Does DOTA have the same problems?
Dcers, afkers, trolls, servers going down all the time, etc ??? Because if they don't I've been investing my time and money in the wrong game
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Every multiplayer game has Dcers, afkers, trolls etc.,
Server problems are also a staple for PCs in general.
But on a mass scale like LOL? I don't remember competitive strategy games ever being like this. (warcraft3, starcraft, starcraft 2)
yup, except with more russians and peruvians
Dota has far better US servers (USW and USE). Over the last few years of playing i remember less than a handful of games where ping spiked. Even fewer times where service was unavailable. Usually service returns in about 30min, fully playable.
DC'ers tend to not happen much. You are punished seemingly severely when you dc. You get put into lo priority queue (prisoners island, no rank) for more and more games. DC's happen and most games are paused for a few minutes to see if person recovers, if not game plays on and person is punished. There are also far fewer smurf accounts and punishment is game based not time based.
AFKers are also punished, if you do nothing gain no xp in a certain amount of time you are deemed AFK and punished similarly to a dc. What you do have are ppl afk jungle farming...wether or not they think they need more farm or they think its gg and they might as well kill things in teh jungle. You cannot just leave your computer idle and go do soemthing else for 20min.
Depends on what you consider a troll? There are troll picks when ppl will pick up a 3-4th hard carry (lanes and roles are not as strict in dota). The lower the skill tier you play in the more viable anything really is, if u have superior game sense and mechanics. Ppl rage just as much and will build troll skills builds or troll items, not much you can do about that. The one thing they do have are some troll like skills ie tiny toss, kotl relocate, pudge hook, io relocate, chen relocate, etc. Most of the controllable skills you can disable with a "refuse help from teammates" setting. This will disable IO tethering to you and droping u off in the enemy fountain or on a cliff.