Dota 2 Updates

[Malthe]

Valve will probably change it around to make it all look amazing eventually.

[IllegallySane]

So now that TI3 is over, what changes will be hitting the top picks? As much as I'd hate to admit it, Furion definitely was incredibly powerful in the hands of Bulldog. I sense a nerf to Treants in some way, or even nerfing Teleport in some way. Wisp may be hit harder since Io essentially guaranteed a victory to whoever held the Wisp in the whole Grand Finals.

[Dusk]

I think Furion is fine. He's a strong pick, especially in the current metagame, but he's no game changer. The heroes I most expect to be nerfed are Bat, Wisp, and Alchemist.

[IllegallySane]

I think Furion is fine. He's a strong pick, especially in the current metagame, but he's no game changer. The heroes I most expect to be nerfed are Bat, Wisp, and Alchemist.

I wonder how Icefrog could nerf the Alchemist without making him a crap pick. Lower the max gold of Greevil's Greed? Lower the max damage/stun rate of Unstable Concoction? Raise the BAT of Chemical Rage?

[Malthe]

I heard a rumor about refraction getting new sound-files.
So either it's getting reworked in the upcoming update or valve are just reworking the visuals of TA. If the rumor is true that is.
Also i honestly feel alchemist is fine, except for his super early perssence. Regardless of if he's a carry or support i feel his stun is a bit too good early on, especially as a carry. but nerfing it makes him worse as a support. Nerfing his base int and buffing his int-gain so it ends up at the same later on would be one way to handle it, i suppose. Or make it scale far better with charging it up so it's way more trash if not charged up.
Not sure.
Honestly one of the problems comes from shadow blade, not that it's too strong of an item but it's just too good with alchemist and suits him so well. And his innate insane regen lets him stay and battle 5ever without returning to base.

[Raul]

I wonder how Icefrog could nerf the Alchemist without making him a crap pick. Lower the max gold of Greevil's Greed? Lower the max damage/stun rate of Unstable Concoction? Raise the BAT of Chemical Rage?

Funnily enough, those are some of the big buffs he got in 6.75 and 6.76. He was a pretty trash hero before that point from what I've heard and seen. It's not the hard carry alch that's the problem, nor the ganking prowess of alch once he gets shadow blade.
imo he's just too much of a jack-of-all-trades hero, just like Lifestealer and Weaver are. And just like BKB is as an item (which I think contributes a lot to his power, incidentally).
anyhow maybe either nerf or completely remove the mana regen on ultimate, make him not able to stay out and spam concoctions+acid spray from level 6 onwards without a couple pairs of arcanes on his team. makes him flat-out bad as a support and a bit worse as a mid without hurting the hard carry potential of the hero very much. maybe make it go 1/5/12 to emphasize getting that level 16 just like the MS and regen work. I dunno, I'm just throwing out ideas.

also I'd be super surprised if TA got a visual update before heroes like Shadow Friend, Storm, Bananamancer, Viper, Slardar, Zues, and the one or two others that are confirmed to be on the VU list. She's much better off than any of them.

[Chew]

So yeah, I just got an update (near 500mbs)
Anyone has any idea what is it?
Can't find any info.
Is this reliable?

[Malthe]

New update:

Gameplay
- Fixed players' current gold being networked to enemy players.
- Fixed Spirit Breaker's charge target being networked to enemy players.
- Picking up an armlet that is toggled on will only grant the buff if you own the armlet.
- Autocast abilities check target type rules consistently. This should prevent Clinkz's searing arrows hitting wards, for example.
- Added Elder Titan, Abaddon, Centaur and Troll Warlord to Captain's Mode.
- Fixed Neutral Thunderhide not using Slam when 3 enemies are nearby.
- Fixed Neutral Thunderhide's Slam not slowing attack speed.
- Ancient Apparition: Frostbite debuff will prevent health gain from levelling up, extra strength or extra max hp.
- Slark: Fixed BKB not removing Pounce's Leash.
- Treant Protector: Fixed Overgrowth affecting couriers.
- Troll Warlord: Fixed Illusions benefiting from Fervor.
- Troll Warlord: Fixed ranged form sometimes being able to bash.
- Weaver's geminate ability no longer activates when attacking wards.
- Weaver's Time Lapse and Disruptor's Glimpse now can rewind things back to before Time Lapse or Glimpse were first skilled.

UI
- Runes now draw in the minimap for spectators.
- Increased the penalty for not readying up from 45 seconds to 2 minutes.
- Spectator stats dropdown is unlocked while listening to broadcasters.
- Added a preference and cvar "dota_spectator_use_broadcaster_stats_panel" to allow spectators to have full control over the stats panels.
- Private (friend/guild) lobbies now display their game name so that those browsing lobbies can get more info on what the lobby is for.
- Changed drag-select of units to use the same hit detection as click-select. This fixes a number of issues where units would not get selected.
- Fixed bugs that were allowing edge panning to be enabled during drag-select.
- Reduced CPU usage of drag-select.
- Fixed some newline formatting errors in the combat log.
- Prevented guides for the previously-played hero from erroneously showing up at the start of the next game.
- Added AOE hover indicator for Death Pulse.

Economy
- Added Waldi courier, Ocula ward, 3 HUDs and 14 hero item sets to the store.
- Updated Sniper's workshop model files with improved weighting, including corrected smd files.

Audio
- Fixed bad interactions with some looping sounds and FoW.
- Fixed Reincarnate stinger sometimes playing late when triggered in vision but out of hearing range.
- Fixed some item cast sounds that could be heard through FoW.
- Typing "tu" in chat no longer triggers hero "thank you" lines.

Mac/Linux
- Fixed crash when using certain spells / illusions on Intel HD4000. [Mac]
- Fixed intermittent crash when cmd-tabbing. [Mac]
- Fixed issues with older PulseAudio installations. [Linux]
- Improved stability when showing webpages.
- Allow setting language of audio and text separately, through Steam. (Text comes from Steam's language, audio comes from the language set in Dota 2's properties on Steam)
- Made Dota2 respond to window manager requests to close it.
- Fixes to make Dota2 work on a broader set of video cards on Linux
- Fixed key repeat to work in text entry windows.
- Fixed loading screens to show an image instead of a black screen
- Fixed a bug preventing multiple users from playing Dota2 (at different times) on a machine.
- Fixed sounds not working when a matchmaking game is ready to start. Added a desktop notification on Linux
- Added XBox 360 spectating controller support.
- Fixed crash on hero selection screen on Linux.
- Fixed a rendering bug when turning off Specular in advanced video settings.
- Fixed mouse offset bug and window size/aspect ratio issue when moving from full screen to windowed modes.

[Words]

Weaver's Time Lapse and Disruptor's Glimpse now can rewind things back to before Time Lapse or Glimpse were first skilled.

The hell does that mean? Weren't you able to use Time Lapse just right after leveling it or what? He's one of my favorite Heroes and I didn't knew that happened o.o I don't play Disruptor so I wouldn't mind either way.

[Malthe]

The hell does that mean? Weren't you able to use Time Lapse just right after leveling it or what? He's one of my favorite Heroes and I didn't knew that happened o.o I don't play Disruptor so I wouldn't mind either way.

It didn't start tracking until you used it.
Examples:

Pre-fix:
You start fight at level 5, max health, shortly into the fight you get level 6 at half health and level up ult instantly. You ult. You stay at half health.
Post fix:
You start fight at level 5, max health, shortly into the fight you get level 6 at half health and level up ult instantly. You ult. You return to max health.


Also, i'll be so disappointed if legion commander doesn't go "It's time to duel" when she ulties. (Her ulti is literally called "Duel" and forced you to fight another player with only auto attacks(both you and the other person are doomed, no items or spells) AKA maximum manfight, also:
"• The victorious player has to announce 'WINNER!' in allchat."



Then again, i am still disappointed that ogre/jakiro/Alch don't go "It's time for trouble, and make it double."

[Malthe]

Supposed 6.79 leaks
Note that these leaks may very well be what the beta testers(dota1 beta testers) are currently testing but that does not mean they are changes that will ever actually be implemented, Ice Frog tends to test any crazy idea he gets in the beta versions. There was a beta version where venomancer ulti damaged and affected buildings, for example.
But here is the leak: http://pastebin.com/BpiEBqeP

Spoiler

Alchemist:
Acid Spray cooldown increased from 22 to 27
Unstable Concoction maximum stun duration decreased from 1.75/2.5/3.25/4 to 1.25/1.75/2.5/3.25

Arc Warden:
Flux duration increased from 6 to 7
Magnetic Field AoE decreased from 275 to 250

Ancient Apparition:
Cold Feet mana cost decreased from 150 to 90/110/130/150
Cold Feet stun duration rescaled from 1.25/2/2.75/3.5 to 1.5/2.25/2.75/3.5

Axe:
Counter Helix chance increased from 17% to 20%
Berserker's Call radius increased to 350
Berserker's Call mana cost decreased from 80/90/100/110 to 80

Bane Elemental:
Cast animation time increased from 0.5 to 0.7

Batrider:
Movement speed decreased from 290 to 285
Attack range decreased from 375 to 330
Sticky Napalm turn rate slow rescaled from 70% to 40%/50%/60%/70%

Bloodseeker:
Thirst radius increased from 6000 to 7500

Bristleback:
Cast duration changed to 0.3

Broodmother:
Insatiable Hunger can no longer be purged
Spiderling movement speed increased to from 350 to 375
Spiderling base attack time from 1.35 to 1.0
Spiderite bounty decreased from 16-21 to 11-13
Spiderling bounty increased from 11-13 to 15-20

Chen:
Base strength decreased by 3

Centaur Warchief:
Hoof Stomp cooldown decreased from 13 to 8

Crystal Maiden:
Base movement speed increased from 280 to 290

Dark Seer:
Vacuum no longer stuns enemy units while moving them
Vacuum cooldown increased from 24 to 26

Dazzle:
Shadow Wave cooldown decreased from 12/10/8/6 to 11/9/7/5
Shadow Wave bounce radius increased from 475 to 550

Death Prophet:
Silence AoE increased from 350 to 350/375/400/450
Witchcraft cooldown decrease increased from 1/2/3/4 to 1.5/2.5/3.5/5
Exocism spirit damage increased from 43-48 to 45-50

Disruptor:
Strength gain increased from 1.9 to 2.3
Kinetic Field formation time decreased from 1.2 to 1

Doom Bringer:
Int growth from 2.1 to 2.5
Scorched Earth cooldown decreased from 60/55/50/45 to 55/45/35/25

Dragon Knight:
Base armor decreased by 1.5
Dragon Tail stun duration rescaled from 2.5/2.75/3/3.25 to 1,5/2/3/3.25

Earth Spirit:
Turn rate increased from 0.6 to 1.0
Stone replenish rate increased from 25 to 30 seconds

Enigma:
Added Aghanim's Scepter:
Cast range increased to 300
Enemies in a 850 AoE have their turn rate slowed by 55% and are pulled towards the center of the Black Hole at 100ms if they are facing it
Duration increased from 4 to 4.5

Furion:
Treant bounty increased from 21-26 to 20-35
Treant sight range decreased from 1200/800 to 800/800

Goblin Shredder:
Added Aghanim's Scepter
Increases Chakram speed from 900 to 1000
Allows Goblin Shredder to latch to his Chakram with Timber Chain

Gyrocopter:
Flak Cannon now only deals Gyrocopter's base damage
Flak Cannon maximum attacks increased from 3/4/5/6 attacks to 4/5/6/7
Call Down mana cost increased from 125 to 200

Huskar:
Added to Captain's Mode!
Base armor decreased by 1
You can now deny yourself with the self-damage of Burning Spears.
Burning Spears can no longer be used while in Ethereal form.

Io:
Tether maximum radius rescaled from 900 to 500/550/600/750
Tether movement speed bonus decreased from 17% to 7%/10%/13%/16%

Juggernaut:
Healing Ward movement speed increased from 300 to 350
Healing Ward cooldown decreased from 60 to 50

Lifestealer:
Base armor decreased by 1
Movement speed decreased from 315 to 310

Lone Druid:
Spirit Bear bounty increased from 300 to 350

Lycanthrope:
Howl unit bonus damage increased from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20
Shapeshift duration rescaled from 18 to 15/20/25

Medusa:
Mystic Snake movement speed increased to 833, return speed to 1033

Meepo:
Clones now carry all the auras the prime Meepo does

Morphling:
Attack range increased from 350 to 380

Necrolyte:
Base strength increased by 3
Strenght growth from 2 to 2.3
Heartstopper Aura HP loss increased from 0.6%/0.9%/1.2%/1.5% to 0.7%/1.2%/1.5%/2%

Nerubian Assassin:
Mana Burn range decreased from 600 to 500

Nerubian Weaver:
Movement speed decreased from 290 to 280

Ogre Magi:
Fireblast and Unrefined Fireblast stun duration decreased from 1.5 to 1
Multicast now fully refreshes the stun duration of Fireblast

Obsidian Destroyer:
Essence Aura base mana bonus removed

Omniknight:
Purification heal works on magic immune units (damage is still pure and doesn't damage immune units)
Degen Aura reworked:
Radius increased to 400
Slow decreased to 5%/10%/15%/20%
If an enemy unit dies in the radius of Degen Aura, an illusion of them that does 20% damage and takes 450% incoming damage is created for 20 seconds. Illusions have their movement speed fixed at 400 and carry the same level of Degen Aura as Omniknight
Both movement and attack slow of Degen Aura from multiple units now stack
Illusions appear as the fake for both teams

Oracle:
Purifying Flames mana cost increased from 30/45/60/75 to 75
Movement speed decreased from 305 to 295

Pandarean Brewmaster:
Thunder Clap cooldown decreased from 12 to 8

Pugna:
Strength growth from 1.2 to 1.65
Nether Blast delay decreased from 0.9 to 0.5 seconds
Nether Blast cooldown rescaled from 5.5 to 8/6/5/4
Decrepify no longer slows allied units.
Decrepify mana cost decreased from 100 to 65¨
Life Drain slightly reworked:
Pugna can move during the channel with a fixed movement speed of 150. Attacking, using items or getting disabled will still break the channel.

Puck:
Phase Shift cooldown increased from 6 to 8

Phantom Assassin:
Phantom Strike can be cast on magic immune units.
Base attack time decreased from 1.7 to 1.6

Phoenix:
Sunray HP cost increased from 4% to 5%

Rikimaru:
Using items and abilities won't reveal Rikimaru in Permanent Invisibility
Movement speed increased from 300 to 310

Rubick:
Telekinesis now ends if Rubick and the targeted unit are moved 675 units away from each other
Spell Steal mana cost increased from 25 to 65

Sand King:
Sandstorm now gives 10%/15%/20%/25% miss chance to enemies in the AoE

Shadow Shaman:
Mass Serpent Ward increases 8/9/10 wards instead of 8 at all levels
Mass Serpent Wards can no longer be phased through

Silencer:
Global Silence cast time changed to instant

Skeleton King:
Hellfire Blast slow increased from 20% to 25%
If a unit affected by Mortal Strike dies before the end of its duration, Skeleton King instantly regains the passive critical strike and drained health won't be returned.
Reincarnation now stuns units for 1/1.5/2 seconds at the end of the slow.
Auras carried by Skeleton King stay in effect during Reincarnation.

Skywrath Mage:
Arcane Bolt cooldown decreased from 5/4/3/2 to 4.5/3.5/2.5/1.5

Slardar:
Strength growth increased from 2.8 to 3.15
Cooldown decreased from 28 seconds to 25
Sprint can be cancelled by activating it again on its duration
Amplified damage taken from Sprint will always be pure (instead of same damage type)
Amplify Damage cast range increased from 700 to 850
Amplify Damage cooldown decreased from 10 to 10/8/6

Sniper:
Shrapnel effect delay removed.
Shrapnel mana cost rebalanced from 120 to 75/85/95/120
Shrapnel cooldown decreased from 15 to 12
Headshot stun duration increased from 0.25 to 0.3
If Headshot procs on a unit in the AoE of Shrapnel, the mini-stun will happen twice (damage will be taken from only one headshot)
Assassinate mana cost decreased from 175/275/375 to 150/250/350

Spectre:
Desolate radius decreased from 325 to 275

Spirit Breaker:
Base armor decreased by 1
Empowering Haste speed bonus rescaled from 6%/10%/14%/18% to 5%/10%/15%/20%

Tidehunter:
Kraken Shell damage reduction rescaled from 7/14/21/28 to 5/10/20/25
Kraken Shell now blocks all damage types (does a triggered heal instead of damage block)
Kraken Shell damage treshold decreased from 600 to 550

Treant Protector:
Nature's Guise mana cost decreased from 90/80/70/60 to 80/70/60/45
When a unit invisible with Nature's Guise leaves the proximity of trees the buff is no longer removed, but the invis will stay in fade time unti the unit gets near trees again.
Living Armor damage block instances increased from 4/5/6/7 to 6.
Living Armor damage block increased from 20/40/60/80 to 30/40/60/85
Living Armor's cast range is reduced from global to 900 during the night

Tuskarr:
Strength growth increased from 2.3 to 2.7
Snowball has a minimum movement speed of 300
Snowball stun duration on main target increased from 0.5/0.7/1/1.25 to 1/1.25/1.5/2
Snowball cooldown decreased from 21 to 15 seconds
Units continue to be immune to damage for 0.33 seconds after snowball ends (but are still affected by stuns etc)

Undying:
Decay strength steal increased from 4 to 5

Venomancer:
Plague Ward caste range increased from 850 to 1000
Plague Wards have the same level of Poison Sting as Venomancer

Visage:
Soul Assumption damage detection radius decreased from 1375 to 900

Witch Doctor:
Paralyzing Cask's initial hit on heroes stuns the target for 1.5 seconds (bounces still stun for 1 second)
Paralyzing Cask bounces increased from 2/4/6/8 to 2/4/8/10
Voodoo Restoration inital mana cost decreased from 25/50/75/100 to 50 on all levels

Zeus:
Attack range increased from 350 to 450
Base damage increased by 6
Movement speed decreased from 295 to 290

What are you guys thoughts?

[Salguod]

CM movespeed buff! Not liking the Ogre nerf. Latching to the chakram would be really cool, but probably not worth buying aghanim's for.

The Skeleton king reincarnation buff seems pretty strong. That's a big aoe stun.

Not sure about the changes to the popular competitive heroes.

[Dusk]

Poison Sting on Plague Wards? Enjoy your permanent cancer. That skill would be pretty pineappleing good if Veno wasn't a fragile support that doesn't get much of a chance to auto attack. 14% slow through BKB is no joke, Sven and Ursa already get kited all day even with move speed buffs.

Overall those changes would be pretty good, though the bat range nerf would be excessive and probably make him less fun.

[Malthe]

And today's update:

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed recasting a higher level of Enfeeble only refreshing the existing duration without upgrade the stats
- Fixed Epicenter not slowing attack speed by 10

VISUAL
- Fixed Timbersaw's body blade not rendering properly.
- You will no longer see other player's -commands (like -ping).
- adjusted cloth settings for Witchdoctor and Lion

SPECTATING
- Added experimental Player Perspective Directed mode. Turn on by selecting player perspective and setting dota_spectator_directed_player_perspective to 1.

AUDIO
- Add audio for cheese usage.
- Fix FoW interactions on QoP and AM blink.

MAC/LINUX
- We now do not use Adobe Flash to play videos, but HTML5 video tags. This should fix a crash with Adobe Flash 11.7 on Mac.
- Add support for querying Gnome Settings for proxy settings for embedded webpages.
- Fixed crash-on-startup on Mac that could occur with certain game controllers.

IME
- Fix for Korean IME chat bug where two ENTER presses were required after entering Korean characters.

UI
- Fix for store banners showing up in the TODAY tab when the FIND MATCH button is clicked.

ECONOMY
- Lockless Luckbox: Replaced Lone Druid item 'Skull of Xahryx' (head slot) with 'Form of the Onyx Grove' (true form).

Not sure if it's the only update this week, since it's come a bit early and directly into the main client i think.

[IllegallySane]

Supposed 6.79 leaks
Note that these leaks may very well be what the beta testers(dota1 beta testers) are currently testing but that does not mean they are changes that will ever actually be implemented, Ice Frog tends to test any crazy idea he gets in the beta versions. There was a beta version where venomancer ulti damaged and affected buildings, for example.
But here is the leak: http://pastebin.com/BpiEBqeP


What are you guys thoughts?

This is weird. This was all on a reddit thread about changes people would make. Something fishy is going on.

[Malthe]

Nothing fishy really, that just confirms it as fake. There are plenty of fake leaked beta patch notes. But the real ones often seem like the most crazy so i generally keep an open mind as to what might actually come from the actual beta map.
I mean i thought the leaks that talked about centaur double edge becoming AOE seemed like the fakest thing in the world, but that ended up being quite true.
But if most of these changes come from what people have said on reddit, then yeah, confirmed fake i suppose.

[Malthe]

So, ember spirit concept art has been leaked along with his textures:

Spoiler

Man i both can't wait for this hero and i'm hating the fact that this hero will be in dota2 soon.
So frustrating to play against but so fun to play as.

Hero info: http://www.playdota.com/heroes/ember-spirit

[Chew]

Man i both can't wait for this hero and i'm hating the fact that this hero will be in dota2 soon.
So frustrating to play against but so fun to play as.[/spoiler]

Hero info: http://www.playdota.com/heroes/ember-spirit

How reliable is that source?

[Malthe]

How reliable is that source?

Which source?
The concept art? Pretty legit, it's from cyborgmatt.
And the concept art is pretty close to the texures.

[Malthe]

1st of october patch content:
http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2013/10/do...ck-end-changes