Dota 2 Strategies
Presented as the successor to Defense Of The Ancients: All Stars (DotA), the mod for Warcraft III that is traditionally presented as one of the precursors of MOBA, Dota 2 is based on the confrontation in arenas of two teams of players seeking to destroy the opposing base.If this still mysterious rest, Dota 2 MOBA already announced hundreds of heroes, a graphics engine based on the Source Engine (of the Valve at the origin of the project studio) or even voice chat device integrated into the game. Better to integrate new players (known MOBA players sometimes a little bellicose and not always very cordial), Valve announced already features to reward veterans players that will help newcomers either in the game or on the forums by publishing game guides for example (the awards are clearly linked to the votes of players).
Similarly, to alleviate the risk of losses in pop-up disconnections of a member, of bots will be supplement amputees teams of one of their players.
Except a shortly before broadcast trailer gamescom, the details on it were for the less thin. And to still maintain the mystery, the game was well present on the German show last week, but in an only playable version by some progamers entrants compete earnings $ 1.6 million. To learn more, we however met Gabe Newell, Valve pattern, to ask him a few questions about Dota 2 and only Dota 2. Dota 2 Guide
Gamekult: Is ultimately not much about Dota 2 while the game is here present at gamescom, but playable only by progamers for a gain of€ 1.6 million in The International tournament. So, can you tell us more about the genesis of this title?
Gabe Newell: As many developers, we play many games and there is a whole group at Valve who played Dota [for Defense of the Ancients, a popular Warcraft III mod, Editor's note], such as Robin Walker or Erik Johnson who worked on half-life. They were big fans, followed the leagues, and have started to send emails to IceFrog [the creator of Dota Allstars, Editor's note], asked him if he had planned a suite, what kind (s) of things he wanted to integrate or what it would like to correct... And then they told him "but why you not come not in Valve so it can do together?". This is how that it is passed: it is just a story of fans who wanted to do something with their passion for the game.
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Adrian [Finol, Editor's note] about spent a week to make a prototype to make sure that could be a STR with the Source engine, because it was not thought this engine for this type of game. But it worked very quickly, and more and more people have been convinced that might well make a suite to Dota. When we think of the evolution of Dota since its inception, the concept has been through many steps and this will therefore continue with new heroes, new mechanical... What is also to integrate it in the game, are all of these features took place outside of the game, such as the Guild of players or coaching. That is working on the game, a group of testers consisting of large players Dota we brought many returns and us has much influenced. And whenever they were asked what they liked, they sent us a longer list of issues to be reviewed (he laughs). Dota 2 Strategy
When we finally managed to achieve something that pleased us, and appealed to the professional players of Dota, the next step was to set up a tournament that we here at this gamescom. This also allows us to fine-tune the tests in ensuring that there is no problem when the game is broadcast in several languages, or even when many players connect to the servers to see the direct parties; the last time that I looked at, there were 230,000 people on our server. This event thus ensure that in these circumstances, there is no lag or inconvenience of the genus.
When was the project it actually started in Valve?
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About 2 years ago. Now, the development team has some 60 persons - is a team similar to what it had for Portal 2, Left 4 Dead level size.
And side gameplay, what are the novelties of this suite?
Most people are already familiar and contents of the mechanical of Dota. Was certainly refined and enriched the whole, but the players accustomed to Dota will meet immediately their marks. However, certain aspects have been reviewed: access facilitated to shops for example, and the entire system to find a part online adapted to its level.
