Dota 2 News

Over the last few days we've made the following changes:

• Fixed being unable to configure Quickcast behavior on Observer and Sentry wards in the Settings menu.
  
• Fixed Razor's Voidstorm Asylum Arcana using the incorrect icon for Storm Surge.
  
• Fixed Shadow Fiend Presence of the Dark Lord not losing stacks correctly on death.
  
• Fixed lighting issue on seasonal winter terrain.
  
• Fixed loading spinners not spinning correctly.
  
• Fixed Force Staff's tooltip description ending with 2 periods.
  
• Fixed sprays from events which have ended not properly rendering.
  
• Fixed various client and server crashes.
  
• Fixed Watcher colors not matching their team under some circumstances.
  
• Enabled Kez's Sai abilities in Ability Draft. The draft screen will show a random combination of Kez's Katana and Sai abilities.
  
• Crownfall: Heroes whose reward tokens associated with meta-progression upgrades now show up under the Crownfall Act IV filter in the Hero pick screen.
  
• Crownfall: Fixed Nest of Thorns Loading Screen not being visible.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Voiceline rewards for difficulties 3, 5, and 7 are now permanent.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Improved visibility of the Reaper, which spawns on difficulties 5 and above.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Spirits now ignore range modifiers and always spawn at a set distance away from the player.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Fixed score sometimes not updating properly.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Fixed incorrect text being displayed if launching the client with an invalid language.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Fixed Rot's Scepter obscuring various visual elements in the game.
  
• Nest of Thorns: Fixed Echo Slash and Swashbuckle not working correctly on Linux
  

Kez:

• Echo Slash: No longer applies cleave on units hit.
  
• Falcon Rush: Rush Range decreased from 650 to 575
  
• Grappling Claw: Hero Bonus Heal reduced from 40/80/120/160 to 30/60/90/120
  
• Grappling Claw: Cooldown increased from 15/12/9/6 to 16/13/10/7
  
• Talon Toss: Cooldown increased from 15/12/9/6 to 16/13/10/7
  
• Raven's Veil: Applied mark no longer applies parry bonus.
  
• Replaced +50 Raptor Dance Radius level 15 talent with new talent: Raven's Veil Mark Applies Parry Bonus
  
  
• Added additional HUD styling to better communicate the current stance Kez is in.
  
• Raptor Dance: Fixed particle effect not increasing when radius increased.
  
• Echo Slash: Fixed it hitting units slightly further than its range.
  
• Echo Slash: Fixed secondary attack cancelling Kez's invisibility.
  
• Falcon Rush: Fix secondary attack sound effect not playing.
  
• Shodo Sai: Fixed cases where Mark would not be applied properly if it was already applied.
  
• Shodo Sai: Fixed parry cancel sub-ability being affected by Faceless Void's Time Dilation.
  
• Fixed cooldown reduction not applying to alternate weapon abilities.
  
• Grappling Claw: Reworded description to clarify bonus hero healing.
  

Patch 7.37e is out now. You can check out the patchnotes here.

Kez:

• Kazurai Katana: Damage Per Second reduced from 7/8/9/10% to 6/7/8/9%
  
• Falcon Rush: Katana base attack rate increased from 1.3/1.2/1.1/1.0 to 1.4/1.3/1.2/1.1
  
• Falcon Rush: Duration decreased from 7 to 3/4/5/6
  
• Raptor Dance: Increased cooldown from 40/32/24 to 40/35/30
  
• Raven's Veil: Increased cooldown from 40/32/24 to 40/35/30
  
• Grappling Claw: Fixed chain not being broken when linked to a target out of range
  
• Shodo Sai: Fixed some Mark interactions dealing more damage than intended
  
• Grappling Claw: Fixed it ignoring evasion
  
• Echo Slash: Fixed it ignoring evasion
  
• Echo Slash: Fixed it killing couriers
  
• Echo Slash: Fixed it allowing Kez to escape leashes and movement prevention abilities (i.e. Disruptor Kinetic Field )
  

Over the days since release of Crownfall Act IV and Kez, we've also fixed several issues:

• Fixed a client crash with Moon Shard
  
• Fixed a server crash involving Ogre Seal Totem and Lone Druid
  
• Fixed various issues with Quick Buy
  
• Fixed Shen and Dragonus arcana style unlocks not applying to respective cursor icon packs
  
• Fixed Juggernaut Primal Prowl style unlock
  
• Fixed various crashes with Act IV encounters
  
• When winning an Ability Draft game, instead of granting 3 tokens and 2 scrap, grant 2 tokens and 8 scrap.
  
• Spleen Sweeper: added a scoring section on the main menu to show scoring information. Fixed score summary not showing after beating all 5 stages.
  
• Spleen Sweeper: fixed last stage not granting a completion bonus of 4000 points
  
• Castle Carnage: fixed Tunneler particle missing model and issues with grenade bouncing
  
• Castle Carnage: fixed phantom terrain blocking some shots
  
• Spoon Man: fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would stay invisible after a popup
  
• Spoon Man: fixed a crash related to pressing a button before the game is loaded
  
• Spoon Man: fixed being able to get stuck inside a block
  
• Nest of Thorns: fixed an issue where rewards could fail to be granted
  
• Nest of Thorns: fixed an issue where gold amount could fail to be saved
  
• Fixed Blind Queensguard (strange vendor) encounter not working
  
• Fixed Act IV sprays not showing up in Chat Wheel
  
• Crownfall map: clicking on the tokens-received gift alert attached to the inventory now opens the associated encounter
  
• Fixed an issue where playing or replaying the Kez debut animation could result in a black screen
  
• Fixed new Crownfall trophies not showing up
  
  

Kez:

• Base Armor increased from 0 to 2
  
• Base move speed increased from 315 to 320
  
• Falcon Rush attack rate for Sai decreased from 1.3/1.2/1.1/1.0 to 1.2/1.1/1.0/0.9
  
• Fixed bug where Falcon Rush could target units out of range
  
• Fixed bug where Falcon Rush ignored the attack speed cap