DoTA (Defense of the Ancients)

Warcraft Frozen Throne was released more than a couple of years ago but still it is a big hit not only here in the Philippines but also in other Asian countries because of the custom map "Defence of the Ancients" or DoTA.

DoTA is a team strategy game where players can choose which side and hero will he/she be playing. Players on the same side fight the other players on the opposing side to win the game. The objective of the games is to destroy the opponents’ base together with AI controlled units called creeps. Heroes start at level 1 and levels up to level 25. Heroes level up during the game while killing opposing heroes and creeps. Heroes gain skill when they gain additional levels. DOTA can be played as starting 1v1 up to 5v5. This could be against human players or AI controlled heroes which can be played on DOTA AI maps.

DOTA was originally developed by a mapmaker named Eul. There were different DOTA variations that time. The most popular one is DOTA All Stars which was developed by Guinsoo. When Guinsoo retired, IceFrog took over as the main programmer for the map.

DOTA is more on strategy than individual play. Even though players have their own heroes, it is their teamwork that is very important to winning the game. Although factors like individual skills also matter, a very good player with team mates that doesn’t care a lot about the team can’t just win by himself against all his opponents(unless of course he’s far too good and his opponents are new to the game).

DoTA can be played through a local area network, through Battlenet, or LAN oever the internet with the use of Hamachi or the most pupular Garena.

Since DoTA is a custom Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne map, it follows the same system requirements,

Minimum System Requirements:

* 400 MHz Pentium II or equivalent, or a 400 MHz G3 processor or better.
* Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. Warcraft III requires Mac OS® 9.0 or higher, or Mac OS X® 10.1.3 or higher
* Warcraft III requires 128 MB of RAM. Virtual Memory should be enabled on computers running pre-Mac OS X versions of the Mac OS®.
* A keyboard and mouse are required.
* A hard drive with at least 550 MB of free space

* 8MB 3D video card (TNT, i810, Voodoo 3, Rage 128 equivalent or better) with DirectX 8.1 support. For Mac OS® systems, a video card consisting of an ATI Technologies or nVidia chipset with at least 16 MB of memory is required.
* A DirectX-compatible 16-bit sound card is recommended. Warcraft III will work with the built-in sound features of the Mac OS®.

Recommended System Requirements:

* 600 MHz processor or better
* 256 MB of RAM
* 32 MB 3D Video card

Multiplayer Requirements:

* Access to Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service, Battle.net, requires a low-latency, active Internet connection rated at 28.8 Kbps or faster.
* Multiplayer games played over a LAN require an active connection to a TCP/IP network.


There should be no problem with these requirements since computers nowadays are way over qualified for this game.

Start playing, invite your friends. I play through Garena everyday. I run a small Computer Cafe so blogging and playing DoTA is what I do everyday.

You can add me as your buddy if you play Garena, these past few days I play on Singapore and Vietnam rooms, of course to learn new tricks and strategies.

I will be posting updates, map download links and logs as well as tools and utilities that we can use to make our DoTA gaming more enjoyable.

You can download DoTA maps here

http://www.getdota.com

And Garena here

http://www.garena.com

ENJOY GAMING!