Reviving Online Games Philippines

Whew!

It's been 4 years since I last wrote my most recent article for Online Game Philippines. Back then this blog was one #1 listings of several important search engine results concerned with Philippines and the online gaming scene. Been really busy with a lot of things over the past few years and honestly, totally forgot about this blog.

I'm thinking of reviving Online Games Philippines again and start meddling with all these ruckus that's been recently happening in the Philippine Online gaming scene.

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LOL Bugs: Can't Buy Items

It seems that the recent League of Legends (LOL) Philippines update made quite some impressive improvements to the league of Legends Masteries and the game terrains enhancements are just superb. The update however brought up some really annoying bugs one of which is when a player is unable to buy items during the game even if you have enough golds to buy them. I myself experienced the said bug and it is indeed frustrating especially during the middle and end part of the LOL game. During said occurrence of the said bug in LOL, all store items are disabled and you just can't buy any of it (I had over 10,000 golds at that time.)

How to Fix LOL Philippine's "Unable to Buy Items" Bug

Solution #1: Gather enough gold until the whole set for the complete item your are trying to buy is made available. It means you can't buy an item until you have enough golds to buy all the required items for a complete item set.

Solution #2: Another solution is to this bug is to leave then reconnect to the game. A tremendous hassle both to you and your team mates.

For now, these are the two workarounds that worked for me. You may try them at least until LOL PH are able to finally fix the bug.

League of Legends (LOL) Philippines New Masteries Set

New League of Legends (LOL) Masteries set

Around 5:00 PM of of November 27, 2013, League of Legends (LOL) Philippines released a new update to its Masteries set which contains improvements to masteries selections for LOL players to mix in and utilize for their champions. The new set is still categorized into the usual three masteries groups, namely:

Offense Masteries
This group contains enhancements to your champion's attack capabilities and can be further categorized into three sub-classifications namely: attack damage and attack speed, ability damage, and damage to minions and monsters. Enhancement to bonus skill items (e.g. Burn, Smite, etc.) has been removed from the first item on the Offense Masteries group.

Defense Masteries
This mastery group enhances your champion's health and resistance to damage. This group contains base health bonus, healing rate, and armor bonus and magic resistance. The base health mastery bonus adds to your champion's health span. The healing rate increases your champion's rate of recovering lost health. The armor bonus and magic resistance lessens damage received from physical and magic damage, respectively.









Utility Masteries

Miscellaneous enhancements that affect bonus skill items, wards, trinkets, potions and capabilities such as movement speed when out of combat and gold rate.

Description of each Mastery items will be discussed on the next post.

Download DOTA 2 Philippines Game Client

DOTA 2 runs on Steam Game Client and requires you to have a DOTA 2 key which can only be obtained by invitation. Luckily, Valve created a new way to be invited by taking their hardware and game proficiency survey. I've posted an article here to help you get your DOTA 2 invite and key.

How to Get the DOTA 2 Key

It has arrived… with great confusion and desperation for most Philippine online gamers. The reason for such mention is that it turned out DOTA 2, currently on beta stage, can only be played if you have been invited to play it. That is, you either have to have a DOTA 2 beta key obtained from privileged existing DOTA 2 beta account holders or you will have to be invited by Valve, the game publisher itself.  That sounds quite a pain and almost seems impossible for many online gamers in the Philippines. Luckily, recent developments made Valve realize that their strategy left their game miles behind their kin and number one competitor, League of Legends, that they finally loosen up their membership selection a bit and devised a workaround for online gamers to setup new DOTA 2 account and obtain their beta key.

Here’s a quick guide on how you can get your own account and DOTA 2 key for free.

How to get your DOTA 2 key in the Philippines

DOTA 2 runs on steam client so you will have to download and install it before you can play DOTA 2 Philippines. Head over to this link to download the Steam client. Click on the green link on top of the page that says “Install Steam”.

You will then be redirected to the Steam client download page. It will also show you the recommended system requirements for DOTA 2 (i.e. operating system, memory, CPU/processor speed, hard disk space and internet connection speed). Again, click the green button to download the game client.


Save the installer to your local drive then install.

After installing Steam, update your Steam client by clicking on “Check for Steam Client Updates…” This will allow you to fetch the latest DOTA 2 game client updates and latest patches.

Now it’s time to get your free DOTA 2 key. As I have said earlier, you will need to be invited in order to obtain a beta key. The easiest way is to take the DOTA survey so can be invited. To get the invite, head over to the DOTA 2 survey. The DOTA 2 survey screen look something like this:

The trick is to complete the survey as honestly as possible. The DOTA 2 survey questions are designed to know if your answers do not quite add up.


Now the hardest part comes in. You will have to wait for your invite. It will land down to the email address you provided on the survey. Mine took 3 days. Some went as long as a week. The invite usually contain 5 digits. Use it it to activate your DOTA 2 account and register your computer to the game.

Good luck!