2.70 : Patch Notes

FOR THOSE ASKING WHEN: Generally when the Patch notes are allowed to be released to the public, the patch is will be on FRIDAY! So my guess is TOMORROW

We have a few things that we need people to test specifically:

Quote:
- Towers in Darkwood Vale
- Known Bug: Wildsoul ult toggle has no cast time
- The Mute/Icons/Right-Click menu in the game lobby
- That potential heroes are in fact cleared when the picked hero is banned (or picked by other team)
- That potential heroes are not incorrectly cleared during the transition between banning and picking phase
- Test some creep aggro stuff, see if you can get multiple camps to aggro you for no reason or from far ranges

0.2.70 notes:

Version 0.2.70
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- Projectiles are now correctly initialized on construction (fixes a few issues)
- Potential hero is cleared when banned
- The game lobby will now play the epic lobby.mp3 music
- Fixed game option tooltips occupying the same space the mouse cursor is
- Fixed up Profanity Filter tooltip to show up when the option is hovered over
- Fixed turning off Heatlh/Manabar shadows with the option
- Fixed stats defaulting to public stats
- Moved the voip mute button/icon things to the small colored circle to the side of the player slot (which normally is only used for the right-click menu) in all game phases
* The normal right-click menu (which is only available pre-hero-picker) now occupies the same spot used to show the player's avatar/left-click to join button)

- Maliken Ult, Warbeast Ult, and Wildsoul Ult will no longer act stupid when dark lady ults them
- Valkyrie Arrow, Devourer Hook, and Voodoo Casks will no longer hit couriers

- Fixed towers on Darkwood Vale

Steamstaff
- Price lowered to 800 from 900

Accursed
- Fire Shield dispels stuns once again
- Staff of the Master now lets Accursed use Flame Consumption while silenced

Deadwood
- Base strength increased from 23 to 25
- Base Armor increased from 2.24 to 2.74

Tundra
- Sounds. Lots of sounds!
- Fixed some stringtables

Total Patch Notes to date:

Version X
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Darkwood Vale

- Removed two neutral spawns, replaced them with outposts
- Replaced two of the higher tier neutral camps with tier 1 neutrals
- Outermost towers are now level 1 towers (instead of level 2)
* This means they will do slightly less damage and less starting health, same as the outer most towers on Caldavar
- Lowered building health on this map by 25%, lowered ranged rax health regeneration rate by 25% (these changes only affect the darkwood vale map)


Ingame


- Players will no longer see trees die in fog
* Meaning, juking with Logger's Hatchet / runes of blight is now much more fun!
- Toggle abilities (Web Shot, Decay, etc) and toggle items (Steamboots, etc) will no longer interrupt autoattacks
- Added an interface option for "Double Activate." When enabled, certain items and abilities may be double-clicked (or double-activated) for automatic use:
* Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home
* Health Potions and Mana Potions are used on self
* Tablet of Command, Stormspirit, Charged Hammer, and Nullfire Blade are used on self
* Portal Key blink towards home
* Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self
- Added new game interface option "Move To Spawn On Disconnect"
* When enabled, the server will automatically issue a move command to your hero to move back to base whenever you crash, freeze, or lose your internet connection
- Added new keybind: "Cancel And Hold Position"
* Functions exactly like "Hold Position", except it also cancels animations
* Players who want this functionality can replace their current Hold keybinding with the new Cancel and Hold keybinding
- A unit in the air no longer gains the 25% "uphill miss chance" evasion
* Units stunned by Witch Slayer or Magmus or tossed by Pebbles won't gain extra evasion
* Couriers and Tundra bird won't gain extra evasion
- Health and Mana bars for heroes will now show the damage they take
* This new 'shadowed' bar can be turned off in the options menu

- Scorescreen now contains voting options (kick, pause, concede, remake) and add friend functionality
- The camera will no longer shake when an effect (such as homecoming stone) is played in fog
- Fix to properly calculate a player's exp/min, even if he reached max level
- Neutral creep agro range for allc reeps set to 300 (some were 250, some were 300)
- Vulture Lord now has a +3 AOE armor aura
- Fix to Kongor so he won't wonk out and no one can hit him anymore
- Added a visual effect for Main health bars, they now course with energy
- Modified the internal random number generator to use a much higher quality distribution of random number
- Dual target abilities now properly ignore trees if their target scheme ignores them
- Hero health/mana bars are now shadowed with 500ms delay on the shadows
- Gold lerps to its actual value over 350m
- Toggles are correctly propagated to illusions
* Fixes illusion steamboots, illusion fayde stance, etc


Pre-Game

- Added "Potential Hero Selection" functionality
* At the hero selection screen, you can right-click on any hero to make it your "Potential Hero"
* Spectators and anyone on your team can see your potential hero (the enemy team can't)
* If you run out of time, you will select that hero rather than randoming
- Prevent the "5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Let's get it on" countdown from happening after the hero selection screen
- Loading bar now courses with energy
- The game lobby will no longer display the message "PlayerName has connected." once for their initial connection, and again when they have finished loading
* It will now say "PlayerName is connecting." and "PlayerName has connected." to distinguish the different events
- Set the max channel chat message (250), max game chat message (150), chat channel topic (140), and channel name length (30).
- Channel messages will only play sounds when receiving a message in the current channel that has focus
* This fixes all the sounds that used to play when a user was in multiple channels at the same time
- The channel name + topic area of the channel is now truncated off properly and no longer wraps off the panel onto the rest of the UI for long channel topics
- Added a hovertip to the channel name + topic so if the topic is 95+ chars, if you hover over it it displays the full topic, similar to how long game names work in the Public Game interface
- The game lobby will now play the epic lobby.mp3 music
- Moved the voip mute button/icon things to the small colored circle to the side of the player slot (which normally is only used for the right-click menu) in all game phases
* The normal right-click menu (which is only available pre-hero-picker) now occupies the same spot used to show the player's avatar/left-click to join button)


General

- Fixed a bunch of random crashes caused from clicking the "Disconnect" button
* Before, clicking the button had a small random chance to corrupt a random place in memory that caused you to crash at a random time doing something random
- Updated the wording of some of the tooltips to be a bit more clear
- When viewing a player's stats, "Public Statistics" is now selected by default (previously "Ranked Statistics")
- Prevent a buddylist bug when the user loses connection to the chat server, then reconnects to the chat server
- Russian stringtables updated
- Fixed lock camera on player not turning off after a replay
- Profanity filter is now optional
- Follow fix: If two players are following each other and one of them joins a game, the other one will now join that game instead of both of them disconnecting
- Fixed a spelling error in the matchmaking interface
- Fixed crash when CLIPBOARD selection is unowned and an attempt is made to paste
- Fixed an issue that disconnected a user if they typed a player's name into the IM window
- Fix to the close button of the MOTD so you can click it easier
- Fixed mousewheel events not having the correct coordinates in windowed mode
- Re-organized the options menu slightly


Taunt
- Cast time removed


Items

Courier
- Will now be attacked by Towers and the Well

Geometer's Bane
- Grants 0.1sec invulnerability on activation

Hellflower
- Damage increased from 40 to 45

Plated Greaves
- Will no longer apply it's buff to Wildsoul's bear

Puzzlebox
- Recipe increased from 1100 to 1250

Shrunken Head
- Added to the tooltip that it cannot be dispelled

Steamstaff
- Price lowered to 800 from 900

Stormspirit
- No longer silences or perplexes, just stuns
* This allows you to queue up orders while under it's effects


Heroes

- Maliken, Warbeast, and Wildsoul transformations will no longer act stupid when Dark Lady Ults
- Valkyrie Arrow, Devourer Hook, and Voodoo Casks will no longer hit couriers

- Added new Legion Strength hero, Tundra
* Based on Rexxar the Beastmaster from DotA

Accursed
- Fire Shield dispels stuns once again
- Flame Consumption will no longer automatically activate below 400hp. Must be cast manually.
* This means that silences/stuns/etc will prevent Accursed from triggering his ult
- Staff of the Master now lets Accursed use Flame Consumption while silenced

Arachna
- Spiderling will no longer stand there like a dummy if a hero blinked while the projectile was midair

Behemoth
- Initial 200/275/350 Magic damage on the ult is now Superior Magic, meaning it will go through magic immunity

Bubbles
- Shell Surf vision increased from 600 to 800 units and now keeps granting vision if it goes the max distance for 3.34 seconds.
- Fixed a bug with Shell Toss that was resetting the cooldown incorrectly
- Song of the Sea now hits units in fog and invisible units
- Take Cover no longer perplexes
- Kelp Field will no longer deal damage or stun magic immune heroes

Chipper
- Attack time increased from 350ms to 450ms

Corrupted Disciple
- Electric Tide now is now correctly displayed when originating from a position within fog

Deadwood
- Base strength increased from 23 to 25
- Base Armor increased from 2.24 to 2.74
- Creeps will no longer dispel the tree

Engineer
- Fixed the Turret's attacks eating Nullstone
- Tinker cooldown increased from 15 to 20
- Tinker manacost increased from 25 to 50

Forsaken Archer
- Skeletons will no longer trigger neutrals to use their abilities

Gauntlet
- Ability 1 now has an instant cast time
- Cast range on second abiity increased from 625/800/975/1150 to 725/850/975/1150

Hammerstorm
- Mighty Swing can now be toggled on and off

Hellbringer
- Base armor lowered from 2.4 to 1.4
- Life Void cooldown increased from 7 seconds to 10 seconds

Magmus
- Volcanic Touch now correctly deals damage to Mechanical units

Maliken
- Fixed tooltips
- Possession manacost lowered from 150 to 100

Nymphora
- Number of people taken with her Teleport increased from 0,1,2 to 1,2,3 additional targets per level

Pandamonium
- Slow from missing a Cannonball lowered from 4s to 2s

Pollywog Priest
- Max distance of Jolt lowered by 200

Pyromancer
- Phoenix Wave can now target both units and the ground

Sand Wraith
- Using Manifest no longer kills all active illusions

Soul Reaper
- Added to the ult tooltip to correctly state the cooldown changes to 70s at all levels with it

Soulstealer
- Fixed the "being knocked down" while using an item bug

Succubus
- Fixed a bug causing sleep to sometimes be removed instantly by a creep
- Succubus' Hold cooldown lowered from 120s at all levels to 120/110/100

Swiftblade
- Base movespeed increased from 300 to 305
- Returned attack no longer triggers responses like Corrupted Disciple's Static Discharge

Valkyrie
- Javelin will now leave lingering vision if it hits nothing
- Tweaked Prism to correctly hit invulnerable allied heroes

Wildsoul
- Damage when the bear dies now properly goes through immunities
- Updated his tooltip to reflect that he takes damage when his bear dies
- Beardulon abilities reworked very slightly
* Gains Return at level 1
* Gains Entangling Claws at level 2
* Gains Demolish at level 3
* Gains Magic Resist at level 4
- Wild cast time removed, letting him cast it on the run
- Base movespeed while in Bear form increased from 270 to 285

Wretched Hag
- Bat Blast can now target both units and the ground

Zephyr
- Cyclone damage halved against non-hero units

As of June 10th 2010 3:07 EST



UPDATE: Tundra's Skill Names (Relative to Rexxar)

Originally Posted by Sintheros

Specifically, here are Tundra's names and such.

Wild Axes -> Piercing Shards (waves of icicles pop out of the ground)
Call of the Wild -> Call of Winter (calls pet owl Shiver and pet cat/displacer beast type thing Coeurl)
Inner Beast -> Coldblooded (Rexxar's OLD passive, not his new aura)
Primal Roar -> Avalanche (he drops a glacier on the target that pushes other things away)

Damn, they still haven't changed Tundra's passive

had one up. got closed. Somehow ppl don't know that u are allowed to share

Originally Posted by alkajo

had one up. got closed. Somehow ppl don't know that u are allowed to share

No, they just don't want more than one thread.

Though yours was first.

Originally Posted by Curaga

Damn, they still haven't changed Tundra's passive

Yeah that really sucks =( But beastmaster was pretty good before the aura change in dota as well so... no more pharaoh for me.

Even so, there is nothing stopping S2 from changing the skill at a later date.

They probably just want to see how the old skill works in HoN's metagame first. Change it later if it doesn't work out.

- The game lobby will now play the epic lobby.mp3 music
This make the game cost 50$!

[Inhuman]

things that worry me:

* Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home
* Portal Key blink towards home

* Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self ( why was this needed?)


dartboard balancing ftl?

Originally Posted by Inhuman

things that worry me:

* Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home
* Portal Key blink towards home

* Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self ( why was this needed?)


dartboard balancing ftl?

You realise that's if you double click the skill/item, right?

^^dumb

things that worry me:

* Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home
* Portal Key blink towards home

* Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self ( why was this needed?)


dartboard balancing ftl?

You didn't read the changelog very well...

This is a new feature where if you double click the item or skill, it will have this default effect (typically, either go home or use on self).

Originally Posted by Inhuman

things that worry me:

* Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home
* Portal Key blink towards home

* Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self ( why was this needed?)


dartboard balancing ftl?

Damn , two words, reading comprehension.

[[LUE]Elation]

omg @ double use functions

omg @ auto move to home after DC

Inhuman thats only for the double click feature, if you choose to turn the option on. Its a feature, not balancing.

[[KFD]Fed]

Nice

Soulstealer
- Fixed the "being knocked down" while using an item bug



NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[[SRSB]CarrioN`]

Phoenix Wave and Bat Blast can now target both units and the ground?
S.o explain plz? Hit the ground?
I dont get it

Originally Posted by alkajo

had one up. got closed. Somehow ppl don't know that u are allowed to share

Yeah I think it was just a let's close one and let one live thing. Sorry!

there was another thread where someone said there was rampage buffs in this patch.... but i don't see it. rampage still sux, i assume?

Basically you can target a hero on use now, still works the same.