Well, some people seem to complain about the lack of tutorial, but from my personal experience back when I first started, the game is very simple in terms of controls, so that makes it very newbie friendly in my opinion. Nor are there any mechanics that really make you sweat or jump out of your seat to succeed in.

Yet at the same time the game is complex enough to provide an engaging experience. I can spend hours in it no problem, even in singleplayer, because of how addicting the gameplay is.

And the community appears to be growing by the day now that it's appeared on Steam.

very fun game, but i dont reccomend the actual multiplayer experience before you played single player  for at least 1 week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ek55bIQwlo

Heres a good video for players who just bought the game. Watch it, it has some usefull tips.

I may come to play should the opengames prove there to be enough players.

Good game. But theres somethings that people dont like to talk about.

1º The p2p system of this game is worst than anything that i ever experienced. Even on the time of Age iof Empires 2, when we used 56k conection, we had a better latency/delay/lag, BUT when you learn how to manage it and see who is going to lag, you can have at least a low spike game. But it's NEVER totally clean.

2º Most lobby game are password protected. The communit on the game is bad and don't want new players on it, so get ready to be discriminated.

3º You NEED to download mods to make this game work fine.

4º I think that the developers don't give a damn for this game, so it will not have updates anymore, just cdommunit updates(which are awesome)

5º Don't think this is like dota, it's not.

Oh no. Download the mods are the way to go. Specially the UI ones. Since the interface is so bad, but so bad that it can be compared to the lag on the game, you must have the UI mods. Tryed the AI improvement and Its insane how rich they are and how agressive they are with flags, so it can be very challenge playing against AI.

I dare to disagree. IMHO the interface is great especially for new players. You get the most important information at glance without being overhelmed. The extra information from the UI mod is more helpful for experienced players. I personally dont like the interfaces of other MOBAs like LoL as they seem to take quite a lot of screen space and they take quite some time to get used (even the location of the minimap on the top is more convenient than having it at the bottom).

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superfun moba game, if there was a bigger player base it would probably replace League of Legends as my "most favorite game right now"

While I disagree with the tone Skull is using to criticize the interace, I have to agree with some of the criticism, especially the ones concerning the mana of team mates.

I think it's vital to show the mana of your team mates since it automatically helps stream line communication. Team members' mana and gold should, I think, be also considered basic information that shouldn't require text chat to inform team mates about (especially when a hectic team fight ensues or is about to ensue).

Other issues I have with the interface is not helping me to auto target myself quickly for defensive spells. It's unwieldy to have to mouse through the mess of units to select myself (or a team mate for that matter) as a target.

Considering the fact that Dota itself (pardon the reference) was around for so long as an available case study, such interface decisions (or lack thereof) leaves much to be desired. If they were intentional in any way, then consider me unenlightened to their rationale. I can only imagine that they simply ran out of time, and such polish got long abandoned on some feature wish list.

The creative concepts are what really make the game stand out.

Just take The Rook and The Torchbearer for a few examples, given their background stories and abilities.

Too bad so few players care about creative content in games nowadays...

I have played now 6 games and never got discoed.

Only 2 games had low lag, due to solo player playing from Mars I presume.

Game is great, nice, interesting, doesnt overbear you with options, has great older players to help.

I thought all games are pw protected, and then all of a sudden, I went streight through 4 games and lobby always had 3+ non protected games.

This game is a jewel.

I love it, personally. Both with friends only and online matches. I play maybe 50%-50% arranged friend games and open online games. I have 4-5 friends that play this and sometimes we get together for slugfests against eachother in 2v2, sometimes we host/join a nice 3v3 or 4v4. Most of the time we play with other people though. I really love this game to bits, in spite of the shoddy netcode. I tried LoL for a week and left disgusted. The community is a cesspit of elitistic knowitalls with nothing better to do than scream "cunt" and "fuckning noob!" at new players.