Dota 2 General - /d2g/

>thirty memes early

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>NEETs literally not allowed to queue anymore

>>174547250
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>>174547250
RIP

>>174547143
>He SO new that he doesn't remember the first solo queue
It sucked because huge queue times
>>174547165
t. Salty juiceshitter since 6.82

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FUCK YOU VALVE, BEING BROWN IS ENOUGH SUFFERING DON'T TAKE MY DOTO AWAY

You guys were wrong about reddit. Say what you want about them, they just single handedly saved this game.

>alone nerds have forced a TEAM GAME to be played solo

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Where are the so-called new memes?

So are you entering your phone number?

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Maybe if they did this two years ago the game would still be enjoyable.

DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
DOTA IS SAVED
>SOLO QUEUE IS BACK

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>Literally the best thing to happen to dota in ages
>And the third world subhumans that inhabit /d2g/ are acting as if the game is finally dead
>When their autistic selves don't even play the fucking game to begin with
You retards are fucking retarded.
Dota 2 is notorious for having an extremely toxic community. One that's so bad it literally drives away new players. This is literally the best thing to happen to Dota 2.

I hope you all start sucking Reddit's dick because it was their constant bitching that finally made Valve do something about it. Reddit is the saviour of Dota 2.

>ruin gameplay to make it more approachable to new people and casual players
>you need a phone to play
Ummmm???

Just a matter of time before someone hacks where they store the phone numbers. You know those crazy guys who threaten to kill you if you don't give them mid? Now they might actually be able to.

>>174547572
newfags and casuls will surely be normie enough to have a smartphone

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POST WEBSITES THAT LITERALLY SAVED DOTA. NOT SO FAST 4CHAN

Enjoy giving gaben your phone number LOL

>>174547572
>ruin gameplay
Literally nobody thinks this except retarded dotard shitters who don't even play the game anymore and wish the game was like WC3 Dota Allstars. Go watch some more TI2 replays you retarded fuck.

>You need a phone to play
Ranked? Yeah. Feel free to keep playing unranked though because that's where shitters like you belong.

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>yfw you'll no longer have to play with uncouth third world vermin

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ICEFROG SAVED DOTA YET AGAIN?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

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>the only people who play are NEETs
>ban them from playing
what's the end game here?

http://www.strawpoll.me/12790441

VERY IMPORTANT POLL

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>>174547675
I'd give him more than my phone number if you know what i mean

dota is not save

>>174547675
you already had to give it for market and other stuff like steam guard, nothing new

ive been playing unranked matchmaking exclusively since 2012, what the fuck i hate valve now

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>>174547717
I'm a NEET and even I have a smartphone.
How the fuck do you not have a phone number in 2017?

>dota 2 on the decline.
>lets introduce an update that requires a phone to play.

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This doesnt change anything, every peruvian 13yo kid has a phone.
Solo queue is nice tho.

t.peruvian lad

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>mfw people are so dedicated to their digital epeen number that they'd rather not play dota at all than play unranked

Solo queue option is in Options > Advanced > Misc (On the right).

>>174547793
no changes to unranked you idiot

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>>174547807
>Dota 2 on the decline because on-top of the game being hard to get into for new people, the extremely toxic third world community constantly bars new players from enjoying the game with their rampant toxicity
>Valve introduces an update that will put those toxic shitters where they belong - in the trash
Thank fucking god.
Dota is fucking saved.

>>174547913
fuck off yossi you ugly ruski

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>still no perrito gordito hero

dotards??????????

>>174547885
Don't call him names just because he can't read anon.

Guys, what's going to stop third world shitters from just entering their phone number? Surely valve isn't going to filter by country or area code.

>>174547885
hoards of 14yr old peruvian monkeys without phones are left with unranked as their only option

the problem isnt fixed, the toxic players just shift elsewhere

>>174548038
a ton of them dont have phones

>>174548097
yes they do

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Based

>>174547905
>nadota is dead
>the only people who play it are south american and pinoys
>nuke pinoys and south americans

this kill the game retard

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valve is forgiven

>>174548060
If you've been playing unranked only, then it just reverts to how it was before ranked even existed.

>>174548097
Dude, the cheapest smartphones out there cost around $5~$20. They do.

>tfw have two phones
NICE TRY VALVE
NICE
FUCKING
TRY

so 700k peak to about 500k peak now?

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>tfw 6 smurfs
>tfw obtained 6 phone numbers from my workplace
ahahahahaha, reddit continues to make the game deter people but they still cant stop me

>>174547467
>everyone is solo
>equal lack of team synergy and communication on either side

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>>174547353
VALVE
BASED
AS
FUCKING
SHIT
HOLY
FUCK

>>174547913
Weird, I remember this picture having a better looking floor.

Or was it the desk?

>>174548259
so just like normal dota then?

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>>174548143
>nadota is dead
The professional scene is a mess sure but NA Dota is far from dead my retarded little dotard.

>>174548191
I mean that's a small possibility but to be quite honest, 500,000 people is still a fuck load of people.

>>174548259
Which is terrible,

Valve should promote team play over solo play.

It just be like in CS:GO. One rank for everything.

>>174547905
>he thinks thirdies are the only people responsible for a toxic community
>doesn't realize the pure autism of nadota
i've had multiple games with na losers screeching nigger over their microphones because one thing goes wrong

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Where were you when Dota 2 was saved?

Valve just killed this game by requiring a phone.

Rest in piss you shit game.

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POST YOUR FAVORITE

INT
STR
AGI

HEROES

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>CSGO already higher than Dota
it's happening.....

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>>174548184
I GOT
TWO PHONES
ONE FOR THE SMURF AND ONE FOR THE BOT

>>174548461
mfw people won't even get this.

>>174548418
mmr is just a number anon
enjoy your thirdie queue

>>174548418
>Not having a phone to begin with
Nobody will miss your 2k third world NEET ass. Kindly kill yourself.

>>174547717
? Only literal slobbering retards and homeless people don't have phones

>>174548390
i was playing nu-xcom
when d2gułag say
dota is save
ok

>offlane enchantress

this shit is fuckin broken, bitch has more ms with no boots then 90% of the heros with boots.

>>174548097
>>174548128
>>174548175
It's not that they don't have phones, it's that they'll need to spend EVEN MORE money to play a free game on top of their overpriced net cafe hours.

Thirdies also usually have multiple accounts so they can switch accounts instead of playing LP.

>>174548419
OGRE MAGI
EARTHSHAKER
FACELESS VOID

>>174548457
yea only during this time, NA has more csgo players than dota players

during any other time we're higher though

>>174548457
>already

in summer 2015 this used to begin like hours ago and would last like 8-10 hours

then cs go died off and now it's slightly coming back again as dota is dying off

SMURFS GET OUT OF MY RANKED REEEEEE

>>174548554
but then you have to play enchantress

>>174548517
I'm a hikki neet with no friends and I don't have a phone, do I count as the former?

>>174548582
>it's that they'll need to spend EVEN MORE money to play a free game on top of their overpriced net cafe hours.
Uh, says who?
If they already have a phone then... nothing really changes?
Do you read the shit you post, retard?

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>>174548482
Nobody gives a rat's ass about your black people music, DeShawn.

>>174548582
>overpriced net cafe hours
>when 4 hours is 1$
lad...

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WHERE IS THE SOLO QUEUE BUTTON

>>174548419
>INT
luna
>STR
ogre magi
>AGI
silencer

>>174548658
my name is Lucifer

>>174548690
In your advanced settings, look here >>174548137

SOLO QUEUE IS BACK
I LOVE VALVE

>>174548457
This will be the update that killed dota.

SCREENCAP THIS.

>>174548687
>1$
This guy is foreign. Be mean to him.

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>>174548137
>>174548690

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>>174548787

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solo queue is here

but im still the greatest terrorblade player in /d2g/

>>174548346
Shitty 2 and 3 stacks barely qualifies as "team play". It's certainly less important than how it skews the skill distributions of games they're in.

Valve is correct in having 2 competitive dota enivroments. One to measure the skill of a solo dota player (ranked) and one to measure the skill of a dota team (battlecups).

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>Dota is finally saved
I was so scared that it was actually dying, but now it's saved.
I'm so happy I think I can cry.

post yfw dota's been officially saved

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Valve wants the player count low enough to be seen as an indie sized developer again

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Was 6.78 the most exciting patch for pro doto of all time?

Was any other patch responsible for more ultra tense 60 minute base races?

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>>174548938

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>have nice long uninterrupted dream about me and my oneitis
>wake up and valve saved dota
today is a good day :3

>>174547675

oh good, maybe I get to talk to him again like I did before

>>174548656
>>174548687

The overwhelming majority of South American players are little kids, though. The tiny remainder are the few thirdies that can actually play the game worth a shit despite the ping. A dollar per hour is already a lot of money to them.

>>174548634
You don't deserve to play ranked.

>>174548687
One dollar to thirdies is like 50 to humans.

>>174548419
necro'lic_
zet
kaolin

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>>174548879
you got anything to back that up, brother?

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WAIT
DOTARDS
I HAVE A SOLUTION

WHAT IF VALVE INTRODUCES AN MMR
FOR UNRANKED MATCHMAKING

>>174547834

the phone number thing is just a smurf stomper so that the whole paid account bullshit will get curbed

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guys are Valve going to doxx us?

>>174549025
>A dollar per hour is already a lot of money to them.
No is not you ape, is literally 3 peruvian soles.

>>174549178
tfw stacey from valve prank calls you

>new based matchmaking
>fps fixes
>compendium soon
>TI after that
>getting a new machine to play dota on in a few weeks
what a time to be alive
maybe I can put out my suicide for the next few months

>>174548461
kek'd

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>>174549113
This is you

>>174549113

the behavior score is pretty much unranked mmr

literally a meaningless update
ranked was already essentially solo unless you had ridiculously low mmr. even 6k party is ultra rare
really telling how much you people care

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>>174549025
This only affects ranked play. If a little poor South American boy doesn't have a phone number, he can still play Dota as if nothing was changed. Just not ranked.
Though chances are he probably does have a phone number. The most poor fucking subhumans living in the slums of India have phone numbers even for fuck's sake.

The only thing this phone number shit stops is smurfs and botting - which is a huge problem in Dota already as those are the things responsible for bought accounts ruining the very high skill bracket. And now that problem has been curbed.
For 99.9% of the playerbase that actually play the game for the sake of playing the game, and not to make a living selling accounts, this changes literally nothing.

>>174549025
1 hour is 1 sol in Peru.
3.2 soles = 1 dollar.
thats not really a lot of money

>>174549218
too bad the meta is still shit and the game is still dead
lol
dotards

So lads, is Dota on it's way to become alive game again?

>>174549369
What the hell is Komachi doing in my /d2g/?

>>174549334
>ignoring all the new barriers to account boosting and therefore game ruining account buyers

>>174549369
>The most poor fucking subhumans living in the slums of India have phone numbers even for fuck's sake.
won't they have to confirm their phone number via the steam app or something, though?
i'm pretty sure most third world roaches aren't in possession of a smartphone

>>174549421
dota has been "dead" for 4 years to you retard

>>174549369
This isn't even going to stop smurfs lmao
You can also use programs like winauth to bypass this shit without a phone, that's how I use the market without giving gabe jewell my phone number.

>>174549523
yes

what the fuck is valve doing

seriously

they disabled solo queue? what the shit? did they fix how mmr is gained yet?

what the fuck is this bullshit lmao

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>>174549523
>piratebay

I stopped playing dota 2 after sinking 9k hours on it because the report system was fucked beyond repair and doing anything would put you in low prio.

Now they finally fixed all the shit after almost 2 months of staying the fuck away from dota, I might finally come back and reach 6k, feels good.

>>174549598
this is bait
even if it isn't you're still a fucking retard

>>174549523
the party van is already on the way my man

>>174549558
As far as I remember, you just have to confirm via sms

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What if I only play dota at LAN cafes? How will I play ranked now?

>>174549617
What torrent sites are even left

HOW IS SHADOW DEMON BALANCED. ULT MAKES U A FUCKING SITING DUCK AS U KILL URSELF CAUSE UR FARM IS HIS HAHA

>>174549598
>they disabled solo queue? what the shit? did they fix how mmr is gained yet?

Are you ok?

>>174549398
>1 hour = 1 sol
HAHAHA
They're not even 30 centimos.
About the 3.2 Soles is right.

>>174549636
I've never been in low priority in hundreds of hours of playing, have you ever considered that you might be a """"toxic"""" cunt?

>>174549334

This, the real issue with stacks is in unranked because you have to play ranked to avoid them. If you want to get better at a hero or play something out-of-meta, you have to deal with being placed with a 4-stack that will constantly screech at you for literally everything and completely throw the game in 20 minutes.

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>>174549558
>i'm pretty sure most third world roaches aren't in possession of a smartphone
Well, you're wrong. Smartphones in the third world can go for as cheap as $20 USD and less for quality that's on par with many hundred dollar smartphones sold in America. How else could you explain that even the poorest of rice farmers in China have smartphones? The Chink phone market is huge. I'm sure India has their own Chink phone-esque market as well. I mean most telemarketers are out-sourced Indians so it makes sense, doesn't it?

>>174549189
>>174549398
It's plenty of money to little kids.

>>174549369
A counterpoint: tons of smurfing players are also thirdies, because thirdies have no empathy for humans and feel entitled to win games because they paid money to play them. This is why Perushits insta-pick mid and ragequit after fb.

>>174549790

The highest I've been in ranked was 5900, and I was usually getting 6400 average games for some reason. Have you ever played in the high mmr ranks? Do you know what happens when you question someones build up there? They just reported your ass for anything.

If you say something to anybody and you end up losing the the game you straight up got reported, since everyone was getting lp at that time.

>>174549750
You log in with your account

Golden age of dota is here

>>174549750
you just need to link the account once to your phone, then you can play on that account anywhere

>>174549750
Do LAN cafes force their patrons to use their own in-house Steam accounts?

>>174550009

the golden age would be shrines and talents getting removed

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I don't have any arms, how will I play dota now?

>>174549681
>>174549768
I stopped playing like five months ago. I have 2500 hours clocked in don't be rude >:(

>>174549995
If you had a positive mental attitude you wouldn't be in lp, I've only been reported once since 7.02 and it was just a rage report because I was buying invis detection against an enemy riki.

When you get matched with a 4 stack who have a 15 second delay in their reaction timing because one of them tries to micromanage the whole team and make the shots for everyone instead of just letting each individual make their own decisions, which is better and much quicker

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>>174549967
This update is mainly to improve the overall average quality in Dota games. If this update has players that only play the game to intentionally make the quality of games worse for the rest of the playerbase quit entirely, then the update is a success and overall a good thing for the rest of us - isn't it?

>>174550116
wiggling a stick with your lips like that german streamer with no arms does at 2k

can't be too different to all that cock you're used to

>>174550185

After every single one of my games 3 people went into lp, I kept checking because I was getting the message that someone you reoprted was sent there.

Are you saying that 3 people every single match deserve lp?

>>174550009

All we need now is an actually good patch to play.

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>>174550307
tanks buddy

>no more d2g subhumans in my games
LMAO

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>add a bunch of phone number bullshit because le reddit wants it
>force EVEN MORE third worlders into first world servers so the plan to please le reddit actually works

holy shit, and we STILL have gay ass shrines and talents

this game... is just... probably beyond salvation right now

>>174550390
im so fucking tired of hearing bullshit like dota sucks now or dota is dead. dota is NOT DEAD!!

right now we're in an age of fucking glory, talents are awesome, shrines make the game fun. stop bitching about shit because you cant get used to change, faggot retard. go buy a fucking rope because your favorite time sink is moving on without you and you have nothing else to do but complain because you're addicted to fucking videogames.

im tired of this shit. dota is fucking great. it's 99% percent fucking pERFECT.

sage

>>174550363
If people weren't stupid with their reports and actually acted nice to each other there'd be a lot less in lp.

dota2 is now pay to play
they want to weed out the poorfags, so they dont waste server energy

>>174550489
>>174547752

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>>174550707
>dota is now pay to play
Funfact dotards, the majority of people who play Dota actually play unranked exclusively - with the ones that actually touch ranked being around 2~3k MMR.

For players such as myself who are 4k+ MMR, this update is a godsend.

>>174550638
>If people weren't stupid with their reports and actually acted nice to each other there'd be a lot less in lp.

So you're saying that people weren't reporting me because I was being toxic, instead they did it because the system was fucked? Thanks for proving the point I was trying to make, the system was trash and everyone got 3 free reports after every game because everyone above 5500 mmr was getting lp after the games. Now that it is fixed I can finally play game swithout worrying about some manchild getting pissy about anything and selecting a random person to report after a loss.

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We need to take this one step further. Only serial numbers registered to a Valve product like the HTC Vive can unlock ranked

guys, i'm an unranked babby. i haven't touched ranked because im too scared of fucking up my games.

i have maybe 150 games played, when should i start ranked?

>>174550261
Exactly. When thirdies play on their actual accounts, they are shit at the game, and they are much more likely to be on the other team, which will make playing ranked at least moderately better. It is at least an acknowledgement of the Peru problem by Valve.

POST --SOLO-- MMR GRINDING TUNES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL_tqxgTaKQ

>queue ranked
>pick invoker cuz gotta start climbing again
>lane against lina+silencer
>our only support is cm who can't leave our am alone against lc
>w/e didn't feed, will catch up later
>it's midgame nonstop tf time
>am blinks into enemy team
>insta global and am gets duel
>waaah shit invoker didn't save me
>repeat same scenario 10times
>ancient is dead
>-25mmr

thx for reading my blogpost, really rustled my jimmies

>>174548228
Cant you put 1 number on all 6 accs?

>peruvian invoker tornados whenever i omnislash someone

peruvians dont have phones right..t....?

>>174551030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftDwQTcwWU

<|*_*|>

>>174550931
i have 5k mmr and i don't have a number, high mmr players are likely to be non-normalfags, so this update is fucking stupid

dota2 is "free to play" but now i have to pay irl money for irl products just so i can enjoy the only enjoyable part of it (ranked)

>>174551172
>furry music

get out faggot

How do you survive slark raping your asshole as a support?

I just don't know what item to get that would help? Leash means you can't force staff away? He can buy dust for glimmer..

What are my options? Not syaing slark is OP but I do need tips on how to survive him if I am a support.

>>174547951
that's a big cat

>>174551218
NEETS BTFO

THANK YOU BASAED GABEN

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Thank god I've just started getting into Osu.
I have something I can do now while I wait for my now 20 minute match queues.

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>Effectively, these players will search for a match as if their MMR were halfway between the Solo and Party MMR values.

JUST

>>174551238
Wat

>>174551245
stick with your strong core bull

Now that DotA 2 is officially dead I'm unsure what to do. Could switch to League of Legends, could see if anyone still plays wc3 Garena DotA. Fact is DotA 2 has been going to shit ever since valve started listening to reddit (maybe earlier).

>>174551373
>tfw 5k solo and 2k party
Welp goodbye free party wins.

>>174551373
>implying there is a diffrence between 7k games and mid 5k games

>>174551358
post username fgt

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>>174551172

>>174549750
Why would you play ranked on a random LAN Cafe account?

what is a good game to play while i wait for my ques? are there any good flash games?

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>>174551462
>Fact is DotA 2 has been going to shit ever since valve started listening to reddit (maybe earlier).
Fact is you're fucking retarded.
/d2g/ was probably the loudest in terms of screaming for true solo queue, and now that it's finally here (plus an slough of other improvements), dotards are saying the game is now officially dead.

You retard deadposters never even played the game to begin with, or if you do play, you're probably 2k or an unranked-exlusive playing shitter so your opinion doesn't even matter to begin with. Please fuck off to /lolg/.

Valve shouldn't just stop there. They should make it so you have to register a phone to play unranked as well. Fuck everybody.

>>174551245
ghost scepter, euls, glimmer
>b-b-but dust
If you cant survive for 4 seconds, then you lost anyway

>>174549967
>It's plenty of money to little kids.
Did I travel back in time to the 90's?

So should I play solo only now? why? sometimes you get a 2 stack and then one of them will play supportcuck.

>>174551001
After you've mastered every single hero in the game can you can play every position and know how to pick around your opponents' picks.

No really though, whenever.

>>174551803
This.
I feel like I'm alone in this but honestly most of my experiences with parties in solo queue have actually been positive. Why would I want to stop having that?

>>174550049
yes

>>174551097
Why didn't you just save him, you trash invoker?

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>>174551582
>Caravan Palace
>Culture

>>174551803
>>174551878
you can disable the solo qeue option, bros

>>174551701
good post

>>174551582
Wonderland best song

>>174551030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr7wcGmh12A

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>>174551878
most of mine have been positive as well atleast thats what I think. There is no better feeling when you have a premade duo and one of them has to supportcuck because no one does support in this game (rightfully so). Vulva should buff supporting

>>174552185
>buff supporting

you mean what icefrog has been doing continuously since the inception of dota 2

>>174551979
Holy shit, I just realized that was English and not some sandnigger language.

>>174552292
supporting sucks playwise in pubs. You get blamed, get no credit for wins, and stupid people demanding wards even if the team does deward.

youll cowards dont even smoke crack

Wykrhm Reddy@wykrhm
Ranked MM disabled on South Africa, India and Dubai servers until servers grow large enough to mandate Ranked & Unranked. #Dota2

Wykrhm Reddy@wykrhm 27 secs
This will also help address some Ranked MM abuses due to the low population on these servers. #Dota2

How is this supposed to stop anything?

Just use a burner app for smurfs and if that's not possible just emulate a smartphone.

>>174552408
>carrying sucks playwise in pubs. You get blamed, get no credit for wins, and stupid people demanding you lift them on your shoulders even if your back cant take the weight

>>174552529
what is damage
what is pa

>>174552471

Because it puts different layers into doing that, wich discourages people from smurfing and selling accounts.

>>174552471
>Just use a burner app for smurfs and if that's not possible just emulate a smartphone.
>just
You dont "just" do that, you know.

>>174552471
You can't just "emulate" a smartphone number

>>174552471
What the fuck is a burner app and how the fuck do you emulate a smartphone with a working phone number?

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>tfw The International season used to be like Christmas for you
>tfw you dont even care and wont even buy the Battle Pass this year because the current patch is so depressingly bad

im so so sad about this

Alright this matchmaking update id garbage:
>playing ranked only possible if the account is linked with a phone number
I don't want to send my phone number to those jews at valve. Plus I can't buy another sim card unless they verify my personal infos because my country is cucked.
Goodbye dota and valve, you jews are destroying this game more with every update not like players are already leaving this game anyway

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post feets

For all you fags with no phone numbers, can't you just go to Wal-mart, pick up one of those pre-paid simcards for $5, use that with Steam and that's it?
What's stopping you from doing that?

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Are there any good salt mine threads on popular bot forums after the banwave? I could use some laughs

>>174552903
>I don't want to send my phone number to those jews at valve.
People this paranoid should stay off the internet entirely so good riddance.

>>174552948
to activate the number, you must recieve a message

Haven't been to this thread in months

Has Valve really fixed dota?

>>174552912
whats the sauce on all these?

>>174552903

>I don't wanna give my phone number because bad things will happen if I do :(

Don't let the door hit your pussy on the way out.
inb4 good goy blah blah jews are behind this blah.

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AHAHAHAH GET FUCKED ""PROS""

WE
DID
IT
REDD
IT

>>174552903
what is valve gonna do with a number, you stupid fuck?

>>174553050
the match making MIGHT be better, assuming third worlders find it very difficult to get mobile phones

but the shit gameplay is still the same or worse

>>174552471
a burner steam app?

>>174553148
They're going to prank call me in the middle of the night

>>174553148
send dick pics with adverts written on them

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I don't have a phone number to avoid being spied on by the government

What do?

>>174553282
i would love a gaben dick pic desu

>>174553409
google it

>>174552592
>>174552735
>>174552795
>>174552845
>>174553208

http://www.amiduos.com/
http://www.amiduos.com/
http://www.amiduos.com/

read a fucking book once in while, dumb fags

>>174553050
They fixed a lot of the quality problems, but that comes at the cost of killing off some of the remaining playerbase.
Bold move by valve considering the game was already starting to die. Active players are going to start bleeding even faster now as queue times get higher and higher, especially for parties

>>174553475
Go try it
cant wait for your VAC ban

>>174553475
You literally just proved that a bunch of people don't know how to do this shit so the Valve is doing something right

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i beg your fucking pardon

>>174553475
>Run Android apps!
Okay, great, you've successfully emulated Android OS.

...now about that phone number you need.

>>174553475
But that still doesn't provide you with a working phone number, are you fucking retarded?

Reddit has officially gone too far. Fuck this.

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B A S E D

>>174550615
3k shitters like you do not matter

i repeat

3k shitters like you do NOT

MATTER

>>174553648
>3k
lamo

>>174553659
>>174553690
try google

>>174553012
>>174553079
>>174553148
>sending your phone number to the company which own the biggest gaming platform with millions because there is no way that someone might actually try to get these informations
I bet you also gave them your credit card number intead of using at least those steam cards charge your account with money

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Just lost shitty game. See this. Why has Gabe forsaken me?

>>174553752
good thing none of the top tier players like this shit patch either

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>>174553782
/g/? Who let you out of your cage?
I'm calling your mother.

>gulagites will claim this update is bad
its just like regional matchmaking all over again!

>>174553819
hello mat

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>>174553758
XD

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>>174553075
AkinaGasai

>>174553845
Says who? d2gulag? some shitter pretending to be a pro like BSJ? lmao

>>174553758
Valve explicitly states that using public phone numbers is barred and that you are not able to use the same phone number on multiple accounts. This doesn't really help.

where do I put in my phone number?
also I already have steamguard do I even need to manually activate it?

>>174553741
Who is this guy and why do people always post his tweets?

>capitalist not invited to group stage
huh

>>174554168
Beta tester and icefrog personal community kind of guy.

>>174553741
Game news mod on reddit, likely has direct connections to the frog himself.

>>174548418
CSGO has the same shit and it's still the most played game on steam
even if you don't have a smart phone, you SURELY have a phone at least

>>174553895
uh what? were you even here when they announced that? literally the whole thread was flooded with people cheering. return to reddit, retard.

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>>174551979

daily reminder most people just watch dota, not actually play it

>>174550116
Play like any typical peruvian, smash your face on the keyboard till "your team loses the game for you."

>>174554461
>it's still the most played game on steam

it's literally never been the most played game on steam

>>174554168
the guy who does valve's community management FOR FREE

>read the patch notes
>think its the best patch regarding matchmaking that has ever been implemented on dota
>excited as fuck to play again
>come to d2g
>there are people saying how bad it is or that it won't change anything at all

I don't know if people are retarded or trolling, at this point I can't even tell the difference, specially with that guy saying "lmao just emulate a phone number bro!".

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>You now need to give your information to Valve so they can sell it to shady companies.

who's the strongest hero in the offlane right now? who can force the enemy carry out of lane if the carry is left alone by his supports. Who else but ursa?

>>174554715
Are you new? D2g is the worst place to come and discuss patches

>>174554749
Valve is too big to sell out

>>174554757
monkey king

>>174554715
And people wonder why /d2g/ is dead.
People who actually want to discuss the game don't come here anymore.

>>174554618
That was still about CSGO you total ape

>Players using multiple accounts create a negative matchmaking experience at all skill brackets, so our goal is to add just enough friction to this process that the number of players doing this will be noticeably reduced. Having more players using their primary accounts will have a positive effect on both Ranked and Unranked Matchmaking.
So are they actually going to do something about streamers/pro players smurfing? Like every single one of them got at least 1 smurf account.

>>174554715
thats because they literally added the phone number bullshit for reddit. they couldve banned the bots, done solo queue, and all the other shit without phone number "premium" cancer. the third world already has a bunch of throw away phone infrastructure anyway so how will it make such a big impact? it will probably be the least impactful thing in the patch, managing only to increase queue times. region lock would make a bigger difference in the quality of matches.

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>solo ranked exists again
>phone-based accounts
>party MMR is now useless

almost makes me want to come back

Yeh, I am probably done after this update. Not going to give my phone number to queue for ranked. Too bad really because I love the return of solo queue...

>>174555008
Don't forget to put on your tinfoil hat before taking out the trash, anon-kun.
Don't want to let the CIA hack your brain now.

>>174555008
> Not going to give my phone number to queue for ranked
Why?

>>174555008
you need a phone to trade on steam anyways
its just a button click for most people

ayo hol up wasn't the phone number based ranked matchmaking idea came from us? hey icetoad if you're reading this please buff Lina thanks

>>174553894
>sucking valve's dick that much that you have to dismiss legitimate criticism over your master's actions because they can't do anything wrong in your eyes
The fact that you are a faggot also explain why you post anime pictures

Have fun will all the phone sellers and advertisement you will get after giving Valve your number.

ded gaem

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>>174552912

>>174553648
Wot

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how 2 solo queue

>>174555360
>legitimate criticism
>hurr durr giving phone numbers is wrong, they will control my brain

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Reminder that Dota's playerbase is solidly thirdie

>>174555385
are you one of those retards that always gets hacked because you dont have two factor authentication

dumb question but what if im a NEET and dont have a phone

>>174555668
is there any big game where usa actually has a bigger userbase than europe

>>174555712
You hang yourself.

I am not even worried about Valve having my phone number, but what if their database gets hacked? Account breaches happen all the time and it's usually no big deal if you have multiple passwords/ email address and are regularly checking your credit card bill or using a different payment method all together. But them having your phone number would be a much bigger issue because changing numbers usually takes a lot longer...

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>>174547353
>>174548286
What?

>>174555668
Nice scaling faggot

>>174555712
Trade a few GBP for your mommy's number

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>there are seriously faggots in here who gets paranoid from giving someone a phone number
remember that as you read this Hiroshima is selling our ip to governments in exchange for some shekels

>>174555534
>hurr durr steam or valve has never been hacked
Fucking retard

would it not be better if we start introducing something like an Internet ID(like they have in Asian countries)? Would been a much better solution.
It's not like it's hard to get a new phone number and costs max 2 USD, this will not stop smurfers.

>>174555008
This
Don't need a phone, not gonna buy one for 1 game

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>>174555904
>t. South Korea

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S O L O

O N L Y

Q U E U E

HOLY
SHIT

>>174555904
Most people don't want to or aren't willing to go through that extra effort just to smurf, though.
This won't stop 100% of smurfing obviously but it will most certainly stop a lot of it.

>>174555904
more likely to fuck over acc buyers/boosters/sellers

>>174555892
what can a hacker do with phone number if he doesnt have the actual cellphone?

>>174555904
Should just force people to link SSNs like Korea.

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HOLY

FUCKING

SHIT

SMURFS

GENOCIDED

>>174555904
fuck off faggot alphabet agency shill

So this is a way to prevent smurfing and other stuff, but will they actually take action against streamers and pro players that will still smurf?

>>174554994
I still dont know how they havent dded a region lock to this shitty game, this couldve solved the 3rd world problem years ago without having to require a phone number. Also blocking ips to stop beaners from lying because they arent smart enoigh to spoof or have enough money for a vpn

>>174556098
track the algorithm and reverse hack the hacker and yea.

>>174556098
Call you a cyka blyat cheeki breeki over the phone.

>Smurfs getting absolutely gutted
Must suck to be a pro player or something that's 7k+.
They need to smurf, otherwise they get hour long queue times.
This affects them the most honestly. I wonder what they'll do.

>With the return of the Solo Queue, solo players who enter Ranked Matchmaking can now choose to be matched only with other solo players. Any player who selects this option will be placed into matches where all ten players are queuing solo.

is this good?

So... I just got out of a 47 min game.

I was playing support and only had mana boots and wind lace at that time.

We were dealing with multiple invis heroes. Did I buy too many dusts and sentries? I think I crippled myself but no one else was really helping with sents or dust.

What do you do as a support if you are finding that no one is helping?

>>174556098
>What can a hacker do with a credit card number if he hasn't to actual card?
Fucking retard.

>>174556305
Play more hearthstone

Do you need an smartphone that can handle apps or shit like that?
I got an old phone, the Galaxy S and doubt it can take newer apps.

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>>174556372
>Your phone number is now just as valuable as your credit card number
ah
i see

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THE
GAME
HAS
BEEN
MOTHER
FUCKING
SAVED

SAVED

IT
TOOIK
FUCKING
YEARS
FOR
THESE
STUPID
COCKSUCKING
JEW
RETARDS
AT
VALVE
TO
GET
THEIR
SHIT
TOGETHER

BUT
I
TAKE
BACK
ALL
DEAD
GAME
POSTS

ALIVE
FUCKING
GIGAGAME

ALIVE
FUCKINHG
EVERYTHING
F
IXED

FIXED EVERYTHING IN A PATCH

SOLO ONLY QUEUE
NO SMURFS
NO THIRDIES AND NEETS WITHOUT PHONES

IT'S
ALL
FUCKING
PERFECT
WHY
DID
IT
TAKE
SO
FUCKING
LONG

FINALLY VALVE SHIFTS BACK TO THE FIRST WORLD DEMOGRAPHIC

>>174555904
How do they hand out those id's?

>>174556372
because a credit card number is literally the same as a cellphone

Also, can you answer the question directly?

>>174556305
i dont know what shit hole you live in, but i can literally order a sim card with a new number for free

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>tfw phone just broke
>can't afford one till i pay my bills
is it over lads? is my 6k account fucking over?

NO MORE PERU
>NO MORE PERU
NO MORE PERU
>NO MORE PERU
NO MORE PERU
>NO MORE PERU
NO MORE PERU
>NO MORE PERU
NO MORE PERU
>NO MORE PERU

DOTA IS SAVED BOYS

>>174556453
No it's not, but that doesn't mean that your phone number is worthless to them, especially not if you give them your actual phone number.

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a FUCKING PHONE NUMBER

>>174554994
the point is to make it more difficult for account sellers to mass-produce accounts cheaply and with relatively few hours put into it. as it is right now, there are plenty people living in poor countries that can boost and make a decent side income out of it, maybe even doing it as a fulltime job
all these smalls steps means each account requires more manuall input and more hoops to go through, which makes it more unfeasable for more people sell accounts, which in turn means the prices go up

>>174556651
See >>174556796

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NEETS AND THIRDWORLDERS ON SUICIDE WATCH

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>d2g got all this stuff implemented just by pointing out that dota2 is a dead, thirdie infested game over the last 1-2 weeks

really makes ya think.
we always knew he browsed here

thanks icefrog

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Anyone have extra number for me?

>>174556305
if people stop smurfing then there will be more higher rated players playing, which means less que time
ideally, atleast

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>>174548938

>>174555904
>if we start introducing
Whose we? Something like that is a huge undertaking. Not something that can be done by a single company or even a country.

>thread is half way to bump limit after two hours
is /d2g/ saved too?

>>174556683
borrow your mothers phone for a bit

>>174548938
it wont be saved until they fix the gameplay and remove shrined and talents

>>174557212
Korea could do it.

>>174557318
>fix the gameplay
Explain how it's broken.
>Remove shrines and talents
Why? Because you don't like them? What if others do like them and think they're a welcome change? I personally certainly believe so.

>>174557292
we'll see after kiev

>>174557376
>Explain how it's broken.
He's bad and he's not winning.

>>174557329
korea can do it in korea only