April 19, 2013 Patch

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Sources

Source: Dota 2 Update - April 19th, 2013, Main Client Updated - 4/19 3:38PM PST, Main Client Updated - 4/19 5:55PM PST

Patch notes

• Added Skywrath Mage!

Community

• Added stricter system implementing communication (voice and text) bans for abusive players.
• Combined voice and text reports into a single 'communication' report.
• Reduced reports per week to 4.
• Removed ability for spectators to report players in-game.
• Reports now allow single selection of behavior type only.

Gameplay

• Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes losing vision after the second cast.
• Doom: Scorched Earth now shows its duration on the buff icon.
• Lich: Fixed Ice Armor auto-casting while Lich is channeling.
• Magnus: Fixed a rare crash involving Skewer.
• Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush not slowing attack speed.
• Spectre: Fixed Haunt illusions moving while out of the game.
• Timbersaw:
  • Timber Chain:
    • Fixed travelling too fast.
    • Fixed not latching quite far enough.
• Tusk: Fixed Tusk not issuing an attack order on the snowballed unit after the snowball crashes.
• Enabled Drow Ranger and Tusk to Captain's Mode (Tournament Version next week).

UI

• Added tab to the Watch section showing downloaded replay files.

Visuals

• Riki: Added Smoke Screen and Blink Strike animations.
• Sniper: Added victory animations and more aggressive posing of idle, run and attack when enemy is in range.

Bots

• Bots now know to avoid standing in Macropyre and Ice Path.

Workshop

• Added a button to the preview that allows you to test your imported model in-game, in a local server.

Update 2

• Fixed Captain's Mode hero selection.
• Anti-Mage: Fixed an issue where loadout of certain items would result in an error.
• Added missing Dire shopkeeper.
• Fixed Mirana's Sacred Arrow from doing maximum stun duration.

Update 3

• Fixed issue where private lobbies with passwords could not be found.