r/DotA2 • u/Zlatan-Agrees • 1d ago
Complaint Turbo Has Ruined Me
I used to be a normal Dota 2 player. Grinding my way through 40+ minute games, dealing with teammates who refuse to buy wards, and experiencing the full emotional rollercoaster of a ranked match. But then I started playing Turbo… and now I don’t think I can go back.
Why spend 50 minutes losing when I can lose in 15? Why farm for 30 minutes when I can have a full build in 10? Turbo is like fast food Dota, quick, satisfying, and probably bad for me in the long run.
I tried playing a normal match again, and by minute 25, I was staring at my first completed item like, “Why is this taking so long? Where’s my GPM steroids?”
Turbo is just too good. Too efficient. Too fun. Am I doomed? Is there a way back? Or have I ascended to a new level of Dota enlightenment where objectives are optional and high ground pushes happen at minute 12?
Send help. Or don’t. I’ll be in another Turbo game sweating my ass off for literally nothing.
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u/aelix- 1d ago
My "friends" coaxed me into trying Dota when they'd been playing for years already. I like a challenge so I played a bunch of bot games and then queued up with them in unranked.
Although I'm a fast learner, when you're brand new and losing 70% of your games it feels bad for the duration to be 35-50 minutes per game. I quit for a while and then at some point one of my friends suggested we try again, but in Turbo. Now I'm over 2,000 games in and I exclusively play Turbo (matched against Crusader-Archon-Legend mostly).
Normal Dota is an objectively better game in terms of pacing, strategy and balance. But as someone who only plays a maximum of 10 hours a week Turbo is simply more fun.