DotA Game Modes
DotA AllStars allows several different game modes. These game modes can enhance the gameplay experience. Only the host of the game is allowed to set game modes.
Primary Game Modes
-ap
-allpick
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Everyone may pick heroes from any tavern. Incompatible with allrandom, teamrandom, leaguemode, moderandom, and reverse mode.
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-ar
-allrandom
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Every player gets a random hero from any tavern. Incompatible with allpick, teamrandom, leaguemode, moderandom, and reverse mode.
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-tr
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Team Random. Every player gets a random hero from the taverns belonging to their team. Incompatible with allrandom, allpick, leaguemode, moderandom, and reverse mode.
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-mr
-moderandom
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Randomly picks a mode from ar, ap, tr and normal pick. Incompatible with allrandom, allpick, teamrandom, leaguemode, deathmatch, and reverse mode.
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-lm
-leaguemode
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All forms of random are disabled. 10 players required. Blue picks first, then pink and light blue, then teal and purple, then gray and green, then yellow and orange, and lastly brown. (New with v6.35, sometimes Scourge gets to pick first rather than Sentinel) Incompatible with allrandom, mirrormatch, teamrandom, deathmatch, moderandom, allagility, allintelligence, allstrength, itemdrop, nopowerups, supercreeps, easymode, duplicatemode, samehero, and reverse mode.
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-rd
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Random Draft. Similar to the style of play in a few inhouse leagues. Incompatible with allpick, allrandom, teamrandom, leaguemode, moderandom, and random draft.
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-rv
-reverse
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The Sentinel's players pick the Scourge's team and the Scourge's players pick the Sentinel's team.
Needs an even amount of players on each team to be activated.
Incompatible with allpick, allrandom, teamrandom, moderandom, leaguemode, voterandom, deathmatch, and samehero.
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-vr
-voterandom
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Every player gets a random hero from any tavern. Players get to vote on hero combinations. Incompatible with allpick, allrandom, teamrandom, leaguemode, moderandom, and reverse mode.
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-xl
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Extended League Mode. Used for playing extended league matches. Compatibility mimics that of league mode.
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Secondary Game Modes
-aa
-allagi
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Only agility heroes may be chosen. Incompatible with allstrength, allintelligence, deathmatch, voterandom, and leaguemode.
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-ai
-allint
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Only intelligence heroes may be chosen. Incompatible with allstrength, allagility, deathmatch, voterandom, and leaguemode.
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-as
-allstr
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Only strength heroes may be chosen. Incompatible with allintelligence, allagility, deathmatch, voterandom, and leaguemode.
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-dm
-deathmatch
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If you die, you will have to pick a new hero once you can respawn. Deathmatch must be selected before any primary game mode to work. If a random primary mode was selected, you will recieve a hero according to that random mode. A team loses if it has 36 deaths, or if its ancient is destroyed. Incompatible with allintelligence, allagility, allstrength, teamrandom, leaguemode, voterandom, moderandom and samehero.
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-du
-duplicatemode
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The same hero can be picked, or randomed, by multiple players. Incompatible with leaguemode.
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-em
-easymode
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Towers are weaker, experience is gained faster, and you get more periodic gold. Incompatible with leaguemode.
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-id
-itemdrop
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When you die, a random slot in your inventory will drop whatever it holds. You no longer lose money when dieing. Incompatible with leaguemode.
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-lives xx
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Sets the maximum lives when -dm is active. Replace "xx" with the number of lives.
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-mm
-mirrormatch
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Requires that both teams have the same number of players. After one minute, each player pair (blue - pink, teal - gray, purple - light blue, yellow - dark green, orange - brown) will have their heroes replaced with either one of the two they had. In the end, each player pair has the same hero, and both teams have the same matchup.
Incompatible with samehero, voterandom and leaguemode.
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-nd
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Disables death timer when -dm is active.
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-np
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No Powerups. No runes will spawn. Incompatible with leaguemode.
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-om
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Creeps only spawn in the middle lane.
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-sc
-supercreeps
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Every now and then, a super creep may spawn for each side and follow the creeps in either lane. The weakest supercreep is the siege golem, a bit stronger is the scary fish, and the ancient hydra is the strongest one. Incompatible with leaguemode.
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-sh
-samehero
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All players will have the hero that blue picks.
Incompatible with mirrormatch, voterandom and leaguemode.
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-sp
-shuffleplayers
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The teams will be randomly shuffled. This includes which colour you have and which side you are on. Compatible with all other modes.
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-wtf
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Mana costs and cooldowns removed from all spells and abilities.
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