The Naked Fanatics

Who's played DoTA? I think everybody knows what that is, it needs no introduction, so who has?

Who would like to try it? For free? A better, updated, stand-alone version of it?
If you would, try out Heroes of Newerth - a very nice game set in it's own, similar to WC3 universe following the frantic action of DoTA. There's plenty newbies, as well as good players playing, so you're bound to find games of your own skill level. The servers are all dedicated and hosted by the creators of the game, so lag is never really an issue(though some lagspikes do occur, it's pretty rare and short).

Who's interested, post your e-mail on this thread or PM it to me, I'll send you a beta key .

Uuuuuuuhm.... DoTa?

If you don't know DoTA, von, then you're way too old . Go back to playing Doom you slowly decomposing corpse of what was once a man!
Same to you Rice.



Basically, DoTA started out as a map/mod for Warcraft 3. On this map, there are 2 sides(good guys and bad guys) and 3 lanes. Both sides spawn "creeps" at regular intervals that go and try and kill the enemy base. Seeing as both sides are mirror-balanced, neither side actually pushes forth - it's an endless cycle.
That's where the players - the heroes come in. They fight the creeps, and the other heroes, to break through the lanes and eventually kill the enemy base. When they fight, they also gain experience and gold. With gold you buy items, with experience you level up (duh), with the maximum level being level 25.
There are also neutral creeps all around the map which you can kill for some extra gold and exp.

The game is very much about teamwork - if you run out on your own, you'll be easily ganked by 2 or 3 enemy heroes, giving them very large boosts to both gold and experience.... So doing that is unadvised.

The game is played from a top-down perspective(it WAS originally made in WC3), and the not-so-recently released Demigod was based entirely on DoTA as far as the idea goes. Personally, playing both games, I believe HoN to be quite more fun, no matter how good Demigod was .

You DONT know dota!?

I didn't even know it either, what does DOTA stand for?

I don't know dota! It looks pretty good though for those who are in to the whole classic WoW RPG games (not me I'm afraid).

Defense of the Ancients

STILL doesn't tell me anything haha

Sheesh, even I know what DOTA is.
The Dwarven Sniper was always a personal favourite

I'll pm you my email Mysth if you would like to send me a key

From what I can see, it doesn't seem like my kind of game. I'll let this one pass by.

You know, I my dialect a newerth is someone who's worth nothing .

You don't know what DOTA is!

(not that I care though )