So I am supposed to be better than 98% of all players. Sure.
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So I am supposed to be better than 98% of all players. Sure.
they used Dotabuff which was taken down by valve today looooooooooolTetsu wrote:
How did you get those ratings?
why valve
WHYYYYYYYYY
WHYYYYYYYYY
It's quite simple, and DotAbuff had it coming for a while:
Valve have a public service that allows programmers to retrieve match data from DotA 2. It's a little unreliable, and it's kinda buggy at times, but it mostly works.
DotAbuff decided that they didn't want to use that method, and instead chose to do a legally-questionable method of fooling the Valve servers into thinking that the DotAbuff site was in fact a player. They then retrieved data that way. They did constantly update Valve as to what they were doing, and were told that they'd be allowed to do this as long as they didn't publish their data collection bot.
Now that DotAbuff are making their own ranking system, Valve decided that they'd taken their privilege too far, and disabled their bot. Fair enough really, because they're a third-party that are abusing a security bug in the DotA servers. DotAbuff feel like they've been betrayed, as they were told they were allowed to use this bug, which is also fair enough. DotAbuff have now been brought down from their exalted status (being the only people allowed to exploit a security bug like that _ever_) to the status of all the other developers who, like good people, use the public service that Valve has provided. Granted, it's not perfect, and it's a work in progress, and DotAbuff are pissed about that.
But the buff guys (see what I did there
) need to realise that it was always going to happen, and it's better that it happened now than later.
Valve have a public service that allows programmers to retrieve match data from DotA 2. It's a little unreliable, and it's kinda buggy at times, but it mostly works.
DotAbuff decided that they didn't want to use that method, and instead chose to do a legally-questionable method of fooling the Valve servers into thinking that the DotAbuff site was in fact a player. They then retrieved data that way. They did constantly update Valve as to what they were doing, and were told that they'd be allowed to do this as long as they didn't publish their data collection bot.
Now that DotAbuff are making their own ranking system, Valve decided that they'd taken their privilege too far, and disabled their bot. Fair enough really, because they're a third-party that are abusing a security bug in the DotA servers. DotAbuff feel like they've been betrayed, as they were told they were allowed to use this bug, which is also fair enough. DotAbuff have now been brought down from their exalted status (being the only people allowed to exploit a security bug like that _ever_) to the status of all the other developers who, like good people, use the public service that Valve has provided. Granted, it's not perfect, and it's a work in progress, and DotAbuff are pissed about that.
But the buff guys (see what I did there
) need to realise that it was always going to happen, and it's better that it happened now than later.their "communication" with valve was limited to one insignificant customer support member.
Which makes their "attack" on Valve for their choice seem even more childish and baseless.[AirCoN] wrote:
their "communication" with valve was limited to one insignificant customer support member.
According to dotabuff, I'm also exactly "1480" DBRPizzicato wrote:
im happy that im in the platinum bracket ;w;
I have Dota 2 keys to give away... Whoever wants one or more, send me a forum message!
And once again I say :
There are 2 kinds of dota games - fun games and games with russians in your team = =
There are 2 kinds of dota games - fun games and games with russians in your team = =
Mercurial
Holy shit stop playing solo dudeMagicphoenix wrote:
And once again I say :
There are 2 kinds of dota games - fun games and games with russians in your team = =
I only have a handful of people I stack with :p the rest is either already playing, already in a stack or doesn't want to play
The only bad thing about playing with friends is that if they fail horribly their friendship is at risk. DotA, breaking friendships since forever.-Remco32 wrote:
Holy shit stop playing solo dudeMagicphoenix wrote:
And once again I say :
There are 2 kinds of dota games - fun games and games with russians in your team = =
Nah i'm just joking, although sometimes I really get mad at some of my really old friends that don't play dota as much and tend to fail worse than the people at "fails of the week".
SEA's worse. trashtalkers everywhere.
noobs and skilled players alike.
noobs and skilled players alike.
I have to say that South American servers might be the worst server for non-brazilian south americans, mostly because it's located in brazil, the only portuguese speaking country in all South American, because of this they think the server belongs to them, and they think non-portuguese players should not use it, even though most of South America speaks spanish. Also it's full of low level players, trashtalkers, trolls. And most of the Brs that play there, they either don't speak english at all, or just don't want to, either way, most of us can't even stand them because of this.Pizzicato wrote:
SEA's worse. trashtalkers everywhere.
noobs and skilled players alike.
Oh and I forgot to mention the so tipical response that brazilian have when they realise you are from Argentina: "Pele es melhor que Maradona"...
Mercurial
Speedy probably, I've got Fibertel and get about 30-50ms on South America. Some friends experience the same lag on South American servers, although the server is way closer than US East. (300 on South America, 150-200 on US East). Most of them have Speedy, so I guess it should be it.Mercurial wrote:
I got 400 Lag on South America and 150 in EE.UU, I don't know why, but it's better for me
Pina Colada Boy
Just queue on EU West, it's a big difference from EU East. You do get russians, but honestly they aren't all THAT bad. I play on US West/East and EU West a lot, and there's an equal amount of retards on the US servers, the only difference is that when they talk you can understand what they are saying. That said, whenever i solo queue i only play on EU west.Magicphoenix wrote:
And once again I say :
There are 2 kinds of dota games - fun games and games with russians in your team = =
I am dude, I am
There's EU West, EU East & Russia :
Where do they play?
EU West and trust me, they ain't any better ;(
PS : What I also noticed is that I found out that DOTA 2 players have the unfunniest and worst trolls ever, they crack the worst jokes and type "hahaha/xa0xa0xaxa0/lol HA" at every shit they say which mostly don't even make sense
There's EU West, EU East & Russia :
Where do they play?
EU West and trust me, they ain't any better ;(
PS : What I also noticed is that I found out that DOTA 2 players have the unfunniest and worst trolls ever, they crack the worst jokes and type "hahaha/xa0xa0xaxa0/lol HA" at every shit they say which mostly don't even make sense
holy shitdruidxd wrote:
Check this awesome Phantom Lancer performance by dd link
the high tier in aus servers is the best higher tier anywhere. though, normal is pretty bad, because essentially, if you fuck up, you get flamed to no end, and if you do well, you get praised to no end. also, no russians
Na'Vi deserved that comeback, even though that backdoor was really well planned.Mercurial wrote:
Dat Backdoor.
2gb patch .-.
changelogssss
GAMEPLAY
- Fixed how magic damage is amplified when there are multiple sources of bonuses.
- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism healing never resetting.
- Enigma: Tightened selection area of Eidolons to make picking individual units easier when they clump
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not slowing magic immune units.
- Spectre: Spectral Dagger now properly trails invisible units.
- Spectre: Fixed various properties of Haunt illusions being incorrect.
- Tiny: Fixed Craggy Exterior working on illusions of Tiny.
- Visage: Fixed Roshan decreasing Gravekeeper's Cloak charges.
- Visage: Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak not restoring its layers independently of one another.
- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fist damage not leveling properly, damaging magic immune units, and having incorrect chance to proc.
- Fixed a bug with Radiance kill credit and illusions.
- Fixed Roshan no longer casting Slam to slow and damage nearby units.
UI
- The Smooth Drag option now works for anyone that's spectating (whether through DotaTV or as a broadcaster).
- Reduced waiting time in hero picker during All Random to 10 seconds.
- Reworked how your personal hero performance is done on your profile page (provide feedback here http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=431).
- Added preview for summoned items like the panda and watcher golem to store and backpack.
- Added the ability to filter out empty teams from the team list.
BOTS
- Fixed some incorrect timing calculations that were causing bots to miss some last hits.
- Fixed Practice vs Bots not properly selecting the nearest server.
- Fixed Death Prophet bot to know about the true range of Crypt Swarm.
- Fixed bots thrashing selling a situational item (dust, wards, TP scroll) to purchase another situational item.
WEBAPI
- Added Captain's Mode Picks and Bans.
- Added ability upgrade order and times to each player.
- Added inventory for additional units (Lone Druid's Spirit Bear).
- Added an API for getting match details in the order they were recorded.
changelogssss
GAMEPLAY
- Fixed how magic damage is amplified when there are multiple sources of bonuses.
- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism healing never resetting.
- Enigma: Tightened selection area of Eidolons to make picking individual units easier when they clump
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not slowing magic immune units.
- Spectre: Spectral Dagger now properly trails invisible units.
- Spectre: Fixed various properties of Haunt illusions being incorrect.
- Tiny: Fixed Craggy Exterior working on illusions of Tiny.
- Visage: Fixed Roshan decreasing Gravekeeper's Cloak charges.
- Visage: Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak not restoring its layers independently of one another.
- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fist damage not leveling properly, damaging magic immune units, and having incorrect chance to proc.
- Fixed a bug with Radiance kill credit and illusions.
- Fixed Roshan no longer casting Slam to slow and damage nearby units.
UI
- The Smooth Drag option now works for anyone that's spectating (whether through DotaTV or as a broadcaster).
- Reduced waiting time in hero picker during All Random to 10 seconds.
- Reworked how your personal hero performance is done on your profile page (provide feedback here http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=431).
- Added preview for summoned items like the panda and watcher golem to store and backpack.
- Added the ability to filter out empty teams from the team list.
BOTS
- Fixed some incorrect timing calculations that were causing bots to miss some last hits.
- Fixed Practice vs Bots not properly selecting the nearest server.
- Fixed Death Prophet bot to know about the true range of Crypt Swarm.
- Fixed bots thrashing selling a situational item (dust, wards, TP scroll) to purchase another situational item.
WEBAPI
- Added Captain's Mode Picks and Bans.
- Added ability upgrade order and times to each player.
- Added inventory for additional units (Lone Druid's Spirit Bear).
- Added an API for getting match details in the order they were recorded.
The update was well received on my part, the load times have been significantly reduced, along with all the other things.Pizzicato wrote:
2gb patch .-.
changelogssss ....
China will be receiving Dota soon, so the patch was probably in preparation.
Oh, random side note on the Hidden Lotus chest; it's contents have been leaked (some of them anyway).
Mercurial
Lot's of new things, mostly on the store, also the performance graph for played heroes has been changed, it's a lot better now, at least for me, I used to have really high performance heroes that I don't really use well, and Shadow Fiend, Pudge, and Storm Spirit really low on performance despite I perform really well with them.
Also I didn't even notice it was that big.
Also I didn't even notice it was that big.
The silly thing is that they aren't being sorted by rank anymore, it sorted by... nothing really.druidxd wrote:
Lot's of new things, mostly on the store, also the performance graph for played heroes has been changed, it's a lot better now, at least for me, I used to have really high performance heroes that I don't really use well, and Shadow Fiend, Pudge, and Storm Spirit really low on performance despite I perform really well with them.
Also I didn't even notice it was that big.
looks like it's sorted by the old performance ratings still.Remco32 wrote:
The silly thing is that they aren't being sorted by rank anymore, it sorted by... nothing really.druidxd wrote:
Lot's of new things, mostly on the store, also the performance graph for played heroes has been changed, it's a lot better now, at least for me, I used to have really high performance heroes that I don't really use well, and Shadow Fiend, Pudge, and Storm Spirit really low on performance despite I perform really well with them.
Also I didn't even notice it was that big.
e\ went from almost full to 20% on some heroes and vice versa xD
I wouldn't have noticed there was an update if it wasn't for someone telling me to update, auto-updates are fun.
The new performance bars seem to be solely based on win loss ratio, though. Well, definitely better than the previous system.
Yeah just noticed this last night, W/L ratio is not really good to depict performance, but then again, the old performance system was bad too, and at least if you win a match, or if you lose it's partly because of you so... yeah.Tshemmp wrote:
The new performance bars seem to be solely based on win loss ratio, though. Well, definitely better than the previous system.
DotA 1 names will always remains, Destroyer = Obsidian, Nature Prophet = Furion, etc.
^Like HoN, you can still call everything by their DotA names