posted by Sun_Tzu,
Many have long asked for the greatest learning tool of Warcraft 3 DotA to be added to Dota 2, and as good things come to those who wait, the frog has blessed us not only with All Random mode, but also with the most trollific of all heroes, the great Troll Warlord!

Just whirlin'



In addition to these two highlights of the patch, we will also receive a new tournament calendar, to help keep track of the DotaTV tournaments. We also have a long list of fixes and improvements, two new heroes item sets added to the store as well as a potentially quite interesting change to how pathing works with units inside the smoke of war, as shown in this YouTube video by user DiNo2909.

With the extensive debate going on around the upcoming DotaBuff DBR, it seems Valve has also taken steps to calm the fears of any and all individuals who do not want their stats out in the open by adding an option to block 3rd party websites from accessing your match history, which will be defaulted to private.

CHANGELOG

- Added Troll Warlord!
- Added All Random to matchmaking!
- Added tournament calendar view to the Watch tab!

GAMEPLAY
- The pathfinder now ignores obstructions that are due to units that are not visible to the pathing unit.
- Crystal Maiden: Fixed Freezing Field channeling ending if you get purged.
- Dazzle: Fixed Poison Touch slow and stun applying if BKB was used after it had been applied.
- Drow: Fixed Drow Illusions carrying the double bonus from Marksmanship
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Chakra being castable on magic immune allies.
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Manta dispelling Mana Leak.
- Lifestealer: Fixed Rage not removing certain buffs that BKB does (Empower, Haste, etc).
- Medusa: Fixed Mana Shield happening after Stout/Vanguard damage block rather than before.
- Meepo: Fixed Poof considering dead illusions as valid destinations.
- Morphling: Fixed Replicate dying if Morphling dies with Aegis.
- Timbersaw: Fixed Whirling Death sometimes taking too long to cast when used with Timber Chain.
- Timbersaw: Fixed Chakram cast time behavior.
- Visage: Fixed Attack and Defense type on level 3 Familiars.
- Warlock: Fixed Aghanim Warlock Golems not doing enough damage.
- Fixed MKB dealing bonus damage to towers.
- Fixed ground courier being able to block lanes and surround Roshan.
- Fixed being able to lifesteal more life than the target has.
- Fixed Diffusal Blade cooldown being 12 seconds instead of 8.

UI
- Added Practice vs Bots option in the Play menu.
- Added a privacy setting in the UI so that players can specify whether they want to allow external 3rd party websites to be able to access their match history (defaulted to private).
- Least Played mode now eliminates each players' top 40 played heroes, up from 20.
- Added completion cost to shop item tooltips, displayed if the player has one or more components.
- Added tooltips to the shop category buttons.
- Fixed the Repick option disappearing too soon.
- Fixed bug where buffs would sometimes display an incorrect duration sweep.
- Bringing up the combat log will now hide the killcam.
- Fixed bug where sometimes spectators would, when inspecting a player, not see thier cosmetic items.
- Fixed bug where Dota 2 would not track changes in the Windows default audio device.
- When spectating a game in directed, hero chase, or player view, the mouse will no longer be locked to the window.

STORE
- Added new item sets for Lone Druid and Necrolyte.

BOTS
- Added Necrolyte bot.
- Added Witch Doctor bot.
- Sven will no longer War Cry when doing a casual retreat.
- Fixed Viper bot not harassing with his unique attack modifier.
- Fixed bug in Sandstorm avoidance that always made bots maximalliy avoid it.
- Adjusted the values so that bots are more willing to tanking creeps at high health/tankability ratings.
- Bots now take into account cleaving when determining what neutral camps they're willing to farm.
- Death Prophet bot will now use Carrion Swarm more when laning.
- Fixed bug that would cause bots to fountain-dive sometimes.

WORKSHOP
- Added a "Show Low-Res Model" checkbox that toggles between showing the low & high resolution LODs for imported models when in Loadout camera view.
- Now automatically switches to showing low-res models in the Day/Night camera views, and high-res models in the Portrait camera view (since that's how they're used by the game).
- Fixed "Other" submission type displaying a "failed to find content file" when submitting.
- Fixed Preview not resetting background properly when moving from Portrait to Day/Night view.
- Fixed Preview losing hero rotation when going to and from Portrait view.
- Fixed a case where the Add Wearable slot buttons didn't work for some slots on some heroes (like Sven).

Update:

A small additional list of updates have been added to the test client patch, mainly bug fixes for Troll Warlord.

Update 2 Changelog

- Fixed illusions getting Battle Trance.
- Fixed illusions not getting Berserker's Rage.
- Added basic bot info for Troll Warlord so they know how to lane with him.
- Added "spawnrune" cheat command.
- Fixed Berserker Rage bashing if it is toggled on while the projectile is in midair.
- Berserker Rage bash working with Skull Basher and Abyssal Blade.
- Berserker Rage bash working on denies.
- Fixed buildings affecting Fervor.
- Fixed Whirling Axes Ranged spawning slightly offcenter.
- Fixed Whirling Axes Melee having too short of airtime, and too small of radius.
- Rubick having too much range in Berserker Rage.
- Additional fix to pathfinding around units you can't see.

Update:

Additional fixes coming in to Troll Warlord as well as to the new pathfinding system.

Update 3 Changelog

- Further revised the pathfinding fix. Please let us know if you see strange pathfinding results!
- Fixed a bug that was causing Whirling Axes Melee to lose vision of its projectile.
- Fixed some more lifesteal bugs.
- Reverted incorrect Fervor bug report.
- Reverted incorrect bash-on-deny bug report.
- Disallowed Troll from buying Basher.

Update:

One more batch of updates for this patch has come in after it hitting live.

Changelog

- Updated the icons for the new Warlock and Lone Druid sets.
- Fixed units not pathing around invisible enemies.
- Fixed stolen Berserker's Rage not restoring the original attack type on death.
- Fixed for LP mode not limiting 40 heroes.
- Fixed Battle Trance affecting units like Spirit Bear.

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