Valve is attempting to make Dota 2 more enjoyable for new players. Picture: Valve. Accounts that the developers suspect are smurfs but have yet no concrete proof will be match with other smurf accounts. And Valve isn't stopping there and also has designs to go after those that sell accounts or boost other players. To go along with this, we've recently increased our ban rate for boosters and purchased accounts. Valve will hope that these changes, along with the those introduced as part of the new player experience such as the ability to speak to a coach while playing a game and Hero briefs which give you the lowdown on the game's characters, will work to make the title more forgiving.
Email address. I don't wish to receive cool stuff from GINX. And if newcomers want help from the community, they can access new player chat: a dedicated chat channel that should provide a welcome environment for questions.
Experienced players will only have access to the channel if they have a high behaviour score, and will get banned from the chat if they misbehave.
Another new addition is a flexible coaching system which will allow new players to ask for guidance from experienced players, even when in the middle of a match. That's a whole lot of changes for newcomers, but if you've been absent from the game for a while, there's also something for you: returning players will now be placed into a "special calibration" mode that takes into account how long you've been absent. This means Dota will be "sensitive to monitoring how your skill compares to when you last played, placing you into good games so you can have fun catching up on everything that changed while you were away".
A neat addition that should make the return less daunting. In light of the anticipated influx of new players, Valve is also cracking down on smurf accounts when an experienced player creates a new account to place themselves in easier matches.
Valve will focus on new accounts created after today, in which it has "high confidence in their smurfing and game-ruining behaviour". But it will occasionally manually ban older accounts that are "clearly game-ruining". Anyone selling accounts, boosting or otherwise trying to ruin games will also get a primary account ban. And for cases where Valve isn't quite per cent sure it's a smurf account, those players will be placed into a pool of other suspected smurfs until a decision can be made.
With any luck, these measures should prevent genuine new players from encountering undercover veterans in their first matches. Along with all these changes, Valve has also updated the Dota 2 website, and says you can expect to see the next game update including a new hero on "the Friday following the Singapore Major. So, that's a pretty major set of changes, and we'll have to see whether the combination of the Netflix show and learning tools will successfully breathe new life into Dota 2's player pool.
Not that it's doing badly: Dota 2 is consistently one of the most-played games on Steam, and is currently sitting at second place with k concurrent players via Steam Charts. Even I'm thinking about dipping a toe in again - think I'd better buy some boots for that. Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our policy.
Jump to comments 8. Reporter GoneEFK. Emma was Eurogamer's summer intern in and we liked her so much we decided to keep her. Players can nominate one ban each, only for a completely different set of characters to get removed from the pool. To add further confusion, the pro scene ban system has a completely different ruleset. In ranked all pick, each player gets a chance to nominate one hero for a ban. Heroes cannot be nominated more than once. This means that all 10 of the nominated bans can get ignored due to chance.
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