Dota 2 Update - October 27, 2011

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

HEROES

• Added Batrider, Huskar, and Jakiro!
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed a bug with Chilling Touch attack speed reduction display.
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed a recent bug with Ice Trail path debuff happening a little too early
• Beastmaster: Fixed Call of the Wild resummoning showing up as a deny.
• Broodmother: Fixed Poison Sting from affecting Wards.
• Broodmother: Fixed the wrong web sometimes getting removed when a new one is added.
• Broodmother: Fixed the Spiderlings and Spiderite passive abilities working on buildings and mechanical units.
• Broodmother: Fixed Spawn Spiderlings not being a projectile.
• Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger being purgable.
• Broodmother: Fixed Insatiable Hunger bonus damage being considered as base damage.
• Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot interaction with alled units and neutrals.
• Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot not stunning magic immune units.
• Clockwerk: Fixed the Hookshot target sometimes being able to run away before he arrives.
• Clockwerk: Fixed cases where Hookshot would drop you to a lower level if your target was near a ledge
• Enigma: Fixed Greater Eidolon movement speed.
• Enigma: Fixed Dire Eidolon armor.
• Faceless Void: Fixed Chronosphere's interaction with various passives
• Juggernaut: Fixed Blade Dance working on wards.
• Kunkka: Fixed Torrent slow not lasting as long as it should.
• Kunkka: Fixed X Marks The Spot ignoring Linken's Sphere
• Kunkka: Fixed X Marks The Spot vision revealer not working.
• Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship not having vision.
• Kunkka: Fixed Ghost Ship's allied buff not reducing spell damage.
• Mirana: Fixed vision around Arrow when it impacts.
• Pudge: Fixed cases where Hook would drop the pulled target to a lower level if your target was near a ledge
• Queen of Pain: Fixed bug in Shadow Strike slow falloff.
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Scream of Pain not hitting units in fog of war
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Shadow Strike not being castable on regular units
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Scream of Pain not hitting invisible units.
• Queen of Pain: Fixed Shadow Strike not allowing you to deny heroes.
• Razor: Fixed Eye of the Storm not hitting invisibile units.
• Riki: Fixed Backstab working on mechanical units.
• Riki: Fixed Smokescreen working on Ancients.
• Riki: Fixed the timing on Blink Strike damage.
• Skeleton King: Fixed Aegis not working on him once he levels up Reincarnation.
• Skeleton King: Fixed Vampiric Aura on mechanical units.
• Skeleton King: Fixed Vampiric Aura on denies.
• Weaver: Fixed sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed Heart of Tarrasque health regeneration from stacking.
• Fixed various items and abilities not interrupting channeling when used
• Fixed being able to revive a courier by upgrading it after it dies.
• Fixed courier stopping in its position whenever the hero it's delivering items to teleports.
• Fixed bug that caused illusions generated from a disconnected player to be controllable by the enemy team
• Fixed Siege units being considered as heroes for Bloodbath's distance check
• Fixed Chronosphere freezing other units you own
• Fixed issue that caused issued commands to not be executed immediately.
• Fixed a slight delay on many commands given to heroes.
• Fixed Monkey King Bar from proccing on towers.
• Fixed bloodstone charges stopping at 30.
• Fixed Armlet active bonus continuing after dropping the item.
• Fixed Creep Stats reseting after reaching 500.
• Fixed gold bounty values on creeps after that lane's barracks is down.
• Fixed Necronomicon not killing its previous units when used again (from Refresher, Tinker's Rearm, etc).
• Fixed Necronomicon Mana Burn ignoring Linken's Sphere
• Fixed Fountain mana regeneration being too slow
• Enabled Broodmother, Skeleton King and Queen of Pain in Captain's Mode.
• Fixed various stats on necronomicon units
• Fixed Satyr Hellcallers to only consider units in its vision for deciding when to cast shockwave.
• Fixed interaction with Roshan on Rocket Flare and Mana Void.
• Fixed Heart, Urn of Shadows, and Dagger not being properly Disabled by Haunt.
• Fixed a performance hitch when creating illusions.
• Fixed towers not revearling invisible non-hero units (spiderlings, hawk, etc).
• Wildkin Warchief's Tornado will now follow the target enemy you right-click instead of giving an error message.
• Fixed Kobold Taskmaster HP.
• Fixed Centaur Outrunner Armor and Damage.
• Fixed Attack type on Centaur Chief.
• Fixed small wolf's attack, armor and attack range.
• Fixed Enraged Wildkin level and XP bounty.
• Fixed Acquisition range on various neutrals.
• Fixed various minor inconsistencies on unit stats.

UI

• Added a commendation system, which allows you to commend players who made your game a happier experience, and report anyone being hostile. You can commend or report a player by clicking their name in the main menu, in-game scoreboard or end game score screen.
• Added shop hotkey labels for shop category buttons.
• Clicking or control clicking a unit now selects all units of that type onscreen instead of globally.
• Player Perspective now shows shop and shop search text.
• Tiny's Toss will now show an error message if he has nothing near him to toss when he reaches cast range.
• When disarmed (Ghost Scepter, Decrepify, etc.), you can now right-click or attack-move-click on enemies to move toward them. The "Can't Attack" error will not appear until you reach attack range of the enemy.
• Shift-queued orders that become invalid by the time they are executed will now show an error message.
• Added an error message for when your shift-order-queue is full.
• Fixed a problem where certain orders could be ignored if a player tried to execute them just before they became invalid, especially with a slow connection to the server. An appropriate error message will now be displayed in these cases.
• Fixed losing key input when you search the shop with the chat up
• Fixed a bug where you could swap a stash item with a channeling teleport scroll and still finish the teleport.
• Fixed not being able to see your last hit gold effect through fog of war.
• Fixed playing gold sound and visuals for things that give zero gold bounty.
• Fixed a control group bug when Enchantress takes one of Chen's converted units.
• Improved the accuracy of matchmaking parties of players. Note that this may increase party matchmaking wait time.
• In matchmaking, servers are now selected before matches are ready.
• Tooltip hover for hero stats and gold is more responsive.
• HP Bars no longer lose some accuracy when the target is very low HP.
• Fixed Necronomicon Level 2 & 3 Manaburn hotkey not working.
• Added a new hotkey setting to select all units you own other than your hero (unbound by default).
• Fixed the scoreboard and stats panels not updating while the game is paused.

VISUALS

• Added a specific minibash effect for extremely short stuns.
• Updated Queen of Pain's base attack to better match her color scheme.
• Updated shadow strike.
• Fixed lifesteal effects not being owned by their owner which resulted in them not properly culling in fog of war.
• Added Spell Block effect to Roshan.
• Adjusted the tower projectile collision so that projectiles will actually reach towers before exploding.
• Detailed outer cliffs.
• Added falling rock lava splashes added to dire base background.
• Added Dire side moths.

AUDIO

• Frost Armor sound effect now plays when the buff is refreshed.
• Added Broodmother's Spiderling's voice code.
• Heroes can now talk while dead as long as they just want to comment on a Victory or Loss.
• Fixed a bug that prevented heroes from commenting on a rune pickup.

BOTS

• Bots will now attack non-hero enemies.
• Bots now want to attack couriers and Juggernaut Bot's Healing Ward.
• Bots are now very unlikely to break off attacking when the target is stunned or slowed.
• Bots will now buy dust/gem when playing against Sand King.
• Increased the bonus-to-attack when a human pings a target.
• Increased the impact of human pings for lane defends and pushes.
• Fixed issue where tower pings from Dire players weren't working.
• Pinging enemy heroes will also increase the desire for a Team Roam.
• Tightened up the precision of pinging -
• bots should no longer think you're asking for a lane push when you ping on an enemy that's near a tower.
• Bots now know to move to healing auras if they need some healing and aren't desperately retreating. Currently works with Juggernaut's Healing Ward and Witch Doctor's Restoration Aura.
• Bots will now prioiritize interrupting units that are channeling.
• Fixed a number of cases where bots were getting stuck trying to use an item on an invalid (magic immune, invulnerable, etc) target.
• Improved bot target-selection logic for Eul's Scepter.
• Improved bot Diffusal Blade usage -
• it will no longer cast it on retreating targets that have an incoming stun.
• Improved Orchid usage -
• bots will now use it to break channels.
• Improved Urn usage -
• bots will no longer worry about using it on allies that are being hit by creeps.
• Bots now take damage on their own Barracks and Ancient much more seriously.
• Bots are now better about defending the proper lane when in-base.
• Bots should tunnelvision less on tower pushes when enemy heroes are nearby.
• Slightly increased bot desire to attack the enemy Ancient.
• Bots will no longer do Roshan when any lane needs to be defended.
• Bots now announce when they're leaving Roshan.
• Human players now need to be a bit further into a lane to claim it for laning purposes at the beginning of a game.
• Bots should spam chat less about roaming and returning.
• Bots should be much less likely to go for runes if a human with a bottle is on their team.
• Fixed Tiny's build so he will use his final grow.
• Fixed bug that was causing bots to be too timid late-game if they happened to be in a lane.
• Decreased lane push desire when there are enemy heroes nearby.
• Fixed a bug where bots didn't think they could purchase their next item if it would require selling an item.
• Bots should be significiantly more likely to spot farming targets and roam to gank as a team.
• Reduced spamminess of bot chat when pushing a lane.
• Reduced bot willingness to tank a tower.
• Slightly reduced the desire to push a tower when their potential co-pushers aren't nearby.
• Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their flying courier uses shield.
• Bots should be better about picking stuff up from base late-game when they don't have any more pressing desires.
• Added Team Roam chat announcements.
• Bots will no longer defer all runes to humans with bottles when all the human heroes are dead.
• Increased attack desire when a number of nearby allies are attacking, which makes bots more decisive in teamfights.