Dota 2 Update - March 16, 2012

March 17, 2012

- Fixed a few crash bugs

Dota 2 Update - March 15, 2012

March 16, 2012

GAMEPLAY
- Added Shadow Demon!
- Updated Dota 2 to 6.74 parity (Tournament mode will be updated to this next week)
- Fixed Dust of Appearance not affecting magic immune heroes.
- Added support for Shared Unit Control.
- Added support for Disable Help.
- Fixed illusion kill crediting.
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare being able to affect magic immune units.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada proccing on friendly units and towers.
- Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger not being purgable.
- Broodmother: Fixed Incapacitating Bite missing a little bit of bonus damage (2/4/6/8)
- Pudge: Fixed being unable to hook Nightmared targets.
- Silencer: Fixed not gaining int with Last Word when a hero dies to Tornado.
- Warlock: Fixed being unable to force staff your Golem.
- Fixed Dark Troll Warlord's ensanre not revealing invisible units that are trapped in it.
- Fixed a case where using a courier to "Grab All" from the stash would fail to move all items.

UI
- Added copy + paste support.
- Fixed Flying Courier recipe not having a small stock cooldown (to prevent accidental multiple buys)
- Item Auras now show buff icon on the carrier (Basilius, Aquila).
- Fixed a case where an order to sell an item arrived soon after the item was used in a combine and resulted in the item being sold as well as combined.
- Fixed escape not closing in-game chat like it used to.
- Matchmaking, Coop and lobbies without bots now get server priority over single player bot lobbies.
- Fixed bug with copying text from another app into Dota 2.
- Fixed minimap to no longer display explored/unexplored.

AUDIO
- Fixed various sounds ignoring FoW.
- Fixed sound not muting when Dota 2 loses focus.

VISUALS
- Adjusted Venomancer injured animation.
- Added gold on treasure chest.

BOTS
- Added a difficulty level setting for coop bot matchmaking
- Made bots increasingly bad at last-hitting as you lower difficulty level.
- Fixed bug where bots wouldn't command non-illusion minions (ie. Necro guys).
- Bots that take damage from a nearby invisible hero (Radiance, Ion Shell) will now detect the hero as being nearby.
- Bots now have a moderate aversion to Radiance damage.
- Bots will now pick up Aegis/Cheese/Rapier even if human allies are nearby, after 3 seconds of the human not picking it up.
- Significantly increased the avoidance of the enemy fountain, should help to prevent fountain-diving.
- On Easy, bots won't focus on breaking channels with stuns.
- On Easy, bots won't try to dodge projectiles.
- On Easy, the bots will never push with more than 3 heroes.
- On Medium, the bots will never push with more than 4 heroes.
- Bots will no longer try to stun to break Windrunner chanelling Power Shot.
- Bots now know to try to avoid EMP, Dark Seer's wall, and Chronosphere.
- Added a bit of randomness to the Team Roam group-up location so they don't bunch up as much.
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to not consider invulnerable towers as potential TP targets.
- Adjusted how we calculate "too dangerous to TP into", so bots should be less suicidal when TPing in to defend.
- When bots really would like to defend a tower but are lacking the ability to TP there, we greatly increase the "consider going to the side shop to buy a TP" distance.
- Fixed bug where bots would path to the wrong location when farming a neutral camp.

Dota 2 Update - March 9, 2012

March 10, 2012

- Fixed Broadcasters and Spectators not being able to control the camera in Practice Lobbies.

Dota 2 Update - March 8, 2012

March 09, 2012

GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Bane in Captain's Mode.
- Bane: Fixed the attack timing on when Nightmare gets transfered.
- Bane: Fixed Enfeeble working on Roshan
- Bane: Fixed being unable to attack allied Nightmared heroes to transfer the debuff.
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare being able to transfer to towers and wards.
- Batrider: Fixed being unable to easily pull units over cliffs with Flaming Lasso.
- Batrider: Fixed timing of Firefly damage ticks.
- Batrider: Fixed rounding error with Firefly damage ticks.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture hurting cycloned units.
- Chen: Fixed Holy Persuation interrupting allied channeling spells on cast (rather than upon tping).
- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism hitting an invisible hero if the hero was hit before.
- Death Prophet: Fixed Silence not affecting basic units.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Elder Form's Corrosive Breath and Frost Breath working with DK illusions.
- Faceless Void: Fixed Courier interaction with Chronosphere
- Jakiro: Macropyre now does the correct amount of damage with a Scepter.
- Jakiro: Fixed Macropyre not hurting siege units.
- Omniknight: Fixed Repel canceling Ursa's Overpower.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being able to cause you to lose mana regeneration.
- Pugna: Fixed Netherward mana degen not showing the proper numbers for players.
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed Netherstrike vs cycloned units.
- Tinker: Fixed Rearm refreshing level 2 and 3 of Necronomicon.
- Ursa: Fixed Fury Swipes incrementing when the attack missed.
- Vengeful Spirit: Fixed Wave of Terror hp loss not properly functioning on magic immune units.
- Warlock: Fixed Golem being considered a creep for some spells like Paralyzing Casks.
- Attributes can no longer fall below 1.
- Fixed some issues with negative mana regeneration.
- Fixed Basher stacking with Spiritbreaker/Slardar/Faceless Void's bashes.
- Fixed Armlet not draining life while you are magic immune.
- Fixed couriers not being able to use wards.
- Fixed temporary trees (like Sprout) not respecting the pause.

UI
- Changed Empowering Haste passive legacy key to G to avoid stomping H (halt).
- Captain's Mode now has 5 bans once again.
- Added countdown when unpausing the game.
- The spectator graph events now get correctly cleared when rewinding in a demo.
- The tooltip for Doom now correctly updates when Doombringer has a Scepter.
- Inventory keys are now hidden while spectating.
- The combat log now works while spectating and in replays.
- Fixed a bug where the minimap was unclickable after spectating a game in player perspective mode.

VISUALS
- Dragon Knight plays a range-enabled effect when Dragon Tail is cast while in dragon form.
- Lifestealer now has his own variation on the lifesteal effect rather than using the generic one.
- Updated Lifestealer's Open Wounds and Infest effects for clarity.
- Updated Bloodseeker's Rupture effect (added blood trail so it's more obvious).
- Added Team Only Marker for Kunkka's Ship
- Fix to unit rings sometimes getting offset from the unit at low framerate/high replay playback speeds
- Perf and visual tweaks to Alchemist's Acid Spray
- Made Pudge's hook conform to terrain for more accurate visual read
- Tinker Rockets now visually show duds when no enemy units are available
- Fixed buildings visually popping back to earlier state when being damaged repeatedly.
- Optimized tree destruction effects and fixed crash in certain situations when many were destroyed simultaneously
- Fixed Split Earth drawing in FoW in some situtaions (Roshan)

AUDIO
- Updated Rupture effect.
- Announcer now says "Single Draft" when starting single draft mode.
- First Blood lines now play mapwide.
-Added rival taunts and misc. lines to Razor, Zeus, Tiny and Tidehunter to fill out basic voice set.

BOTS
- Bot difficulty now defaults to Normal.
- Re-added ability for bots to team-roam-and-gank enemy heroes during the latter part of games.
- dota_bot_dump_state can now be run in non-cheat-enabled games.
- Fixed cases where Juggernaut would use Blade Fury and Razor would use Plasma Field when there weren't enough creeps nearby.
- Added Passive bot difficulty level, in which they won't do anything but lane.
- Loosened the time-to-arrive constraints for deciding to defending a lane (should improve base defense).

Dota 2 Update - March 1, 2012

February 24, 2012

GAMEPLAY
- Added Bane!
- Added Co-op matchmaking games versus bots.
- Fixed bug with kill credit when illusions get the kill.
- Charge of Darkness and Wrath of Nature no longer alert the target to attack the caster if the target is far away.
- Fixed Mekansm not healing you if it activated right after you come out of Astral Imprisonment.
- Fixed bug with Astral Imprisonment disappearing from invisible units.
- Fixed Essence Aura triggering on zero cooldown spells (like Ball Lightning).
- Fixed being able to trigger Essence Aura with Toss when there are no valid targets to Toss
- Enabled Outworld Destroyer in Captain's Mode.
- Restored previous Blink double click behavior.
- Fixed Courier Speed Burst canceling Transfer Items.

UI
- Fixed dragging an item from the courier to a hero's inventory not combining an item properly.
- Fixed some audio settings are not saving correctly (speech level, background sound, boostgain).
- Selling items no longer factors into gold-per-minute.
- Added an option to autoselect summoned units and illusions to the game settings.
- Fixed bug with camera jumping up and down when moving the mouse in the minimap while in spectator chase cam.
- Fixed bug with moving the camera and creating selection windows while in spectator chase cam.
- Fixed bug with some heroes having their Ultimate fire when ALT-TAB (or Windows key hit).
- Fixed some game interface settings not saving.
- Fixed bug where having legacy selected at load wasn't disabling the hero, courier, and neutral binds.
- Added specular, texture quality, and render quality to video settings as performance trade-offs
- Various improvements to unit selection/targeting feedback
- Increased maximum number of people in each chat channel.
- Accepting a game invite via Steam will join that person's party.
- Ignore/unignore options now shown for friends in the main menu.

VISUALS
- Added a number of aura effects.
- Fixed Tiny's tree not being properly equipped in his stone grip.
- Fixed an issue where hero movement would stutter on some network connections.

AUDIO
- Added rival death-taunts and other miscellaneous lines to flesh out dialog set for Sand King.

BOTS
- Made bots want to pick up Cheese with the same rules that they use for picking up Aegis and Rapier.
- Improved bot last-hit logic.
- Bots will now deny using the same logic they use for last-hitting.
- Bots now last-hit and deny while farming a lane, just as they do during the laning phase.
- Fixed issues with loadouts of Bane, Kunkka, and Sniper.
- Fixed bugs with bots geting stuck trying to purchase an item, failing to purchase an item, or dumping items on the ground due to a full stash.
- Bots will stop farming just for buyback when they have 1.5x their current buyback cost.
- If a bot's stash is completely full, they are now more likely to pick their stuff up regardless of its value.

Dota 2 Update Released

February 17, 2012

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

- Enabled Outworld Destroyer!
- Added new game mode: Single Draft.
- Added querying of dead units. This lets you click allied portraits in the top bar to inspect their items and skills, even when they're dead.
- Queued move commands show a waypoint flag briefly.
- Added new settings panel.
- Matchmaking displays average wait time for each region.
- New interface for finding lobbies.
- New Matchmaking panel.
- Players can chat and use voice communications while the game is paused.
- Added game mode (AP, SD, CM) selection for matchmaking.
- You can now find replays by MatchID from the Watch panel.
- Added Grid Mode to the Shop.
- Added Repick functionality to the hero picking panel (costs 100 gold to repick, lets you select a hero again).
- Implemented "Suggest invite to party" menu option.
- You can now see which heroes your allies are about to pick.
- Added Steam avatars in the scoreboard.
- Added the ability to jump to any position in a replay.


HEROES
- Alchemist: Fixed Goblin's Greed's interaction with Aegis.
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed Ice Blast's secondary ability not firing off when you die.
- Axe: Fixed Battle Hunger self buff sticking on Axe permanently if the spell was dodged by Puck's Phase Shift.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamming Lasso being interrupted by an enemy Force Staff.
- Batrider: Fixed turn rate.
- Batrider: Fixed Firefly having a cast time.
- Batrider: Added stack counter effect for your team when using Sticky Napalm.
- Clinkz: Fixed not being able to cast Searing Arrows manually on buildings.
- Clinkz: Fixed Death Pact not being castable on Magic Immune units.
- Clinkz: Fixed Searing Arrows autocast working while silenced/doomed.
- Clinkz: Fixed Searing Arrows bonus damage being treated as a seperate damage instance (it could get reduced twice by stout shield).
- Clinkz: Fixed Death Pact being purgeable.
- Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot failing if he is infested by Lifestealer.
- Dark Seer: Fixed Vacuum continuously pulling new units in the aoe for a period of time after initial cast.
- Dark Seer: Fixed Vacuum disable/pull duration lasting too long.
- Doom Bringer: Fixed Devour not working when eating a converted neutral creep.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Elder Dragon Form Frost Breath slowing units while Doomed.
- Huskar: Fixed Life Break partially ignoring Linken's Sphere.
- Huskar: Fixed Life Break continuing to follow a target that teleported away.
- Invoker: Fixed Invoke not dispelling Curse of the Silent.
- Invoker: Fixed Cold Snap triggering on self damage.
- Invoker: Fixed Tornado dispelling various buffs it shouldn't (like Wind Walk)
- Kunkka: Fixed X Marks The Spot being purged by Tornado/Diffusal.
- Lich: Fixed Chain Frost having a chance to end prematurely near fog of war edges.
- Lich: Fixed a recent bug where chainfrost wouldn't choose a magic immune target to bounce to.
- Lich: Fixed Chain Frost deciding late as to which unit it will bounce to next (it would decide after its bounce delay, instead of before)
- Mirana: Fixed Leap being canceled if Mirana got purged during it.
- Nature's Prophet: Double clicking Teleportation will cast it at the fountain.
- Omniknight: Fixed Repel causing Spirit Breaker to be unable to cancel his Charge of Darkness.
- Puck: Fixed Phase Shift sometimes not dodging incoming attack projectiles.
- Puck: Fixed some types of spells (like EMP) from causing damage when already Phase Shifted.
- Silencer: Added intelligence steal counter to Last Word aura.
- Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush's physical damage not hurting Magic Immune units.
- Sniper: Fixed Headshot bonus proc damage working against Towers and Buildings.
- Sniper: Fixed Headshot working while Doomed.
- Spectre: Fixed Haunt not working properly after a disconnect.
- Spectre: Fixed Reality clearing Curse of the Silent and triggering Magic Stick.
- Ursa: Fixed Fury Swipes working while Doomed.
- Ursa: Fixed Fury Swipes working on allied units.
- Viper: Fixed Poison Attack damage being lethal.
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks deciding late as to which unit it will bounce to next (it would decide after its bounce delay, instead of before)
- Zeus: Fixed Lightning Bolt's aoe truesight not revealing wards.


GAMEPLAY
- Added Clinkz to Captain's Mode
- Fixed ranged creep moving infront of the rest on the bottom dire lane
- Fixed collision sizes on Barracks and Filler buildings
- Ring of Aquila, Ring of Basilius, and Radiance no longer flip their toggle if their aura was toggled off when their owner dies.
- Fixed Boots of Travel not selecting dominated units.
- Fixed sweet exploit where you could buy a nice juicy passive item, give it to another friendly hero, have that hero die and upon respawn the passive effects of the item would be granted -- Desolator would start desolating, butterfly would start buttering, etc.
- Items now expire their sellback time when their owner dies.
- Fixed Roshan not respawning at the correct time if he was killed before creep spawn.
- Fixed Bounty Hunter and Clinkz's invisibility getting dispelled by Tornado.
- Fixed Blademail being able to reflect damage from allies/self (causing suicide).
- Trees are now temporarily prevented from respawning if there are any player-controlled units whose collision are within 250 units of the center of the tree.
- Fixed unit targeting behavior being bugged for the following abilities: Carrion Swarm, Dragon Slave, Breathe Fire.
- Fixed courier getting stuck if it received deliver orders from multiple players.
- Fixed Blademail being dispellable.
- Fixed shop item stock not depleting when purchasing items with a full inventory and stash.
- Fixed being able to refresh allied items with Tinker's ultimate.


CONTROLS
- Fixed an exploit possible that could allow a small portion of abilities to be used while stunned .
- Fixed a rare bug where you would sometimes attack an unexpected unit when attempting to last-hit by spamming stop with auto-attack turned on.
- Shift+Hero Select now toggles selection of the hero from the current selection if multiple units are selected.
- Fixed dead heroes being selected when using control groups.
- Fixed bug where the camera would reposition itself when drawing lines on minimap.
- Blink Dagger now blinks in the direction your mouse is in when you double click it.
- Fixed a rare bug where an item could be deleted upon delivery from the courier.
- Fixed a rare bug with legacy keys that could cause your hotkeys to get changed when querying an enemy.
- Purchasing a whole item now gathers owned items from the team's couriers when calculating what to buy.
- Fixed accidentally selecting units when moving your camera around in camera drag mode.
- Fixed not being able to drop an item from the stash if it is owned by another player.
- Double clicking the "Select All Other Units" hotkey will now move the camera to the location of the units rather than adding your hero to the selection.


UI
- Browse practice lobbies your friends have created or joined.
- Improved readabilty of hero names in minimap.
- Changed Hero Highlighter visuals.
- Removed some elements in the minimap texture that would cause confusion with creeps.
- Fixed controlled units not showing the color of the player controlling them in the minimap.
- Updated Day/Night indicator
- Pause is now correctly delayed for spectators.
- Fixed inventory not updating the state of items if the slot and item matched between querying different units.
- Added a subtitle in the inventory item tooltip indicating if an item's aura is active or not.
- Added inactive image for Radiance.
- Fixed matchID not showing up on end scores.
- The topbar timer is no longer reset when the game ends.
- Added game settings option for the hero finder when holding alt down
- Added game settings option for the minimap hero icons (shows hero text names when turned off)
- Added game settings option for the HP numbers above your hero's in world HP Bar
- Fixed long cooldown labels being truncated in item tooltips.
- Fixed cooldown and mana cost not showing properly in dashboard item tooltips.
- Quick buy item tooltips are no longer estranged from their arrow.
- Autocast state is no longer shown for enemy abilities.
- Added visual feedback when moving a hero via the minimap.
- Added "This game is safe to leave" message on the matchmaking status page practice lobbies or matchmade games with a leaver detected.
- Your own row is now highlighted on the game end scoreboard.
- When a player is banned, everyone who reported them since their last ban receives a message when they next login informing them that justice has been served.
- Your friends list is now sorted alphabetically.
- Pinging an enemy now places the ping on them for a short time.
- Mana cost and cooldown fields in the ability tooltips now reflect the current state of the ability (they take into account Death Prophet's Witchcraft, Aghanim's changes, etc).
- Added cooldown timers to shop items that are out of stock in grid mode.
- Items from different owners that would stack (e.g. wards) no longer stack in the courier's inventory.
- Fixed client-side modifier durations so that the icon sweep displays correctly when entering and exiting FoW.
- Fixed bug where there would be a brief flash of the full-duration border on a modifier as it expired.
- Combat log fixes/changes:
- It now specifies whether units are illusions or not for all events.
- Heals now track and specify the healing unit.
- The end-of-game combat summary now counts neither illusions nor self-damage.
- Damage done by units under a hero's control are now credited to their hero in the combatlog and end-of-game summary.
- Mousing over each server location will show you the name, whether you're searching in that region or not, and an estimated wait time.


SETTINGS
- Redesigned the setting panel to allow for more keybindings and options. You may need to rebind your keys.
- Updated all the keybindings to take advantage of the new settings panel.
- Added spectator keybinds.
- New key input code for spectator and alt-keys.
- Spectator and alt-keys now handle + binds correctly.
- Del, backspace, and backquote/tilde are now bindalbe (ie. console is bindable)
- Added courier, neutral and hero specific ability binds.
- Spectators now correctly get all active buffs and debuffs on heroes when joining a game in progress.


REPLAYS
- The replay format has changed and old replays are no longer viewable.
- Your own private games are now displayed in your match history.


VISUALS
- Added effect for Phase Boots and Fiery Soul.
- Made Dark Seer's illusion effect more differentiated from a normal illusion effect.
- Made all known illusions draw with a creep style healthbar. This does not effect enemy illusions, but does apply to Dark Seer's Wall of Illusion illusions.
- Crystal Maiden illusions will no longer play her custom death anim.
- Heroes now flail while getting force staffed.


AUDIO
- Fixed the item combine sound playing to you when other players combine their items on your courier.
- Added rival death-taunts and other miscellaneous lines to flesh out dialog set for Juggernaut and Sven.


DOTA 2 BOTS
- Revised how and when bots decide to push lanes, defend lanes, and farm.
- Temporarily disabled late game team roaming. It will be back!
- Fixed bug where bot code would cause buyback of human players when playing with bot teammates.
- Made bots more aware of ganks that were happening near them.
- Increased the strength of human pings, and in general made them last longer.
- Fixed bug where bots weren't going back to base to fetch their TP scrolls, even when they had nothing better to do.
- Made bots less likely to wander across the map just to hit the side shop.
- Fixed bug where bots would buy superfluous flying courier items.
- Fixed bots ignoring seige engines when farming a lane.
- Fixed bots being standoffish to their own creeps.
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to not attack the lowest-health creep when farming a lane.
- When fleeing an enemy hero, bots will no longer immediately forget about the enemy the instant they lose sight of them.
- Made bots more likely to defend structures closer to their base, particularly barracks and their ancient.
- Fixed a case where bots were getting preoccupied with creeps when defending their base.

Dota 2 Update Released

January 27, 2012

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

GAMEPLAY
  • Added Clinkz!
  • Added Legacy Key support for Invoker.
  • Fixed Invoker's Quas, Wex, and Exort not giving Invoker bonus stats properly when upgraded.
  • Fixed Invoker's Invoke to properly swap the invoked abilities in the 1st and 2nd slots if the spell already existing in the 2nd slot is invoked again.
  • Fixed Cold Snap not being castable on Roshan
  • Fixed EMP cast range
  • Lane creeps will now stand still if they become unable to attack, such as when hit by Invoker's Deafening Blast, instead of charging past enemy creeps and towers.
  • Enabled Invoker in CM
  • Fixed gold-transfer hack, the sellback cooldown is now reset when combining stacks where the items have different owners.
  • Fixed Sticky Napalm triggering off of Orb of Venom
  • Fixed Glaives of Wisdom being usable while silenced

INTERFACE
  • Made chat messages HTML safe.
  • Fixed some buttons in the hero selector being broken after playing in a CM game.
  • Added a chat -ping command

Dota 2 Update Released

January 21, 2012

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

UPDATE January 20th, 2012:
  • Fixed Invoker's Quas, Wex, and Exort not giving Invoker bonus stats when upgraded.
  • Fixed Invoker's Invoke to properly swap the invoked abilities if the new spell already exists
  • Fixed Sticky Napalm triggering off of Orb of Venom
  • Fixed Glaives of Wisdom being usable while silenced
  • Fixed EMP cast range

Dota 2 Update Released

January 19, 2012

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

GAMEPLAY
  • Enabled Invoker!
  • Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture not hurting heroes when they blink.
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed Track ignoring Linken's Sphere.
  • Morphling: Fixed Morph removing Curse of the Silent.
  • Puck: Fixed Ethereal Jaunt from triggering Last Word/Magic Stick.
  • Puck: Fixed Phase Shift autocasting if you were already stunned before.
  • Puck: Fixed being able to move in certain situations while auto-casting Phase Shift.
  • Silencer: Fixed being unable to steal Int from dying magic immune heroes.
  • Silencer: Fixed Last Word silencing invulnerable units.
  • Silencer: Fixed stealing intelligence from Reincarnating heroes.
  • Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness picking units that are invisible or in the fow when it tries to find a new target.
  • Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness ignoring Hex.
  • Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greater Bash working with illusions
  • Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greater Bash bonus damage working on Towers, Wards and Denies
  • Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness and Greater Bash going through Magic Immunity
  • Storm Spirit: Fixed Ball Lightning costing draining more mana if you cast it again while still in it.
  • Tiny: Ultimate Scepter upgrade is now enabled.
  • Tiny: Fixed Toss damaging allied units.
  • Fixed Dagon int bonus being off by 1.
  • Fixed Arcane Boots giving 300 mana instead of 250.
  • Fixed night vision radius being a little smaller than intended.
  • Standing right next to a tree no longer removes its vision obstruction.
  • Silencer: Fixed Global Silence silencing only heroes.
  • Enabled Silencer and Spirit Breaker in Captain's Mode.
  • Fixed Healing Ward and Windrunner auras' sticky durations to 2.5 seconds.
  • Fixed Dagon's incorrect intelligence bonus values.
  • Fixed Heaven's Halbred's disarm allowing attack-spells to be cast through it.
  • Fixed Orchid using the old values at the new price.
  • Fixed Pipe not costing any mana.
  • Fixed Flying Courier HP not being upgraded after the last update

UI
  • Added Steam avatars to the dashboard.
  • Added Dota Profile page to the main menu, showing your personal match history, commendations and most successful heroes.
  • Fixed a bug where your control could be lost if you were selecting a enchanted/converted unit. It now goes back to your hero.
  • Party area of miniprofile now uses Steam avatars.
  • Party area of miniprofile now shows rich presence for friends
  • Party area of miniprofile now shows "View Steam Profile" link for non-friends
  • Party chat channel automatically gets focus when you join a party
  • Added a '*' to channel tabs with pending messages
  • Fixed being able to sell back an item for full price if it was combined using an item that had an active ability.
  • Added spacebar to pause games during replays.
  • Fixed clicking on the minimap border and then dragging into the minimap resulting in the camera getting stuck to the cursor.
  • Chat channels now get deleted if the last member in the channel goes offline.
  • Fixed clicking on blank space in the UI sending move orders to invalid locations.
  • Default private lobby version is now Tournament Mode.
  • When player names draw they now draw with player color instead of white.
  • Added leave party button in mini profile.
  • Now when attempting to cast-attack a target while hard disarmed, the error message "Can't Attack" will appear when you reach attack range of the target.
  • Holding now spotlights your hero.
  • Illusions now copy the number of charges in source unit's inventory items.
  • Fixed Courier purchase having no cooldown (now 7 seconds, primarily for accidental purchases early on).

BOTS
  • Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their courier died.
  • Fixed a case where bots would buy duplicate flying courier recipes.
  • Improved Earthshaker bot's Echoslam logic -
  • he'll now search for optimal places to Blink + Echoslam.
  • Made bots better about detecting attacking units without cheating and detecting other units' right-clicks.
  • Fixed Windrunner's buildout which broke due to the new Orchid recipe build. Also added force staff to her build.

Dota 2 Update Released

December 21, 2011

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

HEROES
  • Added Bounty Hunter!
  • Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes being left behind when blinking to a location with a different z-value while they're in-flight.
  • Ursa: Fixed fury swipes to apply the effect before the hit.

UI
  • "Watch Game" user menu option now also shows up for friends watching a game. Clicking it will take you to the same game they're watching.
  • "Watch Game" user menu option shows up for friends in practice lobbies with "allow spectators" turned on.
  • Added timestamps to main menu chat.
  • Added an announcement for when spectator sizes change in game.
  • Spectator names can be clicked in chat to commend, report or ignore them.

GAMEPLAY
  • Fixed server crash that could happen occasionally as the ancient is destroyed.

BOTS
  • Improved how bots predict missing enemy locations.
  • Added level of desire to all the things that bots currently avoid (mostly lessening the avoidance desire of things that they don't care much about).
  • Made bots less spammy about movement when moving to a location within a lane.
  • Increased range at which bots will consider coming to an ally's defense.
  • Increased bot desire to retreat when they're dangerously low on health.

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