* Fixed a bug where using Demo Hero with your equipped items would show the default items instead.
* Fixed some loading screen tips.
* Added a new convar cl_dota_alt_unit_movetodirection that enables alt+right click to issue a directional move command.
* Added filtering by tournament to the Watch Downloads page.
* Custom Games: Added SetKillingSpreeAnnouncerDisabled to the game mode entity. SetAnnouncerDisabled no longer also disables the Killing Spree announcer.
* OpenGL: Fixed a crash when playing the Custom Game THD2 on Koishi Komeiji Ultimate.
* OpenGL: Fixed a bug where there would occasionally be geometry corruption when a Hero first loads into the map.
* Workshop Importer: Motion extraction for run animations now uses any bone named “root” (if present) instead of the base of the skeleton.

This year, we felt the best way to mark the passage of October was to create a spooky, pumpkin-filled Custom Game. Haunted Colosseum is a new 5-on-5 battle for territorial control, complete with Capture Points, devilish traps, and warrior behemoths. It's available now, you can learn more about it here, and then launch Dota 2 to try it for yourself.



We've revamped the Custom Games overview page with the goal of promoting discovery of great Custom Games, and getting people into lobbies and playing as quickly as possible. To do that, we've replaced the "Suggested Games" list with an "Open Lobby" list, and we've added a new panel which highlights an automatically-chosen Game of the Day.



This update also includes the second Tribute treasure for Fall Compendium owners: the Tribute of the Sharpened Feather.

There are a lot of additonal changes and improvements in this update, such as a new section in your profile for showing off your tournament tickets, a way to see and manage your downloaded replays, support for offline solo play, a new matchmaking region in Tokyo with connectivity to Taiwan and Korea, a couple of balance changes with 6.85b, and more. Check out the complete notes for the full rundown.

This year, we felt the best way to mark the passage of October was to create a spooky, pumpkin-filled Custom Game. Haunted Colosseum is a new 5-on-5 battle for territorial control, complete with Capture Points, devilish traps, and warrior behemoths. It's available now, you can learn more about it here, and then launch Dota 2 to try it for yourself.



We've revamped the Custom Games overview page with the goal of promoting discovery of great Custom Games, and getting people into lobbies and playing as quickly as possible. To do that, we've replaced the "Suggested Games" list with an "Open Lobby" list, and we've added a new panel which highlights an automatically-chosen Game of the Day.



This update also includes the second Tribute treasure for Fall Compendium owners: the Tribute of the Sharpened Feather.

There are a lot of additonal changes and improvements in this update, such as a new section in your profile for showing off your tournament tickets, a way to see and manage your downloaded replays, support for offline solo play, a new matchmaking region in Tokyo with connectivity to Taiwan and Korea, a couple of balance changes with 6.85b, and more. Check out the complete notes for the full rundown.

- Added a list of games with open lobbies to custom games overview page
- Added a Game Of The Day to custom games overview page
- Added a new tickets area on Player Profiles
- Added support for offline solo play
- Added Downloads section to the Watch tab that lets you view, rename, delete, and browse the replays that you've downloaded
- Added a new matchmaking region in Tokyo with additional connectivity to Taiwan and Korea
- Added the ability in the Tournament Details popup to expand a tournament series and, for each game in the series, go to the match details as well as see the heroes played and duration of the match
- Fixed bug where loss of Steam or game coordinator connectivity would prevent reconnection to the game server
- Custom Games: Added over 800 new voice lines to the Default Announcer for Custom Games to use
- Low Priority games now use Single Draft rather than All Random
- The Owned Item Details page now allows you to purchase chisels and hammers when you try to add sockets or remove gems
- The Owned Item Details page now allows you to change item name or description, as well as clear gifting information. You no longer may change this information from the armory.
- Bundles now show 'Preview Full Set' in their armory context menus
- 6.85b: Scepter Doom no longer increases damage
- 6.85b: Scorched Earth damage and heal reduced from 12/24/36/48 to 12/23/34/45
- 6.85b: Scorched Earth cooldown rescaled from 60/55/50/45 to 55
- 6.85b: Spiderlings Poison Sting slow reduced from 12% to 8%
- 6.85b: The main client will be updated with the 6.85b changes after the conclusion of the Nanyang tournament
- Fixed Brewmaster not facing the direction of the Brewling he reappears in at the end of Primal Split.
- Fixed Sanity's Eclipse draining Current Mana rather than Max mana
- Replaced dota_unit_allow_moveto_direction with +dota_unit_movetodirection which can now be bound to a key
- Fixed various cases where error models would appear
- Fixed Armory UI crashes on low end machines
- Fixed a bug that could cause visual effects to look incorrect due to a sorting issue with particles
- Added ability to equip and unequip items to the Owned Item Details page
- Fixed Night Stalker's Black Nihility's particles disappearing when the day/night cycle changed
- Fixed portrait for Terrorblade Form of Eternal Purgatory demon
- Reduced rendertarget memory usage on low-end video configs
- Reduced steady-state memory usage on all configs
- Fixed announcers in custom games
- SFM: character picker now allows customizing individual items in addition to item sets
- SFM: fixed phoneme extraction
- Custom Games: Added Entities:GetPhysicalArmorValue(), Entities:GetBonusPhysicalArmor() and Entities:GetMagicalArmorValue().
- Custom Games: Fixed bug where scaleform ultimate pips could draw behind a panorama-only topbar
- Custom Games: Added support for suppressing the endgame scaleform chat: DotaDefaultUIElement_t.DOTA_DEFAULT_UI_ENDGAME_CHAT
- Custom Games: Added .ColorBlindModeEnabled style on dota root panels when colorblind mode is enabled
- Workshop Importer: Added Exorcism Ghost and Spirit Bear templates
- Workshop Importer: Fixed crash when importing loading screens
- Workshop Importer: Portrait editor now previews the correct portrait animation and allows any animation to be selected for preview.
- Fixed a bug where previewing the Ribbi'tar would not show the the Ward properly
- Fixed various minor bugs when using preview full set
- Fixed a bug where taunt sounds of the loadout screen could sometimes still be heard in-game
- The Owned Item Details page no longer scrolls to the top when you change the item in any way
- Fixed some bugs with Team creation level requirement
- Fixed a bug where the socketing section of Owned Item Details page was visible even on items that were not socketable
- Charge counts for limited use items like chisels or hammers is now displayed on their tooltip
- Loading screens for non-custom games now display tips. You can turn off this behavior in the Options menu.
- Fixed hitboxes for Padda'pon of Ribbi'tar
- Fixed style naming for Vengeful Spirit Fallen Spirit Head items
- Fixed mesh intersection for Templar Assassin Onyx Lotus legs
- Fixed hitboxes for Nature's Prophet's "Evergreen Stalker" treants
- Fixed a rendering crash when recompiling a model in tools mode
- Fixed a bug with skins not being set properly on dynamic_props
- Added beta support for Direct3D9Ex (reduces memory usage and improves alt-tab experience, requires Windows Vista or higher, may not work well with all video drivers; we are currently beta testing this feature, use the launch option –d3d9ex to enable and please report bugs)

Fixed a crash when connecting to servers on a low end computer
Fixed a rare crash when skipping around in a replay
Player camera positions are now only networked to spectators
Fixed couriers not working in Demo Hero mode

Fixed Dire fountain ramp collision.
Low Priority games now have to be won in order to count.
Fixed a bug that could cause periodic hitching.
The number of Low Priority games needed to complete has been reduced.
Custom Games: Fixed a bug that prevented CreateHTTPRequest from working on dedicated servers.

Added additional capacity to the Australian matchmaking region
Almond the Frondillo will now correctly vanish when his owner is no longer visible.
Added a new option to automatically add new items to your collection tab.
Fixed Alchemist illusion's Goblin's Greed sometimes giving gold to a player other than the one that owned the illusion
Fixed Keeper of the Light's Illuminate not appearing correctly.
Fixed a recent regression in the Tiny Toss Compendium Challenge
Fixed a case where Sleight of Fist would not properly clear targets if it was interrupted by Activate Fire Remnant or by dying during Sleight of Fist
Workshop Importer: Fixed crash when importing some DMX files generated by community tools

Available exclusively to Fall Compendium owners, the new Soaring Cache treasure contains 7 new sets, including a rare set for Warlock complete with a new Golem summon. The cache also has a very rare chance to contain the Padda'pon of Ribbi'tar Death Ward item for Witch Doctor, which can further be customized by Prismatic Gems. Additionally, every fifth Soaring Cache you open will also yield a Bonus Cache which contains either 5, 11, 24 Compendium levels, the Warlock set or the Ribbi'tar Death Ward. Unlike the previous Collector's Cache items which were never tradable, the Soaring Cache items can be traded like normal Treasure items and are immediately giftable and fully tradable a month after the event ends. You can also recycle any Soaring Cache items for 2 Compendium Levels.

We've also made a number of improvements to increase everyone's coin earnings. We've removed the 5% cut from Coin Wager winnings and added Wager Bonuses which increase how many coins you can win from a match wager as well as allowing you to earn Coins even when the opponents did not wager. Compendium owners also now have a chance to receive a Coin Treasure or 750 Coin Pack at the end of a match.

When the Reborn Update released last month, new music arrived with it. The Dota 2 Reborn theme is an update to the original Dota 2 theme that also incorporates several new melodies which have been added to the game over the last several years. While the orchestra played, the cameras looked on. We'd like to present this look at the recording of the Dota 2 Reborn theme.

We are also pleased to announce that we have begun adding Russian voices to Dota's heroes. This first release includes the default announcer and nine heroes, with more voices coming soon. Players can select which voice language they would like to hear by opening Steam and right-clicking on Dota 2. From here, select Properties, then Language, and choose your preferred voice language. Steam will then download the new language.

Several other features and fixes are also included in today's update, including the return of Team Matchmaking, and the ability to share announcers with other players in your matches. Check out the update notes for more information.

Available exclusively to Fall Compendium owners, the new Soaring Cache treasure contains 7 new sets, including a rare set for Warlock complete with a new Golem summon. The cache also has a very rare chance to contain the Padda'pon of Ribbi'tar Death Ward item for Witch Doctor, which can further be customized by Prismatic Gems. Additionally, every fifth Soaring Cache you open will also yield a Bonus Cache which contains either 5, 11, 24 Compendium levels, the Warlock set or the Ribbi'tar Death Ward. Unlike the previous Collector's Cache items which were never tradable, the Soaring Cache items can be traded like normal Treasure items and are immediately giftable and fully tradable a month after the event ends. You can also recycle any Soaring Cache items for 2 Compendium Levels.

We've also made a number of improvements to increase everyone's coin earnings. We've removed the 5% cut from Coin Wager winnings and added Wager Bonuses which increase how many coins you can win from a match wager as well as allowing you to earn Coins even when the opponents did not wager. Compendium owners also now have a chance to receive a Coin Treasure or 750 Coin Pack at the end of a match.

When the Reborn Update released last month, new music arrived with it. The Dota 2 Reborn theme is an update to the original Dota 2 theme that also incorporates several new melodies which have been added to the game over the last several years. While the orchestra played, the cameras looked on. We'd like to present this look at the recording of the Dota 2 Reborn theme.

We are also pleased to announce that we have begun adding Russian voices to Dota's heroes. This first release includes the default announcer and nine heroes, with more voices coming soon. Players can select which voice language they would like to hear by opening Steam and right-clicking on Dota 2. From here, select Properties, then Language, and choose your preferred voice language. Steam will then download the new language.

Several other features and fixes are also included in today's update, including the return of Team Matchmaking, and the ability to share announcers with other players in your matches. Check out the update notes for more information.

* Enabled Team Matchmaking
* Fixed Shared Announcers not working
* Fixed dashboard performance impact of the friends list
* Added match status and pro player indicators to Watch Live section
* The Armory now supports Home, End, PageUp and PageDown to scroll the display.
* Automatic region selection will now take into consideration the ping times of the entire party
* UI changes to the region select popup to show ping times of all party members.
* Alt+clicking items on the courier now reports the correct player
* All existing low priority penalties have been cleared
* Fixed bug where custom loading screens would render horizontally stretched
* Fixed a bug where sometimes animations wouldn't loop in the loadout screens
* Fixed ambient effects and textures for Terrorblade
* Removed 5% cut from wagering winnings
* Added a random bonus to wager winnings for each match that is revealed after wagers have been placed and the match begins
* Fixed a bug where effigies would sometimes fail to be successfully created
* Hid the Demo button on pages showing information about non-demoable items
* Added the ability to equip items or toggle their shuffle state on the owned item details page
* Added the dota_export_steam_inventory_layout_flow console command to provide an alternate order for the export
* Added dota_sort_steam_inventory which sorts your Steam inventory by rarity, quality or date
* Fixed a bug where the corner triangle icon was incorrectly being displayed on the owned item details page when the item wasn't equipped
* Techies remote mines are now correctly affected by arcana color gems
* Fixed a bug where projectiles affected by color gems would sometimes use the default color
* Fixed unit speech overlapping on kills
* Fixed Riki's backstab sound
* Batrider's Flaming Lasso with Aghanim's now correctly breaks when Batrider dies
* Fixed Alchemist's acid spray visibility issues
* Fixed Alchemist's acid spray visibility issues
* Fixed Alchemist's red wireframe coins when using his immortal
* Fixed golden effigy pedestals being improperly lit
* Fixed colored greevils having grey noses, tails, ears, etc
* Fixed Terrorblade arcana alpha test and colorwarp issues
* Fixed Legion Commander arcana set alpha and detail texture issues
* Fixed Techies arcana bugs
* Fixed Ember Spirit's remnant not having glow applied
* Fixed Ember Spirit Run with head tilted too high
* Fixed Bristleback Immortal Quill Spray Ability so spikes and pistons line up properly
* Fixed issues with arcana effects not being applied in loadout and hero selection
* Fixed a bug with particles being too near or too far from the camera
* Fixed Chaos Knight's footprints being backwards
* Hammer: Fixed bug where ghost tile instances were being left behind when performing certain operations on a tile map.
* PET: Remove incorrect 'obsolete' flag from particle blob & screen shake render ops (show up in particle editor now)
* Particles: Added fix for case where particle screen shake wouldn't happen unless there were particular other rendering ops in the system
* Workshop Importer: Improved optional/default value logic
* Workshop Importer: Added templates for Boar, Hawk, Forge Spirit, Wolves, Jugg Ward, Lycan Ult, NP Treant, Spiderling, Tusk Sigil
* Workshop Importer: Added "Contract Only" template [replaced "League Ticket"]
* Workshop Importer: Added explicit 'Custom Skeleton' opt-in that disables application of Valve default anims (that wouldn't work on the new skeleton)
* Workshop Importer: Animation file browser now allows picking SMD files
* Workshop Importer: Fixed bug where "Import Source1-Style Color" could auto-fill the normal box with the wrong filename
* Workshop Importer: Fixed infinite hang when importing geometry with certain types of morph data
* Workshop Importer: Fixed bug where looping animations from FBX files would have their finallooping frame removed (first and last frames should still be identical for asmooth loop)
* Workshop Importer: Added information about which animations are looping

* We have begun adding Russian voices to Dota. Text and voice languages can be mixed to your preference. To select a new voice language, open steam and right-click on Dota 2. From here, select Properties, then the Language tab, and choose your preferred voice language. Steam will then download the new language. This first release of Russian voices includes the following: Default Announcer, Dragon Knight, Invoker, Legion Commander, Ogre Magi, Pudge, Queen of Pain, Shadow Fiend, Shadow Shaman, Sniper

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