What is DOTA?
For those gamers out there, you would not find this 4 letters word - "DOTA" unfamiliar. In fact, i believe you have seen others play or even tried playing this game. What does DOTA mean?
DOTA stands for "Defence Of The Ancients". You will need Warcraft 3 (Frozen Throne) installed first before you can play it.
The objective of DOTA is to destroy your opponent Ancient first. Ancients are located at both Sentinel (bottom left corner) and Scourge (top right corner). However, before you can do so, you need to level up and buy items and thus make your hero stronger. If you like interactive, RPG, short time span game, this is the game for you. An example of startup screen is shown above.
There are 3 types of heroes to choose from - Strength, Agility and Intelligence. Personally i prefer agility hero, followed by Strength. Once you select your hero, you will appear at your base. Alternately, you may type - random if you want the computer to select a hero randomly for you.
You may wish to type -ma to see what hero your opponent chooses.
Sentinel Town and Ancient
Scourge Town and Ancient
To move your hero, simply click on the spot where you want to move. Usually, i press Control 1 so that my hero is blinded to key 1. I just need to press 1 and the screen will bring me back to my hero. Do take note of the short cut skill key so that you can use your skill quicker.
Now to spend some gold. During this grinding stage, it is better to have higher health point (HP) or items which can regenerate your HP faster. If your HP becomes 0, you will die and a resurrection timer will start. The higher your level is, the longer the resurrection timer is.
You may choose to buy some health ring or strength items to survive. If your hero has a skill which can absorb enemy's life, you may wish to buy some mana ring. You will lose gold and time if you die and this will hinder your leveling progress. Note that you have 1 skill point to spend. I will spend on either damaging skill or survival skill. Damaging skill is required so that you can last hit the enemy and claim the bounty. Your nickname will be splashed across the screen whenever you kill an opponent. Survival is the opposite. It allows you not to be killed by your opponent that easily and thus you will get experience and reach your first Ulti level 6 faster.
The sound of the horn indicates the start of the game. There are mainly 3 lanes to go - Top, Middle, Bottom. Players tend to use short form like Mid and Bot to represent Middle and Bottom respectively. It does not matter much which lane to choose from as long you do not charge in and die unnecessarily.
You spot your first tower. To grind successfully requires you to last hit the creep so that you can get a random gold reward between 20-59 gold. More gold = more items. I will buy some speed movement boost item so that i can either escape or chase after a target. You may wish to type -ms to see your current speed movement.
Congratulations! You advance to level 2. For every level you increase, you will have an extra skill point to spend. The maximum level which you can attain is level 25. Do spend each skill point wisely and go for the kill if you can. When any player dies first, the person that last hit it will receive extra bonus and "First Blood" will be announced.
You are on killing Spree and just destroyed your first tower!
Once you are at level 6, you have an option to choose the level 6 ultimate skill (we call it Ulti for short). You may choose to learn the Ulti at level 6, 11 and 16. In general, level 11 Ulti is stronger than level 6 while level 16 is the strongest among them. However, not all Ulti is useful from the start. If you find the Ulti useful, learn it and get to level 16 as fast as you can.
Occasionally, you may go into the forest to hunt for low-level neutral creeps or even stroll along the river and look for rune boost like regeneration, haste, double damage. When you are strong enough, you may even attempt to kill higher level neutral creeps at the mountain or even solo Roshan.
Once you are strong enough, you can attempt to destroy your enemy's last tower.
You over run your enemy and try to destroy their Ancient
Ancient Destroy and you win
Final score updates.
Click on the video below to see how pro plays.
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Some tips
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1.) Learn the art of backstabbing. Take them out by surprise
2.) Grab river rune bonus at all time.
3.) Do not solo a group of players - do not be a Rambo
4.) Carry a scroll of teleport. It may save your life or transport back to buy items faster.
5.) Always know where your enemies are- beware of their backstab.
Good:
- Only need keyboard (skills short cut key) and mouse (movement and direction) to play this game.
- Sense of achievement (Kill the enemy first, highest kills amount and win the game)
- Communication by typing instructions to your team mates.
- You can choose to play online using Garena program or battlenet.
- Allows you to play with your friends or players around the world online.
- You can play with AI to improve your skill.
- Many Heroes to choose from which allows you to try different ways of playing.
- Good sound effect
Bad:
- For beginner, other human players tend to call you noob.
- Simple animation
- Character unbalanced. Some character are way too strong.
- You need a good computer and graphics card to run this game smoothly
- Might get addicted and hook for hours.
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In Summary
(Bad, poor, average, good, excellent)
Graphic: Good
Sound: Excellent
Storyline: Bad (None)
Animation: Good
User Control: Good
Entertainment level: Excellent (You can get addicted !!!)
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