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DotA Allstars

What does DotA stands for?

Defense of the Ancient

Objectives

There are two main groups of people in DotA. Sentinel and scourge. If you're in Sentinel, you have to protect the world tree and think of ways to destroy the main structure of scourge which is the Frozen Throne, vice versa.

Gameplay

The number of players in the game is up to a maximum of 10. When the game starts, the host (red player) first chooses the game mode (more info below). Now, you have either chosen a hero, or been given one by random. Then it's time to buy items, and select which one of the three lanes you want to go; Upper left, bottom right, or in the middle. At each camps side, Sentinel and Scourge, there's a barrack at the beginning of the lane, sending creeps down the lane towards the opponents base. You earn extra gold and experience when killing the opposing teams creeps.

There's 6 towers placed at each lane, 3 to each side, Sentinel and Scourge. These towers are really powerful in the beginning, but later in the game, it's up to the heroes of each team to destroy them, and push with the forces down the lanes. By killing enemy heroes, you gain extra gold, and experience, to help you further push down the lanes. With your gold, you can improve your hero with many different items, where there's a wide range between the power and prices.

There are also powerups found in the map, which spawns every two minutes

The different Powerups are :

Invisibility Rune : Works great for either sneaking up on unsuspecting heroes, or retreating. The invisibility lasts X seconds, or if the hero takes any damage.

Double Damage Rune : Hero killing rune. It doubles your damage.

Regeneration Rune : Sometimes, you want to avoid going all the way back to the base to heal, then this rune works perfectly. Also, when retreating, this may give you the boost to survive, or, even turn the tides. Lasts X seconds, or if the hero takes any damage.

Haste : Boost movement speed. Can be a real pain, since you almost can't retreat from a hero with haste. Can also be used to quickly head to the base to buy, or heal.

Illusion : Creates an Illusion of your hero, that deals a less damage than your hero, and takes extra damage. The Illusion does only have passive abilities from the real hero.

Attributes of heroes in the game

There are 3 main attributes in the game: Strength, intelligence and agility. There are 95 heroes currently.

Game developer and history

The first version of Defense of the Ancients was released in 2003 by a mapmaker under the alias Eul. Among the DotA variants created in the wake of Eul's map included Allstars, developed by Steve Feak (under the alias Guinsoo); this version would become the most popular version of the map. Feak primarily worked on optimizing the map before handing over control to another developer after version 6.01. The new author, IceFrog, added new features, heroes, and fixes. Each release is accompanied with a changelog.

IceFrog was recently offered a place in Valve as a project leader.

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