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In-house Dota 2 Games!
There are going to be a few in-house games (if we can fit them in) this Saturday, the 24th of March at 6pm and 10pm AEDT (GMT+11). If you can make it, please post so that we know that there is going to be 10 or 10+ of us there. Just a reminder, if you haven't already joined - there is a sc2sea.com steam group - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SC2SEA and whenever I am in-game in Dota 2, there is also a chat channel sc2sea.

Table of Contents

• Heroes
• Tournaments
• Streams
• Patch Notes
• Client Related FAQs
• sc2sea.com users with Dota 2
• Useful resources

Heroes

- [Heroes Implemented] -

Radiant (Sentinel) Strength Heroes

Earthshaker	Sven	Tiny
Kunkka	Beastmaster	Dragon Knight
Clockwerk	Omniknight	Huskar
Alchemist

Radiant (Sentinel) Agility Heroes

Anti-mage	Drow Ranger	Juggernaut
Mirana	Morphling	Vengeful Spirit
Riki	Sniper	Bounty Hunter
Ursa

Radiant (Sentinel) Intelligence Heroes

Crystal Maiden	Puck	Storm Spirit
Windrunner	Zeus	Lina
Shadow Shaman	Tinker	Nature's Prophet
Enchantress	Jakiro	Chen
Silencer

Dire (Scourge) Strength Heroes

Axe	Pudge	Sand King
Slardar	Tidehunter	Skeleton King
Lifestealer	Night Stalker	Doom Bringer
Spirit Breaker

Dire (Scourge) Agility Heroes

Bloodseeker	Shadow Fiend	Razor
Venomancer	Faceless Void	Viper
Clinkz	Broodmother	Weaver
Spectre

Dire (Scourge) Intelligence Heroes

Bane	Lich	Lion
Witch Doctor	Enigma	Necrolyte
Warlock	Queen of Pain	Death Prophet
Pugna	Dazzle	Leshrac
Dark Seer	Batrider	Ancient Apparition
Invoker	Outworld Destroyer	Shadow Demon

Tournaments

- [Joindota.com Masters] -

Joindota.com Masters URL

An online tournament hosted by joindota.com, own3d.tv and cast by TobiWan
As well has inviting the usual teams that have dominated the past tournaments in Dota 2, such as Navi, they have also invited SEA teams, albeit in a different bracket due to latency issues. However, this will be a great opportunity to see the SEA Dota 2 teams, compared to the European and US teams.
SEA Teams invited are:
Orange eSports
Mith.Trust
Meet Your Makers (MYM)
Aeon Sports
DK
Canis Lupis Canestris Wiki
World Elite
Absolute Legends
MUFC
Mineski
Neolution E-Sports
MSI EvoGT

Stream: http://www.own3d.tv/live/10588

Brackets
Masters I (US and EU) 22 March, Broadcast starts 0445 AEDT

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Dignitas
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eSahara
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Wolves
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Mouz
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CLG
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Mouz
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Masters II (US and EU) 24th March, Broadcast starts 2345 AEDT

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FinM[/div]
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Infs[/div]
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EG
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mTw
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Masters III (SEA) 25th March, Broadcast starts 1645 AEDT
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MUFC[/div]
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CLC[/div]
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MiTH.Trust
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Absolute Legends[/div]
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Masters IV (SEA) 28th March, Broadcast starts 2145 AEDT

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MiTH.Trust[/div]
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Mineski[/div]
[div=position:absolute;top:120px;left:0px;width:200 px;height:40px;border:1px black solid;margin:0px;padding:0px] Absolute Legends
Orange eSports[/div]
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CLC[/div]
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Masters V (US & EU) 31st March, Broadcast starts 2245 AEDT

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TBA[/div]
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yB[/div]
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Darer
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coL[/div]
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Where to watch (Livestreams with Dota 2 Streaming)

EG.Fear http://www.twitch.tv/feardarkness
Quantic.Link http://www.own3d.tv/live/117967
StitchSPR http://www.sc2sea.com/streams.php?do...user=StitchSPR

Patch Notes

- [April 19, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Brewmaster!
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare dispelling on self damage (e.g. Rot).
- Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot target sometimes being able to move away while you are traveling.
- Clockwerk: Fixed aoe around Hookshot not reliably affecting the area.
- Earthshaker: Fixed cases where invulnerable units could get stuck inside Fissure.
- Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash jumping to couriers.
- Lina: Fixed Dragon Slave's cast range being too short.
- Lone Druid: Added a visual effect at the Spirit Bear's old location when it's recast.
- Lone Druid: Fixed a bug when Spirit Bear would disassemble an item, causing it to have no owner.
- Nightstalker: Added duration buff for Darkness.
- Pudge: Fixed Dismember damage happening one second too late.
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed case where he could get stuck when using Nether Strike.
- Viper: Fixed Corrosive Skin affecting Serpent Wards.
- Fixed being able to deny yourself (while under poison) if you attack through the hero icon at the top.
- Fixed Linken Sphere proccing for secondary hits of Chain Lightning and Lightning Storm.
- Fixed Magic Immunity removing Poison Attack debuff.
- Fixed hero deaths not disjointing incoming projectiles (in the case of fast respawns/buyback).
- Fixed bug that was causing attack projectiles to be slightly out of sync with the server.
- Fixed units not always respecting the ability backswing time (without animation canceling), causing animations to sometimes end faster than normal.

UI
- Fixed creepstats not being visible to spectators.

VISUALS
- Updated Nevermore's Requiem of Souls.
- Added an effect for Nevermore's Necromastery.

DOTA 2 BOTS
- Bots will now use couriers.
- While there are any disconnected humans on the opposing team, bots will now select the most appropriate corresponding hero or heroes on their team to go back to the fountain to try to keep teams somewhat balanced.
- Bots will no longer forget about heroes they're trying to kill when they go invulnerable.
- Changed how bots think about attacking wards/minions, they should behave more reasonably now.
- When bots defend a tower, they should now be more aggressive about transitioning into attacking, rather than milling around behind the tower.
- Mid bots are now less likely to roam at early levels.
- Fixed bug that was causing Zeus to killsteal (too much) with his Ult.
- Earthshaker bot will no longer use Echo Slam to kill a lone hero unless that hero is a hard carry.
- Earthshaker bot will no longer use Echo Slam on a target that it thinks is about to die anyways.
- Windrunner bot will now buy Mekansm rather than Blademail.
- Fixed bug that could cause poorly-aimed fissures and powershots.
- Windrunner bot will now use Powershot when pushing/defending a lane, and sometimes to harass/last-hit while laning.
- Fixed bug where Kunkka bot would freeze when trying to kill a non-hero target.
- Fixed bug where Dire bots would respond to pings from spectators.

- [April 13, 2012] -

- Fixed Spirit Bear having incorrect damage type
- Fixed Batrider being stuck on a unit if Firefly ends on top of another unit
- Fixed being able to get two heroes during Random Draft if you disconnected at a specific time

- [April 12, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Random Draft mode!
- Enabled Lone Druid in Captain's Mode.
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed Ice Blast impact damage not hurting illusions.
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed Chilling Touch affecting Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem.
- Axe: Fixed Culling Blade ending after death effects like Diabolic Edict and Epicenter.
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare putting Juggernaut to sleep while Omnislashing.
- Bane: Fixed Fiend's Grip doing one tick less damage than it should have.
- Batrider: Fixed Firefly destroying trees in a bigger aoe than intended.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak hitting magic immune units (6.74b change).
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture interaction with spells like Omnislash, Ball Lightning, etc.
- Faceless Void: Fixed Chronosphere not freezing invulnerable towers.
- Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash considering ancients as valid targets.
- Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash ending prematurely if a target becomes invulnerable.
- Lifestealer: Fixed being able to hide inside an enemy Spirit Bear/Golem with Infest (wasn't doing damage to it though)
- Lifestealer: Fixed Infest not removing buffs before jumping in.
- Lifestealer: Fixed Feast bonus damage type allowing it to critical strike.
- Lion: Fixed Mana Drain missing its last 1/4 tick.
- Lone Druid: Fixed Entangle not affecting magic immune units.
- Lone Druid: Fixed Entangle not interrupting channeling spells.
- Mirana: Fixed Moonlight Shadow not affecting allied units sometimes (Disrupted, Phase Shifted, etc).
- Morphling: Fixed Replicate being castable on Spirit Bear and Warlock Golem.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Sanity's Eclipse mana drain logic.
- Puck: Fixed Ethereal Jaunt not dodging projectiles properly.
- Pudge: Reduced the delay before being able to issue orders after Meat Hook.
- Razor: Fixed some bugs with Unstable Current killing a target after its ability starts (like Omnislashing while dead).
- Razor: Fixed Plasma Field not giving aoe vision following Razor.
- Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush affecting couriers.
- Silencer: Fixed Global Silences affecting couriers abilities.
- Spectre: Fixed permanently losing the ability to block creeps after the first Spectral Dagger use.
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed being unable to target magic immune units with Netherstrike.
- Sven: Fixed Great Cleave working on denies.
- Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines spawn per second from 30 to 24.
- Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines movement speed from 500 to 400.
- Tinker: Fixed Heat Seeking Missle hitting Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem.
- Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines killing couriers.
- Tiny: Fixed Aghanim tree doing too much damage to buildings.
- Tiny: Fixed Aghanim tree cleaving when attacking buildings.
- Vengeful Spirit: Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Wave of Terror affecting couriers.
- Viper: Fixed Viper Strike being an instant effect instead of a dodgeable projectile.
- Weaver: Fixed Weaver's Swarm getting one shotted by attack spells like Impetus and Arcane Orb.
- Weaver: Fixed bug where Swarm bugs would cause some heroes to spin when attacking them, or not be able to attack them at all.
- Windrunner: Fixed being able to Shackleshot onto Ancients/Roshan.
- Fixed units/wards being unable to attack animation cancel if they are unable to move.
- Fixed abilities going into cooldown if the target dies while paying manacost (ie. from Nether Ward).
- Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction and Bounty Hunter's Track being castable on Spirit Bear/Golem.
- Fixed cleave damage not waking up Nightmared units.
- Fixed Mjollnir and Maelstrom having orb selection priorty when attacking buildings.
- Fixed Armlet lifedraining on Illusions.
- Fixed DisableHelp not working for Chen's Persuasion.
- Fixed Roshan not disabling Blink Dagger.
- Fixed Tranquil Boots going into a short cooldown whenever you took damage.
- Reordered Mekansm recipe list to have Headdress first.
- Fixed Pudge's Meat Hook and Mirana's Arrow not hitting Spirit Bear.
- Fixed Vampiric Aura showing buff on things it does not affect.
- Fixed neutral units being able to cast their spells while disabled/silenced when they aren't player controlled.
- Fixed Double Damage rune not granting a fake buff to nearby illusions.
- Fixed neutral Centaur attack speed aura increasing speed by percentages instead of constant amounts
- Fixed being unable to purge an offensive Decrepify
- Fixed Ethereal Blade interaction with Spirit Bear.
- Fixed a bug where if Nature's Prophet cast Sprout on Lycan in wolf form while he was running, Lycan could run through the trees and escape the sprout.

UI
- Illusions now fake display the same crit overhead values as the real hero.
- A global message is now displayed when you random a hero.
- There is now a 2 second cooldown on unpausing a paused game, to prevent two people trying to pause the game at the same time and accidently unpausing.
- Fixed being unable to Glyph while disabled.
- Fixed printing the wrong kill message when an illusion kills a tower
- Fixed spectator FOW keys broken.
- Fixed the courier failing to pick up an item from the stash resulting in the item teleporting to the hero's feet.
- Items that are dropped on the ground as a result of a full inventory will now always be usable in item combines, even if they cannot be dropped right next to a hero.
- While watching a replay, you can now click on the pips (Hero/Tower Kills) on the XP and Gold panels to jump to 5 seconds before that moment happens.
- Fixed team-only chat in games created via private lobbies.

VISUALS
- Updated Nevermore's animations.
- Updated Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison projectile effect.
- Updated Faceless Void's Backtrack effect.

BOTS
- Bots will no longer attempt to use a Tango when being attacked or when defending an ally.
- Adjusted some numbers to hopefully make it less likely for bots to try to TP out of a gank attempt when they were obviously going to die before it finished.
- Fixed bug where Zeus would killsteal when his target thought they were safe, even if they weren't.
- Cleaned up sellability of a bunch of bot items, should prevent cases where bots buy recipes for components they've previously sold.
- Added additional items in the builds for Sniper and Juggernaut, they should no longer run out of items to buy in long matches.
- Fixed bug where bots wouldn't realize that Antimage was a hard carry for lane selection purposes.
- Fixed bug where any players in spectate/broadcast slots would prevent bots from picking a hero.
- Bots will now wait to activate until all hero picking is completed.
- Fixed bug where the matchmaker wouldn't try to match bot difficulties when finding a Coop game.
- Fixed bug where bots might still pick up Aegis/Rapier immediately upon them dropping rather than waiting a couple seconds for humans to have a shot at them.
- Added generic attack desire bonus to any enemy hero that is currently stunned.

- [March 28, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Added Lone Druid!
- Fixed small bug in the timing of sequential attacks.
- Lifestealer: Fixed being unable to Infest Mud Golems.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse interaction with Aegis.
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed a bug where Ice Blast could get stuck on the map.
- Enabled Lycan in Captain's Mode

UI
- The top bar game timer no longer is reset when a game ends.
- Heroes in top bar now draw grayscale when dead.
- The buyback cooldown time now appears in the gold tooltip.
- The buyback cooldown now appears in the form minutes:seconds.

VISUALS
- Added a buff/debuff effect for Razor's Static Link.
- Added effect for fountain heal.
- Fixed heroes drawing parts of their models in portraits when sheeped, hexxed, etc.
- Updated the effects for Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison.
- Decreased darkness of fogged areas

BOTS
- Fixed bots being too aggressive about destroying enemy items.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up items like Rapier or Aegis without giving humans a chance at them.
- After all humans have picked heroes, the remaining bots will now immediately pick their heroes.
- Fixed bug where bots would try to farm the same neutral camp that a human was farming.
- Added support for bots buying and placing Observer Wards:
. The more of a support a hero is, the more likely they are to buy wards.
. If they have a human teammate, they will not purchase enough wards to fully deplete the store.
. They will ward the runes, their jungle, and sometimes the enemy jungle (depending on how pushed the lanes are).
. They won't go to locations to place wards if they think it's too dangerous.
- Fixed bug that would sometimes prevent bots from defending their top/bottom lanes when the tier 3 towers/racks are gone.
- Fixed bug where if the incoming threat was small, no one would ever be a selected to defend (typically resulting in no defensive response to creeps).

- [March 22, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Added Lycan!
- Fixed Tranquil Boots visual charges being 3 instead of 4 (actual was still 4).
- Fixed the first slash of Omnislash not applying vision properly.
- Fixed crash bug where you could leave the lobby chat channel while in a lobby.
- Enabled Shadow Demon in Captain's Mode.
- The Stable version is now updated to the Latest version.
- Added All Random game mode for private lobbies.
- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak not having an aoe targeting cursor.
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes killing couriers.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed illusions procing Jinada's critical strike.
- Clinkz: Fixed a bug with level 2 Death Pact not gaining the .5% damage buff.
- Mirana: Fixed Arrow getting blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Morphling: Added timer to Replicate that shows up as a buff.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment stealing Intelligence from illusions.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being castable on Warlock Golem.
- Queen of Pain: Fixed being able to dispell Shadow Strike
- Razor: Fixed Static Link damage from being purgable.
- Shadow Demon: Fixed attack animation time
- Shadow Shama: Fixed Serpent Wards having instant attack point (instead of 0.3)
- Storm Spirit: Fixed attack projectile speed
- Sven: Fixed Storm Bolt not stunning nearby targets if the primary target became magic immune while the projectile was traveling.
- Venomancer: Fixed being able to dispell Venomous Gale, Poison Sting and Poison Nova
- Warlock: Fixed Golems having incorrect magic resistance.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse forgetting its history when upgraded
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Death Ward projectile speed being too slow
- Fixed Diffusal Blade's mana burn effect going through Magic Immunity.
- Units that are smoked can now be revealed by magic immune enemies.
- Fixed some abilities having incorrect durations against creep heroes (like Dismember).
- Fixed Disruption being castable on Warlock's Golem.
- Fixed gold over time being very slightly off sometimes.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit not showing movement speed in the stats area
- Fixed Fountain projectile speed being too fast
- Fixed Furbolg attack point being too high
- Fixed Black Drake projectile speed being too fast
- Mjollnir: Fixed Static Charge damaging friendly units and towers. Note that towers can still proc the ability.

UI
- Added a hero performance rating graph to the player persona page.
- Added setting for ambient creatures in the Advanced Video Settings.
- Advanced Video Settings is now versioned and will automatically update this release
- Undroppable items are no longer put in the stash when near the fountain.
- Items will no longer move when they are attempted to be picked up by a unit with a full inventory.
- The courier can no longer pick up certain items (Aegies, Rapier).
- Hooked up XP graph button.
- There is now a different ring effect for the primary unit when you have multiple units selected.
- Fixed second courier not being controllable if enabled by a courier
- Fixed bug where you could cast your ultimate by pressing either the Ability 4 or Ability 5 keys, on a 4 ability hero.
- Added setting to draw hero icons as default in the minimap. Alt will show X's and O's.

BOTS
- Increased bot ability usage reaction time by about 50%.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up or destroy teammates' items on the ground.
- Increased bot desire to defend their base.
- Fixed nasty bug that would often cause bots to idle in their current location when wanting to go defend.
- Bots now get an added desire to attack a hero that Bane has Gripped.
- Bots no longer random their heroes. They will now try to build a somewhat reasonable team comp based on hero role, stuns, and melee/ranged, and do so over the entire hero selection phase.
- Reworked bot lane selection logic. They should be smarter about which lanes they select, and who they pair with.
- Changed how human pings affect the bots' desires to push/defend. Should be more consistently powerful now.
- Bots in lanes with carries will try to avoid stealing their farm.
- Fixed a few cases where bots would oddly try to cast abilities at neutral creeps (such as when pushing or defending a lane).

VISUALS
-Improvements made to some of Shadow Demon's effects.

- [March 16, 2012] -

- Fixed a few crash bugs

- [March 15, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Added Shadow Demon!
- Updated Dota 2 to 6.74 parity (Tournament mode will be updated to this next week)
- Fixed Dust of Appearance not affecting magic immune heroes.
- Added support for Shared Unit Control.
- Added support for Disable Help.
- Fixed illusion kill crediting.
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare being able to affect magic immune units.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada proccing on friendly units and towers.
- Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger not being purgable.
- Broodmother: Fixed Incapacitating Bite missing a little bit of bonus damage (2/4/6/8)
- Pudge: Fixed being unable to hook Nightmared targets.
- Silencer: Fixed not gaining int with Last Word when a hero dies to Tornado.
- Warlock: Fixed being unable to force staff your Golem.
- Fixed Dark Troll Warlord's ensanre not revealing invisible units that are trapped in it.
- Fixed a case where using a courier to "Grab All" from the stash would fail to move all items.

UI
- Added copy + paste support.
- Fixed Flying Courier recipe not having a small stock cooldown (to prevent accidental multiple buys)
- Item Auras now show buff icon on the carrier (Basilius, Aquila).
- Fixed a case where an order to sell an item arrived soon after the item was used in a combine and resulted in the item being sold as well as combined.
- Fixed escape not closing in-game chat like it used to.
- Matchmaking, Coop and lobbies without bots now get server priority over single player bot lobbies.
- Fixed bug with copying text from another app into Dota 2.
- Fixed minimap to no longer display explored/unexplored.

AUDIO
- Fixed various sounds ignoring FoW.
- Fixed sound not muting when Dota 2 loses focus.

VISUALS
- Adjusted Venomancer injured animation.
- Added gold on treasure chest.

BOTS
- Added a difficulty level setting for coop bot matchmaking
- Made bots increasingly bad at last-hitting as you lower difficulty level.
- Fixed bug where bots wouldn't command non-illusion minions (ie. Necro guys).
- Bots that take damage from a nearby invisible hero (Radiance, Ion Shell) will now detect the hero as being nearby.
- Bots now have a moderate aversion to Radiance damage.
- Bots will now pick up Aegis/Cheese/Rapier even if human allies are nearby, after 3 seconds of the human not picking it up.
- Significantly increased the avoidance of the enemy fountain, should help to prevent fountain-diving.
- On Easy, bots won't focus on breaking channels with stuns.
- On Easy, bots won't try to dodge projectiles.
- On Easy, the bots will never push with more than 3 heroes.
- On Medium, the bots will never push with more than 4 heroes.
- Bots will no longer try to stun to break Windrunner chanelling Power Shot.
- Bots now know to try to avoid EMP, Dark Seer's wall, and Chronosphere.
- Added a bit of randomness to the Team Roam group-up location so they don't bunch up as much.
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to not consider invulnerable towers as potential TP targets.
- Adjusted how we calculate "too dangerous to TP into", so bots should be less suicidal when TPing in to defend.
- When bots really would like to defend a tower but are lacking the ability to TP there, we greatly increase the "consider going to the side shop to buy a TP" distance.
- Fixed bug where bots would path to the wrong location when farming a neutral camp.

- [March 9, 2012] -

- Fixed Broadcasters and Spectators not being able to control the camera in Practice Lobbies.

- [March 8, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Bane in Captain's Mode.
- Bane: Fixed the attack timing on when Nightmare gets transfered.
- Bane: Fixed Enfeeble working on Roshan
- Bane: Fixed being unable to attack allied Nightmared heroes to transfer the debuff.
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare being able to transfer to towers and wards.
- Batrider: Fixed being unable to easily pull units over cliffs with Flaming Lasso.
- Batrider: Fixed timing of Firefly damage ticks.
- Batrider: Fixed rounding error with Firefly damage ticks.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture hurting cycloned units.
- Chen: Fixed Holy Persuation interrupting allied channeling spells on cast (rather than upon tping).
- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism hitting an invisible hero if the hero was hit before.
- Death Prophet: Fixed Silence not affecting basic units.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Elder Form's Corrosive Breath and Frost Breath working with DK illusions.
- Faceless Void: Fixed Courier interaction with Chronosphere
- Jakiro: Macropyre now does the correct amount of damage with a Scepter.
- Jakiro: Fixed Macropyre not hurting siege units.
- Omniknight: Fixed Repel canceling Ursa's Overpower.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being able to cause you to lose mana regeneration.
- Pugna: Fixed Netherward mana degen not showing the proper numbers for players.
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed Netherstrike vs cycloned units.
- Tinker: Fixed Rearm refreshing level 2 and 3 of Necronomicon.
- Ursa: Fixed Fury Swipes incrementing when the attack missed.
- Vengeful Spirit: Fixed Wave of Terror hp loss not properly functioning on magic immune units.
- Warlock: Fixed Golem being considered a creep for some spells like Paralyzing Casks.
- Attributes can no longer fall below 1.
- Fixed some issues with negative mana regeneration.
- Fixed Basher stacking with Spiritbreaker/Slardar/Faceless Void's bashes.
- Fixed Armlet not draining life while you are magic immune.
- Fixed couriers not being able to use wards.
- Fixed temporary trees (like Sprout) not respecting the pause.

UI
- Changed Empowering Haste passive legacy key to G to avoid stomping H (halt).
- Captain's Mode now has 5 bans once again.
- Added countdown when unpausing the game.
- The spectator graph events now get correctly cleared when rewinding in a demo.
- The tooltip for Doom now correctly updates when Doombringer has a Scepter.
- Inventory keys are now hidden while spectating.
- The combat log now works while spectating and in replays.
- Fixed a bug where the minimap was unclickable after spectating a game in player perspective mode.

VISUALS
- Dragon Knight plays a range-enabled effect when Dragon Tail is cast while in dragon form.
- Lifestealer now has his own variation on the lifesteal effect rather than using the generic one.
- Updated Lifestealer's Open Wounds and Infest effects for clarity.
- Updated Bloodseeker's Rupture effect (added blood trail so it's more obvious).
- Added Team Only Marker for Kunkka's Ship
- Fix to unit rings sometimes getting offset from the unit at low framerate/high replay playback speeds
- Perf and visual tweaks to Alchemist's Acid Spray
- Made Pudge's hook conform to terrain for more accurate visual read
- Tinker Rockets now visually show duds when no enemy units are available
- Fixed buildings visually popping back to earlier state when being damaged repeatedly.
- Optimized tree destruction effects and fixed crash in certain situations when many were destroyed simultaneously
- Fixed Split Earth drawing in FoW in some situtaions (Roshan)

AUDIO
- Updated Rupture effect.
- Announcer now says "Single Draft" when starting single draft mode.
- First Blood lines now play mapwide.
-Added rival taunts and misc. lines to Razor, Zeus, Tiny and Tidehunter to fill out basic voice set.

BOTS
- Bot difficulty now defaults to Normal.
- Re-added ability for bots to team-roam-and-gank enemy heroes during the latter part of games.
- dota_bot_dump_state can now be run in non-cheat-enabled games.
- Fixed cases where Juggernaut would use Blade Fury and Razor would use Plasma Field when there weren't enough creeps nearby.
- Added Passive bot difficulty level, in which they won't do anything but lane.
- Loosened the time-to-arrive constraints for deciding to defending a lane (should improve base defense).
UNDOCUMENTED
- Updated Queen of Pain's hero icon.
- Added ability icons for Roshan's first three abilities.
- Added idle injured animations for the following heroes:
Axe
Beastmaster
Broodmother
Lifestealer
Shadow Shaman
- Added a spawn animation for Bane.

- [March 1, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
Added Bane
Added Co-op matchmaking games versus bots.
Fixed bug with kill credit when illusions get the kill.
Charge of Darkness and Wrath of Nature no longer alert the target to attack the caster if the target is far away.
Fixed Mekansm not healing you if it activated right after you come out of Astral Imprisonment.
Fixed bug with Astral Imprisonment disappearing from invisible units.
Fixed Essence Aura triggering on zero cooldown spells (like Ball Lightning).
Fixed being able to trigger Essence Aura with Toss when there are no valid targets to Toss
Enabled Outworld Destroyer in Captain's Mode.
Restored previous Blink double click behavior.
Fixed Courier Speed Burst canceling Transfer Items.
UI
Fixed dragging an item from the courier to a hero's inventory not combining an item properly.
Fixed some audio settings are not saving correctly (speech level, background sound, boostgain).
Selling items no longer factors into gold-per-minute.
Added an option to autoselect summoned units and illusions to the game settings.
Fixed bug with camera jumping up and down when moving the mouse in the minimap while in spectator chase cam.
Fixed bug with moving the camera and creating selection windows while in spectator chase cam.
Fixed bug with some heroes having their Ultimate fire when ALT-TAB (or Windows key hit).
Fixed some game interface settings not saving.
Fixed bug where having legacy selected at load wasn't disabling the hero, courier, and neutral binds.
Added specular, texture quality, and render quality to video settings as performance trade-offs
Various improvements to unit selection/targeting feedback
Increased maximum number of people in each chat channel.
Accepting a game invite via Steam will join that person's party.
Ignore/unignore options now shown for friends in the main menu.
VISUALS
Added a number of aura effects.
Fixed Tiny's tree not being properly equipped in his stone grip.
Fixed an issue where hero movement would stutter on some network connections.
AUDIO
Added rival death-taunts and other miscellaneous lines to flesh out dialog set for Sand King.
BOTS
Made bots want to pick up Cheese with the same rules that they use for picking up Aegis and Rapier.
Improved bot last-hit logic.
Bots will now deny using the same logic they use for last-hitting.
Bots now last-hit and deny while farming a lane, just as they do during the laning phase.
Fixed issues with loadouts of Bane, Kunkka, and Sniper.
Fixed bugs with bots geting stuck trying to purchase an item, failing to purchase an item, or dumping items on the ground due to a full stash.
Bots will stop farming just for buyback when they have 1.5x their current buyback cost.
If a bot's stash is completely full, they are now more likely to pick their stuff up regardless of its value.
UNDOCUMENTED
Updated The Radiant siege creep model.
Added a new effect that fades your health bar when one of your units is not selected.
Added new run animation for Broodmother's Spiderlings.

PTR Patches

- [March 21, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Added Lycan!
- Enabled Shadow Demon in Captain's Mode.
- The Stable version is now updated to the Latest version.
- Added All Random game mode for private lobbies.
- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak not having an aoe targeting cursor.
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes killing couriers.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed illusions procing Jinada's critical strike.
- Clinkz: Fixed a bug with level 2 Death Pact not gaining the .5% damage buff.
- Mirana: Fixed Arrow getting blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Morphling: Added timer to Replicate that shows up as a buff.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment stealing Intelligence from illusions.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being castable on Warlock Golem.
- Queen of Pain: Fixed being able to dispell Shadow Strike
- Razor: Fixed Static Charge damaging friendly units and towers. Note that towers can still proc the ability.
- Razor: Fixed Static Link damage from being purgable.
- Shadow Demon: Fixed attack animation time
- Shadow Shama: Fixed Serpent Wards having instant attack point (instead of 0.3)
- Storm Spirit: Fixed attack projectile speed
- Sven: Fixed Storm Bolt not stunning nearby targets if the primary target became magic immune while the projectile was traveling.
- Venomancer: Fixed being able to dispell Venomous Gale, Poison Sting and Poison Nova
- Warlock: Fixed Golems having incorrect magic resistance.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse forgetting its history when upgraded
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Death Ward projectile speed being too slow
- Fixed Diffusal Blade's mana burn effect going through Magic Immunity.
- Units that are smoked can now be revealed by magic immune enemies.
- Fixed some abilities having incorrect durations against creep heroes (like Dismember).
- Fixed Disruption being castable on Warlock's Golem.
- Fixed gold over time being very slightly off sometimes.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit not showing movement speed in the stats area
- Fixed Fountain projectile speed being too fast
- Fixed Furbolg attack point being too high
- Fixed Black Drake projectile speed being too fast

UI
- Added setting for ambient creatures in the Advanced Video Settings.
- Advanced Video Settings is now versioned and will automatically update this release
- Undroppable items are no longer put in the stash when near the fountain.
- Items will no longer move when they are attempted to be picked up by a unit with a full inventory.
- The courier can no longer pick up certain items (Aegies, Rapier).
- Hooked up XP graph button.
- There is now a different ring effect for the primary unit when you have multiple units selected.
- Fixed second courier not being controllable if enabled by a courier
- Fixed bug where you could cast your ultimate by pressing either the Ability 4 or Ability 5 keys, on a 4 ability hero.
- Added setting to draw hero icons as default in the minimap. Alt will show X's and O's.

BOTS
- Increased bot ability usage reaction time by about 50%.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up or destroy teammates' items on the ground.
- Increased bot desire to defend their base.
- Fixed nasty bug that would often cause bots to idle in their current location when wanting to go defend.
- Bots now get an added desire to attack a hero that Bane has Gripped.
- Bots no longer random their heroes. They will now try to build a somewhat reasonable team comp based on hero role, stuns, and melee/ranged, and do so over the entire hero selection phase.
- Reworked bot lane selection logic. They should be smarter about which lanes they select, and who they pair with.
- Changed how human pings affect the bots' desires to push/defend. Should be more consistently powerful now.
- Bots in lanes with carries will try to avoid stealing their farm.
- Fixed a few cases where bots would oddly try to cast abilities at neutral creeps (such as when pushing or defending a lane).

VISUALS
-Improvements made to some of Shadow Demon's effects.

- [March 14, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
- Added Shadow Demon!
- Updated Dota 2 to 6.74 parity (Tournament mode will be updated to this next week)
- Fixed Dust of Appearance not affecting magic immune heroes.
- Added support for Shared Unit Control.
- Added support for Disable Help.
- Fixed illusion kill crediting.
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare being able to affect magic immune units.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada proccing on friendly units and towers.
- Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger not being purgable.
- Broodmother: Fixed Incapacitating Bite missing a little bit of bonus damage (2/4/6/8)
- Pudge: Fixed being unable to hook Nightmared targets.
- Silencer: Fixed not gaining int with Last Word when a hero dies to Tornado.
- Warlock: Fixed being unable to force staff your Golem.
- Fixed Dark Troll Warlord's ensanre not revealing invisible units that are trapped in it.
- Fixed a case where using a courier to "Grab All" from the stash would fail to move all items.

UI
- Added copy + paste support.
- Fixed Flying Courier recipe not having a small stock cooldown (to prevent accidental multiple buys)
- Item Auras now show buff icon on the carrier (Basilius, Aquila).
- Fixed a case where an order to sell an item arrived soon after the item was used in a combine and resulted in the item being sold as well as combined.
- Matchmaking, Coop and lobbies without bots now get server priority over single player bot lobbies.

AUDIO
- Fixed various sounds ignoring FoW.

VISUALS
- Adjusted Venomancer injured animation.
- Added gold on treasure chest.

BOTS
- Added a difficulty level setting for coop bot matchmaking
- Made bots increasingly bad at last-hitting as you lower difficulty level.
- Fixed bug where bots wouldn't command non-illusion minions (ie. Necro guys).
- Bots that take damage from a nearby invisible hero (Radiance, Ion Shell) will now detect the hero as being nearby.
- Bots now have a moderate aversion to Radiance damage.
- Bots will now pick up Aegis/Cheese/Rapier even if human allies are nearby, after 3 seconds of the human not picking it up.
- Significantly increased the avoidance of the enemy fountain, should help to prevent fountain-diving.
- On Easy, bots won't focus on breaking channels with stuns.
- On Easy, bots won't try to dodge projectiles.
- On Easy, the bots will never push with more than 3 heroes.
- On Medium, the bots will never push with more than 4 heroes.
- Bots will no longer try to stun to break Windrunner chanelling Power Shot.
- Bots now know to try to avoid EMP, Dark Seer's wall, and Chronosphere.
- Added a bit of randomness to the Team Roam group-up location so they don't all hump each other.
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to not consider invulnerable towers as potential TP targets.
- Adjusted how we calculate "too dangerous to TP into", so bots should be less suicidal when TPing in to defend.
- When bots really would like to defend a tower but are lacking the ability to TP there, we greatly increase the "consider going to the side shop to buy a TP" distance.
- Fixed bug where bots would path to the wrong location when farming a neutral camp.

- [March 1, 2012] -

GAMEPLAY
Enabled Bane in Captain's Mode.
Bane
Fixed the attack timing on when Nightmare gets transfered.
Fixed Enfeeble working on Roshan
Fixed being unable to attack allied Nightmared heroes to transfer the debuff.
Fixed Nightmare being able to transfer to towers and wards.
Batrider
Fixed being unable to easily pull units over cliffs with Flaming Lasso.
Fixed timing of Firefly damage ticks.
Fixed rounding error with Firefly damage ticks.
Bloodseeker
Fixed Rupture hurting cycloned units.
Chen
Fixed Holy Persuation interrupting allied channeling spells on cast (rather than upon tping).
Death Prophet
Fixed Exorcism hitting an invisible hero if the hero was hit before.
Fixed Silence not affecting basic units.
Dragon Knight
Fixed Elder Form's Corrosive Breath and Frost Breath working with DK illusions.
Faceless Void
Fixed Courier interaction with Chronosphere
Jakiro
Macropyre now does the correct amount of damage with a Scepter.
Fixed Macropyre not hurting siege units.
Omniknight
Fixed Repel canceling Ursa's Overpower.
Outworld Destroyer
Fixed Astral Imprisonment being able to cause you to lose mana regeneration.
Pugna
Fixed Netherward mana degen not showing the proper numbers for players.
Spirit Breaker
Fixed Netherstrike vs cycloned units.
Tinker
Fixed Rearm refreshing level 2 and 3 of Necronomicon.
Ursa
Fixed Fury Swipes incrementing when the attack missed.
Vengeful Spirit
Fixed Wave of Terror hp loss not properly functioning on magic immune units.
Warlock
Fixed Golem being considered a creep for some spells like Paralyzing Casks.
Attributes can no longer fall below 1.
Fixed some issues with negative mana regeneration.
Fixed Basher stacking with Spiritbreaker/Slardar/Faceless Void's bashes.
Fixed Armlet not draining life while you are magic immune.
Fixed couriers not being able to use wards.
Fixed temporary trees (like Sprout) not respecting the pause.
UI
Changed Empowering Haste passive legacy key to G to avoid stomping H (halt).
Captain's Mode now has 5 bans once again.
Added countdown when unpausing the game.
The spectator graph events now get correctly cleared when rewinding in a demo.
The tooltip for Doom now correctly updates when Doombringer has a Scepter.
Inventory keys are now hidden while spectating.
The combat log now works while spectating and in replays.
VISUALS
Dragon Knight plays a range-enabled effect when Dragon Tail is cast while in dragon form.
Lifestealer now has his own variation on the lifesteal effect rather than using the generic one.
Updated Lifestealer's Open Wounds and Infest effects for clarity.
Updated Bloodseeker's Rupture effect (added blood trail so it's more obvious).
AUDIO
Updated Rupture effect.
Announcer now says "Single Draft" when starting single draft mode.
First Blood lines now play mapwide.
Added rival taunts and misc. lines to Razor, Zeus, Tiny and Tidehunter to fill out basic voice set.
BOTS
Bot difficulty now defaults to Normal.
Re-added ability for bots to team-roam-and-gank enemy heroes during the latter part of games.
dota_bot_dump_state can now be run in non-cheat-enabled games.
Fixed cases where Juggernaut would use Blade Fury and Razor would use Plasma Field when there weren't enough creeps nearby.
Added Passive bot difficulty level, in which they won't do anything but lane.
Loosened the time-to-arrive constraints for deciding to defending a lane (should improve base defense).
UNDOCUMENTED
Updated Queen of Pain's hero icon.
Added ability icons for Roshan's first three abilities.
Added idle injured animations for the following heroes:
Axe
Beastmaster
Broodmother
Lifestealer
Shadow Shaman
Added a spawn animation for Bane.

Client related FAQs

- [Enabling console in Dota 2] -

- In steam, right cilck on "Dota 2" and click on properties
2) Click on Set Launcher Options and type in: -console
3) Press OK and enter the game, to remove the console from view press the ` key (next to 1).

- [Displaying my ping in-game] -

In the console (bring it up using ` and the FAQ above) type [span=font-family:monospace;color:blue]net_graph 1[/span]
To modify its position have a look here (http://www.dota-two.com/forum/dota2-chat/using-the-net-graph-command-t1520.html)

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Useful resources

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Quick Comments

iVnStinger:

Thank you man, you are gosu!

[iVnStinger]

I'd like to apologize if I missed it. I used the search function and really found nothing.

So I've been wondering, why do we have a D3 subforum but not a DoTA 2? I mean cmon! Everyone loves DoTA! Seeing as it will be free and all, I'm truly looking forward to it and I was wondering how many of you are interested in it too.

If you do happen to make a subforum, I don't mind looking for all the valid information regarding the game and posting it here for you guys. Unless someone already has which in that case I'm extremely sorry. What do you guys think?

[TAminimat]

I dont love it.

[iVnStinger]

Originally Posted by TAminimat

I dont love it.

I don't love you

[Aiya]

I think it's just DOTA 2 because it's not an acronym for Defense of the Ancients and either way you have a capitalisation on the "t" which is wrong but...

This is how you win DOTA, you choose a hero called "Lina" or something stupid like that, go mid, last hit and DENY so you get level 6 before them and deny their monies once you're level 6 ult dat bitch.

...and win.

EDIT @ iVnStinger: 30+ deny in lane (mid) is significant, do it and win. Usually they get people to come gank you or they just go ganking themselves, if they suceed you lost your advantage, if they fail then you win.

Quick Comments

iVnStinger:

I think you are right about capitilisation. As for Lina..... Guess it depends on the level that you are playing on

[neKo]

Originally Posted by Aiya

I think it's just DOTA 2 because it's not an acronym for Defense of the Ancients and either way you have a capitalisation on the "t" which is wrong but...

This is how you win DOTA, you choose a hero called "Lina" or something stupid like that, go mid, last hit and DENY so you get level 6 before them and deny their monies once you're level 6 ult dat bitch.

...and win.

EDIT @ iVnStinger: 30+ deny in lane (mid) is significant, do it and win. Usually they get people to come gank you or they just go ganking themselves, if they suceed you lost your advantage, if they fail then you win.

Aiya, I don't think Stinger knows about how WE play DotA

Quick Comments

Aiya:

nobody knows xD

[Zepph]

May as well make one if there isn't one floating about.
It would be a good way to share steam details and such to play with other sc2sea friends too.

[Churlz]

DOTA and MOBA's make you hate your friends true story. The community especially for HoN is probably one of the worst. Do you play Neko if so how did you get a beta key?

Quick Comments

Aiya:

Play DotA -> Hate friends -> Play Starcraft -> Friends again -> Play DotA

[nirvAnA]

How about this:

You guys can start an official dota thread (this). If it gets big with many different topics that yea of course it will warrant its own forum so topics are easier to find and discuss. Because if its not popular it kinda works the other way making the site more cluttered like our D3 for example isn't very popular - partly cause so little people have access to the beta.

Yea so that will be our approach so basically if you guys want a DOTA forum get your friends here to start posting here, start some activity or discussion etc. And I'll let the guys who post actively in it (and if they are good members) - become moderators of these forums, give you access to start your own tournaments, have your own gamer profiles, ill add a DOTA news section, and/or a DOTA2 category at the top etc the possibilities are endless but its all up to you guys to make it happen.

[iVnStinger]

Fair enough, I'll start editing the OP with whatever info I can find Thank you

[Myth.Mufasa]

gonna be so sick ^_______________________^

[RicocheT]

DOTA = Defense of the Asians.
Don't know where people are getting this Defense of the Ancients from...

Edit: Also note that I am Asian, so I'm allowed to make this joke =D

Quick Comments

	Aiya:	better than CSS
	iVnStinger:	Racist but funny :)
	TCPLemminks:	Ironically, the Russians won the $1 million prize

[TCPKiaSu]

I WANT DOTA 2 GIMME BETA KEY! do u have beta key?

[MazEi]

I DotA 2

Anyone wanna play with me add me on Steam mazei513. I'm not ultra gosu but I don't feed too much =)

EDIT
And that guy that said about picking Lina then owning mid...replace Lina with Anti-Mage.

[iVnStinger]

Troll Warrior at low levels is insane though... Don't know how he fairs in Dota 2 though...

EDIT : Stupid me, he ain't in Dota2

[[TA]LoSt]

Fix the delay and it will be a lot better..

[fray`EdgE]

How about a Sports and Games section nirvana, similar to TL? (maybe different wording)

Quick Comments

crAzerk:

i like that!

[MazEi]

It lags in Aussie? =( Hope that gets sorted out

[TARane]

id like this

[Theend]

We will love a Dota 2 sub forum here , when we quit sc2 for Dota 2