[Torte de Lini]

I really want an all-random mode! Have they ever decided when they were going to implement that?

I play a lot of Dota, I tried to play on the South-American and Chinese servers, I got wrecked so hard ):

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	MazEi:	yeah wondering when ar gonna get in as well =/
	TACeeSerps:	Whoa.. the man, the myth, the legend himself.. Big fan!
	Bash:	4 days later, AR exists!

[LennX]

DBR (Dotabuff ratings) or known as "MMR/ELO" are out.

I'm "platinum" and if this shows how players of my standard are playing with boots first or without boots for the whole game, I feel really sad. =(

[Bash]

Forever gold league.

I'm alright with that though, my experience in the genre pre-dota2 Is all of 2 games of hon.

+ [completely relevant] +

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zenabi:

why does he have a penis on his head?

[Antel0pe]

New Patch!

Dota 2 Update - January 31st, 2013
January 31, 2013 - Valve

This update has improved how Dota 2 is setup on your machine and will provide a significantly faster load time for most players. As a result of these changes, the update may take a while to download.


GAMEPLAY
- Fixed how magic damage is amplified when there are multiple sources of bonuses.
- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism healing never resetting.
- Enigma: Tightened selection area of Eidolons to make picking individual units easier when they clump
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not slowing magic immune units.
- Spectre: Spectral Dagger now properly trails invisible units.
- Spectre: Fixed various properties of Haunt illusions being incorrect.
- Tiny: Fixed Craggy Exterior working on illusions of Tiny.
- Visage: Fixed Roshan decreasing Gravekeeper's Cloak charges.
- Visage: Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak not restoring its layers independently of one another.
- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fist damage not leveling properly, damaging magic immune units, and having incorrect chance to proc.
- Fixed a bug with Radiance kill credit and illusions.
- Fixed Roshan no longer casting Slam to slow and damage nearby units.

UI
- The Smooth Drag option now works for anyone that's spectating (whether through DotaTV or as a broadcaster).
- Reduced waiting time in hero picker during All Random to 10 seconds.
- Reworked how your personal hero performance is done on your profile page (provide feedback here http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=431).
- Added preview for summoned items like the panda and watcher golem to store and backpack.
- Added the ability to filter out empty teams from the team list.

BOTS
- Fixed some incorrect timing calculations that were causing bots to miss some last hits.
- Fixed Practice vs Bots not properly selecting the nearest server.
- Fixed Death Prophet bot to know about the true range of Crypt Swarm.
- Fixed bots thrashing selling a situational item (dust, wards, TP scroll) to purchase another situational item.

WEBAPI
- Added Captain's Mode Picks and Bans.
- Added ability upgrade order and times to each player.
- Added inventory for additional units (Lone Druid's Spirit Bear).
- Added an API for getting match details in the order they were recorded.

[EXCL]

they fixed the spectre ulti still underpowered T.T lol

[Antel0pe]

Update Notes - February 6, 2013
- Added Team Matchmaking! Teams have a public rating based on their performance against other Teams.
- Added Language setting for Matchmaking!

GAMEPLAY
- Alchemist: Fixed Unstable Concoction AOE and Self impact behavior when there is a Magic Immune target.
- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being applied to Magic Immune units.
- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being removed by Magic Immunity.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture damage interval.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed being able to use potions during Rupture.
- Dark Seer: Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem
- Doom: Fixed Doom's interaction with MKB and Truestrike.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath travel time being too slow.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down first and second impact slow values being swapped
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Recall going off if Keeper died during the delay.
- Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear's Entangle working against Ancients and Creep Heroes like Familiars and Warlock's Golem.
- Medusa: Fixed Split Shot hitting Nightmared units.
- Medusa: Fixed Mana Shield not blocking damage from Death Ward, Plague Wards, Serpent Wards and Wildkin's Tornado.
- Morphling: Fixed Morph transformation stopping if Morphling gets purged or cycloned.
- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls while dead
- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls from killing illusions.
- Spectre: Fixed Spectral Dagger sometimes creating invisible paths of targets it hit.
- Troll Warlord: Added Pseudo Random support for his Bash.
- Troll Warlord: Fixed Whirling Axes interaction with Roshan.
- Visage: Fixed Cleave hitting Familiars.
- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fists hitting ethereal units.
- Weaver: Fixed various buffs Time Lapse did not remove.
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks bouncing off of couriers.
- Courier: Fixed courier not responding to deliver orders after having received a hold or stop order.
- Courier: Reduced stash interaction ranges to fix the courier not filling a bottle when entering and exiting the fountain area in a short time.
- Courier: 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=<lobbyid> and accountid=<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.

[EXCL]

nice work antelopes! whats this team matching making? :O

[cruxis]

You make a team of 5 people. You then start searching for other teams of 5 people to play against. You then have a rather even match, rather than 1 team of 4 on Skype + a random playing against 5 randoms.

[Another]

wait you cant cast ion shell on spirit bear anymore? damn thats a big nerf, that was a realllly popular strat

[cruxis]

Yeah,i thought that was the biggest change in the patch. Doesn't really stop either hero being picked, but it stops a certain strategy to give DS easy farm.

[Theend]

waiting for goblin techie

[yuu]

dota2 too ez

[Another]

i have 77 dota keys to give away (free of course) if you want one post here or PM me

Quick Comments

FLuX:

not even charging people for dota 2 keys, this guy! ^_^

[Theend]

looking forward to Dota2 clan war from this community !

☺☺☺☺☺ ♥Vs♥ ☻☻☻☻☻

[cruxis]

Wow, that's a lot of keys. I also have some. But by this stage I think everyone who wanted one has got one by now.

[DtorR]

Wouldn't mind a nice clan war getting tired of pubs.

[yongming]

im preparing something in the works.

if u have heard of liquid pasture, http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=392001, its a 8 team round robin league format with top few teams advancing to playoffs at end of the season. and teams participating are sign ups from tl members. the down side is its only for na/eu times.

im working on organising something like this for sea players. i need volunteers/helpers if anyone is interested (casters/artwork/admins).

Quick Comments

	MazEi:	i dont mind being admin, though timezones can be crap for me(in UK now)
	Antel0pe:	i can admin offline and online

[cruxis]

I'll help in anything you need. Apart from artwork. I have no creative skillz.

[Antel0pe]

Hi, was wondering what chat channels the SC2SEA lads are in ^_^.

I know there's the sc2sea one, but everyone there is afk or something :3. dota2 really needs something which shows if the person is ingame, afk, etc, in the chat channels :3

[Torniquet]

If you don't have Dota 2 and would like to try it, do the following:
1) Add me to friends
2) Wait until I accept the friend request (should be instant unless I'm offline)
3) Send me a message saying exactly "give dota". No, not on the wall and not in the trade chat, wtf is wrong with you people?
4) Accept the gift within 10 minutes, or it might be sent to someone else. If this happened, please post a comment on the wall and I may or may not remove you from the blacklist.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/dota2bot/inventory/#753

Dota 2 keys for people if they dont have them.

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Antel0pe:

you are a good man