Dota 2 Update - June 14, 2012

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GAMEPLAY

- Added Chaos Knight, Phantom Assassin and Gyrocopter to Captain's Mode

- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.

- Chaos Knight: Fixed some bugs with the Illusion spawn positions with Phantasm.

- Chaos Knight: Fixed Reality Rift ignoring Linken's Sphere.

- Chaos Knight: Fixed getting stuck with your illusions sometimes

- Clockwerk: Fixed units not always getting sucked into Power Cogs properly.

- Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot stunning dead units.

- Dark Seer: Fixed Ion Shell showing the visual connecting effect on invisible targets.

- Doom Bringer: Fixed sometimes not gaining passive bonuses when devouring a neutral.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon not attacking magic immune units.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Rocket Barrage not hitting Roshan.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle portrait name.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon not hitting ancients.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missle ignoring Linken's Sphere.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not providing vision over its area.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Homing Missile not keeping vision around the area when it impacts a unit.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Rocket Barrage not hurting mechanical units.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon not hurting Mechanical units.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon having cast time.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed creeps hurting Homing Missile.

- Mirana: Fixed Leap buff being dispelled by BKB/Repel.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike landing position.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Coup de Grace visual effect to play only when the critical strike attack lands.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Coup de Grace working on denies and wards.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike facing direction after landing.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Blur showing hero name on minimap when it should be hidden.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Blink Strike not being blocked by Linken's Sphere.

- Phantom Assassin: Phantom Strike now shows you a buff icon while you are attacking fast.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Stifling Dagger being dodgeable.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike visual and sound effect sometimes playing on targets it can't hit.

- Phantom Assassin: Fixed Phantom Strike attacks sometimes being delayed.

- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward not draining mana from enemies.

- Venomancer: Fixed Aghanim's Scepter not upgrading Poison Nova duration.

- Fixed Hand of Midas giving too little XP when there are nearby allies around.

- Fixed Hand of Midas XP bounty being halved against dominated units.

- Fixed a case where a courier trying to deliver a Divine Rapier to someone without sufficient item slots could result in the Rapier disappearing.

UI

- Added click and drag to rotate the Hero Model in the loadout panel.

- Hero-like units now draw a larger distinct icon on the minimap.

- Team Names now show up on the recent games panel.

- Added an "Inspect Hero" option to the right-click menu for player names in the scoreboard. This will show what items they have equipped.

- Buying Aghanim's Scepter now upgrades the ability tooltip with the new information. If you find anything missing or incorrect, please report it to the tooltip forum.

- The store/inventory Aghanim's Scepter tooltip will now show a preview of what it does for your hero.

- Fixed glitchiness in the End Game cinematic camera.

HERO SELECTOR

- Added an edit mode to the in-game full deck layout.

- Added a concept of selection to the Grid View, and used it to implement a pick button.

- Added the ability to import and export custom full deck layouts

- Leaving the loadout will return you to Grid View if you were in it.

- Fixed a bug where you could not see the right hero in your loadout after you picked.

- Fixed legacy mode heroes being sorted differently than the learn tab/Dota 1.

- Legacy full deck cards are now simply the portrait, without the card treatment.

- Added Back to Browsing & Back to Loadout buttons. After you pick, you can now return to browsing to suggest / learn heroes.

- Fixed suggest button not being visible in grid view, and implemented suggestion there.

- Fixed grid view selection outline not updating when you clicked on a suggested hero.

- No longer force the selector to switch to the turntable if you're at grid view and want to select a hero for any reason.

- Having no heroes matching the filters/search bar no longer kicks you out of grid view, instead showing you the same "No Heroes" message box as turntable mode.

- Fixed the grid view crashing if there were no matching heroes.

- Fixed the "No Heroes" message not being centered in widescreen.

 

DOTA 2 BOTS

- Added Chaos Knight bot.

- Made bots more likely to unify around a Roshan attempt.

- Added bot role/laning info for all heroes, which should make for better hero and lane picks.

- On Easy and Easier, bots will no longer consider whether a target is currently slowed when determining whether to slow/stun.

- Bots are now more likely to push late-game when they are feeling indecisive.

 

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