I have 200 hours in regular dota and 1200 hours in ability draft. Sounds good.ABILITY DRAFT UPDATE
Ability Draft has been updated with a completely new draft interface. Plus, players can now swap the hotkey order of abilities and chat with their teammates during the draft. We've also added support for fifteen previously-unusable heroes, and fixed abnormal behavior with multiple others. Think you can build a godlike set of killer abilities? Queue up and find out.
I feel that APEM/turbo mode is intended for new players/learning the game, if you have significant experience with Dota there's just no point to it. At least for me, once I learned how to play, I could never do APEM again.Played for a bit, Turbo is too Turbo (15 mins average game). Overall, idk, it's just feels pointless and boring at this point. Nothing to do with the patch, just the game in general. Played dotes since local equivalent of high school, it was bound to get boring eventually, so yeah.
Yep found it.Haven't played dota in a while and returned for this patch so had no idea they implemented this feature.flyingjohn it is in advanced option btw, if you are looking for it, strick solo match making or something
And yeah, I agree about the boredom, etc. I think it gets especially bad once you spend some time away from the game - it's just so much work getting back to it, and having to deal with teammates is just so draining. Even muting everyone and considering them bots is too much work.
In fact, the single thing that pisses me off the most about Dota right now is how much of a bitch people are, and how no one actually pushes lanes. After the laning phase, strong carry players should always be farming on the opposite side of the map and aggressively pushing lanes. Instead of that, most of the time you see bitch tits farming the easy neutral camp on your side of the map while 3 lanes are bearing down on your towers. The strategic side of Dota is completely lost on most people - they can only see their hero, and what's immediately in front of them.
I've stopped caring at this point, but I guess Valve realized there was some untapped potential in statistics and they probably realize the purely cosmetic model is nearing the end of its course.http://www.dota2.com/plus
Bunch of shit that should have been free a long time ago (some of which can be considered somewhat pay-to-winnish) turned into a 4$/mo subscription. It's truly dead Jim.