DOTA 2 - Still better than CS:GO (now with trailer!)

[n00b1n8R]

http://dota2.com/

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/posts/02/the_international.png (http://www.dota2.com/)
Dota 2 Championships: First Public Showing at Gamescom
Valve today announced The International. This tournament will be the first time Dota 2 is shown in public, and will take place August 17th -21st at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.
The International (http://www.dota2.com/) features the 16 best Dota teams in the world competing in the Dota 2 Championships through a group stage, double elimination playoff format over the course of Cologne’s five-day trade show.
The tournament will be broadcast in four languages (Chinese, German, Russian, and English) free of charge. The winning team will receive $1 million.
“The International is the first public Dota 2 event and will give the tens of millions of gamers playing Dota around the world their first look at the new game,” said Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve. “I have had the good fortune to watch the competitors as they prepare for the tournament, and the level of play is extraordinary.”
In addition to the cash prizes awarded by Valve, NVidia is providing all the hardware for the event.
Dota 2 will be available for the PC and Mac later this year.



still a shitty "genre" though :realsmug:

E: I am however, infinitely jealous of how Valve is treating the community (in built spectator feature, multiplayer replay watching, in game commentary, movable camera, LAN SUPPORT, etc) compared to what Blizz is doing with SC2 :smith:

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EEE: forgot to post these
http://www.dota-two.com/img/articles/dota2-leaked-screenshot-sf.jpg
http://www.dota-two.com/img/articles/dota2-leaked-screenshot-db.jpg
http://www.dota-two.com/img/articles/dota2-leaked-screenshot-andro.jpg
http://www.dota-two.com/img/articles/dota24.png
http://www.dota-two.com/img/articles/dota25.png

Word is these screenshots are 4 months old and the HUD is much better now

[Bodzilla]

lol wow.

ruining e-sports

[Cortexian]

Would rather play LoL anyway.

Gaming is supposed to be about the casual gamers, not about the hardcore "play-24-hours-a-day-for-3-days-and-then-die" gamers.

[n00b1n8R]

Would rather play LoL anyway.

Gaming is supposed to be about the casual gamers, not about the hardcore "play-24-hours-a-day-for-3-days-and-then-die" gamers.
Failancer why do you even post in threads you don't understand anything about :lol:

[=sw=warlord]

Would rather play LoL anyway.

Gaming is supposed to be about the entertainment and passing the time not passing out from forgetting to eat or drink in 2 weeks.
Ftfy.

[Amit]

Gaming is supposed to be about the casual gamers, not about the hardcore "play-24-hours-a-day-for-3-days-and-then-die" gamers.

When did this happen?

[Cortexian]

When did this happen?
Has happened to many the Korean StarCraft player.

[Pooky]

Failancer why do you even post in threads you don't understand anything about :lol:

+1

Gaming has always been competitive, chess is pretty fucking competitive, why do retards act like competition is anything new.

[LlamaMaster]

Would rather play LoL anyway.

Gaming is supposed to be about the casual gamers, not about the hardcore "play-24-hours-a-day-for-3-days-and-then-die" gamers.
LOL

[Rook]

http://dota2.com/


still a shitty "genre" though :realsmug:

E: I am however, infinitely jealous of how Valve is treating the community (in built spectator feature, multiplayer replay watching, in game commentary, movable camera, LAN SUPPORT, etc) compared to what Blizz is doing with SC2 :smith:

The devs that handle L4D2 treat it like shit for competition compared to CSS/TF2. Thankfully there are things like sourcemod for plugins and such.

[Kornman00]

Gaming is supposed to be about the casual gamers, not about the hardcore "play-24-hours-a-day-for-3-days-and-then-die" gamers.
You can die in well under 72 hours (http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/xbox-addict-dies-blood-clot-111934041.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-us).

Blood clots are serious business.

[Cortexian]

Exactly, if you're Platinum or better at StarCraft 2 you are dangerously close to death!!

[n00b1n8R]

bump
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[Jelly]

The devs that handle L4D2 treat it like shit for competition compared to CSS/TF2. Thankfully there are things like sourcemod for plugins and such.

good

[n00b1n8R]

Live at gamecon now, so far it's been lagging like fuck and people have been dropping from games (dota2 supports pausing and rejoining so its not as bad as it could be).

Stream is laggy as fuck too, I don't think valve were expecting this much attention :P