DotA2 - Original Thread

Unleashed At Last!
December 2, 2011 - Dota Team

N’aix, the Lifestealer joins us in today’s update. He’s the one hero capable of hiding inside your own allied heroes and jumping out for a big surprise! In this update you will find various bug fixes, including the infinite wild axes that some of you couldn’t resist using while we were gone. We have also made a change that should resolve a lot of the visual bugs and crashes that happen when running fullscreen (and especially when alt-tabbing).



For our international testers, we have added IME support for better text input handling. Please let us know how this is working. We are also ramping up our leaver detection sensitivity, which results in leavers being temporarily placed in a separate matchmaking pool.

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You can find Today’s changelog here.

Changelog:

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HEROES

Added Lifestealer!
Alchemist: Fixed Chemical Rage not changing his base mana regeneration.
Alchemist: Fixed Goblin's Greed working on buildings.
Alchemist: Fixed various delays on his spells.
Axe: Fixed Berserker's Call to properly force affected invisible enemies to attack.
Batrider: Fixed level 4 Sticky Napalm making turn rate faster rather than slower.
Badrider: Fixed Flamebreak being able to knock Roshan out of his area.
Beastmaster: Fixed base damage.
Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes potentially getting stuck in the world.
Bloodseeker: Fixed Thirst working on illusions.
Bloodseeker: Fixed a bug with Rupture against magic immune enemies.
Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture hurting you while you are cycloned.
Chen: Fixed Holy Persuation allowing Wildkin's channeled Torando to go uninterrupted.
Dark Seer: Fixed being able to Surge magic immune allies.
Doom: Fixed neutral critical strike ability from affecting wards.
Jakiro: Fixed Liquid Fire working with Illusions.
Leshrac: Fixed Pulse Nova not toggling off when you run out of mana
Necrolyte: Fixed Heartstopper Aura damaging wards.
Puck: Fixed a bug with Phase Shift that could let you use it an infinite number of times.
Puck: Fixed endless Phase Shift during Chronosphere.
Pudge: Fixed Rot doing continuing to do damage after you die.
Warlock: Fixed Golem's Immolation not doing any damage.
Windrunner: Fixed Powershot killing Couriers.
Enabled Alchemist in Captain's Mode.


GAMEPLAY

Fixed Manta Style images not carrying over Chemical Rage buff.
Fixed Repel/Purge stopping Battery Assault.
Fixed Repel/Purge removing Ghost Ship allied buff.
Fixed Repel/Purge removing various consumable buffs.
Fixed invisibility state on minimap toggling off if you walked near an enemy sentry ward (or other source of true sight).
Fixed Ethereal Blade and Ghost Scepter not sharing cooldown.
Fixed teleport scroll not dispelling item ethereal buffs.
Fixed evasion not being disabled properly under Doom/Chronosphere.
Fixed minimum damage check on Mjollnir's Static.
Illusions now copy the toggled state of inventory items on spawn (Armlet, Radiance, Basilius, etc.)
Fixed the following auras' interactions with Siege units: Necronomicon, Assault, Mekansm, Vladmir.
Fixed Mekansm not healing Siege units.
Fixed collision size on Nether Ward being too big.
Fixed Roshan bashing wards.


INTERFACE

Fixed the -wtp cheat command not working.
Fixed spawncreeps to not spawn more creeps if there are already more than 75 creeps alive on the map.
Hooked up item aliases in shop search! You can enter 'bkb' for Black King Bar, 'gg' for branch, and much, much more.
Hero Picker: Added skill icons to the hero summary page.
Hero Picker: Moved lore to its own tab.
Added hero picker to the Learn tab.
Fixed bug where some long tooltips were getting truncated.
Item tooltips in the game end screen now show the item level.
Spectator items panel now shows item level.
Player names and colors are now filled in before the player selects a hero. Previously the row would be blank until a hero was chosen.
Fixed crash when clicking on an empty slot in the top bar.
Fixed a crash when clicking in the minimap area before the map has loaded.
Fixed hang on exit.
Removed the timer between clicks to self-cast abilities and items that are able to quick-cast.
Adjusted default hotkeys (please note that hotkeys will be influx for a while, so you may need to rebind them from time to time).
Fixed default camera settings to not glide/skate.
Party display now shows the number of pending invites.
Added page showing your win and loss counts with each hero.
The chat channel list is now sorted.
Increased number of users per regional chat channel.
Your Friends list shows when a friend is finding a match.
Fixed some legacy key issues.


MATCHMAKING

Players that have been waiting a long time get some priority when finding a match.
Players in the low priority pool try to match players that are closer to their actual rating.


VISUALS

Fixed Sven's Storm Bolt coming from the wrong hand.
Fixed stunning knock back modifiers not having a stunned effect.
Fixed Windrunner not playing her Focus Fire run animation.


DOTA 2 BOTS

Added new client-bot-debugging command: dota_bot_dump_state. With no parameter, it will dump the general state of all bots. With a (partial) name of a hero supplied, it will dump more detailed information about the state of that specific hero's bot.
Enabled a small action delay to better mimic human reaction time.
Bots will now save for and use Buyback.
Bots should no longer focus too much on wards, and will no longer try to use abilities on them.
Added a per-hero aggression factor, which hopefully will help keep poor Crystal Maiden alive a bit more.
Improved Vengeful Spirit bot's Nether Swap usage - she should be better about swapping heroes that are getting away.
Fixed case where bots would use TP scrolls to port short distances when retreating.
Bots will no longer use a TP scroll or Travel Boots when nearby enemies have stuns available.
A number of bots will now harass with long-range stuns/abilities when defending a tower and waiting for allies to arrive.
When chasing an enemy that blinks away, bots will no longer have perfect knowledge of where they blinked.
Fixed case where bots were failing to path back into their fountain (specifically when trying to pull creeps into the fountain).
Bots will now try to kill enemy couriers.
Fixed bug where bots were not trying to avoid linear projectiles like Mirana's Arrow and Pudge's Hook.
Fixed case where a bot with a full inventory (and not willing to drop anything) would get deemed the best bot to pick up an item, causing no one to pick it up.
Bots now know if they have mini-stuns on their attacks, and are more likely to attack enemies who are channeling.
Bots will no longer buy dust/gem in response to an enemy having an invisibility rune.
Bots now take avoidance into account when destroying items the enemy team has dropped, so they should no longer dive for them.
Bots should now avoid standing in Sand King's Sandstorm.
Earthshaker bot should be better at fissuring fleeing enemies.
Fixed case where a bot could get stuck trying to purchase an item at the side shop that's also available at the secret shop.
Fixed bots standing in a healing aura when high health rather then retreating to retrieve their items.
Made carries better able to interrupt their farming to retrieve items from their stash or the secret shop.
Made bots better about doing Roshan if a human pings him.

And here's my own personal input: DotA2 is really great, even for a beta, even the matchmaking is working amazingly, the only thing that bothers me is that leavers wont get punished and that there is no concede option, regardless leavers isn't a big problem. Another problem is people that have played for example in the cases i've run in to myself, people that have played LoL and who simply refuse to take advice or critique, i met 3 people that got a beta and who used to play LoL, they were quite pomegranatety, not at the game, but at playing their hero and playing their role.. I wouldnt mind it much if they atleast listened to you, like a furion laning and ruining my exp and gold even though i told him what to buy and how to jungle(jungle furion is easy). A riki going mid feeding a tinker to 6-0 before even hitting level 3 himself even though we tried telling him he couldnt mid against a tinker. And a ES that refused to buy a PK all game long.. (Most likely not related to LoL i met people from LoL that play just fine for a new person and who listened to advice, they just said they knew how to play already and proceeded to lose us the game)

Can't wait to increase in MMR so i wont end up in games with people like that, after getting used to the game i'm back to playing tanky carries and carrying eZ.

Also time to just pineapple up peoples pomegranate with n'aix.