question about "new player mode"

[ANTFKBA]

yea i know im not a new player but i decided to try it anyways because of the no leavers penalty and thought that id try to intentionally play bad so i wouldnt carry, i queued for like 1min or something and as soon as the game started i quickly realized that i was the only real person there, it was literally just a "play solo bots" game. So my question is are all new player mode games like this or can you find real people? the info page mentions nothing about it being a bot game. Im just curious as to why they try to make a bot game look like a real one.

[SquishNoob]

It puts you with players at your same experience level... so new players are probably being put in games together but for you to get a non bot game, other veteran players would have to q for the new player games.

[ANTFKBA]

Originally posted by SquishNoob:

It puts you with players at your same experience level... so new players are probably being put in games together but for you to get a non bot game, other veteran players would have to q for the new player games.

oh didnt think of that, yea makes sense.

[󠁳 ⁧HardLimiter]

I saw few posts about ppl trying the new player mode as normal players.
They got banned for boost/smurf.

I´m not a pro in this game but I don´t want to test this mode (it could help me for learning) but it´s too risky for a report "Booster/Smurf".

Valve doesn´t check which kind of mode you play.
You can still get banned from custom games too.

I saw something around 10-15 posts about people got banned with their 2-5k hours dota account because they tested this mode and got reported.

[Zagryzaec]

Thats funny cause usually i dont miss such posts. I was checking the mode too and got bots only