* Fixed a major exploit recently discovered
* Recoded Bounty Hunter's wind walk damage bonus as to not require two separate attacks to trigger his new passive
* Some Doombringer nerfs:
* Readjusted the Divine Rapier pickup rules to prevent some abuses.
* -unlock now requires a majority vote before the gold and items of a leaver will be released. As a reminder, once a hero is unlocked, it cannot be switched.
* Added a 15 second wait period before the drafting begins in -CD to give both teams a chance to look at the heroes.
* Renamed the controlon/off commands to be clearer which is which. They are now -disableselection (-ds) and -enableselection (-es)
* Various map optimizations
* Fixed an old recipe fusing exploit with leaver items that could result in crashes
* Fixed Essence Shift on units that change form
* Fixed a couple of bugs with Dark Pact debuff
* Added replay data for creep kills/denies (at time intervals,
format: "CSK"+I2S(PlayerID),value and "CSD"+I2S(PlayerID),value)
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed gold not being split after using -unlock when someone leaves via -kickafk
* Fixed being able to -unlock while a switch vote is ongoing
* Fixed some spells incorrectly triggering Magic Stick/Essence Aura (Devoured Neutral Troll Priests Heal, Radiance Swap, etc)
* Fixed some -CD language text issues as well as some missing parser information
* Fixed Arcane Ring recipe purchase hotkey
* Fixed some potential Basher bugs on some levels of Spirit Bear
* Fixed an abuse possible with one hero carrying multiple Urn of Shadows
* Fixed the second Forged Spirit from being added to your control despite having control helper turned off
* Fixed a bug with -switch when you have Rapier (that you don't own) on you
* Fixed a few other misc minor bugs
Batrider- Flaming Lasso cooldown decreased from 130/90/50 to 90/70/50
Beastmaster- Wild Axes now properly hits invisible units
Bounty Hunter- Jinada cooldown improved from 22/17/12/7 to 21/16/11/6
Clockwerk- Rocket Flare cooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15 to 20/18/16/14
Dirge- Added Aghanim's Scepter for Undying.
Doom Bringer - Reworked and rebalanced most of his abilities
Earthshaker - Echo Slam no longer counts corpses for damage Echo damage (They used to count them for partial damage)
- Aftershock AoE from 280 to 300
- Enchant Totem damage increased from 50/100/150/200 to 75/150/225/300
- Added Aghanim's Scepter to Earthshaker's Echo Slam (echo bounces twice for each hero it hits)
- Echo Slam's Echo damage increased from 35/45/65 to 40/55/70
- Echo Slam's unit search aoe increased by 75 (this is not the damage aoe, just the initial unit search aoe)
- Note: The main idea with most of these changes is to emphasis the timing aspect of the echo slam more. Some other buffs are done to compensate for the reduced power from the corpse count loss.
Enchantress- Movement speed increased from 295 to 305
- Enchant's slow effect increased from 10/20/30/40% to 20/30/40/50%
- Enchant's slow effect duration decreased from 7 to 5.5 seconds
Faceless Void- Timewalk slow increased from 10/20/30/40% to 25/30/35/40%
- Timewalk cooldown rebalanced from 13 to 19/17/15/13
Invoker- Invoke cd from 30/25/12/5 cd to 22/17/12/5
- Invoke manacost from 20/50/80/110 to 20/40/60/80
- Alacrity bonus damage increased from 20-80 to 30-90
- Alacrity duration increased from 8 to 9
- Chaos Meteor damage improved:
Main damage from 40-130 to 55-145 every 0.5 seconds
Burn damage from 8-26 to 11-29 per second
- Cold Snap now applies an initial ministun on cast
- Forged Spirits Armor is now based on Exort and Range is now based on Quas
- Ghost Walk manacost reduced from 300 to 200
- Ghost Walk slow rescaled from 10-40% to 20-40%
- Ice Wall manacost increased from 125 to 175
- Ice Wall cooldown increased from 20 to 25
- Sun Strike damage rescaled from 75-450 to 100-475
- Tornado range increased from 700-3100 -> 800-3200
- Tornado duration increased from 0.6-2.2 -> 0.8-2.5
- Tornado damage increased from max of 375 to 400
- Quas per instance regen from 0.75 to 1
Juggernat- Blade Fury cooldown reduced from 30 to 30/28/26/24
Kaldr- Cold Feet manacost increased from 90 to 90/100/110/120
- Ice Blast impact delay is a little slower now
- Ice Blast no longer pierces Shallow Grave
- Ice Blast debuff is now purgable
Ogre Magi- Fireblast Multicast upgraded cooldown improved from 15/12/9/6 to 12/10/8/6
Obsidian Destroyer- Essence Aura no longer has a lower chance to trigger when autocasting Arcane Orb
Priestess of the Moon- Moonlight Shadow manacost from 200/250/300 to a constant 175
Pugna- Decrepify cast range increased from 550 to 550/600/650/700
Queen of Pain- Scream of Pain now affects Decrepified units
Spirit Breaker- Nether Strike now makes Spirit Breaker magic immune for the second that he is fading out during its cast
- Charge of Darkness decreased manacost from 120 to 75
- Charge of Darkness cast mechanic reworked
Slark- Pounce Leash now gets removed if the target blinks or teleports away
- Shadow Dance passive no longer works if Slark is Doomed
Ursa Warrior- Undid previous cast animation change on Overpower
- Fixed a bug in the recent Overpower rewrite that prevented it from being removed by purge/euls
Visage- Soul Assumption damage per charge decreased from 130 to 110
- Soul Assumption manacost from 100/120/140/160 to 100
- Soul Assumption cooldown from 7/6/5/4 to 4
- Familiars Bounty reduced from 150 to 100
- Familiars now magic reduction from 70/95/95% to 95% at all levels
- Familiars bonus damage attack bonus attack damage from 72/90/100 to 84/105/126
- Familiars now have a small (160) ranged attack instead of melee
- Gravekeeper's Cloak recharge time improved from 14/12/10/8 to 10/9/8/7
Warlock- Fatal Bonds damage increased from 3.75/7.5/11.25/15% to 15%
- Fatal Bonds link count reduced from 5 to 2/3/4/5
Aghanim's Scepter- Added Undying and Earthshaker
Divine Rapier- Can no longer be destroyed by attacking the item
- If a player other than the original owner of the Rapier picks it up, they cannot drop it
Force Staff- Double clicking force staff now acts as if you clicked on yourself
Maelstrom & Mjollnir- Increased max bounces from 3 to 4
Phase Boots- Cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds
- Duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
- Movement bonus from 10% to 12%
Scroll of Town Portal- Double clicking on scrolls now automatically targets your fountain
* Switch now only works as long as the items of the leaver remain intact. Once someone leaves, the inventory of that hero becomes locked. Players can use an -unlock command, but once that is done switch cannot be used on that hero anymore. Once this feature is used enough to be considered stable, switch will be usable by default (-so mode won't be required) with the restrictions described above. The gold that the leaver is carrying is also frozen until the hero is either unlocked or swapped.
* Added a new command, "-controloff"/"-controlon", to disable control help in the game (to prevent stuff like adding summoned units to your current selection: Invoker, Techies, Lanaya, etc)
* Added a new test command to toggle creeps spawn off and on -spawnoff/-spawnon
* Restored -mc, but with more detailed statistics to match up with the recently changed Multicast chance system
* To prevent some abuses with -unstuck, it no longer works if your taking damage during the first few seconds after you enter the command
* Doubled Satyr Trickster manapool and purge manacost (primarily affects just stolen ability via Devour)
* Fixed the teleport effects sometimes being visually on an angle
* Fixed Nightcrawler status buff text format
* Fixed Tango visual buff being slightly inaccurate (this is just a cosmetic improvement/fix)
* Added a visual effect for allied players to indicate which creep you infesting
* Added a new sound set for Furion (91160)
* Added a new sound set for Clockwerk
* Added a new visual effect for Spirit Lance
* Added new charge icon for Soul Assumption (137459)
* Disabled visual charge indication if the cooldown for Soul Assumption is not ready
* Added a new overhead indictor for Soul Assumption (137459)
* Added an visaul effect when Eclipse misses to help players keep track (109017)
* Phantom Assassin images now have the proper fade visual effect (114120)
* Improved Eyes In The Forest cast animation (95740)
* Added new visual effect for Flesh Golem (51874)
* Game mode status, rune messages and a few other misc strings are now externalized properly to allow for more flexible translation choices
* Added replay parsing data for assists (Format: "Assist"+I2S(KillerId),DyingId)
* Fixed a few areas where you could get stuck in using TP scrolls
* Fixed Malefice not reliably working if the enemy is fogged
* Fixed Last Word from firing off on the precast for Ice Blast and Unstable Concoction
* Fixed Ice Blast indicator staying at edge of map until you release it
* Fixed Ice Blast debuff from overriding Time Lapse
* Fixed some Dark Pact bugs
* Fixed Essence Shift from piercing Shallow Grave
* Fixed Essence Shift sometimes not registering properly at high attack speeds
* Fixed Murloc sometimes not attacking the pounced target
* Fixed dispersion damage on creeps
* Fixed bugs with Charge of Darkness interaction with euls and ghost scepter
* Fixed some mac specific bugs
- New agility hero (Murloc Nightcrawler)
- New intelligence hero (Ancient Apparition)
Alchemist- Reworked Unstable Concoction
Anti-Mage- Mana Void cooldown reduced from 120/100/80 to 70
- Mana Break scaling increased from 16/32/48/64 to 28/40/52/64
Bone Fletcher- Searing Arrows cooldown from 2/2/0/0 to 2/0/0/0
Bounty Hunter- Reworked Jinada
Blood Seeker- Bloodrage Rebalanced from 6/9/12/15 duration and 10 cd to 6/7/8/9 duration and 12/10/8/6 cd. HP loss at a constant 20 hp per sec.
Broodmother- Spiderlings gold bounty increased from 6-8 to 11-13 and XP bounty increased from 12 to 20
Chaos Knight- Cast Point Improved
- Reworked his Blink Strike (7225)
Dark Seer- Vacuum cast range decreased from 800 to 550
- Vacuum damage decreased from 60/120/180/240 to 40/80/120/160
Death Prophet- Witchcraft's movement bonus has been restored (3/6/9/12%)
Furion- Force of Nature's Treants now have 33% spell resistance
Lina- Fiery Soul buff duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds
Leshrac- Movement speed increased from 300 to 310
Medusa- Stone Gaze cooldown increased to 100
N'aix- Movement speed increased from 300 to 315
Night Stalker- Void manacost decreased from 90/112/130/145 to 80/90/100/110
Panda- Lowered Fire Panda armor by 2 points, hp from 900/1350/1800/2200 to 1200 and reworked damage from 52/105/214/234 to 70/112/140/180
- Primal Split cooldown from 180/150/120/90 to 180/160/140/120
Priestess of the Moon- Starfall AoE increased by 50 to fix issues with it not hitting units on the edge of your attack
Pudge- Meat Hook scaling rebalanced. Cast range from 400/600/800/1000 to 550/700/850/1000, cd from 14 to 14/13/12/11 and manacost from 140 to 110/120/130/140
Pugna- Cast Point improved
- Decrepify can now be cast on Nether Ward
Queen of Pain- Base Intelligence increased by 5
Razor- Agi growth decreased from 2.5 to 2.0
- Strength grown decreased from 1.9 to 1.7
- Eye of the Storm mana cost increased from 100 to 100/150/200
Shadow Priest- Shallow Grave cooldown increased from 54/40/26/12 to 60/45/30/15
Silencer- Base damage modified a little from 39-61 to 43-57
Sniper- Shrapnel duration decreased from 10 to 8 seconds
- Shrapnel AoE decreased from 450 to 325
Spectre- Dispersion now spreads the reflected damage over the number of nearby heroes. So it is the same in a 1v1 case, but greatly reduced in team fights.
Twin Head Dragon- Ice Path stun rescaled from 0.8/1.2/1.6/2.0 to 1.00/1.33/1.66/2.0
- Ice Path cooldown scales from 16 to 16/15/14/13
- Macropyre spawn speed improved
Ursa- Overpower is no longer removed when BKB is activated
- Overpower will not interrupt your movement when cast
Warlock- Upheaval cooldown increased from 20 to 65 seconds
Visage- Reworked hero (124153)
Windrunner- Windrunner cooldown improved from 30/25/20/15 to 15
Witch Doctor- Paralyzing Casks now do 50 damage to heroes on each bounce
- Added a new recipe item (Urn of Shadows)
Scroll of Town Portal- Reworked mechanics
Aghanim's Scepter- Added support for Axe. Cooldown decreased from 75/65/55 to 20
Boots of Speed- Now available in the side shops
Blademail- Duration reduced from 5 to 3.5 seconds
- Cooldown increased from 15 to 25
- Blademail can no longer reflect blademail sourced damage
Force Staff- Push distance increased from 500 to 600
Linken's Sphere- Properly blocks Unstable Concoction and Death Coil
Maelstrom- Maelstrom attack speed bonus increased from 15 to 25
Planeswalker's Cloak- Price increased by 100
: Radiance- AoE damage effect can now be toggled on and off
Vanguard- Damage block reduced from 40 to 20 when equipped on ranged heroes (50% less block like stout and Poor Man's Shield)
* Readjusted the -bonus gold/xp system that is given in an aoe around dying heroes from being static unsplit to a dynamic split variation (numbers adjusted as well)
* Rebalanced the creep stats for your creeps when you kill an enemy rax
* Added a new small neutral camp (102473)
* Increase the buffer time in -CM from 45 to 60 seconds (This means 15 seconds total for each player, not 15 seconds for each turn)
* Added the new hero death timers to observer scoreboard title
* Reworked Recipe tooltips (128284)
* A text message and minimap indictator is now displayed when an ally purchases a Courier
* Observer board now shows ultimate cooldowns (120509)
* Added a new physical model for Gem of Truesight (124547)
* New and reworked heroes are temporarily unavailable in -CM
* Added a new visual effect when you have the Haste powerup (83240)
* A special death animation is now played when Pudge suicides (17542)
* Improved spawning location code for couriers, to help against minimap icon overlap
* Decreased cooldown on Courier Morph and added a mini techies courier (123947)
* Fixed Inner Beast buff icon
* Removed extra spikes that appear on some (except Leshrac) characters with Aghanims Scepter (11289)
* Added new sound effect for Scream of Pain
* Improved quality of Panda's Thunderclap icon
* Removed the gorge in the terrain near the bottom sentinel lane
* Added visual effect for Huskar's Scepter (20814)
* Some Nighstalker visual improvements (5227)
* Rotated the direction the Frozen Throne is facing (82193)
* Changed Scourge consumable shop model from Graveyard to Tomb of Relics (114591)
* Added hero pick/ban data to replays for -CD mode (same data format as -CM)
* Added hero pool information to replays for -CD mode (Format: Pool+index,id)
* Fixed hero death timer overwriting player name color for leavers
* Added a camera control command (-center) that locks the camera to your hero. -centeroff disables it (Not recommend for regular games)
* Clarified Ward tooltips
* Fixed lots of typos
* Replay Data: host playerid is 0 if the game was created using HCL automode
* Adjusted where the kill timer shows on the open scoreboard. Names are always visible now.
* Some minor code optimizations when heroes are picked
* Invoker: Forged Spirit units are now added to your control group when created
* Invoker: Added an Ally/Observer only visual effect that plays before sun strike lands
* New icon for Essence Aura
* New icon for Darkness
* New icon for Desolate
* New icon for Void (126145)
* New icon for Enchant (126145)
* New icon for Impetus (126145)
* New icon for Nature's Attendants (126145)
* New icon for Backtrack (126145)
* New icon for SA's Blink Strike (126145)
* New icon for Crystal Nova (118362)
* New icon for Death Ward (126145)
* New icon for Divided We Stand (126145)
* New icon for Dual Breath (126145)
* New icon for EMP (126145)
* New icon for Exorcism (126145)
* New icon for Geostrike (126145)
* New icon for Impale NA (126145)
* New icon for Juxtapose (108662)
* New icon for Phantom Edge (108662)
* New icon for Malefice (126145)
* New icon for Reaper's Scythe (126145)
* New icon for Timelock (126145)
* New icon for Timewalk (126145)
* New icon for Invoke Tornado (126145)
* New icon for Last Word (126145)
* New icon for Amplify Damage (126145)
* New icon for Jinada (105435)
* New icon for Track (105435)
* Fixed bug with swapping with Kunkka and getting Quelling Blade
* Fixed Kraken Shell not getting disabled when Doomed
* Fixed an area where you could TP and become stuck
* Fixed a bug with Forged Spirits dying when getting an allied War Cry buff
* Fixed a recent issue with Frost Arrows cast range
* Fixed Eul's movement speed bonus not functioning correctly sometimes (if your hero has a unit morphing ability)
* Fixed a minor bug with Ursa's Enrage + Fury Swipes combo against Vanguard
* Fixed some Ion Shell stacking bugs
Broodmother- Spin Web now shows a minimap icon
Clockwerk- Armor decreased by 1
Dark Seer- Ion Shell cast on an already affected unit will replace the old buff instead of stacking
- Wall of Replica damage dealt when affecting an enemy hero increased from 125 to 150
- Wall of Replica image damage increased from 60% to 70%
Dazzle- Removed the extra vision on Weave that remains for 12/18/24 seconds. It now only reveals for a couple of seconds during the cast effect.
Huskar- Burning Spears damage rescaled from 6/8/10/12 to 4/8/12/16
Lanaya- Psionic Trap now adds to your most recently placed trap to your selection panel as a secondary unit
Leoric- Vampiric Aura increased from 5/10/15/20% to 10/16/22/28%
Lone Druid- True Form movement speed decreased by 35
- Hero movement speed increased by 10
- True Form transformation time increased from 1.45 to 2 seconds
- True Form armor increased by 2
- Spirit Bear's leash range reduced from 1500 to 925
- Spirit Bear no longer returns to Syllabear when he attacks out of leash range. Instead the bear will not attack
Lord of Avernus- Aphotic Shield cast range decreased from 800 to 300
- Death Coil cast range increased from 300 to 800
Morphling- Morph Replicate mana cost increased from 0 to 150
Necrolyte- Strength gain increased from 1.5 to 2.0
Nerubian Assassin- Mana Burn can no longer target creeps since it no longer affects them (42965)
Nerubian Weaver- Urna Swarm's Scarab's cast mechanism changed. If you cast Infestation while having multiple Scarab selected, only one casts one at a time instead of all of them.
Night Stalker- Darkness cooldown reduced from 240/180/125 to 180/150/120
Obsidian Destroyer- Agility increased from 15 + 1.4 -> 24 + 2.0
Pandaren Brewmaster- Primal Split's Fire Panda now has hero damage type
Pudge- Flesh Heap reworked, it no longer gains strength from creeps. Instead he gains strength (same values as before, 0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8) for any nearby (400 AOE) dying enemy hero. You still get the bonus if the unit dies outside of the aoe if you are the killer.
Rhasta- Scepter version of Mass Serpent Wards no longer increases ward count. Instead, the damage of the wards is increased to match previous damage output.
Storm- Base Intelligence increased from 23 to 26
Sven- Warcry AoE increased from 350 to 450
Techies- Remote mine now adds to your most recently placed mine to your selection panel as a secondary unit
Tidehunter- Kraken Shell reworked, instead of removing buffs in time intervals, buffs are now removed whenever 600 HP is lost from player based damage. The counter is reset whenever you don't take damage for 6 seconds.
Undying- Base strength reduced from 25 to 22
- Intelligence gain reduced from 2.8 to 2.0
- Dying Illusions no longer trigger Plague Aura for regeneration
Viper- Movement speed decreased by 5
Warlock- Fixed Upheaval from slowing in the AOE around you rather than at the target AOE as it should
Arcane Ring- AoE increased from 400 to 600
Armlet of Mordiggian- Recipe restored to previous version since there is no more recipe conflict. Requires claw and 900 gold recipe instead of quarter staff and 500 gold recipe
Demon Edge- Damage increased from 36 to 46
Heart of Tarrasque- Bonus strength increased from 35 to 40
- Regeneration disable time reduced from 10 to 8
Necronomicon- Recipe cost reduced by 50 gold
Mjollnir- Static Charge changed from 45 cooldown to 35
Phase Boots- Bonuses and recipe reworked
Power Treads- Bonuses and recipe reworked
Orchid Malevolence- Increased damage by 5
Satanic- Bonus damage fixed on units that morph
- Cooldown reduced from 50 to 35
* Lots of ingame scoreboard improvements
* Slightly increased the regen rate of barracks and towers when they are attacked without nearby creeps/corpses from 40 to 55
* Added colored teleportation effects (allied only) at the target destination to match your player color (infrisios,5153)
* Added a new command -ii (-iteminfo) that displays allied hero items in the scoreboard
* Added a new Forked Lighting Icon, Name (Ether Shock) and visual effect (16523)
* Changed Vengeful Spirit sound set (13425)
* Changed Void's Time Lock visual effect (5793)
* Items that get disabled with damage (Heart & Dagger) are no longer affected by self damage. Roshan damage now disables them.
* Added a new test command "-killwards" to remove all observer and sentry wards on the map
* Added a new Eyes in the Forest icon (46851)
* Added a visual effect for Kraken Shell when buffs are removed
* Added color change visual for Morphling's model based on the ratio of agility to strength
* Added buyback message for observers
* New replay data available
* Fixed Linken Sphere to properly block Nerubian Assassin's Mana Burn
* Courier's Deliver Items ability now properly exits its logic if you interrupt the courier with a different order (shield and burst don't count)
* Fixed Mjollnir's Static Charge being stackable
* Fixed Proximity Mines not triggering automatically on Scourge Towers like they do on the Sentinel ones
* Fixed a bug with disassembling Mjollnir not giving the recipe
* Fixed Enchant from being able to take over Primal Split units
* Fixed a bug with HCL mode where the game mode could be duplicated resulting in various other weird bugs
* Fixed various typos
* Fixed missing cooldown tooltip to neutral creep Tornado ability
* Fixed Glyph from affecting Tombstone
* Fixed an exploit possible with Puck
* Armlet recipe now changed to include Quarterstaff instead of Blades of Attack (bonuses and total price unaffected)
* Fixed Wrath of Nature from targeting couriers
* Fixed a bug with Spirit Bear's entangle and overgrowth
* Fixed Heart icon on the endgame scoreboard
* Undid a couple of the fun names recently added
* Fixed a rare abuse that could cause other users performance to drop
