Dota 2 Update - February 7th, 2013

- Added Team Matchmaking! Teams have a public rating based on their performance against other Teams.

- Added Language setting for Matchmaking!

GAMEPLAY

- Fixed direct unit target spells having 24 less effective range.

- Fixed Dark Pact and and Kraken Shell not removing Sticky Napalm, Shadow Strike, Venomous Gale, Poison Nova and Viper Strike.

- Fixed Day/Night cycle duration as well as initial state being a bit off.

- Fixed some ability Backswing timing issues (Kunkka, Clockwerk, Timbersaw, Meepo, Pudge, Spiritbreaker, Sand King, Riki, Nyx, Lion, Pugna, Shadow Demon, Batrider).

- Orb of Venom now has the same stacking behavior with Lifesteal that Eye of Skadi does.

- Fixed Veil of Discord not getting applied to Magic Immune units.

- Fixed Veil of Discord getting dispelled by Purge/BKB/Cyclone/etc.

- Fixed Bloodstone charges incrementing while you are dead.

- Dropped, non-sharable items can no longer be destroyed by teammates.

- Fixed dominated units continuing their previous channeling spell.

- Enabled Silencer in Captain's Mode for Latest Version (will be enabled in Tournament Version the following week).

UI

- Added Language option for Matchmaking. You will find players when matchmaking that have selected the same language(s).

- Fixed buff refreshes not showing the correct swipe.

- Made Keeper's two Spirit Form abilities always visible but just disabled until he uses Spirit Form.

- The dota:// URL handler now supports lobbyid= and accountid= for creating game spectating links.

- Fixed autocast ability border not hiding when moving from a friendly unit to querying an enemy.

- When using smart tab switching, fixed not being able to cycle to controllable units if your currently selected using is dead.

- Players that play on a league game will now have access to that league pass.

- Fixed being able to pick or random an already repicked hero.

- Added an error message when pressing the courier deliver button and there are no items to be delivered.

WEBAPI:

- Added Team query to WebAPI. Query is GetTeamInfoByTeamID, params are start_at_team_id and teams_requested.

LEAGUES:

- Players that participate in Leagues will now have access to watch all games for said league in the tournament tab.

BOTS

- Made Necrolyte bot more likely to use Death Pulse to heal himself.

- When considering purchasing an item and determining whether there's room in their inventory, bots will now consider whether the item will stack with an existing item.

- Bots will no longer sell a situational item in order to retrieve a situational item from their stash (fixes purchase thrashing).

- Witch Doctor will no longer use Maledict on non-hero units.

- Slightly lowered the maximum desire to attack a non-hero unit.

THIS LANGUAGE THING, MIGHT JUST SOLVE THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

UH NO RUSSIANS WANT A QUICK MATCH SO THEY TICK EVERYTHING CUZ THEYRE IMPATIENT BRATS SO THIS WONT DO **** OTHER THAN MAKE MATCHAMKING SLOWER ON THE SEA SERVER

I belive you can report them for not speaking the same language it's like lying but it's great to see something beeing tried to stop the russian problem xD

For gods sakes man, fix your caps.

i want to ****ing cry......
i use wineskin, and play on mac. i used to play with everything maxed out and 60 fps. now i have 7. this seems to be an issue with all wineskin dota 2 players. hoping to find a fix

Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear

Wasn't this supposed to work?