This new feature, called ‘flight blades’, allow you to equip your ship with new slots that tune your performance statistics, such as top speed and turn rate. This allows for ships to be more competitive in PvP engagements as they have higher turn rates.

As of right now, these items are only available through the online shop, and not available at all in game until some point in the future this ‘summer’.

You can find a list of these items available for sale here.

As expected, this is not going down very well. The FAQ page on the forums has amassed over 1500 downvotes to only 68 upvotes.

The crazy thing is that a significant portion of the community are still defending this absolutely abhorrent monetisation.

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Congrats to Jikroy for achieving 16K mmr He streamed while achieving this milestone on his youtube channel

Hello everyone.

In Russian-speaking Dota community we have two studios: Paragon(Winline) and Fissure(Betboom). They have many signed casters, most famous are NS(Winline) and Nix(Betboom). These studios are trying to prevent any caster affiliated with a rival bookmaker from streaming their tournaments — and because of that, normal community casters are the ones who suffer.

Originally, studios only set a 15-minute lobby delay, as per Valve’s guidelines.
Then Paragon started interpreting ESL’s rulebook — which says *“you must have at least 5 minutes delay for online tournaments and 3 minutes for offline”* — as a requirement to add an extra 3–5 minutes of stream delay on top of the 15-minute lobby delay.
Some people (including me) reached out to them, pointing out that this is against the rules, but they just replied, “These are ESL rules, not ours,” completely deflecting responsibility.

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At first, Fissure didn’t follow that — which made …

As of now , they also lost to VP and are 1-7 with their one win against OG. Feelsbad for seleri man.

Game has been with me since i was 13 years old. From the highs and lows of my life. Dota has always been there for me. Thank you.

Courtesy of Dotaprotracker.com I have been looking over the “Lane performance” stats for carry heroes, and thought people would be interested in these values. This applies to 7.38C only.

Of course this data is from the 7k to 8.5k player-base, but that doesn’t mean data isn’t still relevant to all brackets, at least somewhat.

This “Lane Advantage” metric takes into account both prevalence of “Lane wins” but also “Lane draws” (as opposed to “Lane losses”). I don’t know the exact formula.

Some observations:

-MOST of the carries have a better than parity lane advantage, which means safelane is objectively stronger than offlane (during the laning phase) in this meta. This is in agreement with the general discourse.

-Ranged heroes - win lane lose game!?

-Drow / Razor / Sniper are even stronger than I would have assumed.

-Troll isn’t the lane dominator he used to be. But he does feel quite strong at the …

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A lot of (if not all other) abilities that get replaced by its sub ability have a different icon, but Ice Blast doesn’t and sometimes I think I didn’t cast it yet and I accidentally release too early :( (no innuendo intended).

Also gonna re-add the last request for gleipnir component order in case Mr. Valve missed that one. Forgot about the github, will post these there too.

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removing walker hp being shown on the HUD underneath the hero portraits. Now you have to actively look at the walker or look at the minimap to know how much hp it has. Small change, prolly because you can see creeps n obj hp through walls, but idk i liked knowing how much hp objectives have at a glance.

Just venting because I had a teammate McGinnis that might as well had been a creepwave with how she was pushing lanes until she died

Every. Single. Time.

Ended the game with like 1-14-2. We did not win.

What is it about the hero that makes people play her like this?

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Most of the characters goals for wanting to summon the patron make sense

Seven wants power

Ab wants his book dealt with

Lady Giest wants Oathkeeper taken care of

McGinnis is literally there to just test her weapons

But Paradox ironically enough reason is a paradox in it’s own. They seem to want to steal things on their own so using a elder god might feel like cheating considering how proud they are of robbing people on their own.