Dota 2 Update - July 19, 2012

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HIGHLIGHTS

- Added Naga Siren!

- Added new stats dropdown feature when spectating!

- Enabled Naga Siren in Captain's Mode

 

GAMEPLAY

- Added Naga Siren!

- Enabled Naga Siren in Captain's Mode.

- Beastmaster: Fixed the path that Wild Axes take. It should now work the way it was originally intended.

- Disruptor: Fixed Glimpse affecting Warlock's Golem and Spirit Bear.

- Rubick: Fixed Warlock's Shadow Word refreshing its debuff version when stolen and cast as a buff.

- Rubick: Fixed Dazzle's Weave refreshing its debuff version when stolen and cast as a buff.

- Rubick: Fixed restealing an ability (stealing another ability in-between) not restting its cooldown.

- Silencer: Fixed Curse of the Silent affecting Warlock's Golem and Spirit Bear.

- Storm Spirit: Fixed Static Remnant blocking creep camps.

- Templar Assassin: Fixed Refraction being dispellable.

- Undying: Fixed a case where early game zombies could sometimes get stuck with an earlier or invalid level of Deathlust into the late game.

- Undying: Fixed Zombies being controllable when their target goes invisible.

- Wisp: Fixed Spirits detonating on non-hero units like Spirit Bear.

- Fixed Diffusal Blade stopping Force Staff movement.

- Fixed Templar Assassin's Refraction and Pipe causing Blink Dagger to not get disabled.

- Fixed illusion item locations not matching the source hero.

 

 

SPECTATOR:

- The Director will now acknowledge all Ultimate usages not just the ones that damage, so you can no longer pretend that Echo Slam in the jungle by yourself didn't happen.

- Tweaks to Directed camera framing and movement.

 

 

UI

- Added chat spam throttling.

- Players that have not purchased a Tournament Pass will no longer be able to watch that Tournament's replays.

- Sellback times no longer expire when moving items to the courier.

- Commendations are now only allowed from within games.

- Commendation totals are not incremented until the game is finished.

- Commendation totals are not incremented if the game was less than 10 minutes long.

- Fixed item stocks not restoring correctly when multiple items are sold back within the sellback time.

- Added a message when a player destroys the Aegis.

- Added confirmation dialog before starting a Tournament game with one or more teams not specified.

- Added client-side console variables allowing spectators to locally disable certain announcer lines. Especially useful for broadcasters. The cvars are:

- cl_dota_speech_spec_towerattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_towerfalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_barracksattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_barracksfalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_ancientattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_enemybasefalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_idles .

- Set any of them to '0' to prevent that line from playing. (Broadcasters will almost always want to set cl_dota_speech_spec_idles 0 ).

- Multiple players who have the same announcer equipped in the same game should now hear the same line being spoken.

 

 

BOTS

- Enabled AFK and leaver penalties for co-op bot matches.

- Re-enabled rewards for co-op bot matches.- Added new stats dropdown feature when spectating!

 

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