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[Karkov]

I guess I'd be up for inhouse DotA games.  I'm pretty much available all the time except from 4-9 P.M. central time.

[Putnam]

Cyborgmatt just posted this in a thread on Reddit about how Legends of Dota is now in the Workshop as a custom game.

[umiman]

Oh shit.

While D2modd.in is nice, it really needs more polish. If Valve made this fully user content created like the workshop it'd be the balls.

[RexMundi]

I want a rebirth of all the old war3 maps through dota one day.

on that, future dota content. besides sets that make money, i got to thinking, the lore and single player. they already started with the training missions, why not expand that? Hell, valve could sell it, as dlc, with a set packaged of course, anf make butt loads more money.. I mean, it's single player, and anyone can look up the lore, but a campain like in warcraft three would be interesting, like, remember rexxar?

[Frumple]

I want a rebirth of all the old war3 maps through dota one day.

Pretty much. It... y'know, it'd be pretty great to play WC3 custom maps again, just without dotabots gumming up the game list and making it a half step from impossible to find anything besides DotA to play. And since, in this case, DotA would be stuck in its own little box over in the corner, it'd be a lot easier! Such a nice thought. WC3 custom games, sans dota.

[umiman]

D2modd.in has plenty of them.

Pudge Wars being the key one.

[Astral]

I think that's more in relation to the custom maps being completely and officially supported by Valve, rather than having to be run through a third party launcher.

Starcraft 2 never brought about the rebirth of custom mapping as much as I had hoped, partially due to the interface being clunky in comparison to Warcraft 3's (which is saying something, but WC3 was meant for hero units that gained levels and skill points in RPG style, while Starcraft 2 was more about mass combat with generic units), and partially due to Blizzard's policies surrounding the creation of custom maps. Essentially they surrounded all things related to making custom maps with legalese, and anything they felt was popular enough they could take control of, as they didn't want another DotA growing out of their engine that they couldn't control, with the original creator getting thrown to the wayside and having no say in the matter.

[Cthulhu]

There are also a few of the old warcraft maps that weren't dota-related.  They've already got Warlocks (with the pushing people into the lava) and I think they have hero line wars too.

[TempAcc]

After blizzard noticed just how big warcraft 3 mods were getting (IE after DotA got out of hand) they tried their best to take every mod offshot the game under control. There were many WC3 offshoots apart from dota that fell back into obscurity because of this. This is basically why ice troll tribes (a open world-ish survival RTS-RPG game take on wc3) never really became its own thing despite being popular back then. I think I heard of someone trying to revive it on the starcraft 3 engine, but haven't found anything else regarding it so far.

[Karkov]

I wouldn't mind seeing Vampirism or HLW on the DotA 2 engine.  Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing Vampirism itself making a comeback in a regular game, that shit was fun.

There are also a few of the old warcraft maps that weren't dota-related.  They've already got Warlocks (with the pushing people into the lava) and I think they have hero line wars too.

I'm going to have to check this out later.

[Cthulhu]

Oh man.  We need Uther Purist Party.

[Putnam]

d2modd.in is the website. They have dota HLW (hero line wars, but with dota heroes and items; no ember spirit, of course), Pudge Wars, Run Kitty Run, lotsa stuff.

[Frumple]

Enfos, maaan. Enfos in the new millennium. Also battleships, carrier commander or whatever that was that was like battleships but sci-fi, all the not!DotA AoS maps, that... square thing of awesome with the four sides and the majesty-style faction to choose from and all that neat stuff. The RPG maps, the RP maps, civ and its offshoots, the SC LotR style stuff (Sweet zeus I would near kill for those, aaaahhhh), the list goes on and on and on. So many things, assuming DotA2's engine can handle the more expansive stuff.

[Putnam]

Dota 2's engine is a bit more robust, too, since it does things like Bloodseeker's thirst and Pheonix's dive that require super hacky scripting in WC3 (they basically force staff you slightly 40 times a second in WC3 dota)

[umiman]

Twitch went full Google today and implemented their automatic audio detection system. Basically if you have third party music anywhere in your stream or vod, twitch will mute it for 30 minutes starting at that point. This includes game music.

Also they're deleting every single vod that's older than 14 days.

So if there are any vods Dota or otherwise that you want to save, now's the time.