Badfinger

I think the largest issue with achievements is they're required inclusions of the platform, and have a fixed min/max value and count. That means that EVERY game on the platform has a fixed "value" outside of the experience of playing the game itself. But because every game is ostensibly worth playing for your sweet-ass Gamer Score, we're now trapped in a position where if you were permitted to ship a game with no achievement points there is a visible section of gamers who would view your product as inherently less valuable because you have 25 less intrusive popups during your playtime. If you've ever heard "That game is an easy 1000 points, you should play it", that is the neat 5-second bow on the garbage pile of why achievements are bullshit.

Unreal Tournament is the gold standard for my level of cursing. If a game can make me burn ears in excitement, frustration, and anticipation like UT did for teenage Badfinger, that's pretty fucking good. On top of that, original-style Assault and its levels might be the best FPS game mode ever made. There was also the fact that I had friends who made entire levels dedicated to our own game mode we made up, and a friend who replaced about 3/4 of the bots with customized bots that were named after Alien franchise characters and had the appropriately scaled deadliness to those characters. That's not a flaw against Quake's lack of those things I suppose so much as super bonus points to UT's customization and the ability to grab high school juniors and not let go.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for hotkeys? I haven't touched them, and all the item slots are currently on the num pad. That seems... horrible? Maybe because I still just don't know item builds and what the hell to do with that, but I feel like I can see 2002 from here. It's clearly a complete product, but even after all this iteration I can feel the Warcraft mod leaching through. Some stuff just feels obfuscated for its own sake as opposed to nuance or complexity. I think I need a dota buddy. :[ vvvv Is there a hotkey for "center on character"? I kept hitting spacebar to do that out of reflex. Forget the courier, I don't even know what to buy let alone have a fat pony deliver it to me.

Hello friends. I was convinced to join the Lords Management Consortium via the podcast, and have now been convinced to join the Idle Forums as well. It seems nice.

Cool, I will do that thank you. I have actually been a consortium member for a week or two! I was persuaded to join via the talking it up on the progress/casts. I'm plain old "Badfinger", same avatar on Steam. I would be more than happy to junk around with fellow incompetents and learn things. For example, what the hell is the courier. e: since this is as good a place as any to ask, maybe someone could recommend good crossovers of similar characters from LoL to Dota? I started jungling because no one else ever did, and I'll say I'm... competent? at it. I really like Udyr, Nocturne, Nautilus, Riven, Olaf, Warwick. For carries I like Ashe and Graves, and I like playing support characters as well.

I'm really asking more of where I can go talk to people here in real time and ask questions, rather than how to find the rote tactics and mechanics of a particular hero. If I jump back in, I'd like it to be with an organized group who can lead a neophyte into the forest and it's better to be up front and chat first. If it's somewhere earlier in the thread I apologize, I must have missed it. Also thanks for the heads up on bots, when I fired it up before I don't think bots were an option.

Hi all! Vanaman's got me in the DOTA grasp. I've played LoL for about a year, and have been in the DOTA 2 beta for a while, but have only played about 5 games total and haven't played in months. The lure of potentially meeting people who can help teach me this exactly the same but totally different game is overwhelming. What should I do to introduce myself in a game setting and request to be taught with baby kid gloves?