Clan CMNC Minecraft Christmas! - [12/02/13]

Happy holidays from Clan CMNC!  Right now we're doing a Minecraft promotion.  Just visit the server everyday and find the Christmas tree.  You can claim a new gift every day! It's been a great year for our Minecraft server, and a lot has been done.

Pyrion Flax's Hilarious Dota2 Videos

These are must watch Dota2 videos that provide more of a humorous rather then informational take on some of Dota's most popular heroes and strategies.

Pyrion Flax's Guide to Dota2

Here is his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/tedhimself

Unreleased Heroes in Test Client Videos

For those of you who haven't seen, there was a recent Valve mishap where they 'accidentally released' a good amount of new heroes too early.  They were quickly taken out, but there were videos of these new heroes.  They don't have any models yet, and many of them have nonexistent ability effects.

 Dota2 Unreleased Test Client Heroes

 

joinDOTA.com's U.S. Open Cup!

Clan CMNC has signed up for joinDOTA's Open US and European tournament.  We don't plan on getting very far, but we'll try out hardest!  This is mostly a learning experience for us, and the knowledge will probably prove invaluable for future events.

We will try to get someone to stream our games, but nothing is promised for right now.

You can view our team page here.  Note that only 5 participate, but we can have a larger roster in case we need backup players.

There will be no set players in these matches because everyone has varying schedules.  I have put the most likely to play players in our main lineup.

Front Page Minor Updates

Included in today's new test client release was the Socialize Tab.  While it wasn't working that well when I tried it today, I'm sure it will be fully added into the main client within the next week.  As promised, we will start becoming more active in our clan matches.  In light of this, I have modified the Clan Roster tab to include our main 5 team members (currently undecided), and our 2 ringers (also undecided).  More to come, stay tuned!

New Channel Videos Up!

If you are subscribed to our Youtube channel, then you probably have seen these.  For those of you who aren't, here's some mild entertainment from me to you.  The first is a Darkseer jungle strategy performed by Numnah for the Dire side only.  This also works with Pudge.  The second two videos are RAMPAGE!!'s performed by Parrothead.

Darkseer Jungle Demonstration

Doombringer Rampage

Rikimaru Rampage

Lycanthrope out and other stuff

 I thought I'd post a blogpost to show that this site is still being managed and worked on, albeit at a very slow progress.  We're still waiting for Dota2 to get into at least open beta before we begin to participate in clan matches.  We hope that by the time Dota2 is released, the socialize tab will be done or at least functional enough to allow clan matches to go on.  Until then, we'll continue practicing to get ready for higher level matches.

No pubs are safe now with Lycanthrope being out!  For the one of you that didn't know, he was the hero most recently added.  My suggestion is to play only captains mode for 2 weeks.

Site Updates

Hellir and wercome to the site.

This week I'm hoping to finish this website, and the forum (yay).

Some things that will probably change/have changed:

• Removal of that weird Youtube box on every post (Fixed).
• Forum redesign (In Progress).
• Team list (Ongoing).
• Minecraft section (Planning).
• Bug fixes (Ongoing).

 Obviously I'm not that sure what Dota2 will completely bring when it's released, but we will continue to update our site according to the new features (check out Cyborgmatt's new findings about the social tab, it sounds incredibly exciting!).

Tonight's patch will likely move the test clients game to the official, and the test client will get another update.  We won't be posting patch notes on here like we did with the Clinkz one, as you probably already looked at the Dota2 site first.

For people returning to Clan CMNC after all these years, and newcomers that either stumbled upon the site, or were told to come here, we welcome you.  Check the roster over to the right and add at least Parrothead to your Steam friends to get that sweet reunion feeling with a lost friend.

It's been a while!

If you got a beta key, we will be happy to play with you!  We regularly use Skype though, and have more or less abandoned other chat programs (Ventrilo, Teamspeak, Mumble etc).  But if you can't talk at all, then that's fine too!  We here at CMNC are very supportive of deaf-mute Helen Keller.

Site Design

Most of the front page's aesthetics are done, and it is all shaping up nicely.  Next up is the forum, which will undoubtedly require more time to do.

Here's a video of Furion's Treant last hitting Roshan, and stealing the gold from the other team.

Treant Steal

Dota2 Updates

No updates for this week.  Expect something within a few days though, as Valve said they are probably going to give us an update before next week.

To tie this gruesome wait over, I uploaded two new videos.  The first is Ursa and Skeleton King killing Roshan at level one (with an explanation on how to in the video's description), and the second is a RAMPAGE! performed by Ursa.  Sorry for the quality on the level 1 rosh, but I was testing a video compressor, and it didn't go too well (thanks Frosty).

Ursa Level 1 Rosh

 

Ursa RAMPAGE!

Site Creation Information

This site is going to be heavily worked on for at least a couple more weeks.  If you have any suggestions at all, please feel free to leave them by either contacting me (Parrothead) on Steam, or by scrolling to the very last line of the page, and clicking the little 'Contact' link to email me.

Here is what I'm planning on doing first:

• Getting forums working (in progress).
• Make all links work (haven't started).
• Change the temporary banner at the top (haven't started).
• Site optimizations (will begin after the above are finished).

Clinkz

Dota2 Clinkz Patch

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

GAMEPLAY

• Added Clinkz!
• Added Legacy Key support for Invoker.
• Fixed Invoker's Quas, Wex, and Exort not giving Invoker bonus stats properly when upgraded.
• Fixed Invoker's Invoke to properly swap the invoked abilities in the 1st and 2nd slots if the spell already existing in the 2nd slot is invoked again.
• Fixed Cold Snap not being castable on Roshan
• Fixed EMP cast range
• Lane creeps will now stand still if they become unable to attack, such as when hit by Invoker's Deafening Blast, instead of charging past enemy creeps and towers.
• Enabled Invoker in CM
• Fixed gold-transfer hack, the sellback cooldown is now reset when combining stacks where the items have different owners.
• Fixed Sticky Napalm triggering off of Orb of Venom
• Fixed Glaives of Wisdom being usable while silenced

INTERFACE

• Made chat messages HTML safe.
• Fixed some buttons in the hero selector being broken after playing in a CM game.
• Added a chat -ping command

News Feed Test

This is just a general test of our new news feed, and how it is going to work.