After extensive consideration of the global health emergency stemming from COVID-19, we have made the difficult choice to delay The International. We have been exploring various date possibilities, but it is likely that the event will need to happen in 2021. Given the highly volatile landscape for local gathering restrictions, virus trajectory, and global travel policies, we don't expect to have enough confidence to communicate firm dates in the near future. In the meantime, we are working on restructuring the DPC season for the fall, and will be providing more information as soon as we have it.

The 10th International prize pool will be funded by 25% of sales of the next Battle Pass, which we are planning to release soon instead of closer to the event itself. However, with our team working from home and things taking longer to complete, the release date of the Battle Pass will be at least a couple of weeks later than usual.

We hope everyone in the Dota community is staying as safe as possible, and look forward to a time when we can once again welcome everyone to enjoy the spectacle of The International.

While the original deadline for this year's Collector's Cache Call to Arms has already arrived, we've decided to extend the submission period for one more week.

Please make sure to submit your entries to the Workshop by the end of Sunday, May 3rd, and mark your submissions with the "Collector’s Cache 2020" tag.

This extension also means there is still time for fans to visit the Workshop and vote through the Queue to take part in the selection process. Vote now to ensure your voice is heard.

- Fixed some bugs with lifesteal amplification (caused things like heart and divine favor to affect it)

- Fixed an exploit which duplicated neutral items.
- Fixed Primal Split immolation dealing too much damage.

- Further minor camera adjustments following the previous iteration

- Fixed an XP bug that was recently introduced that caused streaks to give much more XP than intended

Dota Gameplay 7.25 is out now!

Changelog can be viewed here.

In this update we are introducing a new system for gathering data on the type of changes that are harder to evaluate or predict without very large number of games, such as gold bounty formula changes.

We expect the number of times that we actually do this during the year to be very low, however when we do it it'll be during weekdays only at the lowest point of user activity, between 4 and 6PM Seattle time. In addition, we are adding a convar "dota_disable_experimental_gameplay" that can be used by players to disable it. Any gameplay changes will only be active in matchmaking games where no players have the convar set. The changes will never be active in lobby and league games.

We recognize that in some cases players will back solve what changes were done, however we won't announce changes ourselves in part because we don't want players to overcompensate with knowledge of them and because generally we prefer to not reveal potential upcoming changes.

Although the type of changes we are thinking about, like gold distribution, take much more than a game or two to show their full impact, we will still be able to get meaningful data and analysis on the direction and scale of changes.

- The rarity of “Very Rare” treasure items has changed to be closer to the halfway point between “Rare” and “Ultra Rare” items.

- Fixed a bug with combining Bloodstone or Rapier when some components were in your backpack.
- Fixed the interaction of backdoor protection and Lone Druid's Bear and Brewmaster's Primal Split.
- When selling stacked wards both sentry and observer wards now restock correctly.
- Fixed a bug where a gem stolen from the enemy team would credit the wrong player with bounty for wards killed.
- Fixed a bug where a creep killing a ward did not award bounty gold to the player who placed the detection.
- Fixed the interaction of Lone Druid's Spirit Bear and Magic Lamp.
- Dark Seer's Surge and Legion Commander's Press the Attack with the AoE talents will no longer cause the caster to pivot when self-casting.