It's finally here! We have got the all the teams qualifying for the playoffs this year.
Here's it:
All teams are competing for TI11’s massive prize pool. At the time of writing, The International 2022’s prize pool sits at US$16,635,522.
You can watch all the matches at PGL's official Dota 2 Twitch.
I first blogged about Dota as I was enjoying my time playing it growing up. It's been more than 10 years now, and I have been busy catching up with life. Now I finally have some more time to catch up with old friends, and resumed playing some Dota2 together! Still enjoying the game a lot, I think maybe I can blog from time to time about Dota2 news.
I just checked and Dota2 is still one of the top 5 most popular eSports games out there. The annual Dota2 Championship called The International can have competitors fighting for a prize up to an outrageous $15,184,334 in USD.
So keep on enjoying the game!
Peace and take care
The new map is coming up and we shall have the chance to play it real soon. I think most of the Dota players like me are so excited about the upcoming Dota v6.60 map as it claims to have a lot of changes, fixes, new concepts and most importantly new heros and items. As a frequent Dota player, I always like to see all these updates. These changes and fixes allow the map to reach its perfection. All players would love to play an enjoyable, well balanced map and I believe Dota is one of the most balanced map out there. I really hope IceFrog can continue his work of updating Dota.
Here what's IceFrog said:
"As a result of some differences, I am no longer affiliated with the dota-allstars.com website. I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone over there the best of luck in the future.
I still plan on continuing DotA development for a long time, a couple years at the very least. The next update, 6.60, is nearing the end of its design and testing phase. The translation phase will also be starting shortly. There is still a little bit more work to do on fixing some specific content, but it's finally approaching completion. I will post another update here in the near future.
As of today, I am starting a new community site for DotA. I think it is more valuable to the players though if I focus most of my time on developing and improving the game, so I'm here to reach out and ask for help on this. I believe that with some organization, the community has some very talented people that can help build a site to serve their interests and needs. Help can come in many different forms: programming, design, technical support, content contributions, etc. My goal is to have a format where everyone that wants to help can contribute in a productive way. If you are interested in being involved, please send me an email at IceFrog@gmail.com"
Here is the Dota Allstars v6.49c AIplus 1.52 map: download
This AI map is really cool!
It is quite challenging to play against these AIs. They some how are really quite smart.
Anyways, this map is good for practicing and having fun!
Thanks for these AI map creatosr - making these AI map really fun to play with
So here is just the download link for v6.51 map: download
6.51 Changelog
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* Fixed a bug with Kellen's Dagger that caused it to sometimes not get disabled when hit
* Fixed Land Mines tooltip
* Increased cast range of Kelen's Dagger
* Undid previous Bottle changes. Bottle now works as follows: Costs 600 gold, does not require mana to refill, auto-fills it when you are near fountain, rune refills it to full, resells at 50% like normal, purchasable at base only, regenerates less than previously, has no usage cooldown.
* Fixed Medusa's Mana Shield from triggering Essence Aura
* Fixed Searing Arrows' tooltip
* Changed Hyperstone purchase hotkey to fix a conflict
* Fixed a bug with Invoker when creating illusions
* Updated Kelen's Dagger tooltip
* Undid some of Morphling's base damage buff from last version
* Fixed Bloodrage tooltip
* Fixed Pulse Nova and Invoker's Reagents from triggering Last Word
* Smokescreen interrupts teleportation once again
* Color coded Invoker's spell descriptions (203050)
* Improved Sange's percentage and Yasha's percentage, and lowered the recent buff on S&Y a little
* Fixed Vladmir's Offering sell cost
* Increased Counter Helix chance by 2%
* Minor bonus armor in True Form
* Improved the effect timing on Split Earth (187877)
* -swapcancel code is triggered when a swap is successful (to prevent other accidental swaps)
* Improved Shuriken Toss cast range
* Added new Backtrack icon (183079)
* Changed Battlefury recipe slightly
* Lowered Poof casting time from 2 to 1.5 seconds
* Lowered Elder Dragon Form's manacost and cooldown a little
* Added neutrals field to -cs
* Changed Phantom Edge's secondary ability from evasion to magic resistance
* Replaced Phantom Assassin's Shadow Strike with a different similar ability (132694)
* Fixed a minor coding bug with Time Lapse
* Fixed Impale based spells from moving Juggernaut during Omnislash
* Added new icon for Melting Strike
* Reduced some lag with Invoker
* Fixed level 1 March of the Machines doing slightly less damage than intended
* Removed stock cooldown on Ironwood Branch
* Added a new system that tracks when you help an ally kill a hero (no gameplay ramifications at this point)
* -swap is now allowed in -sd
* Fixed some minor neutrals' vision and pathing glitches
* Lowered level 1 and 2 cast range on Replicate
* Lowered Phantom Assassin's cast animation time
* Fixed a bug with Exorcism's cooldown after leveling Witchcraft
* Fixed some issues with -ah
* Refined how some kill related messages and sounds are shown
* Increased mana regeneration on Perseverance by 25%
* Lowered Buriza recipe by 250 gold
* Changed Voodoo Restoration to heal over a smoother interval (same total regen)
* Lowered Manta Style's cooldown a bit
* Fixed a bug with Voodoo Restoration and Impales
* Fixed a bug with invoker in -spreverse
* Fixed some inconsistencies with tower visions (TheLoneWolf14)
* Increased duration of Lycanthrope's wolves a bit and allowed them to attack air
* Temporarily disabled -unstuck command
I have recently figured out a method to play dota online with friends (connecting to battle.net) even though I am being blocked by an annoying firewall at uni. Now I can happily bypass the firewall restriction and dota like crazily LOL.
So here are the setup:
1. Download Your Freedom (The software for bypassing any firewalls and internet restriction)
http://www.your-freedom.net/
Go to the download page and download the newest client.
There are actually many info in the web teaching you how to use the software and how to configure your client for playing games. Your Freedom is a really great software having tried many socks server and Your Freedom is just the best.
However, this cool software is not totally free. You can use the free service for a continuous 1 hour period, but when the 1 hour is up, it will automatically cut down the connection, which can be quite annoying. If you think there service is good you can try their different plans (with unlimited connection time and with different bandwidth), I am using their enhanced plan and I think the price is really acceptable comparing with other socks 5 server out there.
2. For me, I use the Your Freedom with the OpenVPN mode. Using OpenVPN mode, you do not need to configure any other setting, just check the OpenVPN in port section of the client.
So you can now by pass all the annoying firewalls now!!
Check out here for installing openvpn: http://www.your-freedom.net/index.php?id=172
Happy gaming!
