Dota 2 Update - October 29Th 2015

[Brick Tamland]

- Added a list of games with open lobbies to custom games overview page

- Added a Game Of The Day to custom games overview page

- Added a new tickets area on Player Profiles

- Added support for offline solo play

- Added Downloads section to the Watch tab that lets you view, rename, delete, and browse the replays that you've downloaded

- Added a new matchmaking region in Tokyo with additional connectivity to Taiwan and Korea

- Added the ability in the Tournament Details popup to expand a tournament series and, for each game in the series, go to the match details as well as see the heroes played and duration of the match

- Fixed bug where loss of Steam or game coordinator connectivity would prevent reconnection to the game server

- Custom Games: Added over 800 new voice lines to the Default Announcer for Custom Games to use

- Low Priority games now use Single Draft rather than All Random

- The Owned Item Details page now allows you to purchase chisels and hammers when you try to add sockets or remove gems

- The Owned Item Details page now allows you to change item name or description, as well as clear gifting information. You no longer may change this information from the armory.

- Bundles now show 'Preview Full Set' in their armory context menus

- 6.85b: Scepter Doom no longer increases damage

- 6.85b: Scorched Earth damage and heal reduced from 12/24/36/48 to 12/23/34/45

- 6.85b: Scorched Earth cooldown rescaled from 60/55/50/45 to 55

- 6.85b: Spiderlings Poison Sting slow reduced from 12% to 8%

- 6.85b: The main client will be updated with the 6.85b changes after the conclusion of the Nanyang tournament

- Fixed Brewmaster not facing the direction of the Brewling he reappears in at the end of Primal Split.

- Fixed Sanity's Eclipse draining Current Mana rather than Max mana

- Replaced dota_unit_allow_moveto_direction with +dota_unit_movetodirection which can now be bound to a key

- Fixed various cases where error models would appear

- Fixed Armory UI crashes on low end machines

- Fixed a bug that could cause visual effects to look incorrect due to a sorting issue with particles

- Added ability to equip and unequip items to the Owned Item Details page

- Fixed Night Stalker's Black Nihility's particles disappearing when the day/night cycle changed

- Fixed portrait for Terrorblade Form of Eternal Purgatory demon

- Reduced rendertarget memory usage on low-end video configs

- Reduced steady-state memory usage on all configs

- Fixed announcers in custom games

- SFM: character picker now allows customizing individual items in addition to item sets

- SFM: fixed phoneme extraction

- Custom Games: Added Entities:GetPhysicalArmorValue(), Entities:GetBonusPhysicalArmor() and Entities:GetMagicalArmorValue().

- Custom Games: Fixed bug where scaleform ultimate pips could draw behind a panorama-only topbar

- Custom Games: Added support for suppressing the endgame scaleform chat: DotaDefaultUIElement_t.DOTA_DEFAULT_UI_ENDGAME_CHAT

- Custom Games: Added .ColorBlindModeEnabled style on dota root panels when colorblind mode is enabled

- Workshop Importer: Added Exorcism Ghost and Spirit Bear templates

- Workshop Importer: Fixed crash when importing loading screens

- Workshop Importer: Portrait editor now previews the correct portrait animation and allows any animation to be selected for preview.

- Fixed a bug where previewing the Ribbi'tar would not show the the Ward properly

- Fixed various minor bugs when using preview full set

- Fixed a bug where taunt sounds of the loadout screen could sometimes still be heard in-game

- The Owned Item Details page no longer scrolls to the top when you change the item in any way

- Fixed some bugs with Team creation level requirement

- Fixed a bug where the socketing section of Owned Item Details page was visible even on items that were not socketable

- Charge counts for limited use items like chisels or hammers is now displayed on their tooltip

- Loading screens for non-custom games now display tips. You can turn off this behavior in the Options menu.

- Fixed hitboxes for Padda'pon of Ribbi'tar

- Fixed style naming for Vengeful Spirit Fallen Spirit Head items

- Fixed mesh intersection for Templar Assassin Onyx Lotus legs

- Fixed hitboxes for Nature's Prophet's "Evergreen Stalker" treants

- Fixed a rendering crash when recompiling a model in tools mode

- Fixed a bug with skins not being set properly on dynamic_props

- Added beta support for Direct3D9Ex (reduces memory usage and improves alt-tab experience, requires Windows Vista or higher, may not work well with all video drivers; we are currently beta testing this feature, use the launch option d3d9ex to enable and please report bugs)

 

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