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Dota 2 adds player-created in-game guides

You ruined everything, idiot. Uninstall Dota 2 now. Then take your hard drive out and beat yourself around the face and genitals with it. Then kill yourself. In real life. Or, pop up a player-written skill build and guide for your character in-game, pick up a few tips, and turn to bravely to face the terrifying and thrilling challenges of Dota.
Alice O'Connor
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You ruined everything, idiot. Uninstall Dota 2 now. Then take your hard drive out and beat yourself around the face and genitals with it. Then kill yourself. In real life. Or, pop up a player-written skill build and guide for your character in-game, pick up a few tips, and turn to bravely to face the terrifying and thrilling challenges of Dota. Thursday's patch integrated player-written hero build guides, which you can access while playing with the click of a button. They offer advice on which skills to select when, how to use them, which items to buy, and general strategy. Valve recently added player-written guides to Steam, but these are actually integrated into the game rather than simply being accessible through the Steam overlay. Players can vote on guides, filtering out the good from bad. Er, once the novelty wears off voting up comedy guides to attain the 'lulls' I hear young folk are so keen on. If you've got some knowledge to drop, go create a guide. Thursday's patch also brought a few tweaks, so check the changelog.

One player's guide to Mirana, selected from a list of many

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    February 22, 2013 4:15 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Dota 2 adds player-created in-game guides.

    You ruined everything, idiot. Uninstall Dota 2 now. Then take your hard drive out and beat yourself around the face and genitals with it. Then kill yourself. In real life. Or, pop up a player-written skill build and guide for your character in-game, pick up a few tips, and turn to bravely to face the terrifying and thrilling challenges of Dota.

    • targetthyself legacy 10 years
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      February 22, 2013 4:33 PM

      Sweet, DotA 2 decided to build in Mobafire... cuz that's a feature humanity needs. More ways for clueless idiots to scream at you for not following what the pros do to exact specification every game. For the record, HoN has had this feature for a while, not a big deal. Doesn't lower learning curve one iota because the game is what you need to learn, not build paths. In DotA you can generally do whatever with whoever and be successful if you know mechanics.

      Guides help alot in LoL because of the rigid meta, but Riot is trying to break that meta, generally. Either way, yawn.

      • sneakyalmond legacy 10 years
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        February 22, 2013 6:17 PM

        No, you can't just "do whatever". You can't build 6 meks on a carry and expect to be any use late in the game.

      • [deleted] 1452365323 legacy 10 years
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        February 22, 2013 11:53 PM

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      • Moonbase Commander legacy 10 years
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        February 23, 2013 12:56 AM

        lol I started playing DOTA this week and your attitude is what's entirely wrong with the game. Even though I am routinely the highest leveled/get the most kills, my teammates still bitch and moan at everything I do. The only thing they don't do is tell me what they think I'm doing wrong or offer any advice. These guides, even if I won't use them, are better than what the community is currently giving.

      • Opticom legacy 10 years
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        February 23, 2013 3:58 AM

        Item and skill builds are very important actually. They change how you play the hero.

    • sonskusa legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      February 22, 2013 10:33 PM

      only guide you need to know in dota 2 is fuck you go fuck yourself

    • Alastayr legacy 10 years
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      February 22, 2013 10:36 PM

      Alice we love you. <3

    • Ormsbee legacy 10 years
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      February 22, 2013 11:57 PM

      lol. Awesome.

    • Disarray legacy 10 years
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      February 23, 2013 12:34 AM

      probably the best journalism i've ever read

    • Mad Brahmin Disease legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      February 23, 2013 3:59 AM

      bwahahahaha

    • abrasion legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      February 23, 2013 4:47 AM

      The graphics in that engine are nice. It would be so good if someone made a mod which converted DOTA into War 3. Widescreen, new graphics and a shitload of stolen heroes already good to go (and effects)
      War 3. why you gotta be 4:3? :(

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