Dota 2 News

Two Dota 2 celebs have built the best autobattler yet

In early 2019 Dota Auto Chess singlehandedly invented a new genre that every MOBA developer wanted to copy. Auto Chess took the fun characters from MOBAs and put them in a much more approachable, high-level strategy game. It was a breezy time-waster, and you didn't need hundreds of hours of practice to be good at it. As the Auto Chess designers spun away from the confines of their Dota 2 custom game, Valve built Dota Underlords, Riot launched Teamfight Tactics and Tencent took multiple shots at the target. But if you take away the graphical differences between these games, they're mostly indistinguishable...
Read more.

Dota 2 item Bloodthorn voted the MOBA's scariest

Dota 2 item Bloodthorn has a pretty nasty looking icon in-game, accurately portraying just how powerful the infamous weapon is in Valve's hit MOBA. Turns out if you show in-game icons to people who have never touched the game, the vast majority put the reviled blade at the top of the 'I don't want to get stabbed with that' list.

Read the rest of the story...

Dota 2 Update - 10/5/2022

[h3]General[/h3]

Fixed Beastmaster Hawk Dive Bomb being able to target couriers
Fixed Drow Ranger's Multishot not displaying radius preview
Fixed Clinkz's Searing Arrows multishot talent hitting Outposts
Fixed Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison Level 2 value being lower than intended
Fixed Lycan's Wolf Bite interaction with Refresher
Fixed Lycan's Howl sound during night time
Fixed Drums of Endurance range display

Dota 2 Update - 10/3/2022

[h3]General[/h3]

Added an in-game model for Tome of Knowledge
Fixed the motion correction buffering on attacking and casting sometimes increasing the effective distance. This fixes the issue with towers sometimes briefly stopping attacking
Fixed a number of cases where the AoE radius preview wasn't displayed correctly
Fixed a number of spell range preview not interacting correctly with Cast Range bonuses
Puck's Waning Rift and Necrophos' Death Pulse now both have range indicators on mouse-over.
Fixed Primal Beast Uproar incorrectly having decreased Attack Damage Bonus per stack
Fixed Primal Beast Pulverize interaction with some movement-based damaging spells if the enemy died during the grab (e.g. Lion's Earth Spike)
Fixed Refresher Orb and Shard cooldowns incorrectly ticking down in some cases where the items were not in the hero's main inventory
Fixed Meepo's shard damage value being decreased
Fixed Boots of Travel not showing cooldown in inventory and when Alt is held under the player on the top bar and improved the HUD teleport indicator appearance
Fixed issue that sometimes allowed using abilities when in a stunned state

[h3]Rubick[/h3]

Fixed Telekinesis interaction with allies in free spells mode.
Fixed Telekinesis landing marker fx not appearing
Fixed illusion display interactions with some stolen abilities
Fixed Spell Steal interaction with Undying's Decay and Flesh Golem.
Fixed Spell Steal interaction with Queen of Pain's Shadow Strike scepter version
Fixed Spell Steal interaction with Enigma's Malefice shard version
Fixed Arcane Supremacy incorrectly adjusting some range indicators
Fixed the +40% stolen spell talent to display additional damage in tooltips when Alt is held.
Fixed Astral Spirit stolen sometimes providing a permanent spirit buff on Rubick.

Talent Stickers and Voice Lines

Yesterday we shipped an update which added a capsule containing Talent Stickers that unlocked talent voice lines. Upon doing so, fans and talent alike reached out expressing unhappiness with the product. Our intention was to create a compelling system that allowed fans to connect with their favorite talent in a different way than in previous years, and we fell short of that goal. We are sorry for that and we intend to correct it.

In order to address these issues, and after talking to some of the talent that reached out with concerns and proposals, we are adding the option to directly purchase a talent's voice line with 50% of the revenue going exclusively to that talent. Players can purchase these voice lines directly from the Talent page in the Battle Pass.

For players that have already purchased and opened talent sticker capsules, those stickers will continue to function as before. As with voice lines unlocked via stickers, directly purchased voice lines are also usable permanently.