Dota 2 News

Dota 2 Update - August 8 2025

[p]Over the last few days we've addressed the following issues: [/p][p][/p]

[p]Ctrl+Alt pinging enemy abilities or items will now display that the ability or item could be on cooldown[/p]
[p]Fixed an issue with quickbuy where, if a stackable item existed in inventory and another was marked for buy in quickbuy, the item would keep being bought as long as gold and stock were available[/p]
[p]Fixed an issue where Quartero rewards could not be claimed[/p]
[p]Fixed green range indicator appearing briefly when casting abilities with quickcast on press[/p]
[p]Fixed Mjollnir description stating that Chain Lightning deals bonus damage to illusions[/p]
[p]Fixed Alchemist losing bonus damage gained from granting scepter when dying[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug where Bristleback's Seeing Red facet caused enemies in vision to disappear when the buff expired[/p]
[p]Fixed Dark Willow's Cursed Crown and Silencer's Last Word debuffs sometimes expiring without triggering[/p]
[p]Fixed allies being able to target Dark Willow while she has Shadow Realm active[/p]
[p]Fixed Ember Spirit not getting remnant charges from allied hero kills when having the Aghanim's Shard[/p]
[p]Fixed Invoker's twister interval not matching twister radius[/p]
[p]Fixed Invoker's Tornado cast range being different than it's travel range[/p]
[p]Fixed crash with Kez Katana bleed[/p]

[p]Fixed Kazurai Katana overhead damage numbers not representing spell amplification[/p]

[p]Fixed Kazurai Katana impale causing its non-damage effects to debuff immune targets[/p]
[p]Fixed Kazurai Katana shard lifesteal applying to triggered attacks[/p]
[p]Fixed Grappling Claw attacking targets outside of the melee buffer range when landing[/p]
[p]Fixed Grappling Claw being able to escape Kinetic Field[/p]
[p]Fixed Raptor Dance giving inconsistent amounts of invulnerability with cast speed bonuses[/p]
[p]Fixed Falcon Rush gaining rush speed incorrectly in some scenarios[/p]
[p]Fixed Shodo Sai Cancel sub-ability granting magic stick charges[/p]
[p]Fixed a parry interaction that could cause Kez to Echo Slash into the 3rd dimension[/p]

[p]Fixed Lycan's Wolf Bite casting on allies that have disabled help[/p]
[p]Fixed Morphling being able to retain Necrophos Sadist stacks when morph ends[/p]

[p]Fixed Pugna being unable to use Magic Stick or Magic Wand while channeling[/p]

[p]Fixed Queen of Pain Bondage visual effects pointing towards enemies if they are invisible[/p]
[p]Fixed a crash in Shadow Demon Demonic Purge[/p]
[p]Fixed Snapfire being unable to target ethereal units during Mortimer Kisses[/p]
[p]Fixed Tusk shards disappearing for all players when Tusk goes into snowball[/p]
[p]Fixed Weaver's bug bug where Hivemind XP was granted when a Swarm beetle attacked an allied hero[/p]
[p]Fixed Zeus +1 Heavenly Jump Target talent giving +2 attack speed slow[/p]
[p]Fixed workshop tools not loading due to XML/CSS issues[/p][p]

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Quartero, Dota 2’s new dealer of free hats, is a nice chap who surely won’t kill me and sell my skin

Valve, perhaps newly wary of financial transactions after being put over a barrel by Steam’s payment processors, have elected to give away a bunch of Dota 2 cosmetics for free – and are employing the kindliest, definitely non-murderiest of fellas to handle the goods. Sharply dressed satyr Quartero was added to Dotes yesterday alongside the 7.39d balance update, and now that he’s stuffed a Witch Doctor bauble into my hands for nothing, I can safely say that the chances of my burgled body being found behind the remains of his hastily abandoned shop are almost zero.

[p]In addition to gameplay patch 7.39d, today we're shipping a new dashboard feature in Dota. For years now, outside of events, the dashboard's mostly just shown the results of your last match. We crunched the math on this, and it turns out that means for half of all players, every time you boot up the game all you're rewarded with is a sad reminder of your last loss. We're optimistic we can do better.[/p][p]So we sifted through mountains of feedback until a clear pattern stood out: players like hero cosmetics. We sifted still further: What kinds of hero cosmetics? It turns out: free ones.[/p][p]We can work with that.[/p][p]Today we're introducing Quartero, a completely trustworthy new character who wants nothing more than to sit on the main menu of Dota and give you free cosmetics while you play games. [/p][p]The only catch is that there is no catch: It's all free. Dota matches are already full of triumphant highs and devastating lows. Think how much more fun they'll be now that every game gets you that much closer to brand new content, helped along by a brand new character with a brand new tragic backstory that, trust us, he's more than happy to tell you all about. (Try and get him to shut up about it.)[/p][p]And of course, Quartero's Curios isn't meant to replace the big Dota events we're working on—it's a smaller, free feature designed to run alongside them. When things are quiet, you might see more of Quartero on the dashboard. But when the next major event rolls in, he'll happily slide aside to make room.[/p]

Dota 2 system requirements

Dota 2, or Defense of the Ancients 2 if you're a long-time fan, is one of the oldest MOBA games still alive and kicking today, thanks to e-sports events and an active player base. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Dota 2 system requirements are incredibly low on account of the game's age, despite numerous updates over the years.

You won't need to buy the best gaming PC from our buying guide to get Dota 2 running, and you won't need any more power than you'd find in any modern entry-level laptop or PC. The only factor that might hold you back is storage space, as the game has a surprisingly large footprint for a 2013 title.

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7.39c Gameplay Patch

[p]Patch 7.39c is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:

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[p]Allow items which are locked for combining to be delivered by the courier[/p]
[p]Fixed Abaddon's Mist Coil not dealing self damage when cast on enemies with The Quickening facet[/p]
[p]Fixed several bugs where changing styles in the armory didn't update your model's appearance in demo mode.[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug where changing styles while previewing an item in demo mode would not update the large preview in the armory.[/p]
[p]Added a new setting hero specific setting for Rubick to allow players to configure what quickcast mode should be used by stolen spells.[/p]
[p]Fixed Ghost Walk's duration being refreshed every time Aghanim's Scepter was dropped or picked up.[/p]
[p]Fixed Elder Titan being able to repeatedly get the same Damage and Debuff Immunity buffs by alt casting stomp without casting Astral Spirit[/p]
[p]Fixed Lich's Level 25 "Frost Shield Provides +50 HP Regen" working on units with pip-based health (Undying Tombstone, Shadow Shaman Mass Serpent Wards, etc)[/p]
[p]Fixed Exorcism spirits not respecting the equipped cosmetic[/p]
[p]Fixed a bug where items could not be dragged from a courier's inventory to the stash, but could instead only be put in the stash via the Return Items ability[/p]
[p]Fixed not showing an error message when requesting delivery and the courier is dead[/p]
[p]Fixed courier preserving its orders through death and respawn[/p]
[p]Fixed Queen of Pain's Sonic Wave dealing infinite damage and healing when cast on a unit with very high status resistance[/p]
[p]Fixed units forever being stuck at 1hp as a knock on effect of something doing infinite healing[/p]
[p]Fixed "Owned By:" tag showing up on items used while in fog of war on dire side only[/p]
[p]Fixed Undying level 20 talent not spawning Tombstone on death[/p]
[p]Fixed being able to activate a watcher when two allies decapture the same watcher[/p][p][/p]