rat's ass about your black people music, DeShawn.

>overpriced net cafe hours
>when 4 hours is 1$
lad...

WHERE IS THE SOLO QUEUE BUTTON

>INT
luna
>STR
ogre magi
>AGI
silencer

my name is Lucifer

In your advanced settings, look here

SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
I LOVE VALVE

This will be the update that killed dota.

SCREENCAP THIS.

>1$
This guy is foreign. Be mean to him.

...

...

solo queue is here

but im still the greatest terrorblade player in /d2g/

Shitty 2 and 3 stacks barely qualifies as "team play". It's certainly less important than how it skews the skill distributions of games they're in.

Valve is correct in having 2 competitive dota enivroments. One to measure the skill of a solo dota player (ranked) and one to measure the skill of a dota team (battlecups).

>Dota is finally saved
I was so scared that it was actually dying, but now it's saved.
I'm so happy I think I can cry.

post yfw dota's been officially saved

Valve wants the player count low enough to be seen as an indie sized developer again

Was 6.78 the most exciting patch for pro doto of all time?

Was any other patch responsible for more ultra tense 60 minute base races?

...

>have nice long uninterrupted dream about me and my oneitis
>wake up and valve saved dota
today is a good day :3

oh good, maybe I get to talk to him again like I did before

The overwhelming majority of South American players are little kids, though. The tiny remainder are the few thirdies that can actually play the game worth a shit despite the ping. A dollar per hour is already a lot of money to them.

You don't deserve to play ranked.

One dollar to thirdies is like 50 to humans.

necro'lic_
zet
kaolin

you got anything to back that up, brother?