DotA AllStars 6.27b !! (So fast..)

Yo People,

I dunno why 6.27b is out so fast! lolx. Anyway, here are some details...

Changelog:
Due to an issue with the previous transfer, had to upload a 6.27b.

• Vast improvements to CustomKeys.txt compatability (see link when forums return)
• Fixed a Deathmatch Allrandom issue with getting more heroes than opponents
  
• Mana Burn on necronomicon moved to the other unit
  
• Fixed chaos bolt and crit using same learn hotkey
  
• Fixed losing the items on spirit bear in DM
  
• Fixed some issues with crushing wave causing a unit to be stuck in trees
  
• Fixed mekansm tooltip issues
  
• If a target is swapped into trees, those trees are destroyed (to help against some swap abuses)
  
• Fixed berserker call affecting a shackled unit
  
• Fixed a bug with -movespeed on tiny when he uses grow and morphling with adapt
  
• Fixed some old issues with charge of darkness and netherstrike
  
• Many typos fixed (Thanks to Ronan for his many reports)
  
• Fixed some sleep issues with lightning bolt and chainfrost on a chronosphered unit
  
• Spirit bear pathing issues fixed
  

Download Here

Source: DotA Allstars

More pics from Rapture Gaming DOTA League Season 2

Check it out, we have more pics here:
http://202.79.181.36/~shawnho/dotasg/rg%20funan%20pics/

Soon we will setup a gallery system for your convenience in viewing and other stuff which will be really cool. Stay tuned !

Hot DOTA info....True or Not?

Well, this piece of tibit is brought to you all by our very own secret agent (dun ask who cos it's secret).

There have been rumor flying around about e-games cyber cafe's DOTA tournament that are giving out mega prizes, however up till now no one has been able to provide any concrete information about the details of it.

So today is your lucky day, we are bringing you one freshly collected information to all our loyal visitors.



This piece of information has yet to be verify for it's accuracy, thus we will appreciate it if anyone can help to verify this info.

Rapture Gaming DOTA League Season 2 @ ArcticZone

Teams have to report 30mins before their matches. The venue is Tekka Mall Atrium, it is opposite Sim Lim Square.

Top 8 teams will play for the cash prizes and headsets on Saturday.
Bottom 8 teams will play for the following prizes:

1st Prize: Logitech Keyboard/Headset/Mouse or Everglide Keyboard/Headset
2nd Prize: Everglide keyboard

*Bottom 8 teams*
Friday, 2nd Dec 2005, 11am
S.B. vs Raging Pussies
SeX vs MUGEN

Friday, 2nd Dec 2005, 2pm
Team Squashers vs KKay
Team Rampage vs 6600GT HAHA

*Top 8 teams*
Saturday, 3rd Dec 2005, 11am
WeCookGrass vs LOL.lercoaster
MYRM vs BOD

Saturday, 3rd Dec 2005, 2pm
Where is the fun vs Team Sacrilege
Clan Zang Team 2 vs Sacrilege Team 2

As usual, DOTASG will be around to bring you the latest coverage of the event. Be sure to check us often for the latest news !

Coverage Pictures!!!

hEllo again guys!!!

I got ur pictures. PAPASAN finally came with the camera! ahhax.

Also, a little more about the matches. Starting off, these are the rest of the 4 teams who entered into day 3 of the league:

- Team rAmPaGe
- Clan Zang Team 2
- Sacrilege Team 2
- 6600GT HAHA

So...I'd like to thank Clan Zang for their COOL sportsmenship. Well, they actually were caught for pooling. However, when given a warning, the Kotl actually RAN BACK right outside of the scourge base to place back the gem of true sight which he took. So...GREAT JOB!!! hahax.

well...here are some pictures from the event.

ynsh3ng aka st1ck

Coverage: Rapture DotA League

hEllo great and loyal readers of DotaSG,

First, abit about myself. I am part of dotasg, same as kel and everyone else. Anyway, dont mind my bad points. if I missed out anything, put it up in the forums and I'll make sure to put it down the next time. hahax =)

Soooo.... anyway, it's day 2 of the Rapture Dota League and things seem to be going great. Erm, except for a few minor faults and problems. So lets just get to them.


Day 1:

There were a few problems with the computers mainly. 2 to 3 computers crashed and I believe one of them shut down automatically in between a match. Anyway...that's bout mainly it. Winners for day 1 are:
- S.B.
- WeCookGrass
- Raging Pussies
- LOL.lercoaster


Day 2:

Matches are still going on. So far, there had been only 1 problem. In the match kkay vs. MJ is GAY, kkay was forced to destroy their refresher orb. They had not been disqualified due to the fact that they did not activate it since it was purchased. However, through the long match, there was a sudden fatal error. The verdic of kkay winning was then announced after the marshalls reviewed the replay.
So...as of now, the winners for today are:
- MYRM
- SeX
- MUGEN
- BOD
- Team Squashers
- Wheres the fun
- kkay
- Team SACRILEGE

P.S. I'll get u guys some photos later. LOLX. unfortunately, PAPASAN was suppose to pass me the camera, but he was held up a little. Stay Tuned for more updates later!!!


yinsheng™st1ck

Off Topic: StarCraft Ghost.

StarCraft Ghost is going to be Blizzard's latest offering to the console gamers out there.

This should be Blizzard's first ambitious attempt in offering a FPS console game products. Any StarCraft or Blizzard fans should be anxiously anticipating for the launch of this game. Unfortunately, PC gamers will not have the luxury of having a taste of the game on their PC machines.

This game looks promising and might even knocks Halo2 and any other FPS console games alike off any ranking chart when it is launched.

Do check out the StarCraft Ghost official site for more information.

Also remember to download some of the great video trailers when you are there.

You will be forgiven for drooling......


Source: Blizzard

DotA-Allstars.com is Back and New DotA Map Released.

DotA-Allstars.com's official website is finally back and they have released another updated map version in just a few days. Some of the bugs and issues were fixed in this latest version.

You can download the latest DotA 6.22 here.

News from DotA-Allstars.com mentioned that after a few more versions, with changes and fixes made to the map, it should become the official map version to be used for competitive game play. They are hoping that during the time when the stable version is ready, most of the existing issues would be fixed. Of course there will be other changes along the way as it goes.

This is a very good news for all DotA gamers, communities and tournament organisers. We should be all looking forward to see the stable version pretty soon. Guess we do not have to wait too long to see that day that this particular version will be used competitively worldwide.

Source: DotA-Allstars.com

Very soon everyone can

Hacked or Bugged???

2 words.

Simply amazing!!

Whichever team that breaks into the tree/throne and strike it down is confirm Godlike, gurantee + chop.

Happen to chance upon this replay in DotA-Allstar's forums. Leave a message in the comment section if you want the replay.

Registration for Rapture's DotA Season 2 Starts Now !!!

The registration for Rapture Gaming's DotA Season 2 is now open. All of you who have been waiting eagerly for a major 6.XX tournament, hurry up and proceed to Rapture Gaming's registration website and sign up for a spot. Slots are limited and are first come first serve.

Register here: http://www.rapturegaming.com/modules.php?name=dota


Source: Rapture Gaming

New DotA Map, Hot From The Oven.

DotA-Allstars.com has release DotA 6.21 and WOW, that's really fast considering that they release 6.20 just about couple of days ago.

Well, the main page is currently down, but the people at DotA-Allstars.com are really really nice. Their dedicated server is down but they still keep the download up for all to get the map.

So you can still get the new map here.

Try to be patient and their official site will be back soon.


Source: www.DotA-Allstars.com

Leaguemode (-lm) in DotA 6.20 revealed.

Many of you would probably be asking what in the hell is "leaguemode" aka "-lm" in DotA 6.20 and how the hell it works?

Well, fret not. The Papa is here to explain.

When you enter the 6.20 game, once you type "-lm", it will enter you into the league mode state. What happens next is that the first player(blue) on sentinels will have 20 sec to pick his hero. After he pick his hero then it will be the other scourge side's first player to pick within the 20 sec given also. This will goes back and forth until everyone picked their hero. I guess you all are clever enough to guess that this is the drafting system for DotA tournaments in Singapore.

However, after some testing there seems to be a little bug. I am not sure if it's suppose to be that way but whenever any player miss his selection after 20 secs the hero selection will not be available for that player and the selection will be pass over to the other side. However, after everyone else picked the game does not start. And any player who never get to select the hero will not get any hero even after the drafting process is over. No random hero is assigned to any player that missed the hero selection and the game just stuck there.

This is what I have concluded after a quick test. If anyone else have different experience with this mode, do share with us in our forums or in the comments section.

Offtopic: My 2 cents -
This drafting system of gameplay is actually pioneered by Rapture Gaming Pte. Ltd. Credits are also given to some avid DotA gamers too as they had also given some creative suggestions on how are the different ways to do drafting fairly.

Now, it is getting prominent that this drafting system is gradually creeping into mainstream DotA tournament events overseas. And right now it's even adopted by DotA development team. Many thanks to Icefrog's team for making it happens in the latest DotA version to include the league mode such that drafting process can be made easier with less manual work needed.

This game mode evidently promote fun, healthy and fairer tournament game play. What I concluded is, this game mode will be here to stay until another genius idea comes along to replace this mode.

Although I cannot say for sure that we directly have affect the way competitive DotA are, but I am pretty sure that all Singaporean's DotA gamers can be proud that a home grown company and our DotA community had done and made a little achievement in doing small part in influencing the DotA competitive gaming worldwide in some way.

Three cheers to all Singapore's DotA gamers, organisers and community for being the forerunner in accepting this game mode and showing the world that drafting system works wonders for a better tournament game play experience.

Hip hip Hurray!!! Hip hip Hurray!!! Hip hip Hurray!!!

Dota 6.20 is out!!

DotA 6.20 is out, check out the map changelog and download here.

Seems like there are many balancing done to most of heroes again. Wonder what effect it will bring to the gameplay with these changes? Also there is one new hero added, and I guess many will sure look forward to try out this hero and see what it can do.

One interesting thing is the league mode, hmmm.....how that is going to work in the game? We will test it out and bring you some information about this new mode.

Here is part of the changelog:
-New Terrain
-Game core code rewritten for optimizations and cleanliness
-Fixed the projectile vision through Fog of War bug
-New Hero
-Added a mode for league play, -lm (-leaguemode)
-Added Deathmatch, -dm (-deathmatch)
-Fixed pretty much all memory leaks in DotA
-Stout Shield returns
-Heartstopper (engine bugs with this) replaced with a new ability
-Anonymous Dead replaced with a new ability
-Dynamic Size multiboard based on the number of players in the game

Get the remaining changelog information from DotA-Allstars.com

Source: www.DotA-Allstars.com