DotA 1 (or DotA Allstars) is a RPG strategy played by millions of schoolchildren and Mature people today. Dota 1 conquered almost all the guys and girls, and its story begins with the birth of the game WarCraft (or abbreviated WC). Warcraft is considered RPG strategy appeared more than 15 years ago. Then this branch successfully developed, although in addition there were absolutely other games that have much more popularity.
These old DotA modifications gradually became more and more popular in Battle.net Oh. Mod builders improved them, invented new raisins and distinctive features. Later, the sophistication, success and popularity of those old versions allowed us to create a familiar «DotA Allstars». Then it was not similar to today's version of the map – it was a lot of unnecessary, illogical and absurd, but it was the first «Allstars Defense of the Ancients»Having received such a gift of fate, many fashion designers began to intensively create their versions of „Defense of the Ancients“ for TFT. The most the qualitative and interesting rapidly gathered popularity in Battle.net Oh. In those days DotA was not yet familiar to us „DotA Allstars“, but instead was called „DotA EX Series“. It was a map created from the optimized map source code for „Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos“. In addition to it, the cards of the series „DotA DX Series“, „DotA unforgettable“ and „DotA Outland“were also popular.
July 1, 2003 published the famous addition — »Warcraft III: the Frozen Throne" (TFT). Without thinking twice, Eul created a new version of his successful map, calling it «DotA 2: Thirst for Gamma in TFT». But not everything in it was as that was wanted and conceived by the mod Builder-the map has not gained due popularity and soon everyone forgot about it, which can not be said about the banal port of the original «Defense of the Ancients» in TFT. He liked the players, and became extremely popular. After a while, Eul disappeared from the field of view of the gaming community, probably because of its failure with the new card. But before he went into the shadows, he made a huge contribution to the further development of DotA — opened the source code of his invaluable map for «Warcraft III: the Frozen Throne».
Seeing the popularity of the «Aeon of Strife» at Warcraft III Motostroitel started to create their version of the map. Everyone made their own changes, add your new items or have removed the objectionable part. Fortunately, the editor made it possible to fly fantasy craftsmen roam in full: created new spells, new characters were one better than the other, and the cards overgrown secret passages and acquired relief. The first" AoS-like «map created in ROC World Editor was»Valley of Dissent". Did the player with the nickname Karukef. And the other modders – Eul, was the smart one. He studied a great many variations of the map created at that time, and then borrowed all the interesting ideas from them. So was born the very first version of the map «Defense of the Ancients» (DotA), which later became one of the most popular UMS maps on the web Battle.net Oh.
July 3, 2002 release of the long-awaited by many players «Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos» (ROC). The game was attended by a powerful (of course, by the standards of that time) editor that allows you to create complex and interesting maps. Immediately after the release, the mod builders did not know all the features of the editor and the game itself, so «Aeon of Strife» just ported to the new gaming platform. Now, in addition to the monetary reward, the heroes could earn experience, and the level of the hero grew over time, and the heroes could study specific abilities and buy items. Most of the game mechanics of modern DotA were already present on the map of this period (something was changed later, and something is still present in its original form).
After the release of" DotA Allstars 6.10", IceFrog has done a huge amount of work – he fixed a large number of bugs and game balance flaws. Its goal was to add a UMS-card, originally created simply for entertainment, a competitive element that would allow you to actively promote the card in a variety of tournaments. The desire of the developer has become a reliable Foundation for the development of DotA as a eSports discipline. As the balance improved, a number of new characters, items, and models were added, which also increased the pleasure of the game. All this has created good conditions for the Rapid growth of DotA popularity.
Compared with 6.27, and 6.28 version and almost nothing changed in terms of game balance. The only change was the addition of two new characters. There were rumors that IceFrog released it in a hurry, in order to cool the fervor of fans eager to see the version 6.30.
After the tournament, the work on the map continued. In version 6.28, IceFrog added two new characters: Witch Doctor and Spectre ( Spectre, immediately after the players saw it, considered useless). Also added a new console command-cs (display kills and denai creeps heroes) and a new loading screen. In the next version with the number 6.29 there were many critical bugs, through which 6.28 remained the most stable version of DotA among the 6.2 x series.
Some time after the release of 6.27 there was an important event for all players: «DotA Allstars» was included in the program «World Cyber Games Singapore 2005». Then a new, updated version 6.27 b was released, which was declared official for all tournaments. It became the second stable version of the game after 5.84.
Since IceFrog has been working on new versions of one – the process has progressed quite slowly. Therefore, version 6.27 existed for quite a long time-until February 2006. But here is, after long and painstaking work, 6.27??? saw light. It included all the positive changes and contained a minimum of bugs, becoming a model, a new benchmark in the world of DotA in terms of game balance.
In version 6.20 continued the process of nerf many characters, in addition, in this version of IceFrog added DotA extremely popular at the time of Prince Arthas (Prince Arthas) from the company «WC3:TFT». In 6.21 was added another a new hero. Further, for a long period, up to version 6.27, the developers are mainly engaged in editing found bugs and improve the game balance. The release of the long-awaited 6.27 took place at the end of November 2005.On November 1, 2005, DotA Allstars 6.20 was released, in which IceFrog returned from the newly added snow decoration to the classic, herbaceous, which was in version 5.84. However, he slightly changed the color scheme of the card, making it more pleasing to the eyes and not so harsh. This card still has the same style.The first rays of the dawn: the 6.2 x Era
It was during this period Heintje released the first Chinese localization «DotA Allstars». This was version 6.12. Further Heintje continued to translate " DotA Allstars «into Chinese, so the game has gained new spaces for growth – overpopulated China plunged headlong into the world of»DotA Allstars".The famous Russian proverb says:«a New broom sweeps in a new way.» Knowing this folk wisdom, seriously IceFrog took the job – he made a lot of changes and improvements in version 6.10, in particular completely reworking the hero Faceless Void. He also added a new, ambiguous at the time hero-Invoker'a (the same that is present in DotA now, but then he had 31 ability(!!!), and now he only has 10 of them. It was too unbalanced, so IceFrog kept It «in bins» for a long time and didn't add to the game). Throughout the 6.1 x series, IceFrog changed a lot compared to older DotA versions. Not forgetting to correct a number of bugs and errors, it processed too imbabah heroes and constantly right balance.Probably due to the almost perfect balance in version 5.84, many fans refused to put up with a lot of changes in series 6.XX and continued to play on the old map. This led to early versions of the 6 series.XX were not very popular. However, these failures were not able to affect the persistent IceFrog'a, and he continued to release more and more new versions.
Neichus took over the duties of the project leader. Under his leadership, were created and added to the game such heroes: Earthshaker, Tiny, Chen 2.0, Stealth Assassin 2.0, Phantom Lancer, Enchantress, Enigma, Axe, Shadow Fiend, Visage 2.0, Nerubian Weaver, Bloodseeker. Having released several new versions of the map, Neichus was disappointed in the project and left it, and IceFrog took the place of project Manager.On February 28, 2005, a long time after the release of DotA Allstars 6.00 and after Guinsoo announced its withdrawal from the mod, two new players – Neichus and IceFrog became official developers and continued the process of improving DotA from version 6.01. Neichus started working on DotA as early as October 2004, after which it was joined by IceFrog. Rumors had it that Guinsoo went into World of Warcraft, but no one knew exactly where it went.
Picking up the pieces: the Era of 6.1 x
IGS (International Gaming Syndicate) for the first time began To hold DotA tournaments in 2004. Only 20 teams took part in the first season. The second season counted already as much as 45 teams! The popularity of the game in General and the tournament in particular continued to grow, more and more players involved in the gaming community.
With the growing popularity of DotA, the attendance of the forum was constantly increasing and reached incredible levels-more than a million visitors a month, then up to a million page views a day. The site administration and staff numbered more than 100 people. Unfortunately, in July 2010 the site was closed. For this reason, the official website of the «DotA Allstars» was the portal PlayDota.com and brand the word «Allstars» has been removed from the title cards.
The first «League» was formed in April 2004. It was called Clan TDA (Team DotA Allstars). The growth of its popularity was greatly helped by the website DotA-Allstars.com an outdoor October 14, 2004 one of the members of TDA and nick Pendragon. It has long been the official website of DotA Allstars, as well as one of the communication centers of the community.
With the growing popularity of WC3, interest in the user map – DotA-also grew. The number of users 9nid grew gradually, and now is the time when the server could no longer handle the load. The decision was made to move to the platform portal RTSGamer. It was after moving to the new site, the formation of the first «leagues» for DotA began.In those days, only a few people (there were very few, probably about ten) organized and created the first forum dedicated to DotA, calling it 9nid. It was DotA's first semi-official community of players, where everything related to The game was discussed. Even now, go to the forum, there you can see several old-timers even those times. Rumor has it that there is a secret list of founders and honorary members of the forum.
Origin of the first official competitions: «TDA» and " IGS»
Later, when the development of the game took on new people, in memory of the huge contribution to the development of maps of old developers in the game were added items with the appropriate names: «Eul's Scepter of Divinity» and «Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse».
(See at the end under the spoiler «How did the Russians helped to improve DotA»)It is worth noting that the very popular version of 5.84 C (predecessor DotA Allstars 5.84 c v2) is not actually released Guinsoo, although the authorship is attributed to him. In connection with a rather nasty bug in version 5.84 b, unknown Russian modders the with the nickname True.Rus made up his mind and released an unofficial version of 5.84 C. In it, he rewritten some of the code, so that the loading time decreased from 3 minutes to 20 seconds, and fixed some critical bugs.Almost immediately after the release of 5.84 was considered a classic, and for a long time, even after the release of the series 6.XX, it remained extremely popular among players. There were rumors that even in the days of version 6.2 x In Southeast Asia (SEA) still held a couple of tournaments on the old 5.84. Many Chinese old-school players of today still love that version of the map and often nostalgic about those times. Even now, in some computer clubs in China, you can play it, or at least find it loaded in the game files.The final version of the series 5.XX was «DotA Allstars 5.84 C v2». It occupies a separate place in the history of DotA Allstars. It differed from its predecessors by an incredibly thin balance and stability, which attracted great interest of many players outside the previously established community. Starting with this version DotA received public recognition, it began to talk about and actively discuss. It is believed that DotA Allstars 5.84 C v2 was the first stable version to be used in the few tournaments held at that time.
Source (RU): https://www.iccup.com/away/f6c6f9ebbf712b00ff2b1936617d0bf4/
