We know what you’re thinking: You’ve only got three treasures remaining to get all the 10th Anniversary Rewards… except you’ve been at three treasures remaining for days now. There’s no end in sight. You’ve played core. You’ve played support. You’ve played mid. (Once you even tried jungling.)

Nothing. Three weeks just isn’t enough time to get all of those 10th Anniversary Rewards.

You know who agrees with you? Gabe Newell. You know who’s fired if we don’t extend the event so he can get his Ursa set? According to Gabe: us. So we’re happy and relieved and still employed to announce that the end date of the 10th Anniversary event is now September 18th.

Since releasing The Summer Client Update we've addressed a number of issues:

• Fixed a bug that would appear to allow you to commend/dislike the same player multiple times in postgame
  
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause behavior score or communication score to get set to 0 incorrectly (the affected accounts have had their appropriate scores restored)
  
• Re-added the ability to rotate your hero with mousewheel in the Armory and pregame
  
• Re-added the ability to demo custom terrains
  
• In games where the majority of connected players have a behavior score too low to allow them to pause the game, those players will now be able to unpause if the game has been paused for at least 5s
  
• Added persona selector to pregame loadout
  
• Added slot headings to pregame loadout
  
• Re-introduced Hero Relics into the shard shop
  
• Disabled rebundling for items with unlocked styles, or which unpack with dynamic gems
  
• Owned world items can now be demoed through the item details popup
  
• Improved the display of chat wheels in the new Armory
  
• Commending a player no longer prints a chat message every time (to prevent post-game commend sprees from pushing all actual chat offscreen)
  
• Added a new, distinct sound for disliking a player
  
• Fixed grouping by item type in the All Items tab in the Armory
  
• Fixed announcer packs not loading properly when entering pregame
  
• Fixed places in the new Armory where fonts would sometimes display at an incorrect size
  
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause dead units to not stay dead (Undying, Spirit Bear, Wraith King)
  
• Fixed multikill banners not being accessible in the new Armory
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause the game to change monitors when running in fullscreen on multi-monitor displays
  
• Fixed Dark Seer's "More Than Mental Mass" taunt not playing sounds
  
• Fixed Phoenix's Crimson Dawn set only changing the appearance of the head instead of the full set
  
• Fixed server crashes involving abilities from Dark Seer, Razor, and Hoodwink
  
• Fixed a client crash when displaying certain tooltips (including Tranquil Boots)
  
• Fixed custom game JavaScript support
  
• Fixed Hammer crashing on startup
  
• Fixed a crash when returning to the dashboard after playing a game
  
• Fixed some over-bright rendering in Vulkan when color-correction post-processing was enabled
  
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan renderer on Linux
  
• Fixed a crash on Linux GPUs with low memory
  
• Fixed fullscreen flickering on multi-monitor Linux systems
  
• Fixed a crash on MacOS versions older than 10.15
  
• Fixed a hang on MacOS when purchasing certain items in the Armory
  
• Fixed a particle crash on older Windows machines without SSE4.1 support
  
• Fixed terrain sometimes displaying incorrectly (or being invisible) on low-spec Windows machines
  
• Fixed a particle rendering error with Phoenix's Solar Gyre
  
• Fixed display of owned Kill Streak Effect in the Shard Shop
  
• Fixed incorrect items sometimes appearing under the Tools section in the Shard Shop
  
• Fixed some cosmetic particle effects not showing properly when previewing items in the Loadout or in the Armory (Void Spirit weapon particles, for example)
  
• Fixed summons appearing next to heroes in postgame
  
• Fixed Dota Plus quest to commend players not correctly counting all commends
  
• Fixed a server crash when players were spectating under certain conditions
  
• Fixed a rare courier-related server crash in Turbo
  
• Fixed an issue where using Armlet could cause a unit to behave oddly on death (for example, give death bounty twice, or in Wraith King's case, be teleported to the fountain on Reincarnation)
  

Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence.

Additionally, we have traced every single one of these smurf accounts back to its main account. Going forward, a main account found associated with a smurf account could result in a wide range of punishments, from temporary adjustments to behavior scores to permanent account bans.

As we said earlier this year in our blog post about cheating, and as we said earlier this week in our Summer Client Update, and as we will continue to say: Dota is a game best enjoyed when played on an even field. The quality of the people in a given match are what makes a match good. We’re invested in making sure your matches are as good as possible, and smurfing makes matches worse.

As always, if you suspect someone of smurfing in your game, use the in-game reporting options to flag them. This will help us continue to track offenders and gather data used to inform our anti-smurf efforts moving forward.

New Player Behavior System, New Rendering Features, and New Armory

Summer is hurtling toward its inevitable, pumpkin spiced end, and we’re seeing it off in style with a whole bunch of pretty sweet quality of life improvements. “I’ll be the judge of that,” you’re probably saying, eyes squinted in skeptical fashion. Well, how would you like to be the judge of not just blog posts, but real people? Like an actual judge. Because we've built a new player behavior and reporting system from the ground up to enable much better judging, and much better games.

Plus, just like in the allegory of Plato’s cave, you will now be able to see the shadows of clouds as they pass overhead. How is this possible? The copyright on the collected works of Plato has now just lapsed. We’ve also included a few other cool new rendering features inspired by, but not directly copied from, other pre-modern thinkers.

Lastly, we've torn the armory apart and completely rebuilt it to make it easier for you to do, well, everything with your cosmetic items. Epiloguely, we’re also shipping a Collector’s Cache to show all this new stuff off. Honestly, blog posts were simply not designed to convey this much exciting information, so we’ve assembled an update page with all the details.


Dota Plus Fall Update

As much as we all love playing Dota in sweaty rooms with sunny glares shining off our screens, the capricious gods of weather (or whoever decides these things) demand that our brief summer respite comes to a sudden but predictable end. Meaning that along with everything else, it's also time for the next seasonal release for Dota Plus — the Fall 2023 Dota Plus update for those of you keeping track at home — set to begin on September 1st.

Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards

The update comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash — offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.



Guild Tier
Rewards


Silver

• Emoticon - cozy_courier
  
• Emoticon - lancer_sour
  
• Emoticon - party_phoenix
  

Gold

• Spray - Keeper of the Light - Give Mana
  
• Spray - Shadowfiend - Shrug
  
• Spray - Arc Warden - Stab
  

Platinum

• Chat Wheel - "Holy Moly!"
  
• Chat Wheel - "Да? Да? Да? Нет."
  
• Chat Wheel - "3, 2, 1, aaaadios!"
  

The Days Ahead

The International is just around the corner, and the final qualified teams will soon be decided. To kick off the celebration ahead of all the action in Seattle, we've got another update in the works tied closely to the event that we'll release in late September. We can hardly wait to cheer on the epic Dota to come.

Finally, to cram a bit more Dota into this blog, we wanted to highlight some of the changes and fixes from the last few weeks that are also shipping today:

• New: Bounty rune spawn locations now show on the minimap before the horn using desaturated icons.
  
• New: Added an option to rebind the Alternative Cast Ability switch key under the Advanced Hotkeys Interface tab.
  
• New: Optimized Dota's network traffic. Dota will now use a little less bandwidth all the time, and a lot less bandwidth sometimes (for example, in illusion-heavy gameplay).
  
• Fixed Invoker Wex sometimes granting the wrong amount of mana regeneration
  
• Fixed Allied Heroes being able to refresh a Hand of Midas that doesn't belong to them
  
• Fixed Wraith King skeletons sometimes ignoring Wraithfire Blast when selecting their target
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker having an infinite shield when taking the level 25 talent
  
• Fixed Riki's Level 25 Right Talent not displaying the proper cooldown reduction
  
• Fixed being able to blink to one specific location off the top left corner of the map
  
• Fixed various tooltip issues with Invoker's Ghost Walk
  
• Fixed universal heroes not showing up correctly in Ability draft UI tooltips
  
• Fixed Overwhelming Blink doing 100 damage over six seconds instead of 100% of the caster's strength over 6 seconds
  
• Fixed Windranger's Agh's upgrade invisibility effect not visually applying for allies
  

The International is fast approaching, and for those of you planning on going, we wanted to give you some important dates so you can start planning your trip. Tickets to join the audience live at The International 2023 in Seattle, WA are going on sale August 25th, 2023. Whether you’re planning on attending in person, or hopping on with millions of viewers from around the world to watch our livestream broadcast, join us in cheering on the best Dota teams on the planet as they battle it out for the Aegis.

Like we posted earlier this month, The International Dota 2 Championships will be getting split into two distinct phases this year, over the course of three action-packed weekends: The Road to the International, encompassing Group Stage (October 12th-15th) and Playoffs (October 20th-22nd); and The International itself (October 27th-29th).

Both the Playoffs and The International will take place in front of a live audience this year. In an effort to minimize confusion due to the new naming scheme, tickets for each of the events will go live on separate dates.

Sales are scheduled to go live on Ticketmaster as follows:

The International 2023 at Climate Pledge Arena

• Tickets will go on sale August 25th at 10 AM Pacific Time on Ticketmaster
  
• Tickets will be sold as a three-day pass for the full event, priced at $699 USD + Fees per pass
  
• Attendees who bind their Steam account to their pass will be granted one Treasure of the Crimson Witness 2023 (and will continue to have chances to win more throughout the event)
  

The Road to the International - Playoffs at Seattle Convention Center's Summit Building

• Tickets will go on sale on August 28th at 10 AM Pacific Time on Ticketmaster
  
• Tickets will be sold as individual tickets for each of the three days, priced at $99 USD + Fees per ticket
  

Tickets for all events can be purchased here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/the-international-dota-2-championship-tickets/artist/1982004


We're excited to welcome the Dota community back to Seattle for the first time in five years, and millions more of you from all over the world on our livestream broadcast. Whether in person or virtually, we hope to see you there.

FAQ

When is The International 2023?
The International will take place across three days (October 27th-29th) at Climate Pledge Arena. The Road to the International - Playoffs will take place across three days (October 20th-22nd) one weekend prior to The International, at the Seattle Convention Center's Summit Building.

How can I buy a ticket to The International? What type of tickets are available?
The International three-day pass (Friday/Saturday/Sunday) will be available for $699 USD + Fees. Passes will go on sale on August 25th at 10:00 AM PT on Ticketmaster. All tickets are General Admission.

How can I buy a ticket to The Road to the International - Playoffs? What type of tickets are available?
Playoffs Day 1 (Friday), Day 2 (Saturday) and Day 3 (Sunday) tickets will be available as single-day tickets for $99 USD + Fees. Tickets will go on sale on August 28th at 10:00 AM PT on Ticketmaster. All tickets are General Admission.

How many tickets can I buy?
Purchases are limited to five tickets per transaction.

How do I pick up my tickets?
Your Playoffs tickets and The International three-day pass will be available in your Ticketmaster account as Mobile Entry Tickets – no pick up needed! Make sure to save your ticket to your phone's wallet ahead of the event for easy access.

What happens if there is an issue with my mobile ticket?
Please reach out to Ticketmaster support regarding all ticket-related inquiries. There will be a Will Call office to assist you on-site at the event as well.

Can I sit anywhere, or will there be preassigned seats?
Both Playoffs and The International are General Admission events, and a GA ticket holder can sit in almost any available seat (other than in reserved sections, like for press or pro players).

Is re-entry permitted?
Yes. Once you have scanned in your ticket for the day, you will be allowed re-entry with a unique wristband which can be picked up once you enter the venue.

Can I get a refund on my ticket?
Tickets are non-refundable, unless the event itself is cancelled for any reason.

Can I transfer or resell my ticket?
Yes, tickets can be transferred between accounts and bought/sold on Ticketmaster directly. Instructions on how to transfer tickets can be found here. Instructions on how to buy/sell tickets can be found here.

Can I split my three-day pass for The International?
The three-day pass for The International comes as a single-entry barcode, meaning that you cannot separate them into individual daily tickets to buy, sell or transfer. However, ticket transfers will be permitted up until the start of the final day of the event. Please note that once a pass has been scanned in at the venue for the day, it will not be eligible for entry for the rest of that day, even after the ticket has been transferred.

Will I able to get normal Crimson Witness Treasure drops the same way I did in previous years?
Yes, Crimson Witness Treasures will still drop on First Blood of each game at The International, as before.

There are some elders who whisper that the Ancients have always existed, and always will exist -- unknowable eldritch tentacle-shards of a mad moon, outside of time, doomed to battle forever. Other elders eyeball it at around ten, maybe thirteen years. It really depends what wizard you’re listening to in the forest. Either way, we tend to side with the elders who say “Look, it’s got to be something,” and ten’s a nice round number.

So put on your party hats and join us, won’t you, in celebrating Dota 2’s 10-year anniversary, commemorating the various milestones, semi-milestones, and occasional regular-shaped stones found on the path of Dota’s decade-long journey.

And since it wouldn’t be a party without presents, from now until Thursday, September 7, winning a Dota game will grant you a commemorative treasure containing one of thirteen special items tied to each of Dota’s storied years. All you need to do is keep winning Dota games until you’ve collected all thirteen.

All jokes aside, we’re really lucky to have a community as supportive as Dota’s. We’re happy to have been able to share this journey with you so far. So for the next couple of weeks, jump in a match and help us celebrate the decade behind us. We look forward to all the games to come.

Patch 7.34b is out now. You can check the notes here.


Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Arc Warden Magnetic Field granting bonus damage instead of base damage
  
• Fixed Bane illusion waking up Nightmared Units
  
• Fixed Brewmaster Level 25 Talent Drunken Brawler Passive on brewlings Primal Companions not getting extra bonuses from getting Cinder Brew on them
  
• Fixed Brewmaster Level 10 Talent not applying the attack damage to Scepter Primal Companions
  
• Fixed Crystal Maiden Crystal Clone not mentioning projectile disjointing on cast in tooltip
  
• Fixed Ember Spirit Flame Guard not updating the first time magic damage was applied
  
• Fixed "Pierces Debuff Immunity" tooltip for Grimstroke Soulbind
  
• Fixed tooltip description for Keeper of the Light's Chakra Magic
  
• Fixed a server crash with Lone Druid and Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Break disabling Phantom Assassin Phantom Strike's lifesteal
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin Blur dispellable by Lotus Pools and Twin gates
  
• Fixed showing a HUD error for Templar Assassin shown while pressing Ctrl
  
• Fixed "Dispellable" tooltip for Terrorblade Demon Zeal
  
• Fixed Witch Doctor Death Ward unable to target creep-heroes
  
• Fixed Enchantress Little Friends being only partially undispellable
  
  

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Captain's Mode pick order display
  
• Fixed some regressions of 7.33e changes
  
• Removed references in the Glossary to Outposts granting XP
  
• Fixed the locations mentioned in Outpost Captured messages
  
• Fixed and clarified various tooltips
  
• Fixed Alchemist not being able to grant Aghanim's Scepter to Lone Druid's Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed an issue where Elder Titan Astral Spirit would keep flying without stopping when casting Echo Stomp
  
• Fixed Lifestealer level 25 talent not granting bonus damage
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not respecting auto-attack settings
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not being able to be switched to with Tab
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not gaining strength from Power Treads
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear illusions not gaining bonus attack damage from Lone Druid's level
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear Fetch piercing Debuff Immunity when it should not be able to
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit Link mistakenly healing the Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin level 25 talent +7% Coup de Grace Crit Chance not working
  
• Fixed Timbersaw level 15 Whirling Death Stat Loss talent having no effect on universal heroes
  
• Fixed the initial attack from Witch Doctor Death Ward not piercing debuff immunity
  
• Fixed Zeus shard toggle state being reset on death (but still showing as toggled on)
  

Since the release of 7.34 we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed an issue where issuing an alt-cast order while out of range and then changing alt-cast mode could result in the wrong variant of the ability being cast
  
• Fixed Holy Locket + Midas not working with Bad Juju
  
• Fixed Midas cooldowns being independent of each other
  
• Fixed an issue with Ninja Gear where it could apply smoke to allies while Phase Boots was active
  
• Fixed Revenant's Brooch not showing passive attack speed bonus in the item description (this was only a display issue, attack speed bonus was always applied)
  
• Fixed Smoke of Deceit modifier not showing speed bonus and visibility radius on the client.
  
• Fixed various issues in glossary, tooltip, and patch note text
  
• Fixed missing description on Alchemist Corrosive Weaponry
  
• Fixed Anti-Mage Counterspell Ally being castable on enemies
  
• Fixed Beastmaster level 15 movespeed aura talent not working properly
  
• Fixed Beastmaster Call Of The Wild Hawk not behaving properly when dominated
  
• Fixed Brewmaster illusions always being in Earth Stance
  
• Fixed Centaur Hoof Stomp proccing magic stick on spell cast, rather than stomp being applied
  
• Fixed Centaur Hoof Stomp not being interrupted when stunned/silenced/hexed/etc.
  
• Fixed Crystal Maiden Crystal Clone Frostbite not lasting for creep duration on creeps
  
• Fixed Doom level 25 talent (Doom now mutes) not working
  
• Fixed an issue where Drow Multishot ceased firing too early
  
• Fixed Elder Titan not being able to toggle the Alt Cast ability on Echo Stomp after cast
  
• Fixed Invoker Wex cooldown reduction being multiplicative instead of additive
  
• Fixed Juggernaut Level 20 talent lifesteal not working properly
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear illusions triggering backlash damage on Lone Druid
  
• Fixed missing Spirit Link visuals with Lone Druid Scepter
  
• Fixed Meepo Earthbind having infinite range
  
• Fixed Morphling Morph illusion not properly removing abilities at the end of the illusion's lifetime
  
• Fixed Morphling Morph illusion taking and giving and extra 100% damage
  
• Fixed Morphling Morph Scepter not properly using Lil' Shredder charges when replicating Snapfire
  
• Fixed a crash when Morphling replicates Slark
  
• Fixed Ogre Magi's multicast of Midas consuming multiple charges.
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin Deadly Focus buff being purgable
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin Deadly Focus buff being sometimes lost on missed or canceled attacks
  
• Fixed Puck's Aghanims Scepter Dream Coil not hitting units that have invisibility, even if they are visible to Puck
  
• Fixed Rubick being able to steal Reality and getting Haunt as a result
  
• Fixed Dark Ascension resetting itself and other ultimate abilities when stolen by Rubick
  
• Fixed some joint issues with Tidehunter's Dead in the Water chain
  
• Fixed Tusk still displaying Frozen Sigil in the ability list in some places
  
• Fixed Warlock imps being spawned inside of each other/impassable terrain
  
• Fixed Weaver shard Geminate attacks not applying on-attack modifiers
  
• Fixed Witch Doctor Death Ward Scepter bounce shots not being pure damage
  

In the wake of last night's unprecedented, frankly preposterous all-emoji patchnote leak, we’ve decided to scrap our plans to release 7.34 this coming Thursday, and are shipping it today. As in right now. As in “immediately” right now. In fact, as you read this sentence specifically, at exactly the moment you read this part of the sentence here.

If you missed yesterday's emoji leak, or are one of the few unfortunate people who’ve never seen The Emoji Movie and thus don’t know what emojis are, you're welcome to dig into the full list of 7.34 Gameplay Update notes here.

In addition to gameplay changes, we've also reworked Captains Mode, so get ready for a fresh new flow for upcoming tournament drafts.

As we mentioned in June, we've been working on some fun stuff to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Dota 2's official release. The good news? It's almost ready! The bad news? It's not quite ready TODAY. But keep your party hats ready and pitch-forks at half-mast. We're looking to ship it soon. As in very soon. As in -- well, soon.

Lastly, over the last few days we've fixed a few additional gameplay issues not covered in the other patchnotes. For completion’s sake, we present them here:

• Fix Beastmaster Wild Axes providing vision of the center of the map
  
• Fix another way to cause the Earth Spirit Stone Remnants crash
  
• Fix Keeper of the Light Illuminate damage being wrong when casting a second Illuminate while the first is still traveling
  
• Fix Silencer Glaives of Wisdom not stealing temporary Int from Meepo clones or Arc Warden Tempest Double
  
• Fix an issue where Wards could move after spawning
  
• Fix Watchers showing as disabled still when they become capturable if that occurs in fog of war
  
• Fix a number of particle/FX issues, including adding back missing feet FX for Terrorblade arcana, Lina Immortal Laguna Blade FX, etc