Dotally Rad » Random http://www.dotallyrad.com The heart of Dota & HoN ownage Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 DotA 6.68 Released; changelog http://www.dotallyrad.com/2010/07/28/dota-6-68-released-changelog/ http://www.dotallyrad.com/2010/07/28/dota-6-68-released-changelog/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:51:41 +0000 daggius http://www.dotallyrad.com/?p=3781 DotA matched Starcraft 2′s release date today with a new version. Here’s the 6.68 Changelog from playdota.com:

* Added a new hero (Wisp)

Hero Class: Guardian Wisp
Hero Name: Io

Range: 525
Movement Speed: 295
Hero Type: Strength
Starting Armor: 0

Starting Damage: 33-42

Agility: 14 + 1.6
Strength: 17 + 1.9
Intelligence: 23 + 1.7

Tether:
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Io tethers himself to an allied unit, granting both units bonus movement speed. Any enemy units that contact the tether will be stunned. The tether will break if it stretches beyond 900 units. Lasts 12 seconds.

Movement Bonus: 20/25/30/35%
Stun Duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0

Cooldown: 12
Manacost: 40

If you try to tether a unit that is a outside its range (by up to 900) Io will latch on and pull himself closer to the unit.

Tether transfers other states on the hero to the allied unit. This includes Overcharge, Relocate and any time you regenerate hp/mp.

Note: Has a sub ability that lets you break the tether.

Credit: Based on Tether from http://www.playdota.com/forums/215750/intel-sentinel-io-aurora-wisp/

Ability Code: A1TA

Spirits:
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Io summons 5 ancient Spirits over the course of 6 seconds; the Spirits dance around Io in a circle to protect him. If an enemy hero moves close enough to touch a Spirit, the Spirit releases its life energy in a burst, damaging and slowing all enemies in a 300 area of effect. Non hero units only take minor damage upon touching a spirit and do not cause them to explode.

You have two sub abilities. One to move them outwards and one to call them back in. You can stop them at any distance by toggling the ability order.

Damage per Spirit: 25/50/75/100
Slow: 30%

Cooldown: 14
Manacost: 120/130/140/150

Ability Code: A1T8

Overcharge:
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Io draws on more energy than he can safely handle, granting him bonus attack speed, but draining 2.5% of his current HP and MP per second. If Io is tethered to an ally the bonus attack speed is also granted to that ally.

This is a toggle ability.

Attack Speed: 60/80/100/120

Note: This bonus affects a tethered unit as well.

Ability Code: A1VO

Relocate:
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Io temporarily relocates himself, along with any tethered hero, to the target location for 12 seconds.

There is a casting delay and the enemy has visual indicators on the minimap and the world of the teleport before it happens.

Cast Delay: 2.5/2.25/2.0
Cooldown: 80/60/40
Manacost: 100

Note: If an allied hero is Tethered, that hero will teleported along with you. You can break the tether at any time to prevent that hero from returning back with you. -disablehelp is available for this ability.

Ability Code: A1TB

* Added a new hero (Thrall)

Hero Class: Far Seer

Hero Name: Thrall

Range: 600
Movement Speed: 300
Hero Type: Intelligence
Starting Armor: 1
Starting Damage: 49-53

Agility: 15 + 1.4
Strength: 19 + 1.9

Intelligence: 22 + 2.5

Thunder Strike:
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Thrall curses the target to be struck by thunder 3 times over 4 seconds. Foes nearby the victim will also be damaged.

Damage per strike: 50/75/100/125
Secondary AOE: 200

Cooldown: 16

Manacost: 100/110/120/130

Ability Code: A1TV

Glimpse:
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Thrall forces the target back to it’s previous position through a psionic rift. Sends the unit to where it was 4 seconds ago.

Cast Range: 600/1000/1400/1800

Cooldown: 60/50/40/30
Manacost: 160/130/100/70

Note: The glimpse effect has some travel time, the target isn’t instantly moved back.
Credit: Based on Glipse from http://www.playdota.com/forums/242499/int-sent-sephael-spirit-arbiter/

Ability Code: A1SW

Kinetic Field:
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Thrall summons a circular barrier of kinetic energy, keeping enemies from walking in or out of it. The barrier has an aoe of 300.

Has a 1.2 second cast delay before the field is fully formed.

Duration: 2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds

Cooldown: 14
Cast Range: 900
Manacost: 70

Ability Code: A1SU

Static Storm:
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Creates an area of electric instability which damages and silences enemies in the area. The effect starts off weak and then intensifies over 5 seconds, dealing increasing amounts of damage, before disappearing.

Final DPS: 170/210/250
AOE: 375
Manacost: 125/175/225
Cooldown: 60

Note: The damage starts off slow and ramps up continuously until it reaches the max

Ability Code: A1U6

* Added a new hero (Eredar)

Hero Class: Shadow Demon
Hero Name: Eredar

Range: 500
Movement Speed: 295
Hero Type: Intelligence
Starting Armor: 3
Starting Damage: 53-57

Agility: 18 + 2.2
Strength: 17 + 1.9
Intelligence: 26 + 2.7

Disruption:
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Eredar banishes the target to a dimensional pocket for 2.5 seconds, removing it from play for the duration. Upon return two images of the target are created under Eredar’s control which last for 6 seconds.

Displacement duration: 2.5 seconds

Illusion Outgoing Damage: 30/40/50/60%
Illusion Incoming Damage: 150%
Illusion Duration: 6 seconds

Cast Range: 700
Manacost: 75
Cooldown: 16

Note: Can target enemy, ally or self.

Ability Code: A1S8

Soul Catcher:
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Ererdar lays a curse on an area; one random enemy unit in the area is afflicted with the curse, causing it to take increased damage for 12 seconds.

Damage Amplification: 20/30/40/50%

AOE: 500
Cast Range: 600

Manacost: 50
Cooldown: 13

Ability Code: A1SB

Shadow Poison:
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Eredar casts forth a shadowy poison which deals 50 damage and afflicts all it touches for 10 seconds. If a unit is affected again in this duration, the toxin will be renewed and amplified exponentially. At the end of the duration, the shadow poison deals extra damage for each time it affected the victim. You have small vision over affected heroes.

Each stack increases the damage it would deal exponentially, up to 4 stacks.

Examples:
Level 1 Per stack: 20/40/80/160 + 50 each further stacks
Level 2 Per stack: 35/70/140/280 + 50 each further stacks
Level 3 Per stack: 50/100/200/400 + 50 each further stacks
Level 4 Per stack: 65/130/260/520 + 50 each further stacks

AOE: 150
Travel Distance: 1500

Cooldown: 3
Manacost: 50

Note: This has a sub ability to let you release the poison at any time.

Ability Code: A1S4

Demonic Purge:
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Eredar casts a powerful demonic purge on a target enemy, removing all positive buffs. The purged target slowly regains its movement speed over 4 seconds. At the end of the purge the target takes damage.

Damage: 200/300/400

Cooldown: 50
Manacost: 200

Ability Code: A1SA

* Added a new hero (Gyrocopter)

Hero Class: Gyrocopter
Hero Name: Aurel Vlaicu

Range: 375
Movement Speed: 305
Hero Type: Agility
Starting Armor: 2

Starting Damage: 41-51

Agility: 24 + 2.4
Strength: 18 + 1.8
Intelligence: 23 + 2.1

Rocket Barrage:
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Gyrocopter unleashes a massive salvo of rockets, striking random units in a 400 aoe. Fires 30 rockets over 3 seconds.

Damage per rocket: 10/12/14/16

Cooldown: 6.5
Manacost: 90

Note: The rockets can only hit units you have vision over.

Ability Code: A1SO

Homing Missile:

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The Gyrocopter launches a homing missile that will follow the target until it impacts. The missile is inactive for 3 seconds upon launch and then begins slowly accelerating towards the target. Stuns the target for 2.5 seconds and deals damage based on how much it traveled. The missle can be destroyed by 3 attacks from a hero or tower.

Maximum damage is dealt at 2000 distance traveled (does not increase beyond that distance)

Maximum Damage: 100/200/300/400
Stun Duration: 2.5

Cooldown: 20/18/16/14
Manacost: 120/130/140/150

Cast Range: 900

Notes: Towers do half damage. Enemy has vision over the rocket once it starts moving.

Ability Code: A1SQ

Flak Cannon:
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The Gyrocopter enables all of its cannons, allowing its attacks to strike all enemies in a 800 aoe. Lasts for a limited number of attacks or 15 seconds. Does not work with illusions.

Your attack range is still limited to 375 range.

Attacks: 3/4/5/6
Manacost: 50
Cooldown: 20

Ability Code: A1TW

Call Down:
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The Gyrocopter launches two missiles at the targeted area. The first missile strikes in 2 seconds, followed by the second missile at 4 seconds. Enemies in the area when a missile strikes are damaged and slowed.

Primary Missle Damage: 250/300/350
Primary Missle Slow: 20%
Primary Missle Slow Duration: 2

Secondary Missle Damage: 100/150/200
Secondary Missle Slow: 50%
Secondary Missle Slow Duration: 3

Cast Range: 1000

AOE: 400
Cooldown: 55/50/45
Manacost: 125

Note: The visual warning indicator is visible for allies only. The enemies can see the rockets fly out of you though.

Ability Code: A1T5

Alchemist
- Unstable Concoction manacost from 90 to 120
- Unstable Concoction damage rescaled from 150/200/250/300 to 120/180/240/300

Anti-Mage
- Spell Shield increased from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45

Axe

- Battle Hunger now slows the target by 8% until it runs out or kills another unit

Bane Elemental
- Brain Sap cooldown from 20 to 16
- Fiend’s Grip Scepter upgrade now drains 10% mana per second instead of 5%

Blood Seeker
- Agility gain increased from 2.6 to 3.0

Bounty Hunter
- Jinada cooldown from 21/16/11/6 to 15/12/9/6
- Track now gives 50 bonus bounty to all units affected by the track aura of that target
- Track bonus gold is treated as Reliable Gold

Broodmother
- Armor decreased by 2

Chaos Knight

- Reality Rift manacost increased from 50 to 70
- Starting str decreased by 4 and increased base damage by 4 to keep it constant

Clockwerk
- Armor increased by 1
- Battery Assault damage increased from 10/30/50/70 to 15/35/55/75
- Hookshot cooldown rescaled from 80/60/40 to 70/55/40

Dirge

- Tombstone cast range increased from 250 to 600

Doom Bringer
- LVL? Death mana cost rescaled from 85/105/125/145 to 110
- Scorched Earth mana cost increased from 60 to 60/65/70/75
- Scorched Earth movement speed bonus reduced from 20% to 16%
- Starting intelligence reduced from 16 to 13

Drow Ranger

- No longer has full night vision (same as the other heroes now, 800)

Invoker
- Strength gain increased from 1.4 to 1.7

Jakiro
- Macropyre travel range from 600/750/900 to 900

Juggernaut

- Healing Ward manacost rescaled from 140 to 80/100/120/140
- Healing Ward regeneration increased from 1/2/3/4% to 1/2/4/5%

Kaldr
- Armor reduced by 1
- Ice Blast cooldown from 44/32/20 to 45

Krobelus

- Carrion Swarm cooldown decreased from 9 base to 8 base (5->4 when fully upgraded)

Lanaya
- Psi Blades spill range from 320 to 320/340/360/380

Leoric
- Vampiric Aura lifesteal improved from 10/16/22/28% to 15/20/25/30%
- Reincarnation manacost increased from 100 to 140

- Reworked Hellfire Blast

Old Hellfire Blast:
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Stun Duration: 2
Damage: 100/150/200/250
Cooldown: 8

Manacost: 140

New Hellfire Blast:
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Ignites the target on fire, dealing damage over time. Stuns the target for a brief period followed by a movement speed reduction.

Stun Duration: 2
Slow Duration: 2
Slow Amount: 15%

Damage per second: 30/45/60/75
Cooldown: 8
Manacost: 140

Note: The dps duration is the full 4 seconds.

Ability Code: AHtb (same as before)

Leshrac

- Split Earth stun duration increased from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to a constant 2

Lich
- Movement speed increased by 10
- Starting damage rescaled from 37-56 to 42-51

Lina Inverse
- Laguna Blade level 1 cooldown from 150 to 120
- Light Strike Array cooldown from 8 to 7

Luna
- Eclipse now turns day into night for 10 seconds
- Lunar Blessing bonus damage increased from 6/12/18/24 to 8/16/24/32
- Lunar Blessing now always provides full night vision

Medusa
- Movement speed decreased from 300 to 290
- Strength gain decreased from 1.85 to 1.65

Furion
- Teleport now has a tp scroll style indicator displayed for your allies
- Agility increased from 15 + 1.5 to 18 + 1.9

Meepo
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 305
- Poof manacost from 140/120/100/80 to 80

Naix
- Base damage improved by 5
- Casting Open Wounds no longer loses attack focus

Nerubian Weaver
- Shukuchi now has a 0.25 second fade time
- The Swarm manacost increased from 75 to 100
- The Swarm vision reduced from to 500 to 250

Nightstalker
- Base damage increased by 10
- Crippling Fear’s miss chance from 10/20/30/40% to 40%

Ogre Magi
- Int gain increased from 1.9 to 2.4
- Fireblast rescaled from 75/125/175/275 to 80/145/210/275 (146745)

- Multi Cast manacost increase for Firebalst rescaled from 30/80/110 to 30/70/110 (146745)

Obsidian Destroyer
- Astral Imprisonment no longer causes the target to lose vision over that area
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Obsidian Destroyer (along with a new visual effect)

Damage Multiplier from 8/9/10 to 9/10/11 and cast range from 600/650/700 to 700/750/800

Ability Code: A1VW

Omni Knight
- Movement speed increased by 5

Pandarean Brewmaster

- Drunken Haze slow increased from 10/14/18/22 to 14/18/22/26

Priestess of the Moon
- Moonlight Shadow’s cooldown rescaled from 160 to 180/160/140,
- Moonlight Shadow’s duration rescaled from 7/9/11 to 11.

Puck
- Illusory Orb cooldown decreased from 15 to 13

Pudge
- Flesh Heap is now retroactive (Meaning it keeps track of your kills and is always updating your str based on your current level of flesh heap)
- Reduced Flesh Heap aoe from 525 to 450
- Meat Hook damage type changed from physical to pure
- Meet Hook damage adjusted from 100/200/300/400 to 90/180/270/360

Queen of Pain
- Scream of Pain manacost rescaled from 140 to 110/120/130/140

Razor
- Static Link cooldown decreased from 45/40/35/30 to 35/30/25/20
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Razor (along with a new visual effect)

Increases striking speed from 0.85/0.75/0.60 to 0.7/0.6/0.5 and can target structures. Does not reduce structure’s armor.

Ability Code: A1UV

Sand King
- Armor increased by 1

Sniper
- Assassinate kills now give XP even if you are outside of range (208147)

- Night vision increased from 800 to 1000 (197918)

Spectre
- Desolate damage increased from 15/25/35/45 to 20/30/40/50
- Dispersion reflection increased from 5/10/15/20 to 10/14/18/22

Spirit Breaker
- Empowering haste from 4/6/8/10 to 6/8/10/12

- Aghanim’s Scepter Nether Strike now also increases cast range (400/550/700->550/700/850)
- Charge of Darkness speed boost updates at smoother 0.5 intervals and displays a counter above your head (267094)
- Added a button to make it more obvious how to initiate the charge earlier. You can still use the old move method though. (193994)

Stealth Assassin
- Base agility increased by 10

Base damage and armor decreased to remain the same overall after the extra agility

Tauren Chieftain
- Natural Order aoe from 250 to 275

Techies

- Remote mines now detonate when killed (145024)

Terrorblade
- Soul Steal’s secondary ability is now in the same position as the primary ability with the same hotkey (210124)

Tinker
- Armor increased by 1

Tiny
- Avalanche cooldown decreased from 20 to 17
- Toss cast range from 500/700/900/1100 to 700/900/1100/1300
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Tiny

Can target trees to pick them up as weapons (same as Stone Giant from ladder). Makes your attack range longer, gives you bonus damage against buildings and 50% splash in a 300 aoe for 3 attacks. Adds an extra level of upgrade to your toss damage that your ultimate normally does.

Ability Code: A1VH

Vengeful Spirit
- Magic Missile manacost rescaled from 95/110/125/140 to 110/120/130/140

Venomancer

- Poison Sting slow from 10 to 11/12/13/14

Viper
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Viper

Cast Range increased from 500 to 800 and cooldown from 80/50/30 to 12

Ability Code: A1UZ

Visage
- Gravekeeper’s Cloak armor bonus rescaled from 2/3/4/5 armor per layer to 1/2/4/5 per layer
- Gravekeeper’s Cloak magic resistance rescaled from 4/8/12/16% reduction per layer to 3/6/12/16 per layer
- Familiars maximum damage rescaled from 84/105/126 to 56/98/154
- Familiars cooldown from 160 to 180/160/140
- Soul Assumption’s mana cost increased from 100 to 150

Warlock
- Fatal Bonds cooldown decreased from 30 to 25
- Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Warlock

With Aghanim’s Warlock calls down two golems. HP, Attack and Bounty of each is halved to be roughly the same total as before. Deals twice the impact damage and lands 0.3 seconds apart.

Ability Code: S00U

Zeus
- Arc Lightning cooldown from 2.5 to 2.25 seconds

* Added a new recipe item (Arcane Boots)

This item replaces Arcane Ring.

Arcane Boots:
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500 – Boots of Speed
1000 – Energy Booster

+65 Movement Speed
+250 Mana

Replenish Mana (Restores 135 mana to allies in 600 aoe, 45 cd, 25 manacost)
Can be Disassembled
Original Idea from: 245602

* Added new basic item (Orb of Venom)

Located at the secret shops and side shops

- Costs 600 Gold.
- Adds a poison effect to your attacks. Deals 3dps and lasts 3 seconds. 4% slow for ranged, 12% slow for melee.

Assault Cuirass
- Attack Speed decreased from 40% to 35%
- Aura Attack Speed increased from 15% to 20%

Animal Courier
- Price decreased from 200 to 170

Blade Mail
- Damage Return’s duration increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds

Bloodstone

- Heal on wielder’s death increased from 25 per charge to 30
- Now only loses a third of its charges on death (reduced from a half)

Buriza Do Kyanon
- Damage increased by 6 (to equal the total of crystalys and demon edge)

Cranium Basher
- Removed 25% chance to do 25 bonus damage (stun is still the same)
- Cranium Basher bonus damage increased from 30 to 40

Dust of Appearance
- Reduced AOE from 1250 to 1050

Ethereal Blade
- Removed Wraith Band from recipe (same bonuses still though)
- You can now target yourself

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity

- Cast range increased from 600 to 700
- Added double click support for Euls (174341)

Eye of Skadi
- Orb of Venom added as a component. Final bonuses are the same as before.
- Recipe price decreased from 750 to 300

Heart of the Tarrasque

- Delay on regeneration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds

Maelstrom
- Recipe cost decreased from 900 to 800

Mekansm
- AoE of Restore increased from 450 to 750
- HP aura regen increased from 3 to 4

Quelling Blade
- Tree Chop cooldown decreased from 15 to 10

Sentry Wards
- Increased truesight vision from 800 to 950
- Reduced natural vision to just around itself

Urn of Shadows

- Heal no longer dispels from neutral creep damage
- Added a team notice when someone buys Urn of Shadows recipe

Vanguard
- HP bonus from 300 to 275

* Added a new gold mechanic to the game

"Reliable Gold" – Any bounty you get from hero kills or from the extra "aoe kill gold" bonus (feature from few patches ago) is added to your Reliable Gold pool.

"Unreliable Gold" – It is everything else (creep kills, neutrals, etc).

Dying can only take away gold from your Unreliable Gold pool and not from your Reliable Gold. Buying items uses up your Unreliable Gold first before using your Reliable Gold.

An example: You have 910 total gold (500 Unreliable, 410 Reliable). If you buy Boots of Speed, you’ll have 410 total gold left (0 Unreliable, 410 Reliable). However, if you bought Chainmail, you would have 360 Reliable Gold left.

The process is seamless to the user, you won’t have to do anything extra to make it work. Your total gold is still displayed in the same place. Your Reliable Gold is displayed in your scoreboard title.

This is a new experimental idea that may be adjusted and tweaked over time depending on feedback and results after it is released. As always, let me know anything you want to see in future versions.

Buyback uses reliable gold first. There are some other plans and ideas for buyback adjustments in the future but I would like to see these changes stabilize first before considering further stuff. There may also be some other changes related to the aoe bounty in the future but I want to take it slow one step at a time and see how this change is reflected in games first.

* Support gold bounty gained for kills is now displayed ontop of each hero (not a change to bounty, but revealing the "extra" area bounty that was added a few patches ago, 16775)
* Minor adjustment (+50) to the extra aoe XP bounty
* Lane creeps vision from 1400/800 to 1100/800

* Day-Night now cycles at 25% faster rate
* The autozoom restore function in -zm is increased to give extra time to temporarily zoom in
* Game now displays a message to your allies if you buy back
* Added a -ub (-Unban) game mode to override the default -cm changed hero restrictions. You use this in combination with cm, -ubcm
* Reworked the -CM Ban and Picks process

Instead of 4 bans and then 5 picks, now it is 3 bans and then 3 picks followed by 2 bans and 2 picks.

Old CM:
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Summary: 4 bans then 5 picks.

Ban Phase: Each team bans 4 heroes. 40 Seconds for each step.
Process: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1

Pick Phase: Each team then picks 5 heroes. 60 Seconds for each step.

Process: 1-2-2-2-2-1

60 seconds of extra time is provided in each team’s time bank.

New CM:
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Summary: 3 bans then 3 picks then 2 bans then 2 picks.

Ban Phase #1: Each team bans 3 heroes. 30 seconds for each step
Process: 1-1-1-1-1-1

Pick Phase #1: Each team then picks 3 heroes. 50 seconds for each step.
Process: 1-2-2-1

Ban Phase #2: Each team then bans 2 heroes. 50 seconds for each step
Process: 1-1-1-1

Ban Phase #2: Each team then picks 2 heroes. 50 seconds for each step
Process: 1-1-1-1

90 seconds of extra time is provided in each team’s time bank.

* Added death animation for Throne (82594)
* 4 new Courier models (222933)
* Added a Flying Courier morph ability (175819)

* Added Mini Viper and Snow Owl flying courier models (175819)
* Added a mini-goblin zeppelin flying courier model
* Added a new ability to the courier that drops all the items that do not belong to you to their respective CoPs and then gathers all items that are yours onto the courier.
* Changed the courier morph hotkey to G to avoid conflicts with the new ability
* Game now displays a message when an ally purchases Dust, Observer Wards, Sentry Wards or Gem
* Added -il as a shortcut for -invokelist (43834)

* Increased Anti-Backdoor regeneration rate
* Fixed some visual issues with ground textures of some scourge buildings (217304)
* Fixed some buff icon inconsistencies (218840)
* Added Hook and Arrow Accuracy information to replay data

"AA_Total"+PlayerID,Amount
"AA_Hits"+PlayerID,Amount
"HA_Total"+PlayerID,Amount
"HA_Hits"+PlayerID,Amount

* New visual effect for Vengeful Spirit’s scepter
* New visual effect for Witch Doctor’s Aghanim Scepter

* New visual effect Puck’s Scepter (206094)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Axe (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Pudge (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Spiritbreaker (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Sand King (264503)

* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Jakiro (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Night Stalker (264503)
* Added an Aghanim’s visual effect for Earthshaker (166075)

* New Tidehunter hero story (244461)

* Added flavor text for Phase Boots (19010)

* Reworked when the visual effect is shown for Berserker’s Blood (268354)
* Improved Chaos Bolt animation (247368)
* New Earthbind visual effect
* Added an extra visual effect for Nether Swap

* Added a visual damage indicator for Ethereal Blade (204930)
* Added a Burst visual effect for flying courier (21388)
* Added an aura visual for Leoric’s Vampiric Aura (14145)
* Fixed some visual issues with Soul Steal (210124)
* New visual effect of Strafe (205629)

* Added a visual effect for the int stealing event on Silencer’s Last Word (9993)
* Added temporary text overhead info for Sticky Napalm indicating stack counts

* New Breathe Fire icon (208513)
* New Earthbind Icon (202929)
* New March of the Machines Icon (223523)

* New Morph Icon (255633)
* New Scourge Glyph Icon (217705)
* New Strafe icon (205629)
* New Toss Icon (238905)
* New Torrent Icon (218829)

* Fixed Familiars tooltip
* Fixed Forge Spirit tooltip
* Fixed a bug with Curse of the Silent
* Fixed a bug with Charge of Darkness
* Fixed Invoke from triggering last word
* Fixed Rot dispelling curse of the silent
* Fixed Flaming Lasso scoreboard timer
* Fixed Batrider interaction bugs with Land Mines

* Fixed a minor rare bug with the caster unit for primal roar
* Fixed some visual glitches with passive Crystalys icon (208005)
* Fixed some visual glitches with passive Attribute Bonus icon (208766)
* Fixed a bug with the interaction of Ion Shell and Focus Fire
* Fixed some areas where you could get stuck with TP Scroll
* Fixed a bug that could allow courier to gain attack capability
* Fixed a bug with Soul Ring when your mana capacity changes

* Fixed some rare bugs with Hex interactions with some abilities
* Fixed Dark Pact not properly dispelling Crippling Fear or Void
* Fixed a bug with picking up Linken’s Sphere while waveforming
* Fixed the launch projectile location for Dragon Knight’s Elder Form
* Fixed X Marks The Spot when used on an ally carrying Linken Sphere
* Fixed some AI bugs with attacking roshan while teleported close inside
* Fixed a bug with moon wells water mechanic when you get stuck inside it
* Fixed a minor rare bug that produced the "cannot construct unit" message

* Fixed a very rare bug that could sometimes cause Toss to not throw anything

* About Phoenix

I had mentioned a Phoenix hero was in the works in the past. I’ve decided to save the hero for another update instead of putting him in this one. I want to work on him more.

Thanks to all the beta testers, translators and players that provided feedback. Send me an email and let me know what you’d like to see in 6.69 and beyond.

]]> http://www.dotallyrad.com/2010/07/28/dota-6-68-released-changelog/feed/ 1 The Two HoN Clans to Fear http://www.dotallyrad.com/2010/07/28/the-two-hon-clans-to-fear/ http://www.dotallyrad.com/2010/07/28/the-two-hon-clans-to-fear/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:54:43 +0000 TheKing http://www.dotallyrad.com/?p=3770 If you’re a frequent visitor of 1600 and 1700 PSR games, you’ll find these complete pubs, and should avoid most all of their clan members at ANY cost.

1) RawR – RawR is the Wal-Mart of HoN clans. It’s some massive superstore filled with cheap trash that poor people go to because they can’t go anywhere else due to skill level. Basically, clan RawR holds inhouses, which is like a giant, fester cow turd of a game with illiterate monkeys attempting to actually play this game. Requirement for RawR? Own a keyboard and be able to double knot your shoes. I still think half these kids are in diapers because they’re so fucking incompetent and lack the basic functions of normal humans; as such, they often find themselves defecating all over their Elmo boxers grandma got them at the secret santa exchange last year. Disgusting publics.

2). Clan Kiwi – Aussie crocodile shit players that are utterly clueless. I have never played with 1 good KiWi member, and have the ‘mass recruit’ strategy down. They always complain about lag. Basically, their internet connection is a large red party cup with a white string that attached to some Mexican’s house on the west side of California. They yell their command into one end of the cup, and their hero is dead by the time is reached the west coast server. What has really happened is that giant ozone hole as started to burn through their skulls, affecting their ability to judge everything. The only things to come out of Australia that were good are AC/DC and Crocodile Hunter. Everything else, including this clan and all of its members, make me barf all over my keyboard and consider slamming my balls with an icepick. Even more disgusting publics.

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So I check his stats and he’s 45% Pollywog Priest.  This pub’s got more games of Pollywog Priest than most people have of HoN, and he’s fucking terrible at it.  Maide’s HoN Stats has him with a lower winning percentage with PP than with the rest of his heroes combined.

Turns out all he does is rush Stormspirit and go around trying to ward trap people.  Game after game after game after game after game.  Meanwhile the carries on the other team free farmed a 12 min Savage Mace and are shitting damage onto his face. Nuff said…

DUMPSTER STATUS CONFIRMED

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LOL

As many know, his g/f has an exceptionally large hand, so

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Draw your own conclusions.

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Milkfat, captain of Team MILK, was at the E3 Expo back in June. He was caught up by a reporter from the TBS show Lopez Tonight.

In a stereotype nerd guessing contest, contestants were to guess if Milkfat ever named a pet after a gaming character.

- “No, but I named my niece after one,” says Milkfat. “My favorite character in DotA is Luna Moonfang, and so they were trying to think of names for the baby and so since he’s Mexican and she’s Hawaiian, I was like ‘Oh, why don’t you name the baby Luna, you know after the moon’, but little they know is that I was actually naming it after my favorite character.”

George Lopez, quick at jumping on the stereotype bandwagon, made a joke about the MILK player’s nickname.

- “Milkfat is a perfect name for this dude, chances of getting a date – 2 percent,” said Lopez.

Link provides a hilarious video to provide proof, and really Sam, 6 figures? so lol worthy

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A well respected ex-professional DotA player DoP.Emperor (HoN: brized), who has since then switched to HoN, contacted SK Gaming with the idea of publishing information that is sure to attract a lot of attention from both the HoN and DotA communities. He says he was not happy with the negative and uninformed comments made by DotA players and fans with their claims that HoN is just a bad/stolen DotA copy, while they are not aware of what was going on behind the scenes of the development of LoL, HoN and DotA. Here is what he has to say:

“Basically, I’m getting sick of the zealous supporters of IceFrog who bash HoN, or label S2 Games as thieves for “stealing” IceFrog’s work. My peak was during the ESWC livestream, where MadMortigan portrayed IceFrog as an amazing selfless developer who never accepted donations or money for his time on DotA, and slighted S2 for stealing IceFrog’s work. Though I no longer play DotA, I still love and follow both games — I just think it is time for people to know the real story.

In the Summer of 2009 I was called to the Riot Games (developers of League of Legends) office as part of an advisory panel of DotA players to give our input on making LoL a more competitive game. During my time spent at the office, as well as in private conversations with several high ranking Riot employees, I acquired a fair amount of info about IceFrog and what actually goes on behind the scenes.

During the early stages of 2006, Ice was fresh out of college and interviewed at Riot Games for the position of head developer for League of Legends. He wanted a few hundred thousand dollars, his share of profits, seat on the board of directors (next to several VERY highly renowned and experienced folks in the game industry, where as Ice was merely the developer of a single WC3 custom map), and 100% full creative control. While relations were cordial, I was informed that he was basically laughed out of the office for his ridiculous demands.

Shortly after this period, he secretly went around bidding the idea of developing a DotA clone to various game companies, accompanied by an agent who’s name I cannot recall. It was not long before he was hired at S2 games. He worked there for a few years –based on the information I received from Riot Games, I believe sometime not long after his interview at Riot (2006) to sometime before the 2009 beta launch at which point he and S2 split ways due to unknown complications.
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Given my experience as a beta tester and the fact that IceFrog would be on the beta forums all day long working on and releasing DotA beta patches, it is not hard to speculate that he was paid a significant amount of money to work on HoN and to continue developing DotA in the meanwhile. It was hardly a “free project” for him if he got anything close to what he wanted from Riot. If this is indeed the case, DotA would not be the game it is today without S2′s employment and funding of IceFrog. Mind you, Ice reassured his beta testers that he was not involved in ANY other projects(blatantly false). His involvement in HoN went WAY beyond simply the blessing he gave to the game in a post on his blog back in the Summer of 2009. HoN was developed by IceFrog to be the next-gen version of DotA for the community, not some cheap copy made by developers trying to cash in on the game’s popularity.

Several other details about IceFrog were also shared with me during my visit, including his real name. I have no interest in revealing the private information of someone who has his own reasons for long staying under the radar, but considering how ridiculous the HoN vs DotA argument has become, I felt I should shed some light on it.”

The veracity of the statement is what is in question. I’d like to say that, given my DotA/HoN competitive experience (8+ years), Emperor has always been one of the best-mannered and most credible players in the scene. He’s low-key and I really doubt he’d make this up. I don’t say that about much of anyone since I think almost everyone is a dick-off, but Emperor is an exception. I have no reason to believe he’d lie about this, and if S2 really did pay Icefrog to help develop their game and not tell anyone, that’s a lack of transparency on their part.
It should be noted that S2 has not confirmed or denied this, and that the article was removed from SK gaming. Since Emperor is no doubt a very credible source, I do not understand why it would be removed.
UPDATE:
I was contacted by the writer, Mario, about this story. It is a great piece and I have no idea why it should be kept secret. I think it sheds a lot of light on Icefrog, S2 and all people involved. Journalists crave this stuff.

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How does SK gaming continue to let this public play in their games? Bdiz never does good, ever. When is the last time anyone has heard Breaky go “Bdiz on X hero REALLY making good plays here!”. Never. He never plays anything of importance past Plague Rider because he can’t. In fact, he plays carries on his alternate account in 1550/1600 pubs (HellodotJpg) and barely manages it. He tried to toss a game and went 0-22 on my team, and still won. I shit you not. He is utterly useless at everything.

He was wildabeast in DotA. For you of those that don’t know who that is, there is a reason. He played like 3500 ladder games and was decent at DotA. Nobody gave a rats shit about Willdabeast. Because this talentless dumpster rides Testie’s dick every 1700 no ab game, he has a chip on his shoulder. When big teams come knocking, Bdiz is the first to fall behind.

So here it is. There are much better players out there and more qualified to start on the team. I could think of a few hard support (myself included) that could run circles around this talentless dick off. Truth is, he’s garbage. LOAD has Fujiapples, superior to Bdiz in every aspect of the game. They have yoda (who can only play slither), but that’s 1 more hero than this kid. MSI has Duqi who makes clutch support plays, but SK is left holding the towel on Bdiz. I literally barfed all over my keyboard watching him play Behemoth in the Semifinals of the honcast invitational. Level 10, 30+ minute dagger. Cut this baggage.

End of story.

So here is the call for action. Kick this pile of trash off the starting roster and replace him with someone that knows more than how to TP and die.

UPDATE:

My harassment of Bdiz’s landed me a 1 week forum ban on HoN forums after posting about how terrible his Behemoth was. The soft-skinned crybaby continues to hide behind the powerful when he is openly criticized for his dumpy play. Good thing Dotally Rad will never censor opinions of the trash in a good team.

UPDATE 2:

Bdiz attempts to carry – blows shit and fails. Loses to XFin LOL

Watch his fail here – http://hon.esportmedia.com/video/2010/07/19/newegg-tournament-sk-vs-xfin

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