Hey all, Druid here.

Got my start originally in HoN, but never played much b/c didn't really have any friends to play with and the wider community is full of giant monkey genitalia. It's still great fun to watch, though, so watch I did, and when Dota 2 was announced I immediately applied to participate in the Beta. Eventually got a beta key, fired the game up, played a game or two, lost badly, and put it down again until recently; I logged in last week and discovered bot matches. So from then until now, in between work and life, I've been practicing/learning the basic skills in an environment where I know I won't be the target of insults so foul they would make Satan cringe.

I heard about DotaNoobs today while listening to the DotaInsider podcast, and came by as soon as I got home (i.e. now) to sign up and have a look around. Hi!

[EDIT] And when I say DotaInsider, I mean DotaInsight. <_< Shhhh.

~D

It definitely seems like a very rudimentary AI, and I too have noticed that the bots (at least on easy or medium) really like to dive for kills. I had a group follow me all the way across the map, from their base to mine, through two towers, before finally killing me in the fountain. I suspect that it's much less a risk for bots in bot games than it is for humans in human games, as Valve doesn't seem to have added concepts like team support to their framework yet, so they also really like to just leave a fellow hero hanging. Still, it's a work in progress, and at least they put out consistent updates to the AI. We can reasonably expect that they will get at least a little better as time goes on.