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

HEROES

• Added Alchemist!
  
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed the location from which Ice Blast fires.
  
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed Level 3 Cold Feet doing 1 too much damage.
  
• Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture damaging invulnerable/cycloned units.
  
• Dragon Knight: Fixed Elder Dragon Form attack properties getting lost when he is purged/repelled.
  
• Huskar: Fixed Burning Spears working against wards.
  
• Jakiro: Fixed Liquid Fire not working correctly against siege units.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed Tidebringer working against wards.
  
• Huskar: Fixed Inner Vitality being cast-able on yourself when Magic Immune.
  
• Necrolyte: Fixed Heartstopper aura being blocked by magic immunity.
  
• Nature's Prophet: Fixed the spawn location of the Treants in Nature's Call.
  
• Omniknight: Fixed the following ability interactions with Repel/Purge: Inner Vitality, Weave, Moonlight Shadow, Overload, Holy Persuasion, Warcry, Shadow Word, Focus Fire, Sukuchi, Berserker's Call, Chilling Touch.
  
• Pudge: Fixed Dismember lasting too long on Roshan.
  
• Pudge: Fixed Meat Hook interrupting allied channel abilities.
  
• Riki: Fixed Backstab on wards
  
• Sand King: Fixed Repel stopping Sandstorm.
  
• Sand King: Fixed a bug with Epicenter doing its Ultimate Scepter number of pulses regardless of level.
  
• Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ether Shock hitting invisible units.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Rain of Chaos AoE stun not lasting longer with Scepter.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Rain of Chaos not destroying trees
  
• Warlock: Fixed Fatal Bonds disabling Blink Dagger/Regen.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Fatal Bonds damage being reduced by resistance.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Rain of Chaos not doing any impact damage.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Golem's Immolation working against Ancients.
  
• Weaver: Fixed Swarm not latching onto magic immune enemies.
  
• Weaver: Fixed Swarm losing their attack ability ability once an enemy becomes magic immune.
  
• Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks stun lasting 5 seconds on Roshan.
  

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed Maelstrom/Mjolnir procing on denies/wards/sieges.
  
• Fixed Helm of the Dominator life-stealing off ward type units
  
• Fixed Ring of Basilius aura not working on siege units.
  
• Fixed Janggo aura not working on siege units.
  
• Fixed item critical strikes working against wards.
  
• Fixed item selling exploit where heroes could transfer sharable items and sell them back within the sell-back time.
  
• Cleaned up juke lanes in dire top lane.
  

UI

• Fixed a bug with courier purchasing, where trying to complete an item would not take into account items held by the courier.
  
• Fixed a quick-buy bug. With Mekansm displayed, buying a branch, then headdress would result in a branch missing from the list.
  
• Added a setting to disable screen shaking.
  
• Fixed double clicking Force Staff not working if you are Repelled.
  
• Fixed Smoke of Deceit and Dust of Appearance purchase announcement not appearing when an ally buys them.
  
• Fixed Omniknight and Dragon Knight legacy keys.
  
• Enabled Warlock for Captain's Mode
  
• Error messages will no longer appear if some unit in your multi-unit selection cannot perform the requested order.
  
• Practice Lobbies now appear on dota tv (can be selected to private in game setup).
  
• Fixed not being able to access the home shop after a respawn.
  
• Creeps under the control of a player now draw using that player’s color on the minimap.
  
• Fixed towers that are denied in the FoW still drawing for the other team on the minimap.
  
• Made overhead gold values not fade out as quickly when your controlled hero is high level.
  
• Added a new function (defaulted to Space Bar) that moves the camera to the last pinged location (if you press it again afterwards it goes back to your hero).
  

VISUALS

• Added impact effect to Leshrac's Lightning Storm.
  
• Added burned ground to Warlock's Rain of Chaos.
  
• Tweaked Dire tree shapes.
  

AUDIO

• Added more movement lines for Dazzle, Dark Seer, Dragon Knight, Furion, Huskar, Riki, Skeleton King, Slardar, Spectre, and Jakiro.
  
• Updated Jariko's voice-overs.
  

BOTS

• Fixed bug where bots would stand under the tower in the lane they were pushing when it had backdoor protection activated. Now they should move back to their lane front.
  
• Bots no longer assume that humans will fully help out when they're deciding whether to do Roshan.
  
• Revised Windrunner's Shackle Shot and Windrun usage -
• they won't trigger as much when doing a casual retreat.
  
• In late-game, bots are more likely to go to side shops to get what they need (especially TP scrolls).
  
• Bots are no longer controllable by spectators.
  
• Improved the logic for deciding when to give up on an attack target that they haven't touched in a while.
  
• Fixed issue where bots would attack creeps rather than defend their tower from enemy heroes.
  
• Reworked how bots push lanes, they should be less likely to tank towers and should be in appropriate positions more often now.
  
• Fixed bug where heroes would leave their tower too easily when not fully recharged.
  
• Bots will now use a bottled regen rune rather than retreating all the way back to base to heal.
  
• Fixed bug in Zeus's Thundergod's Wrath usage that caused with him to killsteal with it too much.
  
• Bots should be better about harassing heroes during the laning phase -
• melee heroes should no longer be able to last-hit with impunity.
  
• Revised sniper bot skill build to be less push-oriented and more gank/dps oriented.
  
• Reduced spamminess of bots announcing the defense of a lane.
  
• Made bots better about retreating to retrieve their items.
  

InMomentum Changelog 1.03

- Added Video option in the menu for VSync
- Added Video option in the menu for ToggleSky
- Added Video option in the menu for Ambient Occlusion
- Added Video option in the menu for Bloom
- Added Video option in the menu for Light Shafts
- Added Video option in the menu for Motion Blur and Speed Effects
- Added Video option in the menu for Detail Mode
- Added Video option in the menu for
- Created new options submenu "User Interface"
- Moved "Use 3D Interface" and "Crosshair Style" to "User Interface" submenu
- Added key binding in controlls options for Toggle Third Person
- Added key binding in controlls options for Land Fast
- Moved Restart Level button to F3 (cannot be changed)
- Moved Previous Music button to F5 (cannot be changed)
- Moved Next Music button to F6 (cannot be changed)
- Moved Random Music button to F7 (cannot be changed)
- Removed Auto Kick if a match is in progress, and replaced with Force into Spectators
- Removed a sensitive command which made the game kick people randomly on match start
- Fixed a crash error, which made the game crash when updating the server list in the Server Browser

Changelist 1.4.3.2
Adjusted fairy dialog timing.
Fixed collision geometry in Chapter 8 final scene.
Fixed a bug in the Epic staff.
Fixed incorrect positioning of steam store highlight.
Fixed a bug in arcane/life beam damage calculation.
Fixed a bug where Fafnir would stop acting if a player was revived by the faerie.
Fixed a bug where Death would stop acting if a player was revived by the faerie.
Updated recent localization.

r17948b

*** This update hasn't been tested extensively on old save games. ***

Critical fixes:
- Fixed a bug that prevented income from being generated when doing a feasibility study.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to automatically distribute sliders from a hidden slider.
- Fixed a crash with support missions trying to open a dialog twice in a turn.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if closing the game while it was booting up.
- Fixed a von neumann crash caused by the faction running out of resources for a new collector fleet.
- Fixed an issue with crashing gem/forge world events from trying to apply moral bonus.
- Drones can now be designed and assigned to ships.
- Battle Riders may now be launched and recovered via their weapon icons in combat.
- Combat turn flow was rewritten. All combat queries are now answered at once, and then all combat simulations play out.
- Fixed a bug that stopped biome colonizers from improving terraforming values.

Other fixes:
- Fixed a recent issue where only the default player profile would be used.
- Fixed tech requirements on a few freighter ship sections.
- Removed "freighter" designation from ship sections to which it was incorrectly applied.
- Tarka freighter savings cost has been reduced from 1.5-million to 150,000.
- Leviathan stats have been improved.
- Tweaked turret arcs on a number of ship and station sections.
- Stations whose crew die off stop rotating in combat.
- Patrol battle riders now follow their tenders better.
- Fixed an issue where battle riders were not swarming around stations effectively.
- Fixed feasibility speech cues from using wrong speech library.
- Fixed admiral driven speech to use proper case.
- Fixed researching sound.
- Fixed research completed early sound cue.
- Fixed the battle draw and winning battle speech cues.
- Fixed under-the-hood sliders to automatically reset themselves to zero.
- Fixed an issue with swarmers trying to assign themselves to systems with no planets.
- Fixed an issue with the flock bonus not being used as a percentage.
- Moved the overharvest warning event to the correct location to stop it spamming every time the IO was queried.
- Fixed an issue that caused the gem and forge world events to spam.
- Fixed battle manager bug when entering system with no Naval base.
- Made visual culling much more subtle on star map to avoid labels popping in and out.
- Cleaned up view filter modes, populated list through code instead of through xml.
- Fixed issue in battle manager where station slots where being displayed even if no CP was available.
- Properly hooked up Mission/Engine section name display to riders in rider manager.
- Combat ready animations no longer loop incorrectly on ships.
- Save games should stay significantly smaller now due to the disabling of a debug feature that was storing a detailed history of all previous changes.
- Fixed a visual issue where tracking torpedoes would draw erroneous lines across the screen.
- The trade view filter on the star map now shows different icons for star systems.
- Fixed a bug that caused the admirals to return an incorrect admiral prefix to sound cues.
- Fixed a bug where Liir Naval Stations were displaying Hiver station assets.
- Fixed visual jitter for battle riders returning to tender.
- Fixed an issue where turn events were not displaying for some.
- Fixed various sizing bugs in GUI lists.
- Protean pods will return attacks.
- Fixed incorrect terrain names in Clouds and Ring star maps.

Other changes:
- New entries have been added to the encyclopedia's Galactic Atlas.
- Added new weapons: Blast Storm Missile, Polaris Blast Beam Missile
- Added new Rift star map.
- Added the ability to skip camera transitions with the escape key.
- Added a tutorial help screen for trade.
- Added Zuul freighters.
- Added missing Von Neumann PD weapons.
- Adjusted station visibility distances for combat.
- Added default ship names for command ships, bore ships, and gate ships.
- Implementation of initial, new post combat dialog.
- Added trade Modifier for trade distances.
- Added a table to keep track of trade results to stop clients from not being able to see trade.
- Stopped the ability to trade with someone you are at war with.
- Increased the max planet range for provinces by 1 ly.
- Added a configuration ability for disabling the main menu combat scene. There is no user interface for this diagnostic option, but it can be modified at your own risk in

'%localappdata%\Sword of the Stars II\settings\settings.xml' by adding or modifying the LoadMenuCombat element with a True or False value.
- Added launch effects for planet-to-orbit weapons.
- Added "Reserve Slot" label to reserve rider slots.
- Added events for post combat.
- Added realtime feedback to trade slider adjustment in trade view.
- Added filter to battle rider manager to display only carriers in widget.
- Added color coding to riders in rider manager.
- Added max flock bonus to strat mods and hooked it up to morrigi drive tech.
- Added a function for adding orbits with orbit numbers.

Key known issues:
- There is no post-combat popup.
- Screen transition time still slow for some.
- Game not running in 64-bit for some (running 32-bit works).
- Looking for people unable to connect to GameSpy for MP.