Dota 2 Update - July 31, 2014 | The Purple is gone!  Treasure Chest Update Treasure of the Emerald Dragon

PATCH REVERTED - Maybe they will dispatch it again today or maybe tomorrow. Can't say. But I analyzed it fully. So that's good news.

Patch Information


  • The Purple is gone!
  • The International 2014 Evolving Battle Bonus has now expired.
  • The Fantasy League Season 1 ticket store entry has now been removed. The tickets now have an expiration date set to August 15, 2014.
  • The International chests are still here. Not expired yet.

Compendium Updates


The booklet has now been updated to show the winners of the voting contests.
  • Arcana Showdown: Phantom Assassin
  • Voice Vote: Spectre
  • Model Rework: Faceless Void
  • New - Team Shuffle Predictions: You get to pick if the player stays with their current team or not.

Economy Updates


Treasure Chest Update Treasure of the Emerald Dragon


Now has an updated inventory icon. The chest includes -
  • Hookblade of Skadi: Slark cosmetic has been renamed from Eye of SkadiEye of Skadi avoid confusion. It comes with custom ambient particles.
  • Hell's Guide: Phantom Assassin Weapon now has it's own custom particle set and is now a Rare item from Mythical.
  • Nightsilver Gryphon: Mirana mount set to rare.
  • Burning Fiend: Doom Bringer weapon is now a Rare item from Mythical. It now has a custom animation effect that comes with a gem.
  • Heavy Wingblade: Formerly known as Inscribed Sword.

Dota TV Tickets


  • joinDOTA League Season 3 | Store Link
  • Korean Dota League Season 3 comes with the Boooofus courier. | Store Link
  • Battle Arena Tournament
  • SDL 2014 Season 3
  • World Esports Championship
  • NADota Elite League August
  • Ossetia Open Cup Season 1
  • Inter-Cafe Championship - Powered by Logitech G
  • Prime DX Dota 2 Master Tournament
  • Battle 4 Arcana

Others

  • Fantasy Tickets are no longer marketable or tradeable.
  • Braids of the Dragonfire - Lina item is set to the rarity of "Rare"
  • Ahm'Hedoq infernal reverting to default after level 11 or with Aghanim's Scepter Aghanim's Scepter has been fixed.
  • Bundles that have gems installed on them will have those gems randomly embedded in to one of the items in the bundle when the bundle is opened. Spectator Gems on the other hand will be moved to all items in the bundle.
  • New in-game ad that says New Chat Emoticon Packs are coming soon to the Dota 2 store.

Item Drop List Updates


Removed


The full names of these sets are obviously longer. But you should be able to google them with the tag of Dota 2 to find them easily.
  • The Bird's Stone Set
  • Shadowcat Set
  • The Conjurer Set
  • The Command Set
  • The Malovalent Set
  • The Control Set

Spectator Updates


These are not yet active .. but wow!
  • FIGHT RECAP: There are new commands for that have the ability to call for info and give you a fight recap.
  • JUMP TO FIGHT: A new spectator feature in being considered that allows you to jump to a fight with the click of a button. This feature is powered by the activity in the combat log. Many asked for this. There's most of it set in place for this to go live soon.
  • More commands to allow refining of the control of the free camera. You can now tweak values such as movement acceleration, fog end and start, movement max speed, mouse rotation and etc.
  • BASE RACE: Multi-view support coming to Dota 2 soon. HOLY SHIT!

Game Updates


  • Max Couriers that can be purchased per player in a game is now set to 24
  • All items now have tags that have them prepared for the upcoming Fight Recap system.
  • All hero abilities have now been tagged and prepared for the upcoming Fight Recap system.

Audio Updates


  • Terrorblade Arcana sound modifiers have been updated to the new audio system that Dota 2 follows.
  • Some fixes to the Lion phonemes.
  • Minor updates to the response rules of Shadow Shaman, Lion, Skywrath Mage.
  • Some overall tweaks have been done to the volumes in the mixer.
  • A lot of other audio files have now been updated to new names and path of the new audio system.

Portrait Updates


  • Legs of the Scouring Dunes items has some updated portrait fixes.

String Updates


  • New strings to warn you when your Steam Overlay is turned off. It will let you know that Steam Overlay is needed for full functionality of Dota 2 and you will be prompted to enable it.

Workshop Updates


  • Workshop imports and exports now have the ability to use custom paths instead of the default Dota 2 folder.
  • Maximum polygons for the Batrider mount increased from 1000 to 1500.

Custom Games


  • A lot of updates are going on the backend for this. The Dota 2 Workshop Tools have now been added as a DLC for the Dota 2 app. It is available on the backend across all regions and languages.
  • New strings for custom map and lobby support.
  • New strings for testing out an unpublished map with other people. They all need to manually add the map to the addons folder of Dota 2.
  • New strings for uploading Custom Games to the Workshop.
  • New strings for your subscribed game modes and your local files.
  • New strings to let you know when your custom game got updated and promot you to restart Dota 2 to update to the latest version.

Upcoming Content


Note: The information you read after this point are some of the upcoming changes to the game based off backend changes. They may or may not be a part of this particular patch . If they are a part of this one, I'll update the post to say so.


Economy Updates

 

Upcoming Sets


  • Array of Tranquility: Windranger| Preview includes a loading screen.
  • Eternal Nymph: Puck | Preview includes a loading screen.
  • Father of the Forest: Nature's Prophet | Preview includes a loading screen.
  • Firestarter: Batrider| Preview includes a loading screen.
  • Imperial Relics: Dark Seer | Preview
  • Wandering Harlequin's Regalia: Rubick| Preview
  • The Mourning Mother: Death Prophet | Preview

Couriers


  • Grimoire, the Book Wyrm

Wearable Item Categories


  • Fuel Cannister
  • Gas Mask
  • Gas Pump
  • Totems

  • Raw Schema: Link
  • No changelog yet.

Patch Size: 256.9 Mb

Note: The second 226 Mb patch was a full revert. The animations and particles got broken because of the recap system files that got added. That's why the redownload.

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