The game bored me after five minutes. Might redescover it in 5 years and think it's great.


*edit: I was casually scrolling through the recruitment thread and haphazardly found my old application from a few years ago. I was such a little shit back then.
Ah ah ah ah...

Oh god I'm sad.

Arglax, you're still a little shit. It's okay. I've stopped going back in these old threads and looking at my posts because it's embarrassing how little has changed.

Haha reading old posts is like looking at old fb pictures. I especially do not enjoy 2009 me.

Thanks for the DOTA invites btw. Im gonna try to play it tomorrow. Gonna be a rainy day. And I'm gonna get bored of Far Cry 3 soon.

Jak: I hope you don't mind dying to things you can't see or understand. A lot. Because that's the initial learning experience of Dota. The first 10-20 games, even WITH guidance, you will struggle to keep yourself alive and everything will feel like it hits you for double what it hits anyone else.

Once you're through that (it's like a fraternity initiation ceremony) you'll be able to love the fuck out of it!

One hint: don't pick a champion you like.
Pick Lich, he's very easy to play.

I'm pretty awful at DotA2, but I'm not bad at League of Legends.
Anyone up for a game?

Krea, why would you do that. Im at home, alone, bored. thinking 'what will I do tonight.' and look whats in my steam inbox.

I dont want to play dota man, I cant be seen playing games like that...

Okay so downloads at 10% done, how do I dota? I havent played the first one... or LoL... or like anything at all like these games. I played a little bit of warcraft 3 in highschool if that helps.

Warcraft 3 does not help a whole lot, other than that you might recognize some models that were carefully "re-imagined"/ripped off.

Basically you control a hero. You run around in one of the three lanes, killing the creeps that march repeatedly to their death to gain gold and experience (don't autoattack them constantly though, this will quickly get you hated by everyone. Just last-hit, meaning that you score the final blow to kill off the creep). When you level up, you gain abilities and shit that you can use to fuck over your team or sometimes, if you're lucky, kill off an enemy hero.

You destroy the towers in each lane, get to your opponent's base and bash down their main structure. Easy as that!

Oh, and you should also buy items. Preferably those that work for your character. There's one item shop in your spawn, one to the side of each sidelane shop, and also secret shops for certain items. When you open up the shop window, you'll see a recommended build. Just buy whatever is there!

IT'S ALL VERY SIMPLE REALLY no seriously you'll have to play like 50 games before you even gain basic understanding of it. Have fun dying. Repeatedly. And getting blamed for every loss every game. <3

Seriously, though. It's a super fun game, once you get into it. Pro tip: When you see an enemy hero, click on him and read the abilities that he has. This assures that you at least know WHAT'S killing you. Even if you can't stop it.

OH AND FOR THE LOVE OF THRALL: Don't fucking click on your abilities or items to use them. Hotkeys are essential, and if you don't use them you'll be more wrecked than the 10-year old I raped last week. Seriously, she still can't walk.

Classic Krae.

I tried to go a bit retro with that last part.

Got a kd of 18:0 on my first game.

wait no. not 18:0
0:18

I died all the times and didnt kill anyone.

game 2: 5 kills 12 deaths, killed 2 towers, we won. Im a boss. deal with it.