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Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by sincerely on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:18PM (#17560793)
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 (#17561612)
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.
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by itchyouch on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:44PM (#17561905)
people play with 5x invulnerable couriers in turbo mode. Essentially that is what they do. They get their items asap.
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by ufo on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:20PM (#17562163)
And bottles are currently disabled so you can't use the most abusive strat that 5 couriers would allow.
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by acover on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @07:14PM (#17562805)
I don't think you can bottle ferry anymore
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by gsich on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:18AM (#17563910)
you can
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by acover on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:08AM (#17564033)
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by de_watcher on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:52AM (#17564179)
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.

Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by gsich on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:03AM (#17565811)
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.

Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by Anderkent on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:19AM (#17567121)
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 ;)

Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark by gsich on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:36AM (#17567279)
Must be 1k you are talking about.