Coelacanth

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 9 hours ago

Not sure how I feel about that walker model, but the flower is an infinite improvement to the current jungle creep models.

This game will look so damn cool when it's fully finished and polished.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've been wanting to learn him as I can imagine he is so much fun to play, but I'm a bit scared about the difficulty. I've seen some Lash players absolutely dominate, but so so many dive in and die over and over. Plus - much like Dynamo - having a super impactful ultimate on a massively long cooldown gives me anxiety.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 16 hours ago

After two decades of his work with Dota Icefrog being on top of balance like this in Deadlock doesn't surprise me at all. I'm only surprised McGinnis wasn't hit harder.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 16 hours ago

Mirage is my most played character at the moment, I just really like his kit. Very comfy to play. Tornado is such an amazing skill and once you get used to the mobility and on-demand iframes it's hard to go back. He's one of the best laners in the game which makes early game smooth and popping people with big Djinn's Marks is fun.

I also really enjoy Yamato, chunking people with big Power Slashes is satisfying and you can do sick turnarounds with her ult.

Most fun to play is probably Pocket though, but I still need a lot more practice before I feel I can confidently perform on him. I love all his skills but you really gotta be on the ball to maximise his potential.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Right now it's more about stopping Norris by any means for him. He'll probably take less risk if he feels he has more competitive pace.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 17 points 1 day ago

A... surprisingly decent race for Mexico? Not a classic by any means, but considering the circuit we take these. More overtakes than I would have expected, several incidents of driver drama to keep us occupied while the drivers manage their overheating cars - and we even got to pretend there was a chance of rain for a couple of minutes. It's a shame Norris never had to make an actual overtake on Leclerc at the end, but the chase was still somewhat exciting, and we got a bona fide battle between Hamilton and Russel as well.

Shame about Albon, that man has had some rotten luck this season. Also very unlucky for Alonso to end his 400th race weekend in a DNF, but I can't imagine he would have been able to do much this race regardless.

Stewarding and the FIA rules will be the main takeaway, and while I'm glad Max is getting penalised for once I can't wait until they address the rules. Though the inconsistent stewarding had been almost as big an issue so maybe I'm fooling myself into thinking anything will change.

Anyway, with Ferrari smelling blood in the fight for WCC (and technically WDC) I'm really looking forward to Interlagos now - probably the best track on the calendar?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This was actually good and worthwhile from Max's perspective. He got to hold Norris up the whole first stint, which ultimately most likely cost him the win. Norris P1 and Max P4 would have been a much worse outcome for him points-wise, so I'm not sure Max is going to learn a whole lot from this race other than "I'll do it again".

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know. Could be a mix of both, the strategists knowing the car works better the lighter it is so the drivers are told to save tires early in stints to maximise the impact when the car is as light as possible?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Piastri has been having a rough couple of months but from the season overall it looks like a car characteristic. We've seen several races where both McLarens seem to perform best towards the end of a stint.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 day ago

Going by the radio transcripts on Multiviewer something got stuck in a brake duct and they overheated instantly

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 day ago

Write stupid rules, get stupid races. This is all on FIA and the stewards. You reap what you sow.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 1 day ago

100%, the rules need fixing and fast.

 

As an early contributor to Disco Elysium, as well as a member of Kurvitz's tabletop sessions over the years, Martin Luiga discusses Elysium, as well as touches on his relationships with Robert and Argo Tuulik and more. He also confirms he, Robert, Alex Rostov and Helen Hindpere are in fact working on something for Red Info.

Worth listen!

 

This one has Argo Tuulik and Lenval Brown involved, which lends some serious credibility to the project in my eyes. Tuulik was one of the prominent writers of Disco Elysium, as well as one of the settings' co-creators as one of the players in Kurvitz's tabletop RPG sessions.

 

Pictured in this graph: what xG does to a motherfucker.

I thought this graph was super interesting as it is a near-perfect illustration of when data analytics and advanced statistics started to enter into football (2014-2016) and some of the effects it's had on the game.

EDIT: Forgot to paste a link to the complete article.

 

Post the match IDs of any games where you thought matchmaking was poor into the linked thread in order to help tune the algorithm.

DISCLAIMER: The past 24h (Oct 3-4th) have had extra poor matchmaking due to a bug, so omit any IDs from that time frame.

 

It's very sad to see one of the most high-effort Dota content creators stop. I completely sympathise with their reasons, but I will sorely miss their videos as there were so many heroes I wish they'd gotten to do videos about.

 

We're finally off the ground! 8 teams left, who are your favourites? What do you think about the arena and production? Will we see any fun surprise?

Watch live on Twitch or YouTube .

 

Community: !dota2@lemmy.ml

Still have an open void in your life since the Olympics ended? Why not fill it with some esports? Valve's huge The International tournament for Dota 2 started this week, so I thought I'd make a promo post for its community here on Lemmy.

 

This appeared in my YouTube suggestions, thought I'd share it here.

 

What teams are you watching? What do you think of the games? Any potential upsets to look out for, any player you're excited to see perform?

Stream links:

Stream 1

Stream 2

Stream 3

Stream 4

 

Out of every 10 games I play, maybe one of them is a close, even game where everyone is on roughly the same skill level - and that's probably me being generous.

Almost every game has people on either team not just losing their lane but going something like 0-17. I know it's early alpha and has had a huge influx of players recently so maybe it's to be expected to some extent, but even back in my Dota days matchmaking was never this bad. This is like, public WC3 Dota 1 lobbies level.

How are you guys finding it? Anyone break through the MMR barrier into a point where you're getting consistently good games? How long did it take, and what MMR? (you can check here

 

Stolen from a thread on the other place. I thought it was very interesting. How do you feel about cyberpunk compared to paranormal 30s New York as a theme?

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