I think it's a bug at the mo. Same thing for me.

The in-game tutorial has been greatly expanded and revamped so's peeps know.

I played through two more episodes and I think I missed the third one.

Oh, yeah! I remember getting a sniper cloak.

Anyone fancy trading for anything SK or Lich related?

Everyone wants to be a carry. I'm sticking to supports for now.

Good thinking. I'm so fixated on staying in lane and more recently, not dieing.

I'll have a look and get some sort of plan working.

Is everyone else getting Sniper stuff from the tutorial? I did the mid tower one and onto the full bot game one now.

Yes.

I've got to be sociable unfortunately. Still need a Bluetooth dongle for headset shenanigans.

Dunno, I just use a 360 headset plugged into a 360 controller and then that doubles up as a handy controller for games when I'm not playing DOTA.

Speaking of which, I'm not sure hard bots are all that helpful for learning new guys, last night we were playing with stacks of guys who did not have their shit together at all and we lost all but one game I think? Failed as both Drow (why?!) and Undying as support was from folk bar Bollo was lame.

Managed to finish on a high with Enchantress though, with the sceptre she's beastly at long range. With the Bloodstone she becomes some kind of nymphtank with her utterly insane heal that makes her practically invulnerable.

I'd always chuck it on medium when randoming a new hero though, I find last hitting and learning matchups can be a delicate affair, and 40 mins is a long time to invest in getting destroyed. That said, it's the humain co-op people who are frequently awful. Every game last night was the pretty much the same: one heinously good carry dominating, to be let down by one off lane feeding abymsally, and me and Bollo just being stuck in the void between - too weak to get kills on our own, not hardy enough to counter the fed AI and their precision targetting of skills.

People not understanding their roles or what their character can do is a pain. Some guy suggested he'd try a Carry build on Lina. Certainly possible as she's got heavy burst damage potential, but not when, after 35 mins, she's lowest on the leaderboard for kills and highest for deaths, when a totally support based character (Bollo's Keeper of Light) is doing better. She was even mid for gawdsake.

Or the Bounty Hunter who was with us in the set up of some excellent ganks, only to back of right at the initiation and leave us floundering. Great thing about Undying is his Tombstonemeans you can die and still help massively in teamfights, but that means the damn carry has to stick around to mop up the stragglers. Nope, just turn invisible and run back to the jungle. Thanks.

Anywho, it'll be nice to play with some people who are even just slightly more reliable than flaky randoms.

Me and Subbax completed our first human game this eve on the tutorial bit. Results were one sided.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=158626886

IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOOOOOOOU.

I have no idea how Warlock works but Subbax was healing me and putting some weird debuff thing on creeps and summoning demon fuckbuddies so he did a bang up job.

Sceptre is a boss item. Increases the range of Enchantress' ultimate which sounds rubbish, but her ulti does more damage the further away you are from the target. It makes sniping fleeing foes a cakewalk.

Assemble.