It seems like the 5 invulnerable couriers restriction is something that will have a huge influence on how the early game is played and is something that the humans won't have any experience taking advantage of.
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark
by joefkelley on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:00PM
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I don't think it's that complicated to adapt to... everyone should just be pretty much constantly ferrying out regen and harass more aggressively.
people play with 5x invulnerable couriers in turbo mode. Essentially that is what they do. They get their items asap.
And bottles are currently disabled so you can't use the most abusive strat that 5 couriers would allow.
I don't think you can bottle ferry anymore
you can
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark
by de_watcher on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:52AM
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You can't. It was changed around this year.
Courier isn't that important. It's being phased out across the recant patches. And there is a popular Dota mod with 5 fast invulnerable couriers.
Courier is important. Otherwise you are forced to go back healing/getting items. Which will lose you XP and gold and ultimateley the game.
Yes there is Turbo, no it's not comparable to regular gameplay.
Regular dota players learn to play without the courier anyway, because someone always feeds it away or uses it to ferry themselves a magic stick.
So maybe playing without a courier at all would be more representative of the pub experience ;)
The linked commenters thought that getting to "real dota" (more than 100 heroes, captains mode instead of random, ...) would take another year. So I don't think it's fair to make that statement.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I think the improvements are very nice, but pointing to people saying "these people thought we would need a year, we did it in under a month!" is not what you should do if you didn't actually do what the linked people stated.