Mac Version Woes

After playing LoL for a while and just starting to get the hang of it, I've been waiting for Dota for ages.

Finally the Mac version is out and I gave it a try. So far so good, did the two tutorials then a bot match with a friend on my side (2 vs bots). Was fine, went to play another, selected a hero and... crash.

Now everytime I select a Hero, it crashes on "Play". Other tutorials, bot matches, anything. A search reveals the same problem for loads of people, including sound glitches, missing announcer (I had this also).

How on earth can Valve release the game in this state? I get that it's a Beta but you have to be able to play it to test it, surely. Bad show, Valve. Bad show.

IIRC the Mac version of TF2 was busted for a bit after it released, too. If you give it time, I'm sure they'll eventually stabilize it.

For now, I get that it sucks that you can't play at all. Seems like it's a widespread issue, so I would expect them to be working pretty hard to get it fixed within a week or two. I guess if you're impatient, you could try uninstalling and reinstalling Dota?

Thanks dude. Have tried a reinstall this eve, same issue. Guess ill wait it out.

I'm just glad there is a mac client at all!

I plan on watching TI 3 with my macbook at work now that it's a go.

@mattkb said:

Yeah, sounds like waiting it out is your best bet at this point, then. It sucks that that's the only answer, but such is the way of things sometimes.

I've been a bit gutted this evening trying to get it to work myself. Very glitchy and there's no sound. Have to wait for an update sadly. Still, it was free so I suppose I should shut up.

I've had good luck running it on my Mac. My only issues are sound related. Good luck, duder.