{"id":194,"date":"2025-06-01T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/?p=194"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:08:12","slug":"dota-2-pre-crownfall-and-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 Pre-Crownfall and Classic! (Windows)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.realmofespionage.xyz\/games;windows;dota_2_pre-crownfall_steamcmd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pre-Crownfall notes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.realmofespionage.xyz\/games;windows;dota_2_classic_source1_steamcmd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Classic notes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code>SteamCMD<\/code> + Goldberg Steam Emu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offline + Unfair Bot Match instant-launch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>70GB<\/code>+ 7.39, <code>50GB<\/code> Pre-Crownfall, <code>14GB<\/code> Classic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pre-Crownfall is before 7.36 that introduced Hero Facets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I think Facets enforce a predetermined play-style and makes randoming Heroes less-fun<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Classic is Source 1 (<code>win32<\/code> DX9)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Classic is more chill and I like it! Warlock is way less-OP :p<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I had to <em>finally <\/em>look into obtaining older Dota 2 versions after the 2025 &#8220;Spring Forward&#8221; 7.39 update introduced more-complex UX with the courier and having it auto-buy (totally broke my Octraine Core flow!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Crownfall notes Classic notes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dota-2","category-windows-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}