Posts by Sentura

  • What's going on with your life?

    Just relax it's probably nothing. Nothing good comes out of analyzing these things. Who knows, maybe he found out on his own or he inquired. You can't be certain what's happened so don't go about assuming things. It's these kinds of things that destroy any relationship between persons.

  • Dahell is happening in Kiev


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  • List of your goals for 2014

    I don't know if I'd ever consider buying a house. Especially not when in this volatile industry. I think there's a lot of risks, and I wouldn't for a second consider having a different job just to keep the mortgage afloat if this game industry business doesn't hold up. But then maybe I'm a city person, and I'm comfortable enough with just an apartment and having my basic necessities covered.

  • DOTA 2

    Taylor: Location tests for USF4


    Quote from 2d-chris

    Just seen a bruno stat, there where more 50+ min games in this TI than the last one - sure, the tactic that won was different.


    This is a recent shift in metagame, do you really expect Valve to change the entire game right before the tournament, the team that won only got through by the skin of their teeth. I have no idea how hard it is to balance a game like this, but even in Starcraft it constantly shifts year to year. I'm not sure a fighting game is fare to compare either, I mean look at how complicated DOTA 2 is in comparison, not to mention the team play aspect of the game design.


    Everyone was commenting, that the teams hold their strats for the TI, so how on earth would Valve even know about the metagame shift, it's carefully hidden until the tournament. I feel, the fact they managed to counter rat dota (which is far more entertaining to watch) only goes to show how dynamic the game really is. Now the event is over, teams will analyze the play style and counter it, new heros will be picked and who knows, maybe next year we will get boring defensive dota2, which by the way is what Chinese teams used to be known for. Oh how the tides have turned.


    I don't know if you were speaking to me, because what I ranted on about was mostly general stuff and not necessarily tied to any tournament. I stand by that there some problems with DOTA 2 in its current iterations. Maybe not big or glaring faults, but even so faults that are skewed and may likely be exploited in future tournaments. I also stand by the opinion that if in a tournament, the only counter to a tactic is mirroring said tactic, then the game is flawed (also a bit more of a general statement).


    I think the comparison between fighting games and MOBAs isn't that far off. Both have a single character with attributes to balance (abilities, move speed, attack animations, etc.) and both have a comparison for which to graded against. The only difference is that for the most part, match-ups in fighting games are 1 character versus 1 character, whereas in MOBAs it's usually 5v5. There is of course a certain amount of extra complexity in this, but in comparison to how much effort it would already take to take every character and balance them out against every other character, that extra complexity becomes trivial.

  • Dahell is happening in Kiev


    well I dunno, maybe because the country Ukraine isn't the country Russia and doesn't want to be associated with it? JUST A THOUGHT


    God forbid you speak your own language in your own country. What blasphemy! We should all speak Russian. D3 is so far ahead of us!!!!

  • DOTA 2

    I don't think that's necessarily correct. I know many games (fighting games especially) are balanced for pro players. I'd imagine many of the MOBA style games would be too. I know HON is, I'd imagine DOTA2 is too. That's why I dare say it's unbalanced when all the pros have to resort to the same strategy.

  • DOTA 2

    Fighting games unfortunately can't be won as easy - at least not those present at EVO. If every team is forced to adapt the same strategy there's also something wrong with the balance of the game. It can't and shouldn't be rare to outplay a strategy.

  • DOTA 2

    I didn't watch it, but wait what, people leaving the finals?


    I've made some controversial statements about the balance of DOTA 2, but this definitely seems to confirm them. While I have respect for IceFrog as a designer, I do believe he's stuck in his old ways and is unable to take the game to the level it needs to be at. I always thought the general hero aesthetic was off, and with DOTA 2 they had a chance to remake the aesthetic for every hero, making them all fit together in a coherent universe. Instead they opted to just copy paste everything over, which to me speaks leagues about how apprehensive IceFrog is of the DOTA community (especially the purists).


    I'm going to echo what I've said before - Heroes of Newerth took the direction that DOTA 2 should have taken when it was still in the beta. While the community may be worse, the design is definitely better. I don't always agree with a new hero every week, BUT: It does force the designers to think about the overall balance of the game constantly - whereas in DOTA 2 it has stagnated. As a result I think many of the matches are balanced in a better way, and because of it more fun.


    DOTA 2 definitely needs some sort of makeover. It needs a design director that is not afraid of taking the game in a more unified and balanced direction, instead of focusing on the infinite tweaking between heroes it has been reduced to now. Rat dota isn't a solution - it's not encouraging good players, because nobody is actually playing the game. It just becomes a lane farming/pushing simulator, which isn't fun to watch, or I imagine, to play. The case prize was probably the only incentive to play in the international for many teams, since it seems more tedious than anything else. DOTA 2 needs some heroes removed or at the very least reworked, and potentially remove certain game mechanics from the game. None that will change the game radically, but just to push the game in a direction where both players and spectators actually start caring for the game.

  • Dahell is happening in Kiev

    Let's just be clear here: Israel breaks numerous conventions by literally INVADING another country, not to mention the illegal settlements. I can agree to a lot, but shell bombing civilian land in a carpet bomb like fashion to flush out terrorists isn't right or just. Zionism on top of this is just terrorism legalized. Imagine any other country have such pure zeal for its country while openly discriminating against another. They get away with it because of the huge pro Israeli lobby in the US, and the US generally not giving a fuck about conventions.


    Also, if you think it's equal:


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    PS: KT stop being biased.

  • Dahell is happening in Kiev

    Meanwhile World War 3 is well underway...


    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-new…jects-truce.ece


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    An official in the Gaza security operations room reported heavy Israeli tank shelling along Gaza's border areas with Israel since 8 p.m. Thursday.

    "All border areas are under fire. There is a tank shell every minute," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with briefing regulations. "There is also fire from the sea toward police checkpoints."

  • What have you watched recently?

    Watching the Axe Cop TV Show at the moment. It's pretty good. The story is unpredictable, but it just makes it more interesting. And even though there is a lot of humor it appears to try to paint the characters as more than just one or two dimensions.


    So all in all pretty enjoyable.