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Source: Dota 2 Update Released

Patch Notes

Gameplay

Enabled Invoker!
Bloodseeker
- Fixed Rupture not hurting heroes when they blink.
Bounty Hunter
- Fixed Track ignoring Linken's Sphere.
Morphling
- Fixed Morph removing Curse of the Silent.
Puck
- Fixed Ethereal Jaunt from triggering Last Word/Magic Stick.
- Fixed Phase Shift autocasting if you were already stunned before.
- Fixed being able to move in certain situations while auto-casting Phase Shift.
Silencer
- Fixed being unable to steal Int from dying magic immune heroes.
- Fixed Last Word silencing invulnerable units.
- Fixed stealing intelligence from reincarnating heroes.
- Fixed Global Silence silencing only heroes.
Spirit Breaker
- Fixed Charge of Darkness picking units that are invisible or in the FoW when it tries to find a new target.
- Fixed Charge of Darkness ignoring Hex.
- Fixed Greater Bash working with illusions
- Fixed Greater Bash bonus damage working on Towers, Wards and Denies
- Fixed Charge of Darkness and Greater Bash going through Magic Immunity
Storm Spirit
- Fixed Ball Lightning costing draining more mana if you cast it again while still in it.
Tiny
- Ultimate Scepter upgrade is now enabled.
- Fixed Toss damaging allied units.
Fixed Dagon int bonus being off by 1.
Fixed Arcane Boots giving 300 mana instead of 250.
Fixed night vision radius being a little smaller than intended.
Standing right next to a tree no longer removes its vision obstruction.
Enabled Silencer and Spirit Breaker in Captain's Mode.
Fixed Healing Ward and Windrunner auras' sticky durations to 2.5 seconds.
Fixed Dagon's incorrect intelligence bonus values.
Fixed Heaven's Halberd's disarm allowing attack-spells to be cast through it.
Fixed Orchid using the old values at the new price.
Fixed Pipe not costing any mana.
Fixed Flying Courier HP not being upgraded after the last update

UI

Added Steam avatars to the dashboard.
Added Dota Profile page to the main menu, showing your personal match history, commendations and most successful heroes.
Fixed a bug where your control could be lost if you were selecting an enchanted/converted unit. It now goes back to your hero.
Party area of miniprofile now uses Steam avatars.
Party area of miniprofile now shows rich presence for friends
Party area of miniprofile now shows "View Steam Profile" link for non-friends
Party chat channel automatically gets focus when you join a party
Added a '*' to channel tabs with pending messages
Fixed being able to sell back an item for full price if it was combined using an item that had an active ability.
Added spacebar to pause games during replays.
Fixed clicking on the minimap border and then dragging into the minimap resulting in the camera getting stuck to the cursor.
Chat channels now get deleted if the last member in the channel goes offline.
Fixed clicking on blank space in the UI sending move orders to invalid locations.
Default private lobby version is now Tournament Mode.
When player names draw they now draw with player color instead of white.
Added leave party button in mini profile.
Now when attempting to cast-attack a target while hard disarmed, the error message "Can't Attack" will appear when you reach attack range of the target.
Holding <ALT> now spotlights your hero.
Illusions now copy the number of charges in source unit's inventory items.
Fixed Courier purchase having no cooldown (now 7 seconds, primarily for accidental purchases early on).

Bots

Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their courier died.
Fixed a case where bots would buy duplicate flying courier recipes.
Improved Earthshaker bot's Echoslam logic -* he'll now search for optimal places to Blink + Echoslam.
Made bots better about detecting attacking units without cheating and detecting other units' right-clicks.
Fixed Windranger's buildout which broke due to the new Orchid recipe build. Also added force staff to her build.
Modified hero selection portraits of the following heroes:^[1]^[2]
- Crystal Maiden
- Bloodseeker
Added injured-animation for Lifestealer^[1]^[3]
Added strings for Lycan Wolf^[1]
Updated textures for Magnus, Clinkz.^[1]
Added taunt-animations for Kunkka^[1]
Added an unused model labelled Roshan's Aegis.^[1]
Added alternate attack animations for the following heroes:
- Witch Doctor
- Beastmaster