{"id":32552,"date":"2012-02-16T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32552"},"modified":"2012-02-16T14:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:29:06","slug":"valve-confirms-dota-2-lan-and-mod-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32552-valve-confirms-dota-2-lan-and-mod-support","title":{"rendered":"Valve confirms DOTA 2 LAN and mod support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Johnson, the DOTA 2 project lead, has confirmed to joinDOTA that they are currently working on the implementation of LAN mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some systems that LAN mode requires that we haven&#8217;t finished yet, mainly because we&#8217;ve been focused on matchmaking. We know how important this feature is for the community,\u201d he clarifies.<\/p>\n<p>This move is likely to be welcomed in China and South East Asia, where LAN centres and competitions appeal to a very significant and passionate gaming community.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has reiterated that it is their ambition to get as many localised servers out into the world as possible so that players can enjoy sub-100ms latency.<\/p>\n<p>Modders can also smile. When asked about the mods, custom maps and mini-games often enjoyed by players in Warcraft 3, Johnson added that Valve has a long history of supporting the mod community and that Valve would like to continue that support with DOTA 2.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"joinDOTA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joindota.com\/en\/news\/2526-erik-johnson-confirms-lan-mode-for-dota2\">joinDOTA<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers all around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":32338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,1610,2399,1512,697],"class_list":["post-32552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-dota2","tag-lan","tag-mod","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32554,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions\/32554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}