MIRACLEOFSOUND VS DOTA 2

[Akisa]

I say more of this!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

As someone with 1400 hours+ in DOTA.

Ogre MVP, never seen someone do mad plays like that.

 

[War_Dyn27]

Someone's talking about dota 2? I must be involved

If that was Gav's first game he really wasn't that bad, especially considering most of the other players would have been playing far longer. When I first started I kept getting killed by standing under the towers and losing to the easy AI.

Besides, with all that gormless staring into space and total obliviousness, it was obvious that he was perfectly role playing Ogre Magi's character

Edit: oh yeah, I would love to hear a MoS song on dota 2. Dota 2 actually has some great music and I would love to hear what Gav could do in that style.
Also, off topic, to anyone, even if you hate dota, I recommend you check out
'Are we heroes Yet' Its a fun little official comic about some of the minor NPC's in the game and it has a gorgeous artstyle.

 

[hickwarrior]

I wonder, what was gav doing when he did nothing in the game?

Still, this was great. And yes, I understood all of it. Since you know, I played DotA 2 as well as others like it.

 

[Mezahmay]

I really wish I understood all of the Dotaness that went on in that video but the captions were well placed and enjoyable. I rate this video Irish Jesus out of 10.

 

[IrenIvy]

I understood nothing except Ogre Emotional Support Level: 100% moment and how I am curious on what was happening. Can any DOTA2 players explain the weave of the battle, maybe, for people who don't play this game and why that Faceless Void thing was bad (if it was)?

The main idea is to escort computer controled creep (the little red or green guys) down one of three lanes to your opponent's base so they can act as cannon fodder for enemy defenses and the opposing creep waves. There's also neutral areas between lanes "the jungle" with optional monsters who aren't on either team but can provide extra income for the player controlled heroes like Ogre, Crystal Maiden and Anti Mage.

Early game is mostly in lanes where each side tries to kill opposing creeps for money and experience as well as to push the lanes towards the enemy base and turrets.
Mid game usually after the first tower or two in a couple of the lanes have been taken has some players start to roam between lanes to help team mates push other lanes and kill enemy heroes for gold and experience.
Towards the end of the game players usually move around in groups to assault each others bases where the three lanes converge.

Faceless Void is a Hero and a Hard Carry meaning he starts out weak but gets a lot stronger when he has expensive items so he usually stays in his lane farming creeps until late game, it's entirely possible to not see the enemies hard carry or your own for most of the game if they're playing particularly passively and not taking any risks.

Thank you very much for the explanation! I thought at first that Faceless Void wasn't a character but some kind of ultimate rare item that other side triggered to change the whole landscape, sort of like a nuke, to make a game instant hard-mode for the other side. On re-watch it made more sense now

 

[The Wooster]

I understood nothing except Ogre Emotional Support Level: 100% moment and how I am curious on what was happening. Can any DOTA2 players explain the weave of the battle, maybe, for people who don't play this game and why that Faceless Void thing was bad (if it was)?

The main idea is to escort computer controled creep (the little red or green guys) down one of three lanes to your opponent's base so they can act as cannon fodder for enemy defenses and the opposing creep waves. There's also neutral areas between lanes "the jungle" with optional monsters who aren't on either team but can provide extra income for the player controlled heroes like Ogre, Crystal Maiden and Anti Mage.

Early game is mostly in lanes where each side tries to kill opposing creeps for money and experience as well as to push the lanes towards the enemy base and turrets.
Mid game usually after the first tower or two in a couple of the lanes have been taken has some players start to roam between lanes to help team mates push other lanes and kill enemy heroes for gold and experience.
Towards the end of the game players usually move around in groups to assault each others bases where the three lanes converge.

Faceless Void is a Hero and a Hard Carry meaning he starts out weak but gets a lot stronger when he has expensive items so he usually stays in his lane farming creeps until late game, it's entirely possible to not see the enemies hard carry or your own for most of the game if they're playing particularly passively and not taking any risks.

Thank you very much for the explanation! I thought at first that Faceless Void wasn't a character but some kind of ultimate rare item that other side triggered to change the whole landscape, sort of like a nuke. On re-watch it made more sense now

He's a faceless blue **** who freezes you in time and then beats you to death.

 

[Darth_Payn]

I have no idea what the deuce I just watched. Since Gavin was here, I was expecting a new song, maybe about Critical Miss. I feel gipped.

 

[Ferisar]

I understood nothing except Ogre Emotional Support Level: 100% moment and how I am curious on what was happening. Can any DOTA2 players explain the weave of the battle, maybe, for people who don't play this game and why that Faceless Void thing was bad (if it was)?

The main idea is to escort computer controled creep (the little red or green guys) down one of three lanes to your opponent's base so they can act as cannon fodder for enemy defenses and the opposing creep waves. There's also neutral areas between lanes "the jungle" with optional monsters who aren't on either team but can provide extra income for the player controlled heroes like Ogre, Crystal Maiden and Anti Mage.

Early game is mostly in lanes where each side tries to kill opposing creeps for money and experience as well as to push the lanes towards the enemy base and turrets.
Mid game usually after the first tower or two in a couple of the lanes have been taken has some players start to roam between lanes to help team mates push other lanes and kill enemy heroes for gold and experience.
Towards the end of the game players usually move around in groups to assault each others bases where the three lanes converge.

Faceless Void is a Hero and a Hard Carry meaning he starts out weak but gets a lot stronger when he has expensive items so he usually stays in his lane farming creeps until late game, it's entirely possible to not see the enemies hard carry or your own for most of the game if they're playing particularly passively and not taking any risks.

Thank you very much for the explanation! I thought at first that Faceless Void wasn't a character but some kind of ultimate rare item that other side triggered to change the whole landscape, sort of like a nuke. On re-watch it made more sense now

He's a faceless blue **** who freezes you in time and then beats you to death.

And when he's not freezing you and everyone around you literally, he also "dodges" damage. No, he doesn't "evade" or "not get hit". He gets hit and doesn't give a shit, because time magic or some shit.

Just felt that needed adding since wc3 taught me to shake fists at him. Him and weaver.

Fuck those guys.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I'm pretty sure Ogre has a hidden passive where the more time you spend staring into space and tanking creep waves, the better your multi-cast chances. Legit play from Gav right there.

And dem fat Magina throws. Its not a real game of Dota til someone buys back, TP's into the middle of 5 enemies and dies having done no damage.

I legit have no fucking idea what any of that meant.

I have no idea what the deuce I just watched. Since Gavin was here, I was expecting a new song, maybe about Critical Miss. I feel gipped.

Here you go:

Grey is a dick
Give him a kick
He says he's just blunt
But no, he's a ****

 

[MiracleOfSound]

If that was Gav's first game he really wasn't that bad, especially considering most of the other players would have been playing far longer. When I first started I kept getting killed by standing under the towers and losing to the easy AI.

It was my first ever game against other people. I got like, 6 kills in the next one.

TLDR: Grey's a douchenozzle.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Don't play DOTA2 so I found this hard to follow, but good job I guess.

 

[Malbourne]

Dota 2 is pretty much LoL, right? Yeah, I got all these references 100%. Nice video, too. Easy to see the route to MLG status.

 

[Darth_Payn]

I'm pretty sure Ogre has a hidden passive where the more time you spend staring into space and tanking creep waves, the better your multi-cast chances. Legit play from Gav right there.

And dem fat Magina throws. Its not a real game of Dota til someone buys back, TP's into the middle of 5 enemies and dies having done no damage.

I legit have no fucking idea what any of that meant.

I have no idea what the deuce I just watched. Since Gavin was here, I was expecting a new song, maybe about Critical Miss. I feel gipped.

Here you go:

Grey is a dick
Give him a kick
He says he's just blunt
But no, he's a ****

[insert standing ovation here] YES!!! That's just the pick-me-up I needed today. Thank you, Gavin! BTW, reading it in Soundwave's voice makes it so much funnier.

 

[Isalan]

I'm pretty sure Ogre has a hidden passive where the more time you spend staring into space and tanking creep waves, the better your multi-cast chances. Legit play from Gav right there.

And dem fat Magina throws. Its not a real game of Dota til someone buys back, TP's into the middle of 5 enemies and dies having done no damage.

I legit have no fucking idea what any of that meant.

It's like an entirely separate language that takes 1000 hours to learn the basics of, then once your confident enough to speak it others will tell you every chance you get that your pronunciation is crap and that should die in a car fire.

On reflection, that might not make any sense either.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I'm pretty sure Ogre has a hidden passive where the more time you spend staring into space and tanking creep waves, the better your multi-cast chances. Legit play from Gav right there.

And dem fat Magina throws. Its not a real game of Dota til someone buys back, TP's into the middle of 5 enemies and dies having done no damage.

I legit have no fucking idea what any of that meant.

It's like an entirely separate language that takes 1000 hours to learn the basics of, then once your confident enough to speak it others will tell you every chance you get that your pronunciation is crap and that should die in a car fire.

On reflection, that might not make any sense either.

It's funny because in game the lads tend to all start shouting stuff at me like TP to MID LANE AND BUY OGRE HAMMER or THAT PA IS GONNA GANK YOU and I'm like WTF I don't speak Dotanese

 

[Notshauna]

I'm pretty sure Ogre has a hidden passive where the more time you spend staring into space and tanking creep waves, the better your multi-cast chances. Legit play from Gav right there.

And dem fat Magina throws. Its not a real game of Dota til someone buys back, TP's into the middle of 5 enemies and dies having done no damage.

I legit have no fucking idea what any of that meant.

It's like an entirely separate language that takes 1000 hours to learn the basics of, then once your confident enough to speak it others will tell you every chance you get that your pronunciation is crap and that should die in a car fire.

On reflection, that might not make any sense either.

It's funny because in game the lads tend to all start shouting stuff at me like TP to MID LANE AND BUY OGRE HAMMER or THAT PA IS GONNA GANK YOU and I'm like WTF I don't speak Dotanese

Yeah... That doesn't really work, the best thing you can seriously do to learn very early on is just play single player and try and last hit everything you can (the little enemy creatures that try to attack your buildings). Then once you get used to the very basics of last hitting, moving, etc you can play against a single bot and learn the very basics of playing against a hero. Once you get the basics down it's actually possible to teach people from there, because honestly at that point it's not game knowledge you need it's a grasp of the controls (and this isn't insulting the only people that actually get the controls the first time are people who played RTSes or other games like DotA)

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Does this mean we're getting a new addition to the "______ is metal" series? =D


https://soundcloud.com/lookatmyflugelhorn/theyre-all-dead-ld-is-metal-ft-purge-tobiwan-1

 

[Isalan]

Snippages

It's funny because in game the lads tend to all start shouting stuff at me like TP to MID LANE AND BUY OGRE HAMMER or THAT PA IS GONNA GANK YOU and I'm like WTF I don't speak Dotanese

Its that kinda game. 100+ heroes, of which maybe 6, are referred to with their in game names most of the time. Acronym's everywhere, and that's before you even worry about what they're Dota 1 names were. The items are just as bad, again acronyms all over the place and legacy names. It's a strange situation where you can tell someone to get a Lothar's and maybe 30% of the player base will know what you mean.

Of course, the classy response would be to say "That Personal Assistant isn't going to gank me, she's got so much work to do and she's got to get to the Laundromat by 5" or "I don't see how toilet paper is going to get me too mid any faster." Eventually, they'll start vocabulising more betterer just to shut you up.