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In such a great multinational game as Dota 2 we will often find ourselves playing with people who speak a different language than our own. Due to a recent change in my daily schedule I have found myself up all night and so I turned to Dota 2 to pass the time. I have met some really nice people who while don't know much english make a great attempt (seeing as they obviously have "english" checked in the matchmaking) for the sake of communication with the team, and I commend them every time. I have recently ran into matches in which there are people who speak no english at all or make no attempt at communicating. My most recent game I was with 3 other people who spoke spanish over the mic. Just friends chatting, but it sooned turned to anger and my characters name popped up a few times. I would ping to tell them when I was going to initiate as Earthshaker, but they seemed to not get the hint much and got angry at me when this happened. This made the match fairly un-fun due to the idea of constant judgement, and made worse by simply no understanding if they are insulting me or angry at something else. For topping on the sundae that is this bad game I felt bad to express any kind of discontent with not understanding them at all, and had a fear of being labeled a bigot of some kind. I felt that if i went to the forums and had others share their experiences I could learn some good ways of dealing with such a difficult situation. Do others just keep english on their matchmaking and refuse to communicate? or has valve need to update their language barriers in the matchmaking?
As this is a hot button issue (from what ive seen) please try to keep it civil, and avoid anything that could be offensive to others.
What happens to you is a fairly common situation: while in US servers you have Spanish and sometimes Brazilian people, the EU servers are full of Russians that don't know a word of English and say сука every time they die. The solution is either playing with friends from your Steam list or search for different gamemodes: most of the time, people that play together and use their own language choose all pick and don't care about the others. Of course I met Russians that could speak English and Spanish players that tried to communicate using the international language, but that's a rare event.
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