Unreleased content

Unreleased Hero status
These are heroes that are currently in a moderately advanced state of development by Valve and should be released "soon". Note: The heroes are ranked in order of state of development present in Dota 2 beta files, not in order of release.

Ranking is: alpha, beta, polished, finished. Most other heroes have only extremely crude icons and avatars. Particles status is highly subjective.

Captain's Mode
The following unreleased heroes are available in Captain's Mode in DotA:, , , and.

The following unreleased heroes are unavailable in Captain's Mode in DotA:.
 * Note this does not imply that these heroes will be immediately available in Captain's Mode in Dota 2 once they are released.

Miscellaneous

 * Game modes playable in Dota 1:
 * Death Match - If you die, you will have to pick a new hero before you can respawn.
 * Easy Mode - Towers are weaker, experience is gained faster, and you get more periodic gold.
 * TagTeam - You are assigned two random heroes (different hero classes). You choose which to start the game with. You start with the same bonus gold as all random.
 * Achievements
 * The ability to join "ongoing games that are missing players"
 * The ability to replace missing players with bots (currently only in Limited Heroes)
 * Custom games