Entries for May 2012

写作计划提上了日程，想的最多的还是沉默术士，一想到沉默在最后辉煌的出场就让人振奋不已。这里面提到了两 个组织，一个是风蚀之寒，另外一个是教会骑士团，是相互对立的组织。风蚀之寒把沉默术士培养成大魔法师，用 以对抗教会骑士团，当然这是后话了，我想随着故事的推进，这条线索会穿插到其他的英雄当中，下面是几条备选 的走向：
1.隐形刺客在家族王朝覆灭后，为了复仇向教会骑士团的头目习得永久隐身的本领，但是条件是为教会骑士团效 忠，在这期间会发生与风蚀之寒发生矛盾。
2.期间沉默术士笼络了黑暗游侠和死亡先知，教会他们沉默技能，用以对抗教会骑士团，但是后来因为一些变故 ，黑暗游侠崔西斯出走，死亡先知也不知所踪。
3.这一种发展方向会牵扯出整个DOTA2故事最核心的故事线索即由召唤师卡尔一手导致的第二次法师战争， 在这个发展方向里面，沉默术士将会以一个比较次要的姿态出现。
以上种种，都还是自己想象的一些雏形，下笔的时候可能会成为另外一个样子，但是当沉默站在校场上面俯视那些 曾经嘲笑过他的法师们的时候，有一样东西可以肯定——魔法之极，唯寂方至，这就是沉默术士。

“你听不见，看不到，卸下你的咒符，来与我一战，我沉默一切！包括你的性命！“

Auto Join: Automatically joins Garena rooms without waiting 5 seconds. You can minimize Garena and do your works.
Auto Tunnel: Automatically tunnel all of players in your room while you are playing game or doing other tasks.
Auto Trace: Automatically traces your friends. You can minimize Garena and do your works.
Auto Detect: Automatically detects Garena offsets so Auto-Joiner can patch all Garena version.
Auto Open: Automatically opens other apps with Auto-Joiner (up to 6 programs).
Auto Update: Automatically updates Auto-Joiner to the latest version.

Read more: http://www.dota-throne.com/2012/05/g...ersion-50.html

Yeah, I know, lame theme.

Zephyr is a mostly straightforward and kinda boring hero at early levels, restricted by 3 close range skills and his melee status. However, at level 6, Zephyr gains some real fighting presence.

Zephyr uses a "enhance" style of fighting, relying on hitting the opponents with enhanced regular attacks to deal more damage.

All of Zephyr's base skill are simple bonus damage and attack modifiers. This unfortuneately limits Zephyr to melee combat, but gives him extreme chasing and killing potential if his opponents let him get close.

Zephyr's ultimate basically allows Zephyr to use his elemental charge as a ranged spell, making it very easy for Zephyr to close the gap between enemies in various styles (ranging from stunning them to closing in with a movespeed boost/slow). Zephyr's play style really improves with this added ability.







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So, more and more people use MOBA, and it looks like game publishers, game companies and review websites start using the name, so I am probably too late with this. But better late than never.

MOBA, short for "Multiplayer Online Battle Arena", is a term often used to describe DotA-like games, which only recently have come to be called an own genre.
But let us think what the single elements of an acronym of a game tell us.

Let's start with something else than MOBA so we get a feeling for it.

RTS (Real Time Strategy):
Real Time says that it is not turn-based. You order your units and/or buildings around, their supposed reaction occurs immediately, this can happen parallel to someone else's orders.
Strategy says that you don't let your units walk around to water flowers, but actually focus on strategic stuff - which usually means placing your troops and fighting.
This is a pretty accurate description of what you're doing in games like Starcraft 2 or Warcraft 3, and it would hardly fit to other games like Counter Strike or RPGs (both got a stronger focus on other things than strategy).

FPS (First Person Shooter):
First Person simply shows the perspective in which you are playing - you see from the eyes of the character you play.
Shooter shows the focus on, well, shooting things. Don't expect to run around and do highly complex stuff, shooting is the central element.
Again a perfectly fine description for the games that are entitled FPS (for example Battlefield, Counter Strike), anyone calling WC3 an FPS clearly failed to understand the system.

And now take a look at MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena)
Multiplayer Online is just a generic "prefix", we also got this in MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, like World of Warcraft or Eve Online), so in general there is nothing wrong with it and it doesn't say much.
Just like in MMORPG, we can ignore this prefix and are left with:
Battle Arena.

And this is where I fail to understand how "Battle Arena" describes DotA-like games in any way.
Battle Arena can be SC2, you have a certain map ("Arena") and battle in it.
It can be a Beat em up like Tekken, you have limited area ("Arena") and battle in it.
In fact, it can be any game where you fight and have an area fitting to the definition of the word "Arena" as it is used in "MOBA".

Feel free to use this, but please give credit.

This disease is more important than cancer and AIDS. We must find a cure asap.

EDIT: Don't take this too seriously, it's just a joke.