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Arsenal Forge
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Grievous Ingots
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Iceforged Spirit
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Includes SLTV Loading Screen
Includes Frozen Star Lich Loading Screen
Includes Frozen Star Lich Set
Tier 2 (Requires 75 games viewed)
Tier 3 (Requires 150 games viewed)
"If the hero in your lane is missing for some time, tell your teammates so they don't get ganked!""You can level up your abilities by holding Control and hitting the ability shortcut key""Make sure someone on your team is buying wards to ensure you get map vision""Be sure your team has a courier so that you can stay in your lane gaining experience and gold, instead of needing to return to the shop to buy items.""Sentry Wards reveal invisible units and enemy wards.""Illusions and other creeps don't dispel Smoke of Deceit, only heroes do.""Roshan is a lot easier to kill if you reduce his armor.""Make sure you bring items to restore your health and mana into the lane at the start of the game.""You can level up your abilities by holding Control and hitting the ability shortcut key.""Make sure someone on your team is buying Observer Wards to help increase map vision.""Holding Alt will display additional information in the tooltips of several abilities and items.""Shift-clicking on shop items will add them to the quick buy.""Last hitting a tower gives you more gold.""You can Alt-click your abilities to expose their cooldown to your teammates through chat.""You can Alt-click enemy heroes in the top bar to message your teammates that they are missing from the lane.""When Roshan has been killed, he will respawn after 8 to 11 minutes (randomly determined).""Neutral creeps spawn at the 30 second mark, and then at every minute mark thereafter.""Shift-Clicking actions or abilities allows you to queue them.""Some spells can be dodged with blink dagger or invisibility.""Some projectiles can be dodged with smoke.""Attacking from an uphill position gives you an advantage as the opponent can miss or lose you in fog of war.""Try building a Pipe of Insight to negate the enemies magic area of effect damage.""Shivas Guard and Assault Cuirass are great for boosting your team's armor in an area of effect (AOE).""When a tower is attacking you, attack-clicking on an allied creep will reset the tower's target.""Abilities that do physical damage have their effectiveness reduced by armor.""If a ward is placed close to a neutral creep camp, it will prevent the creeps from spawning.""Monkey King Bar will give you true strike, which prevents you from missing uphill strikes and prevents your enemies from evading your attack."
The Fantasy Points spectator UI panel has been updated to include the extra tracking numbers such as healing done, tower kills, roshan kills and stun duration.
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Self Cooperation
Team Mate Cooperation
"dota_watch_totalprize" "Total Prize Pool: $%s1 (Contributed: $%s3)"
Strings for the new shuffle system.
"DOTA_HS_ShuffleSlot" "SHUFFLE"
"DOTA_HS_ShuffleTip" "Shuffled slots will select a new item after every match played"
Strings for the updated Fantasy Points panel.
"MD_KILLS_L" "KILLS"
"MD_DEATHS_L" "DEATHS"
"MD_ASSISTS_L" "ASSISTS"
"MD_STUNS_L" "STUNS"
"MD_HEALING_L" "HEALING"
"MD_TOWERS_L" "TOWERS"
"MD_ROSHANS_L" "ROSHANS"
New Workshop error.
"DOTA_ItemTest_Error_NoManifest" "Zip file does not contain manifest.txt."
Styles for the new SLTV Lich set.
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Belt_Style0" "Small Bindings"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Belt_Style1" "Medium Bindings"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Belt_Style2" "Large Bindings"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Neck_Style0" "Small Mantle"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Neck_Style1" "Medium Mantle"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Neck_Style2" "Large Mantle"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Back_Style0" "Small Frozen Star"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Back_Style1" "Medium Frozen Star"
"DOTA_Item_Frozen_Star_Back_Style2" "Large Frozen Star"
The updated waiting for players panel will now show battle bonuses and tool tips to show their values.
"dota_waitingforplayers_boost_earn_local_player" "Your Battle Points rate: %s1%"
"dota_waitingforplayers_boost_earn" "Battle Points earn rate: %s1%"
"dota_waitingforplayers_bonus" "Bonus: %s1%"
The texture size is now 512x512 up from 256x256.
The polygon count is now 1800 down from 2400.
Bobusang's AxeBobusang's Fist of the Predator OwlBobusang's JacketBraid of Delicacies of ButcheryBright Moon MokdoriBright Moon SomaeCleaver of Delicacies of ButcheryEpaulets of the Lucent RiderFace of Delicacies of ButcheryHook of Delicacies of ButcheryShadow TracersStyle of the Lucent RiderWings of the Ember Crane
Adornments of the Ember CraneBelt of Delicacies of ButcheryBobusang's MerchandiseBobusang's SunshadeBright Moon ChimaEmblazoned Arm of Delicacies of ButcheryShadow CalvariaShadow ClawsTail of the Ember Crane
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