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[Silvertongue]

I'm sure there are some folks here who will be delighted by the news (much like myself).

From the update news:

- Added region for South Africa.

Link

 

[RiPP3R]

Ah nice no more 200+ ping

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[Pansyfaust]

Hells to the YEAH!!

 

[AceFire6]

Yay, now I can own even harder
Although South Africans are probably better than most people I play with

 

[Dorkstorm]

Does any one know if this will also help lower cap usage of dota 2 for us if we only play on SA servers, or will it still be like 100mb per game.

 

[AceFire6]

Does any one know if this will also help lower cap usage of dota 2 for us if we only play on SA servers, or will it still be like 100mb per game.

The cap usage should remain the same. It's still doing all the same things, just faster.

 

[yourang]

Hosted by mweb btw, so for the best ping switch to mweb

 

[Bakerman]

Great, maybe now I'll actually be able to enjoy a public game!

 

[Jlw777]

Hopefully annoying Russians who doesn't speak a word of English can be limited in public games this way. Agitates me to no end when losing & having Russian hurled at you thru in game voip.

 

[Silvertongue]

Hosted by mweb btw, so for the best ping switch to mweb

More good news! Thanks for the info.

 

[Ageless_ZA]

[MENTION=1286]Barney[/MENTION] will love this news.

 

[madh4tt3r]

this is very cool, maybe ill start playing dota 2 if latency is better.

I tried playing Dota2 but LoL just seemed a better overall package to me.

The thing that really bugged me about Dota2 was the range at which things can attack you, e.g. when you standing with your champ at the bottom of the FoV(field of view), kind of close to an enemy tower but not far enough to see the tower in the top part of the FoV it still attacks your champ. I cannot get used to the distance in this game?? or is it just me that thinks the range is a bit ridiculous?

 

[Silvertongue]

this is very cool, maybe ill start playing dota 2 if latency is better.

I tried playing Dota2 but LoL just seemed a better overall package to me.

The thing that really bugged me about Dota2 was the range at which things can attack you, e.g. when you standing with your champ at the bottom of the FoV(field of view), kind of close to an enemy tower but not far enough to see the tower in the top part of the FoV it still attacks your champ. I cannot get used to the distance in this game?? or is it just me that thinks the range is a bit ridiculous?

I initially experienced much the same annoyance although my ire was raised more by the small FOV than the actual range... I'm pretty used to it now but I still wouldn't mind the option of zooming out a little more.

 

[Pansyfaust]

I initially experienced much the same annoyance although my ire was raised more by the small FOV than the actual range... I'm pretty used to it now but I still wouldn't mind the option of zooming out a little more.

Teaches you map awareness the hard way

 

[Silvertongue]

Teaches you map awareness the hard way

You know perfectly well that my map awareness is terribad, clearly this doesn't work

 

[CUDlyBunny]

For anyone wondering, you need to load the test version of DOTA 2 to utilize this...

 

[R3aL1Ty]

i don't think i ever even downloaded it :/

3.1GB to download ... yea don't think i'm going to waste my time

iv played just fine on EU servers i can handle another week or 2

 

[Silvertongue]

iv played just fine on EU servers i can handle another week or 2

Word is that it may be in tomorrows live update. *fingers crossed*

 

[madh4tt3r]

oh damn, yea if it needs the test server then ill skip till its live.

Will keep my eyes on this thread and when it goes live maybe we can hook up for a game and you guys can show me the ropes?

I play LoL so I have a basic understanding of the genre. But have heard dota is harder in certain aspects like when you die you lose your gold

 

[R3aL1Ty]

Word is that it may be in tomorrows live update. *fingers crossed*

that would be nice

 

[Silvertongue]

Looking at the update news, it seems we'll waiting another week...

Would love for someone to prove me wrong right now.

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[AceFire6]

Is this update not live yet?

 

[Silvertongue]

All I can say is "eep!".

The release notes I saw left that top line out... Thanks for that one mate!

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[Silvertongue]

I was looking here, where they neglected to mention the good news...

 

[R3aL1Ty]

hopefully be playing with minimal russians nothing worse than hearing them talk, seeing the writing and not having a clue as to wtf they going on about.

 

[Doom5003]

Best way to keep them out is to use Afr only

 

[CUDlyBunny]

Played a game earlier, had 47ms!!!!!

 

[RiPP3R]

I had 27 ping but i had 2 russians on my team i was like wtf are you serious!!!


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[Silvertongue]

33ms ping but the server seemed to be taking strain. Took forever to find space on the server and then frequent lag spikes...

And met one of the rudest players I've ever come across! I'll take Russians over punks like that any day.

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[PancakesZA]

I have to say, some of the South African players are ****ing rude.
The flack I got for owning them was some of the worst I have ever heard.

I actually miss the Russians.