Upd -> Add new game mechanics to run play
-change playmaker to closest after every round

Upd -> Add new game mechanics to pass play
-if playmaker in zone- change playmaker to closest to target
-if playmaker on blitz - if is blocked, change to closest to target
change action to man enable commbox

Upd --> quaterback -increase look around radius -on throw acitvate playmaker; player to intercept
Upd --> new custom scene pick color of helmet, figure
Upd --> static game clock under 2 min, normal game clock over, added time out
Upd --> added info line to players,
Upd --> new battle calculation by action
Fix --> better tackle angle
Fix --> more reasonable play calling

New level variants
Fixed bugs

As Spring blooms to life around us, it transports us here on the Dota team to the springs of yore, when the world was new and vibrant. Who could forget climbing that old oak tree by the bridge? Or stealing carrots and turnips from cranky old Farmer Maggot? Or taking that ring to Mordor, and casting it into the fiery pits of Mount Doom where it was forged?

That last part of our spring memory trilogy is especially relevant today, since we’ve uncovered another priceless treasure. And this time it’s too good to throw into a volcano.

The Spring 2024 Seasonal Treasure is here and available for purchase with shards. This treasure features all new sets for Disruptor, Dark Willow, Spectre, Chaos Knight, Doom, Earth Spirit, Underlord, and Nyx Assassin. There's also a chance to unlock the Sir Molestach Irondrill courier, who arrives in the lanes bearing random prismatic and ethereal gems.

We've also taken sets that were available in the Summer Treasure 2022 and made them available for direct purchase for 15,000 shards each as part of the collection of legacy sets in the Shard Shop.

Today’s update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure — offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.



In addition to the Dota+ content, today's update introduces a set of experimental features available to all Dota players, and a new way for us to ship experiments like them: Dota Labs. (We had fun coming with names like "Unstable Concoctions" and "Tinker's Tinkerings" but ultimately decided we'd rather have the name be boring and clear and the features themselves be interesting.)

If you load up your options menu, you'll see a new tab with the Dota Labs label. Features here are experimental, and less polished than many other features we ship, so they're all in a special menu and disabled by default. These are features where our playtesting has produced mixed or ambiguous data. We can't really know if they're good or how to make them better without seeing real Dota players using them, so we're shipping them in an earlier form on purpose so you can tell us whether they're worth continuing to invest in.

The initial set of Dota Labs features includes:

• Overlay Map. It's sort of just like the minimap, but it's large instead of small, and transparent instead of solid, and is full-screen instead of being isolated to the corner. We have a bunch of questions, including but not limited to: Is it helpful for your playstyle? How do you interact with it? What do you wish it did?
  
  
• Modifier Key Filter Bindings. Targeting commands in chaotic environments can be challenging, and misclicks can be devastating. Dota does the best it can with your inputs, but sometimes it really does look like you wanted to Laguna Blade that creep. This new feature allows you bind modifier keys that, when held, will force your target selection to enemies, allies, creeps or heroes. Which targeting methods are the most and least useful in practice? What are we missing?
  
  
• High-Visibility Local Hero Healthbar. Dota teamfights can be hectic, and sometimes in the chaos it's hard to keep track of your hero. This option significantly changes the styling and readability of only your hero's nameplate. Does this help, or does it introduce even more visual chaos?

We fully expect that some of these features (or future Dota Labs ideas) will mature and graduate out, while others may be retired. Which are which depends on you.

Some of you reading this are probably excited about trying these features out, but worried about whether we'll continue to use them moving forward. "The last time you introduced a new named Dota thing, you called it Between the Lanes, and it's been some months since you last posted one of those." You're right! We figure the best way to make the point that we're planning to continue to invest long-term here is to continue to invest long-term there as well, so: Enjoy today's Between the Lanes as well.

Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota.

This is a story about the internet, and how it doesn’t work like it should, when it works at all, except when it doesn’t. It’s a story about how the internet stopped working for our customers, and how we fixed it.

The internet is more of a wild frontier than we give it credit for being. Stray from the safe confines of your two-factor identification and trusted cookies, and it can be a bit of a wilderness out there, full of random trolls with the maliciousness—and, increasingly, the ability—to make your life pretty miserable for no other reason than because they can.

Back in 2014, the method those trolls were using was distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “Distributed” refers to a large number of internet hosts maliciously flooding a particular target IP with traffic in an effort to overwhelm the network stack. This is called a volumetric attack, and the intent isn’t to try to get into the network. It’s just trying to deny service. A distributed denial of service means that legitimate people who want legitimate service are crowded out by the bad traffic.

The problem with DDoS attacks was that, by late 2014, they weren’t being committed by data-exfiltrating super-hackers with advanced computer science degrees. They were being committed by just about anybody who wanted to pay a service or a bot to do it for them. And it’s pretty obvious why. Although some people were happy to do it purely for vandalism’s sake, others had a motive: A DDoS attack was a surefire way to shut down a match that either you or someone you were rooting for were losing. This wasn’t just an occasional irritation anymore. It was turning into an outright assault on any game where players competed.

By the opening months of 2015, we were seeing a huge uptick in DDoS attacks on Dota and CS:GO, with other companies reporting a huge jump as well. Someone had, very suddenly, made it very easy for anyone to do this.

In August 2015, The International was disrupted with DDoS attacks. Although the pros playing the match weren’t affected, for more than two hours, the broadcasters couldn’t get into the matches to give play-by-play and color commentary. Sending out the stream as a TV broadcast became an issue. The players were suddenly playing in a void. This was a professional gaming event with millions watching and millions of dollars on the line, and it was being disrupted by random people with five-dollar software. It was a problem Valve couldn’t ignore.


We tried several solutions to deal with DDoS attacks before we arrived at one that worked. Initially, we attempted to filter the traffic with a powerful network switch. Unfortunately, this type of filtering is inherently difficult to do with game traffic. It is the nature of game servers to receive unsolicited UDP (User Datagram Protocol) traffic from arbitrary IP addresses. Imagine you had a post office that weeded out unwanted junk mail for you. But now imagine your job is as an advice columnist, and you receive tons of legitimate mail from random strangers all the time. For you, the post office doesn't know what's junk mail and what isn't. That's how traffic to game servers tends to look. Furthermore, the source IP in UDP packets is not secured, and can be easily spoofed. Our post office cannot even look at the return address on the envelope for clues, because the senders of junk mail forge that.

Steam delivers a lot of bits for game content, and has built up a large network for doing so. We were already taking advantage of this network to deliver game traffic over dedicated links, obtaining good peering, ensuring that networking engineering best practices were used, etc. This kept player ping times low, but did not protect against DDoS attack. The problem is that UDP protocols are not secure, so while we had our own network, it wasn't private.

To prevent attackers from using our own network to attack our servers, we needed to control all the entrances and secure them. We accomplished this by creating proxies for game traffic, routing every single packet of data transmitted across the network through relays. Now when a client wanted to talk to a game server, it had to do so through a relay that both authenticated it and proxied that traffic to the game server. This meant the IP address of the server was always hidden—the attacker simply had no idea where to attack.

To re-use our antiquated post office metaphor from earlier, our spammer no longer had an address to send junk mail to. They could send it to every post office in the area and ask them to mail it, but without authorization, that post office isn’t going to. (Moreover, that post office would find it a little suspicious that someone was trying to send a single person 100,000 letters.)


But couldn’t you just attack the relay? Technically, you could. But we have an essentially limitless number of them, and we built them to be attacked. A “relay” is just another word for a computer running software. You can attack it or take it offline, but the protocol was designed with that assumption in mind. If a client is trying to play a game and loses contact with a relay, it just switches to another. Relays are like hundreds of pawns scattered around the world with the singular purpose of guarding the game server. (Incidentally, taking out a relay is harder than it sounds. They’re engineered pretty well and positioned in a specific part of the network, so although they were built to be taken offline, we haven’t lost one yet.)

The solution was straightforward but effective. Before, if someone wanted to disrupt a game, they could just overpower a single game server (a very low bar to clear). Now they had to overpower essentially the entire data center—a much, much, much higher bar. Are there attacks that could still accomplish this? Of course. Are there attacks that can do this that anyone online could buy for five dollars? No. An attack this sophisticated was officially out of the price range of most people.

With this new system up and running, we had an epiphany: If we controlled our own private network, we wouldn’t be beholden to how the normal internet works. We could use it to make the customer experience even better. With the normal internet, when you send a packet from one IP address to another, the route you use is determined by Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This is a routing algorithm that decides how your packet will travel across a network, and you have no choice in the route it picks.

But with a virtual private network composed of hundreds of global relays and data centers, we could essentially choose our own route from the client to the game server—often a faster shortcut than the default route. If you’re using Steam Datagram Relay (SDR), the Steam overlay will show your ping time and what route we’re giving you, so you can see for yourself how it gets optimized.


A feature that started as a way to protect Dota game servers has grown past what anyone could have expected. The SDR network routinely delivers as much as 140M packets and 550GBit per second. We have relays in 31 data centers with a capacity of over 5TBit. What we now call the Steam Datagram Relay not only protects against DDoS attacks, but also increases connectivity and lowers ping for every Dota customer. And it doesn’t just do this for Dota, but for any game on Steam that wants to take advantage of it.

We hope you enjoyed another peek between the lanes of Dota. This was a pretty technical one, thanks for hanging in there for it! And feel free to let us know what you’d like us to cover next.

Increased AI Hitbox size slightly
Fixed Goblin Spawning under the floor in Cave
Increased Time on Several Events
Significantly reduced Goblin spawns in fort.
Fixed Bug where Earring in first slot didn't display
Reduced Stun Consistency and Frequency
Added Warpog Postules to the Loot table of Warpogs instead of Skinning Corpse only
Cut Falling Damage in Half
Fixed several issues with Interface hotkeys
Removed banks, fixes need to be put into place.

Version: Rocket League v2.36
Platforms: Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
Scheduled Release: 3/05/2024, 4 p.m. PST / 3/06/2024, 12 a.m. UTC

• Additional patch notes will be posted when Season 14 begins on March 6 at 8 a.m. PST / 4 p.m. UTC

Play Menu Update

• Added new animations and icons to the Casual Card in the Play Menu
  
  • Dueling Arcade: A small “VS” icon will appear in the lower left corner of Dueling Arcade Cards
    
  • LTMs (Limited Time Modes): A small golden wheel appears in the lower left corner of LTM cards
    
  • The Play Menu will call out which Dueling Arcade Playlists or LTMs are active in the upper left corner

New Arena Variant

• The new Arena variant AquaDome (Salty Shallows) is now live in Private Matches, Exhibition Matches, and Free Play

McLaren 765 LT

• The McLaren 765 LT is now fully customizable!
  
• If you own the McLaren 765 LT, the following Common Decals have been added to your inventory:
  
  • Geofade
    
  • Lightning
    
  • Tigerclaw
    
  • Stripes
    
  • Techy

• Fixed a bug blocking data from populating on the in-game League Rankings page
  
• Fixed a bug causing your last highlighted selection to be forgotten when navigating away from the Play Menu
• Fixed ability to concede and abandon LTM matches
  
  • When abandoning a match, matchmaking bans will apply if applicable
• Fixed the countdown timer on LTM details page
  
• [Tournaments] In a 1v1 tournament, fixed a bug causing a ban message to appear in error after a player abandons the match
  
• Whistling Birds and Seismic Charge Goal Explosions should now be usable with any Car Body
  
• Under Manage Inventory, RLCS items should now follow Team Edition sorting rules.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing the Zigzag Decal from appearing in the Decals menu
  
• Changed the name of several Avatar Borders:
  
  • Dragon Flame (Season 13 Rocket Pass) is now "Dragon's Breath Ca"
    
  • Tatsu (Season 12 Rocket Pass) is now "Dragon's Breath Li"
    
  • Dragon’s Breath (Season 9 Rocket Pass) is now "Dragon's Breath K

• [Steam] Fixed appearance of button symbols for PlayStation controller users when Steam Controller Settings are set to either "Use Default Settings" or "Enable Steam Input"

For a complete list of known issues in Rocket League, go here

Hello, Heroes of Bermesiah!


<Event>
1. Seal Breaker Coordi Encore Event (March 6th 00:00 - March 26th 23:59 (UTC+0))

- Marionette

- Spring Messenger & Fairy

2. Chaser Expedition Event in Progress
- Players can undergo Aernas Great Exploration to receive rewards based on Expedition Rank and Total Exploration Progress.
- Players can log in to complete Chaser Expedition Attendance Log and receive Raid Dungeon Entry Ticket, Single Stat Change Scroll, Single Stat Drop Protection Scroll, GP Item Property Scroll, Coordi Fusion Scroll, Special Reinforcement Release Scroll, and other various rewards.
- Players can complete Chaser Expedition Weekly Chain Missions to receive GP Item Property Scroll, Dungeon Entry Ticket Box, Coordi Fusion Scroll, +30 Bag, and other various rewards.
- Exploration Rewards will be sent by mail. Certain items for Exploration Reward cannot be moved to the warehouse. Please carefully choose the character to receive the Exploration Reward.


<Banned Players Notice>
Number of players banned for using and/or promoting hack tools: 61 (Permanent Bans)


We will strive to create the best experience possible.
Thank you.

Solve the puzzle and collect your unique Flash Badge ːHintTokenː

Remember once it's gone it's GONE!

Enjoy!

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Improvement in some aspects (sounds, puzzles, objects)
Improved ice puzzle

Welcome Heroes, The Land of Lightwell is once again opening.
Set within the SHADOW REDEMPTION universe, Blessing Quest shares the stories once hidden in time.

Behold the first edition in the series, where you play as the Elven.

**IMPORTANT NOTICE**
This first test will not be through the STEAM app, instead, a link will be generated to our Discord
https://discord.gg/bzS6RUXut5
under #BQ-ALPHA which approved testers will be able to view
MAY 3RD 2024.

The actual test will be the weekend of MAY 4TH-5TH 2024.
Future testing phases will resume through STEAM after the initial client is perfected.

This first Phase will be playable up to level 10. Content past this point will not be fully-functioning, similar to how SHADOW REDEMPTION Phase 1 was.


There are many different ways to play the game with 5 distinct classes;

Sentinel -


Paladin -


Priest -


Druid -


Summoner -



Within Lightwell, the money system is Copper, Silver and Gold.
You have numerous Mounts and Pets that can be bought with gold earned in-game, rarely dropped from certain creatures or earned.

There are two skills you can learn:

Alchemy -


Fishing -


Additionally, you can earn Titles that display above your character, as well as your character panel.



FAQ:

HOW DO I GET INTO ALPHA PHASE 1?

You can gain access by joining our new Discord: https://discord.gg/bzS6RUXut5
After being accepted, you will receive a personalized Alpha ID and Alpha Key that will grant you login access during this phase only. Future phases will have different credentials and requirements.

WILL I GET A REWARD FOR PARTICIPATING?

Since BQ is singeplayer, server connection is not unique to the individual client. Meaning, if a few individuals are given access to a specific item that is only intended for Alpha Testers, any client would be able to obtain it. It would take one person sharing their code to ruin the idea entirely.
With this in mind, no, there will not be a specific reward in-game for participating.
However, you will be considered highly for future testing phases above new applicants since BQ is in such early development.

HOW DO I WORK FOR TGOTHIC GAMES?

There are no careers with TGOTHIC GAMES at this time. Keep an eye out next year and the following years for open positions in respective fields: [GM-SERVER ONLY], [WEBSITE COMMUNITY MANAGER], [DISCORD COMMUNITY MANAGER], [GM-EMAIL ONLY].