[Reimu]

Alright DOTA 2 is updating I-
>it's just SMNC

Edited:

HOWEVER:
http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?...l=1#post124482

We are taking the Europe server region offline in five minutes to prep for our update. Other regions will not be effected at this time. Games on European servers will be interrupted.

yaaay

[Rats808]

"Outworld Destroyer" instead of Obsidian Destroyer.

[Dogchow33]

Rats808 posted:

"Outworld Destroyer" instead of Obsidian Destroyer.

Only one hero? Well hell, I got excited for nothing to try out Gyrocopter.

[Horse Strangler]

Sounds so much less cooler.

[Reimu]

You're missing the headline guys
CM in matchmaking!

[Dogchow33]

Reimu posted:

You're missing the headline guys
CM in matchmaking!

What exactly is Captain's Mode, do you have a team captain that picks everyone's hereos?

[The Mighty Boat]

wHAT THE FUCK IS AN OUTWORLD DESTROYER

[Eesha]

The Mighty Boat posted:

wHAT THE FUCK IS AN OUTWORLD DESTROYER

obsidian destroyer :V

[Horse Strangler]

- When a player is banned, everyone who reported them since their last ban receives a message when they next login informing them that justice has been served.

LOLE

[Rats808]

Dogchow33 posted:

What exactly is Captain's Mode, do you have a team captain that picks everyone's hereos?

Each team has a captain (blue for radiant, pink for dire) that first bans 2 heroes, then picks 3, then bans another 2, then picks the last 2. After that, everyone takes one of the heroes that the captain picked to play as.

Edited:



Fucking awesome.

[Reimu]

Dogchow33 posted:

What exactly is Captain's Mode, do you have a team captain that picks everyone's hereos?

Sort of.
Basically, each team has a captain (party/lobby leader) and the captains alternate between banning certain heroes and picking heroes. When heroes have been completely picked & banned, then each player chooses their own hero and the game begins.

The point is to purposefully develop a team with good chemistry while banning heroes who will obstruct, counter, or otherwise hinder your team. It upps the amount of strategy in DOTA and makes the game 50% bans/picks, 50% actual game/meta-game.

[CowThing]

- Fixed sweet exploit where you could buy a nice juicy passive item, give it to another friendly hero, have that hero die and upon respawn the passive effects of the item would be granted -- Desolator would start desolating, butterfly would start buttering, etc.

What does this even mean?

[Horse Strangler]

CowThing posted:

What does this even mean?

Snip*I was wrong.

[Rats808]

CowThing posted:

What does this even mean?

You could buy an item with a passive and give it to an ally, which would normally make it not work for them, then if they died it would work for them.

Edited:

Horse Strangler posted:

Snip*I was wrong.

Not necessarily I think we were both just guessing.
Could have been what he said, too.

[Reimu]

Rats I sent you an invite join our chat and see DOTA vets get mad that there's only one new hero

[aydin690]

Only obsidian destroyer?!

On the bright side, our game team has been working as usual, building new heroes and features. So you can expect our next update, which we’re probably going to regret saying will be out next week, to be a packed one.

Eat shit valve.

[Rats808]

aydin690 posted:

Only obsidian destroyer?!



Eat shit valve.

It's still a really long changelog.

+We still have the Dota 2 Test release, which will probably be a lot more.

[Thugaim]

Wait you can get banned if you get enough reports? Sounds exploitable to me.

[Terin7]

- Added new game mode: Single Draft.
- New interface for finding lobbies.
- Added game mode (AP, SD, CM) selection for matchmaking.
- Your own private games are now displayed in your match history.

Yessssssss

Those options are so much better than an extra hero for me.

[CowThing]

Thugaim posted:

Wait you can get banned if you get enough reports? Sounds exploitable to me.

I assume it has to be a ridiculously high amount of reports, and I don't think it would be an automatic ban either.

[Rats808]

Still spamming the blog with F5 because I want that blog post.

[BeardyDuck]

aydin690 posted:

Only obsidian destroyer?!



Eat shit valve.

wah wah wah

[Oicani Gonzales]

Is the update live for you guys?
My game hasn't updated yet.

[BeardyDuck]

Thugaim posted:

Wait you can get banned if you get enough reports? Sounds exploitable to me.

they review games and chatlogs.

[Dogchow33]

- Fixed being able to refresh allied items with Tinker's ultimate.

Edited:

Oicani Gonzales posted:

Is the update live for you guys?
My game hasn't updated yet.

Nope, my client hasn't updated either.

[Eesha]

someone slap in a "cool story bro".

[Rats808]

Oicani Gonzales posted:

Is the update live for you guys?
My game hasn't updated yet.

It hasn't updated yet.
AT ALL.

They released the change log, that's it so far.

Edited:

Judging purely on the amount of "my game isn't updating yet waaaah"s I've seen.

[BeardyDuck]

- Heroes now flail while getting force staffed.

lol

[Thugaim]

Update http://blog.dota2.com/

[Smashman]

Blog posted:

The new Test Build release schedule will start next week.

Edited:

'Next Week: Cold Fusion'

THEORIES, GO!

[Reimu]

aydin690 posted:

Only obsidian destroyer?!



Eat shit valve.

We're getting a new mode, mm functionality with two new modes, new interface, hero repick, replay update, a new hero, a huge amount of bug fixes and AI enhancements, and an enhanced replay system. Not getting several new heroes =/= an update that isn't packed.

[splitsticks]

Eesha posted:

If this is an actual in-game death animation I will be so happy.

[aydin690]

Reimu posted:

We're getting a new mode, mm functionality with two new modes, new interface, hero repick, replay update, a new hero, a huge amount of bug fixes and AI enhancements, and an enhanced replay system. Not getting several new heroes =/= an update that isn't packed.

I hadn't read the chat log when i posted that.

[Gorm]

I wanted single draft because all pick bored me and I like getting random heroes to select, its refreshing.
Thank you valve.

[Debauchery]

aydin690 posted:

I hadn't read the chat log when i posted that.

Don't talk shit if you can't back it up.

[Deac]

Gorm posted:

I wanted single draft because all pick bored me and I like getting random heroes to select, its refreshing.
Thank you valve.

SD has always been my favorite game type

[Ricenchicken]

What exactly is single draft? (new to dota 2).

and new guy looks sick.

[Terin7]

Ricenchicken posted:

What exactly is single draft? (new to dota 2).

and new guy looks sick.

You get a random strength, agility, and intelligence hero, and you pick one of them to play.

[Santz]

fuckkkkkkkk YEAHHHHH, Finally one of the carries I like. Outworld destroyer doesn't have the same ring to it but w/e

time for some rampages brought to you by Sanity's Eclipse

[Rats808]

Ricenchicken posted:

What exactly is single draft? (new to dota 2).

and new guy looks sick.

Everyone gets 1 str, 1 agi, 1 int to pick from, each one random from the pool. If you don't like what you got, tough shit.

In HoN you could just swap with a teammate, but Dota 2 doesn't have swap(yet?).

Edited:

Doors are closed apparently.