posted by Sun_Tzu,
UPDATE: Patch has been shipped to the main client.

It's been speculated about for a while now, and he is finally here, Skywrath Mage, one of the younger of Dota heroes, has found his way on to the test client with todays patch, and will join us live for the weekend. Perhaps even more interesting, Drow Ranger and Tusk have been enabled for Captain's Mode, and will make their way to Tournament Version with next weeks patch.

Other changes include a reworking of the abusive player reporting system as well as a new way of handling downloaded replays within the game.

Skywrath Mage performing a Concussive Shot


CHANGELOG

- Added Skywrath Mage!

COMMUNITY
- Added stricter system implementing communication (voice and text) bans for abusive players.
- Combined voice and text reports into a single 'communication' report.
- Reduced reports per week to 4.
- Removed ability for spectators to report players in-game.
- Reports now allow single selection of behavior type only.

GAMEPLAY
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes losing vision after the second cast.
- Doom: Scorched Earth now shows its duration on the buff icon.
- Lich: Fixed Frost Armor auto-casting while Lich is channeling.
- Magnus: Fixed a rare crash involving Skewer.
- Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush not slowing attack speed.
- Spectre: Fixed Haunt illusions moving while out of the game.
- Timbersaw: Fixed Timberchain travelling too fast.
- Timbersaw: Fixed Timberchain not latching quite far enough.
- Tusk: Fixed Tusk not issuing an attack order on the snowballed unit after the snowball crashes.
- Enabled Drow and Tusk to Captain's Mode (Tournament Version next week)

UI
- Added tab to the Watch section showing downloaded replay files.

VISUALS
- Riki: Added Smoke Screen and Blink Strike animations.
- Sniper: Added victory animations and more aggressive posing of idle, run and attack when enemy is in range.

BOTS
- Bots now know to avoid standing in Macropyre and Ice Path.

WORKSHOP
- Added a button to the preview that allows you to test your imported model in-game, in a local server.

Update 2

- Added tickets for AtoD3, E2MAX, GEST, and AMD tournaments.
- Skywrath Mage: Added sound tags for wing flaps.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed not playing loadout animation.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed weapon effects being an incorrect size.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot targetting illusions.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot using Skywrath's cast time.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Mystic Flare damaging illusions.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Mystic Flare dealing one extra instance of damage.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed base damage being too low.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed attack point being too slow.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot's slow being purgable
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed projectile speed being too slow.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot not dealing area damage if the main target became magic immune.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed him not drawing correctly when invisible.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot not damaging creeps.
- Fixed Skywrath Mage location in the hero picker.
- Workshop item in-game testing now forces the player to join a team.

Update 3

- Bristleback: Fixed model issue
- Skywrath Mage: Adjusted death and idle animations
- Skywrath Mage: Updated tooltips
- Sniper: Fixed animation issue with heroes are in range
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Mystic Flare hitting Spirit Bear.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Arcane Bolt vision issues.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot vision issues.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed Concussive Shot flying too fast.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed being incorrectly labelled as Pushe
- Skywrath Mage: Added several missing sound effects
- Skywrath Mage: Revamped voice audio
- Gem of Truesight: Changed back to green, reduced particle effects
- Fixed a rare crash when disconnecting from a server
- Improved model preview loading/unloading
- Fixed a rare crash in the audio system

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