[yongming]

i can teach u cute

[Daboo]

Anyone been having problems with an insanely high number of disconnects recently? Everygame I've played the week or so has had a disconnect. very very annoying. the dota 2 client kinda crashes a little bit more nowadays..dont know why.

QQ: Losing game because there are people who pile upto 5k and dont buy anything...lost so many games where we clearly were ahead in towers and kills early-mid game..only to lose late game team fights, because people have early games items and 5k piled up. /QQ

[MazEi]

Well recently I'm getting more and more lagspikes, but that could just be my internet.

[Bash]

I had insane lag this morning, but it could've been my net.
I'll teach cute! We should do in-houses again sometime.

[Daboo]

^^ this friday? oh wait...thats today, how about it?

Quick Comments

Bash:

im in.

[cruxis]

I'm willing to play bot games with new players and teach them what I know. Which isn't a whole lot, but still know enough to be a mediocre player.

My shitty laptop has always made lag spikes for me, but the client has been crashing a lot for me. I would accept a game, then alt-tab while it loads, and 30 seconds later it will crash. Sometimes I have finished loading and the game continues, other times I don't finish loading and the game is cancelled.

Saving up for a new laptop so I can at least play without graphic lag spikes. Hope it fixes the crashing issue as well.

[Cute]

Thanks for offering to help guys! Will definitely take some of you up on it! I'm qripretty;3 in game

[Daboo]

Is there any sort of significance to the affiliation of the hero, or is it only for lore purposes? i.e radiant, dire.

[FaMe]

Just lore. In original DotA they were referred to as Sentinal's / Scourge,

http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Mad_Moon

[cruxis]

I wouldn't mind seeing a dota tournament where the Dire side can only pick dire character, and radiant only radiant characters. It'll be a whole different metagame.

[MazEi]

lol playing dota without typing -ap or anything back then =P

[DtorR]

I remember back in the day where both blue and pink had to type in the -ap or -ar mode.

[cruxis]

I can't remember where I said it, but I said Meepo needs multi-unit control changes before he is implemented. Well, now with this:

New multi-unit display changes:
- added a channel bar to each slot
- selected units are now highlighted, with a special highlight for the primary selected unit
- added a red flash when recently damaged
- you can now click on slots to select / deselect units

I think Meepo will be viable and probably coming next week.

[MazEi]

Nah, I'd rather they didn't do anything to help with multi-unit control. Makes gosu players actually gosu. But hell yeah Meepo incoming!(unless Valve troll)

EDIT
GG on the inhouse. My inexperience as morph really shows =(

[LennX]

Just wondering, when do you guys play IH dota normally? The amount of BM on Dota 2 lower levels is worse than sc2 NA severs. =(

[Daboo]

^^ Mostly in the evenings, but whenever we get enough people together.

Normally when it's happening, you'll know in the sc2sea channel in-game, and also in the chatbox here on the site.

When someone is being a total dick, just block them, it's totally possible at lower levels to communicate through pings on the map.

[DUCKVILLELOL]

Cruxis on the ball! Check out the latest update:

http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=55331

- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!

- In the Test client, heroes will now randomly equip cosmetic items every time they spawn.

GAMEPLAY
- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward briefly registering the incorrect team right after casting.
- Wisp: Fixed being able to Teleport a Tethered creep to the enemy base.
- Lich: Fixed Chain Frost being dodgable.

UI
- The buyback button is no longer shown when the hero is reincarnating.
- Shift clicking a recipe now puts it in quickbuy.
- Fixed misaligned tooltips in the combine tree.
- Pennants now work for any game that's part of a tournament.
- Equipped pennants are now visible in your base when you're playing.
- New broadcaster select dialog.
- Added animated Firstblood, killstreaks and multikills notifications.
- Reduced opposing-team pause resume time down to 5 seconds (from 30 seconds).
- The top bar healthbars now show up any time a player is spectating.
- Fixed issues with the featured hero in the profile not showing the right hero, or not animating after toggling the dashboard.
- Stackable items now have their sellback time expired when they are stacked by a movement inside the inventory.
- The suggested items tab is now reloaded after a player swaps heroes with someone else.

VISUALS
- Added a effect that plays the whole time Keeper's Mana Leak is active on a target, not just when the target moves.
- Player's chosen team pennant will display in the fountain area.

BOTS
- Added Lich bot.
- Added Death Prophet bot.
- Added Viper bot.
- Bots will now select heroes their teammates have suggested in the hero picker.
- Increased the radius and strength of fountain avoidance.
- Tuned the strength of bots desire to place a ward, they should be somewhat more cautious about it now.
- Bots now wait 15 seconds after hero-picking to spring into action. This gives players the opportunity to buy their own couriers, if they want.
- Bots will no longer try to TP out of a fight if they're currently visible to the enemy team.
- Bots now try to path through FoWed areas when retreating.
- Bots now pay attention to multiple pings, and will use them to strengthen their desire to attack a hero, defend a lane, or push a lane.
- Bots that are disabled due to missing players on the opposing team are now also invulnerable so they cannot be farmed.
- Supports will now defer last-hitting to non-supports in their lane.
- Bots on easier difficulty levels will now be worse at retreating out of a gank.
- Fixed bug with the avoidance of Dark Seer's wall (only half the wall was being avoided).
- Slightly increased sticktoitiveness of bots overall, but moreso for medium and easy bots.
- Made Tiny bot less likely to Avalanche when retreating (so it's harder to harass him into using all his mana).

[MazEi]

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepo

kbai training micro

[DUCKVILLELOL]

Just read that meepo will be included in a patch "tomorrow" which in AEST time is probably within the next 5-8 hours I guess. Get those micro fingers ready!

[Cyanide]

cool, a new hero to play with. gonna play around with meepo in bot matches and get a feel =P