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DotA v6.49 Released (finally)

Matt — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:43:07 +0000

After long last, DotA v6.49 has been released! It seems they have re-done N’aix once again. Eegad. You can get the map here or here. Here’s the changelog if you are interested!

Added a new recipe item (Armlet of Mordiggian)
Added a new recipe item (Orchid Malevolence)
Added a new recipe item (Shiva’s Guard)
Added a new base item (Javelin,139527)
Remade Power Treads
Changed Monkey King Bar recipe
Remade Vladmir’s Offering
Reduced Ultimate Orb price by 50 gold
Mystic Staff price from 2900 to 2700 gold
Reduced movement speed bonus from Boots of Travel by 5
Reduced Linken’s Sphere recipe by 100 gold
Changed the second secret shop model (to Goblin Shop) and the shop’s carried items
Bottle and Ring of Basilius no longer shift positions in your inventory when used
Reduced Black King Bar cooldown from 100 to 85 seconds
Increased Kelen’s Dagger of Escape cooldown from 25 to 30 seconds
Improved Bloodstone’s charge regeneration rates
Reduced mana cost on Hand of Midas
Lowered mana cost on Helm of the Dominator
Purchasing Bottle fills it to 2/3 instead of to maximum.
Lowered Eaglehorn price from 3400 to 3300 gold
Dagon’s mana costs and cooldown now decreases per level
Reduced mana cost on Nathrezim Buckler
Euls and Guinsoo now share cooldown
Lowered Gloves of Haste price from 610 to 550 gold
Recoded Aghanim’s Scepter. It can now be dropped, sold and disassembled. It also properly updates itself in deathmatch.
Decreased Linken’s Sphere cooldown from 60 to 40 seconds
Reduced Hyperstone price from 2300 to 2100 gold
Remade N’aix
Changed Crystal Maiden’s Brilliance Aura to a global effect
Increased Acid Spray duration by 4 seconds
Undid previous Jugg armor buff and increased starting strength by 3 and movement speed from 290 to 295
Removed the invulnerability period while Priestess of the Moon is leaping
Lowered Puck’s initial Intelligence and Intelligence Growth
Lion’s Mana Drain is now faster (same mana drain over 4 seconds instead of 5)
Changed Dark Rift from channeling to cast delay and reduced mana cost
Increased cooldown on Call of the Wild
Increased Lich attack range from 500 to 550
Increased Pit Lord’s movement speed and starting Intelligence
Improved cast and attack animation time on Broodmother
Decreased cooldown on Death Coil from 15 to 11 seconds
Rewrote Fissure to avoid Entangle and Impale based spell conflicts
Improved Chen’s movement speed by 5
Reduced Bristleback’s strength growth from 2.7 to 2.2
Reduced Poof’s cooldown and mana cost
New loading screen art (kunkka.deviantart.com)
Added player index flags to replays
Fixed a typo with Reaper’s Scythe
Fixed some rare exploits with the Freeze Leaver system
Improved Harbinger’s story (Terrorblaze)
New Spectre background story (-Jenova-)
New Visage background story (Grujah)
New Storm Spirit background story (Inferno[DK])
New Ogre Magi background story (Digital Anomaly)
New Alchemist background story (Inferno[DK])
New Lion background story (vertigo12)
New Centaur background story (-Jenova-)
New Slardar background story (Inferno[DK])
New Tinker background story (Grujah)
New Rigwarl background story (Volcove)
New Zeus background story (Inferno[DK])
New Pudge background story (Inferno[DK])
New Traxex background story (Volcove)
New Vengeful Spirit background story (-Jenova-)
New Mortred background story (Inferno[DK])
Fixed various item tooltips

DotA v6.48 Released!

Matt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:56:50 +0000

DotA version 6.48 has been released! There is 1 new hero :D You can download the map here or here. Check out the changelog:

6.48 Changelog
===============

* Added a new hero from the Model-To-Hero contest (see below)
* Added a new ability for Animal Courier to change its model.
* Fixed Planeswalker’s Cloak and Hood of Defiance stacking issues on various heroes’ innate magic resistance abilities.
* Fixed an old rare bug with Leshrac (and recently Storm) that would cause them to constantly drain mana.
* Fixed a bug when killing heroes with Crow
* Fixed Flesh Heap to work properly with suicides
* Fixed a bug in -dm -nd that causes the hero after Bristleback to have Warpath if Bristleback dies with the buff on, and the player quickly picks a new hero.
* Fixed the game mode text to display in proper order
* Fixed Starfall doing extra damage on the second hit
* Restored Freeze Hero functionality
* Added a command -test to enable single player commands to be usable in multiplayer for easier extensive testing
* Added new command ‘-terrain snow’. This transforms the current terrain into a snow terrain. This is a very experimental mechanism and is still very much a WIP in the visuals department.
* Fixed Death Pulse to hit properly non-magic-immune Ancients
* Improved Alchemist’s movement speed a bit
* Increased ranged creep’s mana pool
* Rebalanced Sanity’s Eclipse (Less damage, better leveling)
* Improved Harbinger’s casting animation time
* Fixed a visual glitch with Dispersion that would make it look like it did more Dispersions than it actually did
* Fixed a bug with Unstable Concoction when used during the transformation of Chemical Rage
* Fixed a bug with Greaterbash
* Improved Lion’s movement speed a little
* Fixed Panda’s Storm Wind Walk stats
* Game now gives an error message when attacking Roshan from a disallowed area
* Added -nr(-norepick)
* Added -mute as a custom player command to disable kill sounds
* Fixed a bug with Weave and Reincarnation

April Fools Day DotA 6.50 Release

Matt — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:14:31 +0000

So…the DotA guys have a sense of humor and released an April Fools release of DotA. Awesome. You can download it at the DotA forums.

6.50 Changelog:
===============
* Added new item
* Tons of code optimizations so this can be the new stable map
* Added capture the flag mode
* Improved Courier Chicken a little bit due selling change last patch
* Renamed Clinkz and Pugna
* Fixed a bug that caused blackhole to end prematurely
* Fixed a critical bug with creep rax destruction that caused it to not upgrade creeps
* Roshan now has a chance to suicide
* Tons of other misc old bugs fixed (way too many to list, many abusable)
* Improved cast range on Eyes in the Forest
* Due to arguments about who should solo, there are now 5 lanes
* Increase Luna’s attack range by 10
* Heroes can now suicide if they click on themselves really fast (this is to allow for some improved game dynamics)
* Lowered Zeus Agility by 3 and increased Intelligence by 2
* Naga Siren allies now falls asleep for half the duration of enemies with Song of the Siren (to prevent abuses)
* Auto Attacking is now automatically disabled for your hero if the game engine detects you using Attack/Halt frequently. It is turned back on in a 10 minutes.
* Enchantress Impetus now deals physical damage type instead of pure. She has 35 more attack range to compensate
* Improved Siege unit models

Notes:
——
- This release has been heavily tested and is now the new stable league map.
- Expect a 6.50b soon incase any bugs, lots of recoding went on this version to fix old bugs.
- I jumped to version 6.50 instead of 6.44 due to the hacked versions out there.

- More new content very soon, this was released quickly in order to give leagues an updated map to use.

Dota 6.43b Released!

Matt — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:36:04 +0000

DotA has released version 6.43b! Download it here or here. Here’s the changelog:

6.43b Changelog:
=================

Fixed some big performance problems lower end machines were having
Fixed some rare bugs that caused heroes to not revive
Fixed -swaphero, neutral creep spawn time and initial gold in -xl

6.43 Changelog:
================

Added new mode -xl(Extended League Mode)
Reworked the Roshan Terrain area for improved Sentinel accessibility (lots of miscellaneous tweaks and mechanics to that area have been done beyond simply terrain change)
Fixed the multiple hero exploit
Recoded the death timer. It is more accurate now (the display was off before, you don’t revive any faster than you used to)
Items with armor bonuses no longer stack (Vladmir/Basilius/Assault)
Fixed a bug with Satanic that was giving it extra life steal
Fixed some bugs with Mekansm, Morphling Stat Change and Hand of God that caused the death timer to not properly show
Added Bottle to the new secret shop
Undid some of the Toughness Aura buff from last version
Tinker no longer Rearms Arcane Ring
Slightly reduced creep collision size due to the increased number in the last patch towards the end of the game
Fixed Sentinel ranged creeps having slightly less regen than Scourge ranged creeps
Mekansm and Bloodstone now tell the user when they fail to heal him properly due to stacking rules
Watchers give slightly less gold (due to their new radiance vulnerability last patch)
Fixed various typos
Fixed Ring of Basilius ability from working on CotS and Essence Aura
Song of the Siren properly sleeps units out of its vision
Items that can be disassembled now tell you when you buy them
Fixed a bug with chicken that lets you sell unsellable items
Fixed Throne not providing the lifesteal capability that World Tree does
Reduced Radiance damage bonus from 70 to 60
Fixed Phantom Assassin’s Blink Strike range
Death Board is on by default now (-don)
Observer Wards last a little longer now
Reduced Avernus’ movement speed by 5
Temporarily disabled Meepo in -dm to fix some bugs
Fixed the Doppelwalk and Lothar’s Edge “0!” text
The icon for turning Rot off is now more obvious
Changed Meepo Attribute Bonus from 40% to 25%
Improved Unstable Concoction (When you cast it, you lock vision on the target while you channel)
Various nerfs to Alchemist: Acid Spray AOE (700-550), Acid Spray Mana (120->160), Str/lvl (2.4->1.8), Int/lvl (1.5->1.0), Lowered health regen on level 1 ultimate, Greed Stack Duration (20->18), Greed Gold Cap (20->18), Movement Speed (300->290) but level 2 and 3 of his ultimate give him a minor boost back to his normal speed, Slight base armor reduction
Fixed Cheese to heal the proper amount
Fixed the creep spawn sound from happening too early in -mm

DotA 6.40 Released!

Matt — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:42:32 +0000

Surprisingly, a new version of DotA has been released! You can get it here or here. Here’s the changelog:

Reworked Neutral Creep abilities and mechanics to better balance them out
Improved Leshrac’s base str
Reduced Chen and THD movement speeds
Mangus’s Shockwave cooldown reduced from 12 to 11/10/9/8
Increased Shadow Fiend’s movement speed
Improved Berserker’s Call AOE by 25
Increased base armor on Harbinger
Lowered initial wait time before drafting starts in -rd
Improved Presence of the Dark Lord AOE
Lowered level 1 Hawk ms and vision
Removed entangle from level 1-3 of Spirit Bear
Reduced Sanity’s Eclipse cooldown from 200 to 160
Fixed Radiance Effect in center of map when Spirit Bear dies with it
Improved HP on Spiderlings
Lowered Siege units armor
Increased Razor’s base damage a bit
Reduced Watcher’s cooldown
Fixed some bugs with Shallow Grave not workling properly on units that morph
Sent and Scourge are now colored in -rd text display
Lowered Hawk HP and gave them bounty
Fixed a rare but serious bug with Geomancer leveling up
Satanic life steal increased from 23% to 25%
Increased Eye of Skadi slow duration from 2 to 3 seconds when used by melee heroes
Restored normal hero name display
Fixed roshan exploit with Geomancer
Reworked Shallow Grave a bit, it has a duration now
You now see a decline message when someone refuses to swaphero
Fixed an old bug with level 3 Elder Form attacking gem
Fixed a few typos

DotA 9.39b Re-Released!

Matt — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:40:28 +0000

DotA 6.39b has been re-released with some needed patches that the first 6.39b version did not fix. If you’re looking to download it, you can get it here or here. If you have downloaded 6.39b from here or getdota.com prior to the 6th, you should delete your old file and re-download.

Here’s the new changelog:

Fixed a very serious Mac bug
Reduced Shallow Grave cooldown from 300/150/75 to 300/200/100
Fixed Lycan’s icon on scoreboard
Fixed a bug with the last nerf to shadow word (it wasn’t actually nerfedas i said it was in the code, thx malle)
Changed Infernal HP from 900/1400/1900 to 900/1200/1500
Allowed swaphero to be used after the -rd draft
If you don’t pick a hero in -rd, one will be randomed for you (for the same gold cost)

DotA 6.39b Released

Matt — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:18:06 +0000

UPDATE: 6.39b does not fix the Mac bug as assumed. It is suggested that you remain using 6.39!!!! This is right from the official DotA-Allstars site:

I had released a 6.39b patch a few hours ago to fix a mac bug, but due to a lack of Mac testers, it seems that the fix didn’t go so well. I recommend everyone keep using 6.39 as the latest official map. If you are a Mac tester, please contact me via getdota.com

DotA 6.39b has been released with some needed patches to the latest release. If you’re looking to download it, you can get it here or here.

Here’s the changelog:

Fixed a very serious Mac bug
Reduced Shallow Grave cooldown from 300/150/75 to 300/200/100
Fixed Lycan’s icon on scoreboard
Fixed a bug with the last nerf to shadow word (it wasn’t actually nerfedas i said it was in the code, thx malle)
Changed Infernal HP from 900/1400/1900 to 900/1200/1500

DotA 6.39 Released!

Matt — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:48:34 +0000

Its been a long time coming, but Defense of the Ancients version 6.39 has been released! Download it here or here.

The notable changes are: there’s two new scourge heroes, a new end-game score board, and Sentinel/Scourge hero kill gold is now shared with the players! Here’s a list of all the updates:

Listed all the cooldowns for items and abilities
Added -rd (-randomdraft, similar to the style of play in a few inhouse leagues)
Added two new Scourge heroes
Added new functionality to replay files for leagues to more easily calculate and process game data
Added -showdeny/-hidedeny
Added new host commands “-weather snow”, “-weather rain” and for everyone “-weather off” (if it is turned off, it can’t be turned on again, to prevent spam and abuses)
-ma now shows hero level next to the name
Improved first middle Scourge tower area
Added a new endgame scoreboard to replace the inaccurate one that Warcraft 3 generates
Improved death text presentation
Added floating text to show you all the gold you get (including bonuses, not just the 100) from hero kills as well as tower kills. Please note that there has been no change to the gold you get, it is just being displayed as an added effect now.
Improved some ward vision areas for the Scourge team (thx Wedge[p])
Sentinel and Scourge hero kills now share the gold with the team instead of it being lost
Rewrote a lot of internals coding to allow for cleaner AI version implementation (in near future, the bot capability will be part of the regular map, useable in the every release)
Added Snowman after Roshan (just a temp for the season)
Added hero icons to the multiboard
Fixed the creep blocking issues on the left Sent side
Added an observer scoreboard display for better information when watching live games
Improved AI on the siege units. They spawn every 7 waves now instead of every 6
Reduced Overpower and Enrage cooldowns
Reduced Time Lapse mana cost at higher levels
Paralyzing Casks now does a little more damage to creeps
Upgraded ghouls now have a bigger model like the treants do when upgraded
Alchemist movement speed from 290 to 300
Increased Spirit Bear’s Base Attack Time from 1.75/1.6/1.45/1.3 to 1.75/1.65/1.55/1.45
Improved AOE on Aftershock by 30
Chaos damage now does 40% damage to fortified (down from 50%)
You now have more time to repick (120 from 60)
Added -disablehelp support for sprout
Unstable Concoction now deals damage
Added Lucifer to Aghanim’s Scepter
Increased Troll Warlord’s movement speed by 5
Reduced mana cost and slightly increase AOE on Shadowraze
Lowered Warlock’s movement speed by 10
Gnoll Assassin creep is slightly stronger and give a little more bounty as well
Improved Lightning Storm a bit
Undid small part of the previous Dark Ritual nerf (was nerfed from 45 second cooldown to 60/55/50/45 before, and now to 55/50/45/40)
Improved Kraken Shell leveling slightly
Cannot use Aphotic Shield on Doomed hero anymore
Nerfed Shadow Word casting range, increase cooldown and lowered damage per second
Shukuchi deals more damage per level
Geminate Attack level 4 cooldown down from 4 seconds to 3.5 seconds
Fixed a graphical glitch with the spawn direction of Elune’s Arrow
Reduced Strygwyr’s Thirst HP detection from 50% to 40%
Improved the Liberated Souls with Ignis Fatuus Scepter Upgrade
Increased Rain of Chaos cooldown
Lowered Viper’s base damage a little
Spin Web regeneration now improves with levels
Lowered Neutral Taskmaster’s HP/Armor/Movespeed
Implemented hero descriptions by Deathknight6034(Bloodseeker,Ryali,DK), Aconite_Vyper(Sniper), KingReaper(Lancer), Volcove(Keeper of the Light), Bowstaff(Omniknight), SteveGarbage(Furion), theAlice(Panda,Vol’Jin), prawnstar(Antimage), skipperme(Chen), redrooster(Fletcher), Tikiboi(Raigor). Good job guys.
Fixed Decrepify tooltip
Reworked status buff placements on Shadow Word, Mjolnir and Fatal Bonds icon to display properly on Illusions
Fixed a big exploit reported by UKI-TZAR
Storm Seeker no longer draws Roshan out
Fixed typo on Bristleback damage autospray (did not buff him, just a typo fix)
Fixed Mjolnir tooltip
New animation for Bottle (thx Ro-Coco)
Fixed last 2 towers not giving gold to team
Necromancer now properly grows in size
Fixed the initial delay on Luna’s Eclipse
Fixed Clinkz’s Windwalk buff tooltip
Cannot repick if you don’t have full hp and mana (to prevent some abuses)
Changed Elune’s Arrow animation
Fixed a bug with spiderlings’ poison reducing attack speed instead of movement speed (thx ZerielDRK)
Fixed a few bugs on level 4 abilities with Witchcraft
Fixed POTM endgame icon
Many other countless tooltip fixes and improvements

DotA 6.38 Released!

Matt — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:18:32 +0000

After a long wait, Icefrog and co. have released DotA Allstars version 6.38! Download here or here. For those interested, here’s the changelog:

4 New Recipe items

1 New Hero

Added -reverse (-rv) mode

Every 6 waves, a glaive thrower/meat wagon comes out with the creeps

Bottle with Rune now returns a Full Bottle after being used instead of an Empty Bottle

Reduced mana cost on Earthshock

Improved how Vendetta levels a little

Increased str/level on Ogre Magi

Slightly improved leveling of Eyes In The Forest

Faceless Void base damage increased a bit

Buffed maximum Watchers

Desolator damage increased from 50 to 60

Slightly improved the range on Shockwave

Hyperstone from 2450 to 2300

Weaver attack range from 400 to 425

Wraith recipe from 150 to 125 gold

Increased Shadow Word cooldown

Increased mana cost on Dual Breath

Added an ability to disassemble certain items in the circle of power

Map preview is now colored

Added new SA Perm Invis icon by Axidos

Improved mana regen on Bottle

Melee heroes get denied less xp than range heroes do

WTF Mode no longer requires voting

Fixed the -ar -random exploit (again!)

Fixed Vendetta not listing the movement speed it gave before (10%)

Fixed a bug with 2 daggers on disallowed heroes in order to keep 1

Tower regeneration reduced

Fixed a minor bug that would sometimes cause the level up animation to not play

Improved the Wrath of Nature icon based on snork’s suggestion

Added disablehelp/enablehelp for Astral Imprisonment

Roshan now drops Cheese!

Added a set of single player only commands to help people in their hero tests

Various tooltip fixes

Replaced “Upkeep” text with the version number

Tango buying cooldown set to the same as the rest of the items

Fixed various other minor bugs and typos

DotA WTF

Matt — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:27:24 +0000

With the release of DotA v6.36b, a new game mode has been added that, frankly, scares me a bit. This mode is enabled by the blue player typing: -wtf …at which point all hell breaks loose.

-Wtf mode removes mana costs and cooldowns of all spells and abilities. Crazy. I’ve tested this mode out once with Prophet and happily walked up the field creating stream after stream of treants (units the Prophet can control) and zerged my opponent’s base.

The mode is fun, overpowered and hugely imbalanced…but oh its bound to be a sweet, deadly game. Definately worthy of one -wtf mode game a night when my friends and I get together to play on Thursdays.