I played dota for more than ten years but this patch is the first one that has been unfun for me and a lot of other people.

Typically, you can still have fun picking off-meta heroes as long as you’re efficient with them, but there’s too many unviable heroes at the moment, and they pale in comparison to all the tanky boys like Kunkka, CK and all.

I was hoping for a bigger patch like changing the economy or adjusting stat gain but as it stands, the patch was quite gentle with the changes. I don’t see a lot of those 55+% winrate heroes leaving the meta anytime soon.

I believe that increasing the map size was too much of a fundamental change like adding another player on each team. Dota has kept the map size constant for good reasons, the old map size makes dota what is dota.

I had a lot of fun but I hope valve can bring back the game that we loved. I appreciate them trying to spice it up because of a few complaints but the game was quite good. I am not of the opinion that a brand new mechanic like neutral items, agh shard need to implemented every patch.

Looks like I’ll have to take a break and wait for Valve to bring some much needed updates when they release the new hero. Peace r/dota2!