GENERAL

• Added system that temporarily removes chat functionality from hostile players.
  

HEROES

• Added Warlock.
  
• Antimage: Fixed Manabreak working through Doom.
  
• Beastmaster: Fixed him doing 10 less base damage than he's supposed to.
  
• Dragon Knight: Fixed Corrosive Breath being lethal.
  
• Dragon Knight: Fixed Breathe Fire not working on Siege units.
  
• Jakiro: Fixed Liquid Fire not working on Siege units.
  
• Jakiro: Fixed Dual Breath fire interval being a little too slow.
  
• Omniknight: Fixed Purge/Repel not removing Hex.
  
• Omniknight: Fixed being unable to cast Purification on mechanical units
  
• Shadow Shaman: Fixed Voodoo not being blocked by Linken's Sphere.
  
• Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush not showing an AoE indicator.
  

GAMEPLAY

• Enabled Omniknight and Dragon Knight in Captain's Mode.
  
• Fixed Heart of Tarrasque regen stacking issues.
  
• Fixes courier not responding to further deliver orders until he was issued a move order.
  
• Fixed a case where items would not combine if the owning player was disconnected.
  
• Fixed an item combine bug when giving an item to another hero who has a full inventory.
  
• Fixed Diffusal Blade's manabreak working through Doom.
  
• Fixed Satyr Trickster's Purge not canceling Repel.
  
• Fixed being unable to target Siege units with Medallion of Courage.
  
• Fixed Urn and Bloodstone resetting at 30 charges.
  
• Increased the time window allowed between double clicking abilities and items.
  
• Fixed camera position resetting to the middle of the map after receiving a full update.
  

UI

• You can now choose Southeast Asia and US East/West in the matchmaking region settings on the Today page.
  
• Matches in the Today and Watch pages are now sorted by the average rank of players in the game.
  
• Added Network Quality setting to the Options menu.
  
• In spectator hero chase mode, clicking on the top bar clears the temporary unit query as well as following the new unit.
  
• Added a cooldown sound for clicking the Glyph while it is on cooldown.
  
• Fixed commands bound to apostrophe not being properly captured by the UI. Fixes buying items in your Quick Buy slot when typing in chat.
  
• Added checkbox for practice lobbies to make them watchable via the Watch tab.
  
• Fixed courier's transfer items buff not destroying itself when another order was given to him. Fixes courier not responding to further deliver orders until he was issued a move order.
  

VISUALS

• Cleaned up some Dragon Knight effects.
  
• Updated Dragon Knight's run and idle animations.
  
• Fixed Windrunner's bowstring disappearing when she died.
  
• Fixed some visual bugs related to building destruction.
  
• Fixed gestures not being properly deleted in some occasions. Fixes Beastmaster never leaving his flail animations (and thus strutting down the middle lane like a boss).
  
• Fixed lipsync on portraits not lasting the full duration of the lines being spoken.
  

AUDIO

• Added Tower/Barrack destruction music.
  
• Fixed Heroes never commenting on first blood events.
  

BOTS

• Fixed bots trying to attack Razor's Plasma Field.
  
• Bots will now consider siege units to be creeps for purposes of laning and farming.
  
• Bots now pay better attention to incoming gank damage, so they should be quicker about retreating.
  
• Fixed bug in Earthshaker bot where he was underestimating the stun duration of Fissure.
  
• Fixed bug that was causing bots to not consider tower avoidance when attacking.
  
• Bots should now back off to more reasonable positions when pushing a tower and waiting for their creeps.
  
• Bots will no longer be scared of themselves when pushing a tower (!)
  
• Fixed a bug where bots would either never purchase from the side/secret shops or would sometimes get stuck trying to purchase from them when they had no room.
  
• Fixed bots trying to attack invulnerable units.
  
• Implemented avoidance for Batrider's Firefly.
  
• Fixed a few cases where Bane would try to cast an ability on an invalid target.
  
• Bots now wait for teammates to be relatively nearby before moving closer to a tower they're defending.
  
• Tiny bot will no longer wait to get into toss range before using any abilities on a retreating unit.
  
• Bots will no longer roam when they have a hero or creep actively attacking them.
  
• Fixed case where heroes with long attack ranges could get stuck trying to farm a lane but not being in range of any creeps.
  

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

• Issue where bots would constantly roam from lane-to-lane to farm early-game.
  
• Omniknight always saying Fear Nothing.
  
• Issues with items that used the negative health regen - this fixes the interaction of Ancient Apparition with armlet.
  
• Items that modify maximum health or mana such as like Armlet and Soul Ring. These should now apply their effect correctly.
  
• An item combine bug when giving an item to another hero who has a full inventory.
  
• Inventory right click menu going away instantly if the player has an item in the stash.
  

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

HEROES

• Added Dragon Knight and Omniknight!
  
• Chen: Fixed Holy Persuasion not removing buffs from the converted creep
  
• Chen: Fixed Hand of God working on dead heroes
  
• Huskar: Fixed not attacking his target right after Life Break.
  
• Batrider: Fixed Firefly being purge-able.
  
• Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm working on ancients.
  
• Storm Spirit: Fixed an exploit with Ball Lightning that could cause you to kill enemy units from your fountain.
  
• Storm Spirit: Fixed Ball Lightning's stopping a little too early when almost out of mana
  
• Huskar: Fixed the first tick of Berserker's Blood requiring you to be hurt.
  
• Riki: Fixed the Backstab sound sometimes playing when it wasn't proccing.
  
• Sniper: Fixed Assassinate reveal debuff never disappearing if the target dodges it with a blink.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed X Marks The Spot teleporting you back if you buyback while the spell is still active.
  
• Jakiro: Fixed Dual Breath not being target-able on units directly.
  
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Sonic Wave not being target-able on units directly
  
• Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm not temporarily revealing the area.
  
• Batrider: Fixed Flaming Lasso not ending when Batrider dies.
  
• Zeus: Fixed a bug with spamming Arc Lightning quickly while there is another one still bouncing (only happens for very large amount of units).
  
• Skeleton King: Fixed loss of vision while reincarnating.
  
• Added missing Flail and Stun animations for Kunkka.
  

GAME PLAY

• Enabled Huskar, Batrider and Jakrio for Captains Mode
  
• Massive server performance improvements.
  
• Fixed vision range on Siege units.
  
• Fixed bounty values on Siege units.
  
• Added Legacy keys for new heroes
  
• Fixed attack damage for Centaur Outrunner
  
• Fixed limited life units (like Necronomicon units) having dramatically more duration when converted by Helm of the Dominator.
  
• Fixed backdoor protection turning off when dominated units are nearby
  
• Fixed legacy keys not working properly for a few of the recent heroes
  
• Only allow one commendation/report per person.
  

UI

• Added a separate matchmaking pool for players who have repeatedly left games. Note: Any party that contains a player matchmaking in this pool will cause the entire party to match-make in this pool.
  
• Fixed Captain's Mode pick timer getting reset during the 2 hero pick phases once a player does the first selection.
  
• Fixed Captain's Mode random (when out of time) being able to selected heroes not enabled for CM.
  
• Added two spectator hot keys for controlling the replay speed (- and =).
  
• Double-hitting the "select all other units" hot key will now add your hero to your selection
  
• Game lobby leaders can now kick players out of the lobby.
  
• You will now be notified when you are kicked from a game lobby or party.
  

DOTA 2 BOTS

• Made bots a bit more wary of taking damage when defending a teammate.
  
• Bots will no longer back off as much when defending the Ancient or Barracks.
  
• Made bots (and particularly carries) want to farm a bit more mid-game.
  
• Fixed bug where bots were considering dead enemies in their Push Tower desire.
  
• Decreased the bots' desire to go back to base to retrieve cheap non-TP items.
  
• Increased the bots' desire to visit the secret shop as they accumulate money.
  

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

HEROES

• Added Batrider, Huskar, and Jakiro!
  
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed a bug with Chilling Touch attack speed reduction display.
  
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed a recent bug with Ice Trail path debuff happening a little too early
  
• Beastmaster: Fixed Call of the Wild resummoning showing up as a deny.
  
• Broodmother: Fixed Poison Sting from affecting Wards.
  
• Broodmother: Fixed the wrong web sometimes getting removed when a new one is added.
  
• Broodmother: Fixed the Spiderlings and Spiderite passive abilities working on buildings and mechanical units.
  
• Broodmother: Fixed Spawn Spiderlings not being a projectile.
  
• Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger being purgable.
  
• Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger bonus damage being considered as base damage.
  
• Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot interaction with alled units and neutrals.
  
• Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot not stunning magic immune units.
  
• Clockwerk: Fixed the Hookshot target sometimes being able to run away before he arrives.
  
• Clockwerk: Fixed cases where Hookshot would drop you to a lower level if your target was near a ledge
  
• Enigma: Fixed Greater Eidolon movement speed.
  
• Enigma: Fixed Dire Eidolon armor.
  
• Faceless Void: Fixed Chronosphere's interaction with various passives
  
• Juggernaut: Fixed Blade Dance working on wards.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed Torrent slow not lasting as long as it should.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed X Marks The Spot ignoring Linken's Sphere
  
• Kunkka: Fixed X Marks The Spot vision revealer not working.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship not having vision.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship's allied buff not reducing spell damage.
  
• Mirana: Fixed vision around Arrow when it impacts.
  
• Pudge: Fixed cases where Hook would drop the pulled target to a lower level if your target was near a ledge
  
• Queen of Pain: Fixed bug in Shadow Strike slow falloff.
  
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Scream of Pain not hitting units in fog of war
  
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Shadow Strike not being castable on regular units
  
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Scream of Pain not hitting invisible units.
  
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Shadow Strike not allowing you to deny heroes.
  
• Razor: Fixed Eye of the Storm not hitting invisibile units.
  
• Riki: Fixed Backstab working on mechanical units.
  
• Riki: Fixed Smokescreen working on Ancients.
  
• Riki: Fixed the timing on Blink Strike damage.
  
• Skeleton King: Fixed Aegis not working on him once he levels up Reincarnation.
  
• Skeleton King: Fixed Vampiric Aura on mechanical units.
  
• Skeleton King: Fixed Vampiric Aura on denies.
  
• Weaver: Fixed sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.
  

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed Heart of Tarrasque health regeneration from stacking.
  
• Fixed various items and abilities not interrupting channeling when used
  
• Fixed being able to revive a courier by upgrading it after it dies.
  
• Fixed courier stopping in its position whenever the hero it's delivering items to teleports.
  
• Fixed bug that caused illusions generated from a disconnected player to be controllable by the enemy team
  
• Fixed Siege units being considered as heroes for Bloodbath's distance check
  
• Fixed Chronosphere freezing other units you own
  
• Fixed issue that caused issued commands to not be executed immediately.
  
• Fixed a slight delay on many commands given to heroes.
  
• Fixed Monkey King Bar from proccing on towers.
  
• Fixed bloodstone charges stopping at 30.
  
• Fixed Armlet active bonus continuing after dropping the item.
  
• Fixed Creep Stats reseting after reaching 500.
  
• Fixed gold bounty values on creeps after that lane's barracks is down.
  
• Fixed Necronomicon not killing its previous units when used again (from Refresher, Tinker's Rearm, etc).
  
• Fixed Necronomicon Mana Burn ignoring Linken's Sphere
  
• Fixed Fountain mana regeneration being too slow
  
• Enabled Broodmother, Skeleton King and Queen of Pain in Captain's Mode.
  
• Fixed various stats on necronomicon units
  
• Fixed Satyr Hellcallers to only consider units in its vision for deciding when to cast shockwave.
  
• Fixed interaction with Roshan on Rocket Flare and Mana Void.
  
• Fixed Heart, Urn of Shadows, and Dagger not being properly Disabled by Haunt.
  
• Fixed a performance hitch when creating illusions.
  
• Fixed towers not revearling invisible non-hero units (spiderlings, hawk, etc).
  
• Wildkin Warchief's Tornado will now follow the target enemy you right-click instead of giving an error message.
  
• Fixed Kobold Taskmaster HP.
  
• Fixed Centaur Outrunner Armor and Damage.
  
• Fixed Attack type on Centaur Chief.
  
• Fixed small wolf's attack, armor and attack range.
  
• Fixed Enraged Wildkin level and XP bounty.
  
• Fixed Acquisition range on various neutrals.
  
• Fixed various minor inconsistencies on unit stats.
  

UI

• Added a commendation system, which allows you to commend players who made your game a happier experience, and report anyone being hostile. You can commend or report a player by clicking their name in the main menu, in-game scoreboard or end game score screen.
  
• Added shop hotkey labels for shop category buttons.
  
• Clicking or control clicking a unit now selects all units of that type onscreen instead of globally.
  
• Player Perspective now shows shop and shop search text.
  
• Tiny's Toss will now show an error message if he has nothing near him to toss when he reaches cast range.
  
• When disarmed (Ghost Scepter, Decrepify, etc.), you can now right-click or attack-move-click on enemies to move toward them. The "Can't Attack" error will not appear until you reach attack range of the enemy.
  
• Shift-queued orders that become invalid by the time they are executed will now show an error message.
  
• Added an error message for when your shift-order-queue is full.
  
• Fixed a problem where certain orders could be ignored if a player tried to execute them just before they became invalid, especially with a slow connection to the server. An appropriate error message will now be displayed in these cases.
  
• Fixed losing key input when you search the shop with the chat up
  
• Fixed a bug where you could swap a stash item with a channeling teleport scroll and still finish the teleport.
  
• Fixed not being able to see your last hit gold effect through fog of war.
  
• Fixed playing gold sound and visuals for things that give zero gold bounty.
  
• Fixed a control group bug when Enchantress takes one of Chen's converted units.
  
• Improved the accuracy of matchmaking parties of players. Note that this may increase party matchmaking wait time.
  
• In matchmaking, servers are now selected before matches are ready.
  
• Tooltip hover for hero stats and gold is more responsive.
  
• HP Bars no longer lose some accuracy when the target is very low HP.
  
• Fixed Necronomicon Level 2 & 3 Manaburn hotkey not working.
  
• Added a new hotkey setting to select all units you own other than your hero (unbound by default).
  
• Fixed the scoreboard and stats panels not updating while the game is paused.
  

VISUALS

• Added a specific minibash effect for extremely short stuns.
  
• Updated Queen of Pain's base attack to better match her color scheme.
  
• Updated shadow strike.
  
• Fixed lifesteal effects not being owned by their owner which resulted in them not properly culling in fog of war.
  
• Added Spell Block effect to Roshan.
  
• Adjusted the tower projectile collision so that projectiles will actually reach towers before exploding.
  
• Detailed outer cliffs.
  
• Added falling rock lava splashes added to dire base background.
  
• Added Dire side moths.
  

AUDIO

• Frost Armor sound effect now plays when the buff is refreshed.
  
• Added Broodmother's Spiderling's voice code.
  
• Heroes can now talk while dead as long as they just want to comment on a Victory or Loss.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented heroes from commenting on a rune pickup.
  

BOTS

• Bots will now attack non-hero enemies.
  
• Bots now want to attack couriers and Juggernaut Bot's Healing Ward.
  
• Bots are now very unlikely to break off attacking when the target is stunned or slowed.
  
• Bots will now buy dust/gem when playing against Sand King.
  
• Increased the bonus-to-attack when a human pings a target.
  
• Increased the impact of human pings for lane defends and pushes.
  
• Fixed issue where tower pings from Dire players weren't working.
  
• Pinging enemy heroes will also increase the desire for a Team Roam.
  
• Tightened up the precision of pinging -
• bots should no longer think you're asking for a lane push when you ping on an enemy that's near a tower.
  
• Bots now know to move to healing auras if they need some healing and aren't desperately retreating. Currently works with Juggernaut's Healing Ward and Witch Doctor's Restoration Aura.
  
• Bots will now prioiritize interrupting units that are channeling.
  
• Fixed a number of cases where bots were getting stuck trying to use an item on an invalid (magic immune, invulnerable, etc) target.
  
• Improved bot target-selection logic for Eul's Scepter.
  
• Improved bot Diffusal Blade usage -
• it will no longer cast it on retreating targets that have an incoming stun.
  
• Improved Orchid usage -
• bots will now use it to break channels.
  
• Improved Urn usage -
• bots will no longer worry about using it on allies that are being hit by creeps.
  
• Bots now take damage on their own Barracks and Ancient much more seriously.
  
• Bots are now better about defending the proper lane when in-base.
  
• Bots should tunnelvision less on tower pushes when enemy heroes are nearby.
  
• Slightly increased bot desire to attack the enemy Ancient.
  
• Bots will no longer do Roshan when any lane needs to be defended.
  
• Bots now announce when they're leaving Roshan.
  
• Human players now need to be a bit further into a lane to claim it for laning purposes at the beginning of a game.
  
• Bots should spam chat less about roaming and returning.
  
• Bots should be much less likely to go for runes if a human with a bottle is on their team.
  
• Fixed Tiny's build so he will use his final grow.
  
• Fixed bug that was causing bots to be too timid late-game if they happened to be in a lane.
  
• Decreased lane push desire when there are enemy heroes nearby.
  
• Fixed a bug where bots didn't think they could purchase their next item if it would require selling an item.
  
• Bots should be significiantly more likely to spot farming targets and roam to gank as a team.
  
• Reduced spamminess of bot chat when pushing a lane.
  
• Reduced bot willingness to tank a tower.
  
• Slightly reduced the desire to push a tower when their potential co-pushers aren't nearby.
  
• Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their flying courier uses shield.
  
• Bots should be better about picking stuff up from base late-game when they don't have any more pressing desires.
  
• Added Team Roam chat announcements.
  
• Bots will no longer defer all runes to humans with bottles when all the human heroes are dead.
  
• Increased attack desire when a number of nearby allies are attacking, which makes bots more decisive in teamfights.