Last night, Valve released a new Dota 2 update where they added lots of content for Dota Plus. The update brings many TI8 Battle Pass features as well like, Ranked Roles, voice chat wheels and a new music pack. More details inside! Check out the new Dota Plus End-of-Summer Update update patch notes down below.
Dota Plus End-of-Summer Update Details
Summer is soon going to end and with the thrilling conclusion of The International. This Dota Plus End-of-Summer update seems to bring some of the Battle Pass perks along with new content.
Ranked Roles Matchmaking
First and the most important perk of TI8 Battle Pass, which has been added to the Dota Plus End-of-Summer update is the ranked roles matchmaking. A new welcome quest has also been added where players who win 5 times in the Ranked Roles queue will earn 5000 shards.
In-Game Tipping
In-game tipping is also back in Dota Plus. Where you can send some free Shards an ally’s or enemy’s way in recognition of their contributions to the game. Or just to annoy them depends solely on you.
In-Game Voice Chat Wheel
You can also unlock some of the voice chat wheel lines from TI8 Battle Pass with the shard you earn in-game. Once unlocked, you’ll have access to these sounds while your Dota Plus membership is active.
Finally, as a special end-of-summer bonus, any Dota Plus member who plays 4 games this weekend can claim an extra 10,000 Shard reward.
Dota 2 Update Patch Notes
Thanks to /u/SirBelvedere for this.
Here is the complete patch notes for the latest update.
Economy Updates
Music Pack
- TheFatRat Warrior Songs Music pack is now available on the Dota 2 Store. | Cost: $4.99 USD | Wiki
Challenges
- New: Grimstroke Double Ink Swell Stuns. | Grimstroke has been removed from the default Double Stuns challenge.
Other
- Updated the currency exchange rates for a ton of currencies.
- Fixed a particle snapshot issue with the Infernal Pactblade cosmetic.
- Endless Nightmare Tail cosmetic has been renamed to Tail of Darkheart Pursuit.
- Readded the Trove Carafe for Dmitry ‘CrystalMay’ Korchevinin.
- A bunch of cosmetic fixes to some items for heroes Windranger, Visage, Riki and more.
- Optimized a ton of particle systems for cosmetics and sync up with the changes made to the Source Engine in regards to the particle system recently.
UI Updates
Dota Plus Dashboard
- Hero Relics tab now supports sorting by “Hero Level”.
- Dota Plus Battle Pass log now tracks Shard Purchase.
- Dota Plus Battle Log now tracks the tips you have received.
- Minor spacing fixes to some of the UI elements in the Dota Plus store tab.
Dashboard
- The previous Battle Pass icons on your profiles now read “Lvl <number>” instead of just showing the number as before.
- Post Game now has a player tips tab to accommodate the changes made to Dota Plus.
- Background has been changed from the TI8 theme to Default.
Frontpage
- Made the Dota Plus tab the primary tab instead of TI8.
- Added a new panel to advertise the 4 Games Bonus Weekend for Dota Plus.
- Final Notification option added for Trove Carafe. | Sales end at the end of September
String Updates
Tooltip Updates
- Fixed the missing tooltip for Kaya Recipe.
- “Stored Bounty Runes replenish 2/3 charges.” has been removed from the Bottle description.
UI Related
- Tons of strings to support the new features of the Dota Plus update.
- Fixed some typos and grammatical errors in Tips.
- The round names of the Arcana Vote have been updated: Round of 32 now split into two for Group A and Group B respectively. Round of 16 has been renamed to Sweet Sixteen.
Ability Updates
- On the backend, updated a lot of data types for the ability numbers. For example, some slots have been changed to support only integers while the others have been changed to support floating numbers and etc.
- Updated the end distance on Poison Touch from 500/500/500/500 to 600/700/800/900
Audio Updates
- A bunch of response rule updates for Grimstroke.
- Ambient mixer value when paused lowered from 0.5 to 0.25
- VOIP volume value in the mixer lowered from 0.6 to 0.5
- During Silence effects, the mixer values have been updated so Music has a volume of 0.6 instead of 0.4
Workshop Updates
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The Workshop Item Submission Tool now has a FarZ option for the Camera after you import your model.
Console Updates
New
- dota_dump_game_items <cmd> | Print a list of all game items with their item ids in CSV format.
- A few other Source Engine related console updates.
Misc
- A couple of new files have been added to the files called echo_game.js (and an admin.css file that drives the visuals for the javascript) — which seems to be retrieving draft data from a game and posting it. | Not sure where this is being utilized. Not yet.
It’s nice to see a Dota Plus update bringing more life to Dota plus. What do you guys think about Dota Plus End-of-Summer update?