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General[ | ]
- Reduced alternate pick "pre-select" time to 30 seconds
- Draft picking has been reworked, it should now work in all modes
- Added connect/disconnect/kicked messages to the game lobby
- Account passwords are no longer saved locally in plain text
- Players on a team of two or less cannot be kicked
- Spectators can no longer call votes
Gameplay[ | ]
- Updated many skills and abilities to properly work with illusions
- Many skills and traits that illusions previously would inherit are no longer inherited
- Note that a number of items and skills need special scripting such that illusions still play the special effects associated with them
- Added bonus gold and experience for being within radius of a hero kill
- Players within a 1000 radius of an enemy hero kill will receive 12 Enemy Level in experience and 30 + 5Enemy Level in gold
- Projectiles that rely on touching units will no longer miss units with the unit walking property
- This fixes issues like Valkyrie's Javelin of Light missing invisible units
- Affectors will now properly follow the terrain
- This fixes issues such as Slither's Poison Spray not going up cliffs
Heroes[ | ]
- New hero, based off DOTA hero Sand King
- Lore: The primordial and elemental creature known as Magmus is no demon, though he fights alongside the Hellbourne. Rather, he was drawn forth from the earth, as evil calls to evil and separate flames join to form an inferno. A holdover from an ancient, cataclysmic age of fire, Magmus dreams of returning Newerth to ash, lava, and cinder, and he wields his considerable might and magic in that terrible cause.
Lava Surge:
- Riding on lava, Magmus surges toward a target location, damaging and stunning enemy units in his path.
Steam Bath:
- Magmus releases extreme heat, toasting the area around him. The resulting steam damages nearby enemy units over time and cloaks Magmus from enemy eyes.
Volcanic Touch:
- Upon attacking enemy units, Magmus' flaming mace instills an intense heat in them. If they die while under the effects of this intense heat, they explode, damaging the nearby enemies of Magmus.
- Eruption:
- Magmus channels the power of the lava, releasing it after a short delay. The resulting lava grows over time, damaging nearby enemies over several seconds.
- Base intelligence gain from 1.8 to 1.5
- Webbed Shot:
- the first two levels have a 2 second cooldown
- Spider Sting:
- Some tweaks:
- The Spiderling will now last for 5 attacks, reduced from 6
- Rather than using health, the Spiderling will be destroyed after being attacked 3 times
- Fixed an issue causing the spiderling to sometimes become idle if its target became invulnerable for any length of time
- Some tweaks:
- Base strength increased from 17 to 23
- Rewind:
- Removed visual cooldown. The effects on Rewind will not play if the source of the damage is a DOT
- Protective Charm:
- Removed speed buff
- Duration changed to 5/10/15/20 seconds, from 5/8/11/14 seconds
- Sol's Blessing:
- The passive effects should now be more obvious on heroes
- Chuck:
- Fixed the ability sometimes not dealing damage
- Carnivorous:
- Heals self and damages target for 4/5/6/7% of their current health, increased from 3.75/4.5/5.25/6%
- Venomous Leap:
- Cooldown set to 20/17/14/11 seconds, from 30/25/20/15 seconds
- Electric Eye:
- Creeps will no longer automatically attack electric eyes
- Spirit Ward:
- Will no longer have its damage be reduced by items like helm of the black legion
Items[ | ]
- Will now dispel on ranged heroes when the projectile is spawned, rather than at the very start of the attack animation
- Now applies its armor reduction state before the damage of the attack is calculated
- This means that the first attack for units using a Shieldbreaker will do the correct amount of damage
- Puzzlebox Mauler and Wizard are now slightly smaller at level 1 and slightly bigger at levels 2 and 3
- Armor reduced from 7 to 5, state duration increased from 5 to 6 seconds, cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds
Bug Fixes & Optimizations[ | ]
- Some tweaks that should fix most "can't login" and "can't see the game list" issues
- Abilities no longer display as "out of mana" when the user is affected by a free mana cast state
- Loading race numbers will now properly restart at 1 with each new game
- Fixed issues with levelup tool tips showing " Immunity" instead of the correct immunity type (ex "Magic Immunity")
- Fixed issues with tool tips not updating their states when a modifier was active. This fixes things like Slither's ult's damage not updating in the tool tip.
- Fixed an issue causing towers not to prioritize gadgets properly in certain situations
- Fixed repicking in a force random game being able to re-select the same hero
- Fixed an issue where two units with Barbed Armor active couldn't damage each other
- Fixed a server crash when using auto-balance
- Fixed a bug allowing terminated players to be vote kicked
- Fixed getting kicked from a game midway through for Invalid Tier or Leaver status
- Fixed shop tooltips