Post here if you're interested, it will be given out through steam. I will just pick random and/or preferred people who posted on this thread. Made your comment worthy :)
Just sign up like 3 months ago, got mine and 2 gift passes to give out. I will wait till tomorrow till I pick. Keep the discussion going.
Edit:
First impression: It looks and play pretty smooth so far, no level of clunky modding can compete with it. I'm glad blizz decided to go another route, but still they got much competition to go for.
I watched some of dota 2 on the Gamescom thing they had, i think it was gamescom, It looked Decent enough, I like all the dota Genre games and I love valve so I really want to try it some time.
Honestly you haven't experienced DotA 2 till SuPa_Link plays the game. Once this lad receives a beta key and plays it the level of enjoyment goes up. It's a good deed for yourself and everyone else that's currently playing it. If you truly want to experience DotA 2 and make a difference, take a look deep down. Make the right choice ;).
I got my hands on a key as well (but no giveaways from me, sorry ;) )
I played Dota 1 a lot, and there is some major process of getting used to for me. Some of the stuff the WC3 engine provided naturally and you took for granted works differently now and feels worse / unfamiliar. Little things, like the reaction of units to your commands, cursor responses, visual feedback.
Will probably take a couple of games before I will be able to play it as smoothly as I am used to play Dota 1.
Also, I am not a huge fan of the direction they took for the graphics; the designs for the heroes and the map. They look like made from plastic or clay. Some spells look nice, though.
I experienced a TON of bugs (walking corpses changing teams, random spell effects persisting on the map) and performance issues (ingame my pc completely freaks out on lowest settings - while Skyrim runs on high settings without any problems - , sudden FPS drops, regular 2 second lag spikes) , however it seems to be specific to my system. None of my friends saw the visual glitches or experienced similar performance problems, however I heard of some other players with similar problems (most prominently being Ars-Art)
This post is sort of off-topic, but the official feedback forum refused me, so I need some place to rant :D
As for demands, my Dota 1 buddys would probably kill to get their hands on a key ;)
Would be nice to have one, but I can live without it. My connections too crap to enjoy online gaming without latency. Although I must admit in recent weeks my ping with usbnet has been excellent. No lag at all, not even with keyboard inputs.
So that would be Dogmai and FuzzyD, if one of them did not want it anymore I will get back to this thread. Thanks everyone. Also, dont blame randomness. (I rolled a duplicate the first time around.)
Post here if you're interested, it will be given out through steam. I will just pick random and/or preferred people who posted on this thread. Made your comment worthy :)
I will be posting my impression of it later.
@progammer: Go
oh, I would love to try that.
But if the're in high demand you can skip me; I'm pretty busy.
@grenegg: Go
I'm not even sure how high or low demand are those key, I just want it give it to you guys mapster folks :P
Oh, that's awesome.
Guess I'll put my name down on this list. I'd love to get my hands on that. Love DotA. Even if I don't get it, have fun with it, should be awesome.
By the way, how did you get the invites?
@progammer: Go
I would like one....... Dota is my religion...
I think Dota 2 is a pretty cool guy, ehh killing blow and doesn't afraid of anything.
I would like one :)
Id love one, Add me on steam weather or not you give me one doesnt matter, steam name is 1shadowwolf
On a side note:
And for anyone wandering.
Dota 2 is a game from the makers of the popular Warcraft 3 map Dota... who thunk it. Lawl.
I hope who ever gets it can appreciate it. If you wish to try a Game Like dota, play SOTA on SC2 or Play LoL( stand-alone game), Or HoN.
@ShadowedShade: Go
Just sign up like 3 months ago, got mine and 2 gift passes to give out. I will wait till tomorrow till I pick. Keep the discussion going.
Edit:
First impression: It looks and play pretty smooth so far, no level of clunky modding can compete with it. I'm glad blizz decided to go another route, but still they got much competition to go for.
I watched some of dota 2 on the Gamescom thing they had, i think it was gamescom, It looked Decent enough, I like all the dota Genre games and I love valve so I really want to try it some time.
@progammer: Go
I hereby useth my moderation abilities to request a key of beta status, Oh Mighty Progammer.
Edit- meh I don't really like dota that much, give it to somebody else ;)
I wouldn't mind taking a look ... it will be interesting to see what Valve has done with the game, given my history with Dota.
I got my hands on a key as well (but no giveaways from me, sorry ;) )
I played Dota 1 a lot, and there is some major process of getting used to for me. Some of the stuff the WC3 engine provided naturally and you took for granted works differently now and feels worse / unfamiliar. Little things, like the reaction of units to your commands, cursor responses, visual feedback.
Will probably take a couple of games before I will be able to play it as smoothly as I am used to play Dota 1.
Also, I am not a huge fan of the direction they took for the graphics; the designs for the heroes and the map. They look like made from plastic or clay. Some spells look nice, though.
I experienced a TON of bugs (walking corpses changing teams, random spell effects persisting on the map) and performance issues (ingame my pc completely freaks out on lowest settings - while Skyrim runs on high settings without any problems - , sudden FPS drops, regular 2 second lag spikes) , however it seems to be specific to my system. None of my friends saw the visual glitches or experienced similar performance problems, however I heard of some other players with similar problems (most prominently being Ars-Art)
This post is sort of off-topic, but the official feedback forum refused me, so I need some place to rant :D
As for demands, my Dota 1 buddys would probably kill to get their hands on a key ;)
Would be nice to have one, but I can live without it. My connections too crap to enjoy online gaming without latency. Although I must admit in recent weeks my ping with usbnet has been excellent. No lag at all, not even with keyboard inputs.
I would love to have it. I'm a big DOTA/MOBA fan. I play it all the time.
Ok I'm putting ppl on a list to roll some random. This will be timestamped and no edit. Ppl with low priority will have half a chance
1. grenegg
2-3. ShadowShade
4-5. SoulCaver
6-7. WraithChaser
8-9. Taintedwisp
10. zeldarules
11-12. Supa_Link
13-14. Dogmai
15. FuzzyD
16-17.Razernok
So that would be Dogmai and FuzzyD, if one of them did not want it anymore I will get back to this thread. Thanks everyone. Also, dont blame randomness. (I rolled a duplicate the first time around.)
Well atleast I had a chance
I HAV TAKED ME RANDSOM AND DEMAND PAYMENT OF ONE DOTA TOO BETA KEY!!!!!!
IF U DONT GIEF ME A KEY RITE NAOW I WILL HANG ME AND SHOOT ME AND STAB ME AND POSON ME!!!!!
U HAV BEN WARN!!!!!!!!
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no seriously. . . I will massacre myself in a most gruesome fashion. . . gimme gimme gimme!
Having played both DOTA 2 and Blizzard DOTA, I actually prefer Blizzard's unless I plan on playing 2-3+ games a day, where I want lots of depth.