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Patch Notes
Added Medusa!
Gameplay
- Witch Doctor: Fixed
Aghanim's Death Ward attacking Familiars and other pseudo heroes. - Doom: Scorched Earth now only applies damage from Doom himself, not all the units affected by his aura.
- Pudge: Fixed being able to get units stuck using
Refresher. - Keeper of the Light: Fixed Recall interaction with non-hero units.
UI
- Added a Haste button to the courier HUD element.
- Added Mid Only game mode for private lobbies (disables other lanes and allows the same hero to be selected).
- The Announcer Share dialog has been replaced with a Shared Content dialog.
- Added a badge to the top bar to count the available shared items.
- If shared content is available in a game, a message is now printed pregame.
- Added Balanced Shuffle button to non-tournament private lobbies.
- Added All Chat private lobby option for enabling voice chat among all players.
- Fixed "Equip" appearing in the right click menu for some chests.
Audio
- Fixed hearing the wrong announcer after equipping a new item in the loadout.
- Fixed bugs with muting cobroadcasters causing other sounds to be muted.
Bots
- The bots are now less likely to push with more heroes than what they deem necessary (less 5-man Dota). Probably needs some tuning.
- Made bots slightly less self-concerned when considering defending an ally. Also made them more likely to jump in if they have a slow or stun.
- Bots that are capable of jungling during the laning phase may now do so.
- If purchasing an item from the Secret Shop would complete an item, desire for going there is now increased.
- When their next item is purchasable, their desire to farm is significantly reduced.
- Fixed bad tuning that was causing bots to almost never farm lanes.
- Improved bot responsiveness to pings on Roshan.
- Bots are now less likely to assume that humans will purchase Wards.
Update 2
- Fixed Armlet and Power Treads interaction.
- Added missing percent in tooltip.
- Added bot info (hero type and laning preferences) for Medusa.
- Greatly reduced the frequency of Medusa saying her lines for activating Mana Shield.
- Fixed Split Shot not working on illusions.
- Hid the courier haste button when dead.
- The returning state button is now clickable.
- Updated Medusa portrait.
- Raised Medusa healthbar.
- Updated Medusa hitboxes.
Update 3
- Fixed Mystic Snake incrementing mana steal rates from units without mana.
- Fixed Mystic Snake jumps not having vision.
- Fixed Mystic Snake stealing from units that died in route.
- Fixed Split Shot sometimes only hitting 4 targets.
- Fixed Split Shot reducing damage too much.
- Fixed Split Shot not always picking the closest units.
- Fixed Rot to stack.
Update 4
- Updated Medusa effects for Mana Shield and Mystic Snake.
- Fixed multiple Pudges stacking Rot.
- Fixed Scorched Earth effect coming from controlled units.
- Fixed Stone Gaze not refreshing its duration on targets when used with Refresher.
- Fixed Split Shot not upgrading damage if toggled on when the ability is upgraded.
- Fixed Mana Shield to do its shielding before armor reduction.
- Fixed Mana Shield to not applyto HP loss.
- Fixed Split Shot working while under Doom.
- Fixed Split Shot firing on ethereal units.
- Fixed Split Shot search area being incorrect.
- Fixed Mystic Snake not stealing mana on dying heroes.
- Fixed Mystic Snake not giving vision on snake return.
Update 5
- Potential fix to Mana Shield graphical bug.
- Updated Mystic Snake effect.