How to get dota1?

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Title^^

[Gulaman]

Play Warcrft III, and download Dota 1 Map..

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

Donwload Warcraft III and download the dota map.
Put the map on the Map directory and run the game.

[Angis]

yes it hard core compered to dota 2 war3 dota was more harder :D

[radianc3]

Buy WC3 with TFT Expansion, go getdota.com.

[76561198026825120]

Originally posted by Lewis Bot:

Donwload Warcraft III

Are you suggesting to get a cracked copy?

[radianc3]

Originally posted by The Almighty.:

Originally posted by Lewis Bot:

Donwload Warcraft III

Are you suggesting to get a cracked copy?

You can't play on Battle.net without a legit cd-key.

[boat]

You need to have Warcraft III and Warcraft III The Frozen Throne expansion.

I warn you... It's got a larger learning curve than even Dota 2. For example, the shop is not organized in the same way as the shop is in Dota 2... Dota players rejoiced when Dota 2 was first released at how much better the shop was, so that's something too. If you've not got the knowledge of item requirements down yet, you should probably start studying up, and then hope to remember which shopkeeper has them.

What's better about it is the fact that servers are run by players, and players CAN be banned from servers/communities quickly, and effectively. There's upsides to the system used in Dota 2 (A lot actually), but the effectiveness at eliminating undesirables by community run servers is unrivaled by any Publisher-run server system thus far.

I must also note that the controls are completely different... There's no QWER ability keys on WC3 Dota. Some heroes abilities will be things like WXCD, while another heroes might be EFCT... It's the way abilities worked in Warcraft III, the binds for them referred to a character in their name, rather than a specific "order" in which they appear.

Lastly, if you're used to playing polished, shiny new games with fluid animations etc. you might not like Dota 1... I played WC3 way back, and was used to the horrid animations etc, I imagine if you're not accustomed to them, it may take some getting used to, and you may be persuaded to not make that commitment.

[76561198026825120]

Originally posted by <geheimagent>:

You can't play on {LINK REMOVED}Battle.net without a legit cd-key.

There are LAN emulators: Garena, Hamachi. The thing is, mentioning piracy on Steam forums results in getting a ban.

[goka9696]

Originally posted by Elliрsis:

You need to have Warcraft III and Warcraft III The Frozen Throne expansion.

I warn you... It's got a larger learning curve than even Dota 2. For example, the shop is not organized in the same way as the shop is in Dota 2... Dota players rejoiced when Dota 2 was first released at how much better the shop was, so that's something too. If you've not got the knowledge of item requirements down yet, you should probably start studying up, and then hope to remember which shopkeeper has them.

What's better about it is the fact that servers are run by players, and players CAN be banned from servers/communities quickly, and effectively. There's upsides to the system used in Dota 2 (A lot actually), but the effectiveness at eliminating undesirables by community run servers is unrivaled by any Publisher-run server system thus far.

I must also note that the controls are completely different... There's no QWER ability keys on WC3 Dota. Some heroes abilities will be things like WXCD, while another heroes might be EFCT... It's the way abilities worked in Warcraft III, the binds for them referred to a character in their name, rather than a specific "order" in which they appear.

Lastly, if you're used to playing polished, shiny new games with fluid animations etc. you might not like Dota 1... I played WC3 way back, and was used to the horrid animations etc, I imagine if you're not accustomed to them, it may take some getting used to, and you may be persuaded to not make that commitment.

But wc3 has beautiful animations ;w;

[76561198026825120]

Originally posted by Elliрsis:

I must also note that the controls are completely different... There's no QWER ability keys on WC3 Dota. Some heroes abilities will be things like WXCD, while another heroes might be EFCT... It's the way abilities worked in Warcraft III, the binds for them referred to a character in their name, rather than a specific "order" in which they appear.

That's not how WC3 works. A mapper is able to bind a skill to almost any button. Honestly, I'd love to understand the reason why Icefrog didn't use the same binds for each character.

[boat]

Originally posted by The Almighty.:

Originally posted by Elliрsis:

I must also note that the controls are completely different... There's no QWER ability keys on WC3 Dota. Some heroes abilities will be things like WXCD, while another heroes might be EFCT... It's the way abilities worked in Warcraft III, the binds for them referred to a character in their name, rather than a specific "order" in which they appear.

That's not how WC3 works. A mapper is able to bind a skill to almost any button. Honestly, I'd love to understand the reason why Icefrog didn't use the same binds for each character.

I was always under the impression that the kind of "default" setting was that it picked a character from their name that was formerly unbound and assigned a temporary bind to that ability. Now that I know this though, it is a mystery why it wasn't just bound to the same keys for all heroes lol.

Originally posted by Nebuchadnezzar:

But wc3 has beautiful animations ;w;

I'm not sure about that lol. The last time I played Dota 1 about 3 weeks ago, the attack animation would be completely finished before the damage even registered. It may be attributed to lag, but there's no way to know for sure that I'm aware.

[Dotka]

google is hard.

[Aleksi]

Originally posted by The Almighty.:

Originally posted by Lewis Bot:

Donwload Warcraft III

Are you suggesting to get a cracked copy?

You can download it from Blizzard, who owns the game. (After you buy it ofc)