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DOTA 2 Patch Notes (8th November, 2012)
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- Dark Seer: Fixed Wall of Replica illusion creation timing (affects instantly dying illusions mainly).
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Elder Dragon Form not splashing on siege units.
- Enchantress: Fixed being unable to be healed by Nature’s Attendants if you are sleeping.
- Enchantress: Fixed Impetus not being castable on Magic Immune enemies (still does no damage if immune on impact).
- Gyrocopter: Homing Missile now starts 150 units in front him.
- Huskar: Fixed Life Break not properly dispelling buffs on you when cast.
- Lich: Fixed Chainfrost not working with Refresher.
- Phantom Lancer: Fixed not reproducing his abilities (including stat bonuses) correctly on his Dopplewalked illusion.
- Phantom Lancer: Fixed Dopplewalked illusions never Juxtaposing.
- Shadow Shaman: Fixed Mass Serpent Wards having no cast point.
- Silencer: Fixed Illusions stealing intelligence.
- Spiritbreaker: Fixed case where he could interrupt his Charge by previously having given an attack order to his target.
- Templar Assassin: Fixed Psionic Trap’s nearby detonate ability not always working if the trap is too far.
- Undying: Zombies now correctly disable Blink Dagger.
- Venomancer: Fixed Poison Sting duration not increasing per level.
- Visage: Fixed Familiars agroing neutrals when flying over them.
- Wisp: Fixed his Spirits dying if he gets cycloned or purged.
- Wisp: Fixed Tether targeting magic immune allies.
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks not bouncing between Magic Immune enemies (doesn’t stun them, but doesn’t cause the bouncing to end prematurely).
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Death Ward not bouncing on magic immune enemies.
- Fixed heroes being able to get stuck on each other in rare cases.
- Fixed neutrals seeing and killing other sentry wards (as well as other non-attacking ward-type units).
- Fixed Arcane Boots and Mekansm being unable to affected allied invulnerable units.
- Fixed Orb of Venom doing lethal damage.
- Fixed Neutral Gnoll’s poison attack doing lethal damage.
- Fixed Vladmir’s Offering applying the aura when the owning unit is dead.
UI
- Movement speed on the HUD is now written as a total rather than two seperate numbers.
- Fixed Disabled Tranquil Boots movement speed.
- Updated Tranquil boots disabled icon.
- If you miss the queue for Diretide and accept a requeue, you will be put back in the Diretide queue.
- Adding chat bubble visualization of your current mic volume.
- Voice Threshold and Mute Cobroadcasters settings should now persist when the game is restarted.
AUDIO
- Added voice auto-gain. All voices are now brought up to a normal level. Turning off microphone boost in Windows settings is recommended.
- Reduced the delay on voice transmission.
You need to have your Steam client restarted to avail this update. Dota 2 currently does not support offline updates, you’re not in luck if you’re behind a university/college firewall.
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Guide: Diretide Mode
With the Halloween update from earlier today, you now have access to the special event mode called the ‘Diretide‘ that allows you to be a part of a brand new Dota experience for this festive period.
You can sign up to a match on Diretide just like any other ordinary game from the Play Tab. Once you have signed up, you will be matched up and placed into the game.
The primary objective of the game is to bring down the big and bad candy loving Roshan at the end but the game kicks off with you having to collect the Greevil Taffy’s from the Confectioners of Yhauron and taking them to your basket which is located at your respective Ancient Creeps pit.
Greevil Taffy‘s are basically candies that drop in the game from Roshlings that spawn along with the mobs, by killing enemy heroes, neutral creeps (after the 10 minute marker) or by just bashing at the enemies Candy Basket. Once you have these candies, all you need to do is to take them to your basket and deposit them there. Sounds simple eh? But here’s the hitch. Carrying each candy comes with a penalty. Every candy you carry lowers your HP by 7.5% and also increase your teleportation times. So be very careful as to how many you carry or you can risk getting one shotted by your enemy. You will drop your candies if you die.
Why should you collect candies? For two very important reasons. The first being that the more the candies in your basket, the more map gold and XP your team gains allowing them to farm up items required for the big boss fight that awaits them at the end of the road. Candies are also require to feed Roshan when he comes along (explained below) which helps you fend him off but adding to this sugar rush. Secondly, having collected more candies may have a special prize waiting in the form of a reward.
Now with the candies explained, time to get on and talk about Roshan – yes, that crazy candy lover.
While you are busy collecting candies, Roshan is dormant for the first ten minutes. His restraint dies after that time and he enters the map looking for his share of candies. Now with you showing so much interest in the candies, he will come after you and ask you for some. You will need to give a candy to Roshan to fend him off or you can sit there and take his thrashing. Either way you prefer it. Remember the feeding Roshan will send him away and help you concentrate on gathering candies but it will add to his sugar rush which you will have to deal with later.
The targets being chased by Roshan will show up in between the candy counter as depicted below.
Roshan alternates between both the teams for candies for the next ten minutes. He is invulnerable during this period and will only move around eating the candies that you give him.
At the 20 minute marker, Roshan’s love for sugar gets the better of him and he will rush to one of the forests (depending on which team is leading on the candies) and wait for you to bring him down there. The locations are marked on the map below. You can teleport to these locations.
The Roshan you face here is no ordinary Roshan that you meet daily in your games of Dota. With his enchantments broken, he is a tad bit crazier. Ok, who am I kidding, he’s just mental so you’ll need to join forces with your enemy here.
This Roshan comes with a lot of abilities such as heavy nuke arsenal of sunstrikes, massive AOE deafening blasts and many more. Be sure to buy all the inventory you may need before going to face him because he is waiting with 150,000 HP and 5,000 MP that regenerates pretty rapidly.
Once you have managed to bring him down, you will all be rewarded for your valiant efforts in the art of war pretty handsomely.
Everyone in the game will walk away with a little token but the lucky ones may even stumble on some eggs that I will talk about later.
If you are quick enough to kill the beast, you may even get into the Sugar Rush Hall of Fame for everyone to witness your amazing feat.
Have fun in the Diretide mode.
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You can sign up to a match on Diretide just like any other ordinary game from the Play Tab. Once you have signed up, you will be matched up and placed into the game.
The primary objective of the game is to bring down the big and bad candy loving Roshan at the end but the game kicks off with you having to collect the Greevil Taffy’s from the Confectioners of Yhauron and taking them to your basket which is located at your respective Ancient Creeps pit.
Greevil Taffy‘s are basically candies that drop in the game from Roshlings that spawn along with the mobs, by killing enemy heroes, neutral creeps (after the 10 minute marker) or by just bashing at the enemies Candy Basket. Once you have these candies, all you need to do is to take them to your basket and deposit them there. Sounds simple eh? But here’s the hitch. Carrying each candy comes with a penalty. Every candy you carry lowers your HP by 7.5% and also increase your teleportation times. So be very careful as to how many you carry or you can risk getting one shotted by your enemy. You will drop your candies if you die.
Why should you collect candies? For two very important reasons. The first being that the more the candies in your basket, the more map gold and XP your team gains allowing them to farm up items required for the big boss fight that awaits them at the end of the road. Candies are also require to feed Roshan when he comes along (explained below) which helps you fend him off but adding to this sugar rush. Secondly, having collected more candies may have a special prize waiting in the form of a reward.
Now with the candies explained, time to get on and talk about Roshan – yes, that crazy candy lover.
While you are busy collecting candies, Roshan is dormant for the first ten minutes. His restraint dies after that time and he enters the map looking for his share of candies. Now with you showing so much interest in the candies, he will come after you and ask you for some. You will need to give a candy to Roshan to fend him off or you can sit there and take his thrashing. Either way you prefer it. Remember the feeding Roshan will send him away and help you concentrate on gathering candies but it will add to his sugar rush which you will have to deal with later.
The targets being chased by Roshan will show up in between the candy counter as depicted below.
Roshan alternates between both the teams for candies for the next ten minutes. He is invulnerable during this period and will only move around eating the candies that you give him.
At the 20 minute marker, Roshan’s love for sugar gets the better of him and he will rush to one of the forests (depending on which team is leading on the candies) and wait for you to bring him down there. The locations are marked on the map below. You can teleport to these locations.
The Roshan you face here is no ordinary Roshan that you meet daily in your games of Dota. With his enchantments broken, he is a tad bit crazier. Ok, who am I kidding, he’s just mental so you’ll need to join forces with your enemy here.
This Roshan comes with a lot of abilities such as heavy nuke arsenal of sunstrikes, massive AOE deafening blasts and many more. Be sure to buy all the inventory you may need before going to face him because he is waiting with 150,000 HP and 5,000 MP that regenerates pretty rapidly.
Once you have managed to bring him down, you will all be rewarded for your valiant efforts in the art of war pretty handsomely.
Everyone in the game will walk away with a little token but the lucky ones may even stumble on some eggs that I will talk about later.
If you are quick enough to kill the beast, you may even get into the Sugar Rush Hall of Fame for everyone to witness your amazing feat.Have fun in the Diretide mode.
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DotA 2 Diretide Guide [Halloween Event]
The Dota 2 is now updated with Halloween Event game-mode, Diretide. It’s a fun mode in which you have to collect candies in your baskets (they are located at each Team’s ancients). Candies can be obtained by killing Roshlings (mini Roshans spawns with normal creepwave, they drop candy upon death) their waves spawn time to time.
You can deposit candy by using basket on them. You can go on ganks and
steal Enemies’ candy by attacking their baskets. Towers become
invulnerable during the gamemode. During all of this Roshan roams the
map and hunts down every player who carries the candy (Tip: you can feed
him a candy he’ll chase the next hero). Morever, he randomly selects a
player for trick or treating, he will attack the player if they don’t
have any candy. Your HP and Teleport channeling time increases as you
collect candy, so be careful. After 20 minutes, the battle versus Roshan
begins, both teams fight against Roshan to get maximum level and gold.
The objective of this game-mode is to collect as much candy as you can. The team with high amount of candy will win the game, player will most will get cosmetic items.
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The objective of this game-mode is to collect as much candy as you can. The team with high amount of candy will win the game, player will most will get cosmetic items.
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