International Battle Pass + Compendium

#beatingHadestotheannouncement

So yeah, it's out. Got all the stuff you'd expect, but there's one thing I wanted to point out. They've got a new feature called Seasonal MMR.

What is this? Well, it's an MMR that you calibrate after 10 games in Seasonal MMR mode and it only lasts the season. However, once it's over, if you had played more than 40 games in that mode, you can replace your current solo MMR with your seasonal MMR. Essentially, it's a recalibration which everyone's been asking for ever. So thanks Volvo.

Compendium's also got a bunch of other stuff I don't understand but I got a PL immortal so it's not all bad. Terablade immortal please <3

Let the games... begin!

the new mmr thing is only good if ur sub 5k and if ur above 5k its gunna suck

not even going to ****ign touch that **** liek cmon i dont wanna be put in a lower avg mmr game lmao thanks valve

I think you forgot the most crucial information Tera.

As a battle pass owner

This is now League of Legends. Dota is no longer a free game, it's a freemium game. You can recalibrate MMR, but it's premium content, gotta pay for it.

Well played Volvo. You got yourself an immense potential market : all the players who are disgruntled to be stuck in scrub tiers.

Volvo just launched itself on the account boosting market. Now all of these guys are going to be buying compendiums every season.

The conspiracy theories about Volvo don't sound that silly now, do they? Like CLQ says it so well, before long they'll be trying to hook us up on cyber sex dolls XD

It was posted when I was sleeping; afterwards I went to college so I'm excused. :D

Posting it right now, looks really exciting, going to get it for sure and get to questing!

4 games lost in ranked international mmr. hope they never brinb this feature in dota again.

No one was forcing you to play the ranked games

But unless you have a significantly higher hidden MMR than your actual MMR, the recalibration is less efficient than just starting a new account surely? You'll be given games based on your hidden MMR presumably instead of your actual MMR. So it only affects people who calibrated ranked super early and then played unranked for ages, in which case it acts as a time save.

Account sellers will be better off, as usual just making a new account, climbing it to X MMR and selling it.

It's a great business move because of that market, but for most people it's going to mean **** all. It doesn't make the game freeium in my mind.

Well we'll have to wait until we see the details. But the way I see seasonal MMR is as a MMR that goes up and down much faster than the real one, because of a different time scale. So a much better thing for people who want to recalibrate.

If anyone plays it I'm curious as to how it works, like how many points do you win/lose in average per "seasonal" game.

For the freemium part, it's the first time I see a paid feature of Dota actually impact gameplay. That's a big deal from my point of view. Hell even in LoL they don't have to pay for recalibrations AFAIK, they only pay to unlock stuff.

I will buy that for sure,

Technically there have been elements of some skins that affected gameplay in a minor way. And one can argue that Quests affected gameplay in a negative sense.

If MMR changed a faster rate in seasonal games would that actually affect things that much? Assuming you win/lose MMR in a roughly 1:1 ratio, when you hit your actual skill-level your winrate is gonna average out to 50/50 ish, so you'll still be stuck with a climb to hit a higher MMR level. Just like normal.

At worst, it inflates MMR a little, but MMR values have gotten much much bigger in the past year anyway.