Over the last few days since Crownfall's release we've addressed the following issues:

• Fixed the match history Dota Plus rank change column sometimes displaying zero change for matches where a Ranked Double Down token was used. (The correct rank change was recorded on the server, this was just a display issue.)
  
• Fixed Crownfall Ranked Double Down tokens beyond the first not being correctly granted. Missing tokens have been granted to all affected accounts.
  
• Fixed voice chat indicators not appearing for some players.
  
• Fixed the in-game Ranked Double Down button not appearing for some players.
  
• Fixed a bug allowing Shadow Demon to level up his ultimate outside of the correct level points.
  
• Fixed the Demo Hero mode Target Dummy being unintentionally killable.
  
• Fixed a bug in the combat log that caused an additional tower killed message to be printed along with tower deny messages.
  
• Fixed a bug in the combat log that caused barracks kills by creeps being attributed to a player.
  
• Fixed a bug in the combat log that incorrectly showed no gold being given to all players when barracks were killed by creeps.
  
• Fixed models shown in loadout or pregame screens not always using the highest quality rendering options.
  
• Fixed missing visual effects for heroes with the Aviana's Feather neutral item.
  
• Fixed the Crownfall Snake Charmer encounter to also grant credit when you play two Turbo games.
  
• Fixed the Crownfall Snake Charmer encounter not greeting players the first time you open it.
  
• Fixed some minor visual issues with the Drow Ranger The Finer Points taunt.
  

For over a decade now, Skywrath Mage and Vengeful Spirit have been ambiguously entwined. Eagle-eyed players noticed that they come from the same town, seem to have related backstories, and might even be dating. Pretty mysterious stuff.

Earlier, we dropped a comic that solved those mysteries, but introduced an even bigger one: "Why are you posting comics instead of updates?"

We can now reveal the answer: Because we've just released The Markets of Midgate, the first act of an ongoing story event called Crownfall, filled with legendary heroes and unique rewards. In this act alone, you can expect dozens of new cosmetic sets, taunts, creeps, emoticons... are we forgetting anything? Oh right, and two brand-new Arcana, one for each of Crownfall's main characters.

So what is Crownfall? It's something completely new that we've wanted to try for a while. And when we say new, we mean new a new way of telling stories, offering rewards, and making it more fun to win every game of Dota. And it's available right now to all Dota players for free.

Honestly, it's a little hard to describe in a tiny blog post. But luckily, the description is exactly website-sized. Go read the details here. Or, if you'd rather just play instead of hearing us describe it, boot up the game and enter the world of Crownfall for yourself.

A young princess, betrayed by her sister on the day of her ascension. Her wings torn from her body.

Thrown from the highest tower of the Ghastly Eyrie. Left for dead. Found by a god. Turned into a spirit of vengeance.

A Skywrath Mage, sworn to serve the murderer of his beloved. His life and powers forfeit should he betray his captor. Waiting for his moment. To avenge the one he loves.

A dying god. Starved of followers by an evil Queen. Wasting in the ruins of a condemned temple. The last of her powers leaving her. One last chance at revenge.

Vengeance is coming. The Flightless will rise.

A crown will fall.

• Matchmade lobbies will no longer share the account information of any members until the lobby is accepted by all players.
  
• Fixed certain cases where Revenant's Brooch would still allow critical hits.
  

We've just released Gameplay Patch 7.35d (Chen had it coming), and with it a new set of features.

[h2]Matchmaking Hero Ban Rework[/h2]

Over the last year or so, we've taken a number of visible actions against users of third-party cheats. As we investigate each cheat, we're primarily focused on understanding what they're doing and how we can track and stop it. But while we're doing that, we also ask ourselves why some cheaters feel compelled to use these tools in the first place. The most common explanation is "to get an unfair advantage", which obviously runs counter to the desires of the Dota community and the sense of competitiveness and fairness at its heart. Even so, sometimes there are still things we can learn, and use to improve the Dota experience for everyone (or at least everyone who hasn't been banned for cheating).

Pre-game hero bans are an example of this. Many cheats last year focused on gaining an advantage during the ten-second hero ban phase at the start of each game. We stepped back to look at the original goals of this phase letting players express a preference for what heroes they didn't want to play against, but without creating scenarios where players with small hero pools get permanently locked out looked at some data, and asked if there was a way we could better serve these goals while solving other problems at the same time.


With today's update, we've removed the start-of-match ban phase and replaced it with ban preferences stored with your account. If you load the heroes tab, you can select the four heroes you don't want to see in your games. You're guaranteed when you join a matchmaking game that at least one of them will be banned. You can change your list of banned heroes whenever you want. (If you leave some ban slots empty, it's possible the empty slot will be selected as your "banned hero". In other words, there's no advantage to leaving slots empty.)

This new system addresses a number of problems the previous system had: you can't forget to ban; you don't have to learn that sometimes suggested bans are ignored by the game; you're not on a tight clock to make a stressful decision that, in the end, most players make the same way almost all the time. As an added bonus, it also makes targeted bans impossible, whether those bans are against known personalities or random players in a pub match for which you've looked up data.

Some game modes (ie., Captains Mode, Captains Draft, Ability Draft, Turbo) either didn't have a pre-game ban phase, or already had non-standard ban rules. These modes are unchanged.

[h2]Dota Plus Pre-Match Matchmaker Analytics[/h2]

Millions of Dota players interact with the matchmaker every day and every single one has different priorities when looking for a game. Some prefer to get into a match as quickly as possible, and are willing to accept a higher skill variance in the game to save some time. Others want every match to be perfectly balanced, and are willing to wait longer for the best chance at the closest game. Other players care less about the skill level of the other players, and much more about their personality and behavior in-game.

We've long wanted to build features to let players find matches that better align with their individual preferences. Early attempts ran into two main problems:

• First, while players are good at describing their preferences to other people, they aren't necessarily good at describing their preferences as inputs to a complex, global matchmaking algorithm ("I value skill variance 13% higher than the average Dota player!"). How can we create tools that let players express their preferences naturally and directly?
  
• Second, changes to the matchmaker affect all Dota players, so we tend toward caution. The matchmaker is always trying to strike a balance between individual player preferences and the health of Dota as a whole. (If matches of Dota are bad, whether because of wild skill gaps or poor player behavior, that's bad for Dota as a community. If every match is perfect, but takes three hours to form, that's bad, too.) New matchmaker features available to everyone at once risk breaking the matchmaker, and if we break the matchmaker, we break Dota. How can we ship new matchmaking features and learn how they work in practice while keeping risk to Dota as a whole low?
  

War banners are being washed clean of blood stains and scorch marks. Trumpets are being tested for their ability to sound the imminent approach of battle. Lanes are getting swept clean of body parts, and the Ancients are getting a good crack replastering and surface buffing. The forest air itself crackles with anticipation, because we had new forest air shipped in at considerable cost that crackles on command.

The stage is being set, is the point were trying to get across here. And why? For The International, returning this September to Europe, where the best Dota teams from around the world will clash for the Aegis in Copenhagen's Royal Arena.

The sixteen participating teams will be a mix of open qualifiers, regional qualifiers, and direct invitations, similar to how invitations worked for the first few years of The International. The invited teams will be announced leading up to the event, and chosen based on team performance during the year.

And there's a lot of performance to consider. This year's calendar is packed, with half a dozen major tournaments already announced and more on the way, including studio and arena tournaments in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. We even hear rumors Midas Mode might be making a grand return. (The more teams that are eligible to participate in a tournament, the higher our consideration: Cross-regional tournaments generate more useful data than intra-regional tournaments, tournaments with qualifiers generate more useful information than invitation-only tournaments, etc.)

We'll be announcing ticketing and scheduling information for The International 2024 in the next few months. Until then, why not go watch a game of pro Dota to get back in the competitive spirit?

[h2]Dota Plus Seasonal Update[/h2]
As Spring blooms to life around us, it transports us here on the Dota team to the springs of yore, when the world was new and vibrant. Who could forget climbing that old oak tree by the bridge? Or stealing carrots and turnips from cranky old Farmer Maggot? Or taking that ring to Mordor, and casting it into the fiery pits of Mount Doom where it was forged?

[h3]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h3]
That last part of our spring memory trilogy is especially relevant today, since weve uncovered another priceless treasure. And this time its too good to throw into a volcano.

The Spring 2024 Seasonal Treasure is here and available for purchase with shards. This treasure features all new sets for Disruptor, Dark Willow, Spectre, Chaos Knight, Doom, Earth Spirit, Underlord, and Nyx Assassin. There's also a chance to unlock the Sir Molestach Irondrill courier, who arrives in the lanes bearing random prismatic and ethereal gems.

We've also taken sets that were available in the Summer Treasure 2022 and made them available for direct purchase for 15,000 shards each as part of the collection of legacy sets in the Shard Shop.

[h3]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h3]
Todays update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.

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• Emoticon - lion_bounce
  
• Emoticon - rainbow_phoenix
  
• Emoticon - riki_peaceout
  

• Spray - Aghanim - Push
  
• Spray - Bounty Hunter - Riches
  
• Spray - Hoodwink - Acorn
  

• Chat Wheel - " ?! !"
  
• Chat Wheel - "Ooooh, por dios!"
  
• Chat Wheel - ""
  

• Overlay Map. It's sort of just like the minimap, but it's large instead of small, and transparent instead of solid, and is full-screen instead of being isolated to the corner. We have a bunch of questions, including but not limited to: Is it helpful for your playstyle? How do you interact with it? What do you wish it did?
  
  
• Modifier Key Filter Bindings. Targeting commands in chaotic environments can be challenging, and misclicks can be devastating. Dota does the best it can with your inputs, but sometimes it really does look like you wanted to Laguna Blade that creep. This new feature allows you bind modifier keys that, when held, will force your target selection to enemies, allies, creeps or heroes. Which targeting methods are the most and least useful in practice? What are we missing?
  
  
• High-Visibility Local Hero Healthbar. Dota teamfights can be hectic, and sometimes in the chaos it's hard to keep track of your hero. This option significantly changes the styling and readability of only your hero's nameplate. Does this help, or does it introduce even more visual chaos?
  

Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota.

This is a story about the internet, and how it doesnt work like it should, when it works at all, except when it doesnt. Its a story about how the internet stopped working for our customers, and how we fixed it.

The internet is more of a wild frontier than we give it credit for being. Stray from the safe confines of your two-factor identification and trusted cookies, and it can be a bit of a wilderness out there, full of random trolls with the maliciousnessand, increasingly, the abilityto make your life pretty miserable for no other reason than because they can.

Back in 2014, the method those trolls were using was distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Distributed refers to a large number of internet hosts maliciously flooding a particular target IP with traffic in an effort to overwhelm the network stack. This is called a volumetric attack, and the intent isnt to try to get into the network. Its just trying to deny service. A distributed denial of service means that legitimate people who want legitimate service are crowded out by the bad traffic.

The problem with DDoS attacks was that, by late 2014, they werent being committed by data-exfiltrating super-hackers with advanced computer science degrees. They were being committed by just about anybody who wanted to pay a service or a bot to do it for them. And its pretty obvious why. Although some people were happy to do it purely for vandalisms sake, others had a motive: A DDoS attack was a surefire way to shut down a match that either you or someone you were rooting for were losing. This wasnt just an occasional irritation anymore. It was turning into an outright assault on any game where players competed.

By the opening months of 2015, we were seeing a huge uptick in DDoS attacks on Dota and CS:GO, with other companies reporting a huge jump as well. Someone had, very suddenly, made it very easy for anyone to do this.

In August 2015, The International was disrupted with DDoS attacks. Although the pros playing the match werent affected, for more than two hours, the broadcasters couldnt get into the matches to give play-by-play and color commentary. Sending out the stream as a TV broadcast became an issue. The players were suddenly playing in a void. This was a professional gaming event with millions watching and millions of dollars on the line, and it was being disrupted by random people with five-dollar software. It was a problem Valve couldnt ignore.


We tried several solutions to deal with DDoS attacks before we arrived at one that worked. Initially, we attempted to filter the traffic with a powerful network switch. Unfortunately, this type of filtering is inherently difficult to do with game traffic. It is the nature of game servers to receive unsolicited UDP (User Datagram Protocol) traffic from arbitrary IP addresses. Imagine you had a post office that weeded out unwanted junk mail for you. But now imagine your job is as an advice columnist, and you receive tons of legitimate mail from random strangers all the time. For you, the post office doesn't know what's junk mail and what isn't. That's how traffic to game servers tends to look. Furthermore, the source IP in UDP packets is not secured, and can be easily spoofed. Our post office cannot even look at the return address on the envelope for clues, because the senders of junk mail forge that.

Steam delivers a lot of bits for game content, and has built up a large network for doing so. We were already taking advantage of this network to deliver game traffic over dedicated links, obtaining good peering, ensuring that networking engineering best practices were used, etc. This kept player ping times low, but did not protect against DDoS attack. The problem is that UDP protocols are not secure, so while we had our own network, it wasn't private.

To prevent attackers from using our own network to attack our servers, we needed to control all the entrances and secure them. We accomplished this by creating proxies for game traffic, routing every single packet of data transmitted across the network through relays. Now when a client wanted to talk to a game server, it had to do so through a relay that both authenticated it and proxied that traffic to the game server. This meant the IP address of the server was always hiddenthe attacker simply had no idea where to attack.

To re-use our antiquated post office metaphor from earlier, our spammer no longer had an address to send junk mail to. They could send it to every post office in the area and ask them to mail it, but without authorization, that post office isnt going to. (Moreover, that post office would find it a little suspicious that someone was trying to send a single person 100,000 letters.)


But couldnt you just attack the relay? Technically, you could. But we have an essentially limitless number of them, and we built them to be attacked. A relay is just another word for a computer running software. You can attack it or take it offline, but the protocol was designed with that assumption in mind. If a client is trying to play a game and loses contact with a relay, it just switches to another. Relays are like hundreds of pawns scattered around the world with the singular purpose of guarding the game server. (Incidentally, taking out a relay is harder than it sounds. Theyre engineered pretty well and positioned in a specific part of the network, so although they were built to be taken offline, we havent lost one yet.)

The solution was straightforward but effective. Before, if someone wanted to disrupt a game, they could just overpower a single game server (a very low bar to clear). Now they had to overpower essentially the entire data centera much, much, much higher bar. Are there attacks that could still accomplish this? Of course. Are there attacks that can do this that anyone online could buy for five dollars? No. An attack this sophisticated was officially out of the price range of most people.

With this new system up and running, we had an epiphany: If we controlled our own private network, we wouldnt be beholden to how the normal internet works. We could use it to make the customer experience even better. With the normal internet, when you send a packet from one IP address to another, the route you use is determined by Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This is a routing algorithm that decides how your packet will travel across a network, and you have no choice in the route it picks.

But with a virtual private network composed of hundreds of global relays and data centers, we could essentially choose our own route from the client to the game serveroften a faster shortcut than the default route. If youre using Steam Datagram Relay (SDR), the Steam overlay will show your ping time and what route were giving you, so you can see for yourself how it gets optimized.


A feature that started as a way to protect Dota game servers has grown past what anyone could have expected. The SDR network routinely delivers as much as 140M packets and 550GBit per second. We have relays in 31 data centers with a capacity of over 5TBit. What we now call the Steam Datagram Relay not only protects against DDoS attacks, but also increases connectivity and lowers ping for every Dota customer. And it doesnt just do this for Dota, but for any game on Steam that wants to take advantage of it.

We hope you enjoyed another peek between the lanes of Dota. This was a pretty technical one, thanks for hanging in there for it! And feel free to let us know what youd like us to cover next.

Patch 7.35c is out now. You can check out the patchnotes here.

Additionally, a few updates were made to the Ancient Dragon King cosmetic.

• You can now High Five the Ancient Dragon King, featuring a custom high five effect.
  
• Ancient Dragon King now performs a global celebratory roar every time your team makes a rampage.
  
• Ancient Dragon King will now be usable permanently and not only during the Year of the Dragon.
  

We're hard at work on an upcoming update we're calling "Crownfall", and we're excited to get it finished so you can see what we've been working on. We looked at a calendar and noticed it had been more than a few weeks since the Frostivus update, and we didn't want to make you wait until Crownfall before you got any new content. Luckily, the calendar gods came through with another holiday just in time: Happy Lunar New Year!

People who are born in the Year of the Dragon are known for their generosity, prosperity and good luck. Must be nice. For those of us who don't have a magical dragon granting us gift-giving super powers, we've introduced red enveloped-themed Dragon's Gift, available from now through March 7th. These work exactly how theyre named: treasures that can only be given, and opened by whoever you choose as the recipient.

And for those of you who would rather not wait around on the generosity of others, we've got traditional Dragon's Hoard treasures as well. Each treasure or gift contains one of 17 new Lunar New Year-themed cosmetic sets, and a bonus chance for a Dragon's Gift or new unusual effect.

Lastly, every treasure (and gift) has a chance to contain The Ancient Dragon King, the first ever cosmetic for your Ancient, with unique Dire and Radiant styles. Now you'll finally have a chance to adorn your ancient with a mythical dragon, just like, presumably, you've always wanted. Plus, if anyone in your match has one, everyone can see it.

In keeping with this "spirit of giving" theme, we have another gift for (almost) everyone: We've rolled out some new cheat detection code. Well, actually, we rolled it out a few weeks back, and we've spent the time since accumulating quite the set of cheaters. You'll probably notice fewer of them in your games as the automated ban waves roll out.

As is tradition, this update also includes a number of other fixes and improvements:

General Fixes:

• Fixed a number of issues that would prevent guides from loading in-game (If you manually enabled Steam background downloads to try to work around this problem, you can safely disable it again)
  
• Fixed another case where Roshan could go walkabout: Night Stalker casting Dark Ascension while Roshan was channeling a Twin Gate
  
• Fixed an issue where already-captured Outposts could be channeled
  
• Fixed an issue where the neutral item picker would hide on key release under some Quick Cast modes
  
• Fixed Doubloon having only +2 instead of +2.5 mana regen
  
• Fixed Eternal Shroud's magic resistance applying to illusions
  
• Fixed Eternal Shroud's interactions with Medusa Mana Shield
  
• Fixed Safety Bubble's tooltip not mentioning that the barrier bypasses self-inflicted damage
  
• Fixed an issue with the effects on Shiva's Guard
  
• Fixed Chen's Holy Persuasion not taking Turbo's creep bounty multiplier into account when giving gold on cast
  
• Fixed Legion Commander's Aghanim's Shard still giving bonus armor and duration for Overwhelming Odds
  
• Fixed Marci's Unleash proccing upon Bloodstone pickup and drop
  
• Fixed Muerta's Gunslinger being purgeable
  
• Fixed keybind not working to upgrade Ogre Magi's Multicast
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed inactive Phantom Lancer's illusions to block Neutral Camps
  
• Fixed a rare server crash with Primal Beast's Uproar
  
• Fixed column shop layout not displaying Khanda and Harpoon
  
• Added magic resistance from Intelligence and increased damage for Universal heroes to expanded tooltips
  
• In Turbo, show the "[Hero] was chosen by both teams!" message to everyone, not just the player who tried to pick the already-picked hero
  
• Added spell icons for Windranger's Gale Force when using Compass of the Rising Gale
  
• Increased performance when displaying many chat messages from global channels
  
• Fixed various tooltip issues
  
• Updated tips shown during pause for the 7.35b Gameplay Patch
  

• A number of previously unavailable Scepter/Shard abilities are now granted, some abilities are accessed by toggling auto-cast on the base spell:
  
  
  
  • Glacier granted with Marksmanship
    
  • Crystal Clone granted with Frostbite
    
  • Parting Shot granted with Pierce the Veil
    
  • Work Horse granted with Stampede
    
  • Burning Barrage granted with Skeleton Walk
    
  • Friendly Shadow granted with Shadow Walk
    
  • Counterspell Ally granted with Counterspell
    
  • Lightning Hands granted with Arc Lightning
    
  • Burning Army granted with Death Pact
    
  • Unrefined Fireblast granted with Fireblast
    
  • Poison Nova granted with Noxious Plague (Poison Nova passive ability is hidden)
    
  
  
• Chemical Rage now grants Greevil's Greed. It will appear as a buff instead of on the ability bar.
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear not having any abilities.
  
• Fixed Blinding Light not appearing as a draftable ability.
  
• Fixed Alchemist have 4 basic abilities at draft, which would push other abilities off by one.
  
• Cloak and Dagger Shard no longer grants Sleeping Dart.
  
• Ravage Shard now grants Dead in the Water instead of Tendrils of the Deep.
  
• Invoker Ability Draft Shard updated to the new EMP Shard instead of the old Meteor Shard.
  
• Proximity Mines now grants Minefield Sign as an additional ability.
  
• Fixed Shadow Wave and Dream Coil's Scepter attacks not working on melee heroes.
  
• Fixed Spirits working on illusions when you have a Scepter.
  
• Fixed Ogre Magi getting Multicast instead of Dumb Luck as an innate.
  
• Fixed Primal Spring, Pulse Nova, Rot, Infernal Blade, and a number of other abilities not granting stacks of Fiery Soul.
  
• Fixed Talents not appearing for Starbreaker, Cinder Brew, Phantom Rush, and Power Cogs when the ability is drafted on their original hero.
  
• Fixed Death Seeker not being togglable with hotkey.
  
• Fixed not being able to toggle Call of the Wild Hawk to switch between Hawk and Boar.
  
• Fixed Hairball appearing without a hotkey until it is toggled.
  
• Fixed Chemical Rage Scepter not giving bonus damage and spell amplification.
  
• Fixed Horn Toss being given by Shard instead of Scepter.
  
• Fixed Rain of Destiny being given by Scepter instead of Shard.
  
• Fixed Hunter's Boomerang and Decoy being given with either Shard or Scepter.
  
• Fixed Timbersaw getting Second Chakram with Scepter. It now is only granted with the talent if Timbersaw drafts Chakram.
  

Some items from the Frostivus 2023 Treasure Chest were missing unusual variants. Those have been added. Over the next couple days, unusual items from these sets that should have been dropped will be granted.

In addition, over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Frostivus wards not being selectable/attackable
  
• Fixed an issue where pinging certain items in quickbuy could cause the game to lag for teammates
  
• Fixed an issue where Arc Warden Tempest Doubles could gain gold by selling Midas
  
• Fixed Doom Devour Neutral abilities not leveling up automatically at the time when neutral abilities would scale
  
• Fixed Lina permanently gaining Fiery Soul stacks until she casts another spells if she was broken when supercharging with Laguna Blade
  
• Fixed Tiny Tree particle showing at the wrong time
  
• Fixed a rare server crash with motion controlled abilities (e.g. Spirit Breaker Charge of Darkness)
  
• Fixed an issue with Profile Showcase where items could appear floating before the rest of the hero loaded and fixed an issue with anchor points on ultrawide monitors
  
• Added missing descriptions for various recipes
  
• Fixed some bugs in the tutorials in the Learn tab caused by the 7.35 Gameplay Patch
  

Patch 7.35b is out now. You can check the notes here.

Over the last few days we've also addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed tabbing through selections being in creation order, rather than reverse creation order
  
• Fixed the combat log not displaying instances of damage that occurred on the same frame from the same source to the same target
  
• Fixed Block of Cheese not entering cooldown when receiving damage
  
• Fixed Parasma going on cooldown when denying
  
• Fixed Granite Golem's Granite Aura not correctly adjusting health when removed
  
• Fixed Batrider's Sticky Napalm applying damage from Mage Slayer
  
• Fixed Centaur Warrunner keeping the Work Horse ability after selling Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed Centaur Warrunner's Hitch A Ride ability being in the wrong slot if applying Aghanim's Blessing
  
• Fixed Medusa having any damage shield making Dagger items unmuteable
  
• Fixed Meepo's Earthbind talent not giving the intended 2.5s cooldown reduction
  
• Fixed Meepo levelling Divided We Stand on a clone not giving Meepo the correct stats
  
• Fixed Muerta's Dead Shot interrupting some movement abilities on units that are debuff immune
  
• Fixed enemies being able to see Slardar's Bash of the Deep modifier stack count changing when he's hidden in the Fog of War
  
• Fixed Storm Spirit's Attack Range when Overloaded talent not working correctly with Aghanim's Shard
  
• Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Nether Swap barrier not being refreshable
  
• Fixed Viper's break particles being shown incorrectly
  
• Fixed Wraith King's Skeletons following invisible units
  
• Fixed inconsistencies in Spell Amplification/Damage tooltips
  

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Bloodstone Area of Effect bonus still active on passive abilities if it was dropped or sold
  
• Fixed Bloodthorn mana regen being 3.0 instead of 3.5 from the sum of its components
  
• Fixed Butterfly not counting hero's base attack speed for its bonuses
  
• Fixed Cleave not working on magical attacks (i.e. Revenant's Brooch)
  
• Fixed a rare server crash when toggling Doubloon
  
• Fixed Khanda not doing lethal damage correctly
  
• Fixed Khanda and Phylactery not sharing cooldowns
  
• Fixed Tree Throw, Toss, Snowball, Soul Assumption and Sticky Bomb not triggering Phylactery/Khanda
  
• Fixed incorrect interaction between Phylactery/Khanda and and Spectre's Spectral Dagger
  
• Fixed Phylactery/Khanda working on illusions
  
• Fixed Meteor Hammer incorrectly giving more Agility than Intelligence
  
• Fixed Parasma not granting 1.5 mana regen from its components
  
• Fixed Revenant's Brooch incorrectly giving true strike
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by interaction between Abaddon's Aphotic Shield expiring, Safety Bubble, and Blade Mail
  
• Fixed Arc Warden's Tempest Double not cloning Royal Jelly
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker's Starbreaker sometimes not going in the targeted direction
  
• Fixed non-ranged units getting true strike benefits of Drow Ranger's Glacier
  
• Fixed some cases where Drow Ranger could get stuck trying to leave her Glacier
  
• Fixed Chen's Penitence granting bonus attack range to Chen's melee creeps
  
• Fixed Chen's Divine Favor regeneration not applying to Chen's creeps
  
• Fixed Chen's level 10 talent Divine Favor Teleport Delay not applying correctly
  
• Fixed Invoker not being able to pick up Lotuses from the Lotus Pools
  
• Fixed Juggernaut's Blade Fury attack rate not updating if Juggernaut's attack speed changes.
  
• Fixed Juggernaut's Omnislash/Swiftslash not damaging ethereal units even with Revenant's Brooch
  
• Fixed Juggernaut's Blade Fury incorrect interaction with Harpoon
  
• Fixed Lich's Chain Frost not being affected by AoE increase
  
• Fixed items in the Bear's stash becoming lost when Lone Druid upgrades the Bear
  
• Fixed Omniknight's Guardian Angel charges not updating properly upon acquiring and dropping Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed Pangolier's Shield Crash damage type not being correctly changed to Physical damage
  
• Fixed a rare serve crash with Pudge's Dismember
  
• Fixed Silencer's Last Word dealing less damage to creeps than intended
  
• Fixed Black Dragon's Splash Attack not working correctly
  
• Fixed a few server crashes
  
• Fixed various tooltip issues
  
• Re-added Hero Names as an option for heroes on the minimap
  
• Fixed minimap settings preview not scaling the arrow when scaling the icon
  
• Fixed a bug where previewing Persona items would sometimes show them on the base model (or vice versa) in Armory / Loadout
  

We've fixed a number issues since the initial Frostivus release:

• Fixed an issue with client-side display of Royal Jelly's buff stats
  
• Fixed Safety Bubble having its shield reset to full when dropped and re-equipped
  
• Fixed Unwavering Condition not working properly
  
• Fixed some testing items being purchasable ingame
  
• Added Roshan's Banner to the Glossary
  
• Fixed King Kringle's Skeletons not having the correct hats!
  
• Fixed King Kringle's Skeletons' hoods and portraits
  
• Fixed King Kringle's Skeletons not showing as Frostivus-appropriate in some locales
  
• Fixed the particles for Roshan's Banner sometimes not being properly removed
  
• Improved the look of the Tower Range indicator based on player use and made the danger threshold vary based on player hero level
  
• Fixed various small issues with the 7.35 patchnotes
  
• Fixed an issue with the Vampiric Spirit spell icon for King Kringle
  
• Fixed Jingle Fist Immortal display on the treasure screen
  
• Fixed an issue with movie previews while the Frostivus carousel was cycling during the treasure opening animation
  

• For accounts shared with other users or services: a game ban
  
• For alt accounts used for smurfing: a game ban
  
• For main accounts associated with a banned smurf account: a piece of coal
  
• For all other accounts: free cosmetic items, with higher behavior score accounts receiving higher-tier items
  

Another Frostivus is upon us, and that means King Kringle has awakened from his hibernation under the wine-dark Blood Seas surrounding Frostivus Castle; sent his legions of abducted goblin-child toy miners to dig in his toy mines; hooked up his twin glowing red-eyed direwolves Lumpo and Rupertus to his bone sleigh; and is likely either on top of your house or inside of it right now.

So if youre on his Nice List, prepare to have your frosty halls decked with new and returning Frostivus cosmetics, a ton of quality-of-life client features, new Dota Plus premium sets, and gameplay patch 7.35, all of which you can read all about right here.

On the other hand, if youre on the Naughty List, weve got great news for everybody else and bad news for you, because this year is gonna be a bloodbath. You might remember back in September, we got out the ban hammer and permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts. Since then, we've continued to invest in player behavior monitoring, on both the manual and automatic analysis fronts. Over the last few weeks, we've engaged in an even more aggressive ban wave, including many tens of thousands of smurf account bans today alone.

At The International, some pro players reached out to us to talk about their smurf accounts. Those conversations have continued, and theres broad agreement amongst pros that banning pro smurf accounts is a win for Dota as a community: The rules should apply to everybody, and from now on they will. And smurfing isnt even the only naughty thing players are getting up to. Amongst other questionable choices, some bad actors are playing like jerks, ruining games and losing behavior score because of it, then hiring behavior score farmers to drive it back up.

Regardless of how youve been naughty, we've been watching you (not while you're sleeping, calm down) and were cracking down on all of it. Punishments will be handed out for all of the above, including behavior score penalties and in serious cases, main account bannings.

As weve said before, smurfing (and other negative behavior) makes matches worse, and we want to make sure your matches are as good as possible as we head into the new year. So wed like to wish everyone a Happy Frostivus Update! Except smurf accounts, who we assume will not enjoy the update as they choke on their richly-deserved coal-flavored just desserts.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where if a hero killed in Chronosphere dropped Gem of True Sight, the Gem's cooldown would remain frozen
  
• Fixed a rare crash with item combines
  
• Fixed an issue where if an ability with a frozen cooldown had its cooldown frozen again, it would unfreeze too early
  
• Fixed an issue where abilities with intrinsic buffs could fail to have them applied when purchasing Aghanim's Shard
  
• Fixed an issue where switching abilities (or gaining Aether Lens etc.) wouldn't update the cast range circle if it was already being displayed
  
• Fixed Chaos Knight's Chaos Bolt particles sometimes losing their location
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker's Starbreaker providing pure damage immunity without Aghanim's Shard
  
• Fixed Earthshaker's Bindings of Deep Magma set to show the correct (new) particles for the new (10th Anniversary) style and to properly delete particles on expiration
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Bushwhack cast reticule sometimes highlighting trees outside the area of effect
  
• Fixed some animation issues with Tusk's Walrus PUNCH!
  
• Fixed a bug where Vengeful Spirit's Magic Missile with Aghanim's Shard could bounce to invisible enemies immune to True Sight
  
• Fixed an issue with the Voodoo Restoration particles on Witch Doctor's Awaleb's Trundleweed Immortal weapon
  
• Fixed highlighting on the Neutral Item Slot to only highlight when there is at least one free token in the stash, rather than any item from any teammate
  
• Fixed an issue where casting an ability with Alt held down would also ping
  
• Fixed lifetime timers for wards and summoned units being clipped in the HUD
  
• Fixed talent descriptions sometimes being blocked by hotkey names
  
• Fixed Tower denies appearing as chat messages rather than as combat events
  
• Fixed stickers showing as available in Armory even though the capsule containing the stickers might not be available
  
• Fixed showing sticker capsules from ended events as purchasable
  
• Fixed Item Received popup not showing global items properly
  
• Fixed an issue with Play Unranked where ticking Show All Modes could make the section unusable
  
• Fixed sometimes showing pro players' Steam persona names instead of the correct names
  
• Fixed long names overflowing in History and Battle Stats pages
  
• Added an additional notification for Workshop custom game authors that have not yet updated their custom models away from the deprecated pre-ModelDoc format, as described in the 2022 Spring Cleaning update and the Dead Reckoning Update
  

'Twas Frostivus Eve, and all 'cross the map,
The neutrals were quiet, their camps left unstacked.
We'd gorged on a feast of bluehorn and spiced creep,
And had just settled in for a peaceful night's sleep.

When up on the roof, with a house-shaking thud
A creature had landed, and sniffed for our blood.
A sword could be heard being dragged 'cross the shingles;
Then the chimney exploded, and in came King Kringle.

His silhouette stalked through the splintered debris
Of branches and cinders where'd once been our tree.
He righted an armchair (still quietly smoldering)
And sat down with three sacks he'd been up till now shouldering.

"A DARK INCANTATION," his hollow voice boomed
Like a sepulchral drum being banged in a tomb.
"A SACK OF GIFTS PRESENT, A SACK OF GIFTS PAST,
A SACK OF GIFTS TAKEN (BUT OFTEN BROUGHT BACK)."

"Excuse me," I said, crawling out from the rubble,
"The gift that I'd like, if it's not too much trouble:
Please don't kill my children. Please don't kill my wife.
We'd rather you left and spared everyone's life."

He emptied a sack and adjusted his helm.
"THIS FIRST SACK OF GIFTS IS UNKNOWN TO THIS REALM:
THE NEMESIS CURSE, THE WHISPER OF DREAD,
THE MOONLIGHT TIARA, AND MUCH MORE," he said.

In the ensuing silence not a lone breath was drawn.
I coughed to help jog him. "Well, please do go on."
His gauntleted hand dumped sack two on our floor.
It was full of new items! Wait, I'd seen these before...

"SOME GIFTS I'VE IMPROVED, AND SOME I'VE DERANGED.
ALL THAT NEED CONCERN YOU IS THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED.
THE ORB OF CORROSION, ARCANE BOOTS, BLOODTHORN.
THESE AND MORE I HAVE ALTERED SINCE LAST THEY WERE WORN."

We looked through the items he'd spilled on the floor.
"These are lovely," I told him. "But you'd hinted there's more?"
"THE THIRD GIFT," he said as he grabbed the last sack,
"IS MY FAVORITE KIND... THE GIFT I TAKE BACK."

"Not Ring of Aquila! Please not Titan Sliver!"
"Not Penta-Edged Sword!" I sobbed with a quiver.
"I'M TAKING THEM ALL," he said with a laugh.
"AND QUICKENING CHARM AND GOOD OL' QUARTERSTAFF."

Two sacks were now empty; the third one was stuffed.
He grabbed them and back up the chimney he huffed.
He sprang to his bone sleigh and winked a goodbye.
Then flew from the roof and tore open the sky.

And we heard him exclaim, as he left the facilities
"THE TORMENTOR AND ROSHAN SHALL HAVE NEW ABILITIES!"

After nearly a year of coordination and production, the multi-week, arena-sized monster that is The International 2023 has come to an exciting close. We've locked up Climate Pledge Arena, we've all seen enough of Spirit Breaker, and we've just shipped Gameplay Update 7.34e. Time for the Dota team to settle down for a long winter's nap, and...

But hark! What's that sound in the festive distance? No, that jingling of sleigh bells you hear isn't early onset tinnitus. It's the magical year-end event we call Frostivus looming large on the December calendar, and arriving with a sack stuffed to bursting with new features, new cosmetics, and some surprises.

"...and the Arcanas?" little Timmy asks hopefully, holding up his tiny Dickensian gruel bowl. Phew, this is awkward. No, Timmy, not yet. All cards on the table, the event surrounding the Arcanas this year has gained a few more moving parts than we initially planned. Enough that we haven't finished everything yet, and won't this year, but we're looking forward to releasing it in the next few months. And that's not even getting into all the other updates we've got planned, like...

Hark again! We almost said too much. Suffice it to say, with TI2023 safely in the books, we've got a ton of stuff our Frostivus elves are furiously polishing to get ready for the new year.

Until then: Merry Imminent Frostivus, everyone!

Congratulations to Team Spirit, Grand Champions at The International 2023 and just the second team ever to claim the Aegis twice. This fearsome squad dropped only two games the entire tournament finishing with a decisive 3-0 performance in the Grand Finals to secure their spot as the best Dota team in the world.

The Road to The International - Group Stage
The Road to The International began with a dominating 8-0 showing from Spirit, as they racked up 2-0 series wins over 9pandas, SMG, Entity, and Evil Geniuses in the Group Stage. The seeding round would be no different, as Team Spirit endured some early pickoffs from Shopify Rebellion in game one before marching away with another 2-0 series victory on their way to the Playoffs.

The Road to The International - Playoffs
There, they faced their first major test of the tournament, as Virtus.pro snatched a quick victory in game one to force Spirit onto their heels for a change. The following match was a bloody affair in which Spirit built and lost a sizeable lead before reclaiming momentum to force a game three. VP managed to keep the rubber match close for 30 minutes, despite never earning a lead, but after that Spirit took control choking out VP and sealing the series with a late-game team wipe to earn some well-deserved rest before taking their run to the main stage at Climate Pledge Arena.

The International
Team Spirit's first opponent on the main stage was the consistently-strong Team Liquid, who were looking to make their own deep run to the finals to erase a heartbreaking stretch of second-place results. Team Spirit harried Liquid's supports and bullied their cores in a game-one stomp, but Liquid fought back with a spectacular showing to take game two. Liquid then managed to scratch out a small lead by the middle of game three, but Spirit overcame a kill deficit to build their own insurmountable lead, taking the deciding match to set the stage for a clash with powerhouse LGD Gaming an intimidating lineup that had only dropped a single match of their own at that point in play.

Game one was a 76-minute brawl. LGD was aggressive early, but Team Spirit held firm before starting to take control. LGD kept clawing back, but Spirit skewered their chances, handing LGD their first loss on the main stage. Game two was Spirit's from the outset, as they steadily built an advantage and forced a tap-out from LGD. After a disappointing showing in Singapore in 2022, Team Spirit showed they'd regained top form as they stormed into the Grand Finals.

Their opponents: the dangerous Gaimin Gladiators, the squad that swept this year's Major tournaments and whose in-your-face early-game tactics had already shattered the hopes of so many lower bracket teams.

Unfortunately for Gaimin and their fans, Team Spirit had their own plans to make short work of their foes they ran away with a relatively quick game one, building a huge gold and kill lead that left no avenue for comeback by GG. Game two proved a more back-and-forth contest, with Gaimin Gladiators earning a few small leads before Team Spirit broke through to completely dominate the late game and take a commanding 2-0 series lead.

Not about to go down without a fight, Gaimin Gladiators managed to take hold of game three early. By 30 minutes, even Dota+ thought GG had a 95% chance to force a game four... but Team Spirit's movement, vision, and team coordination seized that 5% chance and turned it into a stunning comeback, bulldozing GG 3-0 in the Grand Finals to secure their second Aegis in three years and welcome their mid-laner Larl to the champions club. Through both incredible individual talent and stellar team play, Team Spirit cemented their place in Dota 2 history as the last team standing at The International 2023.

As bearers of the ultimate symbol of victory, these names shall forever be inscribed upon the Aegis of Champions:

2023 - Team Spirit

• Illia "Yatoro" Muliarchuk
  
• Denis "Larl" Sigitov
  
• Magomed "Collapse" Khalilov
  
• Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov
  
• Yaroslav "Miposhka" Naidenov
  

A truly epic Playoffs weekend has come to a close, and eight teams have clawed their way to a coveted spot at the main event: Team Spirit, Team Liquid, LGD Gaming and Azure Ray in the upper bracket, and Gaimin Gladiators, nouns, BetBoom Team and Virtus.pro in the lower bracket. Congratulations to all eight teams as they vie to capture the Aegis at The International only at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, WA, and now only a day away.

[h2]Watching The International Live[/h2]



[h5]TI 2023 Schedule[/h5]
The International Pre-show starts at 9:30 AM PDT on Friday, October 27th, with the Opening Ceremony starting at 10 AM and the first match soon after. Click here for the full TI 2023 schedule.

[h5]Getting In[/h5]
Doors open at the arena at 8 AM daily, two hours before Friday's 10 AM opening ceremony and Saturday's and Sunday's 10 AM first matches start. Be ready to scan your Ticketmaster pass to gain entry (you can save it to your Android/Apple phone wallet for convenience). Make sure you grab a daily wristband once you're in, so you can re-enter if you leave.

[h5]Getting Around[/h5]
Climate Pledge Arena is a pretty big place. If you're planning on attending in person, here's a handy Arena Guide to light your path. (Just a heads-up, their bag policy is pretty strict.) The Arena Guide also has plenty of helpful information with regards to accessibility options, parking and other info you might need getting around the venue, so be sure to give it a look before you go.

[h5]Seating[/h5]
Seating is General Admission you can sit in almost any available seat other than sections reserved for press and pros.

[h5]Crimson Witness Treasure Drops[/h5]
There are multiple swag bag stations inside the arena once you get in. Each pass holder can pick up one swag bag for the weekend by scanning their pass. Inside each bag is a commemorative badge that has the information, URL, and binding code to tie your Steam account for Crimson Witness drops. This years event-exclusive treasure includes updated Immortal items for Dark Seer, Underlord, Templar Assassin, Centaur Warrunner, Enchantress, Nature's Prophet, and Witch Doctor.



You'll get your one drop automatically upon binding the badge, and be eligible for drops the rest of the weekend whenever first blood is drawn in a match. The swag bag, being of necessity bag-shaped, is a carved-out exception to the arena's bag policy for re-entry. Customers will be able to re-enter the venue with it.

[h2]Watching The International Online[/h2]

If you're one of the millions of Dota fans around the globe planning to watch The International online, check out the list below. From Twitch to YouTube to SteamTV, The International will be streamed on multiple platforms in multiple languages.

[h5]English[/h5]
Twitch | | SteamTV

[h5]Chinese[/h5]
Twitch | Bilibili | SteamTV

[h5]Russian[/h5]
Twitch | | SteamTV

[h5]Spanish[/h5]
Twitch | | Facebook | SteamTV

[h2]Cool, Anything Else?[/h2]

If youd like to see how the top eight teams got to where they are in the standings, you can catch up on Playoffs matches here. We've also put up a gallery of images from Group Stage and Playoffs weekends.

[h2]Got It. Anything Else After That?[/h2]

Nope, that's pretty much it. Go enjoy The International! We'll see you there.

Twenty teams entered Group Stage weekend. And now, four intense days, four eliminations, 57 godlike sprees, six rampages, 104 heroes picked, and 100 total matches later, eight teams now sit in the upper bracket and eight in the lower, with mere hours before the real fight begins.

Thats right: Its Playoffs time. If you're a ticket holder, doors open at the Seattle Convention Centers Summit at 9 AM PDT on Friday, October 20th. The pre-show and livestream start at 9:30 AM PDT, with matches starting at 10 AM PDT.

If you missed Group Stage last weekend and want to get caught up on which team to root for, which teams to watch out for, and which team the other teams better watch out for over Playoffs weekend, here's a YouTube playlist featuring insights into the playoff contenders.

If you're a fan of supporting talent and/or spamming their voice lines in every match of Dota you play, weve got good news for you. Some talent missed the initial submission window, but luckily were able to get their content submitted during a new redundant backup emergency submission window we created just for them. This means there are some brand new bundles for talent that were missing from the initial set, and also some new lines for some existing talent.

And dont think we forgot about one of The Internationals most popular traditions: Crimson Witness. This years event-exclusive treasure includes updated Immortal items for Dark Seer, Underlord, Templar Assassin, Centaur Warrunner, Enchantress, Nature's Prophet, and Witch Doctor. Youll automatically be granted one Treasure of the Crimson Witness simply by binding your Steam account to your pass for the Main Event at Climate Pledge Arena. By attending either Playoffs this weekend or The International next weekend, youll also have a chance to get a random Crimson Witness treasure drop whenever first blood is drawn in a match.

See you this weekend!

We've fixed a number of issues leading up and during the first day of Group Stage:

• Fixed Earth Spirit being stuck in Rolling Boulder if Centaur Warrunner casts Work Horse while Earth Spirit is transforming
  
• Fixed a bad interaction between Kunkka X Marks the Spot and Impale
  
• Fixed some cases where players were unable to watch matches via DotaTV
  
• Fixed cases where in-game predictions weren't working
  
• Fixed Bingo square progress not being visible on client
  
• Fixed visual artifacts on some talent photos and stickers
  
• Fixed an issue where Roshan could go walkabout again
  
• Fixed Centaur Hoof Stomp wind-up being dispellable
  
• Fixed Invoker not restoring his own mana from EMP
  
• Fixed an issue where Kunkka X Marks the Spot could fail to return a unit with very high Status Resistance
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit Bear receiving experience when using Midas
  
• Fixed Marci Sidekick not displaying correctly on client
  
• Fixed a server crash when using Muerta Parting Shot on a hero that is leashed to Lone Druid Spirit Bear with Grimstroke Soulbind
  
• Fixed Techies Mines triggering for but not damaging flying units
  
• Added a filter option for saved sets in the Armory
  
• Fixed two rare client crashes with dropped items
  
• Fixed retrieval of neutral items from stash sometimes returning another player's item
  
• Changed a number of settings including "Use Extra Large Minimap", "Quick Attack", etc. to be saved in Steam Cloud
  
• Fixed being unable to assign neutral slot and TP quickcast when using Advanced Quickcast Hotkeys
  
• Fixed "Dynamically Scale Hero Icons" option causing icons to flicker in size
  
• Fixed an issue where hero icons on the minimap could jitter
  
• Fixed various Predictions and Fantasy issues
  

The Road to The International is literally right around the metaphorical corner, and that means a lot of cool and exciting stuff is revving to life. There are more ways than ever to enjoy the matches, meet new people, and show off your fandom, so we've put it all together in a single post so you don't miss out on any of the fun.

Event Livestreaming
The start of Group Stage will be, let's be honest, barely controlled Dota chaos, with five simultaneous streams during the opening two days of Group Stage weekend to seed the tournament. But, starting this year, by this Saturday we'll be down to a single stream which should make the back half of Group Stage weekend a lot easier to watch online.

And if you're planning to watch online, we've got options for you. From Twitch to YouTube to SteamTV, The Road to the International and The International will be streamed on multiple platforms in multiple languages, making it easier than ever to follow the journeys of all your favorite teams as they vie for the Aegis of Champions.

English
Twitch | | SteamTV Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D Stream E
Chinese
Twitch | Bilibili | SteamTV Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D Stream E
Russian
Twitch | | SteamTV Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D Stream E Stream F
Spanish
Twitch | | Facebook | SteamTV Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D Stream E

Not seeing your language represented? Don't worry! While the above links represent the official broadcasts, we understand Dota is played by folks everywhere around the world, and we've also handed out 15 broadcast licenses for other languages, so check in with your local communities to find out the best way to get online and watch.

Lastly, everyone in the Dota community is of course welcome to join in on the streaming fun if you're able and interested. We only ask that you follow our community streaming guidelines.

Viewing Party Signups
From bars, LAN cafes, movie theaters and even private homes, there's gonna be plenty of opportunities to get in on a "pubstomp" viewing party starting with the Playoffs weekend and throughout The International itself. We're even planning to include viewing party footage live during the final weekend of the event, so if you want to connect with other fans, experience amazing matches in a fun group atmosphere, and be momentarily famous, the time to sign up is now.

If you're feeling ambitious and want to throw your own viewing party, here's a list of organizer guides from Barcraft on how to host an event:

• English - Viewing Party Organizer's Guide
  
• Spanish - Gua para organizadores de fiestas de visualizacin
  
• Russian -
  
• Polish - Przewodnik Organizatora Pubstompw
  
• Portuguese - Guia do Organizador de festas de exibio
  

The Road to The International's Group Stage weekend officially starts this Thursday at 10am PST. Players have been arriving in Seattle all week, preparing themselves for what promises to be an exciting and with Group Stage eliminations now on the table, especially tense round of match-ups.

In this year's Group Stage format, four groups of five teams will play round-robin games over two days, with the bottom team in each group getting eliminated. Then, the second half of Group Stage begins, with head-to-head matches between the remaining 16 teams. Victory in these final matches determine placement for Playoffs weekend: The winning teams will enter Playoffs in the Upper Bracket, the losing teams in the Lower Bracket.

Here are this year's groups:

This years talent has officially been announced. Where? In the Talent tab of the Compendium.

Are you back? Great. Were assuming you went and stared at the portraits for a while and eventually thought to yourself Staring is great, but I wish there were even more I could do to support the talent. Well, heres more good news: Talent sticker bundles are now available with 50% of the proceeds going directly to the talent.

There are 4 types of bundles (which sounds complicated, but really isnt when you take the extra effort to break it all down into bullet points):

• Standard Bundle: Standard Sticker = $0.99
  
• Glitter Bundle: Glitter Sticker + Voiceline = $4.99
  
• Holo Bundle: Holo Sticker + Voiceline + Autograph Rune = $9.99
  
• Gold Bundle: Gold Sticker + Voiceline + Autograph Rune + Voiceline 2 = $19.99
  

Patch 7.34d is out now. You can check the notes here.

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed an area above the Radiant fountain that heroes could get stuck in
  
• Fixed Player Perspective not sometimes working correctly when spectating
  
• Fixed several issues with Illusions and hotkeys and control groups
  
• Fixed Quick Attack not working correctly when clicking on the top bar of the HUD
  
• Fixed clicking the Lotus Pool multiple times in quick succession interrupting the channeling of the lotus pool
  
• Fixed inconsistent channel bar updates when interacting with the Lotus Pool
  
• Fixed Scan button not showing remaining charges if it is not full
  
• Fixed the cooldown of duplicate items in inventory like Faerie Fire sometimes getting stuck.
  
• Fixed Twin Gates particle effects sometimes revealing usage to the enemy by playing a particle on the last known hero position
  
• Fixed Blade Mail not working correctly on Nyx Assassin
  
• Fixed Lotus Orb reflect interaction with Channeled spells if it was applied by an ally
  
• Fixed Specialist Array applying bonus Crackshot damage when there is only one target
  
• Fixed Giant's Ring effects being visible to enemies when the wearer is invisible. Added a debuff icon when receiving damage from an enemy Giant's Ring
  
• Fixed using Eul's Scepter on a Debuff Immune unit leading them to get stuck
  
• Fixed Arc Warden Tempest Double not preserving both charges of Hand of Midas when re-summoned
  
• Fixed Arc Warden Tempest Double receiving experience from creeps denied by enemies
  
• Fixed Bounty Hunter Friendly Shadow Shard upgrade costing too much mana
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker Starbreaker not putting Harpoon on cooldown whereas it did for Echo Sabre
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker Solar Guardian sometimes getting cancelled if the target ally goes out of world
  
• Fixed Death Prophet fear interrupting channeling spells through Debuff Immunity
  
• Fixed Ember Spirit only able to cast Sleight of Fist to the right side while traveling in Fire Remnant
  
• Fixed Enchantress Little Friends not being blocked by Linkens Sphere
  
• Fixed Invoker's EMP shard effect ignoring collisions and allowing to get units stuck to each other
  
• Fixed Kunkka Torrent overriding the target's animations, even if they are debuff immune
  
• Fixed Lich Chain Frost On Death talent display on HUD - the buff icon will now only display when you have the talent, and now has a tooltip
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit Bear Owner not being able to disassemble items on the Bear
  
• Fixed the interaction of Luna's Aghanim's Shard with Silver Edge and Shadow Blade.
  
• Fixed Mars Spear of Mars skewering Lone Druid's Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed a crash caused by Monkey King mischief which occured when revealing a Monkey King Tree Disguise along with other units at same time
  
• Fixed Monkey King Level 25 Jingu Mastery required hits talent not applying to summoned soldiers
  
• Fixed Monkey King Wukong's Command Aghanim's Scepter upgrade not working when Fur Army is off cooldown
  
• Fixed Muerta Parting Shot's target's physical form being able to act if it receives debuff immunity
  
• Fixed Puck Dream Coil being affected by Status Resistance
  
• Fixed Puck Dream Coil effect being removed early if an enemy was affected by two separate dream coils
  
• Fixed Queen of Pain Sonic Wave damage not being applied fully if cast on a target affected by Pulverize
  
• Fixed Queen of Pain Sonic Wave sometimes dealing an extra instance of damage, and incorrectly rounding when duration is affected by Status Resistance
  
• Fixed Sand King Sand Storm Blind/Slow effect staying in the location of the initial cast instead of moving
  
• Fixed Slark Pounce applying to Lone Druid's Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Templar Assassin sometimes getting stuck in Meld invisibility if the attack target was destroyed
  
• Fixed Treant Protector losing Nature's Guise buff when taking damage while walking on Nature's Grasp. Now has same behavior as when walking in trees
  
• Fixed Troll Warlord being sometimes being controllable during Battle Trance
  
• Fixed Vengeful Spirit receiving Fountain Invulnerability if she swaps places with her Aghanim's Scepter illusion outside of the Fountain
  
• Fixed the interaction of Vengeful Spirit's Magic Missile shard with Refreshing and Reflection
  
• Fixed Warlock Chaotic Offering Aghanims Scepter upgrade creating golems with non-reduced stats if Warlock moves his scepter into the backpack mid-cast
  
• Fixed Shard sometimes causing Weaver Shukuchi invisibility to be dispelled, in particular with the Level 25 +1 Geminate Attack talent
  
• Fixed Windrunner sometimes canceling attacks when casting windrun after Focus Fire with Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixing Wraith King getting bombarded with "Can't Attack" messages if one of his skeletons gets disarmed
  
• Fixed Zeus Lightning Hands being affected by dispels
  
• Fixed Mirana Level 25 talent listing incorrect value for Starstorm bonus damage
  
  

We're excited to release the International Compendium for The International 2023. Because this is a new shape to previous years Compendiums, we wanted to walk you through what it is, how it works, and why we built it.

As we described a few months back, looking at Dota's history made it clear that Battle Passes had steadily grown to consume all the content in a given year, and were inhibiting our ability to ship creative things throughout the year. We wanted to fix this, and so made a deliberate choice several months ago to ship new things more often in a wider variety of forms. This year has been full of experiments: We released a brand new player behavior system, free items to celebrate the 10th Anniversary, a number of gameplay patches, a collection of community sets, and more. This Compendium is another example of something new.

[h3]Event-Focused Features, Event-Focused Rewards[/h3]

Every Dota update has a variety of goals and part of the work of designing and building an update is choosing where to put the emphasis. An update can be focused on delivering cosmetic content or refining balance. An update can try to generate the largest prize pool possible. Instead of these goals, we chose to focus this update more narrowly: To elevate the players, the teams, and the artistry that is high-level Dota played at The International. We focused entirely on creating a set of activities to make TI more fun while games were going on, and another set of activities to make TI more fun when games weren't going on.

And so that's what this year's Compendium is: a collection of challenges that we've built around the pro players and the event itself. We've brought back and improved some old favorites like Fantasy and Predictions. We're also introducing some new activities, ranging from the light-hearted (Bingo) to the seriously formidable (The Road to the International Challenge).

Everything you'll accomplish through the Compendium earns you progress towards rewards. Like the Compendium challenges, all the rewards this year are built around the players and the event. There's an International 2023 HUD, permanent chatwheel lines, and a physical collector's Aegis, along with lots of new content for your Profile Showcase (see below), including team and player stickers.

[h3]Something For Everyone[/h3]

In line with the goals we established earlier this year, we've been intentional about ensuring that every update we ship has something for all Dota players, whether that's new gameplay or new features. This update is no different: If, like many, you're a huge fan of watching the spectacle of the International but aren't familiar with the old legends of Arteezy on a cliff, or Emo's research into the deep lore and many varied uses of the question mark, that's alright, too we've got stuff in this update for you as well.

This update also includes the Profile Showcase, free and available now to all players. Whether you're proud of your record, your in-game fashion sense, or that one time you won a game on Invoker, we've created a canvas where you can show off the parts of your Dota experience you value the most. We could describe how cool it is all day, but since a picture is worth a thousand words, we've put together a whole update page: go take a look at the pictures.

[h3]Onward[/h3]

We're already working on future updates with different focuses and we know you're excited to learn more about the next big patch, and the next set of arcanas, and everything else we're working on but that's for after the champions claim the Aegis. For now, Seattle welcomes a return of the finest players in the world, and we can't wait. We'll see you on the Road to the International.

Invitations have been sent, plane tickets have been reserved, and our old friends the soundproof booths are undergoing their final maintenance and inspections: In just a few short weeks the first teams arrive in Seattle for The International.

Most of the tickets have been sold: Tickets for the Road to the International (Oct 20-22) are completely sold out, and only about a thousand remain for The International (Oct 27-29).

As TI approaches, we have a couple announcements (and reminders of past announcements):

• Pubstomps: For as long as there have been Dota tournaments, there have been Dota pubstomps: opportunities to gather with friends and fans and watch together. This year, for the first time, we're planning on including some of the pubstomps from around the world live in the TI broadcast. We'll be back closer to the event to talk more about how this will work and ask interested pubstomps to register.
  
  
• Short Film Contest: We had a record number of entries this year. We've narrowed the ninety submitted films down to about twenty that will be available for viewing and voting in the client from 9/29 through 10/9. The top ten entries selected by the community will be shown during The International, where we'll also announce the overall winners.
  
  
• Cosplay Contest: Sign-ups for this year's cosplay contest are open until midnight CST on Sunday, 10/1. SteelSeries is sponsoring this year's contest, so in addition to $20,000 USD of cash prizes, winners also get a variety of SteelSeries gear. (And, as a reminder, you don't need to be a ticket holder to enter: If you're selected as a top-ten finalist, you automatically get three-day passes for yourself and one guest.)
  

Between emoji-encoded patch notes, our 10-Year Anniversary celebration, and massive updates to Dota's Armory and behavior system and of course The International rapidly approaching there's a lot happening both in and out of the lanes. Plus, we're already hard at work on more updates to come, which means we're thinking about new community treasures to help fill out that aforementioned Armory.

To that end, the Dota team would like to invite all workshop contributors to dream up some new sets for any of your favorite heroes. Submissions are already open, and we're looking forward to seeing your full craft on display. This round of submissions also welcomes designs for Muerta, Crystal Maiden's Conduit of the Blueheart Persona and the Exile Unveiled Phantom Assassin Persona, which are all now included in the workshop.

We request that all submissions be on the Dota 2 Workshop by the end of the day on November 26th, 2023 PDT. Please make sure to mark your work with the "Fall 2023" tag when tendering items to the Workshop to ensure they aren't overlooked. Please note that any unreleased "Spring 2023" submissions already on the workshop will also be considered for this round of selections.

As always, please avoid concepts involving human skulls, blood, and gore. We'd like to remind all Dota fans to regularly visit the Workshop and vote through the Queue to ensure your voices are heard in the polling process.

We started the Dota Pro Circuit in 2017 to answer a question that was coming up more and more frequently: How do you earn an invite to The International? Up until then, invitations were driven by a handful of regional qualifiers and golden ticket invites from Valve. Distribution of these invitations created an exciting moment every year for fans, but it was hard for pro players (and their fans) to know the exact path to The International. Understanding that every invitation system has trade-offs, we set out to create a system with more clarity and transparency.

When it came to that one limited goal, we succeeded. The DPC demystified the invitation criteria, and made it easier for pros to understand their path to The International. Unfortunately, the DPC brought with it a set of rules and regulations, and those have come with a cost thats become clearer to us over time: The world of competitive Dota has grown less exciting, less varied, and ultimately much less fun.

By existing as the only official league, the DPC has a stranglehold on the event calendar for the year and what it's filled with. Event organizers are innovating less, because that's effectively what we've been asking them to do: Instead of competing for viewers and players by producing compelling and inventive tournaments, organizers now compete for compliance with Valves long list of rigid requirements (team count, broadcast languages, event format, and more).

Relaxing those requirements doesn't help. No matter how well-intentioned our event specifications, or the actions of the event organizers in meeting them, it distracts from what the goals of these events used to be: showcasing Dota in the most entertaining way possible, enticing players to participate and the audience to watch. The best world is the one where event organizers arent competing for our attention, but for yours.

Before we introduced these constraints, the world of competitive Dota was healthier, more robust and more varied than the one we have now. Events used to be less rote and more creative, and there was more room in the calendar for them. Everything was open for exploration: event length and themed venues and team participation and even the basic assumptions of tournament design. There was a beautiful unregulated insanity to it all casual house parties and oyster prize pools coexisted alongside the Dota Asia Championships and one-off invitationals. It would be too simplistic to say that the slow drift of the Dota competitive scene away from this focus on fun and creativity towards the sterile, near-monoculture of today is entirely the fault of the DPC, but the DPC has generated significant pressure and incentives that led us here. The Dota community has decades of grassroots experience coming up with innovative and entertaining events, and right now the DPC is getting in the way.

With that in mind, we're ending the Dota Pro Circuit: 2023 will be the final DPC season.

Competitive Dota predates the DPC by many years and will continue long after. The International will continue as well we're already working on The International 2024, and next year we'll be talking more about how invitations to that event will work. But for now, we're going to return our focus to this year's event which, unbelievably, is only four short weeks away.

Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota, and an event as unique as The International.

The International is an unbelievably huge endeavor, watched by millions of people around the world. Its easy to forget that the first ever TI was a modest, honestly pretty unrecognizable event held at Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany, and took place in a trade show booth. In honor of TIs humble beginnings, we decided to dedicate this installment of Between the Lanes to an often forgotten, rarely celebrated (and occasionally very poorly ventilated) piece of equipment thats been with us since the very beginning, and ever since (except last year): the soundproof booth.



From TI1, we knew wed need booths with sufficient insulation so the players wouldn't overhear anything from the crowd or casters thatd give them an unfair advantage during the match. Back then, that was the only requirement of the soundproof booths: They needed to be soundproof. And because the first TI was so small, there wasnt that much audio slamming the booth at any given time. But those early booths fulfilled their one requirement: none of the pros could hear anything. Of course, they failed utterly in every other area, which meant that, by the time future TIs rolled around, we needed them to do a lot more.



The first TI was a real learning experience in general for us. The desks the pros were playing on ended up being too narrow and too high. So the players had to sit on stools with their elbows hanging off the edge of the desk, which it turns out is just about the worst way to play DOTA. We also had these enormous PCs that Nvidia had lent us, and wed placed them into a series of cabinets under the players. These cabinets, it turned out, were unventilated. The Nvidia PCs ran unventilated for seven days straight. It was so hot in those cabinets, when you opened the doors you could smell the insulation on the wires melting. Amazingly, they never stopped working all week. (It's entirely possible the only reason they didn't overheat was because one of the players accidentally spilled some ice water into the cabinets.)



So now we had a second booth requirement for subsequent TIs: Air conditioning. It turned out that five PCs, five monitors, five humans and various lighting rigs, all sealed in an insulated unventilated box, generates a LOT of heat. Being able to reduce that heat was both essential and non-trivial.



Another new requirement wed never considered: Reflection. The very original booths were rectangular pods that abutted each other, face-to-face. The glass surfaces were flat on the front and the back. So when players were sitting in the playing position, their screens would reflect off of the glass behind them, and the opponent directly opposite them could pretty clearly see the reflection of their screen. We discovered that problem very quickly. Our immediate high tech solution: tape a bunch of promotional T-shirts to the glass between the players to block the reflections.



Going forward into the next decade of TIs, we abandoned the T-Shirt solution and fixed the problem with booth design and positioning.

By the time TI5 rolled around, and with no false modesty, wed gotten pretty good at the basics. Sound-dampening: check. Better lighting: check. Ventilation: check. Pink noise in the booth: check. Solving the dozen or so immediate problems that kept cropping up during the first few TIs meant we could finally stop putting out fires and focus on making the booth better. It was finally time to tackle a long-standing problem: the booths were a huge pain in the ass to assemble. The TI2-4 booths took a really long time to put together. They were ungodly heavy and hard to manage. It took a small crane to put the roof on, not to mention 12-15 hours of build time.


TI2


TI3


TI4

For an event as big as TI, with so many moving pieces, that can be a problem. Everythings on a pretty tight schedule. The second the stage is ready for them, those booths need to be moved up onstage and put together, fast. Once theyre assembled, you have to very quickly get the lighting in them, the PCs, the chairs, booth cameras, microphones and team communications set before any testing can begin. The faster you get the booths up and running, the more time you have to test the setup. So the biggest innovation between the TI4 and TI5 booths was how speedily the TI5 version could be assembled onstage with the clock ticking.





Composed of seven sections, each one is mounted on wheels for easy positioning once forklifted onto the stage, attached to the one another via a coffin lock system. With these innovations, the booths were able to be fully assembled in under five hours.

As the events got more elaborate, so did the challenges, and that meant more advanced techniques in booth design. The TI2-4 booths only had a single glass wall. But the fifth TI was going to take place in the round, on a circular stage with 360 views; so now the booths needed to be transparent on all sides, so the audience could see the action.



With the audiences getting larger and louder, and the booth walls now being entirely made of glass, sound-proofing became a legitimate challenge. The new walls would now be constructed of multiple layers of glass, with argon gas in between the layers. The glass layers were different thicknesses, and not exactly parallel to each other, which helped dampen the sound waves. (We also upgraded to optically transparent museum quality glass, which is much better for filming through. It has so few imperfections that its essentially transparent to the lens.)



By the time wed perfected the booths for TI5, the total price tag for each one was over $200,000. (All that argon wasnt cheap.) The irony is that, over the course of six Internationals, wed managed to engineer an essentially perfect sound booth which we then had to put in dry dock, because it turns out they couldn't be shipped internationally.

How did we learn this? By shipping them internationally to the Frankfurt Major in 2015 and destroying them in the process. We had to repair and rebuild them on-site in Germany. It was a huge hassle. The booths are capable of a lot, but theyre just not designed for long haul travel.



We continued to iterate over the next several years, doing gradual but significant improvements to player comfort, booth lighting and other incremental changes. By the time we arrived at last years TI in Singapore, we had accumulated a decade of experience with sound dampening, and this gave us the confidence to try a new approach. We decided to eliminate the booths entirely, and solve the sound problem with noise-canceling headphones, earbuds, and the acoustic design of the arena. This meant we could maintain the competitive integrity that the booths provided, while optimizing for all the things that the booths historically made difficult.

Something a lot of people don't realize is that pro Dota players don't simply wake up and walk onto an event stage. They have to warm up just like any athlete. They also prefer their tools of the trade keyboard, mouse, headset worn out just the way they like them, in just the right spot. With booths, this meant a challenging set of steps where player equipment was constantly being stripped out of the play area so new gear could be carried in and set up at the last second. This made it difficult for players to enjoy a pre-game warm-up with their equipment when a TI event coordinator was trying to pry their keyboards from them to race it over for a booth setup. A boothless set-up with four rotating sets of PCs completely removed these issues, which resulted in a streamlined set-up, takedown and speed of play an improvement appreciated by the pro players.



But sound-dampening is simply too important a trade-off. And despite our efforts put into the acoustic design of the arena, we underestimated the difficulty in bringing the sound-dampening up to our standards. Do we think a boothless event is an experiment worth pursuing again? Absolutely. There were real advantages, for the players and the spectators. But not until we have absolute confidence in our success. What matters is that were heading in the right direction: Towards something better, faster, more enjoyable for the pros competing, and more exciting for us watching.

Until then, were happy to bring back the classic TI5 soundproof booths out of storage in Kent, WA, to once again grace the main stage at The International 2023.

Patch 7.34c is out now. You can check the notes here.

Oracle saw too far into the future. That is now fixed.

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed an issue where using Armlet could lead to double death bounties
  
• Fixed Soul Ring not removing temporary mana at the end of its buff duration
  
• Fixed enemy flagbearer creeps sometimes not showing their banners
  
• Fixed shield rune not being visible on enemy units until they attack or get attacked
  
• Fixed Ion Shell sometimes not being visible
  
• Fixed Terrorblade illusions appearing the same as the real Terrorblade
  
• Fixed buffs like Haste, God's Strength, and Fire Remnant not showing on the status bar of heroes
  
• Fixed backdoor protection not being shown as a buff on towers nor the shield icon next to their health
  
• Fixed the invisibility effect not showing on enemy heroes under a friendly Sentry Ward
  
• Fixed Haste rune not showing as a buff on the status bar or being shown visually on the hero
  
• Fixed Pudge Rot being invisible
  
• Fixed an issue where Rubick stole Death Pact for free when stealing Skeleton Walk from Clinkz
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear counting towards Monkey King's Jinggu Mastery stacks
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear death counting towards permanent stacks for Axe, Necrophos, Slark, Lion, and Tidehunter
  
• Fixed Desolator gaining damage when killing Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear attacks counting as Hero attacks when attacking Clinkz Skeletons, Lich Ice Spire, Phoenix Supernova, Pugna Nether Ward, Tidehunter Dead in the Water anchor, Undying Tombstone, Zeus Nimbus.
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear death refreshing Axe Culling Blade and lowering Windranger Focus Fire cooldown with Level 25 talent
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit Bear displayed as the unit name on the Minimap
  
• Fixed Tormentor not granting Spirit Bear a Shard if Lone Druid already has one, and not allowing allies to get Tormentor gold bounty if all allies already have the Shard
  
• Fixed Tormentor particles sometimes showing in fog of war
  
• Fixed a bug where inventory item icons would sometimes disappear when dragging them
  
• Fixed a number of items' ability effects failing to equip in the Armory/Loadout
  
• Fixed some free event reward items not showing up in the Armory
  
• Fixed an issue saving the Taunt slot on custom sets
  
• Fixed the default global light and shadow colors on the Autumn terrain
  
• Fixed a display-only bug where certain magic resistance and physical resistance percentage values were being incorrectly rounded down a point below their actual values
  
• Fixed a display-only bug where units with zero health or mana regeneration values would display as negative zero due to network-encoding quantization effects
  
• Fixed a crash in Workshop Tools
  

We know what youre thinking: Youve only got three treasures remaining to get all the 10th Anniversary Rewards except youve been at three treasures remaining for days now. Theres no end in sight. Youve played core. Youve played support. Youve played mid. (Once you even tried jungling.)

Nothing. Three weeks just isnt enough time to get all of those 10th Anniversary Rewards.

You know who agrees with you? Gabe Newell. You know whos fired if we dont extend the event so he can get his Ursa set? According to Gabe: us. So were happy and relieved and still employed to announce that the end date of the 10th Anniversary event is now September 18th.

Since releasing The Summer Client Update we've addressed a number of issues:

• Fixed a bug that would appear to allow you to commend/dislike the same player multiple times in postgame
  
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause behavior score or communication score to get set to 0 incorrectly (the affected accounts have had their appropriate scores restored)
  
• Re-added the ability to rotate your hero with mousewheel in the Armory and pregame
  
• Re-added the ability to demo custom terrains
  
• In games where the majority of connected players have a behavior score too low to allow them to pause the game, those players will now be able to unpause if the game has been paused for at least 5s
  
• Added persona selector to pregame loadout
  
• Added slot headings to pregame loadout
  
• Re-introduced Hero Relics into the shard shop
  
• Disabled rebundling for items with unlocked styles, or which unpack with dynamic gems
  
• Owned world items can now be demoed through the item details popup
  
• Improved the display of chat wheels in the new Armory
  
• Commending a player no longer prints a chat message every time (to prevent post-game commend sprees from pushing all actual chat offscreen)
  
• Added a new, distinct sound for disliking a player
  
• Fixed grouping by item type in the All Items tab in the Armory
  
• Fixed announcer packs not loading properly when entering pregame
  
• Fixed places in the new Armory where fonts would sometimes display at an incorrect size
  
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause dead units to not stay dead (Undying, Spirit Bear, Wraith King)
  
• Fixed multikill banners not being accessible in the new Armory
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause the game to change monitors when running in fullscreen on multi-monitor displays
  
• Fixed Dark Seer's "More Than Mental Mass" taunt not playing sounds
  
• Fixed Phoenix's Crimson Dawn set only changing the appearance of the head instead of the full set
  
• Fixed server crashes involving abilities from Dark Seer, Razor, and Hoodwink
  
• Fixed a client crash when displaying certain tooltips (including Tranquil Boots)
  
• Fixed custom game JavaScript support
  
• Fixed Hammer crashing on startup
  
• Fixed a crash when returning to the dashboard after playing a game
  
• Fixed some over-bright rendering in Vulkan when color-correction post-processing was enabled
  
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan renderer on Linux
  
• Fixed a crash on Linux GPUs with low memory
  
• Fixed fullscreen flickering on multi-monitor Linux systems
  
• Fixed a crash on MacOS versions older than 10.15
  
• Fixed a hang on MacOS when purchasing certain items in the Armory
  
• Fixed a particle crash on older Windows machines without SSE4.1 support
  
• Fixed terrain sometimes displaying incorrectly (or being invisible) on low-spec Windows machines
  
• Fixed a particle rendering error with Phoenix's Solar Gyre
  
• Fixed display of owned Kill Streak Effect in the Shard Shop
  
• Fixed incorrect items sometimes appearing under the Tools section in the Shard Shop
  
• Fixed some cosmetic particle effects not showing properly when previewing items in the Loadout or in the Armory (Void Spirit weapon particles, for example)
  
• Fixed summons appearing next to heroes in postgame
  
• Fixed Dota Plus quest to commend players not correctly counting all commends
  
• Fixed a server crash when players were spectating under certain conditions
  
• Fixed a rare courier-related server crash in Turbo
  
• Fixed an issue where using Armlet could cause a unit to behave oddly on death (for example, give death bounty twice, or in Wraith King's case, be teleported to the fountain on Reincarnation)
  

Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence.

Additionally, we have traced every single one of these smurf accounts back to its main account. Going forward, a main account found associated with a smurf account could result in a wide range of punishments, from temporary adjustments to behavior scores to permanent account bans.

As we said earlier this year in our blog post about cheating, and as we said earlier this week in our Summer Client Update, and as we will continue to say: Dota is a game best enjoyed when played on an even field. The quality of the people in a given match are what makes a match good. Were invested in making sure your matches are as good as possible, and smurfing makes matches worse.

As always, if you suspect someone of smurfing in your game, use the in-game reporting options to flag them. This will help us continue to track offenders and gather data used to inform our anti-smurf efforts moving forward.

New Player Behavior System, New Rendering Features, and New Armory

Summer is hurtling toward its inevitable, pumpkin spiced end, and were seeing it off in style with a whole bunch of pretty sweet quality of life improvements. Ill be the judge of that, youre probably saying, eyes squinted in skeptical fashion. Well, how would you like to be the judge of not just blog posts, but real people? Like an actual judge. Because we've built a new player behavior and reporting system from the ground up to enable much better judging, and much better games.

Plus, just like in the allegory of Platos cave, you will now be able to see the shadows of clouds as they pass overhead. How is this possible? The copyright on the collected works of Plato has now just lapsed. Weve also included a few other cool new rendering features inspired by, but not directly copied from, other pre-modern thinkers.

Lastly, we've torn the armory apart and completely rebuilt it to make it easier for you to do, well, everything with your cosmetic items. Epiloguely, were also shipping a Collectors Cache to show all this new stuff off. Honestly, blog posts were simply not designed to convey this much exciting information, so weve assembled an update page with all the details.


Dota Plus Fall Update

As much as we all love playing Dota in sweaty rooms with sunny glares shining off our screens, the capricious gods of weather (or whoever decides these things) demand that our brief summer respite comes to a sudden but predictable end. Meaning that along with everything else, it's also time for the next seasonal release for Dota Plus the Fall 2023 Dota Plus update for those of you keeping track at home set to begin on September 1st.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]

The update comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.

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• Emoticon - cozy_courier
  
• Emoticon - lancer_sour
  
• Emoticon - party_phoenix
  

• Spray - Keeper of the Light - Give Mana
  
• Spray - Shadowfiend - Shrug
  
• Spray - Arc Warden - Stab
  

• Chat Wheel - "Holy Moly!"
  
• Chat Wheel - "? ? ? ."
  
• Chat Wheel - "3, 2, 1, aaaadios!"
  

• New: Bounty rune spawn locations now show on the minimap before the horn using desaturated icons.
  
• New: Added an option to rebind the Alternative Cast Ability switch key under the Advanced Hotkeys Interface tab.
  
• New: Optimized Dota's network traffic. Dota will now use a little less bandwidth all the time, and a lot less bandwidth sometimes (for example, in illusion-heavy gameplay).
  
• Fixed Invoker Wex sometimes granting the wrong amount of mana regeneration
  
• Fixed Allied Heroes being able to refresh a Hand of Midas that doesn't belong to them
  
• Fixed Wraith King skeletons sometimes ignoring Wraithfire Blast when selecting their target
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker having an infinite shield when taking the level 25 talent
  
• Fixed Riki's Level 25 Right Talent not displaying the proper cooldown reduction
  
• Fixed being able to blink to one specific location off the top left corner of the map
  
• Fixed various tooltip issues with Invoker's Ghost Walk
  
• Fixed universal heroes not showing up correctly in Ability draft UI tooltips
  
• Fixed Overwhelming Blink doing 100 damage over six seconds instead of 100% of the caster's strength over 6 seconds
  
• Fixed Windranger's Agh's upgrade invisibility effect not visually applying for allies
  

The International is fast approaching, and for those of you planning on going, we wanted to give you some important dates so you can start planning your trip. Tickets to join the audience live at The International 2023 in Seattle, WA are going on sale August 25th, 2023. Whether youre planning on attending in person, or hopping on with millions of viewers from around the world to watch our livestream broadcast, join us in cheering on the best Dota teams on the planet as they battle it out for the Aegis.

Like we posted earlier this month, The International Dota 2 Championships will be getting split into two distinct phases this year, over the course of three action-packed weekends: The Road to the International, encompassing Group Stage (October 12th-15th) and Playoffs (October 20th-22nd); and The International itself (October 27th-29th).

Both the Playoffs and The International will take place in front of a live audience this year. In an effort to minimize confusion due to the new naming scheme, tickets for each of the events will go live on separate dates.

Sales are scheduled to go live on Ticketmaster as follows:

The International 2023 at Climate Pledge Arena

• Tickets will go on sale August 25th at 10 AM Pacific Time on Ticketmaster
  
• Tickets will be sold as a three-day pass for the full event, priced at $699 USD + Fees per pass
  
• Attendees who bind their Steam account to their pass will be granted one Treasure of the Crimson Witness 2023 (and will continue to have chances to win more throughout the event)
  

• Tickets will go on sale on August 28th at 10 AM Pacific Time on Ticketmaster
  
• Tickets will be sold as individual tickets for each of the three days, priced at $99 USD + Fees per ticket
  

There are some elders who whisper that the Ancients have always existed, and always will exist -- unknowable eldritch tentacle-shards of a mad moon, outside of time, doomed to battle forever. Other elders eyeball it at around ten, maybe thirteen years. It really depends what wizard youre listening to in the forest. Either way, we tend to side with the elders who say Look, its got to be something, and tens a nice round number.

So put on your party hats and join us, wont you, in celebrating Dota 2s 10-year anniversary, commemorating the various milestones, semi-milestones, and occasional regular-shaped stones found on the path of Dotas decade-long journey.

And since it wouldnt be a party without presents, from now until Thursday, September 7, winning a Dota game will grant you a commemorative treasure containing one of thirteen special items tied to each of Dotas storied years. All you need to do is keep winning Dota games until youve collected all thirteen.

All jokes aside, were really lucky to have a community as supportive as Dotas. Were happy to have been able to share this journey with you so far. So for the next couple of weeks, jump in a match and help us celebrate the decade behind us. We look forward to all the games to come.

Patch 7.34b is out now. You can check the notes here.


Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Arc Warden Magnetic Field granting bonus damage instead of base damage
  
• Fixed Bane illusion waking up Nightmared Units
  
• Fixed Brewmaster Level 25 Talent Drunken Brawler Passive on brewlings Primal Companions not getting extra bonuses from getting Cinder Brew on them
  
• Fixed Brewmaster Level 10 Talent not applying the attack damage to Scepter Primal Companions
  
• Fixed Crystal Maiden Crystal Clone not mentioning projectile disjointing on cast in tooltip
  
• Fixed Ember Spirit Flame Guard not updating the first time magic damage was applied
  
• Fixed "Pierces Debuff Immunity" tooltip for Grimstroke Soulbind
  
• Fixed tooltip description for Keeper of the Light's Chakra Magic
  
• Fixed a server crash with Lone Druid and Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Break disabling Phantom Assassin Phantom Strike's lifesteal
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin Blur dispellable by Lotus Pools and Twin gates
  
• Fixed showing a HUD error for Templar Assassin shown while pressing Ctrl
  
• Fixed "Dispellable" tooltip for Terrorblade Demon Zeal
  
• Fixed Witch Doctor Death Ward unable to target creep-heroes
  
• Fixed Enchantress Little Friends being only partially undispellable
  
  

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Captain's Mode pick order display
  
• Fixed some regressions of 7.33e changes
  
• Removed references in the Glossary to Outposts granting XP
  
• Fixed the locations mentioned in Outpost Captured messages
  
• Fixed and clarified various tooltips
  
• Fixed Alchemist not being able to grant Aghanim's Scepter to Lone Druid's Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed an issue where Elder Titan Astral Spirit would keep flying without stopping when casting Echo Stomp
  
• Fixed Lifestealer level 25 talent not granting bonus damage
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not respecting auto-attack settings
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not being able to be switched to with Tab
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not gaining strength from Power Treads
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear illusions not gaining bonus attack damage from Lone Druid's level
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear Fetch piercing Debuff Immunity when it should not be able to
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit Link mistakenly healing the Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin level 25 talent +7% Coup de Grace Crit Chance not working
  
• Fixed Timbersaw level 15 Whirling Death Stat Loss talent having no effect on universal heroes
  
• Fixed the initial attack from Witch Doctor Death Ward not piercing debuff immunity
  
• Fixed Zeus shard toggle state being reset on death (but still showing as toggled on)
  

Since the release of 7.34 we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed an issue where issuing an alt-cast order while out of range and then changing alt-cast mode could result in the wrong variant of the ability being cast
  
• Fixed Holy Locket + Midas not working with Bad Juju
  
• Fixed Midas cooldowns being independent of each other
  
• Fixed an issue with Ninja Gear where it could apply smoke to allies while Phase Boots was active
  
• Fixed Revenant's Brooch not showing passive attack speed bonus in the item description (this was only a display issue, attack speed bonus was always applied)
  
• Fixed Smoke of Deceit modifier not showing speed bonus and visibility radius on the client.
  
• Fixed various issues in glossary, tooltip, and patch note text
  
• Fixed missing description on Alchemist Corrosive Weaponry
  
• Fixed Anti-Mage Counterspell Ally being castable on enemies
  
• Fixed Beastmaster level 15 movespeed aura talent not working properly
  
• Fixed Beastmaster Call Of The Wild Hawk not behaving properly when dominated
  
• Fixed Brewmaster illusions always being in Earth Stance
  
• Fixed Centaur Hoof Stomp proccing magic stick on spell cast, rather than stomp being applied
  
• Fixed Centaur Hoof Stomp not being interrupted when stunned/silenced/hexed/etc.
  
• Fixed Crystal Maiden Crystal Clone Frostbite not lasting for creep duration on creeps
  
• Fixed Doom level 25 talent (Doom now mutes) not working
  
• Fixed an issue where Drow Multishot ceased firing too early
  
• Fixed Elder Titan not being able to toggle the Alt Cast ability on Echo Stomp after cast
  
• Fixed Invoker Wex cooldown reduction being multiplicative instead of additive
  
• Fixed Juggernaut Level 20 talent lifesteal not working properly
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear illusions triggering backlash damage on Lone Druid
  
• Fixed missing Spirit Link visuals with Lone Druid Scepter
  
• Fixed Meepo Earthbind having infinite range
  
• Fixed Morphling Morph illusion not properly removing abilities at the end of the illusion's lifetime
  
• Fixed Morphling Morph illusion taking and giving and extra 100% damage
  
• Fixed Morphling Morph Scepter not properly using Lil' Shredder charges when replicating Snapfire
  
• Fixed a crash when Morphling replicates Slark
  
• Fixed Ogre Magi's multicast of Midas consuming multiple charges.
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin Deadly Focus buff being purgable
  
• Fixed Phantom Assassin Deadly Focus buff being sometimes lost on missed or canceled attacks
  
• Fixed Puck's Aghanims Scepter Dream Coil not hitting units that have invisibility, even if they are visible to Puck
  
• Fixed Rubick being able to steal Reality and getting Haunt as a result
  
• Fixed Dark Ascension resetting itself and other ultimate abilities when stolen by Rubick
  
• Fixed some joint issues with Tidehunter's Dead in the Water chain
  
• Fixed Tusk still displaying Frozen Sigil in the ability list in some places
  
• Fixed Warlock imps being spawned inside of each other/impassable terrain
  
• Fixed Weaver shard Geminate attacks not applying on-attack modifiers
  
• Fixed Witch Doctor Death Ward Scepter bounce shots not being pure damage
  

In the wake of last night's unprecedented, frankly preposterous all-emoji patchnote leak, weve decided to scrap our plans to release 7.34 this coming Thursday, and are shipping it today. As in right now. As in immediately right now. In fact, as you read this sentence specifically, at exactly the moment you read this part of the sentence here.

If you missed yesterday's emoji leak, or are one of the few unfortunate people whove never seen The Emoji Movie and thus dont know what emojis are, you're welcome to dig into the full list of 7.34 Gameplay Update notes here.

In addition to gameplay changes, we've also reworked Captains Mode, so get ready for a fresh new flow for upcoming tournament drafts.

As we mentioned in June, we've been working on some fun stuff to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Dota 2's official release. The good news? It's almost ready! The bad news? It's not quite ready TODAY. But keep your party hats ready and pitch-forks at half-mast. We're looking to ship it soon. As in very soon. As in -- well, soon.

Lastly, over the last few days we've fixed a few additional gameplay issues not covered in the other patchnotes. For completions sake, we present them here:

• Fix Beastmaster Wild Axes providing vision of the center of the map
  
• Fix another way to cause the Earth Spirit Stone Remnants crash
  
• Fix Keeper of the Light Illuminate damage being wrong when casting a second Illuminate while the first is still traveling
  
• Fix Silencer Glaives of Wisdom not stealing temporary Int from Meepo clones or Arc Warden Tempest Double
  
• Fix an issue where Wards could move after spawning
  
• Fix Watchers showing as disabled still when they become capturable if that occurs in fog of war
  
• Fix a number of particle/FX issues, including adding back missing feet FX for Terrorblade arcana, Lina Immortal Laguna Blade FX, etc
  

Hey, everyone. I dont have much time. I snuck into Valve and managed to grab the complete patch notes for 7.34, and Im posting them for everyone to read. But I think something went wrong with my copy-paste, because its all in emoticons. Anyway, so long as you can read emoji, you should be okay.

- E.W.

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The International is fast approaching! After months of competition, twelve teams have secured their invites to TI, with eight more set to join them after the upcoming regional qualifiers.

The International is watched by millions, from casual players to seasoned veterans and retired pros. Every year we look for new opportunities to make The International even more exciting, entertaining and accessible than ever before. This year, we've focused on improving the viewing experience for a broader range of fans. While no format can be perfect, we're always trying to strike a balance between things that have worked in the past and things that could work even better in the future.

So with TI 2023 on the horizon, we wanted to walk you through every detail of the format changes were trying out this year, and our thought process behind them.

[h2]The Schedule[/h2]

One obvious difference this year is the event schedule. A live competition is always more exciting when people can watch it as its actually happening, not hours or days later, and we wanted to make it easier for more people to do that.

To that end, we're scheduling nearly every game over a Friday-through-Sunday weekend break. It'll take three weekends to fit in all the games for a twenty-team tournament a weekend for Group Stage (October 12-15), a weekend for Playoffs (October 20-22), and a weekend for The Finals (October 27-29).

[h2]The Road to The International[/h2]

As a landmark esports event, The International attracts viewers who have never played Dota, or even watched a live gaming event. We hear a consistent message from first-time watchers: that TI is exciting, but can sometimes feel overwhelming. There are so many matches happening, new viewers can find it difficult to understand which to focus on.

So, this year we've split "The International" into two distinct phases, with two distinct names: The Road To The International, which includes Group Stage and Playoffs and captures all of the drama of pitting the best 20 Dota teams against each other until only eight remain; and The International itself, where those final eight teams battle to claim the Aegis of Champions.

So if you're already invested in Dota (and if you've read this far, thats probably a yes), and want to watch every step of every journey, you'll still start it with The Road to The International you can watch the Group Stage as you usually would, and the Playoffs will still be played live in front of an audience. And if you're new to Dota or The International, and just want to experience the biggest moments of the event, weve made it clearer what they are and when you can see them.

[h2]Group Stage[/h2]

In the old Group Stage format, two groups of ten teams would play Round Robin over the course of four frantic days, usually five games at a time. This meant that each team was playing so many matches that early games just didn't feel meaningful. It also meant that a lot of matches in the final days of Group Stage were literally meaningless, because they wouldnt actually affect the final standings. The challenge, then, was to come up with a Group Stage format that heightened the stakes of each and every game.



In the new Group Stage format, instead of two groups of ten teams playing for four days, four groups of five will now play for two, with the bottom team in each group getting eliminated. This means that every team will now only play four games instead of the previous nine, making every game impactful to a teams final standings in the group.

Additionally, the second half of Group Stage is now composed of head-to-head matches between the remaining 16 teams, which will decide which teams enter the Playoffs in the Upper Bracket.

[h2]Playoffs[/h2]

Playoffs kick off on Friday, October 20th at the Seattle Convention Centers Summit, featuring the top eight teams fighting for the four Upper Bracket slots of The International. Saturday and Sunday will consist of a series of elimination matches, with the four survivors making it into TIs Lower Bracket. Unlike previous years, all matches will be played in a best-of-three format.



[h2]The International[/h2]

The International will feature the final eight teams of the event, competing in Climate Pledge Arena October 27th to 29th to determine which team is the best in the world. Friday and Saturday will feature four best-of-three matches each day, and Sunday will feature a battle between the top three teams first in the Lower Bracket Finals, and finally in the best-of-five Grand Finals.



[h2]Putting It All Together[/h2]

Were thrilled to bring you year twelve of The International. Its our goal to make every incarnation as exciting for invested fans as it is welcoming for newer players.

Tickets for both The Road To The Internationals Playoff Stage at The Seattle Convention Centers Summit, and The International itself at Climate Pledge Arena, will go on sale in the second half of August. We'll post additional details as soon as we get them.

Introducing Between the Lanes, a new blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota.

Every Dota update gives us a chance to introduce new heroes, items, and abilities into the game not to mention tweak countless old ones. This keeps Dota evolving as a game, but it also introduces an incalculable number of potential interactions. While this means theres always something new to experience in every match, it also increases the likelihood that some of our changes introduce the occasional bug or two. Or twenty.

Fortunately, the Dota community is constantly experimenting and exploring, and is quick to discover hidden advantages, new meta, and outright game-breaking bugs that catch even us by surprise.

The Techies Sticky Bomb bug is a perfect example of this. The roots of the bug were introduced as far back as the Techies update last year, when we unveiled a rework of their abilities and playstyle. This rework created a bug where Techies Sticky Bombs didn't expire, and in some cases became controllable by the casting player. But interestingly, because of the parameters of the game at the time, there were no circumstances where the bug could actually occur in a match. So it laid dormant until the Twin Gates appeared with The New Frontiers 7.33 Update this past spring.



Suddenly, Techies players were able to create guided Sticky Bombs they could move around the map, raining down unlimited lethal explosives on enemy players. This was... a bit of an advantage. So it wasn't long before we started hearing rumblings on our github.



A common pattern in gameplay programming generally, and especially in Dota, is to create something new (that doesnt break the game) by finding something similar that already exists (and works and is not game-breaking) and using it as a starting point to evolve changes. Sticky Bombs were based on the classic Techies Remote Mines. Theyre implemented as a summon of a "npc_dota_techies_remote_mine" the same base NPC type as the old Remote Mine NPC.

Techies Sticky Bombs utilize a toss/chase/countdown to explode sequence that is managed by a series of server-side modifiers (buffs) on the NPC to handle the unit motion and behavior of each step in the sequence. The "chase" and "countdown" modifiers prevented player orders via state flags in the modifier itself. The "toss" modifier prevented many types of player commands as a result of being a motion controller, along with the nature of the npc_dota_techies_remote_mine itself (specifically, that the NPC has AttackCapability DOTA_UNIT_CAP_NO_ATTACK).



Because Remote Mines could be manually detonated by Techies using an ability on the mine itself, the Remote Mine NPC was permitted to use abilities. This means it was flagged as both owned by the casting player (for kill credit) and as controllable by the casting player. Right-clicking on a Twin Gate (or any channelable map entity) mechanically functions by converting an attack click into an ability cast on the channel target (you're "casting" on the Twin Gate while channeling). Other map entities require a hero to do the channeling. However, because Roshan can use the Twin Gates, non-hero units are permitted to channel them.

Which brings us to the Sticky Bomb bug: during the very short duration that a Sticky Bomb is in the air after being tossed, if a player clicked on a Twin Gate with both Techies and the Bomb selected with unified unit orders, the Bomb would also channel the Twin Gate. This put the Sticky Bomb in a channeling state that ended the toss and broke the sequence of modifiers, resulting in unintended behavior.

The solution, once all this was understood, was pretty simple. The Sticky Bomb does not ever need to be controllable by the casting player. Removing this flag from the Bomb meant that the expected sequence of modifiers always executed as they were supposed to, leading to an eventual detonation.


As with so many bugs, 99% of the time spent fixing it is usually in trying to track it down. The actual solution usually boils down to changing a single line of code possibly the same line of code you wrote to fix a previous bug. (This is why its often said that debugging code is like trying to solve a murder where youre both the murderer and the detective.)

So: Thats how the Sticky Bomb bug was accidentally brought into existence; the brief chaos it created; and how it was brought to our attention by the community and fixed. What happens next? Well, now we sit and wait to discover whatever new bug we created by deleting that line of code to fix the original bug. If you stumble on it, well see you over on GitHub.

Patch 7.33e is out now. You can check the notes here.

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Kobolds that are dug up from Trusty Shovel are now ordered to follow their owner (same behavior as Juggernaut's Healing Ward)
  
• Fix newly spawned enemy units in Fog of War flashing on the minimap for a frame before becoming hidden
  
• Fix spells not being able to target invisible units that were revealed by a sentry ward
  
• Fix an issue where the hero stats tooltip for Evasion was not correctly rounding to the nearest integer value
  
• Fix Tormentor treating creep heroes as summons that should be killed instantly when no valid hero units are within range
  
• Fix a bug in the treasure UI causing rarity text to be clipped when an item is hovered
  
• Fix Lich Sinister Gaze duration ignoring status resistance
  
• Fix Phantom Lancer's Phantom Rush toggling off after dying
  
• Fix rare crash when Spirit Breaker's Charge of Darkness is interrupted
  
• Fix Oracle's "Fate's Edict Magic Damage Prevented" relic to properly count all damage that is prevented with the spell
  
• Fix hero relics not progressing in Turbo
  

The International is just a few months away, and we're pleased to announce that submissions are now open for this year's Dota 2 Short Film Contest. Filmmakers have until 3:00pm PDT on September 14, 2023 to submit their short film creations of 90 seconds or less to the Dota 2 Steam Workshop to be eligible for consideration.

Dota fans around the world are invited to visit the Workshop to discuss and vote on their favorites to help us select the best entries to be showcased as part of The International 2023 broadcast. Upon review of the Workshop ratings and discussions, Valve will nominate the top entries to be featured in the Dota client for a final voting process by the community to determine the winners.

Each finalist that reaches the top ten will be guaranteed to win $500, and the top three selections will score prizes of $25,000, $10,000, and $5,000 in recognition of their contributions to the Dota community.

Check out the Dota 2 Short Film Contest site for more information and guidelines on the submission process. And be sure to stop by the Workshop page regularly to help review the submissions you would like to see showcased at The International 2023, coming to you live from Seattle in October.

The International 2023 will return to a roaring crowd in Seattle this October, and we are now accepting proposals from companies who are interested in partnering with Valve to produce and distribute regional language broadcasts.

As in recent years, we are accepting proposals for the Live Event Broadcast Production of The International 2023 in Russian, Chinese, and Spanish language broadcasts. The RFP (Request For Proposal) documentation and instructions for submissions can be found here.

New this year, we are also accepting proposals for companies who are interested in bringing small content teams on-site for sideline reporting in additional languages (not English, Russian, Chinese, or Spanish). These teams would have the ability to film on-site, including participating in post-match and crowd interviews, for audiences not served by the languages of the official broadcast. The RFP for Limited Live Event Broadcast Access can be found here.

Please reach out to theinternationalrfp@valvesoftware.com with any additional questions regarding this process, or the details of either RFP.

Lastly, this year we've streamlined additional license and feed requests:

• Production companies who are simply seeking a commercial license to produce a regional language broadcast of The International 2023 without additional access to the event can fill out this form here.
  
• Streaming platforms who are only interested in restreaming the official broadcast feeds to their platform can apply to do so here.
  

The International is almost upon us, as the top eighteen teams converge in Indonesia for the third and final showdown of The 2023 Dota Pro Circuit: The Bali Major, presented by IO Esports. Catch the action live online from the Group Stage from June 29th to July 3rd, then tune in for the Playoffs on July 5th to July 9th. As always, keep up to date on all the tournament teams and match standings at www.dota2.com/esports.

Supporters Club Sale
As the final Major approaches, show your fan pride and unlock custom equippables by purchasing your favorite team's Supporters Club, now 75% off until the end of the Summer Tour. As always, 50% of every Supporters Club sale goes directly to the team.

Fantasy & Player Cards
With the conclusion of the regional leagues and the start of the Bali Major, Fantasy has been adjusted for the different format. As with the previous Majors, Player Card packs now contain only players from Major-qualified teams, and Fantasy will run daily instead of weekly. If you're new to Fantasy or just need a refresher, check out this Fantasy rundown from the start of the Tour.

The International Regional Qualifiers
When The Bali Major concludes, the top 12 teams in the DPC will be directly invited to The International. The remaining teams will be competing in 6 regional qualifiers for the final 8 slots throughout the month of August on the following dates:

• North America and China: August 17th-21st (1 slot each)
  
• South America and Eastern Europe: August 22nd-26th (2 slots for South America, 1 slot for Eastern Europe)
  
• Southeast Asia and Western Europe: August 27th-31st (2 slots for Western Europe, 1 slot for Southeast Asia)
  

The ten year anniversary of Dota's public release is coming up (yes, we're working on some fun stuff for it; no, we're definitely not going to hit the July 9th date listed on Steam). As anniversaries go ten years is a big one, and while looking back is important, what's more important is how we approach the ten years to come. So we'd like to take this opportunity to share with you our thoughts on the long history of Dota updates, what we've learned, and how that helps our plans to make Dota even better in the decade ahead.

[h3]The Past[/h3]

Early Dota updates were diverse in form and scale, themed around everything from new heroes to new cosmetics, new gameplay modes to new client features. While details varied, all of these updates shared the same goal: generate a bunch of excitement and entertainment for existing Dota players and bring new players in. Some were successful (Diretide 2012); some were less successful (Diretide 2013). We learned from all of them and continued to experiment.

In 2013, two years into running The International, we saw how much fun people were having at the event and had a new idea: What if we could bring some of that fun to anybody who couldn't attend in person? So we created a digital companion to the event and called it The International Interactive Compendium.

The Compendium grew in scope over the years, and ultimately transformed into the Battle Pass, acquiring a reward line and spawning a wide variety of content. Features that earlier in Dota's history might have been fun themed updates, minigames and item sets, arcanas and voice lines, gradually got swallowed by the Battle Pass new game modes, new functionality, new cosmetics, anything that could fit.

The nature of the Battle Pass is such that it could grow to encompass just about any content we produce for Dota over the year. And, over the last few years, it did Battle Pass season has grown to be a tremendously exciting time in Dota, but it leaves the rest of the year feeling barren by comparison.

[h3]The Present[/h3]

Last year, we started to ask ourselves whether Dota was well-served by having this single focal point around which all content delivery was designed. Each step we had taken made sense when considered independently: any single piece of content would be more valuable when bundled as part of the Battle Pass, so we bundled more and more. This led to a momentous content drop every year, but it also greatly limited our ability to do things that were exciting and valuable for players but didn't fit into the Battle Pass reward line.

When we recognized this, we made a deliberate choice earlier this year to run an experiment: to take some of the resources that would normally produce Battle Pass content and instead put them towards more speculative updates, including features and content that couldn't fit into a Battle Pass. While work is still in progress on future updates, the first of these has shipped: New Frontiers and patch 7.33 couldn't have shipped as they did if we were focusing all our efforts on producing Battle Pass content.

Most Dota players never buy a Battle Pass and never get any rewards from it. Every Dota player has gotten to explore the new map, play with the new items, and accidentally die to a Tormentor; every Dota player benefits from UI improvements and new client features. Community response to New Frontiers has helped us build confidence that working less on cosmetic content for the Battle Pass and more on a variety of exciting updates is the right long-term path for Dota as both a game and a community.

[h3]The Future[/h3]

We're going to continue on the path that started with New Frontiers. This means we're building a wide variety of features and content for the game, delivered in different ways. We'll still ship a range of cosmetics over the year, but we're also going to ship more diverse updates for all Dota players to enjoy.

We recognize this affects The International. We're still huge fans of TI and we're excited for this year's event both as organizers and as attendees ourselves and work is well underway on a TI-themed update to ship in September. The update will still contribute directly to the prize pool, with a focus on the event, the players, and the games, but new cosmetic items won't play a notable part. This is a significant change from the last few years, so to make it clear that we're shifting focus towards the event and away from the giant reward line of cosmetics, we're intentionally not calling this update a Battle Pass.

We're excited for the future of Dota and for what these changes allow us to do. We're already working on the next updates, and a host of new cosmetic items and we've already started conversations with venues for TI 2024. By freeing Dota's update and content cycle from the timing and structural constraints of the Battle Pass, we can go back to making content in the way we know best: by coming up with fun ideas of all scales and shapes, and exploring them with you.

Patch 7.33d is out now. You can check the notes here.

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fix the interaction of Phantom Assassin's Stifling Dagger and Dragon Knight's Dragon's Breath
  
• Fix Phantom Lancer's Phantom Rush not being able to be toggled off while on cooldown
  
• Fix Rubick's Spell Steal interaction with Multishot and Frost Arrows
  
• Fix Spirit Breaker's Charge of Darkness going on indefinite cooldown in certain remaining rare circumstances
  
• Fix Tiny having infinite Tree Tosses when affected by Muerta's Parting Shot
  
• Fix Tiny's death animation playing on soul unit when affected by Muerta's Parting Shot
  
• Fix Warlock's Minor Imp imps not exploding when expiring
  
• Fix Pangolier's Rolling Thunder being blocked by Mars' Arena of Blood
  
• Fix Arc Warden shard giving some of its bonuses to enemies
  
• Fix Tormentor Bounty being 5x the value on Meepo when everybody in the team already has a shard
  

If youre reading this from one of the parts of the planet lucky enough to get a Vin Diesel movie every two years (Sweden, others), youre probably happy with how fast everything is, but you might be wondering why everyones always so angry about it.

Look, its a great point, and were glad you were brave enough to say something: Going fast should never be a cause for fury. We've been reading all your feedback on Turbo Mode, and as part of our More Fast, Less Furious initiative, were rolling out a batch of changes to improve the overall Turbo play experience.

• Wisdom Rune experience amount increased by 100%
  
• Lotus Pool lotus spawn interval decreased from 3 minutes to 90 seconds
  
• Aghanim's Shard initial availability time reduced from 9:45 to 7:30
  
• Infused Raindrop initial availability time reduced from 3:30 to 1:30
  
• The hero selection interface has been updated to show how many players have selected a hero on each team
  
• Random hero selection are no longer revealed to the enemy team
  
• Players who select a random hero no longer receive a free Mango and Faerie Fire
  
• There is no longer a restriction against selecting a random hero for the last 10 seconds of the picking phase
  
• Phantom Assassin's Manifold Paradox Arcana will now count wins in Turbo for half credit.
  
• Pudge's Feast of Abscession Arcana will now count wins against Rubick in Turbo for half credit.
  

• Fixed various interactions with Phylactery when targeting low-health units.
  
• Fixed Stormcrafter proccing immediately if dropped and picked up again.
  
• Fixed a bug where issuing an attack order while using quick attack against an invulnerable target would cause the cursor to remain in attack mode after failing to issue the order.
  
• Hero Relics are now purple for universal heroes.
  
• Fixed Universal heroes having incorrect attack damage displayed during picking phase.
  
• Fixed Dota Plus neutral item suggestions showing NaN
  
• Message displayed when killing tormentor changed to be a combat event message that will display who received the shard or how much gold and experience is awarded to the team in the event all available shard upgrades have already been acquired.
  
• You can now add and remove 'Pinned Items' when editing them rather than just replacing the existing ones.
  

As seasons go, spring doesnt have much going for it. Its wet, theres too many insects, idiots are all over the place skipping through parks and falling in love. Luckily, our global spring nightmare is finally almost over and thats because the Summer 2023 Dota Plus update* is here, dropping from the sky like a meteor on the grateful people below. The update includes refreshed seasonal quests and guild rewards, plus an all-new treasure to explore.

* Attention, web designer! Make sure these words are in Impact font! **

** Not these words.

[h2]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h2]
The Summer 2023 Seasonal Treasure is here and available for purchase with shards. This treasure features all new sets for Axe, Ember Spirit, Troll Warlord, Zeus, Oracle, Queen of Pain, Sand King, and Treant Protector. There's also a chance to unlock Moil the Fettered courier, who haunts the lanes bearing random prismatic and ethereal gems.

We've also taken sets that were available in the Spring Treasure 2022 and made them available for direct purchase for 15,000 shards each as part of the collection of legacy sets in the Shard Shop.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]
Todays update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.


[table]
[tr]
[th]Guild Tier[/th]
[th]Rewards[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Silver[/td]
[td]

• Emoticon - storm_impressed
  
• Emoticon - void_thumbsdown
  
• Emoticon - void_unimpressed
  

• Spray - Lichsicle
  
• Spray - Puck Dagon
  
• Spray - Sven Strength
  

• Chat Wheel - "See you later nerds"
  
• Chat Wheel - "Que Dota esse, cara?"
  
• Chat Wheel - ""
  

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Watchers are now colored based on whether they are controlled by your team (matching minimap coloration), rather than whether they are controlled by Radiant and Dire.
  
• Auto-selected summoned units no longer close the shop UI.
  
• Wisdom Runes no longer consider players who abandoned when finding a second player to grant XP.
  
• Tormentor no longer considers players who abandoned when finding a player to grant shard.
  
• Tormentor no longer considers heroes who have no shard upgrades/abilities when finding a player to grant shard.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Tormentors to not play their idle or flinch animations.
  
• Fixed a bug where a hero would have to have a second Dust available in order for the damage or movement speed penalty to apply to enemies encountering the Dust.
  
• Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction Throw not triggering Phylactery.
  
• Fixed an inconsistency where Dark Willow's Shadow Realm would not behave as if the unit were invisible for a number of abilities.
  
• Fixed a crash when Earth Spirit creates many Stone Remnants and then casts Magnetize affecting at least one enemy unit.
  
• Fixed Earthshaker leap being interrupted if he is debuff immune and gets a stunned applied on him (that does not pierce debuff immunity).
  
• Fixed Gyrocopter's Flak Cannon modifier not updating its attacks remaining when refreshed.
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Acorn Shot, Medusa's Mystic Snake, Tinker's Laser, and Zeus' Arc Lightning not properly applying when casting hero has a Phylactery and a low-health unit is targeted.
  
• Fixed Legion Commander's Overwhelming Odds radius indicator showing the incorrect radius.
  
• Fixed Ogre Magi lvl25 talent 17% Chance for Fireblast on Attack no longer applying if the player buys and then sells/unequips Aghanim's Scepter.
  
• Fixed a bug with Outworld Destroyer's Astral Imprisonment where, when a stack of Astral Imprisonment debuff was removed, mana as well as max mana might be restored.
  
• Fixed Shadow Fiend's Necromastery tooltip incorrectly stating losing 40% of souls on death, when the real value is 30%.
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker Charge of Darkness occasionally continuing past death, leading to the ability being on indefinite cooldown and no longer usable.
  
• Fixed Eimer Hillburrow courier not being selectable.
  
• Fixed various tooltip issues.
  
• Fixed various relics.
  

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Universal heroes' damage per level tooltips referencing an incorrect value
  
• Fixed Tormentor's tooltips to show correct reflection, damage barrier, and regen values
  
• Fixed Neutral Tokens being inaccessible when sent to stash by hero clones
  
• Clarified multiple ability and item tooltips and 7.33c patch notes in the client
  
• Abilities with no legacy hotkeys defined got one auto-assigned
  
• Fixed Glimmer Cape's barrier to correctly block damage for items and abilities that go on cooldown on damage
  
• Fixed Eye of the Vizier providing no Mana Regen
  
• Fixed Specialist's Array providing constant bonus damage for melee heroes
  
• Fixed Specialist's Array not providing the base bonus damage when ready to proc
  
• Fixed Dazzle attacking Void Spirit with Poison Touch debuff causing a crash
  
• Fixed Earthshaker's Fissure Range being incorrect
  
• Fixed Grimstroke's Dark Portrait illusions not having the correct amount of magic resistance
  
• Fixed a bug that caused casting certain targeted spells on units affected by Grimtroke's Soulbind to disable portions of that ability's effects (e.g. bonus damage on Clinkz's Tar Bomb)
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Bushwhack interrupting debuff immune targets
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Summon Spirit Bear to respect damage blocking instead of going on cooldown due to damage
  
• Fixed Mars' Spear of Mars interrupting debuff immune targets
  
• Fixed Meepo's clones creating boots when picking up Healing Lotuses
  
• Fixed Pangolier's Swashbuckle Dash Range being incorrect
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker's Charge of Darkness Mana Cost that was incorrectly decreased to 90 instead of 100
  
• Fixed Weaver's Level 10 Talent +50 Shukuchi Damage applying twice
  
• Fixed Zeus' Lightning Hands triggering spell absorb/reflection effects
  

Patch 7.33c is out now, you can check the notes here

Additional Notes:

Ranked Matchmaking:
* Raised the minimum MMR to be eligible for Immortal Draft from 5620 to 6500.
* Modified the MMR gained and lost from matches when teams have varying skill to better approximate the expected chance each team has of winning. Games where the teams aren't equal in rating now credit the lower-rated team with a better chance of victory and the results for players with high rank confidence will be closer to +/-25 MMR.

The DPC Spring Tour came to an exciting close this past weekend with the Berlin Major, where the Gaimin Gladiators continued the spectacular winning streak they started two months ago at the Lima Major. Dropping only a single game on the main stage, the Gladiators pulled off a resounding win in Berlin, netting them 500 DPC points and getting them even closer to The International.


The 2023 DPC Season continues May 15th with the Summer Tour, rolls forward to the end of June with the Bali Major hosted by IO Esports, and culminates at The International this October in Seattle.


[h2]Supporters Clubs[/h2]

Show off your support for your favorite teams by joining their Supporters Club. We'll be rolling out teams' Supporters Clubs gradually as their contents are finalized. Each bundle comes in three tiers, depending on how much support you want to show. As always, teams featured in a Supporters Club bundle will get 50% of all of their bundle sales.

[h3]Bronze Tier[/h3]

• A badge for your favorite team, which will appear in your friends list, player profile, Versus Screen, and in-game scoreboard (swappable if you purchase more than one team's bundle)
  
• 1 Team Fantasy Player Pack
  
• 1 Basic Fantasy Player Pack
  

• All the perks of the Bronze Club
  
• Sprays to liven up your map and Loading Screens
  
• 2 additional Team Player Card Packs
  
• 6 additional Basic Player Card Packs
  

• All of the perks of the Bronze and Silver Clubs
  
• A special in-game HP-bar badge, as well as Emoticons and Chat Wheel Lines to proclaim your allegiance in-game
  
• 3 additional Team Player Card Packs
  
• 7 additional Basic Player Card Packs
  

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Mark your calendars: The International returns to Seattle this October. The world's best Dota teams will once again compete for the Aegis of Champions, this time in Climate Pledge Arena, welcoming the largest audience in the event's history.

This year, the group stage kicks off on Saturday, October 14th, with the playoffs to follow. Both of these events will run under one banner, The Road to the International, which we'll be talking more about in the coming weeks.

The International itself will commence on Friday, October 27th and run through Sunday, October 29th.

We'll be announcing ticketing information and more details on The Road to the International as we get closer to the event.

The 7.33b Gameplay Patch is now live!

Check the latest patchnotes here!

Also, throughout the last few days, we addressed some ongoing gameplay-affecting issues:

• Fixed Killing Roshan not giving the team control of enemy Watchers
  
• Fixed Phylactery not applying damage/slow if a spell is re-applied
  
• Fixed Phylactery not triggering on spells that would otherwise trigger Spell Absorption
  
• Fixed Immobile units able to go through Twin Gates
  
• Fixed Wraith King not applying Aghanim's Scepter buff to allies if he didn't die
  
• Fixed Invoker Aghanim's shard reducing Meteor cooldown by 15s
  
• Fixed Fallen Sky counting towards hero Net Worth
  
• Fixed a crash if a tethered Io enters Undying Tombstone
  
• Fixed Netherstrike dispelling Spirit Breaker if he has Shard
  
• Fixed Debuff Immunity negating all damage done to units under False Promise
  
• Fixed Naga Siren Aghanim's Scepter ensnare not targetting sleeping/invulnerable units
  
• Fixed Pugna Nether Ward counting for healing if Pugna has shard
  
• Fixed Templar Assassin autocast Trap behavior triggering the closest point to the map center instead of cursor position
  
• Fixed Dragon Knight not re-applying corrosive/frost breath if target already has damage reduction debuff
  
• Fixed Some heroes keeping buffs provided by Aghanim's Scepter when selling the scepter
  
• Fixed Earth Spirit Level 15 magnetize damage and duration talent not working
  
• Fixed Riki's shard not allowing allied Area of Effect spells to go through onto units caught in smoke (Stampede, Chronosphere, etc)
  
• Fixed Wraith King Level 15 Skeleton Damage talent not working
  
• Fixed Debuff Immunity providing free pathing when hit by forced movement abilities
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker Starbreaker stun and slow piercing spell immunity
  
• Fixed a crash when Grimstroke casts Soulbind and them moves into Fog of War and casts Phantom Embrace
  
• Fixed Harpoon sharing a cooldown with Forcestaff and Hurricane Pike
  
• Fixed Dazzle scepter not performing a free attack on the primary target
  
• Fixed Sand King Level 20 Talent not working
  
• Fixed Dazzle scepter not being blocked by Linkens Sphere (and not proccing Phylactery)
  
• Fixed Muerta Gunslinger piercing magic immunity.
  
• Fixed Riki smoke debuff showing on allies (wasn't affecting XP)
  
• Fixed Enchantress having extra damage on Impetus
  
• Fixed Slark gaining permanent Agility stacks if he killed an ally.
  
• Fixed Brewmaster Fire Brewling having incorrect damage at levels 2 and 3
  
• Fixed Dandelion Amulet blocking effects that deal less damage than the minimum
  
• Fixed Dagon heal not being increased by Heal Amplification
  
• Fixed Overwhelming Odds not working well when in Duel
  
• Fixed Oracle's False Promise ignoring reductions when counting damage
  
• Fixed Oracle's Fortune's End dispelling Fate Edict on enemies
  
• Fixed Arc Warden Flux Tempest Slow not working and Magic Damage talent not working
  
• Fixed Bounty Hunter Shadow Walk stun not proccing if he was revealed by Dust of Appearance
  
• Fixed some cases where a spent shield could result in negative absorbed damage dealing extra damage to the owner.
  
• Fixed Perseverance not being disassembleable
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit created by Muertas Parting shot summoning a permanent Spirit Bear Spirit when he has scepter
  
• Fixed Supernova created by Phoenix during Muertas Parting Shot stunning Phoenix when destroyed
  
• Fixed Megameepo and Fling being stealable by Rubick
  
• Fixed Glimmer Cape invisibility and move speed being removed when barrier was broken
  
• Fixed double Harpoon attack speed retaining when selling one of the Harpoons
  
• Fixed Meepo duplicating runes with bottles in inventory and neutral item slot.
  
• Fixed crash relating to Necrophos Death Seeker and Lotus Orb and Soulbound enemies
  
• Fixed Wind Waker active not dispelling the target
  
• Fixed North Roshan pit not blocking ward placement
  
• Fixed Universal heroes not appearing in the Unit Specific Hotkeys UI
  
• Fixed Underlord not starting to channel his Fiends Gate when cast
  
• Fixed Ward Dispenser numbers misaligned
  
• Fixed a multitude of tooltips
  

Sometimes Dota gameplay patches are small. Sometimes they can get pretty big.

This one... is huge.

Its got all the things you were probably expecting balance changes, new items, hero reworks, UI improvements. But we also included a few changes you probably weren't expecting, like a new hero attribute type and brace yourself the map is now 40% bigger.

But all these new gameplay features wont matter if the match you get into isnt a good one. So were also shipping some much-needed matchmaking improvements.

Excited? Confused? Head on over to the New Frontiers update page for all the details.

But dont head over just yet, read this sentence first: The Berlin major is on April 26th, and Fantasy/Player Cards are now available. Okay, now go. Heres the link again.

As a lot of you know, theres a big update coming. As weve been going through the patch notes for it, we figured it might be fun to tease some of them ahead of time, without spoiling the surprise. Weve assembled a handful of genuine notes for the upcoming patch, provided without context, to whet your appetite while we put the finishing touches on the update.

Anyway, get ready for your first hint:

• The next big Dota Update is going to release on a date that rhymes with Smaypril Twemmieth and comes between April 19th and April 21st.
  

• [UNIT] is now controllable by the player that dug it up
  
• [HERO]: Always has 0 Intelligence. Always.
  
• [ITEM]: Now has an initial and max stock of 4 and a restock time of 120s
  
• After this effect the soul is forcefully returned to the body
  
• [HERO]: Base armor increased by 1
  
• [UNIT TYPE] now gain 15 movement speed during the night.
  
• Mana cost reduction effects only apply to mana cost
  
• [ITEM]: Requires Echo Sabre (2500), Diadem (1000), Recipe (1000). Total cost: 4500
  
• Any player can use a [NOUN] to [VERB] to the other one after channeling for 3 seconds.
  

In the wake of Muerta's arrival with the Dead Reckoning update, it's time to aim our sights at updates to come. To that end, the Dota team would like to invite all workshop contributors to conjure up some new sets for any of your favorite heroes. Submissions are already open, and we're looking forward to seeing your full craft on display.

This round of submissions also welcomes designs for the Toy Butcher Pudge Persona and the Disciple's Path Anti-Mage Persona, which have both blinked into the workshop just in time to join the fun.

We request that all submissions be on the Dota 2 Workshop by the end of the day on May 29, 2023 PDT. Please make sure to mark your work with the "Spring 2023" tag when tendering items to the Workshop to ensure they aren't overlooked. As always, please avoid concepts involving human skulls, blood, and gore. We'd like to remind all Dota fans to regularly visit the Workshop and vote through the Queue to ensure your voices are heard in the selection process.

We'll also be launching a second Workshop Call-to-Arms later this year with a late-August deadline so even if you've got new ideas at the ready, there's plenty of time to brainstorm on your designs.

Gameplay Update

Muerta:

• Base Attack Time improved from 1.7s to 1.6s
  
• Dead Shot Ricochet Fear Duration decreased from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0s to 1.0/1.2/1.4/1.6s
  
• Pierce the Veil Duration increased by 0.35s to account for Transform Duration
  
• Pierce the Veil Bonus Attack Damage increased from 50/75/100 to 50/100/150
  
• Level 25 Talent +20% Gunslinger Chance replaced with The Calling Summons 2 additional revenants
  
• Level 20 Talent The Calling Summons 2 additional revenants replaced with Talent +20% Gunslinger Chance
  
• Level 15 Talent +25 Damage increased to +35 Damage
  

• Fixed an issue where some players claimed Fantasy Card Packs but were unable to open them. Because players were unable to participate in Fantasy for a week as a result, we have granted 2 Fantasy Levels to all players that experienced this bug.
  

A big congratulations from all of us here at Dota to the Gaimin Gladiators, who outlasted 17 of the best teams in the world to take top prize at The Lima Major this past weekend, earning themselves a cool 400 DPC points and a strong start on this years road to The International.

The 2023 DPC Season continues with the Spring Tour, starting March 13th and culminating at the end of April with the Berlin Major, hosted by ESL.

[h2]Supporters Clubs[/h2]

Show off your support for your favorite teams by joining their Supporters Club. Today we're shipping an initial set of supporters clubs, with more to be added in the coming days.

Teams who submit content to feature in a Supporters Club bundle receive 50% of all of their team's bundle sales. Fans who choose to support teams will receive increasing amounts of content provided by their favorite team(s), depending on the tier purchased:

[h3]Bronze Tier[/h3]

• A badge for your favorite team, which will appear in your friends list, player profile, Versus Screen, and in-game scoreboard (swappable if you purchase more than one team's bundle)
  
• 1 Team Fantasy Player Pack
  
• 1 Basic Fantasy Player Pack
  

• All the perks of the Bronze Club
  
• Sprays to liven up your map and Loading Screens
  
• 2 additional Team Player Card Packs
  
• 6 additional Basic Player Card Packs
  

• All of the perks of the Bronze and Silver Clubs
  
• A special in-game HP-bar badge, as well as Emoticons and Chat Wheel Lines to proclaim your allegiance in-game
  
• 3 additional Team Player Card Packs
  
• 7 additional Basic Player Card Packs
  

[h2]MUERTA HAS RISEN[/h2]

Deaths right hand joins the battle of the Ancients with a dead eye, two fists full of iron, and ammo to spare. Help her track down souls and usher them to the afterlife (before they usher you to yours) in the Dead Reckoning Mini-game, and use your bounty to unlock all-new item sets. The Dead Reckoning is at hand, and now available to play. Check out the full update page for details on all the deadly delights in store.

[h2]Dota Plus Spring Update [/h2]

Spring is almost here, and that means it's time for a fresh Dota Plus update, including Advanced Battle Stats, Seasonal Treasure and updated quests and rewards.

[h3]Advanced Battle Stats[/h3]
Elevate and evaluate your game with advanced Battle Stats directly in your profile. Dota Plus members now have access to completely revamped, real-time gameplay analytics. Dig deeper into your play style by sorting your complete Dota history by hero, role, game mode, and more.

[h3]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h3]
The Spring 2023 Seasonal Treasure sets have been bundled with the Dead Reckoning Chest. Murder your Dead Reckoning mini-game targets for more chances to earn chests, then snag a key in the Shard Shop for 20,000 shards each.

[h3]Seasonal Quests and Guild Rewards Refresh [/h3]
To help in your hunt for Dead Reckoning Keys, a new set of Dota Plus quests have arrived offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. In addition, the rewards for Silver-, Gold-, and Platinum-tier guilds have been updated for this season, featuring new sprays, emoticons, and chat wheels.

[h3]Seasonal Sets[/h3]
Looking for a vintage item set from an older Dota Plus season? Autumnal 2021 and Wintry 2021 treasure content is now available for direct purchase in the Shard Shop for 15,000 Shards each.

[h2]Moving Dota Technology Forward[/h2]

• As we mentioned when we launched Battle Pass: Part II, this update has removed support for OpenGL. For macOS customers, the minimum requirement is now macOS 10.13.6 with a Metal-capable GPU (AMD GCN-based GPU or newer; NVIDIA Kepler-based GPU or newer; or Intel HD 4000 or newer). For Linux customers, AMD GCN+, NVIDIA Kepler+, or Intel HD 5000-series or newer is required.
  
• In a future update this year, we intend to upgrade our SIMD support from SSE2 to SSE4.1 to allow higher performance in physics, particles, and general gameplay code. Almost all processors released in the past 10 years support SSE4.1, so this should affect a very small portion of Dota players. If you have a computer that does not support SSE4.1, you will need to upgrade to a newer CPU once that update releases.
  
• We are in the process of updating our models to a newer format known as ModelDoc. After this change is complete, we will be removing several animation-related APIs from our custom game API in favor of ModelDoc's animation support. These deprecated APIs are listed on the Source 2 Developer Community Wiki.
  

Disabled some functionality used by third-party tools:
- Disabled the "record" command in matchmaking games. This was used to record, in realtime, a local demo that would contain information that wasn't intended to be visible to the client during a game. Demo recording is still enabled for local lobbies to enable SFM and community content creation.
- Disabled a large number of console commands during matchmaking games that could be used to introspect client state. For example, "dota_lobby_debug", "cl_dota_ambient_tree_shake_cooldown", and "dev_simulate_gcdown" no longer function in these games, while "ping", "disconnect", and "dota_toggle_autoattack" still do.

- Player profiles can no longer be accessed in matchmaking during the pregame phase. They can still be accessed once the picking phase ends.

Today, we permanently banned over 40,000 accounts that were using third-party software to cheat in Dota over the last few weeks. This software was able to access information used internally by the Dota client that wasn't visible during normal gameplay, giving the cheater an unfair advantage.

While fixing the underlying issues that made these cheats possible was a priority, we have also decided to remove these bad actors from the active Dota playerbase.

With that goal in mind, we released a patch as soon as we understood the method these cheats were using. This patch created a honeypot: a section of data inside the game client that would never be read during normal gameplay, but that could be read by these exploits. Each of the accounts banned today read from this "secret" area in the client, giving us extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved.

The prevalence of this family of cheats means that today's ban wave is particularly large, but it's only the latest action in an ongoing campaign. While the battle against cheaters and cheat developers often takes place in the shadows, we wanted to make this example visible, and use it to make our position clear: If you are running any application that reads data from the Dota client as you're playing games, your account can be permanently banned from playing Dota. This includes professional players, who will be banned from all Valve competitive events.

Dota is a game best enjoyed when played on an even field, where victories are earned by skill and tenacity. We expect that some players will continue to develop and use new exploits, to continue to try to gain unfair advantages at the expense of other players. As before, we will continue to detect and remove these exploits as they come, and continue to ban users who cheat.

Lastly, we'd like to thank those who offered their time and energy to help us resolve this from those who reported a player acting suspiciously in-game, to those who reviewed overwatch cases where this behavior was observed. Thank you for helping to make Dota a better experience for everyone.

The 2023 DPC Winter Tour regional showdowns have nearly concluded, and soon the top 18 teams in the world will converge on Peru to compete in the culminating event of the first tour: The Lima Major, presented by 4D Esports. As the first-ever South American DPC Major, we are excited to share the excitement of live Dota with an eager audience of long-standing fans.

Dota fans everywhere can catch all the action online as the Group Stage runs February 22 - 26, setting the stage for the Playoffs to follow February 28 - March 5. Dive into all of the tournament teams and standings throughout the event at www.dota2.com/esports.

[h2]Supporters Club Sale[/h2]
As the Major approaches, show your fan pride and unlock custom equippables by purchasing your favorite team's Supporters Club, now 75% off until the end of the Winter Tour. As always, 50% of every Supporters Club sale goes directly to the team.

[h2]Fantasy & Player Cards[/h2]
With the conclusion of the regional leagues and the start of the Major, Fantasy has been adjusted for the different format. As with the previous Majors, Player Card packs now contain only players from Major-qualified teams, and Fantasy will run daily instead of weekly. If you're new to Fantasy or just need a refresher, check out this Fantasy rundown from the start of the Tour.

[h2]Looking Ahead[/h2]
Once the Major Champions have been crowned and the Tour comes to a close, we look forward to unveiling our next update on March 6th.

• Added role filters on the hero selection screen, allowing players to drill down to the heroes that best fit the needs of each game.
  
• Removed Jungler from the list of hero roles.
  
• As part of our effort to keep Dota Technology Moving Forward the version of the V8 JavaScript engine included in Dota has been updated, resulting in a new macOS requirement of 10.13+. For the vast majority of Mac players, this requirements change will have no impact.
  

As a frosty Diretide draws to a close, we welcome both a new year and the heralded return of competitive Dota.

Fans everywhere are invited to tune in as the 2023 DPC Season commences with the Winter Tour. The action kicks off today with the start of regional play in China, and the remaining five regions are set to follow on Sunday, January 8. Track the full schedule and standings throughout the season over at our esports hub.

Cheer on your favorite teams around the world as they fight to score crucial DPC points and coveted spots at three Major tournaments that await on the road to The International. Teams that excel in the Winter Tour will advance to the Lima Major, hosted by 4D Esports. The Spring Tour will provide further opportunity with the Berlin Major, hosted by ESL, and the Summer Tour will wrap play with the Bali Major, hosted by IO Esports.

While history has shown that unforeseen underdogs can certainly vie for the Aegis at The International, these DPC Tours offer the most reliable path for consistent teams to secure invitations to this year's crowning event.

[h2]Winter Tour Fandom[/h2]
To celebrate the fervor of fandom, today's update includes a fresh season of Supporters Club Bundles and Fantasy play for the Winter Tour.

[h3]Supporters Clubs[/h3]
Teams who submit content to feature in a Supporters Club bundle receive 50% of all of their team's bundle sales. Fans who choose to support teams will receive increasing amounts of content provided by their favorite team(s), depending on the tier purchased:

Bronze Tier
- A badge for your favorite team, which will appear in your friends list, player profile, Versus Screen, and in-game scoreboard (swappable if you purchase more than one team's bundle)
- 1 Team Fantasy Player Pack
- 1 Basic Fantasy Player Pack

Silver Tier
- All the perks of the Bronze Club
- Sprays to liven up your map and Loading Screens
- 2 additional Team Player Card Packs
- 6 additional Basic Player Card Packs

Gold Tier
- All of the perks of the Bronze and Silver Clubs
- A special in-game HP-bar badge, as well as Emoticons and Chat Wheel Lines to proclaim your allegiance in-game
- 3 additional Team Player Card Packs
- 7 additional Basic Player Card Packs

Note: Content is subject to availability based on a team's content submission.


[h3]Fantasy Rules Recap[/h3]
If you're new to Fantasy or might like a refresher, peruse this recap before you unpack your cards and play. You can also check the How to Play breakdown in the FANTASY section of the client for full details.

The Basics
For each weeklong period, fans set a Fantasy roster made up of two Core Player Cards, one Mid Player Card, and two Support Player Cards. Player Cards on a roster score Fantasy points based on how well they perform in that period's matches. Silver & Gold Cards have stat bonuses that earn more points.

Player Card Packs
All players have been granted 10 starter packs claimable on the DPC menu under the Watch tab. Additional Player Card Packs can be earned daily by winning a game of Dota. Team Packs will be available for purchase directly from the PLAYER CARDS tab in the WATCH section as teams submit their Supporters Club bundles in the near future.

When you open a pack you'll receive player cards from the specific region you have selected.

Regional Fantasy
Each DPC region is its own Fantasy league with its own player cards and unique lineup. You may choose to participate in multiple regional leagues, and you will earn Fantasy Levels based on your best fantasy league performance for the period. For instance, if you place in the top 10% of one league and the top 50% of another, you will receive the points for the top 10% placement. Region rewards do not stack.

At the end of each period, you will earn levels based on the Fantasy points for that period. Rewards will be unlocked based on your current overall Fantasy Level.

Scoring Matches
All Division I matches during the Winter 2023 Tour are eligible for Fantasy play. The highest scoring two games of a best-of-three count towards a player's score. If a team plays more than one series during a period, only their highest-scoring series will count.

Players that score in the top 100%/50%/25%/10% will earn 1/2/3/4 Fantasy Levels. Each level grants 350 Shards, and every fourth level doubles the prize to 700 Shards.

Once your lineups are set, make sure to follow all of the upcoming action in the Watch section of the client or on the DPC homepage.

[h3]General[/h3]

• Fixed Black King Bar and other instant spells being castable using shift queue when doomed after returning from being hidden (e.g. Astral Imprisonment or Disruption)
  
• Fixed Techies Sticky Bomb sometimes getting stuck and never exploding if the target teleported away
  
• Fixed Dark Willow projectiles not being visible when targeting runes or items while in Shadow Realm
  
• Fixed Rubick unable to eject allies with Shard Upgraded Dismember if the owner of the stolen spell did not have a Shard.
  
• Fixed Templar Assassin Meld Strike debuff applying to the wrong target if there was an attack already in flight
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker losing Luminosity attack buff if the attack was evaded
  
• Fixed Lion Finger Of Death Scepter interaction with Meepo clones and illusions
  
• Fixed Treant turning around when double-tapping Living Armor with the AoE talent
  
• Fixed Witch Doctor Aghanims Scepter Ward attack bounce interaction with enemies that have invisibility but are affected by true sight
  
• Fixed Bounty Hunter Shadow Walk Shard Upgrade not being castable while teleporting
  
• Fixed Shadow Demon gaining an extra ability point in Demonic Purge if he buys the Shard before upgrading the ability
  
• Fixed Razor Storm Surge Shard upgrade always activating from Outworld Devourer's Arcane Orb
  
• Fixed Outworld Destroyer Astral Imprisonment sometimes dealing damage to magic immune units
  

The abundance of talent in the Dota 2 Workshop continues to prove far too vast to fit within a single offering of the Collector's Cache, so this frosty Diretide season welcomes a second round of treasure to keep your heroes bundled up tight.

The Diretide 2022 Collector's Caches I & II are available for $2.49 each, and both will remain on sale until January 12, 2023. All items in the Caches are untradeable and unmarketable, except for the ultra rare Tiny and Chaos Knight sets. Unboxing 14 of these treasures will automatically grant you 36 Battle Levels, and the odds of receiving a bonus rare item will increase with each one you open. You can also recycle any unwanted items for 2 Battle Levels.

Thank you to all of the artists that dedicate their talents to each Workshop Call to Arms, as well as the entire Dota 2 community that embraces these creative efforts. We wish all of you a very merry Diretide, and a happy new year!

The Diretide 2022 Battle Level Bundle
Today's update offers a second Battle Level Bundle sale The Diretide 2022 Battle Level Bundle available now through January 12th for $29.99 per bundle.
Check it out in-game now!

Packed with 120 Battle Levels, 9x Immortal Treasure I, 6x Immortal Treasure II, 6x Ageless Heirlooms Treasures, and 6x Battle Pass Collection Treasures, this bundle is the perfect way to push further into your rewards line during the final stretch of the Battle Pass season.

Reach the Conduit of the Blueheart Crystal Maiden Persona at level 148, Stoneclaw Scavenger custom towers at level 176, Age of Attrition Primal Beast Prestige set at level 223, Exile Unveiled Phantom Assassin Persona at level 296, Voidstorm Asylum Arcana for Razor at level 383, and Claszian Apostasy Faceless Void Arcana at level 495, and much more along the way.

This bundle offers 75% savings on the combined value of the levels and treasures. Customers can purchase a maximum of two bundles this season, cumulative with The International 2022 Battle Level Bundle.

[h3]General[/h3]

• Fixed Hoodwink Decoy not casting Sharpshooter due to insufficient mana
  
• Fixed Io's tethered movespeed able to go below minimum movement speed
  
• Fixed Monkey King's Tree Dance sometimes not correctly highlighting all trees in jump range
  
• Fixed Batrider's Sticky Napalm cast range being 550 instead of 600
  
• Fixed Razor's Damage Stolen Static Link talent giving extra damage stolen
  

The recently released Wintry Treasure 2022 unintentionally reused two already shipped sets. As a result, we're making a few fixes:

• The Lifestealer Cold Rage set is now a second style on the Obsidian Atrocity set. That set can be received either from the Wintry Treasure 2022 or The Battle Pass Collection 2022, and both the red and blue styles are unlocked no matter where the set was received from.
  
• The Night Stalker Harvest Night set has been replaced with the existing Frightful Revelries set from the Hallowed Chest of the Diretide. We've also created a new style that is unlocked on that set no matter where the set was received from.
  

The winter breeze may have stripped the trees of their leaves but a select group of heroes are bundled up more snugly than ever as the time comes for the seasonal Dota Plus update to appear, filled with a new seasonal treasure, plus refreshed Seasonal Quests and Rewards for you to explore during the grey days and gloomy nights ahead.

[h2]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h2]
The Winter 2022 Seasonal Treasure is here, available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Lifestealer, Storm Spirit, Vengeful Spirit, Spirit Breaker, Oracle, Night Stalker, Elder Titan, and Sven. There's also a chance to unlock Frosty the Seadragon, a courier preloaded with random ethereal and prismatic gems.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]
Todays update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to help lay away some extra shards for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season.

And as always, in addition to the changes above, the guild rewards for Silver-, Gold-, and Platinum-tier guilds have all been switched for the winter season.

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[tr]
[th]Guild Tier[/th]
[th]Rewards[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Silver[/td]
[td]

• Emoticon - wait_for_it
  
• Emoticon - furious
  
• Emoticon - closecall
  

• Spray - Tusk Fight Me
  
• Spray - Visage Hmm
  
• Spray - Void Spirit Reading
  

• Chat Wheel - "That's playing to win, baby!"
  
• Chat Wheel - ", , !"
  
• Chat Wheel - ""
  

The 7.32d Gameplay Patch is now live!

Check the latest patchnotes here!

The ballots have been tallied and the community's favor shines brightly on a wide array of special submissions, meaning the Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache is now available loaded with the top 18 eligible item sets as voted on by the Dota 2 community.

Unboxing 14 of these treasures will automatically grant you 36 Battle Levels, and the odds of receiving a bonus rare item will increase with each one you open. You can also recycle any unwanted items for 2 Battle Levels.

The Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache is available for $2.49 and will remain on sale until December 18. All items in the Cache are untradeable and unmarketable, except for the ultra rare Tiny set.

We once again thank the community artists who tendered submissions for this year's treasure, as well as the entire Battle Pass community for casting votes in support of their favorite item sets. We look forward to seeing your top selections mixing it up in the lanes.

Razor reclaims the secrets of his true origins with the help of a void-touched power sent to shatter the mystic bonds between the lightning revenant and the hidden masters of the Narrow Maze and unleash a rage that only retribution will set to rights. Electrify your battles with the Voidstorm Asylum Razor Arcana, featuring an all-new model with an unlockable second style, custom animations and effects, custom hero assets, 600+ new voice lines, and custom kill and deny effects. Voidstorm Asylum is available to all players who reach level 383 in the Battle Pass.

[h2]Diretide[/h2]

[h3]Penguin[/h3]

• Max Speed: 700 -> 750
  
• Turn Rate Max: 120 -> 130
  
• Post Crash Speed: 100 -> half of pre-crash speed, min 100
  
• Post Crash Turn Rate: x1.5 normal turn rate for 2s
  

• Impact Radius: 200 -> 250
  
• Damage Per Level: 15 -> 25
  
• Hops 2 more times after dismount
  

• Acceleration: 150 -> 200
  
• Post Crash Speed: 100 -> half of pre-crash speed, min 100
  
• Post Crash Turn Rate: x1.5 for 2s
  

• Hop Time: 0.55s -> O.45s
  
• Hop Pause Time: 0.5s -> 0.85s
  
• Turn Rate: 230 -> 150
  
• Impact Radius: 300 -> 175
  
• Damage Per Level: 12 -> 8
  
• Knockback Distance: 125 -> 75
  
• Knockback Duration: 0.3s -> 0.2s
  

From now until Monday, November 14th, the final candidates for the Collector's Cache will be featured for preview in the Dota 2 client, where all players can see a lineup of the item sets for easy comparison. Battle Pass owners can give a thumbs up or down to each set under consideration, and sets with the highest scores will be included as the main items of the Cache.

We would like to thank all of the workshop artists who have submitted items, and we look forward to revealing the collection that best represents the community's interests.

[h2]The Battle Pass: Part II Diretide[/h2]

The Aegis has been claimed, and the new champions bask in the glow of well-earned victory. But outside of that triumphant light, as the heroics and heartbreaks of The International fade into blissful memory, the Dota season grows dark and the lava fields turn to ice meaning it's time now for Part II of the 2022 Battle Pass. Namely, it's time for Diretide! Roshan has awakened from his candy coma, spurred on by righteous thieving greevils, and now all Dota players are invited to join in on the Hallo-wintery fun.

Part II of the Battle Pass features the Candyworks, the new Diretide game mode, a second Cavern Crawl map, and the release of another round of rewards like the Conduit of the Blueheart Crystal Maiden Persona, Immortal Treasure II, custom Versus screens, a Cave Johnson announcer pack, fresh taunts, and more.

Don't miss Sithil and Quirt's Candyworks & Treasure Emporium, where you can trade in candy you've gained from the Battle Pass, or any you gain from playing games and recycling treasures, to claim all manner of goodies from items, couriers, and wards all the way up to Arcana even a custom Roshan skin.

Queue up for Diretide: Season's Greevilings, where players harness Roshan's strength to destroy the enemy team's Taffy Wells. Recover Taffy from greevilous taffy thieves, score it at enemy Wells, and watch Roshan rip those buildings to pieces all while riding a trusty mount of your choosing.

Explore the 2022 Battle Pass web page for more details, and if you haven't already purchased or unlocked a Battle Pass, you can score one for free thanks to The International 2022 Swag Bag.

[h2]Moving Dota Technology Forward[/h2]

• This update adds support for NVIDIA Reflex on GTX 900 series and above. Reflex decreases click-to-display latency, particularly in situations where performance is limited by the GPU.
  
• On September 16, 2021 we announced our intent to remove support for OpenGL. This is the last major update for Dota that will support OpenGL. For the vast majority of players, nothing will change when OpenGL is removed, as they have already switched to a newer, higher-fidelity renderer. We encourage players to switch now if they haven't already, and let us know if problems arise.
  

The Road to the Aegis
Congratulations to Tundra Esports, Grand Champions at The International 2022. They delivered a dominating performance dropping only a single game during the entire Main Stage before taking the Grand Finals 3-0 to emerge victorious on the quest for the Aegis.

Tundra started their journey with an impressive 14-4 run through the Group Stage that earned no worse than series splits, and then simply took their play to another level at the Main Event. Their first foes in the Upper Bracket were OG. They shelved the two-time TI champion club in two games. This started a pattern for Tundra, broken only once. Their next foes were Team Aster, fresh from their own 2-0 victory. But the veterans of Tundra were not deterred. They won that series, as well, in only two games.

Tundra then prepared for the Upper Bracket Finals, where they would face Team Secret. The first game was a 67-minute slugfest. Secret pushed hard early in the game, but the tide turned as the game went on and Tundra pushed back. Harder. Secret were forced to defend their base for the final twenty minutes before succumbing to an unrelenting onslaught. Game two was Tundra's only loss of the Finals, where they went down under the weight of Resolut1on's Dawnbreaker, but they bounced back in game three. Fifteen minutes in, Tundra scored a team wipe. Secret came back for more and, despite having key abilities on cooldown, Tundra again emerged victorious, securing a strong advantage in the midgame. Secret fell faster to the push this time, into the Lower Bracket Finals, and Tundra advanced to the Grand Finals riding the highs of a convincing win.

After Secret won a close 2-1 series to earn a rematch, the two squads faced off again this time in the best-of-five Grand Finals with the Aegis of Champions at stake. Here, they left no doubt: Tundra dominated their final series with Secret, winning 3-0. In the first game, Tundra brought back skiter's fearsome Naga Siren and eventually built an untouchable lead. Game two brought a first Tundra drafted Arc Warden for Nine, the hero's first appearance in a TI final. Secret looked very strong early on, but Tundra's cores came online and the soon-to-be-champions pulled ahead to end game two without even losing any barracks.

Game three presented a chance to forge a new legacy, and Tundra's players answered the call in spades. An out-of-nowhere pick of Medusa for skiter drew gasps, but Tundra's dominance came from all corners of the team. With that pick, plus 33's Beastmaster and Nine's Pangolier heavily bolstered by Saksa's favored Tiny and Sneyking's Mirana, Tundra was able to weather Secret's attacks before pulling away. They leveraged a near-teamwipe to push all the way to the Ancient for the victory and the sweep, securing the Aegis and their place in history.

As bearers of the ultimate symbol of victory, these names shall forever be inscribed upon the Aegis of Champions:

2022 - Tundra Esports

• Oliver "skiter" Lepko
  
• Leon "Nine" Kirilin
  
• Neta "33" Shapira
  
• Martin "Saksa" Sazdov
  
• Wu "Sneyking" Jingjun
  

The new year welcomes new terrors, as an enduring revenant reveals herself with promises of a ruinous reckoning to follow.

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Pierce the veil between the living and the damned as a new hero Muerta arrives to haunt the lanes in early 2023.

International 2022 Finals Weekend

After a grueling Group Stage and four days of action-packed Playoffs, only four teams remain to compete for the Aegis of Champions this weekend at the Finals of The International 2022. Learn more about how these select few players are getting ready for the final competition with our Preparing for the Finals video.

The Dota action begins with the Lower Bracket Semifinals, in which Team Aster and Team Liquid will square off to see who can secure a spot into the Lower Bracket Finals on Sunday. Both teams met earlier in the playoffs resulting in Team Aster winning 2-0, so Team Liquid will be hungry to get their revenge. The day then continues with the Upper Bracket Finals, where Team Secret and Tundra Esports battle to secure the first spot in the Grand Finals. Neither team has dropped a game in the Playoffs, so we'll see if either of them can maintain that record.

Join thousands of fans at Singapore Indoor Stadium and millions around the world this weekend to witness the stunning conclusion to The International. The broadcast kicks off with the Opening Ceremony on October 29th at 12:00SGT.

The Secret Shop

If you'd like to purchase any Dota merchandise, check out the Secret Shop online or in person to peruse and procure this year's collection.


The International Swag Bag Update

We're overwhelmed by the interest of Dota customers old and new coming out of the woodwork to join in the fun and collect their swag! The popularity is so overwhelming, however, that while we've made adjustments to ensure everyone can easily claim their free Arcana we need to temporarily limit granting Dota Plus months and Battle Passes while we upgrade our capacity. These gifts will still be available once we complete the upgrade, so please stay tuned!

The International playoffs are in the books, and four standout teams have survived with dreams of claiming the Aegis still intact. As we all catch our breaths during this interlude between the nail-biting action, we'd like to take a moment to focus our attention towards Dota players all around the world, not just those competing on stage in Singapore.

As we announced in June with the Battle Report update, our goal is to harness the excitement of The International Grand Finals and ensure that the days and weeks following the event's conclusion offer fans the very best time to play Dota.

To that end, today we're unveiling The International 2022 Swag Bag, a free giveaway for all Dota players. Log in now or anytime before the Battle Pass ends to claim your three rewards:

• One month of Dota Plus.
  
• A Level 1 Battle Pass, redeemable for 24 Battle Levels if you already own a Battle Pass.
  
• Your choice of one Arcana from any available on the Dota 2 store.
  

The International 2022 Playoffs are now complete, and of the sixteen teams that started in the quest for the Aegis of Champions, only four contenders remain. Congratulations to Team Secret, Tundra Esports, Team Aster, and Team Liquid, who all now prepare to face each other in the Finals. Catch the highlights of each team's run through the brackets as well as some key moments from the playoffs with our Top Plays recap video.

The storyline of the tournament so far has been one of upsets and new blood. Evil Geniuses, so dominant in the Group Stage, went winless on the main stage against a surging Thunder Awaken and then Beastcoast marking a clear rise in the stature of South American Dota. The defending champions Team Spirit lost to upstarts BOOM Esports. Perennial powerhouses PSG.LGD fell to the lower bracket against an impressive Team Secret, and were eventually knocked out by their regional rival Team Aster. RNG and Entity made history with the longest Main Stage match ever at The International with an intense 107-minute slugfest featuring a position-five Ancient Apparition packing two Divine Rapiers.

The past week has seen far too many amazing Dota moments to sufficiently summarize in a few short paragraphs, so we invite everyone to relive all the ups and downs of the tourney so far ready and waiting with all of the VODs uploaded to the Dota 2 Youtube, or accessible directly from the Dota Esports portal.

[h2]The International 2022 Finals Weekend[/h2]
With the Playoffs complete, our attention shifts eagerly to Singapore Indoor Stadium, where in a few short days the four remaining squads will compete for the Aegis and ultimate glory. The International 2022 Finals broadcast begins on Saturday, October 29th at 12:00pm and Sunday, October 30th at 11:30am, with venue doors opening at 10:00am on both days. Join together with fans from around the world to witness the stunning conclusion to this year's journey to The International.

The International Group Stage Concludes

The International Group Stage has come to a close, and sixteen teams have battled their way into the Main Event.

Congratulations to Evil Geniuses, Tundra Esports, Team Liquid, Team Secret, PSG.LGD, Thunder Awaken, OG, Team Aster for earning Upper Bracket placements in the Main Event. Following close behind are Hokori, Fnatic, Royal Never Give Up, defending champions Team Spirit, Gaimin Gladiators, Beastcoast, Entity, and BOOM Esports who all face the daunting challenges of the Lower Bracket, but still contend for the Aegis all the same.

We would also like to thank Talon Esports, Soniqs, TSM, and BetBoom Team for their valiant efforts throughout year and during Group Stage play. Each proved to be worthy adversaries, battling to the very last to earn advancement, but in the end only one team will hoist the Aegis, and these elite contenders are the first squads to miss the cut.

The International Main Event

Now that the final field is set, it's time to turn our sights to the next stage as the first match of the Upper Bracket kicks off at 10:00am on October 20th in Singapore featuring a best-of-three battle between Evil Geniuses and Thunder Awaken. The winner will secure a top-six finish and the loser will face the dangers of the Lower Bracket. Stay tuned afterwards for even more matchups to follow.

The Playoffs will run through October 23rd to determine which four teams will proceed to the final stage at Singapore Indoor Stadium in the days that follow.

Make sure to follow along with all of the matches over at dota2.com/esports

The Secret Shop is Now Open

As a reminder, the doors to the Secret Shop are now open! For those watching the action online this year, weve teamed up with multiple merchandise partners to ensure the latest lineup of Dota 2 merchandise is accessible in more regions than ever before.

Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East & Oceania - https://dota2shop.wearenations.com
China - https://wmsjdj.tmall.com

If you'll be joining us in Singapore you have the option to order through https://secretshop.eclubstore.com then conveniently pick up your order at the Secret Shop in Singapore Indoor Stadium. All you need is your event badge to execute an order for the on-site pickup.

The International 2022 Battle Level Bundle
Today's update ushers in the first of this year's bundle sales The International 2022 Battle Level Bundle available now through October 30th for $29.99.

Packed with 120 Battle Levels, 9x Immortal Treasure I, 6x Immortal Treasure II (unlocking with Part II on November 3), 6x Ageless Heirlooms Treasures, and 6x Battle Pass Collection Treasures, this bundle is the perfect way to push further into your rewards line during the height of The International.

Reach the Conduit of the Blueheart Crystal Maiden Persona at level 148 (arriving in Part II), Stoneclaw Scavenger custom towers at level 176, Age of Attrition Primal Beast Prestige set at level 223, Exile Unveiled Phantom Assassin Persona at level 296, Voidstorm Asylum Arcana for Razor at level 383 (arriving in Part II), and Claszian Apostasy Faceless Void Arcana at level 495, and much more along the way.

This bundle offers 75% savings on the combined value of the levels and treasures, and will contribute 25% of each sale directly to The International 2022 prize pool. Each customer can purchase one bundle.

Fantasy Kick-off
The final teams have qualified in Singapore and Group Stage play for The International can now commence which means it's time to set your Fantasy lineups before the action begins.

Dig into your card collection to make your picks. Don't forget to study the matchups for each day and set your rosters accordingly. Find more info in the Fantasy section of the Battle Pass.

The doors to the Secret Shop are now open helping celebrate the majesty of The International and a global community of passionate fans with limited edition swag from this year's event.

For those watching the action online this year, weve teamed up with multiple merchandise partners to ensure the latest lineup of Dota 2 merchandise is accessible in more regions than ever before.

Asia (for non-ticket holders)
Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East & Oceania
China

Fans that are making the journey to join us in Singapore later this month also have the option to order through https://secretshop.eclubstore.com then conveniently pick up your order at the Secret Shop in Singapore Indoor Stadium. All you need is your event badge to execute an order for the on-site pickup.

Similar to last year, we've teamed up with Secretlab to create a brand new chair embodying the molten aesthetic of this year. The chairs will be officially revealed just before the group stage on the 14th of October, and can be found on their landing page here.

Throughout the ages, there have been countless attempts to control the Primal Beast and one of the most devastating plans only made the creature more fearsome than ever before. Stomp into the lanes in forged finery with the all-new Age of Attrition Prestige bundle featuring custom animations and effects available now to all Battle Pass owners who trample over level 223.

[h3]Last Chance Qualifiers[/h3]

Tune in for the final action before we arrive at The International as the twelve Last Chance Qualifier teams square off this weekend to battle for just two remaining spots in the tournament field. Action kicks off on Saturday, October 8 at 10:00am Singapore time and will conclude Wednesday, October 12, when the full complement of twenty teams battling for the Aegis will at last be set. Keep track of the full schedule here.

[h3]General[/h3]

• Fixed Beastmaster Hawk Dive Bomb being able to target couriers
  
• Fixed Drow Ranger's Multishot not displaying radius preview
  
• Fixed Clinkz's Searing Arrows multishot talent hitting Outposts
  
• Fixed Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison Level 2 value being lower than intended
  
• Fixed Lycan's Wolf Bite interaction with Refresher
  
• Fixed Lycan's Howl sound during night time
  
• Fixed Drums of Endurance range display
  

[h3]General[/h3]

• Added an in-game model for Tome of Knowledge
  
• Fixed the motion correction buffering on attacking and casting sometimes increasing the effective distance. This fixes the issue with towers sometimes briefly stopping attacking
  
• Fixed a number of cases where the AoE radius preview wasn't displayed correctly
  
• Fixed a number of spell range preview not interacting correctly with Cast Range bonuses
  
• Puck's Waning Rift and Necrophos' Death Pulse now both have range indicators on mouse-over.
  
• Fixed Primal Beast Uproar incorrectly having decreased Attack Damage Bonus per stack
  
• Fixed Primal Beast Pulverize interaction with some movement-based damaging spells if the enemy died during the grab (e.g. Lion's Earth Spike)
  
• Fixed Refresher Orb and Shard cooldowns incorrectly ticking down in some cases where the items were not in the hero's main inventory
  
• Fixed Meepo's shard damage value being decreased
  
• Fixed Boots of Travel not showing cooldown in inventory and when Alt is held under the player on the top bar and improved the HUD teleport indicator appearance
  
• Fixed issue that sometimes allowed using abilities when in a stunned state
  

• Fixed Telekinesis interaction with allies in free spells mode.
  
• Fixed Telekinesis landing marker fx not appearing
  
• Fixed illusion display interactions with some stolen abilities
  
• Fixed Spell Steal interaction with Undying's Decay and Flesh Golem.
  
• Fixed Spell Steal interaction with Queen of Pain's Shadow Strike scepter version
  
• Fixed Spell Steal interaction with Enigma's Malefice shard version
  
• Fixed Arcane Supremacy incorrectly adjusting some range indicators
  
• Fixed the +40% stolen spell talent to display additional damage in tooltips when Alt is held.
  
• Fixed Astral Spirit stolen sometimes providing a permanent spirit buff on Rubick.
  

Yesterday we shipped an update which added a capsule containing Talent Stickers that unlocked talent voice lines. Upon doing so, fans and talent alike reached out expressing unhappiness with the product. Our intention was to create a compelling system that allowed fans to connect with their favorite talent in a different way than in previous years, and we fell short of that goal. We are sorry for that and we intend to correct it.

In order to address these issues, and after talking to some of the talent that reached out with concerns and proposals, we are adding the option to directly purchase a talent's voice line with 50% of the revenue going exclusively to that talent. Players can purchase these voice lines directly from the Talent page in the Battle Pass.

For players that have already purchased and opened talent sticker capsules, those stickers will continue to function as before. As with voice lines unlocked via stickers, directly purchased voice lines are also usable permanently.

The Last Chance Qualifiers (LCQ) are less than two weeks away and with it the final teams will qualify to The International 2022.

Today's update brings us the Team and Player Stickers for all 6 Regional Qualifier winners as well as the 12 teams that will be competing in the LCQ. Find your favorite players and team stickers in four different qualities (Basic, Glitter, Holo, Gold) by opening Sticker Capsules or searching the Marketplace for the ones you need, and stick them to your heroes to show them off during your games or your sticker collection to display in your profile and earn some Battle Points.

For those of you that want to support your favorite team, The Supporter's Club Fan Bundles are also available now. Get your favorite team's Sprays, Voice Lines, Emoticons and Wallpapers by purchasing their Bronze, Silver and Gold packs.

Finally, the update introduces the list of talent participating in The International 2022. With well over 150 talent across the English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese languages, we hope you'll be watching the best teams in the world commentated by the best analysts and casters, no matter which language you choose.

Each of the five primary languages will also feature a Talent capsule featuring a limited collection of talent stickers. Just like Player and Team sticker, you can place these on your Collection or a Hero, but additionally, if you place a Holo or Gold sticker of your favorite caster, you will permanently gain access to their unique TI2022 voice line. Find more information on Talent and their stickers in the Talent Page of The International 2022 Battle Pass.

As with previous stickers and fan bundles, 50% of the revenue from stickers will go distributed among the teams or talent involved in each Capsule or Bundle.

We hope you enjoyed the updated True Sight Insights and of course the world premiere of True Sight for The International 10 taking you inside the player booths for Team Spirit's battle to overcome PSG.LGD and claim the Aegis of Champions. If you missed it live or just want to revisit any of the action, check out the full videos at: https://www.youtube.com/user/dota2/videos.

To celebrate the premiere, today's release includes 12 new chat wheel lines taken from this True Sight for Battle Pass owners to claim and use in your own games.

[h2]The International 2022 Cosplay Competition[/h2]
There are still a few days available to join The International 2022 Cosplay Competition and possibly show off your crafted creations on Dota's biggest stage. Entries will be accepted until October 1st. See https://cosplay.pglesports.com/ for the full rules and entry form.

The 7.32c Gameplay Patch is now live!

Check the latest patchnotes here!

After 20 days of hard-fought battles, the six winners of the Regional Qualifiers will join the 12 DPC qualified teams in the fight for the Aegis during The International 2022. Congratulations to Hokori, BetBoom Team, Soniqs, Royal Never Give Up, Talon Esports and Entity on their well-earned victories.

The Second and Third place teams from each Regional Qualifier will face each other for the two final slots during the Last Chance Qualifiers. This nailbiter tournament will run from October 8th to the 12th, just a few days before The International officially begins.

Today we are releasing a new feature of the 2022 Battle Pass to celebrate and support the teams: Team and Player Autograph Sticker Capsules. Featuring all teams and players participating in The International 2022 and the Last Chance Qualifiers in Basic, Glitter, Holo and Gold versions, Stickers are permanent collectibles that commemorate this year's tournament and allow you to display your fandom in multiple ways. Today's update introduces the top 12 DPC teams, with the other 18 teams coming next week.

You can build Team Collections by pasting your stickers in the Sticker Collection pages and redeem up to 16 Battle Pass levels for completing 1, 5, 10 or all 30 teams. You can also favorite a Team Row and display all of its related stickers in your profile page for everyone to see, or put a sticker from your armory in your profile card.

Additionally, if you want to display your fandom while you're playing or to boast that you're as good as a pro player when playing your favorite hero, you can stick stickers to specific heroes and have them displayed in the Versus and MVP Screens. Show everyone that your Enigma is like DJ's, your Earth Spirit is as good as BoBoKa's, your micro with Chen is akin to Puppey's, or that your teamfight positioning with Terrorblade is as good as Arteezy's by sticking your favorite player or team stickers in each hero's respective Hero Page.

Sticker Capsules can be purchased in the all-new Sticker Store and 50% of the revenue will go to support the teams included in the capsule. Stickers purchased this way are tradeable and marketable. Sticker Capsules are also granted to everyone in the Battle Pass at level 1, 150 and 300. Jump into the client now and find your favorite team and player stickers waiting for you.

Hunted from birth, a figure who has lived in shadow chooses to hide no longer. Available now to all Battle Pass owners who reach level 296, the new Exile Unveiled Hero Persona for Phantom Assassin features an all-new model, animations, ability effects, and voice performance to fully realize his deadly destiny in the midst of battle.

Raised in secret by outcast sisters of the Veiled Order, Asan the exile has spent a lifetime in pursuit of a single purpose: to destroy the false prophet that his teachers blamed for the corruption of their once-sacred faith. And while his guardians have been taken from him one-by-one by the blades of the veiled assassins, Asan is at last ready to step from the shadows to realize the dark dreams of his masters and ensure the tainted oracle's most-feared prophecies come to deadly fruition.

Dive into the Exile Unveiled section of the Battle Pass to learn more, and then strike out into the lanes to visit suffering upon all enemies that stand in your way.

On release of the Battle Pass, one theme we've noticed in community feedback is that players don't feel like they're making progress commensurate with the amount of matches that they have been playing. With that in mind, we looked at the data for the 2022 Battle Pass compared to The International 10 Battle Pass to see if the data matched this perception. What we found is that even though the amount of points players can potentially earn is similar between the two Battle Passes, the median amount that has been earned is lower in the 2022 Battle Pass. As a result, a hardcore player will have a similar amount of points, but a more casual player is likely to have fewer points than before.

With this data in hand, we have decided to make some changes to help achieve our goal of making participating in the Battle Pass feel rewarding for all players.

Weekly Bonus Feature
We're adding a new Weekly Bonus feature that simply grants Battle Points whenever you complete a match. Winning a match earns 200 Battle Points, and losing a match grants 100 Battle Points up to a cap of 2000 Battle Points per week. Turbo matches also earn Battle Points, but at half of the normal rate.

Weekly Quests Update
Starting with Week 2, we've made changes to the rewards for Weekly Quests:

• For non-Bonus weeks, instead of rewarding 500/1000/1500 Battle Points at 4/9/15 stars, we will now reward 1000/1000/1000 Battle Points at 2/8/15 stars.
  
• For Bonus weeks, the first Bonus Week Battle Chest is now available at 2 stars instead of 3 stars.
  

The 2022 Battle Pass has arrived to fill the rest of the year with epic amounts of Dota fun. Featuring two parts that span the next four months with Part I celebrating the majesty of The International and Part II arriving after the tournament to usher in a frosty twist on Diretide this Battle Pass offers a host of special features and legendary rewards.

In addition to multiple Mythical and Immortal treasures, you can find new Arcana items for Faceless Void and Razor; Personas for Phantom Assassin and Crystal Maiden; a Prestige set for Primal Beast; an evolving courier; a special Mystery Announcer Pack and so much more. Some are already available (or coming soon), and others will arrive in Part II.

Explore the 2022 Battle Pass web page for more details, and stay tuned for more updates on features for The International which will be added soon like the new Sticker Capsules, an all-new way to support your favorite players, teams, and talent while creating a record of Dota's crowning event.

[h2]Introducing Regional Pricing[/h2]
Dota is a global passion, and increasing the ability for fans around the world to participate in the ultimate celebration of Dota's community and professional talent is an important goal. To help, this year's Battle Pass features regional pricing for the level 1 Battle Pass, which will increase the affordability of this year's offerings in many parts of the world.

The International Regional Qualifiers
The top twelve teams in the DPC standings have already qualified for The International. Now we move on to the next stage: the Regional Qualifiers. The action begins on September 3rd and continues through September 18th. Watch teams from all six regions compete in their own regional tournaments, with the winners of each securing invitations to The International in Singapore, where the true challenge awaits.

Make sure to enter your predictions in the Battle Pass today for a chance to win bonus Battle Points if you can guess the results of the Regional Qualifiers correctly.

Dota Plus Update - Fall 2022
Not to be lost amongst all of the excitement, today's update also features a seasonal refresh for Dota Plus including this year's Autumnal Treasure, available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Razor, Naga Siren, Monkey King, Disruptor, Outworld Destroyer, Medusa, Phantom Lancer, and Skywrath Mage. There's also a chance to unlock the Eager Drocsnozzle courier, who trots in bearing random prismatic and kinetic gems.

[h2]Battle Report Updates[/h2]

A new Battle Report will be available for Dota Plus subscribers to check out their highlights from the previous season. This update includes some new additions for Battle Reports going forward, such as Turbo games included in the reports games, a calendar view to see when you played, and some analysis filters for comparing Aghanims Shard and Scepter purchase stats across games.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]
Today also unveils a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.

[table]
[tr]
[th]Guild Tier[/th]
[th]Rewards[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Silver[/td]
[td]

• Emoticon - slardar_sleepy
  
• Emoticon - storm_clap
  
• Emoticon - tb_laugh
  

• Spray - Slark Love
  
• Spray - Bear Cry
  
• Spray - Tusk Snowball
  

• Chat Wheel - "This guy has no chill"
  
• Chat Wheel - "!"
  
• Chat Wheel - ""
  

• Fixed model replacements for other cosmetic items (e.g. Queen of Pain Arcana replacing her boots) not working correctly
  
• Made a number of fixes to Single Target spells being cast with a longer cast range if they were interrupted during the initial cast
  
• Fixed Batrider's Flamebreak visual effects not following correct Fog of War rules
  
• Fixed Beastmaster's Drums of Slom being dispellable
  
• Fixed Brewmaster's Primal Companion being able to summon several Brewlings if they were dispelled
  
• Fixed Brewmaster's Primal Companion not going on the correct cooldown if Brewmaster drops his Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed Brewmaster's Cinder Brew visual effects not following correct Fog of War rules
  
• Fixed Dark Seer's Normal Punch not gaining the benefit of the Wall of Replica Illusion Damage talent
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker's Celestial Hammer having incorrect impact damage
  
• Fixed Doom's Doom not displaying time remaining
  
• Fixed Gyrocopter's 30 Movement Speed during Rocket Barrage talent also increasing Flak Cannon range
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Hunter's Boomerang visual effects not following correct Fog of War rules
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Bear's Savage Roar duration not being updated
  
• Fixed Lycan's Howl Reduces Total Attack Damage talent also increasing Shapeshift Critical Chance
  
• Fixed Marci's Dispose going on cooldown if her teammate being disposed is magic immune. Now will correctly affect the magic immune ally. Does not work on magic immune enemies.
  
• Fixed Marci's Dispose and Grapple dispel tooltips
  
• Fixed Meepo having incorrect Magic Resistance values on leveling up Divided We Stand
  
• Fixed Primal Beast's Pulverize interaction with some spells like Pudge's Dismember
  
• Fixed some issues with Mars Spear shard performance
  
• Fixed Sticky Napalm on Rubick occupying two slots when he has Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed Sniper's Concussive Grenade visual effects not following correct Fog of War rules
  
• Fixed Snapfire's +2 Lil Shredder Attacks talent also increasing Scatterblast Slow Duration
  
• Fixed Ursa's Enrage Status Resistance talent granting extra Status Resistance
  
• Fixed Zeus's Lightning Bolt visual effects not following correct Fog of War rules
  
• Fixed the Courier's deliver button animating while the game is paused
  

The 7.32b Gameplay Patch is now live!

Check the latest patchnotes here!

Today's patch unveils the 7.32 gameplay update, including economy changes, map tweaks, new and reworked hero abilities, updated talents, shards, scepters and neutral items as we head into The International Regional Qualifiers, which will run from September 3rd until September 18th.

Jump into a game and Hitch a Ride with Centaur, call for the help of your Little Friends as Enchantress, take a Nosedive with Viper, or head over to the 7.32 Update Page for a comprehensive list of all the changes this patch brings.

As The International fast approaches, so does one of Dota's most awaited features. Mark your calendars because The 2022 Battle Pass will release on September 1st.

Image from PGL

After two weeks of furious competition from the best teams in the world, Team Spirit have outlasted all challengers to claim the title of Arlington Major Champions securing a Grand Finals victory in a thrilling rematch with a powerful rival. Congratulations to Yatoro, TORONTOTOKYO, Collapse, Mira, and Miposhka!

In a turn of events reminiscent of The International in Bucharest, Team Spirit's road to victory offered no choice but to defeat a legendary foe. PSG.LGD were dominant throughout the tournament and looked unbeatable in both the Group Stage and the Playoffs. They even defeated Team Spirit 2-0 in the Upper Bracket Finals, sending the squad into the Lower Bracket where a very strong Team Aster were waiting. Team Spirit fought hard to bounce back and earned the right for a fitting rematch with PSG.LGD in the Grand Finals. After an exciting series including a nail-biting 75-minute Game 2 Team Spirit closed out the tournament with a convincing 3-1 victory to the delight of their fans worldwide.

[h2]The International Awaits[/h2]

With the final Major of the season concluded, the first 12 teams to officially qualify to The International have been decided:

• PSG.LGD
  
• OG
  
• Team Spirit
  
• beastcoast
  
• Team Aster
  
• Thunder Awaken
  
• BOOM Esports
  
• TSM
  
• Tundra Esports
  
• Gaimin Gladiators
  
• Evil Geniuses
  
• Fnatic
  

As the Arlington Major approaches its conclusion, more and more teams have now officially qualified to The International in Singapore this October. See them live and in person as they compete for the Aegis of Champions by purchasing tickets this Saturday.

Tickets will be sold in a single wave starting at 10am SGT (2am GMT) on August 13th, with a limit of 5 tickets per customer for each date. Purchasers residing within Singapore will have the option for courier delivery or will-call pickup. All others must pick up their tickets at will-call only.

The event itself has been split into two separate sections: The Playoffs (October 20 - 23) and the Finals Weekend (October 29-30). The Playoffs will feature the top sixteen teams in Dota 2 as they battle for a spot in the Finals. This part of the competition will be held at the Suntec Convention Center in Singapore, and tickets will be sold for the four days separately for a price of $88 SGD each.

The Finals Weekend will be the culmination of the event, where the four remaining teams compete to prove themselves worthy of claiming the Aegis of Champions. The Finals Weekend will be held at Singapore Indoor Stadium, and tickets will be available for $498 SGDa single ticket allows entrance for both days.

Tickets will be sold by Ticketmaster at https://ticketmaster.sg/activity/detail/22_intldota2sg. We recommend setting up an account ahead of time so that there are no delays when sales start.

Witness the thrilling conclusion to the battle for the Dota universe in the third season of DOTA: Dragon's Blood, now streaming on Netflix.

Join in as Davion, Mirana, and Luna combine forces with the Invoker to take on Terrorblade and stop the demon from unmaking reality in a season filled with old friends, new allies, and unexpected turns brought to life with masterful animation from Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Voltron: Legendary Defender).

For those who haven't started the DOTA: Dragon's Blood journey, catch up now with Season 1 & 2 and see the world of Dota 2 come to life like never before. Experience the story of Davion, a renowned Dragon Knight devoted to wiping the scourge from the face of the world. Following encounters with a powerful, ancient eldwurm, as well as Princess Mirana and her faithful companion Marci, on a secret mission of their own, Davion becomes embroiled in events much larger than he could have ever imagined.

• Queen of Pain's boots are now an independent item slot in-game and on the workshop. The Form of the Abyssal Kin item that included both shoulders and boots is now split into two separate items, and customers that already have the Form of the Abyssal Kin will receive a copy of Abyssal Kin Legs.
  
• Marci is now available for Workshop Contributors
  
• Primal Beast is now available for Workshop Contributors
  

[h2]The Arlington Major[/h2]
The Summer Tour of the DPC draws to a close, and The Arlington Major offers the best teams in the world a final chance at DPC points before the competitive road reaches The International. Catch all the action as it unfolds from August 4 - 14 in Arlington, Texas, USA.

[h2]DPC Fantasy[/h2]
Fantasy is now available for play during the Major. Collect cards from all teams heading to battle in Arlington, and study the schedules and matchups to craft your own perfect lineups for each day. Score enough points and you'll earn Summer Lineage Treasures in reward.

[h2]Supporters Club Sale[/h2]
It's never too late to show your support for the teams heading to The Arlington Major, and with the final battles approaching, all Supporters Club bundles are now on sale for 50% off. As always, half of the proceeds go directly to the teams.

[h2]Tickets for The International[/h2]
The International is drawing near, and tickets will be released for sale on August 13th. All tickets will be sold in a single wave starting at 10am SGT (2am GMT), with a limit of 5 tickets per customer for each date. Purchasers residing within Singapore will have the option for courier delivery or will-call pickup. All others must pick up their tickets at will-call only.

The event itself has been split into two separate sections. The Playoffs will run from October 20 - 23 and feature the top sixteen teams in Dota as they compete for a spot in the Finals. This part of the competition will be held at the Suntec convention center in Singapore, and tickets will be sold for the four days separately for a price of $88 SGD each.

The Finals will be the culmination of the event, where the four remaining teams compete to prove themselves worthy of claiming the Aegis of Champions. The Finals will be held October 29 - 30 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, and tickets will be available for $498 SGDa single ticket allows entrance for both days.

[h2]Gameplay Patch 7.32[/h2]
Patch 7.32 will arrive before The International Regional Qualifiers, which take place September 3 - 18.

Adjusted matchmaking to be faster for lower population game modes.
- Fixed a bug with matchmaking region selection where the UI would incorrectly prevent you from selecting both low ping and higher ping regions together.
- The Kinetic Gem "Wraith Spin" will now apply correctly when Wraith King's Arcana is equipped.
- Added a sound effect when allies share an item with your hero.

Fixed a bug that caused Razor's Static Link to only be applied to the secondary target when cast on two heroes affected by Grimstroke's Soul Bind.

We think Dota is best played as a group with friends. To encourage this style of play we're introducing a few experimental changes with the patch today to improve overall match quality for these kinds of games:
- Full parties are now permitted to match against any valid opposing team, and are no longer required to match against a full party in ranked.
- Adjusted matchmaking tuning to make finding a game as a full party faster.
- Full parties may now all chat "gg" to surrender a match after 30 minutes of game time with the same 10 second countdown and cancel UI as in pro games. This is scored as a loss.

Activated the Jungle Colosseum weekend spotlight mode.

During Windranger's Focus Fire, the focus fired unit is prioritized for target selection in all cases, even when illusions are created.
- During Windranger's Focus Fire, after stopping / holding, it is possible to target a different target than the focus fired unit if directly clicked on.
- Fixed a networking issue when relaying popular matches to many spectators.

Changed Focus Fire auto-target logic so that when illusions are spawned, the auto-target of focus fire is disabled. Attacking the focus fire target once again will restart the auto-target and fire while moving logic.
- Fixed the interaction of Arc Warden's Clone and Helm of the Dominator, to require the Arc Warden original to own a Helm for the active to work.
- Crimson Gates of Nothl item for Dazzle can now be equipped correctly for effects.
- The Darkclaw Emissary item for Dazzle has had an animation fix applied.

We're happy to announce that submissions are now open for this year's Dota 2 Short Film Contest. Filmmakers have until 3:00pm PDT on September 4, 2022 to submit their short film creations of 90 seconds or less to the Dota 2 Steam Workshop to be eligible for consideration.

Dota fans around the world are invited to visit the Workshop to discuss and vote on their favorites to help us select the best entries to be showcased as part of The International 2022 broadcast. Upon review of the Workshop ratings and discussions, Valve will nominate the top entries to be featured in the Dota client for a final voting process by the community to determine the winners.

Each finalist that reaches the top ten will be guaranteed to win $500, and the top three selections will score prizes of $25,000, $10,000, and $5,000 in recognition of their contributions to the Dota community.

Check out the Dota 2 Short Film Contest site for more information and guidelines on the submission process. And be sure to stop by the Workshop page regularly to help review the submissions you would like to see showcased at The International 2022, live from Singapore in October.

Today's update introduces a treasure drop that features thirteen all-new item sets the Chest of Endless Days.

Each treasure opened will grant a set for Luna, Templar Assassin, Weaver, Nature's Prophet, Viper, Drow Ranger, Wraith King, Pangolier, Winter Wyvern, or Lycan. You'll also have a chance to unwrap a Rare Witch Doctor set, Very Rare Hoodwink set, or Ultra Rare Kid Invoker set, which includes the base Kid Invoker persona if not already owned.

These treasures are not available directly for purchase. Instead, they will drop randomly to players as they compete in Matchmaking. A key is required to open this chest purchase one to unlock the treasure for $2.49, or sell the treasure on the market.

Summer is just around the corner and now that the Battle Report Update is live, we're setting our sights on future releases. To that end, the Dota team would like to invite all workshop contributors to whip up some new sets for any of your favorite heroes. We're already officially accepting new submissions, and we're very excited to see your full creativity on display.

Joining this round of submissions, we're happy to announce that Marci and Primal Beast will also soon be added to the workshop for you to throw into the mix.

We request that all submissions be on the Dota 2 Workshop by the end of the day on October 23rd, 2022 PDT. Please make sure to mark your work with the "Summer 2022" tag when tendering items to the Workshop to ensure they aren't overlooked. As always, please avoid concepts involving human skulls, blood, and gore. We'd like to remind all Dota fans to regularly visit the Workshop and vote through the Queue to ensure your voices are heard in the selection process.

Preparations are well underway for The International 2022, which will take place live in Singapore in October.

For the Playoffs (October 20-23) and Finals (October 29-30), We are now accepting proposals for companies who are interested in the Live Event Broadcast Production of The International 2022's Russian, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Latin America) language broadcasts. The RFP (Request For Proposal) documentation can be found here, and the form for proposals can be found here.

Requests for Broadcast Licenses are also available now for respondents of all languages not included in The International 2022's Primary Broadcast Languages (English, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish). Please use this form to submit a Broadcast License Request.

We thank everyone for their interest in working with us on The International 2022.

Today's update brings a host of new and improved features in addition to the seasonal Dota Plus refresh. Dive deep into your match performance with the Battle Report, enjoy a variety of different game modes with Weekend Spotlight, and customize your hero loadout even further with Unlocked Immortal Spell Effects. Then check out 8 all-new sets found in the Summer Seasonal Treasure. Or skip that stuff for now and start right away with the 7.31d Gameplay Update to learn about changes to your favorite heroes.

Head over to the full update website for all the details. Battle Reports are customized for each Dota Plus member, but the rest of the fun like earning Shards and unlocking Relics and other rewards is now available to everyone.


Vulkan Performance Improvements

This update also includes a significant performance improvement aimed at removing hitching when playing with the Vulkan renderer. Dota now supports the VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extension which eliminates draw time hitching due to shader compilation. This feature is currently supported only in the NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver available https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver, with future support expected in mainline drivers by NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.

If you'd like to learn the finer details, you can read more at https://www.khronos.org/blog/reducing-draw-time-hitching-with-vk-ext-graphics-pipeline-library.


Upcoming Plans

Every year, fans gather from around the globe to watch the best players in the world compete for the Aegis of Champions at The International. As fans ourselves, we know that after the confetti finishes falling and the fireworks fade away, we want nothing more than to go and play more Dota after all, why can't we play Magnus like Collapse, or every carry hero like Yatoro?

To capture this excitement from current and returning players, we're structuring the Battle Pass a little differently this year: we want to make the time right after The International concludes the best time to play Dota. To do this, we're going to adjust the timing of the Battle Pass release to be later in the year than in previous years that way the Battle Pass will run both throughout the event, and for a significant amount of time afterwards.

At the Stockholm Major, we were pleased to unveil that The International will be hosted in Singapore, bringing the crowning event in esports to SEA for the first time. Featuring four consecutive weekends of Dota action, and a total of 30 teams from all over the world, this will be the largest Dota event to date.

In our constant efforts to make the event and its broadcast as exciting and accessible as possible, were experimenting with a slightly different schedule that includes more breaks and a greater build to Finals. Heres how were structuring it this year for the biggest celebration of Dota 2 yet:

The Last Chance Qualifiers will run from October 8-12, followed by the Group Stage on October 15-18 featuring 20 teams battling to make the Main Event. The qualifying teams will then battle through the Playoffs at SunTec Singapore October 20-23, where the field will narrow even further. The survivors will advance to the Finals at Singapore Indoor Stadium October 29-30 where the Aegis of Champions will hang in the balance. Stay tuned for ticket information for the Playoffs at SunTec Singapore and the Finals at Singapore Indoor Stadium, each of which will be announced later.

Looking Forward

The Dota team is hard at work on the upcoming Dota Plus June update which includes not only the traditional seasonal refresh, but also several exciting new features and the 7.31d Gameplay Update. Because this update is a larger than normal, it's going to ship a bit later than normal on June 8th.

Photo by ESL

The Stockholm Major has finished, and after ten days of intense Dota, OG have emerged victorious. Congratulations to Ammar, Ceb, bzm, Yuragi, and Taiga on their impressive performance.

OG started the tournament with a strong showing during the group stage, but in the first round of the playoff bracket they lost 2-0 to TSM FTX, dropping to the lower bracket. With their backs against the wall, they rallied and secured wins against Fnatic, Thunder Awaken, Gaimin Gladiators, and Tundra Esports to reach the Grand Finals, where a rematch with TSM FTX was waiting. TSM FTX took Game 1 in convincing fashion and hoped to close out the rest of the series just as they did in the first round; however, OG showed their resilience once again, securing the next three wins in a row to crown themselves the Major champions.

Wed like to thank the teams that battled their way through the Spring Tour all the way to Stockholm, and all the fans who watched and supported them it was truly exciting to feel the energy of a live audience again. We look forward to seeing what happens in the upcoming Summer Tour, featuring Regional League play from June 6 - July 17 and The Arlington Major August 4 - August 14. Time is running short for teams to prove they belong amongst the best in the world those who deserve a place at The International fighting for the Aegis that awaits in Singapore this October.

The Eastern Europe Qualifier tournament is now complete after 5 days of intense Dota. Congratulations to BetBoom, Team Spirit, and Mind Games who will now join teams from the around the world at the Stockholm Major.

The Major kicks off on May 12th, and tickets are still available to see the teams live at Hovet Arena from May 20-22 at www.esl-one.com/dpc.

[h2]Fantasy for the Major[/h2]
Be a part of the action by playing Fantasy Dota during the Major. Fantasy will work largely the same as during the Spring Tour league with the biggest difference being that there is a period every day of the Major instead of every week.

As a refresher, here's how to participate:

Another action-packed tour of the Dota Pro Circuit is drawing to a close. Now the top teams in Division I will gather in Stockholm to square off against fellow competitors from around the world. Congratulations to the teams that have earned the right to attend:

[table]
[tr]
[th]Region[/th]
[th]Teams[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Western Europe[/td]
[td]OG, Gaimin Gladiators, Team Liquid, Tundra Esports[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]China[/td]
[td]PSG.LGD, Xtreme Gaming, Team Aster, Royal Never Give Up[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Southeast Asia[/td]
[td]Fnatic, BOOM Esports, T1[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]North America[/td]
[td]Evil Geniuses, TSM FTX[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]South America[/td]
[td]Thunder Awaken, beastcoast[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

The end of the tour also features a shift in divisional power, as the two lowest Division I teams in each region are relegated to Division II, and the two strongest teams in the lower ranks are invited to join the Division I contenders for the upcoming summer tour.

[table]
[tr]
[th]Region[/th]
[th]Teams Promoted[/th]
[th]Teams Relegated[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Western Europe[/td]
[td]goonsquad, Alliance[/td]
[td]Brame, Nigma Galaxy[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]China[/td]
[td]Dandelion Esport Club, Aster.Aries[/td]
[td]Team MagMa, LBZS[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Southeast Asia[/td]
[td]RSG, Talon Esports[/td]
[td]Neon Esports, Execration[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]North America[/td]
[td]5RATFORCESTAFF, felt[/td]
[td]Team DogChamp, simply TOOBASED[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]South America[/td]
[td]SG Esports, Wolf Team[/td]
[td]APU King of Kings, Balrogs[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

The Stockholm Major hosted by ESL One kicks off on May 12, and tickets for the Main Event May 20 - May 22 are still available at www.esl-one.com/dpc join the crowd and reserve yours today.

[h2]Eastern Europe Qualifier Tournament[/h2]
Due to the terrible events of the war in Ukraine, we were forced to postpone the EEU DPC tour. Throughout this time, we've been talking directly with the affected teams to see if we can find a safe and fair way to resume DPC play for the EEU region.

As the result of these discussions, we've determined that we can run an EEU qualifier tournament, and the winners will be able to join their peers in Stockholm for the Major. The tournament will begin on Wednesday, April 27th, using a double-elimination bracket, and DPC points will be distributed in a similar way to what would have come from the league.

[h2]Supporters Club Sale[/h2]

The challenges of the season have revealed the top contenders, and the Major that awaits them is nearly set to begin. Show support for all your favorite teams by joining their Supporters Clubs now on sale for 50% off through the remainder of the tour. As always, 50% of every Supporters Club sale goes directly to the team.

Supporters Clubs are also a great way to load up on Fantasy player card packs so you can ensure extra depth for your rosters before Fantasy unlocks for the Major.

[h2]Fantasy Preparation[/h2]
During the League portion of the DPC Spring Tour, Fantasy was divided per-region so that players could primarily follow their favorite region to earn rewards. In the upcoming Major, teams from all regions will be coming together for international play, which may put participants that only have cards for a single region at a disadvantage.

To help avoid this, we've temporarily disabled opening card packs until the EEU tournament finishes and we know all teams slated to play at the Major. After that, any card packs opened will contain cards from all teams qualified to the Major instead of only a specific region.

Full details about Fantasy for the Major will be revealed after the EEU tournament is complete.

There's nothing creeps enjoy more than swapping out swords for brooms and sweeping up the barracks. Fortunately for us, that means it's time to enjoy the fruits of their janitorial efforts as today's patch opens the windows and doors of Dota for the Spring Cleaning Update for 2022 focused on bug fixes and a passel of quality-of-life improvements.

You can head over to the Spring Cleaning Update page to peruse some featured highlights like improvements to Aghanim's tooltips, Muting Controls, Shop Searches, and Demo Hero mode or dig into the full list of changes.

Plus, don't miss all the other springtime action unfolding as the DPC Tour continues the march towards the next Major. Tune in daily for high-level Dota that showcases established powerhouses along with future stars competing around the globe.

Game State Integration now requires the command-line option "-gamestateintegration" to function. This is because there can be a per-frame performance impact to using game state integration.

The brief interlude following last season's Regional Finals introduced both Primal Beast and the 7.31 Gameplay update to the world, and while players are still exploring the new-meta landscape, it's time for Dota's top talent to face off and show the rest of us how it's truly done.

Tune in as the DPC Spring Tour kicks off on March 14, sparking action across the globe as teams battle through Regional Leagues to earn their spot in the Spring Major. All are eager to reach the next leg of the Tour on a high note, with budding dreams of qualifying for The International, which looms further beyond.

[h2]Spring Tour Fantasy Lineups[/h2]
Fantasy for the DPC Spring Tour is now available, ready to help plug you directly into the pro scene from the Spring Tour's very first game. Featuring a new distribution of rewards, this season guarantees youll haul something home just by playing so open your first card packs today and set to planning your preferred regional rosters in preparation for next week's start of play.

[h3]Fantasy Reward Changes[/h3]

Instead of 1/2/3 Fantasy Levels going to the top 50%/25%/10% percent in each period, now players will earn 1/2/3/4 Fantasy Levels if they're in the top 100%/50%/25%/10%. Every 4th Fantasy Level will earn you a new DPC Lineage treasure (coming soon), and all other levels reward you with shards. Make sure to set your roster each week for guaranteed rewards.

[h3]Fantasy Rules Recap[/h3]
If you're new to Fantasy or just need a refresher, here's a recap before you unpack your cards and play. You can also check the How to Play breakdown in the FANTASY section of the client for full details.

The Basics
For each weeklong period, fans set a Fantasy roster made up of two Core Player Cards, one Mid Player Card, and two Support Player Cards. Player Cards on a roster score Fantasy points based on how well they perform in that period's matches. Silver & Gold Cards have stat bonuses that earn more points.

Player Card Packs
All players have been granted 10 starter packs claimable on the DPC menu under the Watch tab. Additional Player Card Packs can be earned daily by winning a game of Dota. Team Packs will be available for purchase directly from the PLAYER CARDS tab in the WATCH section as teams submit their Supporters Club bundles in the near future.

When you open a pack you'll receive player cards from the specific region you have selected.

Regional Fantasy
Each DPC region is its own Fantasy league with its own player cards and unique lineup. You may choose to participate in multiple regional leagues, and you will earn Fantasy Levels based on your best fantasy league performance for the period. For instance, if you place in the top 10% of one league and the top 50% of another, you will receive the points for the top 10% placement. Region rewards do not stack.

At the end of each period, you will earn levels based on the Fantasy points for that period. Rewards will be unlocked based on your current overall Fantasy Level.

Scoring Matches
All Division I matches during the Spring 2022 Tour are eligible for Fantasy play. The highest scoring two games of a best-of-three count towards a player's score. If a team plays more than one series during a period, only their highest-scoring series will count.

[h2]EEU Regional Tour Postponement[/h2]
As the terrible suffering caused by the war in Ukraine unfolds, we do not see a way that the Eastern European DPC league can happen as envisioned for the foreseeable future, and it was with much regret that we recently had to postpone the Spring Tour in one of the community's most vibrant and storied regions. Given these circumstances, Epic Esports Events proactively reached out to us to give up their rights to the EEU DPC so that players, teams, and the community can focus on safety and security.

Some EEU players have also recently contacted us asking for the league to continue. At this time, we don't believe that is possible; however, we are engaging directly with all of the teams and players in the league to see what their individual situations are and whether there might be ways that we could proceed.

Dota is inextricably a global game. The very name of The International itself is testament to a shared celebration of sport that connects people of every nation into a singular community of passionate fans. Our goals with the tournament and the DPC as a whole have always been focused on showcasing the enormous power of this human connection that thrives on participation from all parts of Dota fandom.

We sincerely hope that we will be able to go back to bringing an international audience together again in the future and more than all we wish for our friends in the affected regions to be safe.

As spring winds arrive to help break winter's final grip, it's time to welcome a new seasonal Dota Plus update ushering with it new Plus features arriving from the latest Battle Pass, updated seasonal quests and guild rewards, and an all-new treasure to explore.

[h2]Assistant Features[/h2]
Joining stack and pull timers, Dota Plus now includes a Rune Spawn Indicator, which you can see when pressing Alt. In addition, the Plus Neutral Item Upgrade Recommendations have also been promoted to a core Plus feature, helping you keep track of neutral items in your team's stash that might better fit your hero than your current choice.

[h2]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h2]
The Spring 2022 Seasonal Treasure is here and available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Axe, Omniknight, Lion, Anti-Mage, Grimstroke, Kunkka, Death Prophet, and Winter Wyvern. There's also a chance to unlock Leafy the Seadragon courier, who swims in bearing random prismatic and kinetic gems.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]
Todays update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.

[table]
[tr]
[th]Guild Tier[/th]
[th]Rewards[/th]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Silver[/td]
[td]

• Emoticon - rapier
  
• Emoticon - spin
  
• Emoticon - whoahahah
  

• Spray - Legion Commander Winner
  
• Spray - Mireska Wow
  
• Spray - Tidehunter Thumbs Up
  

• Chat Wheel - "There is nothing that can stop this man!"
  
• Chat Wheel - " - - . . ."
  
• Chat Wheel - ""
  

GENERAL

• Mana cost reduction now stacks diminishingly
  

• Brigand's Blade: Bonus Damage per missing HP is now physical instead of magical
  

• Boots of Bearing: Endurance unslowable duration reduced from 2s to 1.5s
  
• Orchid Malevolence: Now requires a 300 gold recipe (Bloodthorn total cost also increased by 300)
  

• Batrider: Sticky Napalm Shard now has a 50% chance of applying Sticky Napalm on attack
  
• Batrider: Flaming Lasso Mana Cost decreased from 175/200/225 to 150/175/200
  
• Batrider: Movement Speed increased from 300 to 310
  
• Batrider: Level 15 talent +25 Movement Speed reduced to +20
  
  
• Huskar: Agility reduced from 13 + 1.6 to 10 + 1.5
  
• Huskar: Inner Fire Cooldown increased from 14/13/12/11 to 17/15/13/11
  
• Huskar: Level 15 Talent +5 Burning Spears DPS reduced to +4
  
  
• Lina: Agility Growth increased from 2.1 to 2.4
  
• Lina: Intelligence Growth increased from 3.7 to 3.8
  
• Lina: Light Strike Array Damage increased from 80/130/180/230 to 100/150/200/250
  
• Lina: Laguna blade manacost reduced from 250/400/550 to 150/300/450
  
  
• Lone Druid: Spirit Link attack speed bonus decreased from 16/34/52/70 to 16/32/48/64
  
• Lone Druid: Spirit Link Shared Armor reduced from 10/15/20/25% to 8/12/16/20%
  
• Lone Druid: Level 15 talent -10s Savage Roar Cooldown decreased to -8s
  
  
• Lycan: Summon Wolves damage reduced from 24-28/32-36/40-44/48-52 to 17-20/23-26/29-32/35-38
  
• Lycan: Summon Wolves Shard wolf damage reduced from 48-52 to 35-38
  
  
• Meepo: Agility Growth decreased from 2.4 to 2.2
  
• Meepo: Level 10 Talent +6 Strength no longer applies twice to Clones
  
  
• Morphling: Base Move Speed increased from 280 to 285
  
• Morphling: Turn Rate improved from 0.6 to 0.7
  
  
• Naga Siren: Rip Tide hit threshold increased from 5 to 6
  
• Naga Siren: Rip Tide now triggers on Naga and all of her illusions every 6 attacks from Naga and her illusions combined (enemies hit by multiple rip tides only receive 1 instance of damage)
  
• Naga Siren: Rip Tide Damage decreased from 40/50/60/70 to 40/45/50/55
  
• Naga Siren: Level 10 Talent +20 Rip Tide Damage increased to +30
  
  
• Puck: Base Mana Regen increased from 0 to 0.5
  
• Puck: Turn Rate increased from 0.8 to 0.9
  
• Puck: Waning Rift Max Distance increased from 300 to 400
  
  
• Pudge: Flesh Heap is no longer Dispellable
  
• Pudge: Flesh Heap cooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15 to 20/18/16/14
  
• Pudge: Flesh Heap duration rescaled from 7 to 5/6/7/8
  
• Pudge: Flesh Heap mana cost decreased from 50 to 35/40/45/50
  
• Pudge: Level 25 Talent +1.5 Flesh Heap Stack Str replaced with 1.6x Flesh Heap Stack Str and Damage Block bonuses
  
  
• Riki: Blink Strike mana cost increased from 50 to 50/55/60/65
  
• Riki: Base Move Speed reduced from 320 to 315
  
• Riki: Sleeping Dart Shard Sleep duration reduced from 4s to 3s
  
  
• Storm Spirit: Electric Vortex Cooldown reduced from 22/20/18/16s to 20/18/16/14s
  
  
• Terrorblade: Metamorphosis cooldown reduced from 155s to 150s
  
• Terrorblade: Reflection radius increased from 475 to 500
  
• Terrorblade: Conjure Image Illusion Damage taken reduced from 320% to 300%
  
  
• Tiny: Grow bonus armor reduced from 12/18/24 to 10/15/20
  
• Tiny: Grow Tree Bonus Damage decreased from 50% to 40/45/50%
  
• Tiny: Level 15 talent decreased from +50% Grow Bonus Damage With Tree to +40%
  
  
• Undying: Tombstone Zombie Damage reduced from 44-48 to 33-36
  
  
• Techies: Blast Off! now deals self damage based on Techies' current HP, rather than max HP
  
• Techies: Blast Off! self damage decreased from 50/45/40/35% to 35/30/25/20%
  
• Techies: Blast Off! enemy damage decreased from 275/350/425/500 to 200/300/400/500
  
• Techies: Blast Off! cooldown decreased from 45/40/35/30 to 39/36/33/30
  
• Techies: Sticky Bomb explosion now slows enemies within the explosion radius by 15/25/35/45% for 2 seconds
  
• Techies: Level 20 talent +100 Sticky Bomb Damage replaced with +125 Sticky Bomb Latch/Explosion Radius
  
• Techies: Reactive Tazer Disarm duration rescaled from 3 to 2.4/2.7/3.0/3.3s
  
  
• Zeus: Heavenly Jump now deals 20/50/75/100 damage
  
• Zeus: Heavenly Jump now grants vision before applying the slow/damage
  

• Primal Beast turn rate increased from 0.5 to 0.6
  
• Onslaught run speed increased from 1150 to 1200
  
• Trample mana cost decreased from 90/95/100/105 to 90/85/80/75
  
• Trample cooldown decreased from 30/28/26/24 to 30/27/24/21
  
• Trample based damage increased from 20/30/40/50 to 20/35/50/65
  
• Trample now has correct dispel rules
  
• Uproar stack duration increased from 15s to 20s
  
• Pulverize now works with items that increase cast range
  
• Primal Beast Level 20 Trample damage talent increased from +20% to +30%
  

Freed from captivity by the unknowable machinations of the Continuum Device, an ageless hunger now stalks the lanes as the new hero Primal Beast stomps his way into action along with the 7.31 Gameplay patch in today's update.

Following on the Beasts savage trail, the jungle has awoken. A horde of new and updated creeps are ready to inflict retribution on heroes that have terrorized them for so long. To meet these upstart dangers, new items of power have been discovered, and others have been reworked. The multiverse ripples from within the Continuum Vault have wrought shocking changes to Techies and ample alterations to other heroes. With so much made anew, there are powder kegs full of things to investigate and explore.

Get started by smashing the list of changes directly into your brain over at The Primal Beast Update page. From there, it's just a short tromp into battle to discover all the possible things you can now pulverize with joy.

Today's update features the new Winter Lineage Fantasy Treasure, here to recognize strategic excellence in Fantasy play for the DPC 2021-2022 Winter Tour. Filled with a special selection of sets re-themed for the DPC season, players will receive one of these treasures for every 3 Fantasy Levels they've earned.

To cap off the season, Regional Finals will take place in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, & South America on February 11-13, and in China, Eastern Europe, and North America on February 18-20, offering one last chance to earn Fantasy Levels. In addition, we've boosted the rewards for the upcoming period to a whopping 12 Fantasy Levels for the top 10% of performers, 9 Fantasy Levels for the top 25%, and 6 Fantasy Levels for the top 50%. Prove your Fantasy prowess, and scoop up a handful of treasures.

The schedule for matches is now available on the Dota esports portal, and the deadline to lock in your lineups is fast approaching: Thursday, February 10th 4:00pm PST. Make sure to finalize your selections now.

To aid the community's relentless quest of restoring order to the multiverse, Aghanim the magnanimous would like to present his very own Battle Level Bundle available this weekend only and packed with a hefty level boost and treasure rewards. Each bundle purchase contains 60 levels, 3 Immortal Treasures, 3 Continuum Collection Treasures, and 3 Ageless Heirloom Treasures. At $14.99 each, they offer 70% savings on the combined value of levels and treasures, and each Battle Pass owner is able to buy up to two bundles.

Aghanim's Battle Level Bundle is a great way to push you over the line on a host of Battle Pass rewards like the custom lane and siege creeps at level 94; Mirana Persona at level 135; custom towers at level 200; Hoodwink Prestige set at level 277; Drow Ranger Arcana at level 333, and even more. With the bundle only available for a limited time sales end on Wednesday, February 9th there's no better time to multiply your rewards from the multiverse.

Looking further ahead, Gameplay Patch 7.31 is slated to arrive on February 23, 2022, once the effects of Aghanim's adventures have been mitigated and the Battle Pass has come to an end.

Heroes

Clinkz

• Melter, Ignite: Fixed attacks from skeletons not taking minor shards into account
  

• Solar Flare: Fixed fire not dealing damage
  

• Torrent: Fixed bug where Torrent could increase enemy speed
  

• Friendship Chain: Decreased bounce range bonus when bouncing to or from allies from 600 to 300
  
• Frost Shield: Fixed damage reduction not applying to all auto attack sources
  
• Sinister Spire: Fixed a bug where it did not slow movement speed
  

• Long Blade: Fixed secondary blades not dealing damage
  
• Share the Burn: Fixed it being castable on enemy units
  

• Too Many Waves: Fixed it not proccing on allies
  

• Absolution: Fixed it failing to restore mana
  
• Purification: Fixed secondary sources not dealing full damage
  
• Stalwart: Fixed it not properly reducing cooldown and not reducing by correct stated value
  

• Pancenter: Fixed it reducing the damage of the primary Epicenter
  

• Deep Six: Fixed not applying correct amount of Essence Shift stacks
  
• Fish Food: Fixed inconsistency in applying attack speed
  
• Pounce: Fixed units previously affected by Pounce Leash not being able to be affected again for the duration
  

• Bring Out the Dead: Fixed Decay not doing damage if Tombstone ability was not skilled
  

• Mumbo Jumbo: Fixed it not healing correctly
  
• Voodoo Restoration: Fixed minor mana cost reduction shards increasing rather than decreasing mana cost
  

DPC Supporters Club Sale
Ready to make your Dota allegiances known? The homestretch of the season is here and it's the perfect time to show your support. To make it even easier, from today until the conclusion of the DPC Winter Tour Regional Finals on February 20th, the Winter Tour Supporters Clubs are all on sale for half price. Make sure to support your favorite teams and help represent in force as you cheer for victory during the final fights.

DPC Fantasy Update
The DPC Winter Tour Fantasy Dota has been updated to include an extra two-week-long period for the Regional Finals. Check out the new quick-access menu under the Watch Tab to see a summary of how you can interact with the DPC. Plus, for any players who have already participated in Fantasy, stay tuned for treasure rewards arriving before the start of the Regional Finals.

Changes to Co-Op Bots Matchmaking Mode
Today's update also includes some modifications to Co-Op Bots Matchmaking to help improve behavior around disconnecting and queuing in general. You can check out the changes below:

• Leaver penalties no longer apply in this mode.
  
• If a player disconnects, a bot will control their hero while they are absent.
  
• Players can now queue for multiple selected difficulties and supported bot scripts simultaneously, instead of only individual selections for each.
  
• If a player has been in the queue for Co-Op bots for more than 2 minutes, a match will immediately be made including any players that are in the queue. Empty player slots will be filled with allied bots.
  

A little over a week ago, we announced the cancellation of the first Major of the DPC 2021-2022 Season. When we did so, we didn't present an alternative solution that would address the absence of prize pool and DPC points.

When it became clear that scheduling a LAN with the proper requirements wouldn't be possible within schedule, we didn't feel confident that any alternative would have a positive outcome: Delaying the major to a much later date would make it unfair for players from teams who change rosters between now and then. Running a global online tournament would result in matches where the high latency among far-away regions would have a substantial impact on the quality of the matches, affecting the competitive integrity of those games. Replacing it with Regional or Bi-regional Tournaments would eliminate the cross-regional play that lets teams from deeper regions earn more points towards International qualification. In particular, Bi-regional tournaments can result in situations where an above average region is punished because they were paired with another strong region, and a weak region is benefited by being paired with another weak region.

We quickly realized though listening to feedback from teams and fans that our priorities were wrong and we were not successful at being mindful of players participating in the DPC. This was a big mistake on our part. We are sorry and we are set on making it right.

We held multiple discussions with Teams and Tournament Organizers, to understand what was possible to execute and what made the most sense for everyone. While it became clear to everyone involved that there was no perfect solution that would address every issue, we decided to move forward with running six Regional Finals tournaments.

The DPC 2021-2022 Regional Finals will take place over two weekends, with three regions playing on February 11-13, and the other three playing on February 18-20. The top 4 from each region will compete in a double elimination tournament with a $100,000 USD prize pool.

The regional schedule is as follows:

• Feb 11-13, 2022: WEU, SEA, SA
  
• Feb 18-20, 2022: CN, EEU, NA
  

• 1st place: $50,000 USD + 250 DPC points
  
• 2nd place $25,000 USD + 130 DPC points
  
• 3rd place: $15,000 USD
  
• 4th place: $10,000 USD
  

• The TI Qualifiers will be played as originally planned, with the top team from each region qualifying to TI
  
• Second and third place from each region's qualifiers will then compete in a LAN event shortly afterward, prior to The International
  
• Out of those 12 teams, first and second place will qualify to The International 11.
  

General

• A new set of legacy combat encounters have been added for Act 1 at Magician and higher difficulties
  
• Surge ascension modifier move speed increase reduced from 50% to 40%, and the enemies can now be slowed
  
• Reduced base armor on many bosses and captains
  
• Reduced health and damage sensitivity of Toothy Toothums
  
• Reduced health regeneration of enemy Alchemist Chemical Rage
  
• Reduced damage of Brain Sap and Fiend's Grip in Demonic Woods
  
• Glarf's Bloodlust option has been improved from 2 encounters, 50 bonus attack speed, 12% bonus movement speed to 3 encounters, 60 bonus attack speed, and 15% bonus movement speed
  
• Fixed Carrie not leveling up with Ascension in Bug Bait
  
• Fixed Bogdugg's Cudgel and Femur not working
  
• Fixed cases of patrolling units being exploitable via attacks outside their aggro radius
  
• Bosses will now only begin their fights once they've seen the player
  
• Fixed being able to drop movement speed items to circumvent movement speed cap for trap rooms
  
• Trap Room base movement speed increased from 350 to 360
  
• The following items are no longer purchasable from the main shop:
  Creature Blade Mail
  Outworld Meteorologist Meteor Hammer
  Continuum Key
  
• Fixed Pudge Encounter map on west side having too a narrow channel for Pudge to get through
  

• Enfeeble: Cast reduction minor shard increased from 3 to 4%
  
• Fiend's Grip: Mana drain minor shard combined with damage per second minor shard
  

• Singe: Knockback distance increased from 50 to 72
  
• Singe: Knockback duration increased from 0.1 to 0.2
  
• Singe: Slow duration increased from 1 to 2
  

• Solar Guardian: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 100
  
• Lightbringer: Mana cost reduced from 100 to 75
  
• Lightbringer: Duration increased from 5 to 6
  
• Lightbringer: Cooldown decreased from 60 to 45
  
• Sun Sentinel: Duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds
  
• Death of a Star: Fixed some cases where the cast would not start
  
• Death of a Star: Now increases base heal by 75
  

• Glimpse: Bonus damage minor shard increased from 40 to 50
  
• Static Storm: Cooldown reduced from 90/80/70 to 60/55/50
  
• Shocking Travel: Increased damage from intelligence from 70% to 100%
  
• Pacific Storm: Damage reduction increased from 30 to 50%, and also slows movement speed by 50%.
  

• Gust: Bonus blind percent minor shard increased from 5 to 7
  
• Marksmanship: Active cooldown reduced from 70 to 60
  
• Silent Echo: Now also grants Drow 2 agility for every enemy hit and 4 agility for every captain hit for 12s.
  
• Fleet-Footed: Now applies a basic dispell on allies.
  

• Missile Ride: Area of effect increased from 90 to 120
  
• Missile Ride: Now deals 2x damage
  
• First Strike: Fixed it having no effect if cast again while already having Flak Cannon active
  

• Blade Fury: Duration minor shard decreased from 1.0 to 0.75
  
• Detonate Ward: Now increases Healing Ward radius by 150.
  
• White-Hot Katana: Ignite duration increased from 5 to 10
  
• White-Hot Katana: Ignite damage increased from 25% to 50%
  

• Torrent: Damage shard increased from 50 to 75
  
• Tidebringer: Damage increased from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80
  
• Tidebringer: Damage shard increased from 15 to 20
  
• Ghostship: Cooldown reduced from 80/70/60 to 60
  
• Ghostship: Removed rum absorb minor shard
  
• Ghostship: Added 150 damage minor shard
  
• Tsunami: Now fires a single wave forward that deals 250% of Tidebringer's damage as magic.