As the year draws to a close, the weather is getting colder, but there are millions of people who are playing in a 4-player Roguelike campaign that has been called "Dead Game" five years ago. Why does this game have such a big charm that people can't leave as soon as they enter it? I'm afraid I have to start with something called the Order of Warrior.
On December 15, Beijing time, DOTA2 updated the new Ahalim Heaven and Earth Labyrinth - Yan Devil Nightmare Court, as well as the second warrior warrant of the year promised by the V Society, which is what we commonly call the small book, which has a small black treasure, a white tiger body and mind, a small squirrel prestige set, and three treasure bottles, and a series of rewards such as new chat roulette wheels and mocking actions, such a generous reward, so that players have to open the client, liver a pain.
This time, dota 2's new RPG game is much more playable than the previous One Meteor event game. The overall gameplay is similar to last year's Maze of Heaven and Earth, a four-person Rogue type RPG game, there are a total of five difficulties to challenge, while playing the maze, you can also unlock the Blessing of Ahlim, improve your attributes, and reduce the difficulty of the next challenge by collecting maze fragments.
The new book not only makes the RPG game more fun, the jewelry rewards inside also make players feel that they don't buy blood losses, in addition to the new jumping knife, TP special effects, long-range attack ballistics, Milana's body and mind and the quality of the little squirrel prestige items are also extremely high.
The most noteworthy is the zhuoer ranger treasure - silver shadow heavenly feud this time, since the release of DOTA 2, the modeling of the zhuoer ranger has been complained about by players for a long time, and even had to come up with a crazy mask ornament to cover the face.
I don't know if the aesthetics of the V Society have changed, or suddenly opened up, this time the Treasure of the Zhuoer Ranger has changed greatly compared with the previous Ghost and Blue Fat Treasure, the style has changed greatly, in addition to changing the skill icon and special effects, at the same time changing the icons of the three items of Daedalus's Death, the Great Push, and the Evil Force of Satan, as well as special push and push special effects, players can only obediently present their wallets to G Fat after the experience.
DotA originated in and is also given back to the community.
As a game that has been launched for more than ten years, DOTA2 has a good community ecology compared to other moba games.
DotA was originally just an "ordinary" map made by players using the WAR3 map editor, but after a series of developments, the war3 engine lagged behind the times, and the limitation of 8MB map size hindered the further development of DotA, and also allowed mapmaker Icefrog to choose to work with Valve to jointly develop DotA's sequel: DOTA2.
After landing on the Steam platform, Steam's community creation culture has made DOTA 2 more vibrant. Open source engine, players can download hero models, make their own hero trinkets uploaded to the workshop, in these hero trinkets, Valve will let the community players vote for their own popular suits, and then put them into the game to sell, the income from the sale of treasure chests will be returned to these jewelry makers.
Players can also use SFM (source filmmaker) to create beautiful animated short films, which will be selected by Valve to be played to players around the world at the largest DOTA 2 event of the year, and if you make a short film that is beautiful enough to be recognized by audiences around the world, win in the short film contest, and receive the prize money provided by Valve.
Players can also make their own RPG maps, such as the current hot Genting Game, Golden Shovel Battle gameplay, which is a dota made by a studio called Giant Bird Duoduo in the veranda of DOTA2.
Mentioned earlier in this winter book, the white tiger body and mind, her image is taken from valve and Netflix co-launched the anime "DOTA: Dragon's Blood".
At the beginning of this year, when the anime was first launched, the DOTA2 community authors spontaneously produced a beginner's tutorial for DOTA2 in the veranda, just to welcome all the novices who were attracted by this anime and help them get started with the charming competitive confrontation game of DOTA2.
After the release of the player-made novice tutorial, Valve was also forced by the player to update the new novice tutorial in the game. Dota2's community ecology is such a peculiar existence, although the official is unlikely to not do any special publicity content for this game, but the official will respect and listen carefully to the opinions of community players.
A game that has killed countless competitors, where are its players?
For years, DOTA2 has dominated the top two of Steam's online list for a long time, and together with CS:GO, it has survived countless games.
Usually in the community, there is a "knife except" saying, in addition to the client, you can see DOTA2 players everywhere, you really can't understand, a game that is not the top in the country, compared to his competitors: League of Legends, can even be called a "niche" game, why can you see this gamer in all corners of the Internet. These young people, who were called "playthings" ten years ago and addicted to "electronic heroin" in the eyes of their parents, have completed their studies and entered various industries. As a fan of e-sports, the Internet industry has become their first choice, even within the DOTA2 competitor company - Tencent, the number of DOTA2 players is also quite impressive, there is a WeChat department of the little sister to create a dota group, the company's knife Srin all gathered, but also held a "Mammoth Cup" internally.
In such an atmosphere, the Internet Cup (The Internet, also known as TI), led by Zard, the knife circle speaker, was born, and 16 Internet companies such as Ali, Tencent, Huawei, Perfect World, Xiaomi, Meituan, and Microsoft formed teams to participate. Even Mihayu, who had broken up with Zard-completely because of the "Original God" janitor incident, formed a representative team to compete.
For example, a hermit master returned to wulin jianghu, the teams of these Internet companies have many players familiar IDs, such as the NetEase "Black Dolphin" team, the fourth place of the FanTuan team that was jointly formed with Pis and ZSMJ a few years ago, the "waiter", and the "masked man" who won the OMG competition; the perfect "dodo" team's Carry player is the champion of the national college competition two years ago; Tencent has a former teammate of the professional player Ori. Although he did not continue to choose to play the Dota 2 profession due to career planning and other reasons, this competition obviously made him regain that feeling of blood.
In the Huawei representative team, there is also a unique bomber player, who will play two sets of bomberman after work every day, do not care about winning or losing, and sleep happily. In the past two years, every day has been like this, living up to the name of Huawei's 5G engineers, and stabilizing the signal day after day.
Inner volume, from the workplace to TI.
And these DOTAers in these Internet manufacturers show their infinite enthusiasm for the things they love. The inner volume was played everywhere in this Internet Invitational Tournament. At first, JD.com produced the team's entrance animation, and then Huawei Kikuuchi's super-burning response song, station B is not willing to show weakness, and found the producer of the pharaoh to launch a rap.
During the live broadcast, companies also took the opportunity to increase the exposure of their own products and add more rewards for the competition. NetEase draws the strictly selected black pig, Baidu draws out a small degree robot, but also with a special voice package, perfectly produced the latest dota Plus advertisement, drawn to the audience dota Plus and TI10 player uniforms, b station shareholders sent 100 big members, Cherry boss Dahan for all the contestants to give away customized keyboards.
epilogue:
Most of the players outside the circle know about dota2 through the Dota 2 International Invitational Tournament - the real TI (The International), but in fact, the "The Internet" held by Zard- may be the closest game to the player, allowing players to enjoy the charm of the game. Maybe by liking a pro player, it's the quickest way for players to get started and fall in love with the game, but leaving the esports attribute aside from the professional events of DOTA2, don't forget that this is one of the best 5v5 competitive games in the world, and for many years, the original DOTA map maker Icefrog has been updating the game for players, from Origin 1 to Origin 2 engine, from the Talent Tree to the National Ahalim Staff, from the Ladder Medal to the new Ladder Matching Mechanism. The game has been rejuvenated in one update after another. In Japan, where the DOTA2 player base is not active, there are also players who have held the "DOTA2 Oyster Cup", which attracted the participation of Dotaers from all over Japan, and the prize for the champion was only 100 fresh oysters. Players care about never that tens of millions of dollars, players want the infinite possibilities of each game of DOTA, whether it is never giving up, turning back on the world, or relying on clever strategy, team cooperation to defeat opponents, or the classic pure, bloody feeling.
Let's play some dota, please enjoy every plate of DOTA, I hope that in this cold winter, you can find the warmth that belongs to you in this game.