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 unavailable in Captain's Mode in DotA:, , and.

Miscellaneous

 * Game modes playable in Dota 1:
 * Easy Mode - Weaker Towers, increased experience gain, more periodic gold, and no gold lost upon death.
 * 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 Private Lobbies)
 * "Weekend tournaments".