Courier/Changelogs

Overview

 

Changelogs

 

Version history

Version

Description

7.21

• Increased Flying Courier movement speed from 460 to 470.

7.15

• Animal Courier
  • Reduced gold bounty from 175 to 125.
  • Reduced team gold bounty from 175 to 125.

7.10

• Increased Flying Courier movement speed from 450 to 460.

7.09

• Reduced Animal Courier gold cost from 200 to 50.

7.07

• Animal Courier
  • Now automatically upgrades into a Flying Courier upon reaching the 3rd minute mark of the game, instead of requiring a 150 gold cost item.
  • Increased restock time from 180 to 36000 seconds.
  • Can no longer be sold or destroyed.
  • Increased gold cost from 100 to 200.
  • Increased movement speed from 350 to 380.
• Couriers can no longer refill Bottle.
• Couriers are no longer slowed by non-full Bottles by 30%.
• Flying Courier
  • Increased movement speed from 430 to 450.
  • Removed the Speed Burst ability.
  • Added a new ability: Shield

Shield:

Summons a protective shield around the courier.

Duration: 2

Cooldown: 200

Notes: Turns the courier invulnerable for the duration.

6.87

• Reduced Animal Courier respawn time from 140 to 120. [?]
• Reduced Flying Courier gold cost from 200 to 150. (Flying Courier total cost from 300 to 250).

6.86

• Animal Courier
  • Increased stock cooldown from 7 to 120 seconds.
  • Reduced gold cost from 120 to 100.
• Reduced Flying Courier gold cost from 220 to 200 (Flying Courier total cost from 340 to 300).

6.84

• Reduced Flying Courier vision range from 400 to 300.
• Increased Speed Burst speed from 650 to 800.

6.83

• Reduced animal Courier gold cost from 150 to 120 (Flying Courier total cost from 370 to 340).

6.82

• Flying Courier
  • Now take 50% extra damage from melee attacks.
  • Increased movement speed from 350 to 430.
• Speed Burst
  • Increased speed from 522 to 650.
  • Reduced duration from 20 to 4.
  • Increased cooldown from 40 to 90.

6.81

• Reduced Animal Courier respawn time from 180 to 140. [?]

6.80

• Reduced Animal Courier team gold bounty from 175 to 150. [?]

6.79

• Animal Courier
  • Increased movement speed from 300 to 350.
• Increased health from 45 to 75.
• Flying Courier now has a 180 seconds restock time and starts with 0 stock count.

6.78

• Couriers no longer block neutral creeps from spawning.
• Couriers are now slowed by 30% when they carry an empty Bottle.

6.74

• Reduced Animal Courier gold cost from 170 to 150.
• Reduced Flying Courier gold cost from 200 to 220. [?]
• Increased Courier team gold bounty from 150 to 175.
• The team gold bounty can now only trigger while no other couriers of that team are dead.
• Added the Go To Secret Shop ability, which causes the courier to move to the secret shop on its team's side of the map.

6.73b

• Couriers are now invulnerable near their fountain. [?]

6.73

• Animal Couriers are now spell immune like Flying Couriers.
• Removed the Courier Shield ability from Flying Couriers.
• Couriers no longer drop items when they die.
• Couriers now respawn 3 minutes after death, the items they have are inaccesible during that time.
• Couriers now give 150 gold to each enemy player, instead of 300 only to the killer.

6.70

• Consumable Items no longer automatically fuse with the ones owned by other players in the couriers' inventory. [?]

6.69

• Animal Couriers now automatically upgrade to Flying Couriers when the recipe is bought, instead of requiring to put it in its inventory.
• Couriers are now able to hold Gem of True Sight. [?]

6.68

• Reduced animal Courier gold cost from 200 to 170 (Flying Courier total cost from 400 to 370).
• Added the Retrieve Items ability, which causes the courier to pick up all the hero's items within range.

6.60

• Added the Return to Base ability, which causes the courier to move back to the team's fountain.
• Added the Transfer Items ability, which causes the courier to deliver items to the hero and then return to the fountain automatically.

6.58

• Animal Couriers now spawn 175 units in front of the hero rather than on top of the hero.

6.57

• Reduced animal Courier gold cost from 225 to 200 (Flying Courier total cost from 425 to 400).

6.55

• Couriers can no longer place Observer and Sentry Wards.
• Added the Return Items ability, which causes the courier to return to the base and drop all items from its inventory to the respective power circles.
• Buying the recipe again no longer grants the Flying Courier 400 mana.

6.52

• Couriers are no longer allowed to pick up the Aegis of the Immortal.
• Couriers are no longer allowed to buy Observer Wards from the enemy shop.

6.50

• Couriers can now disassemble items.
• Fixed couriers being able to use Town Portal Scrolls.
• Flying Courier
  • No longer have a 400 mana pool by default.
  • Buying the recipe again now grants the Flying Courier a 400 mana pool.

6.47

• Added an ability to the couriers which allows changing the courier's model to any of the other models.
• Fixed a bug when killing heroes with a Flying Courier.

6.45

• Flying Courier's Courier Shield now gets dispelled when the courier enters the enemy's fountain area.

6.44

• Animal Courier
  • Model is now different for Sentinel/Scourge. [?
• Flying Courier
  • Model is now different for Sentinel/Scourge. [?
  • No longer requires Boots of Speed to build (total cost from 925 to 425).
  • Reduced vision range from 1800/800 to 400/400.
  • Added the Courier Shield ability

Courier Shield:

An impenetrable shield surrounds this unit, protecting it from all damage and spells.

Duration: 7

Mana cost: 25

Cooldown: 20

Notes: Turns the courier invulnerable for the duration.

6.42

• Couriers can no longer sell items.

6.38

• Animal Couriers can now be upgraded into flying couriers.

Recipe: Animal Courier (225), Boots of Speed (500), Flying Courier recipe (200)

Total cost: 925

To upgrade an already spawned courier, place the recipe and Boots of Speed into the courier's inventory and press the upgrade button.

Effects:

Grants flying movement and increases movement speed from 300 to 350.

Grants spell immunity.

Grants Speed Burst: Grants the courier maximum movement speed (522) for 20 seconds. 50 mana cost, 40 seconds cooldown.

Increases health from 45 to 150 and mana from 0 to 400.

Increases armor from 0 to 10 and changes armor type from medium to unarmored.

Grants flying vision and increases vision from 350/350 to 1800/800.

6.32b

• Removed the ability.

6.32

• Added the ability, which causes the courier to drop all items from its inventory.

6.25

• Couriers are now ancient type units.

6.20

• A player may now have more than 1 courier again.
• Reduced courier collision size from [ Info Needed ] to 0.
• Couriers can no longer be Tossed.
• Couriers can no longer be targeted by Nightmare, Sacrifice and Death Pact.

6.19

• Couriers can no longer be targeted with Toss.

6.10

• A player may now only own 1 courier.

6.03

• Created.

Patch history

Patch

Description

15 Feb 2018

• Fixed the Turbo mode courier trying reacting on enemy items in its inventory and spamming deliver every second.
• Fixed The Turbo mode courier trying to deliver Gem of True Sight, Bloodstone and Divine Rapier while not having a free slot for them.
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  Fixed the Turbo mode courier reacting on directional move orders and patrol orders.

01 Feb 2018

• Added a new button to the HUD which makes the courier resume its previous delivery if it was canceled by another player.
• The courier upgrade button in the HUD now shows the time remaining for the automatic upgrade.
• When the courier's delivery fails due to the hero dying, the courier now automatically puts the items in the hero's stash after having returned to the fountain.
• Fixed ALT-clicking on items in the courier saying "ready", instead of "on courier".
• Added ALT-click support on dead couriers to announce their respawn time.
• Fixed some rare cases where items wouldn't combine when arriving from the courier.
• Fixed Shield's legacy hotkey (R->C).
• Fixed couriers being unable to put items into the stash while carrying a non-full Bottle.
• Fixed Turbo mode courier not delivering stackable or combinable items when the inventory is full but the items would stack or combine.
• Fixed the Turbo mode courier's permanent invulnerability and haste speed being dispellable.

12 Dec 2016

• Updated all of the courier's ability icons.

05 Oct 2016

• Added item lore.

31 Mar 2016

• Fixed the courier's spell immunity being purgeable.

24 Mar 2016

• Fixed seeing the courier die in an area after it has already been dead for a while when you hadn't seen it die originally.
• Fixed couriers losing track of their orders sometimes if they get purged.
• Fixed courier travelling deeper into the fountain than necessary in order to interact with the stash.
• Fixed a bug where several courier particle systems that occurred on death weren't playing correctly.
• Fixed turn poses, haste animations and hitboxes on more couriers.

17 Feb 2016

• Various courier fixes (hitbox adjustments, "haste" run activity fixes, etc.).

18 Feb 2015

• Couriers no longer morph when they move.

12 Feb 2015

• Fixed the courier sometimes failing to deliver items if the deliver key was pressed soon after an item was purchased.

29 Jan 2014

• Fixed Flying Courier purchase time in AP.