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[quote quoting="post"] Now I have Att DSL Express With an actual upload close to the advertised 384 kb/s. It is also my understanding that K and kb represent the same thing, Kilobyte (please correct me if I am wrong). [/quote] I believe that the discussion of bandwidth used was using kB (kilobytes) but most ISPs rate their speed in kb (kilobits). This means that if your ISP rates your upload at 384 kb/s, this is actually only 48 kB/s. ISPs have been using the subtle distinc

I find that my overall stats are ruined by the number of games I have to leave due to leaver teammates/disconnects. Every one counts as a loss...

[quote who="YDi" reply="11" id="2221805"] And dont say its supposed to be a team game only.[/quote] It's supposed to be a team game only. I am being completely serious.

Oak's Raise Dead Ward cannot be killed. This is retarded. Oak can just put up 4 wards by my tower and then go to another lane, while the invincible wards continue to spawn an endless supply of spirits. Once you get fully upgraded ward, with the 75% conversion chance, it is almost self-sustaining. Add in normal creep combat nearby and wards become totally overpowered pushing machines. Plus, spirits don't grant any gold or XP to the enemy team, so they get no benefit out of staying to defend th

[quote who="Dayteed" reply="25" id="2163404"]It should be 'possible' to get a win even with the worst possible match-up.[/quote] You clearly never played DotA. In DotA 70% of the game is decided before the creeps even spawn. If you choose heroes that don't synergize you will lose. If your opponents pick synergistic heroes, they will easily defeat you, even if your team is composed of "strong" heroes. This is what they call the metagame - the game you play before you play the a

Most games include a developer console accessed by ` which allows you to enter a framerate command to get an on-screen display in game. I would like to test my framerate with various video/sound options so that I can optimize my settings but I am unable to figure out how to get the framerate display in game. Any help here?

[quote who="transitive" reply="10" id="2218078"]doesn't this build struggle with mana until it gets a HoL? just not seeing how you can survive the early game without downing a ton of mana pots and thus further delaying buying a HoL. [/quote] What other build would not struggle with mana? The truth is that TB is a mana-dependent hero. Additionally, the purchase of two helmets as listed does a lot to help out with TB's mana pool and regen. Additionally, since

[quote quoting="post"] Bandwidth used reduced by 35% (more people with marginal connections able to play).[/quote] Now that's what I'm talking about. [quote]They say this bug is harder to fix than it may seem like because it doesn't happen with all Demigods anymore in all situations. Do you have a really easy to reproduce scenario I can send over?[/quote] In addition to the "chaining abilities" cause, I have noticed that the ability bug is also likely to

Simply put, why not push out patches like today's (which made connectivity worse for me, not better) onto a beta server. That way players can try out the new patch and if feedback is good, then it can be released to the main server. If it doesn't work, then people can go back to playing on the normal server. That way we can at least PLAY the game - which is all most of us want to do. This is really a reiteration of what I said before - stop releasing broken code to the main game branc

[quote who="Axyun" reply="8" id="2216771"]Personally I think mode changing on QoT is OK because she can move while changing. TB is not OK and he should also be able to move while changing. When I play QoT, I have no problems mixing Open/Closed skills. When I play TB, I go exclusively fire or ice, specially on small maps where you barely have time to change.[/quote] As Chaoticon said, playing a hybrid TB and switching forms without dying is not difficult. You just need to learn when it

[quote who="NoobFukaire" reply="8" id="2218556"]25kb/sec is not really that unreasonble all, especially in a game such as an RTS. For example, say you have 100 units that you have to track state for (onscreen units) and you're going to be updating at something like 15/sec: Translation Vector (xyz): 12 bytes Quaternion Rotation (ijkw): 16 bytes So, per unit you're looking at 420 bytes per second to replicate that unit to another machine. Multiply tha

25kB per second is completely fcking asinine. I could literally encode the ENTIRE STATE OF THE GAME down to the positions of every unit and building, their current HP/MP, targets, items, buffs, debuffs, and currently-acting command in a text document and it wouldn't be 25kB in size. It wouldn't even be 2.5kB in size (thats 25kB divided by 10 players). And the honest truth is that you don't need to encode the entire game state in every packet, just simple things like "X ordered to attack Y". C

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2216773"]At least custom games are now largely bullet proof from what I'm seeing and chatting with other people (except, obviously for people who can't connect to anyone).[/quote] Hell no they aren't. Here is a list of things I have noticed that still break custom games: 1. 5v5 - For some reason, it seems to work fine up to 4v4, but as soon as you try to add those 2 more players, all kinds of wierd things start happening. 2. If player

I am also for camp 1. Since the game will be turn-based, the additional time taken to properly set up "trade routes" and create upgraded items is OK. And, camp 1 allows for expansion to even crazier items in the future - once the proper resources are gathered, of course.

I updated the item build to reflect my new opinion that creep upgrades > artifacts for TB. Additionally changed to Vlemish Faceguard as per Warskullx's post ( http://forums.demigodthegame.com/352369 ). Added notes on capture locks. Also, shameless bump.

I agree with everything except #5. Here's why: I create a custom game. My friend joins said game. We start. I leave. He is dropped and receives 250 favor. He creates a custom game. I join. He starts. He leaves. I receive 250 favor. Rinse and repeat.

I completely disagree. I enjoy Prison because it offers team-fights. I enjoy the other maps because they give you the opportunity to fight alone. I don't think that any of the maps are too big for a 3v3 (even Mandala) - with less players, this just makes keeping control of the whole map even more difficult/frenetic/FUN. My point is that every map has something different to offer in gameplay experience. If you don't like (read: suck at) some of the maps, then just don't play them. I wi

[quote who="Sly_Squash" reply="5" id="2216060"]AI queen is very bad, and rook is pretty bad. I think it plays Erebus OK. Sedna is definitely one of its highlights.[/quote] Yesterday I saw an enemy AI Erebus wander around OUR side of the map, getting attacked by towers, until he died. There were no creeps, allies, or enemies nearby. He also did not attack a single tower or cap a single flag. He literally just walked around randomly until he died from the towers. fai

[quote who="Jaradakar" reply="25" id="2215814"] If you look at the games that Demigod most closely resembles (RTS games or Diablo style games), they all have a fairly robust single player component. [/quote] This is patently incorrect. Here, I fixed it for you: [quote] If you look at the game that Demigod most closely resembles (DotA), it has no single-player component. [/quote] Judging Demigod for its lack of SP is completely wrong. However, as a

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="6" id="2206780"]I'd also disagree on Rook because the trebuchet hitting you is something that doesn't happen very often. It might only happen once every five or six times, and that's an acceptable fail rate for an item this good.[/quote] It seems like as soon as I start using HoL, every trebuchet and angel on the map comes for me. A huge number of my HoL uses have been interrupted by these 2.

QoT + Oak. No matter which one you attack, they spend all their time invulnerable. Bramble -> shield -> bramble. All 3 of us couldn't kill either of them, even all focused on the same target.

Rook should have stayed in the left lane and slowed the enemy push using towers while you continued to push unopposed into their base. Rook's defensive power makes him good at resisting pushes 1vX so that was the perfect position for him. As for "hoarding" gold, I try to spend all the gold I can every time I come to base, but I avoid going to base as much as possible (lost XP/flags/kills = bad). Since I always buy Heart of Life, and I rarely die, this means that I somet

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2215046"]I banned him.[/quote]

[quote who="Teseer" reply="3" id="2209963"]hehehehehehe, who will be next!? I vote Torch Bearer. I havn't heard much complaining about him yet.[/quote] Shhh... don't tell anyone. I own Oak with TB until very late game. Even then I can usually take him down with one teammate. What's really overpowered is Oak and QoT shielding and bubbling each other... doesn't matter which one you attack, you can't kill either of them.

Why the hell are bots given a Pantheon rank at all?