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Light dwindles and cold creeps in. The Shifting Snows Update has arrived, bringing with it this year’s Winter Map as well as a small gameplay update. As heroes shiver down the lanes to meet their fate, a new effigy material has emerged from the ice, new treasures have brought new armor to warm by the fire, and the arrival of Gift Wrap heralds the season of Givening. Check out the Shifting Snows Update page for more information.

Economy Updates

Dota TV Tickets

• Red Bull LAN - Seattle | free to spectate

Economy Updates

Others

• PA Arcana no longer 20% off.
• Liga Dotera Venezolana Season 2 ticket name has been fixed to show Season 2.
• In-game ad for the charm has been removed.

A new update has been dispatched for the main client. More info will be edited in as I analyze the patch.

Economy Updates

New Sets

• Warrior of the Red Sand: Sand King - NEXON | Preview

An enigmatic new hero strides onto the battlefield. Oracle is coming to let you seize the fates of both friend and foe. Prefer to deal a deadlier destiny? Phantom Assassin’s new arcana, the Manifold Paradox, is available for preorder, and will be on sale for 20% off until December 7th. Learn about the Nemesis Assassin Event in Day 3 of the Foreseer’s Contract update, arriving this week!

IMPORTANT

NOTE: It seems like avast! is detecting the new Workshop tools patch as a virus causing it to get removed and then forcing an eventual redownload. It is a false positive. If you are using avast!, just disable or turn off protection while the patch is being downloaded. Else it will keep redownloading.

Patch Information

• Techies Update: http://www.dota2.com/techies/
• Techies Hero Page: http://www.dota2.com/hero/Techies/

Matt's Analysis

• You can check out Matt's analysis of the patch here. | Link

Economy Updates

New Bundle Store Releases

• Swine of the Sunken Galley | Store
• Techies Bombastic Box | Store
• Despair Emoticon Pack | Store

The Techies Update

Update Page: http://www.dota2.com/techies/

Official Changelog

GENERAL

• Removed waiting for spectators in private lobbies

COMMUNITY

• Increased low-priority ban rate for players who receive high numbers of reports

USER INTERFACE

• Added many new loading screen tips
• Fixed and adjusted several tooltips and ability descriptions
• Alt-clicking on an item in an enemy hero's inventory now informs your teammates that the enemy has that item
• Alt-clicking on the buyback button or your gold will notify your team of your current buyback status
• Items may now be dropped from the stash while dead
• Fixed replay highlight reel transition graphic getting stuck on sometimes
• Fixed a bug in the Coach UI where the help text sometimes overlapped the student checkboxes, rendering them unusable

Economy Updates

Dota TV Tickets

• Starladder Season X ticket is now available. Includes the Scarlet Quarry Tiny Set and Compendium (needs to be activated manually. It will show up for users when that is done). | Store Link

Changes August 25th, 2014:

• Fixed bug where the mini-map image generation did not correctly respect the mini-map bounds entities in all cases
• Fixed bug with clouds showing up in mini-map images
• Fixed bug with npc_dota_base entities not displaying correct orientation in Hammer
• Fixed crash when item socket info was missing
• Fixed occasional crash clicking the compendium 'Learn More' button
• Fixed a crash when bots were playing heroes with modified abilities
• Added many new modifier events to the data driven ability system: OnAttack, * OnAttackFailed, OnAttackAllied, OnCreated, OnProjectileDodge, OnEquip, OnOrder, OnUnitMoved, OnAbilityStart, OnAbilityEndChannel, OnStateChanged, OnRespawn, OnSpentMana, OnTeleporting, OnTeleported, OnHealthGained, OnManaGained, OnHeroKilled, OnHealReceived
• Fixed a crash bug with data-driven items with auras
• Can now use %attack_damage in data-driven abilities to get the damage an attack has inflicted
• Exposed SetAcquisitionRange in script which can now be used to control the aggro range of units
• Added "npc_kill" as a cheat console command
• Base strength, agility and intellect can now be set to zero on custom units
• Added table-based NPC spawn function CreateUnitFromTable to allow arbitrary entity keyvalues
• Exposed the ParticleManager:DestroyParticle call
• Think functions now get the entity as a parameter
• Changed dota_player_used_ability to use PlayerID as an argument to conform with other events and the documentation
• ScriptedSpawner now spawns units on the same team as the spawner itself
• Fixed bug where units could be stuck inside a point_obstruction when toggled on. New behavior will push units to a clear space if caught inside when enabled 

New Treasure Chest

Treasure of the Fractured Prism

This is a promotional chest for the Korean folk.

The whole event was called 도친소 which was an abbreviation for "Let's introduce our friends to dota". The event consists of 4 stages, of which two are already completed.

Stage 1: introduce friends to dota link

Invite friends to play dota, and for each person you invite you get more stuff.

• 3 people invite: limited edition item I
• 15 people invited: limited edition item II
• 30: Headset and TI4 Plushie
• 50: Keyboard+Mouse and TI4 Plushie
• 100: Nexon cash with a value of ~500 dollars
• ?Mystery present?: Out of those who have invited over 100 people, one user will be drawn to receive a special item.

Also, there was an "attendance check", and every 5 times, you got a nexon box.

Stage 2: Play lobby games with friends link

For every ~5 games or so, you get in-game cash, as well as the ability to gift your friends the nexon boxes (no idea how this worked, since I didn't do it)

Stage 3: Let's play together link

Play games on Korean server, and fulfill certain conditions to earn either a Nexon box, in-game money, or a raffle ticket (for a chance to win a 27" monitor, one of 3 graphics cards, one of 3 SSDs and one of 5HDDs).
This is ongoing, you have to simply play a normal/ranked game for the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th days, and win the games on the other days. Each day you claim a prize.

And stage 4 is some crap about taking a photo with your newly introduced friend along with some recounting of how much fun you had for a chance at gift certificates link

Economy Updates

New Currency Support

Massive number of changes to add support for new currencies in the Dota 2 Store. All the items entries have now been changed to work with that. The entire set of supported currencies are listed below.

Patch Information

• A major bug dealing with players being able to crash servers seems to have been resolved with this patch.

Here is what the main client patch from today contains.

Compendium Updates

• The Main Event Predictions of The International 2014 have been updated.
• The Player Predictions of The International 2014 have been updated.

Question: Did anyone manage to predict Top 6 teams correctly in the right order and win 10,000 points?

Patch Information

The issue with some Workshop content redownloading over and over again has been fixed in the last Steam Beta Client update. If you were facing that, I suggest you get the latest update.

Patch Information

The dispatch breakdown suggests that it is a fix to the patch that went wrong last week. You can read all about that patch below.

• July 30, 2014 Patch Analysis

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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 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.

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Portrait Updates

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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• Raw Schema: Link
• No changelog yet.

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Patch Size: 256.9 Mb

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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.

Economy Updates

New Dota TV Tickets

• Dota 2 Latino Cup Season 2
• Dota 2 Canada Cup Season 3 includes Bearszky
• Gamersportperu Season 6
• Balkan Challenger

New Treasure Chest

Champion's Chest | Store Link

This chest contains another set of the Workshop promotional items from The international 4. It includes -

• Coveted Arms Cache Bundle includes Tahlin Hookblades (Riki Weapons), Dragonblades (Bloodseeker Off-Hand), Demon Edge (Abaddon Weapon w/custom particles), Guillotine (Axe Weapon) and Blade of the Jade Serpent (Juggernaut Weapon).
• Ensemble of the Crystalline Comet
• War-Vestments of the Magnoceri
• Mentor of the High Plains
• Dragon's Ascension
• Artisan of Havoc
• Mystic Instruments of Tang-Ki
• Ahm'Hedoq the Maw | Bonus Drop
• Scorching Talon | Bonus Drop