Valve Upgrading Steam's Backend, Teases Dota 2 'Soon'

Can't wait to see all this in 2028 .

And people said that Brad N. was slow.
 
Ha.

Oh man takes me back to the days of hearing about crazy eastern/northern european or Germany DOTA LAN parties. I'm guessing valve just got Icefrog to make DOTA 2 which is good but he's not all that great at balancing. Would've liked to see Eul be involved with it but who knows where that dude is nowadays. Reason I didn't want to get into LoL is cause those games are lifesuckers. You play one match and want more.

On the download front, man that's great news. Can't tell you how horrible my dl speed was during steam sale. I was getting like 120 bytes per second when my normal connection is 1000 kbs.

Basshunter is such a douche...

Now I have to upgrade my internet connection...or can Valve do it for me too? :)

looks like 2017 will be a great year for Valve with the release of DOTA 2 and all.

Been waiting for DoTA 2 for a long time now, I've gotten tired of the good old Warcraft III engine. Can't wait to see how the game's gonna perform using the Source engine.

@phrosnite said:

DOTA 2 will be F2P for sure but I'm afraid Valve will go the LoL way instead of staying true to the DotA hardcoreness(?). I'll keep an eye on it but I'm ready to be disappointed.

You should go read the leaked beta stuff, because it's pretty much DotA.

Obligatory Valve Time post.

No idea what DoTA actually is. But just can't stop myself from replaying that goddamn song over and over again. Thanks Patrick.

Nice.  Now maybe there will be fewer Steam Server is busy errors when after a new TF2 update comes out (?)

Nice water elemental.

looks like 2017 will be a great year for Valve with the release of DOTA 2 and all.

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EDIT: darn

The max DL speed I tend to get on my internet is 350 kb/s,

I hate my internet.

You left out the coolest part about this new download system. Apparently before whenever you would download an update that needed to change some aspect of say a 10 mb file, the way it works now you would have to download the entire 10 mb file again. In this new method they are going to use, you will only have to download the part of the file that changes. So it will cut the update sizes down considerably in some cases.

I need a bigger drive for my desktop! Yesterdays raptor drives feel so stupid with todays ssd:s

Nice water elemental.

@NDN_Shadow said:

After getting into these DotA style games with LoL, I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

Don't get your hopes to high dude.. Icefraud is behind this .. ughh.

@Chris2KLee said:

Just started playing League of Legends last week, my first DotA style game. Loving it so far and really interested to see what Valve has to offer.

how are you finding the general community, I've always been interested in these games but my understanding is that they arent very understanding of new players.

@Sjupp said:

HUR KAN BASSHUNTER - DOTA "INTE VISAS I MITT LAND"!?

StrongVPN.com är din vän. :p

Nice water elemental.

DOTA 2 get hype?

I am glad they are doing this. I don't have the fastest ISP so downloading on Steam can be a chore sometimes.

Basshunter's DoTA is my summer jam, yo!

@crusader8463: That's awesome. It'll avoid issues like the witcher 2 update problem.

About time Steam did some squats.

By soon, Valve means 2013.

HUR KAN BASSHUNTER - DOTA "INTE VISAS I MITT LAND"!?

Wait could this be whats causing my log in problems, cause I've been locked out of my account since yesterday, and when I try to get back in Steam says my account isn't there. That despite the fact that my steam profile page is still perfectly intact.

I really hope Dota 2 comes out and is fantastic and kicks the ass off of every other game in the sub-genre, it could probably get me into those games. 

wow wait, Steam is already crazy fast!

Hopefully part of this new system will enable people to pick their DLC to download. While I appreciate the rapid addition of DLC to the system when the need was made clear to support it, there is no ability to pick what you download. Maybe the DLC changes something in the game and you want to experience it vanilla, maybe you just want a faster download as you'e only going to be on a PC for a few hours (or are running out of HDD space). From what I can figure out there is no way of telling Steam to not download everything when you ask it to install the game (you can tell it to not update and so stop both patches and DLC from being downloaded but then you block patches and have to have done an initial download before buying the DLC).

To take the worst example of this I've experience, I have Frozen Synapse and the soundtrack DLC. To download the 200MB of FS I am forced to also download my purchased DLC with it, that comes with mp3s, FLACs, and even wavs. All 1GB of them. Literally! When logging into my account on a new PC for a quick game of something I have to grab a 1.2GB block and wait for it to all download before playing my 200MB game. I could really do with the ability to tell it to only download the core game.

While yes DOTA 2 is nice, I would like to see some HL3 plz!

Just started playing League of Legends last week, my first DotA style game. Loving it so far and really interested to see what Valve has to offer.

I need to upgrade my internet soon or downloading games really fast won't matter if they use up 20% of my monthly cap. Also Basshunter is great live.

@Seedofpower said:

half life 2

-ep.1

-ep.2

Left 4 Dead 2

Portal 2

Dota 2

Team fortress 2

Counter strike: Source (2)

God damn it Valve..... I starting to think you are doing this on purpose. Waiting for the next big engine release before counting to 3?

I hope so.

Sounds like March 3rd 2013, they'll start rolling out the 3rd installment of every game the 3rd of every month.

That would be pretty nuts.

Am I the only one that's annoyed that the game is still called DotA 2?

@Tylea002 said:

The max DL speed I tend to get on my internet is 350 kb/s,

I hate my internet.

Same here... Australia sucks, especially in my area.

the video made nothing clear! other than they use ventrilo

after the video, all is clear

Love me some Basshunter.

Just started playing League of Legends last week, my first DotA style game. Loving it so far and really interested to see what Valve has to offer.

The max DL speed I tend to get on my internet is 350 kb/s,

I hate my internet.

You left out the coolest part about this new download system. Apparently before whenever you would download an update that needed to change some aspect of say a 10 mb file, the way it works now you would have to download the entire 10 mb file again. In this new method they are going to use, you will only have to download the part of the file that changes. So it will cut the update sizes down considerably in some cases.

DOTA 2 will be F2P for sure but I'm afraid Valve will go the LoL way instead of staying true to the DotA hardcoreness(?). I'll keep an eye on it but I'm ready to be disappointed.

half life 2

-ep.1

-ep.2

Left 4 Dead 2

Portal 2

Dota 2

Team fortress 2

Counter strike: Source (2)

God damn it Valve..... I starting to think you are doing this on purpose. Waiting for the next big engine release before counting to 3?

I hope so.

So what that video is saying that if I play DotA then I'll be able to get into clubs? Umm...okay I guess.

Dota 2's gotta be free to play right? Might try if it is.