Version 1.0.3

Version 1.0.3.1

• Fixed the changelog ingame to be the correct version.

Version 1.0.3

Darkwood Vale

• Removed two neutral spawns, replaced them with outposts.
• Replaced two of the higher tier neutral camps with tier 1 neutrals.
• Outermost towers are now level 1 towers (instead of level 2).
  • This means they will do slightly less damage and less starting health, same as the outer most towers on Caldavar.
• Lowered building health on this map by 25%, lowered ranged rax health regeneration rate by 25% (these changes only affect the darkwood vale map).
• Moved some trees to allow better ward spots to cover runes.

In-Game

• Players will no longer see trees die in fog
  • Meaning, juking with Logger's Hatchet / Runes of Blight is now much more fun!
• Added an interface option for "Double Activate." When enabled, certain items and abilities may be double-clicked (or double-activated) for automatic use:
  • Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home.
  • Health Potionss and Mana Potions are used on self.
  • Tablet of Command, Stormspirit, Charged Hammer, and Nullfire Blade are used on self.
  • Portal Key blink towards home.
  • Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self.
• Added new game interface option "Move To Spawn On Disconnect".
  • When enabled, the server will automatically issue a move command to your hero to move back to base whenever you crash, freeze, or lose your internet connection.
• Added new keybind: "Cancel And Hold Position".
  • Functions exactly like "Hold Position", except it also cancels animations.
  • Players who want this functionality can replace their current Hold keybinding with the new Cancel and Hold keybinding.
• A unit in the air no longer gains the 25% "uphill miss chance" evasion.
  • Units stunned by  Witch Slayer or  Magmus or tossed by  Pebbles won't gain extra evasion.
  • Couriers and  Tundra bird won't gain extra evasion.
• Health and Mana bars for heroes will now show the damage they take.
  • This new 'shadowed' bar can be turned off in the options menu.
• If the player drag-selects, and the current active control entity is not a hero, and the selection contains a hero, then the active control entity will become the first hero in the selection.
  • This allows players to drag-select  Ophelia + her creeps and ALWAYS have  Ophelia as active, regardless of the last active unit.

• Scorescreen now contains voting options (kick, pause, concede, remake) and add friend functionality.
• The camera will no longer shake when an effect (such as Homecoming Stone) is played in fog.
• Fix to properly calculate a player's exp/min, even if he reached max level.
• Neutral creep agro range for all creeps set to 300 (some were 250, some were 300).
•  Vulture Lord now has a +3 AOE armor aura.
• Fix to  Kongor so he won't wonk out and no one can hit him anymore.
• Added a visual effect for Main health bars, they now course with energy.
• Modified the internal random number generator to use a much higher quality distribution of random number.
• Dual target abilities now properly ignore trees if their target scheme ignores them.
• Hero health/mana bars are now shadowed with 500ms delay on the shadows.
• Gold lerps to its actual value over 350m.
• Toggles are correctly propagated to illusions.
  • Fixes illusion Steamboots, illusion  Fayde Stance, etc.

Pre-Game

• Added "Potential Hero Selection" functionality.
  • At the hero selection screen, you can right-click on any hero to make it your "Potential Hero".
  • Spectators and anyone on your team can see your potential hero (the enemy team can't).
  • If you run out of time, you will select that hero rather than randoming.
• Prevent the "5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Let's get it on" countdown from happening after the hero selection screen.
• Loading bar now courses with energy.
• The game lobby will no longer display the message "PlayerName has connected." once for their initial connection, and again when they have finished loading.
  • It will now say "PlayerName is connecting." and "PlayerName has connected." to distinguish the different events.
• Set the max channel chat message (250), max game chat message (150), chat channel topic (140), and channel name length (30).
• Channel messages will only play sounds when receiving a message in the current channel that has focus.
  • This fixes all the sounds that used to play when a user was in multiple channels at the same time.
• The channel name + topic area of the channel is now truncated off properly and no longer wraps off the panel onto the rest of the UI for long channel topics.
• Added a hovertip to the channel name + topic so if the topic is 95+ chars, if you hover over it it displays the full topic, similar to how long game names work in the Public Game interface.
• The game lobby will now play the epic lobby.mp3 music.
• Moved the voip mute button/icon things to the small colored circle to the side of the player slot (which normally is only used for the right-click menu) in all game phases.
  • The normal right-click menu (which is only available pre-hero-picker) now occupies the same spot used to show the player's avatar/left-click to join button).

General

• Fixed a bunch of random crashes caused from clicking the "Disconnect" button.
  • Before, clicking the button had a small random chance to corrupt a random place in memory that caused you to crash at a random time doing something random.
• Updated the wording of some of the tooltips to be a bit more clear.
• When viewing a player's stats, "Public Statistics" is now selected by default (previously "Ranked Statistics").
• Prevent a buddylist bug when the user loses connection to the chat server, then reconnects to the chat server.
• Russian stringtables updated.
• Fixed lock camera on player not turning off after a replay.
• Profanity filter is now optional.
• Follow fix: If two players are following each other and one of them joins a game, the other one will now join that game instead of both of them disconnecting.
• Fixed a spelling error in the matchmaking interface.
• Fixed crash when CLIPBOARD selection is unowned and an attempt is made to paste.
• Fixed an issue that disconnected a user if they typed a player's name into the IM window.
• Fix to the close button of the MOTD so you can click it easier.
• Fixed mousewheel events not having the correct coordinates in windowed mode.
• Re-organized the options menu slightly.
• The game list is no longer cleared when closed.
  • The list will only auto-refresh when it is opened for the first time or a game starts.
• Fixed Official Stats or No Stats showing up when you invite someone to a game.
• Removed cast time on Taunt.

Items

Courier

• Will now be attacked by Towers and the Well.

Geometer's Bane

• Grants 0.1sec invulnerability on activation.

Hellflower

• Damage increased from 40 to 45.

Plated Greaves

• Will no longer apply it's buff to  Wildsoul's  Bear.

Puzzlebox

• Recipe increased from 1100  to 1250 .

Shrunken Head

• Added to the tooltip that it cannot be dispelled.

Steamstaff

• Price lowered to 800  from 900 .

Stormspirit

• No longer silences or perplexes, just stuns.
  • This allows you to queue up orders while under it's effects.

Heroes

•  Maliken,  War Beast, and  Wildsoul transformations will no longer act stupid when  The Dark Lady ults.
•  Valkyrie's Javelin of Light,  Devourer's Guttling Hook, and  Voodoo's Acid Cocktail will no longer hit couriers.

• Added new Legion Strength hero,  Tundra.
  • Based on Rexxar the Beastmaster from DotA.

 Accursed

• Fire Shield
  • Dispels stuns once again.
• Flame Consumption
  • Will no longer automatically activate below 400hp. Must be cast manually.
    • This means that silences/stuns/etc will prevent  Accursed from triggering his ult.
• Flame Consumption
• Staff of the Master now lets  Accursed use Flame Consumption while silenced.

 Arachna

• Spider Sting
  • Will no longer stand there like a dummy if a hero blinked while the projectile was midair.

 Behemoth

• Shockwave
  • Initial 200/275/350 Magic damage is now Superior Magic, meaning it will go through magic immunity.

 Bubbles

• Shell Surf
  • Vision increased from 600 to 800 units and now keeps granting vision if it goes the max distance for 3.34 seconds.
  • Fixed a bug with Shell Toss that was resetting the cooldown incorrectly.
• Song of the Sea
  • Now hits units in fog and invisible units.
• Take Cover
  • No longer perplexes.
• Kelp Field
  • Will no longer deal damage or stun magic immune heroes.

 Chipper

• Attack time increased from 350ms to 450ms.

 Corrupted Disciple

• Electric Tide
  • Now is now correctly displayed when originating from a position within fog.

 Deadwood

• Base strength increased from 23 to 25.
• Base Armor increased from 2.24 to 2.74.
• Creeps will no longer dispel the tree.

 Engineer

• Steam Turret
  • Fixed the Turret's attacks eating Null Stone.
• Tinker
  • Cooldown increased from 15 to 20.
  • Manacost increased from 25 to 50.

 Forsaken Archer

• Call of the Damned
  • Skeletons will no longer trigger neutrals to use their abilities.

 Gauntlet

• Infernal Instability
  • Now has an instant cast time.
• Grapple
  • Cast range increased from 625/800/975/1150 to 725/850/975/1150.

 Hammerstorm

• Mighty Swing
  • Can now be toggled on and off.

 Hellbringer

• Base armor lowered from 2.4 to 1.4.
• Life Void
  • Cooldown increased from 7 seconds to 10 seconds.

 Magmus

• Volcanic Touch
  • Now correctly deals damage to Mechanical units.

 Maliken

• Fixed tooltips.
• Possession
  • Manacost lowered from 150 to 100.

 Nymphora

• Teleport
  • Number of people taken with  Nymphora increased from 0/1/2 to 1/2/3 additional targets per level.

 Pandamonium

• Cannon Ball
  • Slow from missing lowered from 4s to 2s.

 Pollywog Priest

• Electric Jolt
  • Max distance lowered by 200.

 Pyromancer

• Phoenix Wave
  • Can now target both units and the ground.

 Sand Wraith

• Mirage
  • Using Manifest no longer kills all active illusions.

 Soul Reaper

• Added to the ult tooltip to correctly state the cooldown changes to 70s at all levels with it.

 Soulstealer

• Fixed the "being knocked down" while using an item bug.

 Succubus

• Mesmerize
  • Fixed a bug causing sleep to sometimes be removed instantly by a creep.
• Succubus' Hold
  • Cooldown lowered from 120s at all levels to 120/110/100.

 Swiftblade

• Base movespeed increased from 300 to 305.
• Counter Attack
  • Returned attack no longer triggers responses like  Corrupted Disciple's Static Discharge.

 Valkyrie

• Javelin of Light
  • Will now leave lingering vision if it hits nothing.
• Valkyrie's Prism
  • Tweaked to correctly hit invulnerable allied heroes.

 Wildsoul

• Summon Booboo
  • Damage when the  bear dies now properly goes through immunities.
• Updated his tooltip to reflect that he takes damage when his  bear dies.
  •  Beardulon abilities reworked very slightly.
    • Gains Return at level 1.
    • Gains Entangling Claws at level 2.
    • Gains Demolish at level 3.
    • Gains Magic Resist at level 4.
• Wild
  • Cast time removed, letting him cast it on the run.
• Bear Form
• Base movespeed while in form increased from 270 to 285.

 Wretched Hag

• Bat Blast
  • Can now target both units and the ground.

 Zephyr

• Cyclones
  • Damage halved against non-hero units.