206
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
206 points (98.1% liked)
Games
16714 readers
486 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
just play other mobas
There’s realistic only DotA and I can understand the reluctance, the two games are massively different, League is much more suited for casual play.
Ahaha no I swear to god Dota 2 is ridiculously fun
In LoL you play the same game over and over again.
Yesterday on dota I planted trees with my friends to hide and wait for people to come to ambush them lol
You can do all sort of funny stuff, TPing people in your base etc… everything is OP so you don’t feel like you have no agency. You feel like it’s just your skills that are lacking!
I mean, ive played some dota in the past, i have about 200h on it, not nearly as much as league tho. But IME, especially for solo, league is just nicer overall. The mechanics for champions seem a lot more polished these days, and it is a lot more action focused, you have to worry about macro much less. The games are also like 50% shorter in league. As a solo player I find league to be a lot more laid back, where I can just play the champ more than play the game, if that makes sense.
To each their own of course, Im not saying one game is better than the other, but it is a hard sell to transition league to dota.
You’re right, DoTa is a lot more chaotic, but there’s a lot of action on the map! Macro play is not necessarily doing nothing in this game and often time fight breakout for runes, etc…
I think it’s about preference rather than reality because we had two completely different experiences so yeah, I love League but I don’t see the point of playing it now!
While I'm League hater, I would love if the Dota meta shifted to shorter games like League has. I really miss the strategic depth of normal/ranked, but realistically if I want to play more than one match per evening, I have to play turbo mode.
Turbo has immortal players in it, I've gotten up to 4 immortal players in one game of my turbo players, average ancient-divine rank games pretty often
I actually play a lot of "Turbo mode" in DotA 2, everything is 2x gold 2x exp. Games end faster! Towers have less armor and less HP. Games end at 12 minutes for stomps and 20ish minutes for even games
Hmm, is there a ranked mode for it?
It has auto hidden rank you can check your average rank of the mmr in the game afterwards with 3rd party websites
In league non-ranked matchmaking is pretty all over the place. It is also supposed to be mmr based. In a single session i can play vs everything from iron to emerald, how is it in dota?
There's hidden mmr so the game calculates your rank based on your impact in the game, it easily detects smurfs as well. So you just play and you'll end up with people similar skilled in Unranked
HOTS is actually in a released state
It’s what the former pros/high elo lol players go to
I had read somewhere about it being in a rough state playerbase-wise, which i guess isnt true, but it is no longer receiving updates, right? Anyway, might check it out.
Bug fixes and balance updates only
Draft is dead
Quickplay, ranked are alive
ARAM is more popular than on LoL
NA/EU the game is alive
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXA2Q1HT_k&pp=ygUHa2hhbGRvcg%3D%3D
If competitive is your thing
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://m.piped.video/watch?v=-ZXA2Q1HT_k&pp=ygUHa2hhbGRvcg%3D%3D
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.