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Sources
Source: Dota 2 Update - July 26th, 2012
Patch Notes
Highlights
- Added Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light, and Visage and enabled in Captain's Mode!
- Added a cooldown to being able to find a match when a player declines or abandons a game.
- Added notification for when a Tournament has a live game currently running.
Gameplay
- Beastmaster:
- Naga Siren:
- Fixed Dust of Appearance not working against units slept by Song of the Siren.
- Fixed Ice Blast debuff not getting added to units slept by Song of the Siren.
- Fixed Weave not affecting units slept by Song of the Siren.
- Phantom Lancer:
- Fixed Doppelwalk illusions not correctly replicating their inventory item slots.
- Rubick:
- Fixed Wild Axes being left around when another ability is stolen.
- Sand King:
- Neutrals can now be damaged by Sand Storm.
- Templar Assassin:
- Fixed Meld initial attack doing too much damage.
- Slardar:
- Fixed Bash working while doomed.
- Neutrals damaged by an invisible enemy will now try to run away.
Spectating
- Multiple tweaks to director events and framing.
- Fixed particle effects sometimes not drawing while in Player Perspective mode.
UI
- Added notification for when a Tournament has a live game currently running.
- The kill card now shows a randomly selected item that the killer is wearing. Also reduced its size.
- Fixed equipping an item in the backpack not jumping to the correct hero in the loadout
- Added Buyback to the spectating stats dropdown.
- Added a cooldown for being able to find a match when a player declines or abandons a game.
- Fixed Storm Spirit Mega-Kill announcer having the incorrect equip slot.
Visuals
- Fixed Rubick retaining incorrect skins from stolen abilities when returning to his normal model.
- Meld damage display is now only shown for successful hits.
Bots
- Significant revision of how bots determine their strategic desires.
- Roshan desire has been significantly reworked. It's now based on how quickly Roshan can be killed given the available heroes and how quickly enemies can show up.
- Evasion desire is now more granular. Things like Blade Fury now cause a range of evasion desire based on the bot's current health.
- Fixed case where bots were trying to path to an invalid location when defending their base.
- Made bots more aggressive about attacking when defending a lane.
- Cleaned up inferred human modes for pushing and defending lanes.
- Made bots less concerned about distance when considering an attack on a pinged target.
- Fixed bug that made pinged towers less likely to attract allied bots that were doing other high*priority stuff.
- Tuned retreat desire values when hurt and close to the fountain.
- Made bots somewhat more likely to buy a flying courier.
Workshop
- Added a new Import Wearable option to the Publish New Item section of the in*game workshop UI. It will compile, validate, and preview your model before you submit it. When submitting, it also packs the files into a format that makes it much easier for us to bring it into the game.
Undocumented Changes
- Updated Batrider's textures.
- Updated Crystal Maiden's textures.
- Added spawn animations for the following heroes:
- Added teleport start and end animations for the following heroes:
- Added Haste Rune Run animations for the following heroes:
- Added the following animations to Night Stalker:
- Injured Run
- Injured Idle
- Victory & Defeat
- Updated Phantom Assassin's minimap icon to reflect her updated model.
- Updated quite a few item icons
- You can now see if your friends are viewing a Tournament game.
- You can now see how many casters (if any) are broadcasting a game from the audio channel button.
- Added a new Tournament Item: