Defense of the Shrines 2Defence of the Shrines 1 was a Touhou DotA spin off which was playable only with War Craft III. Because WC3 was to be purchased in order to play DotS, it was not really accessible to the fans who had no money to buy the games. (Even if they were cheap cheap). After several years and the release of Valve's Dota tools, it seems the chinese development team have made a serious move to spawn DotS2. On MotK there were plans being made by several members to create DotS2 ourselves, but it seems the Chinese community was faster. Faithful fans who played DotS will be pleased to know that it will be based on DotA again and not LoL. We're returning back to core mechanics without the scaling system for STR,INT and AGI.
DotS2 uses the Steam DotA2 workshop it seems, so there will be a possible integration with DotA2 client. Which is for free! And thus DotS2 will be free to play as well at this rate, yay!
Cuc has provided supreme details here
https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17466.msg1131928.html#msg1131928How to prepare DotS2- Download DotA2 client to your Steam Library.
- Preparing your DotA2 client for custom modes: read here
- Basically, rightclick DotA2 in your game library
- Go to DLC tab and tick the Workshop item.
- Your steam will start downloading the workshop files (large).
- Subscribe to DotS2 Alpha Steamworkshop link.
How to play1. Make sure you are all friends to each other on Steam (or atleast to the hoster)
2. Boot DotA2 as usual
3. Go to Play > Custom Games
4. Drop down the 'Browse By' box and select 'Subscribed Games'
5. Create if you want to host, otherwise you should be able to see existing lobbies.
6. Play DotS2.
Warning- Game is in heavy Alpha and there are almost no tooltips existant. You will feel lost
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Old DotS item page on the wiki can maybe help you provide some info. Like a Mushroom / Cucumber giving +2/+1 stats etc.
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Alt + tab item guide from old 0.967g. - Hosting will indeed require huge resources on your PC.
- Upon start, the game launches a seperate 64bit instance or something of DotA2, it didn't crash.
- Loading takes time, don't touch anything. Anything.
- Leaving/disconnecting button isn't implemented yet. Just close the game, you will return to the original DotA2 client.
- If you're hosting, you may want to increase waiting time for loaders. While loading yourself (dota splash logo) hit tilde to open console and type
dota_wait_for_players_to_load_timeout 600. This will allow loaders to take 10 minutes to load.
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This thread will be general game discussion and bragging as usual how great you are with your waifus in combat. For news discussion, please visit Cuc's thread. Everything else, goes in here.
