[Torniquet]

Originally Posted by Daboo

but is there like only one map in dota?

Heh i really found this cute. Yes, there is only one map in Dota.

[Torniquet]

Last two patches.

+ [Dota 2 Update - 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).

+ [Dota 2 Update - 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.

The last two new heroes they added. Lycan last week, Syllabear this week.


Lone Druid Lycanthrope.

Also in regard to showing ping in game. Just opening console and typing "ping" will give you everyones ping in the game in the console for you see. Which personally find a lot better than the graph But obviously each to his own.

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

[Peleus]

Woot got my Dota 2 invite.

[Antel0pe]

JOIN US Peleus

[MazEi]

Just waiting for sc2sea DotA 2 clan.

[nirvAnA]

we need a dota2 member / meet up thread

[Torniquet]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

we need a dota2 member / meet up thread

Yeah Veteris' list on the front page is suffice. Couple that with the in game chat channel and the steam group, people shouldnt have any trouble finding one another.

[MazEi]

Well we sorta have a list of players on the first page.

[Stallion]

stallion15 for me il be playing a few from time to time generally when I need a break from sc2

[iVnStinger]

I apologize for my laziness people, but I have been pretty busy with school and still am. It's a big year for me. Unfortunately I cannot continue with the thread because I will not be able to be committed.

I am officially handing power of the thread over to vertris (although I think it was with him anyway). Thank you so much buddy for helping out and changing people's mind and with the organizing. I hope you can continue to succeed so my dream to get a sub-forum comes true!

Please give him some rep people, he deserves it! (on the OP)

[Daboo]

Disconnectors are so annoying.
A guy comes n and rushes against a tower within like 2 minutes, gets first blooded and disconnects, his buddy soon follows.

[RicocheT]

I be playing le Dota 2.
I'm pretty bad at it now unfortunately (was at my peak 06-07).

RicocheT - Suicidalcamel (steam name)

[MazEi]

So who's up for the in-house tomorrow. I have Physics and Math papers on Monday but playing some games with you guys come first =)

[Torniquet]

Noticed theres a couple of people in the steam group but not in the channel on Dota 2. Would make things easier for in houses and what not.

Theres a little plus sign that will bring up a list of chat rooms and you can scroll down to find sc2sea. Alternatively if you have console enabled you can just open console and type "chat_join sc2sea"

[yongming]

replay vod of an epic comeback game i played.
http://www.twitch.tv/yongming/b/313340739

[Torniquet]

Series of weekly top 10 videos similar to the IPL starcraft ones. Only thing is they dont really explain it so some of the newer people might not understand whats going on. But im sure if you are that curious myself or someone else will be able to explain it to you.

Anyways worth a watch.

+ [Dota 2 Top 10 Weekly - Ep. 1] +

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+ [Dota 2 Top 10 Weekly - Ep. 2] +

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+ [Dota 2 Top 10 Weekly - Ep. 3] +

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+ [Dota 2 Top 10 Weekly - Ep. 4] +

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+ [Dota 2 Top 10 Weekly - Ep. 5] +

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[souljah]

Add me on Steam, unknownkill3r! Usually play at night htough, after studying and SC2

[Torniquet]

Originally Posted by souljah

Add me on Steam, unknownkill3r! Usually play at night htough, after studying and SC2

I believe i usually see the most people in channel around 10 - 11 pm Syd time so you should be good.

[Torniquet]

Most of the old Dota players will know the Australian team mCity. Some of the guys are back in Dota 2 under they name aL | Absolute Legends. They recently played in the Its Gosu Monthly Madness. Just wanted to point out that they played some pretty good games all through out and i think the vods are well worth the watch if you were interested in Dota 2.

Heres the link for the final but you can find all the other games in the archived videos.

[Meatex]

I also got it recently
Haven't found a hero i really click with yet but then again only tried 2 so far
add me on steam - meatex