During the last days I've been playing a bit of a custom game in WC3 called DotA (Defend of the Aicents. Two teams with two bases are trying to destroy the other players base. Both there are three ways to the opponents base, there are towers controlled by the two teams in all of these ways. Both teams allso send out minor crittens who tries their best to get to the other players base.
Now, both these teams contains of a computer who controlls the crittens sent out and the towers. Both teams allso contains of five humanplayers who can shoose from a number of heroes, who gets experience, levels, skills etc. When they kill a critten (deals the killing blow) they get money, if they kill another hero they get extra money and a frag, if they die they loose gold, and will have to whait to be respawned. And the get a kill. With the money they resieve they can buy items of varying quality/price, and these will eventually make them better). I'm not shure if continueing is really pointfull though. When I had classmates who played WC3 I played some DotA back then, and I was a decent player, I think. Not as good as my friends (who weren't elite, but at the same time they weren't far from elite), but still I was decent. A normal player I think.
When I've played the last days though something have happened. I die. Shured I died once in a while before but now I die all the time. And since this gives extra money to the opponent players extra money to buy those superweponds that makes them invinstible, it's pretty hard for my team to win. And then they look in the stats and sees that I've died more than the rest of the team together and hate me. It's hard to blame them, after all it's mostly because of me we've lost. But when they start to ask me about things I didn't know back when I was decent, I get puzzled. Like what is the ultimate of that hero? I don't know, and it might be nice to know, but I'll learn in time I guess. Another thin I've noticed is the fact that suddenly there is teamplay. For some strange reason I allways run into a fresh hero when I'm hunting an allmost dead one down. And I allways run into a hero when I'm on my way back to the base to heal (which means I'm dead). I never kill any heroes (when I was decent there was ALLWAYS some free frags because of allmost dead heroes who went back to heal, who you took down with a direct dmgspell) and as I've told you I die all the time. Because of this I need help.
The next problem is my fellow teammates who (as I've said) hate me. Because I've ruined the game for them. They are rarely nice, they often asks me to leave (they even begg me. To leave! They think being a man down is better than haveing me on the team). This isn't very funny for a guy who tries to learn the game (without really learning it, I'm still as good as when I started playing some days ago) to hear he's a burden for the team, not to mention the fact that I die all the time (it feels like I spend more time waiting to respawn and walking to the battles) is pretty bad on my confidence, not to mention my temper, I go from neutral to down (last game, when they begged me, harrased me, told me to stick to newbiegames that don't exist I even felt like crying. I haven't felt like crying for a long time) which is no good when it comes to the thing I've shoosed for relaxing alternative to KotOR. I play it because I remember it was fun, but dying and get harrassed for it isn't very fun.
I don't know what to do about it either. I don't know where to get some decent training (singleplayer is useless. Believe me. And as said there is no newbiegames. They've told me games with the tad -ap should be newbiegames, but they're just like any other game). So it seems there's nothing I can do to change things, but on the other hand I don't whant to stop playing, since I remember it being fun AND it feels like giveing up. And in giveing up I mean loose. So that really doesn't feel like a good alternative. Sticking to single-player RPG's is allso a little boring. Of chorse I keep them as main game, but sometimes you need to do something else for a change, and I thought DotA would be a great alternative for this, but apparentlly I'm wrong.
Übereil
