u/Avillahan

4k player, played Arc, Meepo, Brood, NP, all the nasties.

With Spirit Wolves though, is there anyway I can split them without box selecting? Sometimes I want to drag a creep wave, block a camp, follow a support with one wolf, whilst having the other in lane with me to last hit, but my hotkeys right now are just "1" Select Hero, "2" everything else, with "Tab" queueing through units.

Not sure if there's any special advice or tips I'm missing out on?

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I've beaten it twice, I didn't watch any streams or anything, but I just find it boring as game. Great as an experience, but after the first time there's just nothing left, it feels like.

Was it overrated just because it was at least a return to horror, because it's definitely the most horror Resident Evil, or was when it was released (I haven't played 8/Requiem), but the earlier games felt a lot more "Game" and a lot less "Theme park house of horrors".

Maybe 4 and 5 had me too used to choosing who to shoot, and when, and where, but every boss in 7 felt weird. Like I wasn't actually trying to kill something, but just keep passing them into different phases. 2 playthroughs in and I still have zero clue how the car/chainsaw boss with dad actually works. I just do random stuff until he falls over. Same with Mia. They feel like fights where I can't actually tell if what I'm doing is what I'm supposed to be doing, like there's some puzzle I'm supposed to solve mid-fight by pulling a lever.

And the mold enemies just, I don't know, they weren't fun at all. Just obnoxious to the point of running past them. Running past enemies in 4/5 never really felt like a thing, because they were fun to fight, could drop loot, could be dispatched of with a nice shot to the head and a swift kick to the gut. Or rounding up multiple for a nice 3-4 kills with a grenade, etc.

I can't think of a game, other than maybe Elden Ring, where once I'd beat it I thought "That was great, but I'd never want to touch it again."

I'm doing an overwatch case, and he's my most played so I was just like "Someone's salty they lost to Arc, or don't understand how fast he can do his combos". But he's casting genuinely at the same time, like Meepo's Alt cast Poof.

Is there something in the game like this? I know Unified Control Orders lets you move all units at once without selecting them, and I know there's an option to have your next available unit in a group cast their spell without tabbing, but I didn't think at the same time was possible?

So, most of the time I win my lane, or go even-ish and then hit my timings at an acceptable rate, but my farm mid-game falls off HARD. This means when my start is bad, I really struggle to recover after.

I didn't mind playing sacrificial this game, since Weaver and Anti Mage were able to get kills off the back of my deaths, but I didn't feel like I could safely recover my game at all.

In lane I went double Bracer, thinking "Well if I hit 6 I can just push Ursa out of lane, let's just get enough HP to survive the lane", but instead of Lich leaving, the Hoodwink showed up to support Ursa too. So maybe I should've just built to leave the lane and jungle earlier? Like earlier Soul Ring, let Ursa push up the lane and do his jungling while I did the same?

Ignoring the rest of the lane, because I honestly just played too late, too sleepy, did not respect Lich as a hero, how the heck do I recover when the enemy team is ahead of everyone except our Pos 1, who needs to farm to win?

Weaver and I could take Tormentor together alone, so we did that to get everyone else sharded up, and we did take a very unexpected early Rosh after we lost a teamfight and the enemy was banging our T2 mid, but other than that I just felt like I was risking my life if I farmed lane, but then risking my anti-mage's life if I didn't farm lane.

He was a better player than me having a much better game, so I wanted to give him more access to safer farm. When the enemy ran into us, I wanted to be there so AM didn't need to show up to defend early, and in fights I wanted to die before the AM.

I think those were the right choices (?), and my pos 4 Weaver managed to grab a great game too, but I feel like this could've been such a simple situation; "Bad lane, recover, go back to smashing the enemy", but Bat, Ursa, the support duo, Pango, they had such good "jump" that even showing up to crush a skipped creep wave would result in a death for me.

My laning is pretty solid, but after that I've came to the conclusion that I want to learn much better Dota than what I do.

All I do is farm and push waves, joining fights I know we can win, until the game is won. That's pretty much it.

Low level Dota is so uncoordinated that towers, torm and rosh just all seem to happen by pure luck of everyone converging at the same time, or the carry happening to be within walking distance of a double damage rune, and I'd like to spend my time outside, of objective time, doing more than what I am.

I struggle to think of anything myself though; I take tier 1 tower, I pull the wave into a jungle camp and farm them both. I repeat that forever until something else is supposed to happen.

I'm winning, but something about it doesn't feel right.

Party queue is fun, but Valve still lets boosters and smurfs play, and since I don't play with boosters or smurfs, the chance of them being on my team is less than them being on the enemy team, so that's just mathematically dumb to play.

Solo queue is fine like 60% of the time, but then you have a level 7 Rubick supporting you as Underlord and he still doesn't have any points in lift, or your Monkey King is level 12 at 25 minutes and rushed echo sabre mage slayer.

I love good dota, where both teams are playing well, doing well, the game's very tight and then one really good teamfight pulls out a deserved win, but this just isn't it.

Wins are 30 minutes. Losses are hour long stretches where the loss is obvious but "Anything can happen so don't give up :)))", yeah no. I don't give up, but the times I've had comebacks recently has been zero.

And I just don't wanna win that badly for some of the people I play with. I'd rather gg out, let them lose MMR, and then get a win without them.

And even with 12k behaviour score in good behaviour games, there're still nasty little creatures drawing on the minimap somehow.

And both EU servers are just flooded with Russians, who're fine as people, but holy fuck the language barrier is impassable.

I've been winning games and it feels completely empty, like there's no point where any of this gets better.

I've played Dota for years and loved it, but atp it just feels over. There's no other game that gives me the same feeling though.

I can't be the only one that feels like this year in particular has been the absolute worst? Even the tournaments are incredibly boring.