Change Log

Version 0.1.21

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:39:21 GMT

General:
- Spectator list will no longer show up if the game has no spectator slots
- Misc cleanup and additions to effects
- New ALT-info display for heroes to distinguish them and more clearly communicate team
- Renderer changes that improve normal map quality
* This change has updated all of our textures, as such players will need to re-download all of our textures in the next patch

creep behavior:
- Some improvements to creep behavior to more closely resemble DOTA
* We have a few more tweaks to come in regards to AI (tower, creeps, etc)

Kraken:
- Removed Tidal Pull
- Third ability is now Splash. Splash grants a 20% chance on attack to do bonus Magic damage to nearby enemies.
- Cast range on Whirlpool reduced to 1000, from 1500

Bugs:
- Fixed swapping
- Fixed a bug with Blood Hunter causing him to heal based on his own maximum health rather than the target's
- Jereziah's heal will no longer damage Magic Immune units
- Fixed range on Moon Queen's bouncing attacks on Multi-strike
* Note, the fact that the bounce can hit the same target multiple times is an issue we're aware of that's going to be fixed in a future update. The bounces will also correctly select the closest target instead of random nearby targets
- Tempest's Elemental ability will no longer work on Malphas or Siege units
- Portal key will only trigger the 3 second on damaged cool down if damaged by a player controlled unit
- Torturer's Torment spell now has a 0.75 second cool down when being toggled off, prevents a bug that was causing this to do damage at a high rate when rapidly toggled on and off.

Version 0.1.19

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:31:03 GMT

Bug fixes:
- Abyssal Skull's life steal once again no longer applies to ranged units

Version 0.1.18

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:39 GMT

General:
- Base baracks are now regenerating health correctly
- Allied hero portraits correctly display status information about abilities
* A grey dot means the ability has not been learned
* A yellow dot means the ability is in cool down
* A blue dot means the ability is out of cool down, but the player has insufficient mana to use it
* A red dot means the ability can't be used due to a general disable (silence, stun, etc)
* A green dot means the ability is ready and able to be used
- Allied hero portraits correctly display level and respawn time
- Allied hero portraits display voice indicators when transmitting
- Sharing button on Allied hero portraits enabled to toggle the various sharing modes with a particular ally
- Added double-click unit selection to select all units of the same type
- Added a "leave team" button in the game lobby for getting off a team when both teams are full
- Fixed damage calculations on split projectiles
- Disabled Taunt for now to prevent the exploitation of abilities that trigger on ability activation
- Added several various effects

Items:
- Abyssal Skull's life steal granted now applies to both ranged and melee units.
- Mana tube is now flagged as sharable
- Scarab is now flagged as sharable
- Geometer's bane now properly dispells all buffs and debuffs on use

Kongor:
- Setup kiting prevention on Kongor. If he is out of his lair for more than 8 seconds he will gain short term invulnerability and run back.

Behemoth:
- Fissure now correctly lasts 8 seconds, down from 10

Night Hound:
- Pounce now plays its effects and sound when teleporting to an allied unit

Electrician:
- The damage dealt from Static Grip now properly scales with level (starting out at 30dps, down from 60)
- Static Grip range set to 500 on all levels
- Consistent mana cost on electrician's third ability, such that it is less effective at lower levels but remains effective at higher levels
- Increased cool down of Cleansing Shock by 2 seconds on all levels

Jereziah:
- Protective Charm is now properly dispelling debuffs

Pestilence:
- Flight is now properly typed as a buff rather than debuff

Pharaoh:
- Wrath of the Pharaoh now correctly stuns targets near Pharoah for 1/1.5/2 seconds

Tempest:
- Elemental Void correctly silences and disarms enemies
- Replicate's Elementals now correctly last 35 seconds
* Added Transfigure immunity to several higher level neutrals, such that they will be immune to Replicate

Bug fixes:
- Creeps that are denied are now properly awarding 75% experience to enemy melee heroes and 50% to enemy ranged heroes
- Fixed a bug where Enhanced Marchers were not properly dispelling their buff state when an ability was used
- Added information to Bound Eye's tool tip regarding the fact that this item drops on death
- Fixed a few abilities that were requiring levels 1,3,4,6 instead of 1,3,5,7
- Fixed a bug with Zephyr's windshield that was causing it to have more ranged evasion than intended. At level 4 it now has a 30% chance to avoid melee attacks and a 30% chance to avoid and redirect ranged attacks as intended
- PuppetMaster's Puppet Show will now be removed from main target when its force-attack target dies
- Fixed a bug with PuppetMaster's whiplash that was causing it to not properly reset the charges when the attack target dies before the projectile hit it
- Fixed a bug with Legionnnaire's whirling blade hitting wards and other gadgets
- Puzzlebox Mauler's Last Stand ability now deals Magic damage, which fixes it damaging towers. Increases damage slightly to compensate
- Fixed a bug where players could get multiple gold rewards from randoming multiple times
- Fixed being able to disable all three hero types in options
- All buildings now have disable immunity

Version 0.1.17

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:37 GMT

General:
- Added several missing tool tips to various interfaces
- Added more logging information to servers to aid in the tracking of issues

Arachna:
- Removed double attack, added aura buff to base damage. Aura applies to ranged units only.

PuppetMaster:
* Slightly increased strength and agility gain per level. Slightly increased base agility.

Craze Puppet:
* Change how the taunt works slightly. For 2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds target gets Craze Puppet applied to them. If an enemy unit comes within 250,300,350,400 units of them they are forced to attack it until Craze Puppet wears off
A. This means that when you "miss" with this skill, they will still be forced to attack for the rest of the duration once they come in range of an enemy
B. The state applied by this skill is fully dispellable
C. The state applied by this skill no longer slows movement speed

Health Funnel:
* Removed, added Whiplash

Whiplash:
- Passive skill
- Passively increases base damage by 6/12/18/24%
- Every 5th attack deals 125/150/175/200% damage and applies 25/50/70/100% splash damage in a 200 radius

VooDoo Puppet:
- The spawned puppet now has an unlimited life time. Moving more than 100 units away from the puppet will still break this spell

Wildsoul:
- Fixed a bug with the pet Bear's roots. They were correctly going into cool down, but were still able to root opponents while in cool down.

Version 0.1.16

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:35 GMT

General:
- Several new or improved effects for various items and abilities
- Iconic Sounds for Mana Combustion
- Fixed a crash related to Barbed Armor
- Account stats on login panel should now be accurate
- Fixed some game options not gettign properly cleared when a server resets
- Several miscelaneous fixes, tweaks, and improvements to sounds and icons

Version 0.1.15

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:34 GMT

Arachna:
- Spiderling on Spider Sting now reveals stealth units

Electrician:
- Reworked mana shield, such that it now absorbs 50% damage (down from 60%) and costs slightly more mana per point of damage

Servers:
- Fixed several issues, as well as allow for some automatic restarting after a server crashes or becomes unresponsive

Version 0.1.14

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:32 GMT

-fixed couriers not having unitwalking
-fix player colors on portraits
-fix tower deny gold being awarded to the wrong team
-server improvements

Version 0.1.13

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:30 GMT

-fixed more stuff

Version 0.1.12

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:27 GMT

-fixed stuff

Version 0.1.11

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:25 GMT

-fix crashes related to SD
-minimap improvements