== General ==
- This patch has brought the first Gold Collection Avatar,
Sachi Swiftblade. She will only be available for purchase until Friday, February 4th at 12 PM EST, so act swiftly to be one of the lucky few to own her!
* Gold Collection items are only available for a limited time
- Tweaked the ramps near Kongor on Caldavar to be much wider
- Casual Mode games now automatically start with a courier for each team
- Outpost no longer has
Snake Bracelet or
Minor Totem in it, now has an
Apprentice's Robe
== Shop Improvements ==
- The green border around a component now takes into account your stash.
- An orange border will be displayed around a component if you own it, but it's not in the selected unit's inventory. It will not show up if it's in anyone else's stash, if you can't see it, or if it's held by an enemy.
- "Buy All Components" is now "Buy Remaining", which will purchase only the items without a green or orange border. It'll also buy items going left to right, depth-first, so it can still buy some components even if you can't afford all.
- You can now buy while dead and then sell those items back while still dead
- Added a new icon over the item when it's still in the grace period for 100% sell-back value
- Fixed
courier purchase messages showing the wrong player as buying them
- Added more account icons
- A
courier will no longer automatically transfer wards to you, unless you bought the wards
- Stunned units can no longer use the Grimm Teleporters
- You can now earn smackdowns/humiliations if a player-owned unit gets the killing blow. These kills are now also counted for nemesis/paybacks.
- Fixed the timer for votes showing the wrong amount of time remaining. It wasn't taking into account time spent paused
- You can no longer concede once the enemy team has conceded
- Fixed the available avatars icon from incorrectly showing if a player does not have access or the ability to purchase any of the avatars for that hero
- Added GetGameTime and GetTotalTime console commands
- Font loading and memory optimizations
* Fonts load about twice as fast now and use about half the memory
- When a user joins the queue and a match has not been established in their MMR bracket/game type/map, the average wait time will display as "??? seconds" instead of "0 seconds"
== Items ==
Blood Chalice
- Now takes a
Scarab instead of a
Trinket of Restoration
* No longer gives +2 Health Regeneration
* Does not give any Mana Regeneration passively
Hellflower
- Now gives +51 damage instead of +50 as it is a correct sum of its parts
Nullstone
- The spell-block component no longer propagates to Illusions
Puzzlebox
- Fixed the
Mana Burn to correctly do Magic damage instead of True
Sacrificial Stone
- Added +10 damage (from
Sustainer)
- Fixed a bug where you could put the stone on a non-hero unit and it wouldn't lose charges
- Fixed it so that the wielder must be a hero in order to get charges added to it
== Heroes ==
Bombardier
- Fixed an anomaly with
Nullstone and
Boom Dust allowing
Bombardier to use
Boom Dust when he has 0 charges
- Fixed
Sticky Bomb from showing a stun visual when it explodes with 0 charges on it
Chronos
- Fixed
Time Freeze so that the damage won't be lethal to allied units
Corrupted Disciple
- Optimized
Corrupted Conduit to use less game resources
Dampeer
- Fixed Dampeer's
Bloodthirst dispeling
Sage's Lore
- Should no longer lose his essence charge if he dies with
Token of Life active
Devourer
- Cadaver Armor will now gain charges equal to the strength gained (no gameplay change, just a cosmetic bonus)
Flint Beastwood
- Fixed
Money Shot so that it always plays the sound when it should
* Fixes an issue where the sound would play even if the target did not die
- Fixed alternate avatar from saying gibberish each time he procs his
Hollowpoint Shells
- Fixed his
Hollowpoint Shells from killing allied heroes
Forsaken Archer
- Fixed Forsaken Archers' skeletons not attacking your target if you issue an attack order from far away & decide to activate skeletons early on
- Fixed Forsaken Archer's skeleton timer from displaying wrong time values when you summon a bunch of skeletons by toggling
Call of the Damned quickly
Gauntlet
- Infernal Instability is no longer dispellable
Gladiator
- Added disjoint to
Showdown (I Have No Patience) upon returning the target
- Fixed
Pitfall sound effect glitches
- Made the state that deals damage to you after the
Call to Arms visible so you know what is damaging you
Kraken
- Resized his alt avatar
- Fixed his
Tsunami Charge so it will no longer dispel other stuns on the enemies
- Fixed his
Release the Kraken! effect playing 1 second too long
Legionnaire
- Fixed
Terrifying Charge from canceling when a unit is on the edge of fog (again)
- Fixed
Terrifying Charge so it can be blocked by
Moraxus
- Decapitate cast effect type changed from Physical to SuperiorMagic
* This means it can now be cast on Physical Immune as well as Magic Immune units
Maliken
- Fixed his sword stance not playing his idle animation when you go back to regular sword stance
- Fixed Maliken's colors when using sword modes
Myrmidon
- Fixing his
Magic Carp from proccing events like
Corrupted Disciple's Static Discharge more than once
Pandamonium
- Fixed
Flick to not work on invulnerable units
* Also fixed
Flick to properly trigger
Moraxus Arcane Shield
Pharaoh
- Fixed
Wrath of the Pharaoh being able to hit a unit behind him when he casts it.
- Tweaked how
Wrath of the Pharaoh works with
Staff of the Master. Added a new fifth ability to swap between the versions
Predator
- Fixed
Venomous Leap so you can correctly disjoint it
Sand Wraith
- Properly fixed
Mirage so there won't be a cooldown on Manifest right after you cast Mirage
- Implemented a visual timer on
Mirage to let Sand Wraith users know how long
Manifest is going to be available
Soul Reaper
- Fixed
Demonic Execution so that it always plays the sound when it should
* Fixes an issue where the sound would play even if the target did not die
Soulstealer
- No longer gains souls from killing gadgets
Succubus
- Fixed
Mesmerize so the first damage tick happens correctly
- Credits to
[S2]ElementUser for the majority of the gameplay bug fixes.