Dota 2 has now officially jumped the shark

no, that'd be casualizing the hero retard

No, the writers left and i assume the artists moved on to other projects.

I guess the entire shape of your face as well as nose just completely morphs with age. This looks nothing like Invoker, not even anything like the silhouette behind the skin, similar pose aside.

Right. I forgot people don't pick heroes based on their appearance.
>most played heroes are the rare underpowered pretty girls

looks like a midget lol
>tfw only bought the most basic compendium this year casue my main acc is banned for a year and i cant transfer items from my smurf
their loss not mine kek

>banned for a year

How the fuck do you manage that?

ah yes the appearance matters
pudge best girl for years

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>we want LoL's audience

OH NO NO NO NO

behaviour abuse with russian comrades in dubai servers

What is the difference between:
>Arcana
>Prestige
>Persona

he also knows the plastic surgery spells, but those don't have any combat use so he doesn't use them in game

its so fucking ugly

Am I seeing this correctly?

>9.99 for 24 levels
>305 levels required for this cringe shit
>around 120 roughly for this cringe shit

Please tell me I am wrong.

you are not wrong, its either that, or several dozen hours of grinding

gaben is a subhuman who sold ti to china and is squeezing out the last cent of dota

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>>Arcana
Super expensive items in the shop with extensive customizations but still keep the base model and voice
>>Prestige
Items given to players when they reach a certain super high level in the battle pass. They aren't tradable or marketable so the only way to get them is through grinding/paying up
>>Persona
An item that completely cosmetically changes a character with new model, voice, the works.

>"Silhouettes are important" - Valve
What happened?

Arcana alters the whole hero, usually the color palette as well as give some gimmick effects, so a re-skin
Persona will probably be something akin to alternate models if this is an indication.

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Did you forget about all the TF2 items?

You're not wrong. If you do quests and challenges you can get around 70 levels pretty easily. They usually release a bundle in the middle of the campaign which nets you shitloads of levels too. Assuming you do quests and bought that bundle, you'd "only" have to pay around 100-50 more levels, depending which battlepass you bought.

Arcanas change voices though.
Rubick, Pudge, jugg, PA etc.

Those just add additional voice lines, they aren't a complete new voice like Young Invoker.

because you're a faggot

>hours of grinding over the course of like 3 or 4 months
You aren't getting tier 1000-2000 or absurd shit like that without paying, but getting the actual worthwhile shit is easily possible if you play the game even somewhat casually.

Next year

>No heroes without a standard Mana bar.
>No Female smallfolk heroes.
>No other underage humanoid heroes.
>Invoker still as much a brainlet filter as before.
It really hasn't

>there are people that pay for this garbage.

big cringe

That's false, Jugg arcana adds plenty of voicelines and redoes all the original ones, same with Shakira arcana and Pudge

The only thing I really hate in modern Dota is some of the new items. Aeon Disk, Spirit Vessel, Meteor Hammer, Holy Locket to an extent. I don't really like Pangolier's personality but I like what he does and I don't mind Willow or Mars. I'd say the only thing they can really do to really jump the shark would be another 7.00 huge update that adds a unique innate passive to every hero like LoL has for its characters.

>still no option to disable cosmetics
i havent played dota for a year now, but one thing i noticed right before i quit was a noticeable drop in visual quality, kinda like tf2 suffered. the game also ran like ass, comparative to it did years prior.
after watching the qualifiers one thing that stood out to me what a clusterfuck of particles the game has become. nothing makes any real sense.
while dota's artstyle was never good, one thing you can say at least it was, initially, consistent.

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>Looks like a fucking Chucky doll in a wig.
formerly Sneedy

Thankfully not having the coding ability of a toddler allows for modders to add a no bling mod, dunno why they don't add it to the base fame though.

Based.

based valve going epic baby mode!!!

>redoes all the original ones
did they modify the original voices or actually rerecord them all?

basedy

Same energy

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holy fucking wrong

Indeed.

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I don't understand the appeal of Dota 2 in 2019. Who the hell is playing? Is it just 500,000 Chinese players at this point?

So what I'm getting at is that Echo Characters are now a thing.

I don't see anything wrong. The appearance has to be distinct from other heroes, though.
Is there a better PvP game out there?

now i can commit simulated child murder

>shota 2

Dota 2 hasn't been relevant in years. LoL put Dota into the ground.

>Is there a better PvP game out there?
I'm sure I'll get shit on for saying this, but I think League is in a much better place right now compared to the other big 3 MOBAs. I'm dumbfounded why anyone would play HOTS other than to be a mediocre MOBA player who gets to dunk on noobies who are just there to grind for Overwatch skins during events.

The absolute madman, he actually did it.

But LoL has rigid meta and doesn't award creative play.

>Is it just 500,000 Chinese players at this point
Yes.

While there are still many 25+ aged people playing DotA who have been with it since Warcraft or found it during the League surge popularizing MOBAs, there is absolutely zero new recruitment. The teaching landscape is so barren of educational materials both official and fanmade and the play environment for a new player is so fucking saturated in smurfs and shit that nobody in their right mind would stick around even if they bothered. And that's assuming they bother - I see no reason why some kid would touch this game because they've grown up on dogshit and none of their friends are interested either.

Aspiring players don't give a shit about the size of the TI prize pool. They care that the game does a little to help them and it certainly doesn't do that at all.

There's plenty of stuff to learn from.
I'll give you the absolutely awful matchmaking for beginners though.
ASSFAGGOTS simply isn't cool, even LoL is struggling to get new players outside of asia.

fun with friends who know what they’re doing. If you’re 4k and below you’re not really playing the game.