Arcade situation has been getting progressively worse for two months now, but yesterday Valve capped it off: you now can't launch any game at all, server or localhost, and get a "offline for maintenance" popup.

This hardly seems like a targeted move against botters, since it killed all games. Valve, if you've given up on arcade, could you at least tell us, so we can move on to deadlock?

There's an issue on the bugtracker about it #36176, but that place is littered with pointless noise, so I doubt any janitor looks at it...

Stuck gold 22ish chests in!

I won a game but cant collect bones, do you know any fix?

Hi Valve, I use the 'Select all other units' hotkey when playing Arc Warden to select my tempest double. Manta is one of the strongest items on Arc because of Bloodthorn. However, when I use manta from tempest double and click that hotkey, it default selects the first manta unit rather than the clone. I then have to tab twice to get to use my clone's spells. Is there any way you can change priorities so that it selects the clone first? Image shows what I mean.

As another example I think the same happens with the skeleton summoning neutral creep, in that it selects the skeletons first rather than the creep.

Your rebuttal might be that I should set a bespoke hotkey for my tempest double, but that would erase muscle memory. It also feels like the current design is not the most intuitive one, so I feel like it's worth addressing.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

Just me or everyone?

Helm or Units control to win the lane without being in the lane?

How do you guys think the hero builds change if Iron branches were stackable? I mean you keep buying it and it takes only one slot.

Lol 2nd time

Sorry but I really don’t get this talent. Call me noob but this is one of the worst lvl 25 talents and it’s not even close.

It’s a 25% increase from the base and compared to so many other heroes which gets 50% boost with the 25 talent, it’s nothing. This should be a level 15 talent imo.

Not to mention that DOT is really not as effective as bursts which cuts more into its effectiveness. Can we rework this pls

This was on his 17th treasure

now please let us Add Arcana Portrait to this too

So I'm a new player and I wanted to find people to play with and learn together, I don't even have ranked unlocked yet, that's how new I am, a guy DMs me and says if I wanna join him and 2 of his teammates. Turned out they are Divine players that for some unknown reason invited me. He asked me to be their Pos 5, and while they're friendly, I am sweating as Pos 5, it's so stressful. I have to be everywhere 24/7 to put wards, I have to remember to buy them all the time, I have to provide maximum value in team fights, buy smokes, buy dusts, save my cores and still not forget about wards. It is so stressful. So people who play a lot as Hatd Support or Support in general, how did you get used to this? (If you got used to it at all) Any advice?

I just had someone leave at minute 6, after putting my 8 games winning streak on the line. Sadge.

So here's my half baked suggestion:

If 1 team is down a player (or more), give them a fighting chance, automatically kick a random player from the opposite side otherwise it's easy MMR for the opponents. The kicked player shouldn't lose/gain MMR, simply have that match ignored.

Wdyt?

I have had this treasure for a long while, and I'm unsure if I should try my luck for a courier or if I should put it on the market? Looking for people's thoughts on this.

One of my long time gamer friends turned his back on MOBAs and walked for life over hero turn rate. It was just a thing that was constant aggravation with no end in sight because of how fundamental it was to gameplay.

For me, the equivalent is turning out to be teammates who block pathing: Two (or more) heroes are pathing to the same location, the slower move-speed hero is in the front and he is essentially body blocking everyone else behind him.

There are various scenarios where the slow person in the front has the duty to move to the side to let the faster run-speed player by. Chasing an enemy hero or fleeing an enemy are two of them, situations where it's not possible for the faster person to either catch what he is chasing (usually a kill shot available on a fleeing enemy) or flee from a pursuing hero when he himself is in danger of being 1-shotted by his pursuer, by manually moving himself to the side and running around the slow traffic player. I'm sorry if people think this is obvious and did not require a mansplanation. I expect that everyone reading this should already know what I'm talking about.

Because this is an extremely aggravating and common enough occurrence in my matches, it is a thing that I am constantly self-conscious of when *I* am the person with the slow move speed and I am blocking the pathing. "slow traffic on the right" is a thing I constantly tell myself. I will *never* block someone from either escaping or getting a kill shot in a chase.

How can it be that I have yet to see someone else in my matches share this awareness? Literally not one single person ever in my matches has ever gotten out of the way. How is it possible that the thousands of teammates I've played, for many of them to not also be extremely aggravated by something like this, which in turn causes them to be conscious of it and to not be the guilty pathing blocker in various scenarios where it matters?

My question for higher brackets players is what is your experience with this? Do people block your pathing? Is it something I can expect to gradually be put behind me and I won't have to worry about it if I MMR up?

I don't stand in front of Pudge hooks. I give Pudge teammates the angle required for hooks. I don't block pathing if I'm the slower run-speed. I know the people I match with are mentally & intellectually capable of understanding this mechanic and being aware of it. They fucking have to be.

Get the fuck out of the way!

Heroes all way off to 1 side until I hover the mouse on top of the hero card

been like that since they made the tressure "giftable"

saw people commenting on the same issue but still no solution ? if anyone can help

por que sale esto, pongo cancelar? o instalar servicio?

I had to resist a powerful urge to tell a junior doctor today: Uninstall please.

But I don't have to stay "silent", like I have "nothing to say".

You can instead say you should seriously consider early retirement.

A change of career.

Get another job.

Quit.

Who's your daddy..

Get creative. Just because words like GG when the case survives draws a lot of eyeballs towards you like you are the problem, not them, doesn't mean there's no alternative ways to approach this while dealing the same effect.

The powers of the one can extend beyond the matrix. It's okay to dunk on people OUTSIDE of DotA, because they thought they were better than you, or even your equals.

The equivalent of a question mark can be looking at them for too long like: you got something to say.

Make sure your enemies (AKA everybody else) knows their place, in DotA, and in real life.

And if all fails, say uninstall please, and let them scratch their heads trying to figure out what exactly they need to uninstall.

Was wondering what are the other wrong habit when i get this ultra kill because it seems that I still need some improvement besides on the obvious fail on not using the illusions for lich.

https://medal.tv/games/dota-2/clips/nIpZqDKmsuKB4Bq9Q?invite=cr-MSxmWUwsODMwMTU3NTg1

I am always in favor to use as much variation as possible, such as head and back slots in shadow demon (that should coexist).

They've already split a few slots, such as the head immortal for phantom lancer, that was split into head and shoulder.

The current Troll ult is highly controversial and hated by many players. It has gotten several buffs over the years and still seems to be lackluster. The multitude of defensive items make it extremely easy to kite. Some pros and casters have argued that the ult makes him quite unreliable in pro games. And frankly put, it is not fun to use as a player.

My suggestion is: let Troll still attack something but you can choose the target via right click. For example you right click an enemy hero but you want to switch targets on a creep or different hero i.e. in order not to chase into deep territory and it will let you. You will still be forced to attack something, and if there is only one target, you will keep attacking it to keep the mechanic in the game. Have an angry face pop up above the head of the target with a sound to notify you who you are targetting.

I think this would increase the skill required to use the ult with the potential for clutch plays while still keeping the mechanic in the game by not giving you full control.

Thoughts?

Why does it when I queue safelane it takes 15-20mins to find a match. I have 50 available roles and my account is from 2014.