Someone wake icefrog up dota is in a really awful place rn GAMES DYING HELP!!!! SEND HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

— Sumail (@SumaaaaiL) September 14, 2017

The players and the community have already begun to share their expectations from Dueling Fates. We are here to explain the most popular requests from users, without which the probable next patch, 7.07 will not be good enough.

Patch 7.07 — Return Balance

Necro, Veno, Lich, Earthshaker, Nightstalker, Nature’s Prophet, Bloodseeker, Spirit Breaker; if you eat candy every time, when in one game there are at least three heroes from this list, you can earn health problems.

According to Dotabuff, ES appears more often than in every third game above 5000 MMR. Following him goes Necro, who has 27% of «pick rate». And this meta, of course, seeps into professional games. There is an incredible number of them every day, and now with the same strategies.

Gradually, teams are coming up with ways to counter the impenetrable Necrophos or the annoying Earthshaker, but so far this is too slow. In a small patch after The International, IceFrog tried to accurately turn the meter, but nothing happened.

But how good it was when tournaments and qualifications beat records on the number of heroes used. These heroes are expecting nerfs while the likes of Invoker should get buffs because of the terrible win rate. The upcoming patch will bring a lot of surprises.

Two New Heroes

Well, this desire is small compared to the restoration of the balance in the upcoming patch. After all, new heroes are always either too strong or disgustingly weak. During the presentation, Valve did not say anything about the «Cat in Boots» and «Fairy».

Even the name of the female character (Sylph) players dug up in the depths of the update of the game code. It remained only for the community to predict Pangolin’s abilities and guess the abilities of the heroes. We could expect a lot of games where these heroes will be spammed. Therefore, it will be a wise choice to not play ranked games.

The players are waiting not only for the release of the heroes, but also for special events and entertainment timed for their release. Comics, «kastomki», yes even the arcana — give something to remember the new characters by, not only in their endless number in pubs.

Correction of Selection of Games

Forums and Twitter are clogged with monotonous screenshots. The players with 3000 MMR suddenly find themselves on the same team with professionals who have a rating higher by 3-4 thousand. And it’s not about group search, but about the usual rating matchmaking.

Players with 4000 MMR have to deal with players who cannot reach up to a thousand. Valve employees try to check such posts and constantly report: «it happened because someone had waited too long for the game».

In fact, this is a vicious circle. First, players complain that they are waiting too long for their match. Valve makes corrections, but because of this, they come across users with a low ranking. Then the players complain about the uncalibrated selection.

Valve should again make some changes about the increasing search time. At the moment, we can only wait and see what the developers have in store for us. However, there should be a balance where everyone is happy, in addition to players with 10k MMR, of course.

Updating the System of Reports and Punishments

At first, there were too many reports. The players scattered them to the right and left, sending rivals and teammates to the hell of Low Priority. Now they are too few, and the number of violators is not decreasing. Currently, telling the developers that this guy prevents you from enjoying their wonderful game seems to be impossible.

 

The system of punishments leaves much to be desired. The players who have visited the LP sometimes argue that it is even more fun and interesting than in the usual matchmaking. Such a friendly environment is hardly conducive to changing someone’s disgusting character or love of the feed in the middle. The users of Reddit offer to solve the problem radically — ban.

First for a day, then for a week, and then completely block the account if the violations are repeated. But with such serious penalties, people are also needed who will check the reports.

Return of the Audio Chat Please!

The International Pass ended on September 18. That brought a decisive end to quests, bets and, worst of all, the wheel of an audio chat room! The world of DotA 2 is very quiet…and even a little sad.

The players have repeatedly argued that the emergence of funny sounds and phrases not only brightened up their stay in the game but also positively affected morale. It’s much nicer when after a mistake you hear a sad trombone, not a scolding.

 

In addition, the players are even willing to pay to buy new funny phrases from commentators and are already willing to do all they can. In 7.07 we could get the humorous chat wheel back and enjoy our gaming experience.

So, this brings an end to our discussion. And no, we are not going to discuss the Pudge Arcana because no matter what we do, Valve will release the arcana in 2018. So, don’t get your hopes high about the arcana but be excited about what 7.07 will bring along with the new heroes.