A new patch has been dispatched for the main client. More info will be edited in as I analyze the patch.
Analysis Status: Done
Blog
- Dota Plus End of Summer Update. | link
Economy Updates
Music Pack
- TheFatRat Warrior Songs Music pack is now available on the Dota 2 Store. | Cost: $4.99 USD | Wiki
Challenges
- New: Grimstroke Double Ink Swell Stuns. | Grimstroke has been removed from the default Double Stuns challenge.
Other
- Updated the currency exchange rates for a ton of currencies.
- Fixed a particle snapshot issue with the Infernal Pactblade cosmetic.
- Endless Nightmare Tail cosmetic has been renamed to Tail of Darkheart Pursuit.
- Readded the Trove Carafe for Dmitry 'CrystalMay' Korchevinin.
- A bunch of cosmetic fixes to some items for heroes Windranger, Visage, Riki and more.
- Optimized a ton of particle systems for cosmetics and sync up with the changes made to the Source Engine in regards to the particle system recently.
UI Updates
Dota Plus Dashboard
- Hero Relics tab now supports sorting by "Hero Level".
- Dota Plus Battle Pass log now tracks Shard Purchase.
- Dota Plus Battle Log now tracks the tips you have received.
- Minor spacing fixes to some of the UI elements in the Dota Plus store tab.
Dashboard
- The previous Battle Pass icons on your profiles now read "Lvl <number>" instead of just showing number as before.
- Post Game now has a player tips tab to accommodate the changes made to Dota Plus.
- Background has been changed from the TI8 theme to Default.
Frontpage
- Made the Dota Plus tab the primary tab instead of TI8.
- Added a new panel to advertise the 4 Games Bonus Weekend for Dota Plus.
- Final Notification option added for Trove Carafe. | Sales end at the end of September
String Updates
Tooltip Updates
- Fixed the missing tooltip for Kaya Recipe.
- "Stored Bounty Runes replenish 2/3 charges." has been removed from the Bottle description.
UI Related
- Tons of strings to support the new features of the Dota Plus update.
- Fixed some typos and grammatical errors in Tips.
- The round names of the Arcana Vote have been updated: Round of 32 now split in to two for Group A and Group B respectively. Round of 16 has been renamed to Sweet Sixteen.
Ability Updates
- On the backend, updated a lot of data types for the ability numbers. For example: some slots have been changed to support only integers while the others have been changed to support floating numbers and etc.
- Updated the end distance on Poison Touch from 500/500/500/500 to 600/700/800/900
Audio Updates
- A bunch of response rule updates for Grimstroke.
- Ambient mixer value when paused lowered from 0.5 to 0.25
- VOIP volume value in the mixer lowered from 0.6 to 0.5
- During Silenc effects, the mixer values have been updated so Music has a volume of 0.6 instead of 0.4
Workshop Updates
- The Workshop Item Submission Tool now has a FarZ option for the Camera after you import your model.
Console Updates
New
- dota_dump_game_items <cmd> | Print a list of all game items with their item ids in CSV format.
- A few other Source Engine related console updates.
Misc
- A couple of new files have been added to the files called echo_game.js (and an admin.css file that drives the visuals for the javascript) -- which seems to be retrieving draft data from a game and posting it. | Not sure where this is being utilized. Not yet.
Patch Size: 395.3 MB (with Tools)