Dota 2 Update – August 28th, 2013

August 28, 2013 – Valve

GAMEPLAY
– Fixed recasting a higher level of Enfeeble only refreshing the existing duration without upgrade the stats
– Fixed Epicenter not slowing attack speed by 10

VISUAL
– Fixed Timbersaw’s body blade not rendering properly.
– You will no longer see other player’s -commands (like -ping).
– adjusted cloth settings for Witchdoctor and Lion

SPECTATING
– Added experimental Player Perspective Directed mode. Turn on by selecting player perspective and setting dota_spectator_directed_player_perspective to 1.

AUDIO
– Add audio for cheese usage.
– Fix FoW interactions on QoP and AM blink.

MAC/LINUX
– We now do not use Adobe Flash to play videos, but HTML5 video tags. This should fix a crash with Adobe Flash 11.7 on Mac.
– Add support for querying Gnome Settings for proxy settings for embedded webpages.
– Fixed crash-on-startup on Mac that could occur with certain game controllers.

IME
– Fix for Korean IME chat bug where two ENTER presses were required after entering Korean characters.

UI
– Fix for store banners showing up in the TODAY tab when the FIND MATCH button is clicked.

ECONOMY
– Lockless Luckbox: Replaced Lone Druid item ‘Skull of Xahryx’ (head slot) with ‘Form of the Onyx Grove’ (true form).

Previous Dota 2 Patches

Dota 2 Update – July 18th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – July 10th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – June 14th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – June 5th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – June 4th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – May 29th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – May 24th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – May 13th, 2013
Dota 2 Update – May 3rd, 2013
Dota 2 Update – May 2nd, 2013
Dota 2 Update – May 1st, 2013
Dota 2 Update – April 25th, 2013
Dota 2 Updates – April 19th, 2013