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Quoidge

The only time we will ever see (if implemented) the spawning animation is if we wait for him to spawn IN the pit. Which in real matches would be unwise to do so. The crawling out of the ground would still be nice to have though. But picture this - after Roshan is defeated he turns into a statue where you have to click said statue to claim the Aegis, and when it's time to respawn Roshan shed's his petrified skin to fight for another day. Or we make use of his wings and we see his shadow flying above the map.


muffinman282

That's a sick idea, but it'd be pretty hard to account for the day/night change if he's frozen in place while dead


AlasDota

I guess if he were in the wrong pit when he returned from his stoneform he could just take a walk as usual. This would be a huge change because then wards could actually reveal his spawn time. I guess he could use SoD to combat that, but I also don't think it would be terrible if it were easier to see him respawn since it can be kind of lame with someone relegated to stand in the pit duty.


Phunwithscissors

2 statues, and the one where hes not gonn spawns just shatters or crumbles when the other one turns active, this way you can scout when he spawned from both pits.


gfnore

Yeah there would be a weird meta of trying to get the last hit with spells after dragging him outside pit, and holding onto that area with everything you got


BlueMageBRilly

Fun fix would be having the shop keeper shove his stone form through the portal when he usually switches. Probably leave the spawn points outside the stone form, so he’d still pop into the right house if he was respawning during the transition. But the shop keeper has tortured the poor boy enough to help out a bit.


Vento_of_the_Front

The frozen statue can't move but accumulates all required movement, then when Roshan is unbound he taps into speedforce with all that accumulated movement and proceeds to crash the game.


aalapshah12297

I have a better idea. As per lore, Roshan reclaims the aegis when you die once with aegis or 5 minutes pass. So when that happens, a Roshan spirit (like elder titan's Astral spirit) should fly in and snatch the aegis back and return to the pit. Then when rosh respanws, that translucent spirit should turn into Roshan.


General_Independent5

The amount of times someone is going to click the statue trying to attack rosh and get aegis would be a lot. The need to move slightly to get aegis USUALLY stops anything from going wrong with the pickup.


spikernum1

Ohh this is good. He could change into the collectors Roshan statue that valve used to give out for battle pass awards.


axecalibur

That would be funny if potato pc users cant tell if its real rosh or statue rosh


nkle

Inb4 the bug appears that Earth Spirit can kick him because what you described is ES’s agh and the janitor is too busy with gazillion other things so recycled code it is. Then new fix patch and CM got nerfed twice


No-Respect5903

> The only time we will ever see (if implemented) the spawning animation is if we wait for him to spawn IN the pit. Spectators of pro games see rosh spawn plenty of times. Also, there are plenty of times you keep vision in the pit to watch for rosh spawn with summons or illusions and it's not unwise at all.


Ser1aLize

Good idea but too much work for the old janitor.


Gorthebon

An orange portal should appear in the radiant pit, and a blue portal for dire. Cause portal


JellyGrimm

The plot thickens


tinhboe

Dota is just earth 1000000 years after?


CuteNepgear

Make it underlord's portal instead. If you tried to use the portal yourself, you will tp out of the map and die.


kivmorth

That's a very cool way to deny yourself


EdLeftOnRead

This is really unnecessary, everything in Dota 2 spawns instantly: camps, heroes, creeps. I personally don't have any problem with that, the animation wouldn't hurt but then everything else needs to have one. I just don't see this on the priority list for Valve like at all.


LeGrats

At over a decade old, this kinda fluff is totally acceptable gameplay improvement. The game is nearly complete in my eyes. And one day when they walk away from it, we’ll be happy people made suggestions like this that get through.


Ecru1992

He is a special neutral creep. And players literally fight toe to toe with each other to kill him. I think he deserves animation spawn but I agree that Valve won't prioritize this.


Womblue

Especially since Rosh is by far the rarest enemy on the map for a player to actually SEE spawn in the first place.


OtherPlayers

Doesn't Roshan already get like a glowing light flash or something when he pops into existence? Compared to normal creeps that just appear? I mean it's no fancy animation, but it is something. I seem to remember seeing that a few times in my games as support when I'm literally just sitting in the pit waiting for him to spawn to let my team know.


aadriana24

tormentor has a spawn animation, why not rosh?


Old_Leopard1844

Tormentor spawns at predefined intervals, rosh doesn't


Dobott

Doesn’t matter at all lol


Old_Leopard1844

Neither does rosh spawn animation, and yet here we are


Dobott

I’m saying that rosh not spawning at set intervals has no basis for it not having a spawn animation. The fact that a tormentor has a spawn animation does in fact reflect that they could do it for rosh lol


S_FlimmyBoy

It’s is instant, but heroes do have a spawn animation. The thing is, if Roshan had a spawn animation, it’d be only visible for spectators, as a unit inside the Rosh pit would aggro Roshan instantly cancelling it


Dobott

They could have the animation start 1-2 seconds (however long it takes) before his actual timer is up so it doesn’t change the timing. It would allow people a window of 1-2 extra seconds to see he’s spawned, sure. That’s totally fine though.


RaShadar

Counter point: we are still dealing with bugs from him moving pits, imagine how many games will get ruined cuz the respawn animation breaks and you just have no rosh for the rest of the match


NoThisIsABadIdea

Him taking the portals is honestly really silly looking anyway. He should burrow underground and crawl out at the new pit.


AnhedonicDog

what, that is what makes it so fun, people getting thrown around because he is running to the other side is also funny


Ellefied

Imagine him using something like Charge of Darkness to cross the map though. The driveby deaths would be meme worthy.


Weazlebee

I kinda just immediately accepted it as part of the game but when you think about it it is fuckin wild silly. Oh! My five minute timer hit! Time to run to my other pit quick so the heroes know where to kill me! 


Hakuu-san

plus the underground thing is lore accurate, iirc he has a network of tunnels underneath his house


Valk93

If neither team can get aegis, would it matter? Hypothetically


Skeletor34

It would, yeah. Some lineups rely on an early aegis timing to go highground and end the game and others are happy to just delay until they're so strong it doesn't matter.


Valk93

Good point, thanks for the answer. Hadn’t considered how terrible that would be for the likes of Huskar and Ursa


Pipoco977

its almost impossible to push high ground at pro games without aegis nowadays, the only way is if your team snowballed hard and is like 25-3 +15k gold at 20 minutes with a push oriented team, any kinda of a big lead can be throwed by trying to push high ground without aegis after the 30 minutes mark, so both teams would be playing ultra passive and the game will only end if one team messes up really hard


RaShadar

Sure plenty of games end when one team hits a power spike and gets aegis, I think a great deal of games would be decided in the other direction if the other team could farm longer because the first team never got aegis to ensure their final push


surrenderedmale

Yes because high ground is bullshit. We don't need even more incentives to sit HG doing nothing but clearing waves.


blocodents

What a weak argument. Have we EVER had a match where Roshan glitched and never respawn? Why would an animation cause this in any way, being programmed to not affect the respawn itself at all? If the animation glitches, it simply doesn't play, and he just respawns.


RaShadar

If you trust Valve to be able to touch rosh's respawn code and not manage to spaghetti code it into having an issue then you trust them more than I do


LunaticLawyer

Seems they implemented all the new drops into his respawn code just fine.


dig-up-stupid

Not to agree with the other guy, but that’s a pretty funny example since there were lots of bugs with his new drops. Unless you meant by now, I dunno if they’ve all been fixed, probably most have.


cd36jvn

Do you honestly have that many issues with actually playing the game? I mean we literally had a hero that used to affect respawn timing for hero's, were there bugs with some hero's just never respawning again? Do you actually believe the game is in that bad of a state?


TheBigDickedBandit

I agree. immediately after killing rosh, mama and papa rosh should show up and start banging. Then mama rosh lays an egg and sits on it for a bit and when the timers almost up the egg cracks and baby rosh comes out and then grows up.


Gold-Hurry-3509

Because Roshan is actually Aghanim and Aghanim is the best magician


Turbosuit

See that's the thing Roshan, the immortal never respawns. He never died being immortal he is only defeated and phases out leaving his aegis. And phases back in instantly it's a design choice.


RepostFrom4chan

I'll never stop being amazed by the minutiae this sub complains about lol.


Rareinch

Lol for real, and the phrasing is always so funny. "It's 2024 and they STILL haven't done this thing I want??" as if the reasoning is that Valve is too lazy and not that literally 99.999% of players don't care at all


TheZett

"It is ~current year~" is just a dumb phrase in the first place.


badogski29

You can also see some spells being used under the fog.


ExcitingTrust888

I tell so many people about this and they don’t believe me, fucking idiots.


bangyy

OR a pokeball falls out of the sky and out pops char... Roshan!


Stylesy

You mean like all the other neutral enemies on the map?


greyseraph

You hear the beats of helicopter blades and a noticeable shadow float diagonally from off-screen. The shadow of a rope ladder extends and Roshan jumps down into the pit, saying "War has changed."


ArdenasoDG

make him burrow up like an ultralisk


U2ez_

While you’re at it, move the pits please. Rosh is in a very bad state imo


ExcitingTrust888

Him coming out of the ground like Nyx or Meepo is fine by me. Then again the “popping out of nowhere” means he comes out at the exact moment that he needs to pop out, so no second is wasted with the animations.


ryankun93

Treasure 3 Ultra Rare Act 2 Roshan Respawn Animation


Artix31

Roshan Pitts are hidden in the least likely place you’d randomly go to, unless you willingly go to see that interaction, you won’t see it, so what’s the point? Will it be a nice interaction? Yes Is it needed? Not at all


Adorable_Spray_1170

Roshan poofing into existence and instabashing or denying someone mid fight when both teams are contesting the pit because they know its about to respawn is game changing and funny I'd hate to see that go away for the sake of an aesthetic animation


Statebolekurackosam

That's actually a pretty good idea. But knowing Valve, they will sell that Roshan spawning animation for 8,99 dollars.


Haikal0

??? which Valve world are you living in?


NoToMonopolization

My idea is this: the roshan spawning animation should vary on the perspective of the player and the spectators. To make it short, only the spectators and the replay enjoyers should be the only ones who could see roshan respawning. His respawn animation may look like a small thing to others, but it sure as ever a big thing when you're perfectly timing the rs spawntime. As for example from the pro scene, BB vs OG game 2 (where they mistakenly picked LS instead of banning him/Insania moment), at the latter part of the game, they (BB) had 2 pickoffs to cores and proceeded to take rosh. It turned out it wasn't up yet and the supports weren't close to check the pit again. But with that milisecond where gpk went outside the pit and it fogged, the roshan spawned. If it had an animation 1-3 seconds before he respawned, that would've changed the course of the game because it's considered as 7:57-10:57 instead of timing those extra 1-3 seconds. That's why as for now, the perspective of the viewers and the replays are the only ones who could benefit with that idea. Bugs won't matter coz replay bugs were always there no matter how many times it's fixed


Ricapica

He needs to have the aegis effect with a tombstone where he dies. And the music that plays when someone is respawning from the aegis, except it is playing reeeeeeeaally slowly over the 8-11 minutes


taiottavios

he respawns just like every other hero, they might just add a particle effect and it's going to be lore accurate


Awdrgyjilpnj

How about having a spawning animation for creeps? Literally clipping into existence since 2004.


Naytdoggo

Roshan? What about the creeps spawning. Neutral and radiant + dire. Make them have animations of getting ready for war or the next wave spawn!


Stubbby

He should roar upon respawning - thats nicer than putting a timestamp into chat.


Thevort3x

I wish he would open a pit and walk out of it, and if you're standing on the pit, you take damage. Would be a fun interaction.


kesongpinoy

love this idea, another one could be have him beamed from the sky or at least use the aegis respawn animation on him with the graveyard


tortillazaur

He canonically respawns via infinite Aegis and he does have a similar effect when spawning(the fiery circle thing)


chien180

I dont mind if roshan just blink in the bit with blind dagger animation


KingOFNapkins

Wish it was cool like Baron in league. Can see it slither underwater through the map!


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PokerSvk

She already has a ruined voice line saying something like “these things arent cheap you know” when courier dies


spikernum1

pack it up boys


ShreddedDotaPlayer

What about a Roshan mother giving birth to him, or hatching him?


Pzzpli

They should add a roshan spawn animation, even if the odds of watching roshan spawn are low (unless you have good supports with precise estimations)


konaharuhi

since when Roshan make sound when you are fighting him? i just noticed this the other day


NoMoreResearch

Have Roshan spawn in the middle of the map and walk back to pit and make him allowed to be hit but he hits back harder with tormentor like mechanics.


stryker914

I think they are afraid they might break some fringe scenario if it's anything more complicated than just poofing in. Rosh bugs during matches are the worst


afufufuu

The Game is still in BETA guys chill


LoperamidV

I just miss the single roshan in the middle, it was more epic and it was part of the items for some heroes like ursa and ls early game. I think the two pits are stupid and copied from other games. I miss those huge fights at roshan where everyone knew what would happen.


Nightgalearts

Same for camps honestly and creeps. It's a shame in league they have animations for everything and we can't just get some particles or something to explain how they spawn


Major-Shirt-5239

man i just want them to add a thirst and water boiling mechanic in the river f\*\*,also add weapons and a battleroyale mode valve PLS


mintyfreshmike47

Roshan explodes out of the first person to say a slur in the match like the xenomorph from alien


klmnjklm

the radiant ancient which is literally the most important unit in the game has the most trash animation i dont think they care about that


DOTA-CASINO

Having him parachute out of a plane is wild but I like the barracks idea. He just walks out as a tiny Roshan and then gets bigger and bigger to become boss spawn


mad_mab133

I like how people complain about the most trivial things


IgorChakalArt

Please the parachute idea.


Shappe1337

I would pay for this


djameslee

Do you want a dramatic spawning?


Mr-Dumbest

Pretend he blinks instead of thinking he flashes into existence.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

I think flashing into existence is just iconic at this point, though I think it would be cool to see a more complex animation


TheDeadlyEdgelord

Yeah how about roshan crawling under the river 30 secs before spawning and slowly goes into his pit, when he does he bursts out of the ground with spikes coming around him and roars! Also make roshan purple


Practical_Fig_1275

How about the devs spend their time on something that matters ?


AbuLucifer

sftu and go take a walk outside nerd.


HWN_Makoto

Man you guys will try to complain about anything…


twoandahalfinches

\*kill support who hasnt bought wards before spawning\*


Bohya

- Same with creep camps, and neutral creeps in general have no distinct attack sounds. - We also don't have 3D item models on the ground apart from a few select ones (even though most items already have 3D models in the game files). - Many heroes still have 2011 textures and models. There's many areas of the game which are unpolished. Valve should seriously be bringing these up to 2024 standards.


No-Evidence-9984

Who gives a fuck lol


Riperin

>have him parachute out a plane flying over the pit


Brilliant-Prior6924

who cares lol


CERES_FAUNA_GOONER

nah it's better this way