I think 6.83 was the comeback patch. Pick 4 cores and 1 greedy support then feed all the early game and lose all your t1 and t2 then turtle with sniper until they fail 4-5 times then comeback. Now you can actually gank early, snowball and finish the game within 30min. I love it. Makes the early heroes more interesting and completly changes the meta. Of course getting godlike then make a mustakes should reward the enemy team bur i do see alot less comeback now unless the enemy team really had no way of carrying and extending but its rare.
I don't recall games being shorter in a good while, currently the games are decided almost always in the laning phase. Definitely not a "comeback meta" like the guy above me just said too.
You'll get a lot for ending a spree if you're at the bottom of your team's net worth. Same if you're the one snowballing you'll get near nothing for more kills.
I havent seen that many comebacks in 6.84, and logically it is not a patch that favors turnarounds.
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1501719405
20 min win with Drow, Sniper, Medusa, Pudge, Dazzle --- Not a pushing, early game team --- Just snowball. Other team tried to jungle. I see junglers fail often this patch. They cause lanes to be weak. Drow beat CK top so badly he didn't get boots until 15 min. Ursa gave up at about 15 min, was still only level 5. He could not even get close enough to creeps to level up.
Comebacks are still possible, but they're not cancerous. Patch is very good, besides some cancers (Bara, Undying).
I had a lot of fun playing 6.82 but I can see why others didn't like it, 6.81 was my first patch and least favorite In Dota 2 , ( I played Dota in wc3 from like 2003-2009 . After that I guess I like 6.84 more than 6.83 so far but we'll see , over all tho 6.83 was my worst patch I literally ended the patch at the exact same mmr as I started it in . I gained like 900 mmr on 6.82 tho. My goal off this patch is to gain a minimum of 350 mmr.
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i thought it couldn't get worse after the debacle that was 6.82 but the new numbers you can get for ending killing sprees are simply horrifying. even after the changes scaled back to be more reasonable, I have had the suspicion that trying to gank and get kills early would be highly inefficient, and if they kill you afterwards they'll actually benefit from your endeavour, and it strengthened now that you get low gold from kills early. do you think that's true?