Dota 2 Update - July 10Th, 2013

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Added Abaddon!

 

GAMEPLAY

- Death Prophet: Fixed AI on Exorcism spirits that caused them to sometimes be less efficient and linger on units far from you

- Doom: Fixed Doom not disabling Flak Cannon

- Huskar: Fixed being able to attack while he is leaping in Life Break

- Jakiro: Fixed Liquid Fire debuff being removed by Manta/BKB

- Lich: Fixed the order of damage instances on Frost Nova

- Omniknight: Fixed his spells not working on Mechanical units

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Stifling Dagger projectile speed traveling a little too slow

- Sven: Fixed Storm Bolt aoe not hitting invisible units

- Fixed Siege not getting increased damage when the Ranged Barracks dies

- Fixed Buckler and Mekansm +2 active armor buff stacking

- Fixed Vladmir's Offering not working on Siege units

 

TRAINING

- Added match making option to opt out of Limited Hero mode

- Fixed some players not receiving item rewards after completing training tasks

- Play Tab will now remember your previous selection

- Fixed various progression bugs in Mechanics II

- Fixed disabled skill assignment using CTRL+Ability when in tutorial

 

COMPENDIUM

- Added Player Card rewards. Unlock the Smeevil Crab mount by stamping complete teams

- Added the International Fantasy Challenge

- Added Solo Championship Voting

 

UI

- Added a hotkey to Select All Units

- Added a hotkey to activate Speed Burst on your flying courier

- Minor reorganization to control settings page

- Fixed Replay Speed Decrease hotkey missing from the configuration panel

- Increased the maximum number of total spectator slots from 14 to 22

- Removed Favorite hero count limit

- Moved Solo Only Matchmaking to a setting on the main Find Match tab.

- New Tournament Drops:

# When a player reaches a Godlike streak

# When a Courier is killed

# When a player buys a Divine Rapier

# When Earthshaker Echoslam's 5 heroes

- Increased number of item drops when a Tournament Event occurs.

- Tournament Items can now be upgraded by watching through Twitch

- Fixed Quick Cast bug preventing use on neutrals/couriers

 

VISUAL

- Fixed Global Silence not showing the visual effect on Familiars even though they are silenced

- Updated ability icons for Dark Seer and Dragon Knight

- Added new disarmed effect

- Fixes for a few portrait based effects, such as Enigma's vortex

 

AUDIO

- updated Mekansm SFX.

 

PLATFORM

- Added support for Mac OS X

Minimum Mac OS X Requirements:

OS X Lion 10.7 4GB RAM, 4GB Hard drive space. nVidia 320M or higher, or Radeon 7000 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher

- Added support for Linux

Minimum Linux System Requirements:

Ubuntu 12.04, dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz, 4GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1, 4GB Hard Drive Space, OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

Mac and Linux support is early and experimental. They will be remain in Dota 2 Test until the testing phase is complete. For reporting bugs, please see the Dota 2 GitHub at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues For community discussion of the Mac and Linux versions head to the Dota 2 Dev forums at http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=447

 

WORKSHOP

- Added Mok mandrill courier

- Added Defense Grid announcer

- Fixed orientation on Bounty Hunter's Jinada Glows on workshop items

- Fixed Nether Ward effect orientation for workshop items

- Added support for workshop authored effects on Kunkka's weapon

 

BOTS

- Bots will no longer stare at a dropped gem, futilely trying to destroy it.

 

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