Of MapHacking and DOTA

Ok I am putting my baby picture here coz I think I look so cute. And ya la I said I was moving out of this blog, but I have to say something about the ridiculous things opponents on Bnet say about MapHacking on a site which may actually have traffic (haha as opposed to any blogs I could start, or that stupid friendster one. I ABANDON YOU FRIENDSTER BLOG YOU SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF ME).

So with more and more people Dotaing, hacks such as MH will find their way into common usage. To me, opponents using MH are juz minor irritants, and usually those who MH in obvious ways are noob enough such that they lose eventually. Not a big deal. But it is amazing to see how many people accuse opponents of MHing just because of a successful kill. Ok so say you randomly got ambushed while farming neutral creeps, and you type on all 'MH! Teal! you MH!'. That I understand. No MH probably, but possibility is always there.

But it came to the point yesterday that I suddenly realised that even though many people have played Dota for more than a year, they are still very, for a lack of a better word, noob. The point came when I was Treant, and one opponent still accused my teammate of MHing. I immediately responded with 'Hello, I am TREANT.' To which he replied 'but i slowed and he still avatar', or something to that effect. It took me some time to figure out that he actually wanted to say was 'But I cast frostbite on Sven and he still could cast godstrength (and kill me)'. He then proceeded at a point later in the game to insist that Sven was MHing.

Some opps deserve to be squelched because of their ridiculous insults. Some allies too. But this opp. He was in a class of his own. Ok I'm laughing again thinking of it.

I guess I can take opps MHing. In pubs, if it will help them stay that much longer, if it will help the game be that much more interesting coz of a challenge, so be it. But what I really don't like is opps randomly accusing you of MHing when you are in plain sight of everyone, have sentries (esp if you have a treant on your team and have unlimited free sentries....), or just happen to be so suay to be there at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I shall go think of an appropriate thing to say to opps who accuse me or my teammates of MHing. Just to make DOTA that much more amusing =D.