Dota 2 New Team Matchmaking : 1v1 Mode and Team MMR

Two stretch goals rewards have been delivered in the 437.9 Mb main client update. The first one is the favorite hero challenge, and added were in-game performance analysis tool to help players track or see their progress. The next one delivered is stretch goal reward # 11, a 1v1 matchmaking option.

The team matchmaking system has also been modified, and is now merged into ranked matchmaking. You can now have the option to select a team when you form a party of five to seven.

Team matchmaking is now a part of ranked matchmaking, meaning the pool of available opponents for teams and full parties is now much larger. To play as a team, form a party of five players. If there is a team roster that contains all members of your party, you will then be presented with the option to play using that team’s identity. Choosing to use a team identity means it will be displayed in game, and matchmaking will use that team’s MMR. If you choose not to use a team identity, you’ll simply play as an ordinary group of five players.

Teams will be preferentially matched with other teams, however they may also be matched with a party of five that is not using a team identity.

We’ve also made it easier to coordinate with friends to play as a team by increasing the maximum team roster size to seven members. However, keep in mind that any roster change will result in the recalculation of the team’s MMR based on the ranking of each team member.

To make way for this new approach to ranked Team Matchmaking, we have cleared the MMRs of all existing teams. Teams will enter MMR calibration when they play their next game.

Finally, the participation requirements, available game modes, and abandonment rules for team matchmaking are now the same as ordinary ranked matchmaking.

In Compendium news, two stretch goal rewards have been released. The 1v1 Practice Mode lets you find a short match to practice your mid lane against different matchups. With the Favorite Hero Challenge, some new analysis tools have been added to help you track your performance.

Dota 2 Practice 1v1 (Gameplay)

Dota 2 Update - June 18th, 2014 

STRETCH GOALS

• Compendium Reward Released: Added Favorite Hero Challenge
• Select a Favorite Hero in the compendium, and try out the new in-game performance analysis tool
• Compendium Reward Released: Added 1v1 Practice Mode
• Practice solo midlane against one other player

TEAM MATCHMAKING

• Team matchmaking is now merged into ranked matchmaking
• To play as a team, prepare a party of five for ranked matchmaking. Then select the option to play using the team identity.
• Max team roster size increased from 5 to 7. Any team roster change will reset the team MMR.
• You may not create a team or be a member of a team until you reach level 13. (Existing teams with players lower than level 13 are not removed from the roster, but will be prevented from matchmaking.)
• Abandonment rules and available game modes are now the same as ordinary ranked matchmaking.
• You may not participate in team matchmaking while in the low priority matchmaking pool.
• Teams will only be matched against other ranked parties of five, preferably against other parties playing using a team identity, but potentially against ordinary parties not using a team identity.

INTERFACE

• Visual update to the Hero Picker and Loadout Browser.
• Combined co-op and normal bot match tabs.
• Several ability and item tooltip adjustments.
• Updated controls when watching replays, it now auto-hides at the bottom of the screen.
• Team profiles for pro teams now only display official player names, and have limited right-click options.
• Game end scoreboard now shows rank changes and fantasy points in ranked and league matches, respectively.
• Added a Player Score details popup to the Fantasy Roster and Matchup pages.
• Spectators can now see item tooltips on purchase announcements.

CAMERA

• While in game, changing the camera zoom level is now smooth.
• Double tapping Select All will now center the camera on your hero.
• Fixed bug where panning the camera or clicking on the minimap did not immediately update the camera's height.
• Spectators can now zoom out while using the Directed Camera, Free Camera, and Hero Chase Camera.
• Fixed a bug in Showcase View where if you clicked on another unit to begin dragging the camera, you would move to that hero.
• Increased the click radius for selecting another unit in Showcase View.
• Showcase View no longer defaults to the front of the selected unit, unless it’s the first time, or unless the player is in another player’s perspective (including broadcasters).
• Fixed a bug where the camera’s transition into Showcase View would rotate in an awkward way.

MISC

Improved effectiveness of language matching in the matchmaking algorithm.

BOTS

Added bot for Bristleback.

GAMEPLAY BUGS

• Fixed a bug where Tether could sometimes move Io towards the previously Tethered unit instead
• Fixed large stacks of Thirst sometimes letting you run through Kinetic Field and Pounce's Leash
• Fixed Cleave not hurting units that are currently being teleported to
• Fixed an issue with Sleight of Fist and Disarm not interacting properly
• Fixed Huskar 's Burning Spears malfunctioning on rare occasions
• Fixed Ember Spirit sometimes being affected by damage reflection while invulnerable in Sleight of Fist
• Daedalus now plays the crit sound on an attack connecting, rather than on attack start 

Patch Information

• ESL One Frankfurt 2014 rewards have been added to the ticket. Mostly dispatched to previous buyers too

New Treasure Chests

Treasure of the Shattered Hourglass | Store Link | Preview

• Eul's Scepter of the Magus
• Rigwarl's Spiny Demeanor
• Defiled Stinger
• Tentacles of Nether Reach
• Heretic Enclave
• Thunder Rogue's Braid
• Scrapper's Helm
• Flail of the Drunken Cask
• Aged Spirit of Tide - Rare Bonus
• Snapjaw - Super Rare Bonus

Treasure of the Sunken Maiden | Store Link | Preview

• Tormentor's Diadem
• Luscious Locks
• Berserker's Nethersteel Barbute
• Crown of the Merciless
• Malefic Nether Focus
• Soothsayer's Spectral Strands
• Moonrider's Lucent Headdress
• Thorned Mane
• Scientific Curiousity - Rare Bonus
• Scribbins the Scarab - Super Rare Bonus

Economy Updates

New Dota TV Tickets

• Brazilian Dota League
• KUL Gaming Cup

The International 2014 Couriers

• Mechjaw has been renamed to Mechjaw the Boxhound
• Octopus has been renamed to Oculopus

Compendium

• Pudgling has been added to the schema.

Brands

• Funn1k brand now has images and banners.
• Fnatic brand now has images and banners
• LGD brand now has images and banners.
• Empire brand now has images and banners.

Unreleased Chests'

• Treasure of the Meticulous Sculptor - Currently has the contents defined as the Sunken Maiden but that is work in progress.

Others

• Relic Sword is now Mythical from Rare.
• New attribute: "tooltip event icon"
• Frull Courier added to the schema last patch now has particle effects.
• Fixes to the Vici Gaming and Empire pennant.
• Torneo Tecnobar De Dota 2 - Dota TV ticket fixed to work correctly.
• Helm of the Stormlands added to the GEST Ticket. Fixed bug.
• Particle System added for some new cosmetic items: Primeval Set for Nature's Prophet, Scouring Dunes Set for Sand King, Divine Anchor Set for Kunkka and the new couriers.

Updated Icons

• Updated icons for Gold and Sterling Gems
• Updated icons for Na`Vi.US to show their new team logo.
• A few more icon updates but insignificant. You can check them out here

Item Drop List Updates

Removed

• Clergy Ascetic Set
• Silent Guardian Set
• Despite Set
• Eki Bukaw Set

String Updates

• Some new strings for the Fantasy League.
• New announcement to let people know that they need to be above Level 13 to participate in Team Matchmaking.
• Updated strings at team creation screen to let them know they can participate in ranked team matchmaking.
• Strings to let people know that they can't participate in ranked MM if they are in low priority.
• Updated Strings for the new loadout and hero selection screen.
• Strings to let team members know that in team MM if a player from their team leaves, they will be awarded a loss and that they will lose MMR.

Spectator Tooltips

• New strings to work with the replay system changes: Auto-Speed, Live and Go Live.
• Option to jump ahead of the draft in replays.
• Combat log now shows items and abilities separately.

Tooltip Updates

There are far too many tiny changes. So I'll just mention the heroes that the tweaks have been made to.

• Pulse Nova, Pudge Hook, Rupture, Culling Blade, Meld, Ice Vortex, Acid Spray, Unstable Concoction, Cold Snap, Ghost Walk, Tornado, Chaos Meteor, Forge Spirits, Ice Wall, Defeaning Blast, Soul Assumption Tether, Shadow Dance, Ancient Seal, Natural Order have had their tooltips updated.
• Etheral Blade, Ghost Scepter, Orb of Venom, Veil of Discord have had their tooltips updated.

Pro-Playe Set Strings

• Ars-Art
• Solo
• YYF
• ZSMJ
• NS
• Funn1k

Compendium Strings

• Updates to the Dreamleague and ESL One Frankfurt Compendium content.
• When a compendium game goes live, there is now a LIVE GAME seal to show that.

New Player Strings

• The string have been refined again to ask them even more nicely which game they are from and how they would find themselves comfortable playing Dota.

Custom Game Updates

• New lobby strings for Custom Games for unpublished mods.
• "To test your unpublished game mode with other people, all participants must manually install the game mode in their dota_addons folder."
• Strings for custom lobbies by Friends so you can join them quickly.
• You can subscribe to custom game modes and search by them accordingly.
• Dota 2 Workshop Tools are going to be released before custom games are added. You need to have them installed before trying out custom games. They are currently in beta.

Unreleased Content Strings

• "Unlock Emoticons" for the TI4 Emoticon Pack. Opening an emoticon pack will consume the pack and add the emoticons to your account.

Workshop Updates

• Phantom Assassin weapon particles have been split to have ambient effects separately now.

Audio Updates

• Base pitch of Midnight Pulse has been increased from 95 to 100.
• Some fine tuning to Axe's sound set.
• Compendium Level Up and Point Usage now have sound effects.
• A LOT of hanges are being made to make audio mods a thing. All custom sound packs are being separated. The default Valve pack is being called "valve_dota_001". This is being done for the Compendium reward and any audio packs for the future.
• Terrorblade Arcana sounds are now separated from the default file pack.
• The announcer packs now have a new string called "speakonce" for most of the basic announcement dialogs like "All Pick, All Random, Choose a Hero and etc etc."
• New music effect entries for worldmap, death music, ganked music and etc.

Hero Updates

• Heroes have now been added a new tag that defines whether or not they are enabled for All Random Death Match.
• All heroes now have tags that define their hero selection sound effect and loadout scaling to work with the new loadout.

Spell Updates

Phoenix

• Fixes to the Launch Fire Spirit of Phoenix: HP cost percentage fixed from 15 to 20 and DPS at max level from 75 to 70.
• Sunray damage type is now fixed to be Pure.
• Fire Spirits damage type is now fixed to be Magical.
• Icarus Dive damage type fixed to be magical.

Portrait Updates

• Fullbody Portrait updates to pretty much every hero to suit the new loadout.
• Venomancer Centipede Ward now has a portrait.
• Frull Courier that was added to the schema now has a portrait.
• Fixes to Lt. Squawkins TI4 Compendium Courier portrait.
• Fixes to teh Iron Claw Bear Form Portrait.
• Fixes to the Venomancer Death Bringer ward.

New Portraits

Some of these items are unreleased.

• Warlocks Golem Ahmhedoq
• Cadenza Forge Spirit
• Tentacles of Nether Reach Pugna Ward
• Heretic Enclave Exorcism Units
• Scribbin the Scarab Courier
• Tink Ward, Snapjaw Courier
• Geoedesic Eidolon Enigma
• Enchanted Vision Ward
• Stonebound Ward
• Tangki Serpent Shadow Shaman Ward

Sources: Dota 2 Blog, Gosugamers, Reddit