14 DAY TRIAL // Dota 2 has just been updated on the Steam service with a fresh patch that brings not only fixes for the abilities of certain heroes, like Timbersaw, Tusk, or Beastmaster, but also adds a whole new character, in the form of the Skywrath Mage.
Dota 2 isn't even out of its ongoing closed beta, but millions of players are already enjoying the online game, which has even drawn the attention of hackers.
Now, developer Valve has just released a brand new update for the game, via its Steam service, which adds quite a few bug fixes, particularly for the abilities of various heroes.
The patch also adds a stricter banning system for players who abuse the voice and text communication, and tweaks the visual effects and animations of certain attacks.
Most importantly, however, the new update adds the Skywrath Mage to the game, so check out its full changelog below, via the Dota 2 dev forum.
- 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.
The new patch is live on Steam and will be automatically downloaded the next time you start it up.