Dota 2 News

Collector's Cache Battle Pass Vote

The Dota 2 Workshop has seen an amazing amount of high-quality submissions for this year's Collector's Cache. As is custom, we'd like to invite all Battle Pass owners to weigh in on the process and help make the final selection.

From now until Friday, June 12, the final candidates for the Collector’s Cache will be featured for preview in the Dota 2 client, where all players can see a lineup of the item sets for easy comparison. Battle Pass owners can give a thumbs up or down to each set under consideration, and sets with the highest scores will be included as the main items of the Cache.

We'd like to thank all of the workshop artists who have submitted items, and we look forward to unveiling the collection that best represents the community's favor.

Dota 2's Sideshop shut down in latest battle pass update

The International 2020 battle pass has divided Dota 2 fans ever since it was released last week. Now, after making one round of changes based on community feedback, Valve has decided to make another set - this time altering several features so that they work similar to previous years.

Thanks to an update pushed live earlier today (June 5), the Weekly Wagering system now works how it used to in last year's battle pass. This means there will be the same amount of battle points available to players from wagers.

In addition to changing the wagering system, Valve has also removed Sithil and Quirt's Sideshop from the game. The shop was meant to give players more opportunities to do more with their earnings, but the community didn't like it. The Sideshop has now been replaced by a recycling system similar to that of last year's pass.

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Dota 2 Update - June 5th, 2020

In this update we are rolling back two features to be like they were last year: Weekly Wagering & Recycling/Sideshop.

The amount of weekly battle points available from wagering is now the same as last year.

Sithil and Quirt’s reimagined Sideshop has been shut down. Immortals can now be recycled using the same system as last year. For players that have already recycled immortals, the system will automatically back fill your progress on this replaced system and grant you additional immortal treasures as appropriate. Any rewards previously earned through the Sideshop will remain in player inventories, and if you still have gold and wish to continue rolling in the Sideshop, you can use the dota_show_sideshop command.

As part of this update we are also removing ticketing requirements for the Gauntlet.

Valve makes changes to Dota 2's TI10 battle pass after community complaints

After almost a week of discontent from Dota 2 players about this year's The International battle pass, Valve has addressed the concerns by putting out an update that increases the speed at which you can level up.

While the battle pass sold incredibly quickly when it was launched last week, generating over $12 million already for TI10's prize pot, players quickly realised that it was not as generous as previous years. Fans believed the grind for this year's pass was harder and rewarded players for spending more cash. There is a similar amount of content in the pass, but it's been spread across more levels, requiring a lot of play time, money, or both.

However, Valve has now made progressing through the battle pass a little easier after making a number of changes in an update. In an accompanying post to the update on June 1, Valve says: "We recognise that players still feel that they wish playing granted more, so we have [made] a few changes."

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Dota 2 Update - June 1st, 2020

We've read feedback from the community that leveling feels harder this year. We looked into how things compare so far to last year. For battle pass players of all levels, on average players have earned 1.95% more free levels than last year. If we consider only players who after a week were below level 200, on average they have earned 7.91% more free levels than last year. However, we recognize that players still feel that they wish playing granted more, so we have a few changes included in this update:

- Wagering battle point rewards are now increased by 50%
- Guild contract battle point rewards are now increased by 100%
- Sideshop gold for Recycling is increased by 65%
- Sideshop gold for Guild contracts and upgrades are increased by 100%

All these changes are effective as of this update. For sideshop gold earned through previous recycles, we will be granting the extra gold over the next few hours.