Dota 2’s The Worldwide has at all times featured soundproof cubicles for the primary occasion—till this yr. These particular bins enable gamers to carry out on stage with out listening to the casters or the group, which may be distracting when the stakes are at their highest.
Although it’s usually not very best to have an outdoor audio supply whereas enjoying Dota 2, it’ll be an entire different story if the sound belongs to the casters who’re shoutcasting precious info. As extra groups received off the stage after the primary day of TI11, gamers like Gaimin Gladiator’s (GG) Anton “dyrachyo” Shkredov revealed they may fully hear the casters whereas on stage.
“It’s a scary factor you could hear completely every part that casters say,” dyrachyo mentioned in his post-game chat on Nix’s Twitch stream. “We may hear each smoke and Rune.” Whereas this will likely sound like a trivial situation to the informal Dota 2 viewer, it could create game-breaking conditions, particularly when one of many groups on stage doesn’t communicate English.
In the course of the interview, dyrachyo identified they have been capable of dodge Smoke gangs and notified of a Double Injury Rune going Fnatic’s method, permitting GG to regulate their plans accordingly.
PSG.LGD’s XinQ additionally said they may hear the casters, however they couldn’t perceive it. The LGD participant had one other situation with the soundproof headphones, as they made him really feel sick and raised his blood strain.
Listening to the casters is a significant downside that needs to be addressed earlier than tomorrow’s video games. For all we all know, the state of affairs could have even triggered some groups to get eradicated from the match because it prevents all game-changing performs from Smokes to Rune pickups. The issue doesn’t get any higher when each groups are fluent in English, both, because the fixed info circulation may flip matches into beginning contests.
Contemplating this hasn’t even been a speaking level in earlier TIs, the state of affairs boils right down to the one distinction, the cubicles. The manufacturing crew tried fixing the absence of the cubicles with soundproof headphones, which may be nowhere as impactful.
