The magic of the ‘Mute’ button – Is Dota 2 a toxic game?

We will talk about an extremely great tool to climb solo rank and especially have to use it on the SEA server, and discuss the “childhood” of many Dota 2 players.

After each The International ends, Dota will have new players all over the server and at the same time enter a new season, we have to “face” with crises from “newbie”, try hard to get to a higher mmr level and sit down and “memorize” each other about the greatness of Dota 2 – all of which are the “annual colloquialisms” of the community that everyone knows by heart.

The initial experiences of new players are often very bad. The tutorial system is nothing more than a joke, everything they read – learned from the guides available online is just a lie when applied to a real match. The rating system for each person’s profile is too sketchy, leading to very uncomfortable matches when newbies are mixed with “oldbie”, noob and even boost rank accounts. These invisible things make the game “unbalanced” and worse, a consequence, more precisely a common problem: BLAMING NEWBIE (the blame includes swearing, insulting, insulting or trying to find a way. to upset the other party in any way they can)

While recent updates have limited the number of heroes you can choose (for recently created accs), but that is not enough because the amount of knowledge in Dota is extremely large, in addition to In addition to knowing about other heroes, you also have to learn how not to “auto attack creeps” – deny creeps, roles in the game or locations where runes will appear. Dota 2 is a game that to be truly entertaining, you have to invest a lot of time to learn and really have a passion for playing. That means you’ll have to play to your best and it’s easy to get upset when things go awry or don’t go your way. When reading tutorials online, youtube, Reddit or watching streams, most of them will suggest that it is better to stay calm – ignore the distractions of teammates – focus on the game. Unfortunately, they forgot to say the most important thing: How?

This is a game where communication is paramount. You will easily see professional gamers screaming in booths (soundproof booths dedicated to competition) during big tournaments, most streamers are also excited to talk about their teams and players. see. But there is one more important detail that is overlooked, which is that this only applies to advanced people, not newbies!

Most of the “dialogue” in the game is mostly at “low level”, in a more understandable way, they mainly blame each other: talking about how bad other people are compared to themselves. Maybe, praise the opposing team and especially the times you “mate” with your family – including yourself. Dota 2 is a multi-ethnic, multi-national war even though the game defaults to “English”. If you beat Pub in SEA, then 10 matches and 1-2 matches will appear with sentences like: “Game like cc”, “tao afk”, “go back to your country and play some other trashy abc xyz games”,… . No! The answer is really not as simple as we think. (I do not mean to discriminate SEA from other servers, although this is true).

And it was fortunate that Lord Gaben understood that. The MUTE node is spawned. It was originally used to block chat from enemies. Then LORD gives each player a MUTE button including his teammates. Then he realized there were guys with dumb mics but tactical pings – call combat isn’t bad and vice versa – spam pings every time you die or do something he hates. So he changed again – the MUTE button will now become 2 buttons: block chat – block ping. Some people will say that playing the game feels like being silenced for the whole game, which is both difficult, and possibly even more annoying. Sometimes people ask me: how can they play games when their teammates don’t say anything? And so I answer: since you are new, you are learning everything and your teammates have almost nothing important for them to need to communicate with you. Or if they do, they’re afraid you won’t be able to keep up, which, in fact, is.

So what about reading chat and listening to them turn on the mic and babble? You lose focus to pay attention to those things so what do you get? Knowing that they like to have “relationship” with their mother and friends? Or in some cases, sometimes well-intentioned teammates, they try to help you realize you’re doing something wrong or tell their strategy. But what if you can’t understand it or don’t want to listen for yourself? All in all, it’s just a waste of your time.

Dota 2 is an extremely complex game, you can play the game for more than 10,000 hours but there are still many things you don’t know, that’s one of the things that I like about Dota 2. Collectively observing how each person moves one by one. , learn how to last hit – deny, pull creeps, how to lane, how to push – rat doto effectively and how to gank the best way. Learn to look at the mini map, know the position – the role of yourself and others. You have a long way to go before you reach “paradise”, when everyone is equally qualified, ready to listen and share with each other. So my advice is: “mute everything for dad, ignore the chat bar, worry about focusing on the game”.

Clement “Puppey” Ivanov – a professional player shared when asked about the importance of communication in the team: We don’t talk much. Especially in the middle of a teamfight, when people think you need communication the most. We mostly use ping. When I ping an enemy hero, it means: Stun it, crowd control it, kill it or do something. You really have to know what to do and if you can’t? Either you have to learn and improve on your own or you will be out of the game.

About a year ago, Kyle ‘swindlemelonzz’ Freedman of compLexity shared on stream and on Reddit: what if you’re a player with over 6k MMR in the NA region and you don’t have a microphone? He will buy you one. According to what he is adamant: 6k is the cutting point of the Dota 2 community. At lower ranks, you can still play the game without having to say anything. But when you hit 6k, you have to learn how to communicate with the team – as a must-have skill. According to statistics from many sources, the average MMR level of Dota 2 is below 6k (3-4k to be exact), so you can clearly see that most people just focus on learning the knowledge in the game, the tip, trick or best ways they can find to increase their MMR rather than learning how to socialize and converse with other people.(During this post is after TI7, the top 1 MMR back then was new. 7-8k).

The key point here is that depending on your own level, you “merge” into the “flow” of the whole team to be able to win in Dota 2. Focus on yourself, know your own strength. For me, having knowledge of the game’s mechanical systems and tactics in Dota 2 will be more important than watching me sit and chat “DM you’re so stupid loz…”. I will take an example to make it easier for you to imagine. Let’s say you hold the Specter in the hardcarry position in this meta deathball! If you can’t find a farm, don’t know how to save lives, don’t know how to combine ultimate and tele to back-up teammates. So even if your team has a perfect set-up, you can still be overturned easily no matter what the team tries to do. In fact, from such “gratuitous” defeats, you can still learn something, but you still cannot avoid being chosen as the focus for team blame and rage: “gg help me. Fuck Specter *doesn’t know how to farm, feed like a dog, …”. Only then do you realize everything is falling on your head.

“CUMBACK” (comeback) is a great thing about playing Dota 2. According to Thorin, a famous (and infamous) BLV, the difference between a high-level player and the rest. There is always a question in their mind: “What do I need to do now to win this match?”. Sounds a bit abstract, doesn’t it? You have your own role, you play your best, everyone is just like you, and you win even if it’s not as perfect as you envisioned it to be.

In the game there are many “special” tools to help you play the game: Announce anyone’s status. Some icons on the health bar show you how many seconds you have left until you get rid of Doom’s ult. Especially the “wheel” system, it helps you to save time in the fastest way and is extremely effective for those who have poor English skills. For example a wheel line: “”Coming to gank” will be more useful and better than chatting or using the mic to shout at others.

Sometimes you will try to call the team like: “Viper go first – breaks Linken’s with ulti, then SS(Shadow Shaman) blinks and we all kill the Sniper in Dire fountain”(Viper go first, use ultimate to break Linken, later) Then the SS guy with blinks jumped up and killed the Sniper in the enemy well). With the hope that Viper 0-10 will understand English even though his profile is a certain Saudi Arabia in the Arctic Ocean, anxiously waiting for the team to get into position and start the countdown with the mic before you can. realized that the enemy Sniper team had just bought the BKB and went back to shoot them all. Still, it’s an exciting moment that you don’t always get. I still remember the first days of playing Dota 2, either it was hard to beat and lose quickly with nothing to remember or remember, or either me or someone else led the whole team to cumback mega in some way. some miracle. The moment watching the enemy Throne explode in front of our Throne felt like we were going pro in a huge tournament with an extremely “quality” team. I saved the replay of that game, all that night and a few days later I still can’t forget how great a “true Dota game” match was.

Until then, always remember, mute all the “at-risk” kids so they don’t give them a chance to blame you!

Source: gosugamers