This is too much changes for me!

A human being's primary feature is ability to adapt. Unlike some other monkeys which stayed on trees, eating and sleeping all day long, humans started to move on, reaching other lands and learning new skills. Human's body naturally selected to be able to live in deserts, jungles, grass fields, mountains and wherever else. Your brain evolved and became able to think about abstract things, we've launched tons of space tech, we've spent more than 10 years at school learning stuff non-stop. And now you want to tell me you can't read this
changelog or play the 80% same map without feeling dizzy?





Back to 2006 or whatever there were patches with even more (consider per-patch) changes, like 6.60 or 6.55. That was just a single patch. Basically map got updated every 1-2 month, with more or less new content everytime. Who cared? Nobody. Everyone take the map from getdota, everyone loads it and plays. Common culture.

But now, somehow, some people started to believe they dont need it. For whatever reason. Where were you back to times when nobody actually was asking you? Where would you been by then, following your own ideas of stability and classic-ness? Playing 6.60? I don't think so.

Go try playing 6.81, or 6.48b. Hell, 48b was the most stable and iconic «balanced» patch back then. Guess what, it got moved on, still. Want to play 6.81? The most «classic» version. Or 6.83? Even more classic! Dota2 players hate this patch more than anything. The most imbalanced, the very first version of rubberband mechanic. But hey, thats the latest icefrog's version, that means it's classic now, right? Join the communities who love it, they definitely will love you too.



No matter what, every game needs changes. Stall game becomes boring pretty quickly for any sane person. There aren't many strategies to win, no matter what game you're thinking of. Even checkmates are calculated, a lot of calculations of movements and predictions, yet still calculatable. Same happens in dota — as long as people figure out the very imba of the patch it soon become «ban or pick» (hey, there are also no bans in «classic» versions). What then?



For sure I could take a break and release map every 2-3 weeks with patches, just like dota2 does, feeding you slowly with changelogs. But the only reason here is to avoid your «oh my god it's so big» feeling. Do you really feel downloading whole map every 2-3 weeks, switching bots every 2-3 weeks, adapting replay parsers every time etc would be better? Do you REALLY think so?

Try to learn again. Just like you did when you played any other patch. You read through lines, then start the game and start feeling those changes. Yes, you will suck for a couple of games, especially against those who have learned to learn long ago. Those who adapt are always cut above. Yet they don't have any sacred knowledge you're unable learn to. Just experience and iron will.

Stop looking for excuses of your bad plays. Every new big patch causes your perfomance to drop. This will happen again next patch, and again and again. But you can get back on feet, or keep crawling back on your knees. It's always up to you.

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People who can adopt to the changes aren't playing DotA 1 in 2020.
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что-то на эльфийском
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