December 07, 2018 Patch

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Sources

Source: Dota 2 Update - December 7th, 2018

Patch Notes

• Minor CPU performance improvements with certain types of art content.
• Reworked the Global Item Loadout page to make shuffling items easier to work with.
• Fixed Last Hit Trainer bugs.
• Various SFM improvements (material overrides, health bars, etc).
• Fountain damage now cancels effects similar to hero damage (e.g. salve, heart, blink), and now has 25% Accuracy (Note: This change was added in an update last week).

Economy

• Removed Action Item loadout slot.
• Rubick Arcana Leaks:
  • Referred to as a "Mantle" and uses the BACK slot.
  • Uses kill tracker gem.
  • Has postgame UI support.
  • Custom VO for all old lines.
  • New attack animations listed at the following intervals; 200: fast, 350: faster.
  • Back slot designated as the generating slot.
  • Added Rubick arcana progress tracker.

• An item slot can now be designated as the "Generating" slot.
• Inscribed Gems now consider if the user is in Turbo Mode or not.

Events

• Added Event Entry: Frostivus 2018
• Replaced the Nexon PC Bang scheme with "Perfect World Cyber Cafe".

Items

• Kindler's Kit: Reduced health regen from the aura from 5 to 0.
• Kindler's Kit: No longer uses the hero's cast animations when used.
• Fistful of Snowballs: No longer uses the hero's cast animations when used.
• Pile of Coal: No longer uses the hero's cast animations when used.
• Charming Celebration: No longer uses the hero's cast animations when used.

Others

• Added a "Color Gem color" property to projectile generators.
• Optimized a ton of particles for most heroes.
• New Unit Command: Show/Hide/Toggle Consumable Abilities (Similar to actions such as Move, Use Ability, Scan and Taunt)
• Added new languages:
  • Latin America Spanish
  • Vietnamese

Intern

• Dream Coil now uses a variable for its allowed targets, instead of being hardcoded.
• Dream Coil now uses a variable for its spell immunity interaction, instead of being hardcoded.
• Added a boolean variable to Savage Roar that allows switching between affecting only player units, and affecting all enemy units including lane and neutral creeps.
• Skewer now uses a variable for its allowed targets, instead of being hardcoded.
• Wukong's Command now uses a variable for its allowed targets, instead of being hardcoded.
• Minor fix to Ink Swell's cast animation when used by other heroes.