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Re : DotA: Death of the Ancients
Or also, unbalanced because the whole game is based upon overpowered skill, items and heroes rather than teamplay and strategy.
Most people try to avoid playing with their allies, as it slow down XP rates. You just wait behind your creeps and cast a spell from times to times, until you have enough money to buy some flawed item. Rinse and repeat until you're powerful enough to one-shot a tower or another hero. End of the game.
Re: DotA: Death of the Ancients
Hmm...I seem to have made a mistake in the title, can anyone fix it for me?
As for the map, it is imbalanced in some heroes, but those overpowered ones do get nerfed in newer versions and the map isn't that imbalanced.
If you want to play against half decent people, go play TDA games where you have to prove that you are a respectable player to get in.
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Honestly, I'm not trying to be patronising, but how is attempting to join a community that discriminates based on skill for a single map going to get you with half decent people?If you want to play against half decent people, go play TDA games where you have to prove that you are a respectable player to get in.
If you want to play with nice people, play with your mates...or play another game...
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Re: DotA: Death of the Ancients
In the dota community, there is a very large problem with people either purposefully ruining the game or more commonly, leavers. Public 5v5 games easily last from 45-90 minutes so lots of people just leave in the middle of the game most of the time ruining the game. If you can play TDA games, that means that you are not a leaver nor purposefully ruin games and that you are at least not completely new to the game.
If you complain that there are too many stupid 10 year olds playing the games, it is the same for almost every online game with starcraft and WoW to name a few.
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Re: DotA: Death of the Ancients
Re: DotA: Death of the Ancients
You made it sound worse than M2: TW in terms of imbalance!!
Anyway, most of your "complaints" show that you haven't actually played it, or got the hang of it. Because if you did, you'll know it's anything but "You just wait behind your creeps and cast a spell from times to times, until you have enough money to buy some flawed item."
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Re: DotA: Death of the Ancients
Well, DotA is one of the top modifications close to perfection. The author gets a huge feedback and never falls behind in updating the map.
Sweeeeeeet
P.S. x-dANGEr, give me your nick, we may meet on the servers sometime.
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Thing is, I actually played it. Firstly a while ago (what was it ? 3 or 4 years ago at least, when the first versions of the map were released) and quite honestly, I already thought it was quite poor and blank at the time (as in, there was already Aeon maps with cooler design, better balance, more original heroes, etc.), the only thing I actually liked was a character that had spell who were quite powerful but sometimes lead to weird situations (he summoned a random hostile creature rather than the friendly elemental he was supposed to).Originally Posted by x-dANGEr
Then, a few months ago, a friend of mine who is still stuck at playing on Battlenet (while normal people have moved to WoW) told me "Haven't you heard about DotA ? It's really great" and so on.
So, I reinstalled Warcraft 3 and TFT, downloaded the latest version of the map, and tried the map. I played dozens of games either with my friend and his team or with random people, and never ever did I think "OMG, 'dis is so much fun"*.
Currently, I still wondering why people prefer(ed) this crap over Tides of Blood and the billion of other Aeon that were way better than DotA.
*Oddly, all these game would be rather well described by "casting a spell from times to times until you have enough money to buy/craft some overpowered item"
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