Blizzard DOTA?

[BlinkforFear]

Blizzard's DotA is not a new game, its a map that Blizzard is doing for Sc2, but its already renamed to something else...

yes i know that, it was kinda just a joke...

 

[Tleno]

yes i know that, it was kinda just a joke...

Not funny.

Hmmm, did they already anounced the heroes their AoS will have? I mean, total amount of them and such...

 

[Statharas]

Some. Check da vid.

 

[CloudMax]

Not funny.

Hmmm, did they already anounced the heroes their AoS will have? I mean, total amount of them and such...

Well, we have the old selection screen with quite a few heroes. (12 heroes)
And on blizzcon they showed that all the heroes will have 2 different models depending on which team your on.

 

[wingednosering]

I'm betting it'll be great and I'm quite excited to have new models made available for the rest of us editor users. I've never been good at AoS style maps (although I made a badass one back in warcraft that I never released), but DotA always rubbed me the wrong way. It's never been balanced correctly (even after its seemingly endless versions) and at its inception it was quite poorly made (obviously that's no longer the case).

I played SotIS twice, but never really got into it. SC2 hero mechanics are pretty crummy (I assume that'll change between HotS and Blizz-DotA).

 

[Gekigengar]

lol, i played dota since the times where i could select the dummies, and cast another spell from it, and where he still uses locust swarm with a diffrent model as an ultimate xD.

yes, its poorly made and imbalance when it came out, now it isn't poorly made anymore, but it is still imbalance up till now.

 

[Adiktuz]

not really, DotA's structure is still not that good... leaks and dummy probs are still there...

 

[Super-Sheep]

not really, DotA's structure is still not that good... leaks and dummy probs are still there...

Who gives shit if they do not affect to the game engine performance at all.

Or wait... It could also be that they have removed leaks and stuff.

Elitist mappers still must keep hating.

 

[Tleno]

Well it's not easy to balance a map like this. I mean, it this kinda of map balance is very immportant and hard to achieve if you want to add lots of diversity to game. Changing unit costs and stats is not a problem, but heroes... those are not easy to balance.

 

[Gekigengar]

i got a game where my bara's charge gets disabled completely,
when i charge a unit, i saw a dummy called "Charge Dummy Unit"
the charge fails when it counts to 4, he didnt run,

and after that,
he can never charge again,
the charge fail instantly if you cast it on a unit, the cooldown still shows, and it cost mana,

i reported this,
and now in the latest version bara charge is reverted back to how it was before lol,
charge without count 1 to 4.

i don't know what happened but seems like icefrog's triggering still fails here and there o.o

 

[CloudMax]

i got a game where my bara's charge gets disabled completely,
when i charge a unit, i saw a dummy called "Charge Dummy Unit"
the charge fails when it counts to 4, he didnt run,

and after that,
he can never charge again,
the charge fail instantly if you cast it on a unit, the cooldown still shows, and it cost mana,

i reported this,
and now in the latest version bara charge is reverted back to how it was before lol,
charge without count 1 to 4.

i don't know what happened but seems like icefrog's triggering still fails here and there o.o

Icefrog is a real coder, he know what he's doing, it is just that you sometimes make mistakes.
That is why real games out there have huge debug teams.

Compare DotA to most games out there. Almost every existing game that is made by a small crew (or 1 person) have lots of bugs.

Ohh well, this is the wrong thread to tell people how much you think IceFrog fails.
He have achieved what almost every modder wants. A very popular map that has reached the stage where its popularity can compete with official games.
That in itself is a hard task, and man he have worked hard to achieve it.

 

[Gekigengar]

i am just saying thats one fatal mistake he did there,
i cannot use one of my skill on that one game forever, what if it happens on competitions?

 

[Super-Sheep]

i am just saying thats one fatal mistake he did there,
i cannot use one of my skill on that one game forever, what if it happens on competitions?

Dont worry about that. Bara doesnt fit into that category. Or thats what they like to say even thought he is currently out of control.

And yeah the Charge is nowadays instant so you must have been playing old version and only stable maps are played in tourneys.

 

[Gekigengar]

its the map before the new hero cames out (rubix)

 

[Tleno]

Well, AoS games with so many characters are real hard to balance and to keep bug-free, so it's not a big surprise some versions may be buggy... I wonder how are Blizzard testing their AoS map currently...