There's a balance patch for DotA like (at the quickest) maybe once every 3-4 months. Nowadays, new heroes come every 6 months-ish (in DotA 1 anyways since then they're actually new)

Icefrog actually lets people adapt and find new strategies, but then again the heroes in DotA are actually complex and nuanced enough that the metagame shifts like crazy regardless of balance.

League heroes on the other hand aren't complex (partially because you have to buy them so no one owns them all really, partially because Riot has the most retarded design ethos ever "xd you should know what a champion does instantly instead of have to learn anything") which makes the ban/pick process in LoL just really dumb, the gameplay gets more repetitive faster, and none of the heroes are really THAT interesting in comparison.

It's not even like I'm just a biased fanboy or something, I actually play both quite often, but Riot is a scummy company as far as e-sports go and most of their backend/cash shop is horrendous. The champion design is just icing on the cake.

A Level 1 account will never be paired against a level 30 LoL account unless you're doing custom games pretty much though.

The main problem is a Level 30 LoL account can not compete against other level 30 LoL accounts based on runes/champions owned.

The mistake I made the first couple times is accidentally setting the loop range on Vegas to like a 2 second value and when rendering it I didn't uncheck "only render loop range" (or w/e it is called).

I definitely think DotA 2 is doing a great job of telling "stories", both with their casters and how the teams promote/interact with one another. Some of the player in DotA are so famous that basically everyone around the world who plays the game knows them and the Chinese respect them so much they will call them [letter]-God. Like Loda is often called L-God over there. I think Valve understands the importance of storytelling too, since that is basically what their documentary for DotA 2 coming out next month basically is. (trailer here if interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-RMUp8M54)

Probably the closest thing TF2 has ever had to that is Carnage, to a degree a lot of the non-F2P pubbers actually still know who he is and some even think he's still the best Scout in TF2 because TF2's competitive storytelling is that weak.

People have that right ofc, but I have to agree with him that it's a bit weird that it's still a thing in America. To a large part of the rest of the world, religion is a pretty niche thing. Here (even though it shouldn't, at all) religion actually dictates how we create our laws, which really isn't a good thing at all.

I have one, it's alright. I kinda wish some of the macro buttons were on the actual side of the mouse as it's pretty hard to use any of them in an FPS with the grip I use (fine in an MMORPG or DotAlike though), but otherwise I've had no problems and it is really responsive for me so idk.

(keep in mind I've basically never had the chance to use any of the mice that most people swear by though)

People got mega butt hurt over it on GotFrag a lonnnnnnnnnnng time ago. People saying it was dumbing down the game and making Medic so easy a cave man can do it.

These same people also got mad at damage numbers and hit sounds though probably, so. . .

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#65 Did you even see the Team Siren video...

If a male team made a video like that, they'd get shit on for it too. It was mega bad. One of the team member's quit the team over just how bad it is, one of the other team members quit before the video because she had sex with their team manager and everyone found out, their ADC quit cause of how bad the vid and their support was and then it just snowballed from there.

I mean, I understand it kind of goes both ways you know, girls should be able to have zones where they can hang out with other girls just like guys have zones where they hang out with other guys, but when it comes to being treated equally on the competitive spectrum you do not accomplish that by segregating yourself apart from the other sex by acting all important because you have a vagina and get periods sometimes.

What they should have done was form the team, don't make a huge deal out of the fact that they are all girls, and just play the game - i.e.: what every other team does. There's absolutely zero reason to make an awful promo vid talking about how it's mega important to have a female team and how it is "bigger than us" to beat ~the guy gamers~. If they would have just played the game, done interviews/make videos/stream normally, no one would have gave them shit. Instead they acted like idiots and had a bad promo vid made so they're getting shit on, which is fair.

e:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gz9um3wV1o

seriously, it's awful. :/

This already happened once in the past, it was 12v12 class limit of 3 on all classes, and a bunch of people like Harbleu etc did it.

idk what their opinion of it was, but it probably wasn't very seriously good or anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gz9um3wV1o

the best part for me is still their team name.

Man, Ryan Reynolds would be the perfect flash.

end of this month/early next month.

Literally nothing happened where I live in Illinois yet.

How boring.

It's still like 90 fucking degrees out too.

what

seriously though, what.