- Front End Changes
- Hero Model Updates
- Hero Animation Updates
- Creep’s Animations
- Shopkeeper’s Animations
- Dragon Knight’s Animations
- Riki’s Animations
- Tusk’s Animations
- Hero Models Broken Down
- New Cosmetic Store Items
- New League Passes
- UI Updates
- Back End Changes
- Materials Update
- Particles Update
- Predictions For The Next Hero
This week’s Dota 2 patch has arrived bring the long awaited in game guide system, a new look for Vengeful Spirit and a number of other changes. You can view the full changelog here.
Front End Changes
Hero Model Updates
Vengeful Spirit has had a complete rework to her model bringing her up the higher standard of model/textures we are now used to.
Vengeful Spirit’s Model
Comparison Slider
New Model
Old Model
In Game Shots
Hero Animation Updates
We have a number of animation updates in this week’s patch.
Creep’s Animations
The radiant/dire melee and radiant ranged creep have been updated with a new animation.
Idle standing animation for the tutorial map.
Barrier casting animation for the tutorial map.
Sleeping animation for the dire melee creep, used in the unreleased tutorial map.
Shopkeeper’s Animations
The shopkeeper has a number of new animations for greeting and waving goodbye.
Dragon Knight’s Animations
Dragon Knight has an introduction animation for the unreleased tutorial map.
Riki’s Animations
Riki has a new set of custom animations for his new Implements of the Tahlin Watch cosmetic item set.
Tusk’s Animations
Tusk has been updated with idle injured animations.
Hero Models Broken Down
Skywrath Mage’s unreleased model has already been broken down.
Skywrath Mage’s Model
No base model until Skywrath Mage is added to the client.
Default Parts
Skywrath Mage’s Weapon
Skywrath Mage’s Head
Skywrath Mage’s Wings
Skywrath Mage’s Belt
Skywrath Mage’s Shoulders
Skywrath Mage’s Bracers
New Cosmetic Store Items
Carrying on the trend of the recent patches we have another three sets ready to add to the Dota 2 store.
Kunkka’s Items
The Commendable Commodore Set
Contents
Model Viewer Shots
Riki’s Items
Implements of the Tahlin Watch Set
Contents
Model Viewer Shots
Sniper’s Items
The Sharpshooter Set
Contents
Model Viewer Shots
Templar Assassin’s Items
The Third Insight Set
Contents
Model Viewer Shots
New League Passes
We have one new league pass in this patch for the 4Players League.
“The 4PL is an European online gaming league that provides, besides many other events, the exciting and well known Play4Dota2 tournaments with teams participating from all over the world. Form your team, win money or hardware prizes and meet or encounter some of the best Dota 2 players.”
UI Updates
We have a number of UI updates in this patch including the arrival of the long awaited in game guide system.
Team UI
The Dota 2 team system has been updated and now allows for players to be members of multiple teams.
Combat Log
The updated combat log from last week’s patch has also been updated and now allows for highlighting and copying the combat log text.
In Game Guide System
The in game guide system I have covered in a number of previous blog posts has now been finished and is ready to launch. The in game guide system hooks directly into Steam Cloud to allow for sharing, saving and rating of a massive database of Dota 2 guides.
The guide system is loaded using the new guide button on the top bar.
The player will also be shown a notification the first time they play a hero after the next patch, which will remind them of the in game guide system.
The guides can be loaded from either a list of hosted guides uploaded to Steam by other players or your own custom builds that you have saved for yourself.
The guide system allows for three areas of guidance; a description panel, an ability guide panel and an item guide panel.
The ability panel shows you a complete list of the abilities and their recommended skilling order. The guide system also allows for extra custom text to added onto the recommended ability tooltip that players can use to add extra text where required. In this instance the text is used to give the player an idea of what Dragon Knight’s ultimate does.
The ability guide system also hooks directly into the action panel, giving the recommended ability a glowing gold border and shows the guide text when the player presses the level up button.
The same guide text tooltip can also be used on the item panel.
Like the ability system, the item guide also hooks directly into the game by integrating itself into the shop.
On the dashboard the learn tab has been updated with a builds page, on this page you’ll be able to browse all of the builds/guides made for Dota 2.
Back End Changes
Updated Strings
The Ancient Stormhide has been renamed.
"npc_dota_neutral_small_thunder_lizard" "Ancient Rumblehide"
The item panel now has support for separating Lone Druid’s bear items.
"DOTA_Item_Build_Starting_Items_Secondary" "Starting Items for Bear"
New error messages for the team system.
"DOTA_TeamInvite_Error_TooManyTeams" "%s1 is already a member of the maximum number of allowable teams."
"DOTA_TeamCreate_Error_TeamLimitReached" "You are already a member of the maximum number of allowable teams."
"DOTA_TeamCreate_Error_TeamCreationOnCooldown" "You have created a team recently and must wait %s1 minute(s) before creating a new one."
"DOTA_Team_Select" "Select Team"
"DOTA_Team_Set_As_Profile" "Show on Player Profile"
Unreleased Treasure Chest
We have a new treasure chest in this week’s patch.
Treasure of Crystalline Chaos
This is the third community chest which will feature items purely from the workshop. The loot list is currently undisclosed.
Tutorial Assets
We have a number of updates to the tutorial assets.
Dragon Knight’s Tents
Dragon Knight’s flag was also retextured:
New Player Shop
Training Tower
Other Assets
New Music & Sound Effects
We have a number of sound effect updates for existing heroes as well as some new music.
New Music
We have two new pieces of a music in this week’s patch, an alternative startup music and a new stinger for reincarnate.
gamestartup2.mp3:
reincarnate.mp3:
Mirana’s Sound Effects
Mirana has a new leap sound effect for the custom Owlion mount.
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Keeper of the Light’s Sound Effects
We have a new mana leak casting sound effect.
mana_leak_cast.wav:
Shredder’s Sound Effects
Shredder has some new attack impact sound effects.
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attack_impact_02.wav:
attack_impact_03.wav:
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pre_attack_02.wav:
pre_attack_03.wav:
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Sniper’s Sound Effects
Sniper has an updated sound effect for the shrapnel shatter effect.
shrapnel_shatter.wav:
Ursa’s Sound Effects
Ursa has a new sound for his Earthshock.
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Materials Update
Legion Commander’s Materials
The first material files for legion commander are now in the files, no texture work done yet except the blank canvas seen below.
Skywrath Mage’s Materials
Particles Update
Skywrath Mage’s Particles
Predictions For The Next Hero
