2007-12-22, 02:23:28
I have one big problem with noobs: I seldomly see somebody asking for some explanations or help, and that pisses me off. It's ok if you don't know that the your lane opponent can place mines with demolisher and you thus keep running into them, but then you gotta ask your team or enemy for help, instead of just leaving the game or feeding without changing your behavior. The same applies to people who keep running into enemy creeps or who don't buy a weapon (because they're used to DotA or something similar): I never saw somebody asking for explanations on starting weapons/items (we all know that some people do buy repair kit or a hull instead of a weapon, since they don't know any better), most people either leave after having died a couple of times or say something like "wtf bugged, I can't attack" and leave afterwards. I'm kinda losing hope here ;-)
If I random a hero I'm not familiar with in DotA, I ask my team what build to go for and read through the skills before choosing, and I have seen a lot of other people do that as well, but it seldomly occurs in BT. I usually tell people to go and practice with AI to figure out the basics, no idea if that works though. I also tell people that their weapon is creeps only if they have a multibow and obviously don't know that it doesn't attack player vehicles, but I rarely receive responses, might be due to the fact that those addressed don't speak English.
If I random a hero I'm not familiar with in DotA, I ask my team what build to go for and read through the skills before choosing, and I have seen a lot of other people do that as well, but it seldomly occurs in BT. I usually tell people to go and practice with AI to figure out the basics, no idea if that works though. I also tell people that their weapon is creeps only if they have a multibow and obviously don't know that it doesn't attack player vehicles, but I rarely receive responses, might be due to the fact that those addressed don't speak English.