Dota 2 News

Dota 2 pros are fed up with the "outrageous" state of the Steam MOBA

Dota 2 has been in the spotlight a lot recently. It's October and The International 11 is underway, this time in Singapore. But, the way the tournament is being handled - as well as other events surrounding the MOBA - has caused pros to call into question just how dedicated Valve is to its player base.

"At one point, the TI was a celebration of the game, with a celebration of the players, with a celebration of the developers," OG Esports' JMR tells fellow pros Ceb and N0tail on Episode 41 of the Monkey Business Show podcast. "But, now, it really doesn't feel like TI is for the players. Players are competing, but the show is not for them anymore. We have less tickets for the finals, and we have no tickets for the days that we're not playing."

He is, of course, referring to the fact that Valve has not even allocated players and their families tickets to spectate the whole event; players are only encouraged to be there when they are competing for the crowd.

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Primal Beast Prestige Bundle — Now Available

Throughout the ages, there have been countless attempts to control the Primal Beast — and one of the most devastating plans only made the creature more fearsome than ever before. Stomp into the lanes in forged finery with the all-new Age of Attrition Prestige bundle — featuring custom animations and effects — available now to all Battle Pass owners who trample over level 223.

[h3]Last Chance Qualifiers[/h3]

Tune in for the final action before we arrive at The International — as the twelve Last Chance Qualifier teams square off this weekend to battle for just two remaining spots in the tournament field. Action kicks off on Saturday, October 8 at 10:00am Singapore time and will conclude Wednesday, October 12, when the full complement of twenty teams battling for the Aegis will at last be set. Keep track of the full schedule here.

Two Dota 2 celebs have built the best autobattler yet

In early 2019 Dota Auto Chess singlehandedly invented a new genre that every MOBA developer wanted to copy. Auto Chess took the fun characters from MOBAs and put them in a much more approachable, high-level strategy game. It was a breezy time-waster, and you didn't need hundreds of hours of practice to be good at it. As the Auto Chess designers spun away from the confines of their Dota 2 custom game, Valve built Dota Underlords, Riot launched Teamfight Tactics and Tencent took multiple shots at the target. But if you take away the graphical differences between these games, they're mostly indistinguishable...
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Dota 2 item Bloodthorn voted the MOBA's scariest

Dota 2 item Bloodthorn has a pretty nasty looking icon in-game, accurately portraying just how powerful the infamous weapon is in Valve's hit MOBA. Turns out if you show in-game icons to people who have never touched the game, the vast majority put the reviled blade at the top of the 'I don't want to get stabbed with that' list.

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Dota 2 Update - 10/5/2022

[h3]General[/h3]

Fixed Beastmaster Hawk Dive Bomb being able to target couriers
Fixed Drow Ranger's Multishot not displaying radius preview
Fixed Clinkz's Searing Arrows multishot talent hitting Outposts
Fixed Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison Level 2 value being lower than intended
Fixed Lycan's Wolf Bite interaction with Refresher
Fixed Lycan's Howl sound during night time
Fixed Drums of Endurance range display