October 27, 2011 Patch

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 * source = http://store.steampowered.com/news/6638/
 * source-title = Dota 2 Update Released
 * before = 2011-10-20
 * after = 2011-11-03

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
 * notes =

Heroes

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 * Fixed a bug with Chilling Touch attack speed reduction display.
 * Fixed a recent bug with Ice Trail path debuff happening a little too early
 * Fixed Call of the Wild resummoning showing up as a deny.
 * Fixed Poison Sting from affecting Wards.
 * Fixed the wrong web sometimes getting removed when a new one is added.
 * Fixed the Spiderlings and Spiderite passive abilities working on buildings and mechanical units.
 * Fixed Spawn Spiderlings not being a projectile.
 * Fixed Insatiable Hunger being purgeable.
 * Fixed Insatiable Hunger bonus damage being considered as base damage.
 * Fixed Hookshot interaction with allied units and neutrals.
 * Fixed Hookshot not stunning magic immune units.
 * Fixed the Hookshot target sometimes being able to run away before he arrives.
 * Fixed cases where Hookshot would drop you to a lower level if your target was near a ledge
 * Enigma:
 * Fixed Greater Eidolon movement speed.
 * Fixed Dire Eidolon armor.
 * Fixed Chronosphere's interaction with various passives
 * Fixed Blade Dance working on wards.
 * Kunkka:
 * Fixed Torrent slow not lasting as long as it should.
 * Fixed X Marks The Spot ignoring Linken's Sphere
 * Fixed X Marks The Spot vision revealer not working.
 * Fixed Ghost Ship not having vision.
 * Fixed Ghost Ship's allied buff not reducing spell damage.
 * Fixed vision around Arrow when it impacts.
 * Fixed cases where Hook would drop the pulled target to a lower level if your target was near a ledge
 * Fixed bug in Shadow Strike slow falloff.
 * Fixed Scream of Pain not hitting units in fog of war
 * Fixed Shadow Strike not being castable on regular units
 * Fixed Scream of Pain not hitting invisible units.
 * Fixed Shadow Strike not allowing you to deny heroes.
 * Fixed Eye of the Storm not hitting invisible units.
 * Fixed Backstab working on mechanical units.
 * Fixed Smoke Screen working on Ancients.
 * Fixed the timing on Blink Strike damage.
 * Skeleton King:
 * Fixed Aegis not working on him once he levels up Reincarnation.
 * Fixed Vampiric Aura on mechanical units.
 * Fixed Vampiric Aura on denies.
 * Fixed sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.
 * Fixed Eye of the Storm not hitting invisible units.
 * Fixed Backstab working on mechanical units.
 * Fixed Smoke Screen working on Ancients.
 * Fixed the timing on Blink Strike damage.
 * Skeleton King:
 * Fixed Aegis not working on him once he levels up Reincarnation.
 * Fixed Vampiric Aura on mechanical units.
 * Fixed Vampiric Aura on denies.
 * Fixed sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.
 * Fixed Vampiric Aura on denies.
 * Fixed sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.
 * Fixed sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.

Gameplay

 * Fixed Heart of Tarrasque health regeneration from stacking.
 * Fixed various items and abilities not interrupting channeling when used
 * Fixed being able to revive a courier by upgrading it after it dies.
 * Fixed courier stopping in its position whenever the hero it's delivering items to teleports.
 * Fixed bug that caused illusions generated from a disconnected player to be controllable by the enemy team
 * Fixed Siege units being considered as heroes for Bloodbath's distance check
 * Fixed Chronosphere freezing other units you own
 * Fixed issue that caused issued commands to not be executed immediately.
 * Fixed a slight delay on many commands given to heroes.
 * Fixed Monkey King Bar from proccing on towers.
 * Fixed bloodstone charges stopping at 30.
 * Fixed Armlet active bonus continuing after dropping the item.
 * Fixed Creep Stats resetting after reaching 500.
 * Fixed gold bounty values on creeps after that lane's barracks is down.
 * Fixed Necronomicon not killing its previous units when used again (from Refresher, Tinker's Rearm, etc).
 * Fixed Necronomicon Mana Burn ignoring Linken's Sphere
 * Fixed Fountain mana regeneration being too slow
 * Enabled Broodmother, Skeleton King and Queen of Pain in Captain's Mode.
 * Fixed various stats on necronomicon units
 * Fixed Satyr Hellcallers to only consider units in its vision for deciding when to cast shockwave.
 * Fixed interaction with Roshan on Rocket Flare and Mana Void.
 * Fixed Heart, Urn of Shadows, and Dagger not being properly Disabled by Haunt.
 * Fixed a performance hitch when creating illusions.
 * Fixed towers not revearling invisible non-hero units (spiderlings, hawk, etc).
 * Wildkin Warchief's Tornado will now follow the target enemy you right-click instead of giving an error message.
 * Fixed Kobold Taskmaster HP.
 * Fixed Centaur Outrunner Armor and Damage.
 * Fixed Attack type on Centaur Chief.
 * Fixed small wolf's attack, armor and attack range.
 * Fixed Enraged Wildkin level and XP bounty.
 * Fixed Acquisition range on various neutrals.
 * Fixed various minor inconsistencies on unit stats.

UI

 * Added a commendation system, which allows you to commend players who made your game a happier experience, and report anyone being hostile. You can commend or report a player by clicking their name in the main menu, in-game scoreboard or end game score screen.
 * Added shop hotkey labels for shop category buttons.
 * Clicking or control clicking a unit now selects all units of that type onscreen instead of globally.
 * Player Perspective now shows shop and shop search text.
 * Tiny's Toss will now show an error message if he has nothing near him to toss when he reaches cast range.
 * When disarmed (Ghost Scepter, Decrepify, etc.), you can now right-click or attack-move-click on enemies to move toward them. The "Can't Attack" error will not appear until you reach attack range of the enemy.
 * Shift-queued orders that become invalid by the time they are executed will now show an error message.
 * Added an error message for when your shift-order-queue is full.
 * Fixed a problem where certain orders could be ignored if a player tried to execute them just before they became invalid, especially with a slow connection to the server. An appropriate error message will now be displayed in these cases.
 * Fixed losing key input when you search the shop with the chat up
 * Fixed a bug where you could swap a stash item with a channeling teleport scroll and still finish the teleport.
 * Fixed not being able to see your last hit gold effect through fog of war.
 * Fixed playing gold sound and visuals for things that give zero gold bounty.
 * Fixed a control group bug when Enchantress takes one of Chen's converted units.
 * Improved the accuracy of matchmaking parties of players. Note that this may increase party matchmaking wait time.
 * In matchmaking, servers are now selected before matches are ready.
 * Tooltip hover for hero stats and gold is more responsive.
 * HP Bars no longer lose some accuracy when the target is very low HP.
 * Fixed Necronomicon Level 2 & 3 Manaburn hotkey not working.
 * Added a new hotkey setting to select all units you own other than your hero (unbound by default).
 * Fixed the scoreboard and stats panels not updating while the game is paused.

Visuals

 * Added a specific minibash effect for extremely short stuns.
 * Updated Queen of Pain's base attack to better match her color scheme.
 * Updated shadow strike.
 * Fixed lifesteal effects not being owned by their owner which resulted in them not properly culling in fog of war.
 * Added Spell Block effect to Roshan.
 * Adjusted the tower projectile collision so that projectiles will actually reach towers before exploding.
 * Detailed outer cliffs.
 * Added falling rock lava splashes added to dire base background.
 * Added Dire side moths.

Audio

 * Frost Armor sound effect now plays when the buff is refreshed.
 * Added Broodmother's Spiderling's voice code.
 * Heroes can now talk while dead as long as they just want to comment on a Victory or Loss.
 * Fixed a bug that prevented heroes from commenting on a rune pickup.

Bots

 * Bots will now attack non-hero enemies.
 * Bots now want to attack couriers and Juggernaut Bot's Healing Ward.
 * Bots are now very unlikely to break off attacking when the target is stunned or slowed.
 * Bots will now buy dust/gem when playing against Sand King.
 * Increased the bonus-to-attack when a human pings a target.
 * Increased the impact of human pings for lane defends and pushes.
 * Fixed issue where tower pings from Dire players weren't working.
 * Pinging enemy heroes will also increase the desire for a Team Roam.
 * Tightened up the precision of pinging – bots should no longer think you're asking for a lane push when you ping on an enemy that's near a tower.
 * Bots now know to move to healing auras if they need some healing and aren't desperately retreating. Currently works with Juggernaut's Healing Ward and Witch Doctor's Restoration Aura.
 * Bots will now prioiritize interrupting units that are channeling.
 * Fixed a number of cases where bots were getting stuck trying to use an item on an invalid (magic immune, invulnerable, etc) target.
 * Improved bot target-selection logic for Eul's Scepter.
 * Improved bot Diffusal Blade usage – it will no longer cast it on retreating targets that have an incoming stun.
 * Improved Orchid usage – bots will now use it to break channels.
 * Improved Urn usage – bots will no longer worry about using it on allies that are being hit by creeps.
 * Bots now take damage on their own Barracks and Ancient much more seriously.
 * Bots are now better about defending the proper lane when in-base.
 * Bots should tunnelvision less on tower pushes when enemy heroes are nearby.
 * Slightly increased bot desire to attack the enemy Ancient.
 * Bots will no longer do Roshan when any lane needs to be defended.
 * Bots now announce when they're leaving Roshan.
 * Human players now need to be a bit further into a lane to claim it for laning purposes at the beginning of a game.
 * Bots should spam chat less about roaming and returning.
 * Bots should be much less likely to go for runes if a human with a bottle is on their team.
 * Fixed Tiny's build so he will use his final grow.
 * Fixed bug that was causing bots to be too timid late-game if they happened to be in a lane.
 * Decreased lane push desire when there are enemy heroes nearby.
 * Fixed a bug where bots didn't think they could purchase their next item if it would require selling an item.
 * Bots should be significiantly more likely to spot farming targets and roam to gank as a team.
 * Reduced spamminess of bot chat when pushing a lane.
 * Reduced bot willingness to tank a tower.
 * Slightly reduced the desire to push a tower when their potential co-pushers aren't nearby.
 * Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their flying courier uses shield.
 * Bots should be better about picking stuff up from base late-game when they don't have any more pressing desires.
 * Added Team Roam chat announcements.
 * Bots will no longer defer all runes to humans with bottles when all the human heroes are dead.
 * Increased attack desire when a number of nearby allies are attacking, which makes bots more decisive in teamfights.

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