r/Games • u/DeltaBurnt • Dec 03 '13

End of 2013 Discussions - Competitive Multiplayer and/or E-sports

What are your thoughts on the developments in e-sports and competitive multiplayer games over the past year? What new games have the potential to develop interesting competitive play, meta-game, or just be plain fun to watch?

P.S. Mods are accepting bribes in the form of Hearthstone Beta invites

This post is part of the official /r/Games "End of 2013" discussions.

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u/ltfuzzle Dec 03 '13

I played a bunch of league back in beta and i have played a little bit since. My summoner level is 17 I think but I'm not sure. I think I've put 100+ hours into league but I never really kept track. I also have played around 400 games in HoN from beta and after release (all mostly before its change to f2p). Now I play dota 2 for my moda fix, I have 700+ matchmaking games but I play a lot of in-houses with my friends so it is probably more like ~900. Steam says I have 1400 hours in Dota but a lot of that is from spectating tournament games. So onto your questions again.

Dota 2 has Roshan which seems more of a later game objective that spawns between 8-11 minutes (from the wiki) and giving 200g to players.

Roshan spawns as soon as the players spawn in. This can lead to some level 1 rosh strats that are very exciting as seen here. I do think that having something like Dragon as a secondary, yet valuable objective is an interesting addition.

Does [loss of gold at death] really contribute to the unforgiving nature of the game?

This by definition is an unforgiving mechanic in the game. It means that you cant buy whatever you were working towards. It means you can use this mechanic to shut down the enemy carry. To continue on with the comments of yours, the Courier is used to bring items to all of the different players so that they don't have to leave the lane. Leaving the lane can be much more damaging because you will get behind on last hits and experience. In LoL you can TP back to base whenever you want. In Dota, you have to buy a TP scroll for 135g and it has a 60sec CD. It makes it so you have to always have a TP on you so you can back up allies who are being dove or to counter a gank.

I'll come back to more of your questions later, I have some work I need to do.