DOTA 2

anyone else not able to bring up console? never had any problems randomly i cant bring it up, no matter what i bind it to.

Ive been trying to just manually add these to my CFG folder so i dont have to keep doing it on startup, but when i do the save never sticks.

steamapps > common > dota2 beta > dota > cfg > config. am i going into the wrong cfg..?

TecKnoe_sl said:

anyone else not able to bring up console? never had any problems randomly i cant bring it up, no matter what i bind it to.

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Make sure -console is enabled in launch options? I have trouble bringing mine up without it jumping on launch.

yeah its enabled, oh well ill just live without it, any idea on my second question?

I know there is a way to get it to stick so i dont have to enter it all the time rtz and i forgot what other streamer said to just add it into the config, but i must be doing something wrong it will save in the config how i want but once the game loads up it erases.

TecKnoe_sl said:

yeah its enabled, oh well ill just live without it, any idea on my second question?

I know there is a way to get it to stick so i dont have to enter it all the time rtz and i forgot what other streamer said to just add it into the config, but i must be doing something wrong it will save in the config how i want but once the game loads up it erases.

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Yeah don't edit your config file. You edit your autoexec.cfg. Make sure it's not read only. The config.cfg file is what needs to stay the same.

EDIT: Some useful commands for those who might be wondering:

-novid (no video on launch)
-console (opens the console)
For the launch options
And for the autoexec
dota_minimap_hero_size (changes the icon size of heroes on the minimap, default is 600)
dota_force_right_click_attack "1" (makes you be able to deny creep by just right clicking instead of attack ordering them. This breaks the follow command though for teammates)
bind "[key of your choice]" "dota_recent_event" (jumps the screen to the most recent ping, I bind mine to spacebar)

Is there a site that I can go to and search for items to get an idea of their worth? Just the steam market place?

Just pulled Vengeancebound Wings for Skywrath Mage from a TI3 chest, but no idea if that's good or not? Before that I pulled Cranial Clap Trap for Alchemist.

Haha totally forgot about that right click deny command. I did that so long ago that I forgot it isn't a default setting.

dota2trade reddit forum is probably your best bet. Once a chest has been out for a few days you're lucky if the mythicals are worth more than a couple keys. The only thing that's ever worth a damn are unusual couriers or maybe a strange mythical for a popular hero. TI3 specific couriers are running $80 plus because they are immortal. Standard unusual coriers yo uget from other chests may average 3-5 keys unless its a chase color.

http://steamep.com/dota2/list

Easy way to finish up teams. If you finish yours please send your extra cards my way ;_; I'm not even half done yet.

http://dotametrics.wordpress.com/201...omplaint-ever/
Basically what I think every time somebody is bitching about matchmaking. There are millions of games played every day, there is no way a single person can have idea whether it's working or not.

Ya. For instance, if you have that stupid looking Alpine Stalker item set, those go for insane money. Immortal items tend to be things that are either designed that way or are removed from the game (but owners can still keep a copy of the item).

Zaphid_sl said:

http://dotametrics.wordpress.com/201...omplaint-ever/
Basically what I think every time somebody is bitching about matchmaking. There are millions of games played every day, there is no way a single person can have idea whether it's working or not.

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Well then the one game that you linked to vs my 50~ in the past 3 weeks is proof enough and I am convinced. Thanks for the insight.

No you can't tell if your enjoyment of the game has taken a serious nosedive because of the types of games you are matched into recently, there's no way you can know that. There's millions of games, look at that blog, it's a shithead ruining a game for 9 people. There's no way you can know matchmaking is worse now. QED, git gud

bayr_sl said:

No you can't tell if your enjoyment of the game has taken a serious nosedive because of the types of games you are matched into recently, there's no way you can know that. There's millions of games, look at that blog, it's a shithead ruining a game for 9 people. There's no way you can know matchmaking is worse now. QED, git gud

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All this talk reminds me of wow when people said "your class is fine bro, L2P" only to see that class get buffed next patch because it was not "fine".

Pyros_sl said:

Only that wow balance was quantifiable by running parses and theorycrafting optimal DPS. You can't really tell shit about how the mm work, if it's working correctly or not, because you don't have access to anything. I believe it's working fine, just the systems they use for it are shitty by nature so it leads to shitty games, it spreads searches too far in terms of rating, or too quick to expand, accomodate group queues badly, try to categorize players in the right brackets too quickly(placement match system too agressive). So yeah I do agree I think MM is shittier than it was before. It is a far cry from "unplayable" or "completely ruined" however, it's just fairly shitty.

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It's quantifiable in the sense that much more games are ruined because of it than a few weeks ago. Some people say its completely broken and unplayable, some people like me say its worse than before and makes a lot of the games less enjoyable, some people says "its fine l2p lololroflcakes u mad bro". All I have to judge is the amount of games ive played since they went public and comparing those (roughly 50 or more games) vs the games I played before that patch. And to me and most people I have played with, it is noticeably worse than it was before. Now I'm not saying I know why it is this way, just that I've seen it is this way. I've came up with hypothesis of why this is (vhigh rated ppl queuing with very low rated players and the system trying to make a copy for the other team, influx of new players having placement games in too high of a bracket, change in the mm code to allow a bigger gap between ppl, etc..). Fact is the game is less fun for me than a month ago, and not because I am getting stomped, on the contrary, I'm playing just as well as before in most games where I dominate but still lose regardless cause I got put with people with 20~ wins that dont understand this game or I will dominate anoher team of players with 100~ wins because they are clearly getting put in a bracket much higher than their own. Either type of games aren't fun nor challenging.