DotA 2 Offline Mode

[The Archmage]

I rate Valve should hook up an offline mode for DotA 2 for the sole purpose of LAN's.

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The game is not released yet. They need to address bugs etc. while players play online.
I agree with you once they fully release the game though

[The Archmage]

True but they address bugs and stuff with updates when we are online

[prngls]

There are gonna be lan games, yeah, but you'll still have to be online in steam for the battlepoints etc

[The Archmage]

when ur at a lan its not about battle points, its about lanning dota 2 like you would dota 1, thats what im trying to get at

[prngls]

probably not gonna happen - first of all you'd need to go online into steam to even get dota 2 to run.

[The Archmage]

yes i know that but im saying if they make an offline mode u dnt need to be online to play dota

[Leon]

yeah, cuz most of the time my ping's higher..

[SirKLARC]

they said they will include a proper offline / LAN mode after the game is released

[Roger Smith]

Now that we can play with bots localy, they should allow people to just launch listen server/lan mode, without any matchmaking points.
This is a really important question as lots of players leave outside of Europe/US and can't have below 300 ms ping. We'd like to have the possibility to create our own server just to be able to play on LAN or online localy.