A partir do dia 23, segunda-feira, um enorme update de Dota 2 entrará em vigor. The First Blood Update adicionará um novo modo de jogo, a possibilidade de se jogar em LAN e aprimorará o inventário de itens cosméticos do jogo.
Sabe aqueles momentos de azar onde todos seus amigos estão reunidos no mesmo lugar para jogar um dotinha e a internet cai? Ou pior ainda, quando a própria rede do Dota 2 cai? Nesse patch, a Valve introduzirá o modo LAN para salvar a festa numa situação dessas.
Além disso, será introduzido o modo Captain’s Draft, que basicamente é uma mistura de Captain’s Mode e Random Draft. O capitão do time bane e pega heróis dentro de um espectro bem mais reduzido que os mais de 100 heróis que estão disponíveis em outros modos.
Outra adição importante no First Blood Update são as modificações que serão aplicadas ao inventário de itens cosméticos. Qualquer um que joga Dota 2 há tempo suficiente sabe que aqueles itens que deixam seus heróis mais bonitos começam a fazer um volume enorme no inventário. Pensando nisso a Valve resolveu aprimorar a busca destes e possibilitará a criação de filtros personalizados que envolvem características como tipo de item, qualidade, raridade e outros.
Não tem itens decentes? Sem problemas, agora a qualidade dos drops será proporcional ao seu level. Quem disse que 1500 horas de dota não iam trazer benefícios?
Já na loja do Dota, será lançado o pacote do Portal, que conta com announcers e wards tematizados em homenagem à série. Eu mesmo estou esperando o pacote ficar disponível para adquirí-lo o quanto antes. As chaves dos baús mais recentes também ficarão disponíveis dia 23 de Setembro.
Essas são as maiores modificações que entrarão em vigor no First Blood Update, mas não são todas. Confira todas as mudanças que serão aplicadas nessa segunda-feira (em inglês):
GAMEPLAY
- Neutral creeps now properly use cast times and animations
- Upgraded Items can always be disassembled within 10 seconds of the combine (same rules as sell back)
- Item purchases can be made at the secret shop if the courier is at that location without selecting the courier
- Enabled Medusa in Captain’s Mode
- Outworld Devourer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment not restoring the right amount of mana after the debuff is removed
- Timbersaw: Fixed Timberchain not being interrupted by stuns
- Pudge: Meat Hook now pulls the target to the initial hook position regardless of where Pudge is
- Fixed being able to instantly toggle Armlet on and off
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed Greater Bash not applying further knockback on units that were already getting knocked back
- Clockwerk: Fixed Power Cogs night vision being too large
- Lone Druid: Fixed Level 1/2 Spirit Bear having 1800 day vision instead of 1400
- Fixed Shadow Blade revealing only when the attack hit the target rather than when it was launched
UI
- Control groups are now saved to the cloud, per hero, and will persist across games and disconnects. They are saved per hero
- Added profile privacy option to prevent viewing of Steam/DOTA profiles
- Added a button to choose to be captain in a Captains Mode or Captains Draft game
- Alt-left clicking on an enemy icon in the top bar will send a chat message that the hero is missing
- Limit the frequency we show map pings from muted players
- Added Double Tap Self Cast Timeout, controllable with the dota_ability_self_cast_timeout convar
- Darkened disabled heroes in Captains Mode and Captains Draft
- Added three new matchmaking language preference options: Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese
- Spectator health bars in the top bar are now red for the Dire
- Added a button to add friends inside the game
- Fixed spectator health bars in the top bar drawing over buyback and ultimate status
- Enemy health bars are now red in the HUD when querying them
- Fixed checkerboard flash on html panels
- Renamed backpack to armory
- Previewing couriers from the store or the armory opens a single preview window to display both versions of the courier
- Taunts are previewable in the armory
- Fixed many items not being previewable
- Buff icons draw above the portrait frame to avoid being covered by custom HUD materials
- Equipping a player slot item ( HUD, Ward, Courier ) from the armory now makes the player slots appear in the loadout panel
- Fixed various buff tooltips ( Mekansm, Armlet, Urn, Ghost Scepter, Ethereal Blade, Veil, Buckler, Assault Cuirass )
- Cleaned up some extra UI elements present in Dragon Scale HUD 4×3 aspect ratio
- Fixed the taunt key not working if an action item ( like Coal ) was equipped
- Fixed alt-pinging dropped recipes not printing the correct item name in chat
- When a courier you ordered to the secret shop enters the shop radius, the shop sound is played even if the courier is not selected
- Fixed a case where buying an item at the secret shop with a full inventory and while surrounded by trees could leave one component on the ground
COMMUNITY
- Beginning soon, users will be suspended from Dota 2 for 30 days when external tools attached to Dota 2 are detected by the Valve Anti-Cheat system
- Increased length of forgiveness threshold to reset the severity of communication bans to 3 weeks
ECONOMY
- The quality of the item drops you are eligible for is now tied to your Dota profile level. You can see your current drop level in your profile page
- A quick-search bar has been added to the armory
- Filters can now be created for the armory. These filters are stored in the Steam Cloud so that every machine you use will know your armory filter settings
- An armory page now contains 60 items instead of 64. Armory sizes have been increased upwards slightly to account for this adjustment
- Many items have been removed from the store. These can now be sold and bought on the Steam Community Market! Workshop contributors will receive a share of each resale of their items. The items that have been removed are not immortal: they may return to the store in future sales or events, or they may appear in the drop list from time to time
- The item drop list has been greatly pared down and will now change over time. As new items are introduced old items will be removed (and will be accessible on the Steam Community Market). This should help keep the item drop list interesting over time
- Entropic Shield and Entropic Axe are now a part of the Entropic set
TECHNICAL
- Fixed an issue where players could end up in a continuous loop of “received uncompressed update from server”
- Added UI texture streaming to reduce memory usage
- Fixed a startup crash with corrupt customization files
- Fixed a case where the game would return with a black screen after alt-tab
VISUAL
- Updated Phantom Assassin’s head
- New Centaur Conquerer War Stomp
- New Satyr Tormentor blast
- Minor tweaks to Wildwing Ripper Tornado
- New Satyr Banisher projectile
- Fixed visuals on Satyr Banisher purge
- Improved Vhoul’s spear throw effect
- Fixed LOD1 on Ol’ Chopper Pudge hook
- updated cloth settings and skinning Crystal Maiden, Invoker, Lina, and Rubick
- Fixed several bugs with portrait particles relating to death and dormancy for visibility in the portrait and kill cam
- Fixed Io death effects
- Moved all of Chaos Knight’s particles onto individual items, such as the mount, helmet, and others, as well as support for local attachments, so that new items can support different positions based on new mounts of helms
- Revamped Doom’s weapon effect to better support community items
- Fixed a bug where models that failed to combine would get double effects in the preview panel
- Fixed Spirit Breakers missing effects
- Moved Spirit Breaker’s effects into individual items to better support community items
- Fixed Spirit Breaker’s knockback distance being too low
AUDIO
- Add sound to Radiance debuff (only audible to target player)
- Fix last hit sound for Alchemist and Lone Druid ults
HERO BUILDS
- Added a language filter to the in-game UI when selecting a hero build. Build authors will need to republish hero builds and choose a language when publishing in order for builds to be filterable by language
- Fixed slow hero build loading times for users with a large number of subscribed or previously used hero builds
LOCAL PLAY
- Local servers allows players on the same physical network to connect to a locally hosted game
- By selecting “Create Local Lobby”, the leader of the lobby will become the host for a match by running a local server
- Players can see Local lobbies available on their physical network by going to “FIND A LOBBY” and selecting the “LOCAL LOBBIES” tab
- Local Lobbies follow the same rules as Private Lobbies.
- Upon completion of the Local game, the replay will be stored on the lobby leader’s computer in replays/<match-id>.dem
CAPTAINS DRAFT
- This game mode randomly selects 8 str, 8 agi, and 8 int heroes that both teams can choose from
- Each team’s captain bans 2 heroes (1/1/1/1) out of that list
- Each team’s captain selects 5 heroes (1/2/2/2/2/1) out of the remaining list
- There is a 150 second total time pool for each team to complete all of their bans and selections
WORKSHOP
- Added Abaddon to the Workshop submission tools and website requirements
MAC/LINUX
- [Mac] Fixed problems with sounds cutting out or not playing for the first few minutes of a game
- [Mac] Made the Dock icon bounce when a game is ready
- [Mac] Play a ready sound when game is not focused and matchmaking has found a game
- Make “Sound while alt-tab” setting work
- Added a fix for missing lip sync in hero portraits
- Fix corrupted GUI after changing video settings
- Hero Library videos now play on Linux
