@ajamafalous said:
@ravelle said:
@golguin said:
@ravelle said:
I'm still not used to the massive user interface, both top and bottom are too big and the camera can't zoom out that much. I often walk in to an ambush because I walk in to a group of enemies that just happen to be out of view.
When there's too much going on on the screen I often loose sight my my character because of it. =/
We will do better next time. We just need to practice more on ganking and setting up attacks. If you're familiar with Left 4 Dead the tactics are essentially the same. Boomer goes in pukes/smoker drags and distracts/charger takes out someone in confusion/hunter pounces sole player/spitter acids incapaciated player and all other variations on the Infected group attacks. It's just a matter of knowing who will initiate the attack with their abilities and everyone jumping in.
We do fine most of the time, but the tricky thing is that the AI sometimes decides to ensemble and destroy everything in its path, you can't do anything against them when we're just with the two of us since the bots on our our team just do whatever.
That's actually, as an experienced player, one of the reasons that I hate playing against the bots: they don't really behave realistically at all. I think it's much easier to play against real people.
Agreed - bot matches are good if you can have somebody with you on comms to run through the basics of the game and understand things like warding, creep pulling, roshan and last hits etc. However once you've got that down imho the only real way to enjoy it and learn at the same time is single draft and pub matches with one or two friends/people willing to go with you.
You'll have a few spankings and maybe a pug duder will shout at you, but let that shit slide off and spend some time encountering various different heroes and combinations - youll find yourself discovering characters you never normally would have picked (as someone like me for example who after 200 hours still doesnt really like playing melee if i have the chance, i was pleasantly surprised to have so much fun with spirit breaker) and your overall game will improve much faster than just playing 30 bot matches in a row and assuming you got shit down!
Had a few matches over the weekend with a couple of new guys and some more experienced than i players (both in house and random pugs with a gb party set up) and had a great time in all of them! especially the game with
@rawknro11a
and co. right at the end, we lost but it was a close match, and considering the team we were up against the new guys adapted very well to early mistakes!!
Keep at it ladies and gents, the community has been a helluva lot more active and enjoyable of late, and most of the gb guys dont mind jumping in and botting/inhousing or pugging with you to show you just how deep this rabbit hole will go.
I'm on most nights after about 11pm GMT (after my WoW raids finish - yeah i know.....) for an hour or two - and am currently teaching 2 guild mates how to play from scratch.
If you see Omegacydonia in the chat group feel free to hit up and well have some more midnight dota madness.
And morn Lion getting singled out by clockwerk every damn teamfight :D
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