Dota 2
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter the battle as one of over a hundred Dota Heroes in a 5v5 team clash. Dota is the deepest multi-player action RTS game ever made and there’s always a new strategy or tactic to discover. It’s completely free to play and always will be – start defending your ancient now.
From magical tacticians to fierce brutes and cunning rogues, Dota 2’s hero pool is massive and limitlessly diverse. Unleash incredible abilities and devastating ultimates on your way to victory.
When not climbing the ranks, you’ll be able to learn from the best. The Dota Pro Circuit features ultra-high-level Dota 2 competition streaming regularly in the game client, on Twitch and Steam.TV. Culminating in the largest e-sports championship in the world, The International, professional Dota 2 is an event not to be missed.
Dota 2 on Valve Corporationin kehittämä ja julkaisema strategiapeli Microsoft Windowsille, OS X:lle ja Linuxille. Peli on itsenäinen jatko-osa Defense of the Ancientsille, joka on yhteisövoimin kehitetty Warcraft 3 -pelin modi.
Dota 2:n julkaisija on pelitalo Valve, joka tunnetaan muun muassa Half Life- ja Counter-Strike -pelisarjoista. Dota luokitellaan usein MOBA-kategoriaan, mikä on lyhenne sanoista multiplayer online battle arena [taisteluareenamoninpeli].
Dota 2:n avoin beta-testaus alkoi vuonna 2011 ja loppui heinäkuussa 2013, jolloin peli julkaistiin virallisesti. Peli on tällä hetkellä yksi maailman suosituimmista peleistä, jolta löytyy miljoonia pelaajia päivittäin.
Dota 2 on pelattavissa ilmaiseksi PC:llä ja Macilla. Pelin voi ladata ilmaiseksi Steam-sovelluksella, jonka pelaamiseen tarvitsee.
– Päivittäin miljoonat pelaajat kautta maailman astuvat taistelukentälle yhtenä yli sadasta Dota-sankarista. Ja olipa kyseessä sitten heidän kymmenes tai kymmenestuhannes pelinsä, sieltä löytyy aina jotain uutta, kuvaillaan Dotaa pelin omilla kotisivuilla.
Vaikka peli on ilmainen, löytyy siitä mikromaksuja. Ostettavat tuotteet ovat joko lisäosia tai kosmeettisia ulkoasuja, joten mikromaksuilla ei saa konkreettisesti mitään hyötyä muihin pelaajiin.
Dota 2 News
- Dota received a rather small balance patch last week, but its effect was disproportionately huge. Despite having very minor adjustments to a couple of problematic heroes and small tune-ups to several underperforming items, the meta is now in a much healthier place. Today we are going to discuss how and why this happened, while highlighting […]
- The Dota forums are abuzz with speculations about the future update. A lot of changes to the test server, as well as datamined new maps lead us to believe that these speculations are not misplaced. The question remains — what is going to be in the update? Today we are going to join the discussion […]
- The start of the patch ended up being a little bit misleading. When 7.41 dropped, it felt like playing fast and finishing games early is going to be the go-to strategy. It is the reason we heavily recommended tempo carries and emphasized the importance of Offlaners. The latter advice still holds true, in our opinion, […]
- The first full Tier S tournament on the new patch is bringing some fresh ideas and unexpected results. As always, a lot of these ideas are not applicable to uncoordinated pub play, however some of them are definitely worth exploring in your matches. Today we are going to go through new tech professional players cooked […]
- Nothing in Dota exists in a vacuum. Seemingly small changes to the balance of the game can have a massive rippling effect on meta. Identifying what is strong and what no longer is, is usually easy, but understanding how it will all fit together takes time. So today we are finally ready to discuss how […]
- The biggest change in the new patch was the introduction of several new and reworked items into the game. In our first impressions post we’ve talked about how they fill their particular niche and are generally quite fun and now, after two weeks of playing on the new patch, we would like to dive a […]
- New patches always bring interesting new heroes into the meta and 7.41 is no exception. The changes didn’t result in any hero becoming overpowered, instead we have a rather well balanced top end with many heroes becoming viable, but not necessarily too strong. Today we are going to have a look at these heroes and […]
- This is a historic Dota patch. For the first time in what feels like a decade, there are more mechanics removed from the game, than there are added. In many regards this patch is about polishing what was already in the game, rather than introducing something new and this type of game mechanics “Spring Cleaning” […]
- No other game has a playerbase as dedicated as the one we have in Dota. We’ve been playing this game for over a decade and despite all the noise about how the game is dying, it is definitively here to stay. So today, before the next massive patch doubtlessly arrives, we would like to spend […]
- Dota is an incredibly complex, infinitely deep game. A big part of it is how interconnected all of its mechanics are, but part of it is just the sheer number of different ideas it incorporates into gameplay. But could there be more?
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