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Front End Changes

New League Passes

Korea Dota League Tier 3 Season 3

"Dota 2 KDL Tier 3 is composed of AMD Dota 2 Amateur League and PC bang League. The best teams in Tier 3 leagues will receive KDL Tier points and have chance to advance to Tier 2."

　　

Battle 4 Arcana

"Battle 4 Arcana is an online tournament where winners get in game items worth $200 as a prize!"

　　

Prime DX Dota 2 Master Tournament

"The third series of DX Indonesia Dota 2 Tournament. The tournament consists of 16 top teams in Indonesia and will compete for $1000 prize pool."

　　

Inter-Cafe Championship - Powered by Logitech G

"The Inter-Cafe Championship will take 10 cafes from India to participate in qualifiers. The winners from the qualifiers will take part in the grand finals on September 27-28th for 50,000 INR and Logitech Gaming Gear!"

　　

Ossetia Open Cup Season 1

"Teams will compete in the first Ossetia Open Cup for a prize pool of 50,000 Rubles!"

　　

NADota Elite League August

"The most talented players in North America compete in the classic inhouse league format for four weeks."

　　

World Esports Championship

"The World Esport Championships 2014 is a professional e-sports tournament organized by D8TV. The Grand Finals will take place in the city of Hangzhou, China and teams will compete for a prize pool over $150,000."

　　

New League Pass Bundles

Korea Dota League Season 3

"Nexon presents the third season of KDL with SpotTV and KeSPA. Newly promoted teams have joined each respective tier. The KDL will span four seasons with a total of KRW 650 million (USD $605,000) prize pool. Watch the very second season of its kind featuring the top 10 teams in tier 1 and 2! Bundle includes the Boooofus courier!"

　　Includes the Boooofus courier

　　

UI Updates

Aegis Of Champions

The in game Aegis of Champions has been updated with Newbee's victory.

　　

Workshop UI

The Workshop UI has been updated with the ability to now submit Chat Emoticons.

　　Guidelines: http://www.dota2.com/workshop/requirements/emoticons

　　The preview will be displayed directly in the current chat window.

　　

Back End Changes

Updated Strings

New strings regarding the new Workshop Alpha tools and custom gamemodes.

　　"DOTA_Lobby_Custom_Game" "CUSTOM GAME MODE"

　　"DOTA_Lobby_Custom_Map" "CUSTOM MAP"

　　"DOTA_Lobby_Custom_Difficulty" "DIFFICULTY"

　　"Lobby_Invalid_Custom_Settings" "INVALID LOBBY SETTINGS"

　　"Lobby_Invalid_Custom_Game_Mode" "Please select a valid custom game mode"

　　"Lobby_Invalid_Custom_Map_Name" "Please select a valid custom map"

　　"DOTA_ConfirmUnpublishedLobby_desc" "To test an unpublished game mode with other people, all participants must manually install the game mode in their dota_addons folder."

　　"custom_game_sort_installed" "Subscribed Game Modes"

　　"custom_game_sort_unpublished" "Local files"

　　"custom_game_needs_update" "NEEDS UPDATE"

　　"custom_game_restart_title" "RESTART REQUIRED"

　　"custom_game_restart_desc" "This game mode has just been updated. Please restart Dota 2 to get the latest version."

　　"custom_no_unpublished_game_modes" "Any game modes you have in development will show here. Create an addon with the Dota 2 Workshop Tools to get started with your own custom game mode."

　　"ugc_tools_required_desc" "The Dota 2 Workshop Tools are currently in Alpha and require a 64-bit OS. The tools must be installed prior to launching custom games."

　　"ugc_tools_installing_title" "TOOLS DOWNLOADING"

　　"ugc_tools_installing_desc" "The Dota 2 Workshop Tools are now downloading. Please check the active Dota 2 download in the Steam client to monitor progress."

　　New Workshop strings.

　　"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_AbilityIcons" "ABILITY ICONS"

　　"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_AbilityIcons_Desc" "A set of images designed to replace a Hero's ability icons."

　　"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_ChatEmoticon" "CHAT EMOTICON"

　　"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_ChatEmoticon_Desc" "An animated chat emoticon."

　　"DOTA_Workshop_UploadCustomGame" "Uploaded Custom Game Mode"

　　"DOTA_Workshop_Preparing" "Preparing File..."

　　"DOTA_Workshop_Uploading" "Uploading File..."

　　"DOTA_Workshop_Committing" "Committing Changes..."

　　"DOTA_Workshop_ImportChatEmoticon" "IMPORT CHAT EMOTICON"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_Intro" "An animated chat emoticon"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_Help" "Chat Emoticons Help"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_Title" "Source Image File"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_ItemName" "Emoticon Keyword"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_ItemName_Desc" "Proposed chat emoticon keyword"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_AnimationSpeed" "Frame Time"

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_AnimationSpeed_Desc" "Frame time, in milliseconds."

　　"DOTA_ItemTest_ChatEmoticon_Preview_Title" "Preview Chat Emoticon"

　　"DOTA_Workshop_ImportChatEmoticon_Preview" "Preview"

　　"DOTA_Workshop_File_ChatEmoticon" "Source Image (.png files)"

　　Newbee player name strings for the Aegis.

　　"DOTA_HoF_Hao" "Chen Zhihao"

　　"DOTA_HoF_Mu" "Zhang Pan"

　　"DOTA_HoF_xiao8" "Zhang Ning"

　　"DOTA_HoF_Banana" "Wang Jiao"

　　"DOTA_HoF_Sansheng" "Wang Zhaohui"

　　Message regarding the Steam overlay being disabled.

　　"DOTA_SteamOverlayDisabled_Title" "Overlay Not Running"

　　"DOTA_SteamOverlayDisabled_Body" "The Steam Overlay is not running, which is needed for full functionality within Dota 2. Please enable it within the Steam client settings and restart Dota 2."

　　A new "Go to Fight" unused string.

　　"go_to_location" "Go to Fight"

　　The string for the new Kinetic gem that comes with the unreleased Doom sword.

　　"DOTA_Anim_Mod_burning_fiend" "Burning Fiend"

　　

Unreleased Treasure of the Emerald Dragon

This chest is most likely a promotional item for one of the other Dota 2 publisher Perfect World. All of the contents are Genuine which is seen when an item's origin is from a product code.

　　

Slark's Hookblade of Skadi

"In the depth of Sunken Prison, Slark once dug up this Skadi Blade. This mysterious weapon gave him hope of escape from Sunken and power to defeat enemy on the escape way. Since then, Skadi Blade and Slark disappeared together in world."

　　Comes with a custom ambient effect.

　　

Phantom Assassin's Hell's Guide

Comes with a custom ambient effect.

　　

Mirana's Nightsilver Gryphon

Doom's Burning Fiend

Provides a new loadout animation.

　　

Dragon Knight's Heavy Wingblade

Unreleased Treasure of the Onyx Eye

The selection of items that will be covered in the Onyx Eye & Menders Palm can be seen below.

　　

Unreleased Treasure of the Menders Palm

The selection of items that will be covered in the Onyx Eye & Menders Palm can be seen below.

　　

Rubick's Wandering Harlequin's Regalia

The loading screen for this set is already in the files.

　　The alternative head style's model is already in the game along with the custom ability icons.

　　Gallery

　　

Puck's Eternal Nymph

The loading screen for this set is already in the files.

　　

Windrunner's Array of Tranquillity

The loading screen for this set is already in the files.

　　

Nature's Prophet's Father of the Forest

The loading screen for this set is already in the files.

　　

Dark Seer's Imperial Relics

The loading screen for this set is already in the files.

　　

Batrider's Fire Starter Set

The loading screen for this set is already in the files.

　　

Death Prophet's Mourning Mother

Outworld Devourer's Lunacy Bringer

Grimoire The Book Wyrm Courier

Most likely the bonus/rare additional item.

　　

Unreleased Heroes Update

Techies Update

We have some updates to the unreleased Techies model, portrait and ability icons.

　　Ability Icons

　　New Remote Mine ability icon.

　　Updated Scaleform Portrait

　　Squee's Alternative Costume

　　An alternative costume for Squee is now in the files.

　　Example Improvement

　　Work continues on Techies with some more updates to his textures.

　　Gallery

　　In Game Shots

　　

Unreleased Cosmetic Items

Wrath King's Items

A new work in progress set for Wraith King is in the files with two different versions of the weapon.

　　

Unreleased UI Updates

Dota 2 Workshop Alpha Tools

A new panel is in game for downloading an alpha test of new Workshop tools.

　　The panel will also give you a new download progress box on your dashboard.

　　"ugc_tools_required_title" "Dota 2 Workshop Tools Required"

　　"ugc_tools_required_desc" "The Dota 2 Workshop Tools are currently in Alpha and require a 64-bit OS. The tools must be installed prior to launching custom games."

　　"ugc_tools_required_import_desc" "To build a custom game mode, you must first install the Dota 2 Workshop Tools."

　　"ugc_tools_install" "INSTALL"

　　"ugc_tools_installing_title" "TOOLS DOWNLOADING"

　　"ugc_tools_installing_desc" "The Dota 2 Workshop Tools are now downloading. Please check the active Dota 2 download in the Steam client to monitor progress."

　　"ugc_tools_downloading" "Downloading..."

　　In Game Preview

　　

Other Changes

Free Camera Mode

A new command has been added which allows you to control a free camera mode using your mouse and arrow keys.

　　dota_toggle_free_camera"Toggle free camera mode. Only available in DotaTV and replays."

　　You can also configure a bunch of options via these new commands.

　　freecamera_accel "5""Tweak this parameter to adjust Free Camera movement acceleration."

　　freecamera_fog_end "2500""Fog end for Free Camera."

　　freecamera_fog_start "1800 ""Fog start for Free Camera."

　　freecamera_max_speed "500""Tweak this parameter to adjust Free Camera movement max speed."

　　freecamera_rotation_mulitplier "10""Tweak this parameter to adjust Free Camera mouse rotation."

　　freecamera_zfar "4500""Fog start for Free Camera."

　　Example Shots

　　

Multiview Rendering

The implementation into multiview rendering which will help during events such as base races etc has started.

　　Example multiview render setup

　　

Team Fight Recaps

The team fight recap system has also started to be implemented making use of the existing combat log and all of the abilities in the NPC data files have been tagged with a special recap fight level. Level one is a standard ability, level two is an ultimate.

　　There are a number of new commands referring to a new Scaleform panel used in the recap process which isn't in the game yet.

　　

Immortal Item Updates

Some of the pre-existing Immortal items have been updated with custom ability icons.

　　

International 2014 Compendium Effects

The Compendium unlocked purple effects have now been deactivated.

　　

Bot Updates

The issues regarding bots building the wrong items due to having the outdated recipe list have been fixed on Sand King.

　　The Pudge bot was also updated with a revised item build list.

　　

Workshop Updates

The polygon limit on Batrider's mount has been updated to a LOD0 value of 2500 and LOD1 valve of 1500 versus the old 1500/1000.

　　

Sound & Effects Playback Bug

The issues surrounding the playback of important key sound effects like respawning, buying back etc have now been fixed.

　　Praise Gaben

Loading Screen Updates

The Dazzle set Shadow Flame now comes with a loading screen.

　　

Armoury Icon Updates

The armoury icon for Sand King's Legs of the Scouring Dunes has been updated to reflect the newest version of the model.

　　

Predictions For The Next Hero

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