Apr 25, 2012

Product Update - Valve

Rule Changes: 3 (v35305)

Free Pros: Assault, Combat Girl, Karl, Gunner, Tank, Wascot

This is the last week for PAX East 2012 uniforms and TF2 throwback gear!

It's the Rule Changes of Iroquoi county. Once you've seen one Rule Changes, you haven't seen them all.

This week we really focused on the player experience of getting into a game. We've made the process of getting into a game by yourself or with friends much more clear. We've fixed some issues that caused certain players to queue much longer than they should. This should improve everyone's speed and chance of getting into a good game!

As always, feel free to leave us feedback at www.uberent.com/forums! If you have issues please email support@uberent.com.
The current version is: 35305. If you don't have this version, please restart your game.
New Rules
• Featured items are now listed on the main menu.
• Reworked the Accept/Confirm game dialog to display over top of everything. Fixing the issues of not getting that dialog when a game is ready.
• Quickmatch has been split into Solo, and Build Team for easier usability.
• When a player taunts after killing someone, the dead player now sees the entirety of the taunt with a special taunt camera.
• Custom Game menu now includes team-icon check boxes.
• Custom Games can now be started with only 5 players.
• Opposing player name plate level number is now orange if they are 2 levels higher than you.
• Improved the look of the skill upgrade menu.
• Added option to disable the control hints above the skill icons and on Juice.
• GG Stack & Chip Valvano: Added Bot Streak call outs.
• GG Stack now calls out some special events.
• Invites now show the type of invite: "Game" or "Custom".
• Selected Region UI is now more obvious.
• Added new icons for all taunts.
• Chickey Cantor now takes full damage while being grappled.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed some instances of network interruptions causing players to get disconnected from the matchmaker but leave them looking like they are still in queue.
• Fixed UI sometimes not resetting properly when leaving a Training game.
• Fixed custom uniforms not working properly in Custom Class and Character Select screens when they have no torso as part of the uniform.
• Fixed character select weapons list showing old data when you switch characters.
• Fixed the rename/clear/save buttons not being enabled when you unlock a new product set.
• Fixed "add to cart" sometimes not turning off on the boost screen.
• Fixed the "Find Game" button cancelling with the enter key.
• Fixed some rare instances of the Post-Game Prize screen from sometimes showing the incorrect item.
• Fixed Post-Game Prize from not dropping everything it should.
Bundles
• New Bundle: "Spunky 6 Pack" Pro Bundle of 6 non-MNC Pros. On sale for the first week!
• New Bundle: Zombie Bundle. Includes all Zombie uniforms.
Products
• Can't Stun This: Recharge time 60 -> 90.
• Can't Slow This: Recharge time 60 -> 90.
• Health Inverter: Vamp amount 0.1 -> 0.13
• Health Inverter: Fixed description to reflect current numbers.
• All Magnet: Check time 0.25 -> 0.5
• All Magnet: Radius 512 -> 768
• Massive Air: Minimum level 1 -> 6
Downtown Spunky Arena
• Continued art improvements.
Bullet Gorge Arena
• Fixed not being able to stand on certain curbs.
Bots
• Fuji Bots: Now spawn in between Jackbots after 25 minutes.
• Fuji Bots: Now drop a churro and a juice box instead of two juice boxes.
• New explosion effect on Bot projectiles.
• Bot lasers are now team colored.
Assassin
• Leap: Improved visual effect
• Shuriken Launcher: Explosive radius reduced.
Cheston
• New Uniform: Bananas Monihan.
Megabeth
• Shoot the Moon: Increased vertical height for improved escape utility.

Apr 25, 2012

Dota 2 Test Build Update - April 25, 2012

Product Update - Valve

GAMEPLAY
- Added Brewmaster to Captain's Mode
- Fixed non-hero units like Spirit Bear breaking smoke of deceit.
- Fixed Burning Spear counter being reset by BKB.
- Fixed illusions stealing Magic Stick/Wand charges from the owner.
- Fixed a new bug with Riki's Blink Strike causing it to not attack right away.
- Fixed True Form / Druid Form being cancelled and interruptable.
- Fixed attack FoW reveal to happen when an attack fires off, rather than when your animation starts.
- Fixed bug that would sometimes cause move commands or abilities to execute at odd times.
- Fixed bug where DotaTV director would stop directing in the last minutes of the game.

VISUALS
- Heroes will no longer lose their shadows.
- Item Icon have been redesigned
[We plan to continue update these over the next few weeks, please give us your thoughts in this forum (http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=353)]

AUDIO
-Some heroes will now call out to allies they encounter in the field during the early phases of a game.

UI
- New in-game HUD.
- Fixed control groups breaking in the case where a hero has unit sharing enabled and another hero tries to control group one of the summons.
- Fixed a case where casting an ability to control a unit (ie. Chen's Persuasion), then querying the unit before the ability fired would not end up with the unit in a selected state and the abilities would not be usable.
- Fixed damage done to player-controlled units not showing up in the combatlog

BOTS
- Bots can call out "top missing!" etc if an opponent goes away during the laning phase.
- Bots are now more likely to use the Side Shop. They will hold off purchasing items if they think they'll be able to get them from the Side Shop soon, and are more likely to actually walk there to pick them up.
- Bots no longer forget/ignore units that are reincarning.
- Bots will now use couriers that are holding their items, even if the courier is currently returning to base.
- Bots will only use couriers that are idle in base, so they shouldn't grab couriers as soon as they stop moving in, for example, the secret shop.
- When a bot dies, if it had a courier en route, it will send the courier back to base.
- Juggernaut is now more likely to use Omnisliash in teamfights, particularly when he thinks he can get all slashes on heroes.
- Bots will no longer purchase items during the hero pick phase of the game.
- Bots will no longer use any of their abilities on Passive difficulty.
- Made Windrunner bot slightly more likely to use Powershot when ganking, and less likely to use Windrun for non-panic retreats.
- Fixed bug that, under certain hero combinations, could cause lane selection to thrash.
- Improved the Team Roam behavior, they should no longer clump up and get stuck, and should deal with any creeps attacking them.
- Increased bot sensitivity to human pings for pushing and defending.
- Increased range at which a non-carry bot will defer last-hitting to a carry bot. Non-hard-carries will now also defer to hard carries.

Apr 25, 2012

Gotham City Impostors Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Change Log:
• Added a new game mode called Bounty Hunter.
• Added a new map called East End.
• Added mute/unmute functoinality in the matchmaking lobby.
• Added the ability to select specific localized voice to be played from player.
• Added that costume coins do not reset when promoting.
• Added that the BO Sniffer now detects Toxic Gas.
• Fixed players getting stuck in their own matchmaking lobby.
• Fixed issue with showing “Load failed” multiple times when content download fails.
• Fixed issue with Double XP consumable not showing consistently.
• Fixed crashed with vote skipping while in a party.
• Fixed problem with using Toxic Gas after spring boots
• Fixed missing WBID awards after having stats restored.
• Fixed weapon skins unlocks showing incorrect skin.
• Fixed Costume Coins incorrectly labeled as Funny Money.
• Fixed problems with mascots not animating.
• Fixed problems with player save information getting lost, causing progression to start all over.
• Fixed problem with lobby host leaving a dedicated server game causing join in progress players getting blocked.
• Fixed party clients getting stalled when joining in progress.
• Fixed various psych profile not awarded proper bonus points.
• Fixed crash associated with Live services going down.
• Fixed purchasing a Black Market item incorrectly automatically equipping the item.
• Fixed Costume items that cost over 2000 not displaying correctly.
• Fixed some text overruns in localized languages.
• Fixed some issues with displaying icons on muted players.
• Fixed issues with timer not showing sometimes when joining in progress.
• Fixed issue with timer counting down by two in matchmaking.
• Fixed long loading screen if party members idle and are removed.
• Fixed incorrect messages played when an enemy attacked a neutral fumigation point.
• Fixed issues with joining a game in progress during the last minute.
• Fixed problems with team names at beginning of 2nd and subsequent rounds.
• Improved matchmaking to cycle to new lobbies if below a certain number of players and favor fuller lobbies.