Dota 2 Update – June 28, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Added Luna
  • Added Guardian Wisp
  • Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.
  • Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.
  • Added Heropedia to the Learn tab.

GAMEPLAY

  • Bloodseeker: Fixed a bug where he could get healed by friendly heroes dying in the area around him that he didn’t deny.
  • Pudge: Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing Pudge’s Dismember to do an extra tick of damage
  • Pudge: Fixed a bug that allowed Pudge to deal damage without hurting himself by quickly toggling Rot.
  • Rubick: Fixed a rare case where Rubick could get permanently stuck with Telekinesis Land.
  • Rubick: Fixed a bug where Rubick would gain permanent Spectral Dagger buffs until he died.
  • Rubick: Fixed a bug with Poison Release that would cause you to steal the wrong ability from Shadow Demon.
  • Tiny: Fixed Aghanim’s Scepter siege damage vs backdoor armor
  • Fixed being able to use a different player’s items in your combine, if that item was in your stash at the time

VISUALS

  • More Rubick spell animations
  • Various Rubick visual effect improvements and fixes
  • Haste animation added for Bloodseeker
  • Adjusted Ogre Magi’s sidearm attack animation
  • Logos removed from waterfall and mid river areas to safeguard gameplay
  • Tweaked dire banner position left of fountain shop
  • Roshan timer appear only after 10 seconds have passed from death
  • Reduced Gyro’s model scale a little
  • Removed ambient effects on Razor and Morphling when hexed

UI

  • Fixed some cases where icons could get stuck on the screen
  • Fixed new heroes not showing up in the hero picker if you had custom view set (They’ll now appear in the top left of the grid view, for you to then place as you like)
  • Tournament Panel: Fixed game list not refreshing unless you opened a different tournament and then back.
  • Tournament Panel: Increased the size of the live games and recent games.
  • Tournament Panel: Fixed details button not working properly for the last few games.
  • Fixed Spectator label cutting off number of spectators.
  • Fixed Live games not displaying correctly after opening a Tournament.
  • Fixed a recent bug with the shop not closing when a unit is selected
  • Fixed some bugs with losing commentator perspecting when pausing and unpausing
  • Added backpack preview to couriers
  • Back button in the loadout takes you back to the backpack if you arrived via a backpack right click
  • Fixed some slots on the backpack not being right-clickable if they were not on page 1
  • Fixed the first equip from the backpack sometimes not working properly
  • Added inspect button near the hero panel for heroes that have custom items
  • Updated the replay skill filter to have more usefull categories.
  • Fixed dragging an item onto itself not turning its icon back on.
  • Cheat commands are now echoed to chat
  • Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.
  • Fixed Mute button on the scoreboard not working.

AUDIO:

  • Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.

Dota 2 Update – June 27, 2012

I’m pretty sure it should say “Dota 2 Test Build Update – June 27, 2012”

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Added Luna
  • Added Guardian Wisp
  • Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.
  • Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.

GAMEPLAY

  • Bloodseeker: Fixed a bug where he could get healed by friendly heroes dying in the area around him that he didn’t deny.
  • Pudge: Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing Pudge’s Dismember to do an extra tick of damage
  • Pudge: Fixed a bug that allowed Pudge to deal damage without hurting himself by quickly toggling Rot.
  • Rubick: Fixed a rare case where Rubick could get permanently stuck with Telekinesis Land.
  • Rubick: Fixed a bug where Rubick would gain permanent Spectral Dagger buffs until he died.
  • Rubick: Fixed a bug with Poison Release that would cause you to steal the wrong ability from Shadow Demon.
  • Rubick: Stealing Spirit Bear is temporarily disabled.
  • Fixed being able to use a different player’s items in your combine, if that item was in your stash at the time

VISUALS

  • More Rubick spell animations
  • Various Rubick visual effect improvements and fixes
  • Haste animation added for Bloodseeker
  • Adjusted Ogre Magi’s sidearm attack animation
  • Logos removed from waterfall and mid river areas to safeguard gameplay
  • Tweaked dire banner position left of fountain shop
  • Roshan timer appear only after 10 seconds have passed from death
  • Reduced Gyro’s model scale a little
  • Removed ambient effects on Razor and Morphling when hexed

UI

  • Fixed some cases where icons could get stuck on the screen
  • Fixed new heroes not showing up in the hero picker if you had custom view set (They’ll now appear in the top left of the grid view, for you to then place as you like)
  • Tournament Panel: Fixed game list not refreshing unless you opened a different tournament and then back.
  • Tournament Panel: Increased the size of the live games and recent games.
  • Tournament Panel: Fixed details button not working properly for the last few games.
  • Fixed Spectator label cutting off number of spectators.
  • Fixed Live games not displaying correctly after opening a Tournament.
  • Fixed a recent bug with the shop not closing when a unit is selected
  • Fixed some bugs with losing commentator perspecting when pausing and unpausing
  • Added backpack preview to couriers
  • Back button in the loadout takes you back to the backpack if you arrived via a backpack right click
  • Fixed some slots on the backpack not being right-clickable if they were not on page 1
  • Fixed the first equip from the backpack sometimes not working properly
  • Added inspect button near the hero panel for heroes that have custom items
  • Updated the replay skill filter to have more usefull categories.
  • Fixed dragging an item onto itself not turning its icon back on.
  • Cheat commands are now echoed to chat
  • Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.

AUDIO:

  • Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.

Dota 2 Update – June 20, 2012

GAMEPLAY

  • Added Rubick!
  • Bane: Fixed Fiend’s Grip not ending if Kraken Shell dispels it.
  • Chaos Knight: Reality Rift now puts the Chaos Knight behind his target.
  • Clockerk: Fixed Hookshot stunning dead units.
  • Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle not giving any bounty.
  • Invoker: Fixed Alacrity interaction with Magic Immunity
  • Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship allied debuff dealing all the damage immediately when then rum wears off, rather than over the following 8 seconds.
  • Mirana: Reduced size of Arrow 20%.
  • Outworld Destroyer: Aadded visual indicator for Astral Imprisonment Length.
  • Riki: Fixed sometimes not attacking his Blink Strike target immediately.
  • Spirit Breaker: Fixed a bug allowing charging Razor without moving.
  • Fixed Batrider and Outworld Destroyer having 1 too little armor.
  • Fixed Chaos Knight having 2 extra armor.
  • Fixed Lone Druid having 1.3 too little armor.

UI

  • Added support for tournament spectating passes.
  • Select All Other Units feature no longer selects any unit that is lacking attack capability (like Beastmaster’s Hawk).
  • Added a buff to indicate the duration of Death Prophet’s Exorcism.
  • Updated Aghanim’s Scepter tooltips for Beastmaster, Necrolyte, Queen of Pain, Warlock, and Windrunner.
  • Updated the Aghanim’s Scepter store preview.
  • Fixed bug where large replays were unable to download.
  • Replay downloading is now paralleled to improve download speeds.
  • Fixed item purchase message crediting the wrong player if the purchased item stacked with someone else’s item.

VISUALS

  • Added a custom particle effect for Skadi.

COSMETICS

  • Added announcers and new couriers to the Dota Store.
  • Added new items for Witch Doctor.
  • Fixed a bug that caused new users not to earn random drops. Affected users will receive the drops they should have gotten when they finish their next match.
  • Increased the number of backpack slots displayed on a single page of the backpack to 64.
  • Increased the base number of backpack slots from 50 to 64.
  • Increased the number of backpack slots that store users have from 500 to 640.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the last slot in the backpack to not respond to drag n’ drop.
  • Fixed bugs with dragging and dropping items between pages of the backpack.

BOTS

  • Co-op bot matches will now randomly assign the human players to Radiant or Dire.
  • In co-op bot matches, if a human disconnects before picking a hero, the bots will now correctly balance the teams.
  • Fixed bots not selecting heroes into non-AP games.
  • Fixed bots not deploying their couriers on Passive difficulty.

Dota 2 Test Build Update – June 19, 2012

GAMEPLAY

  • Added Rubick!
  • Bane: Fixed Fiend’s Grip not ending if Kraken Shell dispels it.
  • Chaos Knight: Reality Rift now puts the Chaos Knight behind his target.
  • Clockerk: Fixed Hookshot stunning dead units.
  • Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle not giving any bounty.
  • Invoker: Fixed Alacrity interaction with Magic Immunity
  • Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship allied debuff dealing all the damage immediately when then rum wears off, rather than over the following 8 seconds.
  • Mirana: Reduced size of Arrow 20%.
  • Outworld Destroyer: Aadded visual indicator for Astral Imprisonment Length.
  • Riki: Fixed sometimes not attacking his Blink Strike target immediately.
  • Spirit Breaker: Fixed a bug allowing charging Razor without moving.
  • Fixed Batrider and Outworld Destroyer having 1 too little armor.
  • Fixed Chaos Knight having 2 extra armor.
  • Fixed Lone Druid having 1.3 too little armor.

UI

  • Added support for tournament spectating passes.
  • Select All Other Units feature no longer selects any unit that is lacking attack capability (like Beastmaster’s Hawk).
  • Added a buff to indicate the duration of Death Prophet’s Exorcism.
  • Updated Aghanim’s Scepter tooltips for Beastmaster, Necrolyte, Queen of Pain, Warlock, and Windrunner.
  • Updated the Aghanim’s Scepter store preview.
  • Fixed bug where large replays were unable to download.
  • Replay downloading is now paralleled to improve download speeds.
  • Fixed item purchase message crediting the wrong player if the purchased item stacked with someone else’s item.

VISUALS

  • Added a custom particle effect for Skadi.

COSMETICS

  • Added announcers and new couriers to the Dota Store.
  • Added new items for Witch Doctor.
  • Fixed a bug that caused new users not to earn random drops. Affected users will receive the drops they should have gotten when they finish their next match.
  • Increased the number of backpack slots displayed on a single page of the backpack to 64.
  • Increased the base number of backpack slots from 50 to 64.
  • Increased the number of backpack slots that store users have from 500 to 640.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the last slot in the backpack to not respond to drag n’ drop.
  • Fixed bugs with dragging and dropping items between pages of the backpack.

BOTS

  • Co-op bot matches will now randomly assign the human players to Radiant or Dire.
  • In co-op bot matches, if a human disconnects before picking a hero, the bots will now correctly balance the teams.
  • Fixed bots not selecting heroes into non-AP games.
  • Fixed bots not deploying their couriers on Passive difficulty.