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Dota Labs and Crownfall Collector's Cache Voting

[h2]Dota Labs Updates[/h2]
We announced Dota Labs a couple months ago, and since then we've continued to iterate quietly on the features in it as we get feedback and data. "Quietly" is fine, but sometimes it can be useful to be a bit louder so today we're turning up the volume a little:

We're happy to announce the first promotion of a Dota Labs option out of Labs and into the game itself: high-visibility hero health bars, under Options -> Interface.
Over the last weeks (and today), we've shipped a variety of updates to the other features, including additional controls for the overlay map, new data in the pre-match analytics, and the ability to treat targeting modifier keys as toggles rather than holds.
Lastly, because we've gotten so many useful submissions from the Feedback button built into the Crownfall map, we've added one to the Dota Labs UI as well.

As always, please continue to tell us which parts of the still in-development Labs features you like and which you think need improvement.

[h2]Collector's Cache Voting Begins[/h2]
Our community of artists have also been hard at work. Hundreds of item sets have been lovingly crafted, lovingly polished, and lovingly uploaded to the Workshop, and now it's up to you, the Dota community, to lovingly vote on which ones you'd like to see in the next Collector's Cache!

In the spirit of Dota Labs experimentation, this time voting is open to everyone. From the dashboard, simply click the Collector's Cache Voting button and then upvote or downvote the sets you're the most passionate about. Voting runs from now until May 21st, with the most popular sets getting released as part of a future Crownfall update.

Dota 2's Pudge becomes the MOBA's first character to be played in over a billion matches

Dota 2's Pudge has become the first character in the MOBA's history to be played in more than a billion matches, making the portly butcher the game's most popular character by about 300 million matches...
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Dota 2 Update - 4/22/2024

Over the last few days since Crownfall's release we've addressed the following issues:

Fixed the match history Dota Plus rank change column sometimes displaying zero change for matches where a Ranked Double Down token was used. (The correct rank change was recorded on the server, this was just a display issue.)
Fixed Crownfall Ranked Double Down tokens beyond the first not being correctly granted. Missing tokens have been granted to all affected accounts.
Fixed voice chat indicators not appearing for some players.
Fixed the in-game Ranked Double Down button not appearing for some players.
Fixed a bug allowing Shadow Demon to level up his ultimate outside of the correct level points.
Fixed the Demo Hero mode Target Dummy being unintentionally killable.
Fixed a bug in the combat log that caused an additional tower killed message to be printed along with tower deny messages.
Fixed a bug in the combat log that caused barracks kills by creeps being attributed to a player.
Fixed a bug in the combat log that incorrectly showed no gold being given to all players when barracks were killed by creeps.
Fixed models shown in loadout or pregame screens not always using the highest quality rendering options.
Fixed missing visual effects for heroes with the Aviana's Feather neutral item.
Fixed the Crownfall Snake Charmer encounter to also grant credit when you play two Turbo games.
Fixed the Crownfall Snake Charmer encounter not greeting players the first time you open it.
Fixed some minor visual issues with the Drow Ranger The Finer Points taunt.

Dota 2 Crownfall is a new, ongoing story event packed with rewards

While Counter-Strike 2 remains the dominant force on Steam, Valve also resolutely holds onto the number two spot with its other landmark multiplayer game, Dota 2. Few games can unseat the MOBA, with only brief outpacing from PUBG Battlegrounds and Lost Ark and launch peaks from the likes of Palworld, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring climbing ever so slightly ahead of it. Now, in an attempt to capitalize on its continued popularity, Valve is introducing Dota 2 Crownfall, an "ongoing story event filled with legendary heroes and unique rewards" that's available to all players of the free Steam game.

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Welcome to Crownfall

For over a decade now, Skywrath Mage and Vengeful Spirit have been ambiguously entwined. Eagle-eyed players noticed that they come from the same town, seem to have related backstories, and might even be dating. Pretty mysterious stuff.

Earlier, we dropped a comic that solved those mysteries, but introduced an even bigger one: "Why are you posting comics instead of updates?"

We can now reveal the answer: Because we've just released The Markets of Midgate, the first act of an ongoing story event called Crownfall, filled with legendary heroes and unique rewards. In this act alone, you can expect dozens of new cosmetic sets, taunts, creeps, emoticons... are we forgetting anything? Oh right, and two brand-new Arcana, one for each of Crownfall's main characters.

So what is Crownfall? It's something completely new that we've wanted to try for a while. And when we say new, we mean new— a new way of telling stories, offering rewards, and making it more fun to win every game of Dota. And it's available right now to all Dota players for free.

Honestly, it's a little hard to describe in a tiny blog post. But luckily, the description is exactly website-sized. Go read the details here. Or, if you'd rather just play instead of hearing us describe it, boot up the game and enter the world of Crownfall for yourself.