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Version 6.42

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[e][h]Version 6.42
Version Information
Release:
2007-03-11
Highlights
  • New Items
  • Balance Changes
  • Bug Fixes
Chronology

General[edit]

  • Added a new secret shop containing limited items (only Stout and Helm of Iron Will for now) to the top left and bottom right areas
  • Changed Range creep quantity upgrade from 60min to 45min. Siege follows this as well. Melee creeps quantity upgrade frequency changed to a few minutes sooner than usual
  • Implemented a sound for when creeps spawn for the first time (75198)
  • Chicken/Crow can no longer sell items (has been abused in long games to sell for gold to buyback. The sellback price on recipes is only intended to be that high to help against misclicks)
  • Notification is sent when an observer leaves the game
  • Added a game timer in the top interface
  • Fog of War is removed when a team wins (111691)
  • Removed internal usage of lumber resource
  • Removed internal usage of food resource
  • Added cooldown to neutral creep ability tooltips
  • When a player leaves, the leaver hero name is written after the player's name

Items[edit]

  • Reduced cooldown on buying all other items
  • Mjollnir ➜ Changed icon to the one suggested on the forums (102574)
  • Gem & Sentry Wards ➜ Improved tooltips for new players (118074)
  • Tango ➜ Added buff icon
  • Necronomicon ➜ Improved tooltip on level 3 Necronomicon
  • Updated Buriza and Crystalis tooltips to list critical chance
  • Removed Lumber from recipes, now it does not list it as a requirement and gives you a proper error

Visuals[edit]

  • Axe ➜ Added a new visual effect for when Culling Blade's deathblow activates (86864)
  • Bane Elemental ➜ Added a visual effect to Brain Sap
  • Dragon Knight ➜ Updated Elder Form tooltip to mention that it gives movement speed boost
  • Juggernaut ➜ Added a new visual effect to Omnislash
  • Keeper of the Light ➜ Liberated Souls and Ignis Fatuus will now show attack projectile
  • Phantom Lancer ➜ Changed Spirit Lance projectile model
  • Ursa Warrior ➜ Enrage icon changed
  • Vengeful Spirit ➜ Added a visual effect to Netherswap
  • Zeus ➜ Hero icon changed
  • Zeus ➜ Added a new visual effect for Static Field
  • Added new icons for Berserker's Call, Conversion, Glaives of Wisdom, Detonate, Light Strike Array, Synergy (thx snork, Black_tan, K_Prime, Mihai, L()RK@N_15, Amadi and switch)

Roshan[edit]

  • Changed the way Aegis and Roshan work
    • Aegis is now a Roshan drop (a 1-charge ankh basically)
    • You cannot create it manually
    • Roshan starts out weaker without melee return
    • He respawns stronger and bigger every 10 minutes

Runes[edit]

Heroes[edit]

Axe Axe[edit]

Bristleback Bristleback[edit]

  • Lowered movement speed by 5 and put a cap on how much Quill Spray can stack up to late game

Centaur Warrunner Centaur Warrunner[edit]

  • Changed Return from 60/30 melee/range to 50/50

Crystal Maiden Crystal Maiden[edit]

Leshrac Leshrac[edit]

Lone Druid Lone Druid[edit]

  • When you summon Spirit Bear and it is already summoned, it no longer wastes the cooldown doing nothing, it errors properly
  • Entangle doesn't work on Roshan anymore

Magnus Magnus[edit]

Meepo Meepo[edit]

  • Geomancer clones now gain 40% of any attribute bonuses the primary has

Mirana Mirana[edit]

Nyx Assassin Nyx Assassin[edit]

  • Slightly improved Mana Burn cast range at higher levels

Outworld Destroyer Outworld Devourer[edit]

  • Improved cast animation a little

Phantom Assassin Phantom Assassin[edit]

Pudge Pudge[edit]

Shadow Fiend Shadow Fiend[edit]

Spectre Spectre[edit]

  • Reduced area that is used to check if a hero is alone with Desolate

Sven Sven[edit]

  • Improved Toughness Aura

Troll Warlord Troll Warlord[edit]

Venomancer Venomancer[edit]

Weaver Weaver[edit]

  • Watchers no longer have spell immunity

New Items[edit]

Assault Cuirass Assault Cuirass[edit]

Bloodstone Bloodstone[edit]

  • Added Bloodstone (can be disassembled, heal inspired by topic (116735)

Hood of Defiance Hood of Defiance[edit]

Items[edit]

Battle Fury Battle Fury[edit]

  • Cleave AOE from 200 to 225

Bottle Bottle[edit]

  • When Bottle with rune expires due to time, it uses the rune instead of wasting it (122057)

Butterfly Butterfly[edit]

  • Butterfly from 25 to 30 and recipe from 1400 to 1800

Divine Rapier Divine Rapier[edit]

  • It can now be manually dropped

Euls Scepter of Divinity Eul's Scepter of Divinity[edit]

Helm of Iron Will Helm of Iron Will[edit]

  • Increased hp regen to +3 (from +2)

Mekansm Mekansm[edit]

  • Mekansm heal stack restriction can no longer be overridden by Buckler

Necronomicon 1 Necronomicon[edit]

  • Lowered mana burn a bit

Observer and Sentry Wards Observer and Sentry Wards[edit]

  • Changed a bit

Ring of Basilius Ring of Basilius[edit]

  • Ring of Basilius can be clicked to switch it back and forth between a version that has armor affecting creeps and one that doesn't

Satanic Satanic[edit]

  • Active ability changed

Tango Tango[edit]

  • Removed cooldown when buying Tangos

Vladmirs Offering Vladmir's Offering[edit]

  • Bonus damage is an aura now (only on melee heroes, not creeps)

Game Modes & Commmands[edit]

  • Adjusted starting gold in -rd to give you the same amount you'd have when the creeps come out in regular pick game (right now it is a little less than normal)
  • Enabled POTM/Warlock/Alchemist in -lm and Warlock in -rd
  • Added -om(onlymid) due to popular demand to disable creepspawn and tower vulnerability everywhere but middle
  • Added -powerup and -neutrals to single player commands
  • Added -nd (no death timer) and -lives xx (maximum lives) as optional commands after -dm is activated
  • Added a -fleshstr command for Pudge to view how much str you gained from the ability
  • Added -deathon/off (-don/off) that toggles on and off a new death timer to show you your respawn without needing to open the scoreboard
  • -cson now places the k/d in the multiboard title
  • -showdeny is enabled by default for observers
  • Siege units are now properly added to your -cs
  • Weather commands are now user specific, so you can have rain while your ally has snow and the others have nothing
  • Added an extra blank line before -ma output, to help readability when used near other commands

Bug Fixes[edit]

  • Fixed Infernal duration typo on Rain of Chaos
  • Fixed a typo in the Overgrowth damage
  • Fixed First Blood being displayed in white if sp is on and observers are present
  • Fixed Observer Ward buff saying Sentry Ward (123887)
  • Fixed a bug in -sp that causes observer board to be removed
  • Fixed a typo on the number of targets on level 3 Forked Lightning
  • Fixed bugs with Aegis on Meepo
  • Fixed Echo Slam damage doing less than advertised (7 less)
  • Fixed a typo in level 3 Spirit Bear HP
  • Fixed Brilliance Aura to properly stack with Ring of Basilius
  • Changed all Brilliance Aura values from percentages to numbers since it isn't really a percentage (it always worked like this, just the tooltips were misleading)
  • Fixed Treant and Druid sound set (79352)
  • Fixed a bug with Shadowraze killing wards
  • Fixed some minor control issues with Time Walk

Thanks to all the beta testers.