Dota 2 News

DOTA: Dragon's Blood Book 2 hits Netflix in four weeks

The second season of DOTA's animated show Dragon's Blood will be available to stream on January 6, 2022. As spotted by DOTA 2 community figure Wykrhm Reddy, the Netflix page for DOTA: Dragon's Blood Book 2 now has a release date and a swanky new trailer to boot.

The trailer is a moody affair, as you might expect. We start with several shots of glowing purple lotuses fading into the wind while one man tells a woman that she's no longer worshipped and that all that sustains her is a spark of divinity. We then get some shots of the demon marauder Terrorblade looking suitably broody as he hunts for more Eldwurm souls. We also see scenes of conflict and war, which sets us up for a potentially war-heavy season.

If you've been out of the loop, the show is being created by Ashley Miller, who has worked on superhero movies like Thor and X-Men: First Class. We also have Kaiju Boulevard and Studio Mir on production duties, who you might recall is working on the animated Witcher prequel The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.

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Winter Tour Supporters Club

The DPC is now in full swing, and with it comes the return of Supporters Clubs.

Introduced earlier this year for the 2021 season, Supporters Clubs are a way for fans to support their favorite teams and proudly display their allegiance. New this tour, in order to better support the economies of countries that make up Dota's fanbase, Supporters Club prices will differ by region, to make it more accessible for fans all over the world to support their favorite teams.

Teams who submit content to feature in a Supporters Club bundle receive 50% of all of their team's bundle sales. Fans who choose to support teams will receive increasing amounts of content provided by their favorite team(s), depending on the tier purchased:

Bronze Tier
- A badge for your favorite team, which will appear in your friends list, player profile, Versus Screen, and in-game scoreboard (swappable if you purchase more than one team's bundle)
- 1 Team Fantasy Player Pack
- 1 Basic Fantasy Player Pack

Silver Tier
- All the perks of the Bronze Club
- Sprays to liven up your map and chat, and Loading Screens
- 2 additional Team Player Card Packs
- 6 additional Basic Player Card Packs

Gold Tier
- All of the perks of the Bronze and Silver Clubs
- A special in-game HP-bar badge, as well as Emoticons and Chat Wheel Lines to proclaim your allegiance in-game
- 3 additional Team Player Card Packs
- 7 additional Basic Player Card Packs

Note: Content is subject to availability based on a team's content submission.

As mentioned in our blog about the DPC's Regional Fantasy leagues, we are also launching Player Card Packs. Fans can create a Fantasy roster featuring two Core Player Cards, one Mid Player Card, and two Support Player cards, which will score points based on their performance in a weekly time period (except over the holiday season). Silver and Gold cards, which are a higher tier of cards, have extra stat bonuses that can grant extra points.

Opening a pack for a specific team will grant you player cards from the region your team is representing. The card of the highest rarity in the pack is guaranteed to be from the team whose pack you chose, and the team of choice will receive 50% of the card pack's revenue.

Check out Team Profiles in the DPC tab to view Supporters Clubs, and head to the Player Cards tab in the Watch section to pick up Player Card Packs!

Dota Plus Update - Winter 2021

The days are short and the winds grow cold, but the action in the lanes never stops — meaning it's time for another seasonal Dota Plus update to help power through those blustery nights. Loaded with a new seasonal treasure, and refreshed Guild Quests and Rewards, this update also includes a new heavy metal music pack that will shred the winter blues away.

[h2]New Metal Music Pack[/h2]
Composed by Humanity's Last Breath, the new Void music pack brings a brutal edge to the soundscape of battle. Available now in the store for $4.99.

[h2]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h2]
The Winter 2021 Seasonal Treasure is here, available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Spirit Breaker, Chaos Knight, Riki, Treant Protector, Arc Warden, Undying, and Lina. There's also a chance to unlock Bionic Birdie, a courier loaded with random prismatic and kinetic gems.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]
As always, today’s update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to help haul in some extra shards for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure — offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season.

Joining today's update along with the changes above, the guild rewards for silver, gold, and platinum tier guilds have all been switched for the winter season.

Guild Tier

Rewards

Silver

Emoticon - invoker_dry
Emoticon - luna_rage
Emoticon - manta

Gold

Spray - Spirit Breaker Choo Choo
Spray - Lion Laugh
Spray - Undying RIP

Platinum

Chat Wheel - "Absolutely Perfect"
Chat Wheel - "Как же это сочно, ах!"
Chat Wheel - "漂~ 亮！"

[h2]Upcoming Battle Pass[/h2]
As mentioned last week, we have one last pressing order of business before the end of the year — the Battle Pass, which will arrive in the next few weeks filled with holiday levels of hijinks and rewards.

Delve into Dota 2: The Comics Collection with a 30% discount this Cyber Monday

Since its release eight years ago, Dota 2 has become one of the biggest MOBA games in the esports arena. Of course, part of the reason for its huge success is down to its addictive gameplay and the fact that it gives you much more access to in-game content than you get in most other free games, but more than that, there's the 122 playable heroes with their own unique backstories.

There's a lot of lore to Dota 2 and it's a fun world to lose yourself in. If this side of the game always appealed to you, you may be happy to hear that Dota 2: The Comics Collection is now 30% off in the last of the Cyber Monday Amazon deals (and 26% off in the UK).

Made in collaboration between Valve and Dark Horse, this collection brings together eight premier comics in print-form for the first time. This is an opportunity to dive deeper into the best Dota 2 heroes, giving you an insight into the origin of the Ancients and the world around them.

If you're starting to buy gifts for the holiday season and know somebody who absolutely adores Dota 2, then this could make a really good present for them. With Valve having been directly involved with the creation of these comics, you know that it's going to be true to the source material as well, rather than one of those pieces of tie-in media that take huge liberties with the canonical lore.

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Dota 2's next battle pass is "due out in the next few weeks"

Now that we're a month on from Team Spirit's victory at this year's Dota 2 International tournament, Valve has revealed what's coming up next for its flagship MOBA game. The studio has announced the first tour of the next Dota Pro Circuit season starts up next week, with the Winter Major being the crowning event it'll all lead up to. Alongside this, it's extended Fantasy Dota "into the wider DPC season" - and revealed the next battle pass is coming up soon.

"We're [...] putting the finishing touches on the next battle pass, which is due out in the next few weeks," the studio says in a new dev post. "We've got a special conundrum cooking and we can't wait to share it." This will be the second offering of 2021, following the Nemestice battle pass which launched in Jun this year and ran until August 17.

There's no word on exactly when in the next few weeks it'll drop - much less what will be in it - from the post, but with Valve teasing that it's got something "special" up its sleeve, it looks like we can expect some exciting new stuff, whatever that might be.

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