Patch Notes: Captains Mode Change

posted by TobiWanKenobi, 1 year ago

With Dreamhack only a few days, away the players may have to work hard on their drafting skills and lineups with not only Chaos Knight, but Phantom Assassin and Gyrocoptor being also added into the Captain's Mode hero pool in the test client. We have contacted Valve and DreamHack tournament admins to find out if they will be implemented at the DreamHack Dota 2 competition and will update you soon.

Update: The client will be updated as normal but the heroes will be auto banned for DreamHack.

Small changes to hero selection

There are no new heroes this week but a lot of bug fixes with the heroes released in the last patch, you can check out the full changelog below:

GAMEPLAY
- Added Chaos Knight, Phantom Assassin and Gyrocoptor to Captain's Mode
- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.
- Chaos Knight: Fixed some bugs with the Illusion spawn positions with Phantasm.
- Chaos Knight: Fixed Reality Rift ignoring Linken's Sphere.
- Chaos Knight: Fixed getting stuck with your illusions sometimes
- Clockwerk: Fixed units not always getting sucked into Power Cogs properly.
- Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot stunning dead units.
- Dark Seer: Fixed Ion Shell showing the visual connecting effect on invisible targets.
- Doom Bringer: Fixed sometimes not gaining passive bonuses when devouring a neutral.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon not attacking magic immune units.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Rocket Barrage not hitting Roshan.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle portrait name.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon not hitting ancients.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle ignoring Linken's Sphere.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not providing vision over its area.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missile not keeping vision around the area when it impacts a unit.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Rocket Barrage not hurting mechanical units.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon not hurting Mechanical units.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon having cast time.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed creeps hurting Homing Missile.
- Mirana: Fixed Leap buff being dispelled by BKB/Repel.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike landing position.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Coup de Grace visual effect to play only when the critical strike attack lands.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Coup de Grace working on denies and wards.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike facing direction after landing.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Blur showing hero name on minimap when it should be hidden.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Blink Strike not being blocked by Linken's Sphere.
- Phantom Assassin: Phantom Strike now shows you a buff icon while you are attacking fast.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Stifling Dagger being dodgeable.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike visual and sound effect sometimes playing on targets it can't hit.
- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike attacks sometimes being delayed.
- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward not draining mana from enemies.
- Venomancer: Fixed Aghanim's Scepter not upgrading Poison Nova duration.
- Fixed Hand of Midas giving too little XP when there are nearby allies around.
- Fixed Hand of Midas XP bounty being halved against dominated units.
- Fixed a case where a courier trying to deliver a Divine Rapier to someone without sufficient item slots could result in the Rapier disappearing.

UI
- Added click and drag to rotate the Hero Model in the loadout panel.
- Hero-like units now draw a larger distinct icon on the minimap.
- Team Names now show up on the recent games panel.
- Added an "Inspect Hero" option to the right-click menu for player names in the scoreboard. This will show what items they have equipped.
- Buying Aghanim's Scepter now upgrades the ability tooltip with the new information. If you find anything missing or incorrect, please report it to the tooltip forum.
- The store/inventory Aghanim's Scepter tooltip will now show a preview of what it does for your hero.
- Fixed glitchiness in the End Game cinematic camera.

HERO SELECTOR
- Added an edit mode to the in-game full deck layout.
- Added a concept of selection to the Grid View, and used it to implement a pick button.
- Added the ability to import and export custom full deck layouts
- Leaving the loadout will return you to Grid View if you were in it.
- Fixed a bug where you could not see the right hero in your loadout after you picked.
- Fixed legacy mode heroes being sorted differently than the learn tab/Dota 1.
- Legacy full deck cards are now simply the portrait, without the card treatment.
- Added Back to Browsing & Back to Loadout buttons. After you pick, you can now return to browsing to suggest / learn heroes.
- Fixed suggest button not being visible in grid view, and implemented suggestion there.
- Fixed grid view selection outline not updating when you clicked on a suggested hero.
- No longer force the selector to switch to the turntable if you're at grid view and want to select a hero for any reason.
- Having no heroes matching the filters/search bar no longer kicks you out of grid view, instead showing you the same "No Heroes" message box as turntable mode.
- Fixed the grid view crashing if there were no matching heroes.
- Fixed the "No Heroes" message not being centered in widescreen.

DOTA 2 BOTS
- Added Chaos Knight bot.
- Made bots more likely to unify around a Roshan attempt.
- Added bot role/laning info for all heroes, which should make for better hero and lane picks.
- On Easy and Easier, bots will no longer consider whether a target is currently slowed when determining whether to slow/stun.
- Bots are now more likely to push late-game when they are feeling indecisive.

Sources: Developer Notes

-M3lly- wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:22 CEST:

cookies pls

TobiWanKenobi wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:23 CEST:

-M3lly- schrieb:
cookies pls

knoxv1lle wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:24 CEST:

nice..cant wait to see ck in competitive

-M3lly- wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:26 CEST:

You know, those annoying people that post "First" and ask for cookies :P

On a more serious note, would probably be seeing CK and Gyro in DH. Not so sure about PA though.. Needs too much farm like a PL or Drow..

saber12 wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:28 CEST:

Yes PA bug fixes and I hope they do put them in CM that would be nice to see different strats because of CK and maybe PA.

TobiWanKenobi wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:28 CEST:

-M3lly- schrieb:
You know, those annoying people that post "First" and ask for cookies :P
On a more serious note, would probably be seeing CK and Gyro in DH. Not so sure about PA though.. Needs too much farm like a PL or Drow..

lol ok ---- we are also trying to find the rule set (sent a message to the tournament admin) to find out if the new heroes will be auto banned

MeRD0_THe_KiD wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:28 CEST:

It would be nice to see CK if not banned automatically and maybe pa or gyro ....

-M3lly- wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:31 CEST:

TobiWanKenobi schrieb:

lol ok ---- we are also trying to find the rule set (sent a message to the tournament admin) to find out if the new heroes will be auto banned

I hope they are not banned.. Would be more entertaining to watch with these new heroes in the pool.. If they are released into Captain's Mode they should probably be safe to play right? Any reason for it to be banned in the tournament?

koko775 wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:33 CEST:

Some people are claiming they heard Maelk saying on stream that admins decided to ban the new heroes in the DreamHack tournament.

I really hope though that's this is not true and they will be available for picking.

#10

TobiWanKenobi wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:38 CEST:

koko775 schrieb:
Some people are claiming they heard Maelk saying on stream that admins decided to ban the new heroes in the DreamHack tournament.
I really hope though that's this is not true and they will be available for picking.

we will see if we can get an official confirmation ASAP

and it would be dangerous m3lly to put the heroes in this weekend, as it would completely change the META game

#11

koko775 wrote at 14.06.2012, 02:47 CEST:

@Tobi:

Well you know how it is for us viewers (and certainly as well for you casters); it's always more interesting to see unusual or "new" heroes come out in the draft, so in that sense I hope we will see them. Technically the heroes were out for a week for practice, but that's obviously a very weak argument.

I remember in StarLadder Lan Finals the Brewmaster wasn't banned by the admins but CLG and NaVi decided to "autoban" him anyway (V1lat said it on his stream).

Other than that, regarding possible bugs or things working not as intended, it might be wise to NOT allow the new heroes after all!

#12

Luffydude wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:01 CEST:

TobiWanKenobi schrieb:

and it would be dangerous m3lly to put the heroes in this weekend, as it would completely change the META game

Well CK has always been a top pick so yea, one more hero to ban. Singsing said on his stream that he never played Gyro before so I guess he is not the only one... I would like to see my CK playing but I think that the players should decide between them

Have a conference with atleast Puppey, Maelk, Pajkat, Synderen, SingSing and maybe one more captain and if the majority allows the new heroes, we can see some CK action :D

#13

wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:09 CEST:

More proof that western Dota is inferior to the east. How can these guys be the best at Dota when they're unable to even play the number one hero pick? The thought any eastern team not allowing CK into the draft is a joke.

What's going to happen when more exotic heroes appear with short notice before TI? Will you go cry to IceFrog since you can't play it because you're not a Dota player capable of using them and Chinese are?

I watched Fear/Demon unable to even do the CK/AA combo mid properly and they're veterans who were playing even WDC/SMM and they can't?! What chance do all these other random players got.

IceFrog aggressively added these heroes to -CM before Dreamhack for a purpose and that was so these wannabe Dota elite can prove they can play real Dota with 108 heroes instead of just Dota 2 with 80 heroes since they can't perform with the real cast.

IceFrog just keeps proving he made the right choice not inviting lots of EU teams since they won't be on par when big guns come out. East is behind? The way I see it they've got the competitive edge since west can't even play a CK properly after the meta of how has existed forever.

edited by rrk at 14.06.2012, 03:14 CEST

#14

wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:09 CEST:

Tobi y u no sleep??

#15

Tornado.20 wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:14 CEST:

TobiWanKenobi schrieb:

we will see if we can get an official confirmation ASAP
and it would be dangerous m3lly to put the heroes in this weekend, as it would completely change the META game

Don't say the M word!

#16

deadRiPP wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:15 CEST:

if they wont be auto banned, hardly to be picked because, they were never popular in d1 except gyro, and here in d2 there is even less solutions cause lack of heroes from d1, so yea dont expect it too much. and for all of you saying it was top pick, u stupid ignorant idiot with no knowlege about d1 at all, if it really was top pick, why dont u think it would be implemented to the draft before as all popular carries were, only one missing hero that used to be banned or picked in d1 was Dirge none else

edited by deadRiPP at 14.06.2012, 03:21 CEST

#17

cRUNcherNO1 wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:20 CEST:

you exaggerate there a bit too much rrk, because 1 (singsing) said he never played gyrocopter because he left before his release to HoN and 2 (fear/demon) can't get a combo right in a public, doesn't proof anything valve inviting more eastern teams

as far as the chinese invites goes, valve invited team based on their wc3:dota performance (ig/lgd), their recent dota2 performance (dk/ehome) or they qualified (tongfu)
the number of invites to chinese teams (5) is a simple act of marketing, not because EU doesn't deserve the invites/can't play on par to the asians

wc3:dotas largest market is the chinese, valve wants them in dota2 too so they give them more teams to cheer for

#18

koko775 wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:26 CEST:

More importantly @cRuncher: they want the Chinese (and Asia in general) on Steam.

#19

wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:27 CEST:

Like what singsing can play matters, lol? I never expected guys like him to even be able to dream of touching a hero like Rubick since he can barely play Invoker. I don't need to get into your opinion about what reasons IceFrog has for inviting them because they're irrelevant to the fact western admin are scared to allow Chaos Knight into the meta only proves how inferior they are when they need to face the big leagues at TI when China is bearing down their throat Tobi won't able beg that Rubick isn't allowed to save them.

If a pro player can't even last hit in a public game then, yes, it reflects on them. If you can't even do the most easy combo mid then what kind of Dota have they been playing?

When TI comes and they're in -CM GLHF enjoying the pub you're going to receive since there isn't even enough bans to save you from not knowing how to play against these heroes.

#20

Shibbywan wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:34 CEST:

Update: The client will be updated as normal but the heroes will be auto banned for Dreamhack
WHY!?!?! SERIOUSLY WHY???

EDIT: i understand why, but it is disappointing.

#21

beansock wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:38 CEST:

"- Dark Seer: Fixed Ion Shell showing the visual connecting effect on invisible targets."

This is big.

Also LoL@ "- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward not draining mana from enemies."; isn't it like -425% of base mana regen it takes off? This is quite big also.

#22

wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:39 CEST:

Yeah, west is getting pub stomped at TI. GL trying to save these guys Tobi cause when they're in -CM they're in it for a reason, in real Dota.

Sidenote, If at least these guys don't get to embarrass themselves with the most pathetic CK play seen since public games in professional Dota

#23

FreakyDroid wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:41 CEST:

Well that's it folks, we were just presented with the definite proof that eu/na cant play ck or any new hero that is popular in D1. Its over. gg no re. Pls ff, rrk wins.

#24

Luffydude wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:42 CEST:

rrk schrieb:
Like what singsing can play matters, lol? I never expected guys like him to even be able to dream of touching a hero like Rubick since he can barely play Invoker.

Stop with this non sense, go watch qualifier against VP where he did holy shit with Invoker. Rubick only has 3 buttons wow really hardcore hero

#25

beansock wrote at 14.06.2012, 03:44 CEST:

CK is a first phase ban in some china games, I watched DK play iG in D1 a couple of weeks ago and they banned brew, rubick, chen and CK along with 2 others I can't recall.

rrk please go and unplug your router, you are a stain on the shirt of society.