Changelogs
Version history
Version
Description
- Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
- Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
- Take Aim can now be activated to double the attack range bonus for one attack. Has a cooldown of 15/12/9/6 and a mana cost of 30. The cooldown starts upon performing the attack.
- Assassinate no longer pierces spell immunity.
- Headshot
- Headshot damage now pierces spell immunity. [?].
- Increased damage from 15/40/65/90 to 20/50/80/110.
- Increased Assassinate cast range from 2000/2500/3000 to 3000 on each level.
- Level 10 right talent: Increased cooldown reduction from 15% to 25%.
- Increased night vision range from 1100 to 1400.
- Reduced Assassinate mana cost from 175/275/375 to 175/225/275.
- Reduced movement speed from 290 to 285.
- Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
- Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
- Reworked talents:
- Old:
- New:
- Level 10: +20 attack damage or 12% cooldown reduction
- Level 15: +20 Shrapnel damage per second or +40 attack speed
- Level 20: -1.5s Assassinate cast time or Headshot applies 35 range knockback
- Level 25: +6 Shrapnel charges or +125 attack range
- Level 10 right talent: Increased mana regeneration bonus from 4 to 5.
- Added Aghanim's Scepter for Sniper: Turns Assassinate into an area target ability with 400 radius, targeting all enemy heroes and illusions in the area. Replaces the fixed 320/485/650 magical damage with an attack of Sniper, with a 280% critical strike and a 100% Headshot proc.
- Added talents:
- Increased turn rate from 0.6 to 0.7.
- Increased night vision range from 1000 to 1100.
- Reduced agility gain from 2.9 to 2.5.
- Shrapnel
- No longer ignores ancient creeps, Roshan and creep-heroes.
- Increased charge respawn time from 40 to 55.
- Increased effect delay from 0.8 to 1.4.
- Now starts giving vision after the effect delay, instead of instantly upon cast.
- Headshot can now miss.
- Reduced Assassinate damage from 355/505/655 to 320/485/650.
- Headshot now slows movement speed by 100% and attack speed by 100 for 0.5 seconds, instead of stunning for 0.25 seconds.
- Increased Shrapnel radius from 400 to 450.
- Fixed Sniper's acquisition range not matching his maximum attack range (Increased from 800 to 950).
- This affects his ability to auto attack units at his maximum range.
Shrapnel
- Now provides flying vision in the targeted area for its duration.
- Increased cast range from 1200 to 1800.
- Headshot
- Increased Assassinate cast range from 1500/2000/2500 to 2000/2500/3000.
- Increased night vision from 800 to 1000.
- Assassinate kills now grant Sniper experience, even when outside the experience radius.
- Replaced Scattershot with Shrapnel:
- Shrapnel:
- Fires a ball full of shrapnel into the air. which promptly explodes, showering the target area. Enemy units that walk in this area get damaged and slowed. Deals 30% damage to buildings.
- Cast range: 900
- Radius: 450
- Effect delay: 0.8
- Damage per second: 10/20/30/40
- Movement speed slow: 15%/20%/25%/30%
- Slow duration: 2
- Shrapnel duration: 10
- Mana cost: 120
- Cooldown: 15
- Notes: The slow gets refreshed on each damage interval.
- Reduced Assassinate cooldown from 30/20/10 to 20/15/10.
- Scattershot now provides flying vision within its area for a second.
- Reduced Scattershot damage per pellet from 10-35 to 20-35.
- Increased base intelligence from 12 to 15.
- Headshot can no longer proc on allied units.
- Increased Assassinate cooldown from 30/15/5 to 30/20/10.
- Increased Scattershot mana cost from 75/90/105/120 to 120 on each level.
- Increased base agility and gain from 26 + 1.9 to 28 + 2.4.
- Reduced damage per pellet from 14-40 to 10-35.
- Increased base agility from 21 to 26.
- Reduced base intelligence from 16 to 12.
- Fixed last hits made with Scattershot not being registered by things like Battle Hunger.
- Reduced attack projectile speed from instant to 3000 (instant was causing visual glitches).
- Restored the reworked Scattershot
- Reduced damage per pellet from 15-60 to 14-40.
- Reverted the Scattershot rework from the last patch (temporarily).
- Reduced movement speed from 300 to 290.
- Reduced agility gain from 2.7 to 1.9.
- Increased intelligence gain from 1.7 to 2.6.
- Increased attack projectile speed from 900 to instant.
- Reduced attack point from 0.7 to 0.17.
- Reworked Scattershot
- Old Scattershot:
- Fires an exploding shot, dealing moderate area of effect damage.
- Cast range: 700
- Radius: 250
- Damage: 100/150/200/250
- Mana cost: 75/85/95/105
- Cooldown: 6
- Notes: Destroys trees in its area. Applies a mini-stun on all enemy units within the area.
- New Scattershot:
- Fires a ball full of shrapnel into the air, which promptly explodes, showering the target area in explosive pellets, each doing a random amount of damage.
- Cast range: 900
- Radius: 350
- Number of pellets: 8/12/16/20
- Damage per pellet: 15-60 (physical)
- Mana cost: 75/90/105/120
- Cooldown: 13
- Notes: The effect is delayed by 0.8 seconds. Neither destroys trees, nor mini-stuns. Damages buildings as well.
Patch history
Patch
Description
- Updated Shrapnel's visual effect to show the total AoE better.
- Fixed Headshot damage going through spell immunity.
- Updated Workshop Hero Files of Sniper to Source 2.
- Fixed Shrapnel being refreshable.
- Fixed Sniper's acquisition range not matching his maximum attack range.
- This affects his ability to auto attack units at his maximum range.
- Fixed Backswing behavior for: Soul Rip, Tombstone, Cold Feet, Ice Vortex, Chilling Touch, Enfeeble, Shallow Grave, Thunder Strike, Kinetic Field, Static Storm, Malefice, Midnight Pulse, Howl, Stifling Dagger, Static Link, Shrapnel, Psionic Trap, Whirling Axes (Ranged), Storm Hammer, God's Strength, Wave of Terror, Venomous Gale, Shadow Word, Fatal Bonds, The Swarm, Time Lapse, Maledict, Lua error in Module:Ability_ID at line 61: Could not find Cargo data for "Overpower". and Ice Shards.
- Added victory animations and more aggressive posing of idle, run and attack when enemy is in range.
- Fixed Headshot not working on units like Spirit Bear, Warlock's Golem, etc.
- Fixed Shrapnel doing slightly less damage than intended to towers.
- Fixed Headshot's physical damage bonus being blocked by Magic Immunity.
- Pseudo Random chances are now enabled for these abilities:
- Phantom Assassin's Coup de Grace
- Slardar's Bash of the Deep
- Faceless Void's Time Lock
- Brewmaster's Drunken Brawler's critical strike
- Sniper's Headshot
- Juggernaut's Blade Dance
- Chaos Knight's Chaos Strike
- Lycan's Shapeshift's critical strike
- Skeleton King's Mortal Strike
- UBroken down a number of existing hero models into multiple parts Death Prophet, Enchantress, Huskar, Silencer, Sniper, Storm Spirit, Venomancer and Weaver.
- Added teleport start and end animations for Sniper, Spirit Breaker and Weaver.
- Added spawn animations for Sniper and Weaver.
- Fixed Headshot bonus proc damage working against Towers and Buildings.
- Fixed Headshot working while Doomed.
- Fixed Assassinate reveal debuff never disappearing if the target dodges it with a blink.
- Fixed Assassinate ministun interaction with BKB
- Sniper will only say his shrapnel line if he captures any heroes in the radius.
- Fixed Legacy hotkeys on Sniper and Earthshaker
- Fixed the cast time on Assassinate.
- Assassinate keeps units from going invisible.
- Fixing the duration on the Shrapnel's slow. It was hardcoded to 1.5 and now it is 2.0.
- Fixed Shrapnel slow not getting upgraded per level.
- Created.