1.9GB? July 20, 2015 Dota 2 Reborn Updates

GENERAL

• Ranked Matchmaking has been enabled in Reborn Beta.

• Compendium challenges are now enabled. For the next few weeks, challenges completed in the Reborn Beta award 50% additional coins.

• Reworked the client and server animation timing systems in order to improve features sensitive to animation desyncs, such as last hitting and projectiles.

• Enabled all cosmetic items released by 7/16 (including the Collector's Cache and Immortal Treasure 3)

• Rebuilt the network stream system in order to improve packet reliability as well as how the game responds whenever there is packet loss

• Fixed input lag in DX9 in cases where the GPU couldn’t keep up with the CPU.

• Fixed a bug where in-game portraits weren't showing overridden models, for example, Crystal Maiden's arcana.

• Fixed a crash relating to Luna's Eclipse when she has Aghanim's Scepter.

• Fixed a crash related to combining observer wards and sentry wards on the courier.

• Fixed "Normal Maps" video setting not being saved properly.

• Fixed some video settings changes getting reverted if they were made while playing a custom game.

• Fixed cases where fire particles in the map would show through tree geometry.

• Improved the performance with Tinker's Immortal Rollermaw.

• Reduced CPU usage of sound output.

• Added support for 7.1 audio systems.

• Made various adjustments to the Dota map.

• Fixed a bug with Windranger's first blood voice line.

• Improved font size for Thai characters.

• Fixed a bug where the courier's deliver items command could get into a bad state if one courier was dead.

• Fixed various client crashes and memory leaks.

USER INTERFACE

• Pressing the Enter key when the accept match dialog appears will now accept the match.

• Join Chat Channel dialog now allows sorting by channel name or channel member count.

• Added support for copy/paste to the dashboard chat.

• Added support for initiating and accepting trades from within the game client.

• Added the ability to gift wrap items from the armory.

• Fixed bugs where popups or context menus related to chat were minimizing the chat while they're up.

• Fixed some bugs where left/right clicking while interacting with a text selection in a label was behaving strangely.

• The embedded web browser is now properly put into Background Mode when the browser is no longer visible.

• Fixed a bug where tooltips wouldn't appear in the accept match dialog after the player accepts/declines.

• Many popups now support hitting the Escape key to dismiss them.

• Fixed various bugs related to the hero loadout screen becoming blank.

• Fixed cases where the hero loadout screen was playing the spawn animation too erroneously.

• Fixed bugs where the hero model would disappear from the loadout screen.

CUSTOM GAMES

• Added more variability to the 9th and 10th slot of the top custom games list, to provide more opportunity for other popular games to grow a bigger player base and move up the list.

• Added a weighting factor to games displayed in the suggested games panel. Games that consistently get very low playtime when they appear in the suggested games panel will show up less frequently.

• Added a vote dialog that appears after playing a custom game you haven't voted on.

• Dota now also considers your upload network quality when choosing a host for a custom game.

• Some complex custom maps should load significantly faster now.

• IsCastableWhileHidden key added to npc_abilities.txt, to allow scripts to cast the ability while it is hidden.

• The dota_modifier_dump command now displays more accurate information.

• MODIFIER_EVENT_ON_ABILITY_FULLY_CAST now has a target defined in the modifier params.

• MODIFIER_PROPERTY_ABILITY_LAYOUT now uses the highest value instead of the first applied value.

• Added ModifierGained filter for adjusting modifiers when gained.

• Added the ability to create Lua-based items.

• Lua memory allocation tracking is now more accurate.

CUSTOM GAMES: PANORAMA

• Added GameUI.SetCameraYaw, GameUI.SetCameraPitchMin.

• Added Game.IsInAbilityLearnMode(), Game.EnterAbilityLearnMode(), Game.EndAbilityLearnMode.

• Added Entities.GetAbilityPoints.

• Custom games can now specify keybinds in addoninfo.txt which are local to that game mode.

• Changed JS API EmitSound() to return a handle that can be passed to StopSound().

• Changed PrepareUnitOrders() to use new OrderQueueBehavior_t rather than bForceQueue.

• The UI Example has been refactored to demonstrate improved panel performance techniques.

CUSTOM GAMES: RPG EXAMPLE

• Added Lina as a playable hero.

• Shift+Click now has cast-in-place behavior.

• Shift+Click uses the new QueueBehavior order, to prevent shift key queuing the ability.

• Added an example of using custom game keybindings.

• Added Lua defined items, an example of dynamic item properties.

• Juggernaut's abilities now scale with base damage as well as ability damage.

• Added item_broadsword_epic to rpg_example to showcase dota_item_lua.

• Added two Lua-based items that provide effects to their user when a target dies: item_saprophytic_blade, item_ritual_dirk.

• Allow player to teleport to checkpoints (they're now buildings that get their team assigned when they're triggered).

• Play sound when checkpoint is activated.

• Item drops get launched from the killed unit.

MAC/LINUX

• Mac/Linux: Made various framerate and bug fixes.

• Mac/Linux: Added a fullscreen mode that allows better interactions between the game and the desktop.

• Mac: Improved performance on OSX systems with nVidia GPUs.

• Mac: Fixed issues going from fullscreen to windowed mode.

• Linux: Fix various problems when running under Turkish locales.

TOOLS

• Enabled support for stereo morphs

• Model Editor: Added menu options to re-order animation groups

• Model Editor: Fixed a bug where arrays in the property editor were not drag-and-drop reorderable.

• Hammer: Fixed tint not working on static props that had alpha set to 0.

• Hammer: Added the gamma_to_linear and linear_to_gamma console commands to convert color values.

• Hammer: Fixed bug where copying a tile from one tile set to another could result in tiles with invalid property values which could then never be successfully matched.

• Hammer: Fixed bug where lifting the material under the cursor would pickup hidden tool materials in tile sets.

• Hammer: Fixed bug where lifting materials or using assets under mouse didn't work for models placed in a tile map

• Hammer: Added a toolbar button to toggle tools materials seperately from everything else.

• SFM: Added support for rendering alpha masks to poster and movie layoff

• SFM: Fixed materials using expressions to use SFM time when rendered from the SFM

• SFM: Fixed IK pole controls to draw correctly

• SFM: Transform controls are now drawn with left/right/center/misc color-coding

• SFM: Typing in character picker now always filters by name

• SFM: Particles recorded from the game which were attached to models now are locked to (ie follow) those models

• SFM: Fixed depth of field using only as many progressive refinement samples as motion blur

• SFM: Recording from demo files now works

• SFM: More work making Auto Attach Rigs more robust

• PET: Improved preview of psf-related operators

• PET: Fix for crash when selecting a model helper pointer or scene object pointer as the target of a scalar value.

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