Dota 2 gets new battle pass goodies with Toy Butcher persona and announcer packs

Following the launch of the Dota 2 International 10 Collector's Cache Volume II earlier this week, another content drop for the MOBA game's battle pass has arrived in-game. A brand-new persona has arrived for a certain Meat Hook-wielding Hero - complete with a new character model and VO - along with a new announcer pack tying into the upcoming tournament.

The new Dota 2 persona pack is for lucky Hero Pudge, and re-imagines him as 'The Toy Butcher'. It's pretty close to the concept art for the skin Valve revealed along with the battle pass itself earlier this year, though there are a couple of key changes in the character model, which really bring Pudge's spooky persona as a barely-stitched together doll on a mission to life. His spray of lurid green hair is intact, though it's now a bundle of fibrous ragdoll hair atop Pudge's puckered, glaring face. Gulp.

Requirements for picking up the new persona pack are pretty high - you'll need to reach level 255 - but it does include "an all-new model, animations, and voice performance", Valve announces.

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