Dota 2 Update - January 31St, 2013

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This update has improved how Dota 2 is setup on your machine and will provide a significantly faster load time for most players. As a result of these changes, the update may take a while to download.

 

 

GAMEPLAY

- Fixed how magic damage is amplified when there are multiple sources of bonuses.

- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism healing never resetting.

- Enigma: Tightened selection area of Eidolons to make picking individual units easier when they clump

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not slowing magic immune units.

- Spectre: Spectral Dagger now properly trails invisible units.

- Spectre: Fixed various properties of Haunt illusions being incorrect.

- Tiny: Fixed Craggy Exterior working on illusions of Tiny.

- Visage: Fixed Roshan decreasing Gravekeeper's Cloak charges.

- Visage: Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak not restoring its layers independently of one another.

- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fist damage not leveling properly, damaging magic immune units, and having incorrect chance to proc.

- Fixed a bug with Radiance kill credit and illusions.

- Fixed Roshan no longer casting Slam to slow and damage nearby units.

 

UI

- The Smooth Drag option now works for anyone that's spectating (whether through DotaTV or as a broadcaster).

- Reduced waiting time in hero picker during All Random to 10 seconds.

- Reworked how your personal hero performance is done on your profile page (provide feedback here http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=431).

- Added preview for summoned items like the panda and watcher golem to store and backpack.

- Added the ability to filter out empty teams from the team list.

 

BOTS

- Fixed some incorrect timing calculations that were causing bots to miss some last hits.

- Fixed Practice vs Bots not properly selecting the nearest server.

- Fixed Death Prophet bot to know about the true range of Crypt Swarm.

- Fixed bots thrashing selling a situational item (dust, wards, TP scroll) to purchase another situational item.

 

WEBAPI

- Added Captain's Mode Picks and Bans.

- Added ability upgrade order and times to each player.

- Added inventory for additional units (Lone Druid's Spirit Bear).

- Added an API for getting match details in the order they were recorded.

 

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