July 25, 2012 Patch (Test)

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Sources

Source: Update Notes, Update 2, Update 3, Update 4, Update 5

Patch Notes

HIGHLIGHTS

• Added Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light, and Visage and enabled in Captain's Mode!
• Added a cooldown to being able to find a match when a player declines or abandons a game.

GAMEPLAY

• Beastmaster:
  • Fixed Wild Axes working with Refresher.
  • Wild Axes no longer provide vision when they aren't flying.
• Naga Siren:
  • Fixed Dust of Appearance not working against units slept by Song of the Siren.
  • Fixed Ice Blast debuff not getting added to units slept by Song of the Siren.
  • Fixed Weave not affecting units slept by Song of the Siren.
• Phantom Lancer:
  • Fixed Doppelwalk illusions not correctly replicating their inventory item slots.
• Rubick:
  • Fixed Wild Axes being left around when another ability is stolen.
• Sand King:
  • Neutrals can now be damaged by Sand Storm.
• Templar Assassin:
  • Fixed Meld initial attack doing too much damage.
• Slardar:
  • Fixed Bash working while doomed.
• Neutrals damaged by an invisible enemy will now try to run away.

SPECTATING

• Multiple tweaks to director events and framing.
• Fixed particle effects sometimes not drawing while in Player Perspective mode.

UI

• Added notification for when a Tournament has a live game currently running.
• The kill card now shows a randomly selected item that the killer is wearing. Also reduced its size.
• Fixed equipping an item in the backpack not jumping to the correct hero in the loadout
• Added Buyback to the spectating stats dropdown.
• Added a cooldown for being able to find a match when a player declines or abandons a game.

VISUALS

• Fixed Rubick retaining incorrect skins from stolen abilities when returning to his normal model.
• Meld damage display is now only shown for successful hits.

BOTS

• Significant revision of how bots determine their strategic desires.
• Roshan desire has been significantly reworked. It's now based on how quickly Roshan can be killed given the available heroes and how quickly enemies can show up.
• Evasion desire is now more granular. Things like Blade Fury now cause a range of evasion desire based on the bot's current health.
• Fixed case where bots were trying to path to an invalid location when defending their base.
• Made bots more aggressive about attacking when defending a lane.
• Cleaned up inferred human modes for pushing and defending lanes.
• Made bots less concerned about distance when considering an attack on a pinged target.
• Fixed bug that made pinged towers less likely to attract allied bots that were doing other high*priority stuff.
• Tuned retreat desire values when hurt and close to the fountain.
• Made bots somewhat more likely to buy a flying courier.

WORKSHOP

• Added a new Import Wearable option to the Publish New Item section of the in*game workshop UI. It will compile, validate, and preview your model before you submit it. When submitting, it also packs the files into a format that makes it much easier for us to bring it into the game.

UNDOCUMENTED

• Updated Batrider's textures.
• Updated Crystal Maiden's textures.
• Added spawn animations for the following heroes:
  • Earthshaker
  • Night Stalker
  • Shadow Demon
  • Tidehunter
  • Tinker
• Added teleport start and end animations for the following heroes:
  • Earthshaker
  • Pudge
  • Night Stalker
  • Shadow Demon
  • Tidehunter
  • Tinker
• Added Haste Rune Run animations for the following heroes:
  • Night Stalker
  • Pudge
• Added the following animations to Night Stalker:
  • Injured Run
  • Injured Idle
  • Victory & Defeat
• Updated Phantom Assassin's minimap icon to reflect her updated model.
• Updated quite a few item icons
• You can now see if your friends are viewing a Tournament game.
• You can now see how many casters (if any) are broadcasting a game from the audio channel button.

Update 2

• Fixed Undying's Plague Aura not healing him the right amount when units die.
• Fixed Familiars level 3 vision AOE.
• Fixed Summon Familiars cast point and behavior.
• Fixed Familiar's stun damage not getting upgraded after level 1.
• Fixed Keeper of the Light's base armor.
• Fixed Spiked Carapace cast time.
• Fixed Nyx Assassin's base armor.
• Fixed Illuminate not granting vision when channeling.
• Stolen familiars are now killed when another ability is stolen.
• Fixed Familiar Damage Charges sometimes not getting restored over time.
• Fixed Familiar's attack projectile speed.
• Fixed Soul Assumption and Grave Chill cast points.
• Fixed Recall ignoring disable help settings if targeted via ground or minimap.
• Fixed Familiars autoattacking.
• Cleaned up a number of Keeper's effects.

Update 3

• Adjusted animation timing on Grave Chill, Soul Assumption, and Summon Familiars.
• Switched Keeper to be a 6-ability hero all the time with empty slots that Spirit Form fills in.
• Made Spirit Form Illuminate complete casting if Keeper dies.
• Fixed situation where Keeper's abilities could get swapped into odd positions.
• Fixed issues with Visage's Familiar tabbing.
• Fixed Impale not stacking if used with Refresher.
• Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak armor values.
• Fixed flipped icons for Ring of Aquila and Tranquil Boots.
• Capped the maximum bot desire for doing Rosh slightly lower.
• Lowered bot Push and Roshan desires when at low health.

Update 4

• Fixed not being able to drag-select units by dragging over their models.
• Fixed Rubick stealing Keeper's Spirit Form Illuminate.
• Chen and Keeper now will teleport units without them ending up stuck. They also un-infest Naix.
• Fixed endlessly looping sound when Recall is used on the same target using Refresher.
• Fixed Rubick getting the wrong Illuminate when stealing the Spirit Form version of Illuminate End.
• Fixed Rubick not getting Spirit Form visual effect.
• Fixed Recall selecting an illusion when location-cast.
• Improved flying units trying to stack on top of each other.
• Fixed Grave Chill ignoring Linken's Sphere

Update 5

• Fixed white line on Void Stone icon.
• Fixed Spiked Carapace stun affecting magic immune units.
• If you are attack moving but go invisible during the duration you will now switch to a normal move order.
• If you are invisible then issue an attack move order you will now attack normally if you encounter a target.
• Soul Assumption now tracks and expires each individual damage event.
• Rubick can now steal Soul Assumption correctly.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Familiars to receive no command orders if another Familiar was in Stone Form.
• Fixed cases where Familiars would receive too much aggro.
• Slightly increased tree destruction radius for Stone Form.
• Fixed Illuminate giving extra vision on the projectile.
• Added soul assumption overhead counter.
• Fixed 0 spawn point missing effects.
• Fixed Blinding Light interrupting channeling abilities.
• After countless deaths, bots are now jaded and no longer assume humans will be helping them with Roshan.
• Decreased Roshan desire when they can't kill him quickly.
• Made bots more likely to commit to attacking an enemy when defending a tower.