Competitive play support by Valve

posted by Tezzeret, 1 year ago

Another huge patch by Valve just rolled in and it brings with it an exciting new hero to the hero pool, the spellstealer Rubick! Having been picked occasionally in the WC3 DotA scene in SEA, we may well see him being used in competitive play soon enough.

Rubick is here!

The most remarkable update of the week is however the first step of supporting for competetive play in Dota 2. The watch tab got increased to give attention to specific tournament, starting with our very own The Defense! The Dota 2 Blog explains how it works. Furthermore the teams can be created in the client now to benefit from a few features. A lot more of those are going to be published within the next months.

The Defense 2 will start tomorrow and you will be able to choose between the traditional videostream and DotaTV, which is also the reason for this week's patch to come out one day earlier.

GAMEPLAY
- Added Rubick!
- Bane: Fixed Fiend's Grip not ending if Kraken Shell dispels it.
- Chaos Knight: Reality Rift now puts the Chaos Knight behind his target.
- Clockerk: Fixed Hookshot stunning dead units.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle not giving any bounty.
- Invoker: Fixed Alacrity interaction with Magic Immunity
- Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship allied debuff dealing all the damage immediately when then rum wears off, rather than over the following 8 seconds.
- Mirana: Reduced size of Arrow 20%.
- Outworld Destroyer: Aadded visual indicator for Astral Imprisonment Length.
- Riki: Fixed sometimes not attacking his Blink Strike target immediately.
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed a bug allowing charging Razor without moving.
- Fixed Batrider and Outworld Destroyer having 1 to little armor.
- Fixed Chaos Knight having 2 extra armor.
- Fixed Lone Druid having 1.3 to little armor.

UI
- Added support for tournament spectating passes.
- The backpack now displays 64 items, up from 25.
- Select All Other Units feature no longer selects any unit that is lacking attack capability (like Beastmaster's Hawk).
- Added a buff to indicate the duration of Death Prophet's Exorcism.
- Updated Aghanim's Scepter tooltips for Beastmaster, Necrolyte, Queen of Pain, Warlock, and Windrunner.
- Updated the Aghanim's Scepter store preview.
- Fixed bug where large replays were unable to download.
- Replay downloading is now paralleled to improve download speeds.
- Fixed item purchase message crediting the wrong player if the purchased item stacked with someone else's item.

VISUALS
- Added a custom particle effect for Skadi.

BOTS
- Co-op bot matches will now randomly assign the human players to Radiant or Dire.
- In co-op bot matches, if a human disconnects before picking a hero, the bots will now correctly balance the teams.
- Fixed bots not selecting heroes into non-AP games.
- Fixed bots not deploying their couriers on Passive difficulty.

Sources: Patch Notes

TKettle wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:16 CEST:

Ohhhh yeah rubick in the house!

SpaceGiraffe wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:16 CEST:

nice

EddieMond wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:16 CEST:

woah o.O didnt expect him so soon

Taking_control wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:31 CEST:

nice

HSmokKe wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:32 CEST:

awww...yeah

kalamatis wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:42 CEST:

Fvck yeah! Dota 2 is getting more awesome!

susanoo909 wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:51 CEST:

what? what? WHAT? OMG YEsSSSS

wolfgank wrote at 20.06.2012, 05:55 CEST:

what rubick already ? where is naga and lanaya ??

BaxxLord wrote at 20.06.2012, 06:20 CEST:

Owh;..... now Dota 2 more Hotter that before...
Rubick was great agian Invoker... 10 Skill hero..

hahhaahhahhaaa... in my opinioni oni. lol.

#10

Hyo-Ri wrote at 20.06.2012, 06:33 CEST:

soon people will whine, wtf rubick skill, so imba! LOL

#11

alfereti wrote at 20.06.2012, 06:38 CEST:

Wow wasn't expecting Rubick before centaur, naga etc. But still awesome! :D

#12

dwerhs wrote at 20.06.2012, 06:51 CEST:

good choice for rubick

#13

raclimja wrote at 20.06.2012, 06:56 CEST:

i hate this hero

#14

ERMAC__ wrote at 20.06.2012, 07:03 CEST:

That was quick.

#15

Obskur wrote at 20.06.2012, 07:07 CEST:

No need for Rubik....pls just get us some Techies!!!!

#16

eSportsOfSarus wrote at 20.06.2012, 07:09 CEST:

I AM HYPED FOR RUBICK. He's actually in CM so seeing him in competitive would be so awesome.

#17

demolisherzeus wrote at 20.06.2012, 07:13 CEST:

wow! =D

#18

N_t_N wrote at 20.06.2012, 07:57 CEST:

I'm A HATER! AND I HATE THIS HERO!!! #$(*%#$*&^@#$#$#%

#19

Travia wrote at 20.06.2012, 08:02 CEST:

Is JoinDota going to be highlighting the Competitive Features they are adding? Considering "The Defense" is the testbed for all these features?

#20

pbfamous wrote at 20.06.2012, 08:05 CEST:

i hope rubick does spell animation with his stolen spells, ie. double taps his staff or foot for SK's epicenter :). man this hero was so fun, his global magic reduction passive will 100% undebatably be nerfed, it too strong

#21

BrooksRudolph wrote at 20.06.2012, 08:06 CEST:

Im very happy that valve isnt restricting themselves to the more conventional heros yet to be released. This is going to force completely new strats and plays in many of the western dota scences that never played with heros like rubick and Gyro. This is really cool. TY valve.

#22

noslana wrote at 20.06.2012, 08:18 CEST:

broken hero. has never fit into dota. one of the greatest single-target disable, a great nuke, and an imbalanced hood for the whole team in teamfights. dont let me even mention his fucking ultimate(well i will).
i was hoping they will never bring him, phoenix and the 3 new shit heroes i have never even tested in dota1 in since all of those got spells which are totally unique and in the right combos too imba.
there are so many oldschool heroes still left out but they decide to ruin not only pubs but the whole competitive scene because second pick team has 1 ban less.
this hero breaks the current meta game. he has antipush during all stages of the game. furthermore he just breaks any nuke intensive combo. he dominates mid lane. hes a great early ganker. a good babysitter and his ultimate and his aura make him so dangerous that he HAS to be the first pickoff which is also a big advantage in a coordinated teamfight.
just waiting for statements from top players, i assume they dont welcome him neither...

#23

fdamoreg wrote at 20.06.2012, 08:26 CEST:

Its not even perma picked in dota 1, only sea players use it and its not a tier 1 hero, stfu if u dont know what u re talking about.