- Fixed a bug with the new selection fixes in yesterday’s update that was often causing the selection raycast to use wrong positions, resulting in many cases where hitbox detection was often worse rather than better

- Improved the precision of click selection behavior.
- Fixed a hang when using alt-tab to return to Dota.
- Enabled searching for tournaments.
- Fixed various IME bugs.
- Fixed some memory leaks .
- Fixed tournament games not correctly sorting to the top of the Watch Live list.

Gameplay Update 6.85 is here, bringing various balance changes to heroes and items ahead of the Frankfurt Major. You can read the Gameplay Update notes here.

We've also reorganized the home page to incorporate several new features.



Neighborhood Channels are a new feature in the chat panel, providing an easy way for you to join the Dota community in your area, find new teammates, and make new friends. Neighborhood Channels are joined automatically whenever you launch Dota. They are currently enabled in select regions, and will be rolling out to rest of the world over the next few days.

The chat panel is also now embedded directly into the home page, and will remain open whenever you're in a lobby. Additionally, two new panels have been added to the home page: the first showing a recap of your most recent game, while the other highlights the most-spectated match currently being played.

There are a number of other features and fixes included with today's update. Head over to the patch notes to learn all about them.

Gameplay Update 6.85 is here, bringing various balance changes to heroes and items ahead of the Frankfurt Major. You can read the Gameplay Update notes here.

We've also reorganized the home page to incorporate several new features.



Neighborhood Channels are a new feature in the chat panel, providing an easy way for you to join the Dota community in your area, find new teammates, and make new friends. Neighborhood Channels are joined automatically whenever you launch Dota. They are currently enabled in select regions, and will be rolling out to rest of the world over the next few days.

The chat panel is also now embedded directly into the home page, and will remain open whenever you're in a lobby. Additionally, two new panels have been added to the home page: the first showing a recap of your most recent game, while the other highlights the most-spectated match currently being played.

There are a number of other features and fixes included with today's update. Head over to the patch notes to learn all about them.

* 6.85 Patch Notes:http://www.dota2.com/685/
* Redesigned Dota home page.
* Improved unit selection.
* The Heroes tab now sends you directly to the Hero Grid.
* Improved how player commands are networked. This prevents orders being lost in adverse network conditions such as high packet loss.
* Fixed various memory leaks and reduced total memory allocation
* Players are automatically put into a Neighborhood Channel on startup.
* Added a panel on the home page to show your last match played
* Added a panel on the home page to show the top spectated game
* Added team management UI.
* Added /flip chat command in lobby games.
* Fixed game servers not apply abandons correctly.
* Improved frame rate in some specific hardware configurations.
* Map: Improved southern map edge and juking paths.
* Map: Fixed Dire ancient camp ward blocking edge case.
* Map: Fixed Roshan aggro when warding the hill behind him.
* Map: Fixed a minor collision bug at the north river Dire statue.
* Map: Fixed map edge cliff ward spots allowing hero pathing with blink.
* Fixed a bug where when returning from Demo Hero mode, it would sometimes not start off with the demoed item set selected.
* Fixed a bug where if you were in a hero loadout screen and picked 'About', then went to a global item loadout screen (such as couriers), it would incorrectly display the About screen instead of the items.
* Added style unlocking to item details page
* Item sets that you own now also appear in the available list in the loadout screen.
* Fixed a localization problem in bundle name in the loadout screen.
* Fixed techies mines not consistently disappearing on detonation.
* Fixed screenshot key not working.
* Fixed a crash when playing as Treant.
* Fixed a crash that would occur if a friend logged in while you were loading a game.
* Fixed a crash when deploying wards.
* Decreased video memory usage when loading Steam avatar images.
* Fix a bug that prevented changing a profile card slot after it had been set to a trophy.
* Windows OpenGL: Fixed a bug with gamma not being restored on exit.
* Workshop Tools: Selecting an arcana wearable in the additional preview items will now preview the arcana model in the tool and in game.

Fixed a bug where checkmarks were not showing up for purchased recommended items.

Over the last five years, The International has become the pinnacle moment for the world of professional Dota. Now the excitement of the biggest event in esports is coming to the Majors, a series of seasonal marquee tournaments, which will take place throughout the year and around the globe. Dota's newest tradition begins this fall with the Frankfurt Major.

The first Dota Major will take place over six days at Festhalle Messe in Frankfurt, Germany from November 16 through the 21st. It will feature 16 teams all competing at the main event for a total prize pool of $3,000,000, and will be produced by ESL.

Attendance to the Frankfurt Major will be open to the public and will not require a ticket for any day except for the day of the finals, which will take place on Saturday, November 21st. Tickets to the Frankfurt Major Finals will be sold in two separate waves this Sunday, September 27, the first at 11:00am CEST and the last at 7:00pm CEST. Each ticket will cost €50, and will be available here.

The teams that will be directly invited to the Frankfurt Major and its Regional Qualifiers will be revealed on October 5th. The Open Qualifiers will be hosted by FaceIt and Perfect World and will take place October 6 – 9, with the Regional Qualifiers occurring October 10 – 13. Open Qualifier registration will open to any Dota players who wish to compete on October 1st.

In other Dota news, we are doing some work on the underlying map rendering tech for the desert map terrain in order to make sure it is built in a compatible way for future iterations. Our first longform comic, which will come with the release of the Axe Immortal, is going to be much bigger than our previous comics.

Over the coming weeks we'll be working on UI improvements based on the feedback we've received and releasing our first seasonal Compendium. You can also expect to see the 6.85 game balance update later this week.

Over the last five years, The International has become the pinnacle moment for the world of professional Dota. Now the excitement of the biggest event in esports is coming to the Majors, a series of seasonal marquee tournaments, which will take place throughout the year and around the globe. Dota's newest tradition begins this fall with the Frankfurt Major.

The first Dota Major will take place over six days at Festhalle Messe in Frankfurt, Germany from November 16 through the 21st. It will feature 16 teams all competing at the main event for a total prize pool of $3,000,000, and will be produced by ESL.

Attendance to the Frankfurt Major will be open to the public and will not require a ticket for any day except for the day of the finals, which will take place on Saturday, November 21st. Tickets to the Frankfurt Major Finals will be sold in two separate waves this Sunday, September 27, the first at 11:00am CEST and the last at 7:00pm CEST. Each ticket will cost €50, and will be available here.

The teams that will be directly invited to the Frankfurt Major and its Regional Qualifiers will be revealed on October 5th. The Open Qualifiers will be hosted by FaceIt and Perfect World and will take place October 6 – 9, with the Regional Qualifiers occurring October 10 – 13. Open Qualifier registration will open to any Dota players who wish to compete on October 1st.

In other Dota news, we are doing some work on the underlying map rendering tech for the desert map terrain in order to make sure it is built in a compatible way for future iterations. Our first longform comic, which will come with the release of the Axe Immortal, is going to be much bigger than our previous comics.

Over the coming weeks we'll be working on UI improvements based on the feedback we've received and releasing our first seasonal Compendium. You can also expect to see the 6.85 game balance update later this week.

Workshop Tools: Fixed hero selection list not correctly displaying in some languages.
Workshop Tools: Fixed preview images for workshop item submissions getting incorrectly resized.
Workshop Tools: Added a button to import a Source 1 style normal map, which converts normal maps originally authored for Source 1 to the new Source 2 requirements.
Workshop Tools: Fixed some ability models incorrectly appearing in the hero wearable slot list.
Workshop Tools: Fixed a bug where models could not be previewed on additional wearable slots for heroes such as Morphling that don’t have default items.
Workshop Tools: Fixed a preview bug where attached particles were getting duplicated every time a new wearable was selected.

Mac: Fixed some text rendering in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

* Fixed Roshan respawn timer.
* Fixed various client crashes.
* Reduced video memory usage.