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Dota 2 update for 18 September 2021

Dota 2 is dropping support for 32-bit systems

Dota 2 is dropping support for some older hardware in the coming months, including older 32-bit operating systems. As part of their announcement of the update leading up to The International 10, Valve said they're dropping some of the older hardware that Dota has supported up until now. "In order to keep the game and the Source 2 engine fresh, we're planning on removing support for some older systems and configurations. Nothing is changing today, but in the coming months we'll implement the following changes," said Valve.

Those changes include dropping support for Dota on 32-bit systems, macOS versions below 10.14, support for DirectX 9 in favor of DirectX 11, support for OpenGL in favor of Vulkan, and support for XAudio in favor of SDL Audio...
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Dota 2 update for 17 September 2021

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Major esports tournament organizer to require proof of vaccination for 2022 events

PGL, a major esports event organizer, has announced that it will require attendees and participants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for all its 2022 events...
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Dota 2 gets a bunch of spectator HUD updates for the International

The Dota 2 International 2021 Championships cometh. The biggest annual event in the MOBA game's calendar kicks off early next month and Valve has now unveiled its plans for ticket sales to the live tournament and updates coming to Dota 2's spectator HUD for those that won't be there in person.

Valve has revealed in a blog post that it's giving the game's spectator features a good going over to improve the experience of tuning into the action, replays, and overwatch cases. "We've given the spectator HUD a timely refresh that touches on status indicators, info graphs, camera options, and playback controls," the studio explains. Updates across status indicators include a new countdown for the Roshan timer, the ability to ping Aegis to broadcast the time remaining to allies, and item panel displays that show neutral items and which players have got Aghanim's Scepter and Aghanim's Shard.

Graph improvements include a new 'momentum indicator' that makes clear which team's performance is increasing the most over the previous two minutes of gameplay time. Camera changes include an override option that lets you move it in "non-free camera modes" when you'd like to take a peek at other portions of the map, which switches back to your chosen camera mode after a brief delay, as well as a handy new 'directed cam' feature that "lets you click on heroes to temporarily select them as the subject of your focus".

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