New HoN Interface makes iFlee rage/cry; also changelog

v0.3.0.0

- New Front End Interface
- Solo Automatic Matchmaking
* With one button you can enter the queue for as many different regions as you want and play with random other people automatically. This does not use PSR, it uses SMR (Solo Matchmaking Rating) and everyone starts at 1500. Mode is Banning Pick.
* Players tagged as “leavers” can not join Matchmaking
* Players who leave a game before it starts (during the ‘loading’ phase of a game) will automatically be replaced by someone else.
* If you leave a Matchmaking game at the hero selection screen, you will get a leave
- Tutorial
* New ingame interactive Tutorial to help new players learn the basics of the game before diving in. Even experienced players might learn something!
- New Player Stats screen
* Including your most played heroes!
- Hero Compendium
* See detailed stats and recommended items about every hero
- Ingame Ladder page
* Search and filter the ladder to compare yourself to those at the top. Any number of options can be turned on and filtered!
- New Game Lobby
- New Hero Picking screen
* Now with 12 more slots for new heroes! How did we do that?!?

General

- You can now swap the placement of the minimap from the bottom left to bottom right hand corner
- Leaver threshold lowered to 5%
- Fix for StatusStealth
* This fixed an issue that was causing Witch Slayer and Pollywog Priest’s crowd control abilities to dispel all states off the target
- Updated br stringtables, thanks to Trilles
- Recommended Items Updated
- Item cursor now changes to a targeting cursor when hovering over an allied unit
- Stacked items (runes of blight, mana potions, health potions) will now sell for their full total value within 15 seconds of purchasing them. (e.g. if you buy two health potions for 200g then sell them within 15sec, you will now correctly gain 200g)
- Logger’s Hatchet can now be sold within 15 seconds of buying it (but not if you used it)
- Added “Host:” and “Version:” to the /gameinfo and /gi commands in game, also added the server version for display in the game lobby screen
- Fixed when heroes were ‘running in place’ after using a Homecoming Stone
- Added messages to the game lobby for the following actions:
1) When the host assigns someone as the new host
2) When the host assigns someone as a spectator
3) When the host assigns someone as a referee
4) When the host locks or unlocks a slot
- Removed ‘remove hero’ button in practice mode for now
- Tweaked the position of ancients

- Invisible Mode added
- Fixed a bug in the game setup interface where referee count was incorrectly being set to the count of spectators chosen
- Fixed a bug in the game lobby where the current player count exceeded the max player count in games with spectators(2) and referees(1). e.g. “Players: 13/10″. Now shows the correct max player count to match the main lobby game browser numbers. e.g. “Players: 13/13″
- Added flood protection to the chat server to protect against invite to clan spam and create clan attempts
- Fixed an issue causing the change password functionality in game to not work correctly.
- Fixed an issue on the chat server where in certain cases players were not properly being promoted/demoted
- Optimized client code so game server refreshes should no longer hang the client or user interface.
- Chat channels can now be saved via the interface and will be automatically joined when logging in.
- Added new “Ping” filter next to the “Full Games” checkbox. It filters the results on the client so only pings less the chosen number populate the game list
- Added a new filter option to the server browser “Game Mode:” section called “Advanced”. It allows players to filter multiple game modes (ie. SD, BD, BP) all at once locally in the client. Upon selecting ‘Advanced’ a small panel pops up and the player can choose the game modes they want to see in the game list just by selecting the appropriate checkbox then clicking OK
- Default SFX volume down to 0.6 from 0.7
- Fixed an issue with the chat server where if a user sent a message using /b or /m and someone on one of those lists was in /dnd mode, it wouldn’t send the message to all the people on the list.
- Overhauled how adding buddies/friends works. You now must request friendship before someone is actually added as your friend.
* You can request friends when offline and they will get the notifications upon logging in, and approve at their convenience
* We might have to wipe current friends lists at some point in the future for this to work correctly.

- Added new search support for filtering games by name:
* Added feature to allow players to type in multiple search phrases. By typing a search phrase and adding a ?|? the client will distinguish one phrase from another. The browser will then search the available games and show any games showing any one of the phrases separated by a “|”.
* Added feature to allow players to exclude certain games based on the search phrase. By typing in a “-” at the beginning of the search phrase the client will automatically filter any games with “Phrase” to not show up. Note that exclusion of search terms takes precedence over inclusion. (Excluding a term, and then trying to include the same term will cause it not to appear, ie ?noobs|-noobs?)
* The “|” and “-” can be escaped with a “\” should the player want to search on a game with the pipe or hyphen in it.
* All searches are color and case insensitive, and the order that the search phrases are entered have no effect on how they will display. So “1500|-no ab” is the same as “-no ab|1500″.

Some examples:
*Search Phrase: “1550|1600|1650|-no ab|-noobs” – This searches on any game with “1550″, “1600″, and “1650″ in the name, and if it has the words “no ab” or “noobs” in it it will not display.
*Search Phrase: “-no ab|1500|1550|-countryname|ab” – This searches on any game with “1500″, “1550″ and “ab” in the name, and if it has the words “no ab” or “countryname” in it it will not display.
*Search Phrase: “1500|\-SDEM|pipe\|test” – This searches on any game with “1500″, “-sdem” and “pipe|test” in the name.

Kongor
- If you attack him from outside of his lair you will have 100% miss now
- After leaving his lair, 1.5 seconds later he retreats to go back in and is invuln on the run back
- Is now 40% angrier

Ice Ogre
- Cooldown of the frost shield increased by 4 seconds (to 5s)

Items

Barrier Idol
- Fixed a bug that caused it to absorb huge damage when damage taken was all at once
Elder Parasite
- Incoming damage multiplier reduced to 20%, from 30%
Harkon’s Blade
- Increases manacost per attack to 75 from 50
Nullstone
- Recipe cost reduced to 825 from 1325
- Mana regen increased to 200% from 150%
- Now grants +10 damage
Runes of the Blight
- Heal over time is no longer dispellable
Wards of Sight
- Now have a 50 gold bounty when killed

Heroes

The following auras can now be toggled between all units and heroes only:
- Andromeda’s Dimensional Link
- Arachna’s Precision
- Moon Queen’s Lunar Glow

Accursed
- Fixed Flame Consumption to go off anytime he is below 400 health and takes non-fatal damage
- Fixed Flame Consumption to properly dispel himself when it automatically goes off
- Fixed Sear so it continues to apply the slow and the buff while his ultimate is active

Andromeda
- Rescaled ult range to 750/975/1200 from 600/900/1200

Armadon
- Added cast effect for throwing snot
* This is a visual effects change
- Charges gained from Restless are not longer capped at 4

Behemoth
- “Voice”

Blacksmith
- Lowered base armor by 1
- Base Damage lowered to 54-60 from 58-64
- Flaming Hammer’s projectile speed lowered to 800 from 1100
- Flaming Hammer’s negative magic armor starts at -1/-2/-3/-4 for the first 1 second, then reduces to 0 over its duration.
- Base Manacost of Flaming Hammer increased to 95/110/125/140 from 95/105/115/125

Blood Hunter
- Blood Sense now reveals stealth targets

Chronos
- Manacost on Time Leap increased to 135 from 120
- Time Leap damage lowered by 25 at all levels
- Curse of Ages now steals 1/1/2/3 agility per charge, decreased from 1/2/3/4
- Curse of Ages now stuns the target after 5 attacks, increased from 4
- Targets stunned by Curse of Ages will now properly play their attack animation when the stun wears off
- Stun from Curse of Ages now scales as a .25,.5,.75,1 second stun from 1 second at all levels
- Chronofield won’t freeze invulnerable targets anymore (Such as Swiftblade ulting or Defiler’s ult)
- Chronofield now freezes everyone by default, with Staff of the Master lets allies move at -80% speed in the field

Corrupted Disciple
- Top end base damage lowered by 5

Dark Lady
- Turn rate increased to 900 from 360
- Dark Blades don’t interrupt movement, cast time removed

Deadwood
- Proper announcement at hero selection
- Rebalanced:
- Base strength lowered to 23 (from 25)
- Strength Gain lowered to 2.7 from 3.0
- Agility Gain increased to 2.0 from 1.6
- Base Armor increased to 2.24 from 1.24
- Slow from throwing the log increased to 75% max from 60% max
- Oakbolt’s slow now lasts for 1.5/2/2.5/3 seconds, from 3 seconds at all levels.
- Projectile speed when throwing a log increased to 1200 from 1000
- Willowmaker
* Cooldown rescaled to 85,75,65
* Cast point lowered to 500ms from 750ms
* Damage rescaled to 350, 650, 950 from 400,600,800
* Debuff is now a constant 20% strength reduction at all levels from 20,30,40%
* No longer splashes the debuff in a cone, only the single target
* Stun duration increased to 1.5s from 1s

Demented Shaman
- Base Intelligence lowered to 24 from 27
- Strength Gain lowered to 1.8 from 1.9
- Intelligence Gain lowered to 3.0 from 3.4
- Damage rescaled to 44-56 from 41-59
- The snare from Entangle will now give assists

Devourer
- No longer gains strength from illusions
- Touch radius of Hook changed from 60 to 75 and will consistently hit targets with a 75 radius regardless of what angle it is being thrown

Electrician
- Damage of Clensing Shock against summoned units increased to 600,800,1000 from 600 at all levels

Engineer
- Voice
- Fixed a Turret bug that a bullet from the Turret doing 200+ damage
- Fixed a bug causing the splash damage when a siege unit debuffed by Tinker to not deal AOE damage
- Energy Field will only not purge a target if they are under the effects of Shrunken Head
* This means the shield will purge off Jeraziah’s Charm, for example.

Forsaken Archer
- Voice
- Skeletons now display a timer on the third ability indicating the time remaining for the next skeleton to expire (Thanks to Tisser)

Glacius
- Base Agility increased to 17 from 16
- Damage rescaled to 43-51 from 38-44
- Base Armor increased to 1.44 from 1.24

Hellbringer
- Summon Malphas now has new ground effects
- Negative Magic Armor is now -3,-4,-5,-6 from -2.7,-5.1,-6.9,-8.3

Jeraziah
- Fixed tooltips (a few errors)
- Range of Inner Light increased to 500 from 400

Keeper of the Forest
- Eyes are now stealthed and become revealed when a hero comes into the 450 reveal range (from 300)
* This stops couriers from killing eyes unless a hero is nearby to spot them
- Root can now be seen even when he is invisible
- Root now hits units in fog

Legionnaire
- Base Int increased to 17 from 14
- Terrify removed
- Terrifying Charge Added
* The Legionnaire charges very quickly at a target foe and swings wide with his mighty axe upon reaching them, dealing damage and Terrifying those unfortunate enough to be standing there. Terrified enemies attack very quickly, but do less damage per attack.
* 1000 Range, 40/50/60/70 Manacost, 30s Cooldown
* Charges at max movespeed towards the target. Being stunned, losing sight of the target, or issuing another command will cancel the charge early. Upon reaching the target, forces an attack that deals 150/200/250/300% of your base damage and applies Terrify for 4/5/6/7 seconds to all enemies in a 110 degree 240 distance cone.
* If the target gets more then 2000 units away (Such as from using teleport) the charge will cancel
* Terrify debuff: -50% Attack Damage, +50% Attack Speed

Madman
- Snare debuff stuff removed from Stalk
- Manacost of Berserk changed to 50,80,110 from 100,150,205

Maliken
- Model cleaned up
- Voice
- Stats tweaks:
* Base Strength increased to 24 from 22
* Strength gain increased to 2.6 from 2.4
* Agility gain lowered to 2.0 from 2.4
* Base Intelligence lowered to 17 from 18
- Speed of Sword Throw projectile increased to 850 from 700
- Radius of Sword Throw lowered to 200 from 225
- Manacost on Sword of the Damned’s heal mode removed
- Self hurt from Sword of the Damned’s flame mode changed to 6,9,12,15 from 5,10,15,20
- Range while under the effects of Possession reduced to 550 from 600

Night Hound
- Base movement speed increased to 305 from 300
- Smoke Bomb cast range increased to 425 from 350
- Smoke Bomb cast point reduced to 200 from 400
- Pounce cooldown rescaled to 20,15,10,5 from 30,20,10,5

Nymphora
- Fixed targeting circle radius
- Base Agility lowered to 18 from 22
- Base Armor lowered to 2.00 from 2.08
- Stun from Nymphora’s Zeal is now 1200 range at all ranks (from bad)
* Charges Nymphora gains rescaled slightly so the bonuses are zero at level 1 and the same at level 4

Ophelia
- New effects for first ability
- Command now allows Ophelia to control 1/2/2/3 creeps at once, from 1/2/3/3
- Level 4 of Command no longer grants Magic armor to Ophelia’s creeps

Pebbles
- New death

Pharaoh
- Anyone within 175 units of Pharaoh will be gauranteed to be caught inside of his mummy wall on use

Plague Rider
- Agility Gain lowered to 1.8 from 2.0
- Damage rescaled to 42-51 from 37-56

Pollywog Priest
- Remodeled and effects redone
- Range increased to 550 from 500
- Base Armor increased from 1.14 to 1.30
- Number of targets hit by Electric Jolt is no longer capped
- Cooldown of Voodoo Wards is now 110/95/80 from 110 at all levels

Predator
- “Voice”

Puppetmaster
- Puppeteer’s Hold duration lowered by .5 seconds at all levels

Pyromancer
- Fixed Fervor doing 1 DPS too much to buildings
- Fervor set not to propagate to illusions

Slither
- Wards bounty to 10-15 from 3-9

Soul Reaper
- Base Agility increased to 16 from 15

Soulstealer
- Dread can no longer be toggled. This fixes the keybinding issues.

Succubus
- Voice
- Manacost of Succubus’ Hold is now 150/250/350 from 200/300/400

Thunderbringer
- Cast times of all abilities lowered to 300ms from 400ms
- Damage from Chain Lightning is now instant on the first target
- AOE of Lightning Rod increased to 1000 from 800

Valkyrie
- Increase turn speed to 900 (from 360)
- After hitting a target with Javelin of Light, an 800 area around the target will continue to be revealed for 3.34 seconds
- Reworked collision on the Javelin of Light. It now has a radius of 80 (reduced from 110) and will consistently hit targets with an 80 radius regardless of what angle it is being thrown
* Previously, it was using a rectangle 110 units wide to calculate collision, so when thrown on an angle it would often hit targets greater than 110 units away
- Javelin of Light is no longer “Physical”
* This means it will hit someone who has void talisman active
- Javelin of Light plays a popup indicating the length of the stun
- Removed cast noise on casting Javelin of Light
- Removed glow from Javelin of Light

Vindicator
- Base Armor increased from 1.30 to 1.50
- Damage rescaled to 45-55 from 39-61

Voodoo Jester
- Base Agility increased to 14 from 13
- Base Intelligence increased to 22 from 19
- Intelligence Gain increased to 3.0 from 2.9
- Initial projectile speed of Acid Cocktail increased to 750 from 650
- Cast time on Cursed Ground reduced to 0.35 seconds (from 0.5)

Warbeast
- Manacost of Battle Cry reduced to 15,10,5,0 from 15,20,25,30

Witch Slayer
- Base Agility increased to 16 from 15
- Base Intelligence increased to 23 from 22

Zephyr
- The gust of wind from Gust now travels 540 total distance (reduced from 640)
- Cyclones now display the time remaining before the next cyclone expires (thanks to Tisser)
- Typhoon damage lowered to 60,80,100 from 60,90,120
- Typhoon no longer spawns max Cyclones instantly. Instead, it spawns one cyclone per second for the duration of the Typhoon

Rant : Rageaholics

If you’ve played in DXD or TDT or IHL or any league when DotA was the king supreme of AoS style of games you will have without a doubt met your rageaholic. If you’ve played only public games or the lower levels of league via TDA or SyN or XG then you still will have most likely met the rageaholic.

A rare specimen this rageaholic, they are VERY VERY contradictory. They will scrutinize every last little detail of your play and flame you for it, yet when it comes to their own play it is at best mediocre. Most likely the rageaholic is a was-be who is what we call “washed-up”, as per se they were at one point or another able to stand their own ground on a glorious reputation but have since fallen an insurmountable amount. Nevertheless they perceive themselves as the King of Kings, the Mastermind, God’s answer to the game and so on and so forth.

If you manage to kill them beware! They will call you lucky, scrub, noob etc. and blame it on their allies not assisting them or say stupid idiotic stuff like “ONE MORE SECOND AND I WOULD HAVE RAPED YOU PUB” when they had no mana, little health and a bare minimum of DPS. They also will challenge you to a 1v1 after the game if your team wins, saying stupid stuff like YOU GOT CARRIED and MY TEAM IS HORRENDOUSLY PUBLIC when no shit if you’re a carry hero and it’s a team game, you will get carried. Flaming is also imminent, so get your flame shield up ASAP lest you get burned by the insecurity of the rageaholic. If your team loses be aware of the aura the rageaholic emits, his boasting, taunting and flaming of how terrible you are is scientifically noted to cause people to laugh so hard at how childish people are that they actually laugh themselves into a comatose state**.

Last but not least if you manage to fall under the category of friends or acquaintance of said rageaholic and you do the EVER SO slightest thing to make them mad, be ready for beratement, removal of the friends list, flaming, crying of the epic proportion (also known as T_T or QQ) or long-drawn out whispers at how bad you are and why they bother playing with you. Clan quitting is also not out of the question.

IF YOU ARE A RAGEAHOLIC HOW DO YOU QUIT THIS TERRIBLE ADDICTION?

Simple, it’s a fucking game you stupid neanderthal, take a deep breath, let the fucking issue go (most likely that you just lost a game) and move on. Stop being such a fucking drama-queen and you might actually have something people call friends.

Noteable rageaholics
Swissbeatz, rravenajorax23k AKA KingRaven, Solace

** Not scientifically proven

SENTINAL STOP QQ

DxD: We Know DRAMA

Hello Fellow DotA Gamers!

HunteR_ here, many of you know Tritran10 and I Have been running DXD leagues for a long time. You’ve probably heard the rumous about DXD merging with GDG and I wanted to elaborate on the details.

I wanted to let you all know the truth that has come forward in light of this situation.

First of all, I was never informed of a merge, and I was told by the staff here at GDG that tritran10 wanted to keep this very quiet. I know understand why, Tritran10 tried to steal DXD for himself by merging with GDG.

See Tritran10 and I have had a 50/50 partnership for a very long time. I’ve paid countless amounts of money on the server, ventrilos, and various operations of the league. I’ve connected Tritran with DotA pioneers like IHCS Lego to help build our bots. I’ve done countless years of work to maintain DXD and grow it to the size it has become today, I’ve always incited that DXD was a great place for DotA players to come and enjoy a good game with good accountability.

In the past Year, Tritran and I have grown some fundamental differences upon how a league should maintain itself.

A couple days ago, all the bots that have been hosted on my server were removed, and so were my Garena bots for DXDin (which were worthless for him to steal since they’re compiled and not source code).

I was contacted by DXD’s admins and staff who couldn’t believe tritran was backing out on our partnership.

Respected DXD Staff like Deestylistic came to me alerting me of signs that there might be something going on that is shady. At first I did not believe it, I gave tritran the benefit of the doubt and even supported a merge that I had no idea about.

Tritran tried to sell out DXD and merge into GDG.

I know the leader of GDG personaly, Lethal and I were once working together on Gamebend before he moved to Italy. I had not learned of his return, and as most of you know my activity on Battle.net is very low because of teh Garena Leagues DXDin/DXDi.

Low and behold the owner of GDG, LEthal, was told by tritran that if the DXD staff didn’t want to go with the decision that it didn’t matter because he owns DXD and they will do what he says.

Now many of you who were staff in DXD can remember the random and unwarranted Staff Demotions and Promotions.

Lethal had asked Tritran where I was for this merger meeting so we could work out details, and Tritran told him that I was not needed because I have no stake in DXD. Which is false obviously.

The DXD community is an amazing group of people, both staff and players, and I was shocked to see Tritran wanted to sell out DXD.

When I came to the meeting, Tritran told Lethal and I that he doesn’t need either of us, that DXD will be around forever with or without us, and that if DXD merged with GDG and tritran didn’t like how it was going he would leave and leave Lethal “Crying”.

The atmosphere in the merger meeting between DXD, and GDG grew very nasty and borderline hostile.

I had DXD staff tell me if we merged on these terms after tri’s speech they would leave, and Lethal told me the same was with his staff.

The discussion turned poisonous quickly.

Upon the end of these events, I wanted to talk to lethal, and tritran privately, which when we did tritran told lethal that if he tried to back out on the merge he would just “Take Over GDG’s Staff”.

Well, that got Lethal and I thinking, and many of the DXD staff, as well as Lethal and I decided maybe Tritran’s plan wasn’t the right one.

I have decided to help Lethal out, and He the same.

I am no longer going to support DXD, and I am now going to be putting my efforts into growing GDG.

I urge you all to stand up with me, and fight the tyranny that is now DXD.

If you have any principals for transparency I hope you come with us to GDG.

Global DotA Gaming as of last night is now a subsidiary of GameBend.com and we are partnering to clean up the DotA League system of corruption that has plagued DXD for many years.

I believe in the principals held by the GDG league. There is complete transparency, GDG is owned by a corporation, a registered LLC, has it’s own Paypal account, monthly statements, and will run a League that offers real prizes and holds players and staff accountable.

This is a win/win situation for both the DotA community, and GameBend.

GameBend.com will now be hosting your website and integrating the GDG Forums into the database.

This weekend you will more than likely have to re-register due to a new overhaul, and use of vBulletin over PHPBB3 for more security features and flexibility.

If you had any pride in DXD, and want to go back to what it used to be before the corruption and jokes join Lethal and myself to work towards a real league.

Solace50 and Tritran10 tried to undermine myself and use Lethal to plot the extinction of DXD.

Last night, before I discovered the secret meeting from my staff, DXD was going to become GDG.

Now the extinction of DXD is inevitable with the sour relationship between tri tran and myself.

Here we have a situation where I have given someone my ultimate trust, given my heart, soul, and monetary support to running a league and tritran attempted to steal it from me. All he did was steal the only respect I had for him.

I pledge to uphold a new standard in GDG, I will help GDG out as much as I can, and I am launching gamebend this weekend which will revolutionize the way you think about a community.

I have built many strong relationships in DXD and met many of you in real life, and I call some of you my friends.

I hope to see you stand with me and the others that hold true to the idea that we deserve more.

This weekend you will be able to goto http://GameBend.com and goto the leagues by clicking “Forums”. Right now we will continue to use the website http://globaldotagaming.com until we launch this weekend.

I hope to see you all in GDG, I know the core people that built DXD into what it is today will be there.

Thank you for your time,

HunteR_
Previous DXD owner
Global DotA Gaming Manager
http://GlobalDotAGaming.com