mrmud

Todays patch seems to have fixed the startup bug for most people (me included). There was a lot of whining on the forums but I am impressed by how quickly they were able to put it out.

Game crashes at startup, tried every workaround I have found on the steam forums (there is a 1300 post thread on the crash at startup issue) and nothing seems to work. Pretty pissed right now...

AMD card with 3 screen setup (120hz main monitor duplicated onto a TV through HDMI and then extended to a third screen). So basically everything needed to make this particular game never start.

Game crashes at startup, tried every workaround I have found on the steam forums (there is a 1300 post thread on the crash at startup issue) and nothing seems to work. Pretty pissed right now...

I have played about 1000 games of League and 400 games of Dota2 and I can't see myself ever returning to League.

There are alot of mechanical changes to overcome when starting to play but with time those are things that you will become less of a problem the more you play. For example before I started playing Dota I thought last hitting was incredibly dumb but now I have started appreciating why it may be interesting.

There are really two big reasons for me why I now believe Dota2 to be superior to LoL.

#1 Monetization. Dota does not have a scumbag monetization policy. Every hero is free, and new heroes don't have to be released every two weeks to bring in more money. This means that more time can be spent by the developers on the heroes that are already in the game instead of always chasing the next big thing. Dota also does not have a rune-page system, a system that when you think about it is only useful for stifling player flexibility unless they hand out large sums of money.

In Dota2, you only play for cosmetics and frankly it would be easy for LoL to behave in the same way, there are plenty of skins for each champion to purchase but they are to greedy and want more money so it will never happen.

I am not bitter about the several hundred dollars I have spent on LoL, I enjoyed my time when I played it but I feel much better about spending money on Dota when I know I don't have to in order to stay competetive.

#2 Metagame. The Metagame in LoL is really, really stale and boring. The lanes always look the same (yes in high level play you can switch the top and bottom lane composition in early game but as soon as it starts getting time for taking dragon you have to switch it back to the stock standard). In LoL you always play the Bruiser, Jungler, AP carry, AD Carry and support combination, every single game.

In Dota there is much more flexibility in what types of heroes you can pick up and where you can lane them. It is not uncommon to have professional games with no Carries that are completely focused on winning in the midgame. On the other side of the spectrum there are teams that pick up 2-3 right click carries in their games. You also don't have to jungle, in fact in most games there is no dedicated jungler and this impacts the lanes.

There are so many variations in laning setups, you can run defensive trilanes, offensive trilanes, duo lanes, solo offlanes, solo safelanes, sacked offlanes and so on.

What all of this means is that playing and watching Dota does not get stale in the way that LoL does because there is always something different going on.

Steam: MrMud

Location: EU West

Experience: 250+ games in Dota2, 1000+ games in LoL so thats intermediate?

Favorite Role: 700+ of my games are probably as supported carry (in various stages of premade games) but I can play whatever.

I think the poor port with terrible controls and bad frame rates are possibly even worse than the DRM.

its pretty good, but more importantly the expansion pack Mask of the Betrayer is probably the best RPG in years.
If you like this kind of game, you owe it to yourself to play it.

Machine Fiiiiightiiiiiing!

Brad, if your into the MP beta i definitely recommend checking out Day9's replay analysis videos.
Day9 is one of the largest starcraft community figures and a very high level player (WCG finalist) whos insight into the game totally changes the way you think about starrcraft if your a middling player like me.

If anyone wants to watch some SC2 to actually learn something deeper about the game I really recomend Day9 Daily. Its pretty much only great players (there arent alot of professionals yet) and the analysis is incredible.