Dota 2 Update - January 17Th, 2013

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Added Least Played mode to matchmaking! In this mode players can only choose from a list of their least played heroes. This mode is great for learning new heroes since everyone will be on equal footing.

 

GAMEPLAY

- Faceless Void: Fixed Backtrack working on HP Removal.

- Medusa: Mystic Snake now returns to restore you when it is blocked by Linken's Sphere.

- Meepo: Fixed an exploit with boot selection

- Riki: Fixed an issue with Permanent Invisibility on respawning.

- Slark: Fixed Impale based stuns not getting removed by Dark Pact.

- Issuing the haste command to the courier with the new UI no longer interrupts channeling spells on the primary hero.

- Fixed an exploit allowing items to be combined from multiple owners.

- Fixed Thunderclap being purgable.

- Fixed Malefice being purgable.

- Fixed Poison Touch being purgable and its interaction with BKB

- Fixed Brewmaster's Dispel not dealing damage to illusions.

- Fixed illusion damage interaction with other things that modify outgoing damage percentage (like Quelling Blade).

- Fixed being unable to target yourself with Force Staff if you are magic immune.

- Least Played Mode: The top 20 winning heroes for each player will be disabled. Heroes with less than 3 wins will not be disabled.

 

UI

- Fixed an exploit that let you bring up the panel to repick after the game started

- The Balanced Shuffle button now shows up for all non-league private lobbies.

- Fixed Nightstalker's darkness indicator persisting across games.

- Abandoned games are marked in the match history

 

BOTS

- Added Drow bot.

- Added Warlock bot (and Warlock Golem bot).

- Added support for bots using unique attack modifiers to harass while laning.

- Fixed bug that was causing bots to farm for buyback much earlier than they should.

- Fixed bug that was causing some bots to get stuck when trying to use a Tango.

- Bots that are lanemates of a carry will no longer jungle during the laning phase.

- If a hero is already jungling during the laning phase, additional bots will not jungle.

 

WORKSHOP

- Added Import Courier and Import Ward.

- Added support for animations and attachment points.

- Added Quicksave & Quickload import buttons to make it easy to redo a previous import.

- Added Centaur Warrunner, Batrider, Mirana, Keeper of the Light, Shadow Demon, and Slark to the Hero list (and http://www.dota2.com/workshop/requirements).

- Preview now allows you to add multiple cosmetic items onto the preview Hero.

- Preview now has a Portrait camera view.

- Preview now allows you to select a skin on models with multiple skins.

- Preview now visualizes attachment points on models that require attachments to be valid.

- Improved validation of polygon and bone count of submitted models.

 

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