10/25/13 Patch Notes

• Fixed potion use from stoping player movement with keyboard and mouse setup

• Fixed the UI Latency indicators in scoreboard and HUD not working as intended

• Changed Auto Attack to be set to Off by default (will only affect new players – current settings are not affected)

• Implemented Mouse Sensitivity in the Settings menu

• Implemented a new software cursor

• Fixed a crash relating to window mode toggle functionality

• Disabled auto-attack from occurring when auto-pathing

• Limited the range of attack-move to a characters actual attack range

• Fixed the Floating Combat Numbers option not correctly working

• Fixed controller icons flickering rapidly in the Prestige menu

• Tooltips for Relics and Gems are now viewable on your belt when viewed in Inventory

Arathorn death animation fix
-Death animation sometimes not occurring has been fixed.

Target Guardian abilities fix
-If a target-centric ability is right-click cancelled while standing still and a non-target specific ability is selected after, that ability will no longer be immediately cast.

-Cancelling a Guardian only ability with right click no longer causes the ability icon to disappear on subsequent uses.

•Target Guardian abilities fix

-Target Guardian abilities will no longer ‘fail’ or ‘cancel’ if the user attempts to cast and misses their target. The cast ray will always be active unless the user cancels the ability themselves or right clicks to move. (This vastly improves keyboard and mouse targeting)

•Implement Warning system for Your Base Is Under Attack

-We have added structure damage pings and corresponding screen events that have a 20 second interval; this includes all structures in your base. Teams are now informed whenever any allied structure is under attack.

Localized audio – audio not playing in French, Italian, German, and Spanish has been fixed.

Changeable graphic settings – you now have the option to edit your settings.cfg file to improve graphic performance.

HOW TO EDIT: Go to your WBGames folder (default location is in My Documents), open the settings.cfg file, and edit any or all of the three following settings: TextureLOD, ShadowMapSize, and DrawShadows.

- ShadowMapSize determines the shadow map resolution; lower resolution = better performance “256”, “512”, “1024”, “2048”, “4096”

- TextureLOD determines texture mip level used as the base texture mip level; variables: 0 = low, 1 = medium, 2 = high

- DrawShadows determines whether or not shadows are rendered; variables: 0 = no shadows, 1 = draw shadows

Bot difficulty selection enabled in private lobbies - There is now an option to select Easy, Medium, or Hard bots by clicking on the portrait in the lobby. Public matches are still set to hard by default.

Target Guardian abilities have been improved and now correctly ignore non-eligible targets.

Matchmaking parameters have been improved to increase the chance of finding more human players – you will still be paired with bots after 5 minutes.

Command tooltips not displaying after death or after respawning have been fixed.

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9/9/13

Matchmaking Improvements

-Re-enabled the matchmaking lockout for leavers, however secondary leavers are not locked out
-Increased matchmaking time to 5 minutes for 5 vs 5 matches
-Increased matchmaking time to 3 minutes for Co-Op vs Bots matches
-Matchmaking parameters improved to decrease probability of bad peer to peer connections
-Matchmaking parameters improved to eliminate being matched with laggy users

-Localization text updates for all languages

-Mithril Relic stats changed: +10 ability resistance / +3% attack speed per level / +3% health per level

-Fixed the Mithril Relic not correctly giving the health buff

-Updated Elrond’s ultimate ability cooldown from 5 seconds to 10 seconds

-Towers/Barracks upgrade keybinding changed from Right Click to U key
-Prompt will appear when level requirement is reached and user is within range of the structure

BEHOLD, THE GLORIOUS PATCH NOTES!

(Please note, all patch notes can also be found in the official patch update thread)

-Minor bug fixes in the UI
-Back end connection work (part of something more coming)
-Crash fix
-Party invite bug fix
-Localization updates

While it may not be all the things you want fixed, I hope this shows our continuing commitment to supporting the game and our desire to improve your experience as players. Like I said above, that back end connection work is part of a somewhat larger patch that is coming (no, not dedicated servers). I can't tell you when it's coming because I don't know, but I assure you it's coming SOON.