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Fall 2020 Call to Arms

As we move into the later days of summer, it's time now to also start thinking about the approaching fall season and new possibilities for treasure to come. To help prepare, we're inviting all Dota 2 Workshop creators to dream up the latest in Dota 2 fashion and other combat accoutrements.

We're now officially accepting submissions—themed around autumn, Halloween, or perhaps some other innovations of your own—and we're interested in putting a larger quantity of items to use than in the past.

Over the next week or two, we'll be increasing the budgets for workshop items to give you more to work with. If you discover certain slots haven't been improved sufficiently, please send us your feedback so we can make any appropriate adjustments.

Please make sure to mark your submissions with the "Fall 2020" tag when tendering items to the Workshop. We request that all submissions be on the Dota 2 Workshop by the morning of Thursday, September 24th, 2020. As usual, we would like to ask artists to avoid the use of any concepts that involve human skulls, blood, and gore.

Additionally, all Dota fans should remember to regularly visit the Workshop and vote through the Queue to ensure your voices are heard in the selection process.

Dota 2 - Aghanim's Labyrinth Update - July 30, 2020

General
- The next of Aghanim's Trials will be set to Grand Magus ascension level
- Fixed a bug where passives would sometimes not update their values from upgrades immediately

Ursa
- Earthshock bonus damage upgrade increased from 75 to 100
- Fixed Relentless stacks getting wiped by re-casting Overpower
- Relentless: stacks gained increased from 1 to 2
- Ursa Minor: Cubs' Fury Swipes damage increased from 20% to 25%
- Fixed Ursa being able to get permanent Concealed

Weaver
- Fixed Weaver being able to reduce Swarm's attack interval to near zero

Several Encounters have had their difficulty adjusted down
- The Malorkian Hammers
- An Unwinnable Standoff
- The Soothing Sounds of Sirens

Several Encounters have had their difficulty adjusted up
- The Beastly Babies
- Rizzrick the Razorsaw
- A Bad Trading Post

Some Dota 2 and CS:GO servers are down because a cable got cut

If you normally play your Valve games through the servers for the eastern United States, you might have a worse time than usual today. Valve's US East matchmaking servers are currently down, and it's not because of capacity issues or a DDoS attack or anything you'd usually expect - no, they're down because somebody cut a cable.


"The US East matchmaking server cluster is offline temporarily," Valve tweets from the official Dota 2 account. "There is a cut fiber cable causing a wide area outage in the hosting region. In the meantime we suggest queuing in other servers." There's not yet an estimated time for the fix, but then I guess Valve can't tell you what the cable company's gonna do.


The issue also affects Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but as venerable Valve observer wickedplayer494 notes on Twitter, those games should automatically distribute you to appropriate servers. But you can expect worse latency if you're used to performance on the US East cluster.


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Dota 2's The International 10 prize pool reaches $30 million

Dota 2's The International 10 prize pool has reached $30 million. The eye-watering amount is raised by the MOBA's fans buying Valve's Dota 2 Battle Pass to get cool cosmetics and items for the game. The money will be won by the team that wins The International 10, whenever it finally takes place.


Dota 2's Battle Pass is legendary. Players have always managed to push the boundaries of esports prize pools with Dota 2, and this year is no different. When the Battle Pass came out, it took just 24 hours to reach $8 million, then continued to surge to $20 million in a month.


Now just over two months after its release the Battle Pass prize pool is at a whopping $30 million. No doubt the teams participating in The International 10 will be excited to compete to win the cash, but unfortunately, we're not even sure when the event will take place as it's currently postponed.


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Dota 2's Immortal Treasure II has been added to the TI10 battle pass

Dota 2's The International 10 is a bit stuck right now - the tournament is currently postponed with no official event date but at least while we wait, there are some shiny new cosmetic Battle Pass items.


That's right, the Immortal Treasure II is now available to players. All Battle Pass owners will find an Immortal Treasure II already in their Armory to unbox and increasing your battle level will allow you to earn more treasures as you go.


This time around the heroes getting cool new cosmetics are Magnus, Slardar, Troll Warlord, Sven, Silencer, Jakiro, Ursa, and Witch Doctor. The items vary from a new helmet for Sven, called Vigil Odyssey, to Awaleb's Trundleweed for Witch Doctor. The most valuable items, however, are the rare set of wings you could get for Jakiro, or the super rare versions of the items for Witch Doctor and Slardar, or even the Ursa cub carrier.


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