I've seen this too. It's got to be connection related because it happened once when someone else on a LAN with me was starting up Demigod too. We both started the game up and went to log in, both of our games hung after the login prompt. After 2-3 minutes suddenly they both SIMULTANEOUSLY went through. It's not entirely the game, it's server side, somewhere. Hanging the game = not cool.
So your solution to whining is instead to just play other games. I'm sure that's exactly what Stardock and GPG want us to do.
[quote]True, but since you're close to the crystal for both mana and health and have towers you should be able to spam abilities to repel the demigods and force them to take a long trip back to base to recharge.[/quote] That's what Heart of Life is for.
I am not sure if armor scales onto damage taken on the shield. The item you are looking for is the Bulwark of Somethingorother, a 16k artifact that reduces all damage taken by 25% among other things. It's very expensive though.
[quote]Take cataract. If you're losing, they probably have your corner towers down and possibly some in the front of the base. This means enemy grunts push all the way up to your entrance before dying. Since most of the time the front of your base is well-protected, it's hard for the enemy to take this area and they are very vulnerable since they are so far from their own base. The point is, tons of demigods and creeps in a vulnerable spot in the front of your base wit
That's happened to me a couple times. Just one of the many ways the game can hang up.
Yeah. You basically select one from the list of unlocked ones you already have.
You get favor after most games. It tallies up. You can use favor to unlock favor items by clicking them from the list. Each favor item costs a certain amount to unlock. Once unlocked you can choose that item during any game that allows favor items from then on.
I don't think comebacks in Demigod are very plausible. There is no way to make up a gold difference other than killing enemy Demigods, which you can't do, because of the gold difference (their items are better) If they're up in War score you're a little better off, you can try to cap as many flags behind their back as you can, but they're stronger than you and will fight you off the flags. The missing aspect is being able to farm your way back into the game. And th
I wish I could get those kind of numbers on my Comcast connection....
I'd say no. I already think they give too much (2 flag caps and you're level 2, 3 more and you're level 3) When capping certain flags is BAD early on because the enemy can get exp by capping it back as soon as you wander off you know something is wrong. At higher levels you don't need the exp from the flags.
[quote]I wonder: Lets say there is a 4v4 game of MP Demigod, and one team was losing badly, everyone in the game was suddenly, magically teleported into a volleyball court together, and they were still playing 4v4, only volleyball (or ANY other team sport) but they could see each other. Even if your badly losing the game, 98% of people would not quit, they'd play till the end, and give the low-five to everyone on the other team. Yet, because i
[quote]trust me suicide oak ruins fortress matches, nothing worse than having a close fortress match get down to 1 fortress each just to have the oak player suicide to finish the last one while you are trying to kill towers jus to be able to hit theirs.[/quote] Demigod is balanced for conquest and conquest only. The other modes are pretty much jokes. I don't know why they show up in Pantheon and Skirmish....
[quote]Lightside has range over Dark - Lightside Win[/quote] 3 ranged heroes in the game. Guess how many are on light!
When they give you a list that lets you ban people it should be tracking their account name behind the scenes. When multiple aliases come around I can finally start using gimmick names! My old Dota handle Boots1stisNOOB was a crowd favorite. I'm thinking: RegulusPlusWingsisNOOB WhyistherealwaysaRook SnipeSpammingFromTheCrystal SuperSpeedSila and many more!
[quote]36 gold per starting wave really isnt that bad. If you get 40 gold every 30 seconds and your opponent doesnt by the end of a 20 minute match you would have made 2k or so more gold then your opponent which is decent. Now, that is assuming no reinforcements get upgraded - which really never happens.[/quote] 2k, really? That's chump change. Seriously. And you're assuming you kill EVERY SINGLE CREEP (towers kill most of them) and that they kill NONE. Is this
[quote]I don't think so. But you can take you and your gold loving friends and change the settings to play the way you want to.[/quote] Sitting around should not give more gold than killing creeps. Currently it does. A lot more. The only other way to get gold is killing enemy Demigods. If you are down on gold there is NO WAY to make it up save killing enemy Demigods in response, which is now significantly more difficult because they're up on gold and ha
I'm going to say bugs. Or at best "interface limitations"
[quote]Have you met Pete? Or maybe his friend Repeat?[/quote] Were they in a boat? And yes, leavers are retarded. Hopefully they'll come through with that personal banlist they were thinking about.
Actually that data seems about accurate for the leaver and crashing data. But I can get a game going much faster than 25 minutes.
I'll preface this with a disclaimer: I have played an obscene amount of Dota. If you already hate me then don't even bother continuing to read because I'm sure you'll hate what I'm about to say as well. I agree with nearly everything the OP said. Elaboration: Creeping/Micro: I agree there is no micro with creeps, other than perhaps to aoe them. The main problem in Demigod is that there is very little value in actually KILLING creeps. The gold you get is
Gold from creeps is pitifully low. It needs to be significantly raised.
[quote]pie is a lie! let them eat cake![/quote] Cake is also a lie.
Sedna is fine. Sila on the other hand....
Devs have said they are fixing this, but it would be nice if they actually deployed the fix.
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