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Dota 2 Update - February 7th, 2013

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Mowen » February 7, 2013 9:23pm | Report

Dota 2 Update - February 7th, 2013


February 7, 2013 - Valve


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

- Added Language setting for Matchmaking!


GAMEPLAY



- Fixed Unstable Concoction AOE and Self impact behavior when there is a Magic Immune target.


- Fixed Sticky Napalm being applied to Magic Immune units.
- Fixed Sticky Napalm being removed by Magic Immunity.


- Fixed Rupture damage interval.
- Fixed being able to use potions during Rupture.


- Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem


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- Fixed Doom's interaction with MKB and Truestrike.


- Fixed Dragon Breath sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.
- Fixed Dragon Breath travel time being too slow.


- Fixed Call Down first and second impact slow values being swapped


- Fixed Recall going off if Keeper died during the delay.


- Fixed Spirit Bear's Entangle working against Ancients and Creep Heroes like Familiars and Warlock's Golem.


- Fixed Split Shot hitting Nightmared units.
- Fixed Mana Shield not blocking damage from Death Ward, Plague Wards, Serpent Wards and Wildkin's Tornado.


- Fixed Morph transformation stopping if Morphling gets purged or cycloned.


- Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls while dead
- Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls from killing illusions.


Fixed Spectral Dagger sometimes creating invisible paths of targets it hit.


- Added Pseudo Random support for his Bash.
- Fixed Whirling Axes interaction with Roshan.


- Fixed Cleave hitting Familiars.


- Fixed Flaming Fists hitting ethereal units.


- Fixed various buffs Time Lapse did not remove.


- Fixed Paralyzing Casks bouncing off of couriers.


- Fixed courier not responding to deliver orders after having received a hold or stop order.
- Reduced stash interaction ranges to fix the courier not filling a bottle when entering and exiting the fountain area in a short time.
- Fixed the Deliver Items breaking if you used speed burst on the way to the stash.


- 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.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » February 7, 2013 9:52pm | Report
THIS LANGUAGE THING, MIGHT JUST SOLVE THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by LiLPr0 » February 7, 2013 11:39pm | Report
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

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by zGKrom » February 8, 2013 12:13am | Report
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
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by SuperNova » February 8, 2013 1:47am | Report
LiLPr0 wrote:

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

For gods sakes man, fix your caps.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by mightycookie » February 8, 2013 8:44am | Report
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

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Wulfstan » February 10, 2013 12:38pm | Report
Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear

Wasn't this supposed to work?

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