Wie hoch das Preisgeld dieses Jahr sein wird und welche Teams noch eingeladen werden, ist bisher noch nicht bekannt. Allerdings scheint The International dieses mal ein riesiges Einzel-Event zu sein, da Valve in seinem Blog-Post geschrieben hat, dass sie in den nächsten Wochen weitere Details zu dem Turnier geben werden und wie man sich Tickets für das Event kaufen können wird.

Durch die Ankündigung des Events lässt sich nun auch ein wenig Mathematik ausüben, da Valve bestätigt hat, dass bis zum nächsten The International fast alle Helden implementiert sein sollen. Wenn man nun davon ausgeht, dass von den 33 fehlenden Helden um die 27 hinzugefügt werden sollen (sprich die Helden, die im Captain’s Mode erlaubt sind), so müsste Valve in den nächsten 17 Wochen circa 1.59 Helden pro Woche implementieren – wir dürfen uns also hoffentlich freuen!

Weitere Informationen zu The International könnt ihr auf der offiziellen Seite finden, wo ihr auch alle derzeitig eingeladenen Teams finden könnt.

GAMEPLAY
- Added Phantom Lancer!
- Fixed being able to use ping to identify illusions.
- Fixed bug where we wouldn’t always upgrade couriers in order of creation.
- Fixed potential dispel threshold being calculated after damage reduction rather than before (fixes stuff like Bloodrage not dispeling potions).
- Fixed being able to blink if you became rooted after you started casting.
- Fixed unit conversion spells (Enchant, Persuasion, etc) not removing existing debuffs properly.
- Fixed Searing Arrows not stacking with Eye of Skadi.
- Fixed Satyr firing Shockwave onto smoked/invisible heroes.
- When the courier returns items to the stash, items owned by the other team are now dropped on the ground.
- Fixed Spirit Bear teleporting far away from you with Return (causing it to get stuck in trees sometimes).
- Attacking units now follow their target and then resume attack orders after getting disarmed.
- Updated attack animation for Spectre, with more impact on hit frame.

UI
- Tranquil Boots regen is now displayed on the HP bar.
- Clicking “No Courier” opens the shop with the courier item selected.
- As spectator, clicking courier button now queries the courier for the current query unit’s team.
- Fixed creepstats drawing for all units when spectating.
- Fixed missing shared cooldown on the first use of an item.
- Extended the health bar above the stats area.
- Centered respawn label when showing death panel but not the buyback button.
- Fixed a case where the cooldown swipe on buffs was not initialized and rotated backwards continuously.
- Fixed top bar timer not initializing
- Selling back a limited stock item within the sellback time restocks the shop.
- Broadcasters can now draw lines in the world.

BOTS
- Bots now use their defense mode desire to determine when to use Glyph, rather than having an independent calculation for it.
- Bots will no longer use items or abilities when they are individually disabled.
- Bots now switch out of “early game” when either team becomes powerful, rather than just when the opposing team does. This prevents situations where one team is roaming and pushing and the other team is still trying to lane.

Auch inhaltlich wollen wir in nächster Zeit noch eine Schippe drauflegen und Euch mit noch mehr interessanten und unterhaltsamen Inhalten versorgen. Um den Relaunch gebührend mit Euch zu feiern, verlosen wir in den nächsten zwei Wochen fast täglich klasse Preise, die das Gamer-Herz höher schlagen lassen. Also schau unbedingt mal auf dem neuen ingame.de vorbei!

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Die 4Players Liga veranstaltet ihren zweiten Play4DotA-Cup des Jahres. Am 29. April um 17.00 Uhr gehts los.

Teilnehmen können alle Teams mit mindestens fünf Spielern und einem eingetragenen DotA 2 – Gameaccount. Zu gewinnen gibt es ein Preisgeld von bis zu 300 Euro für das erstplatzierte Team. In punkto Gesamtpreisgeld habt ihr alle Fäden in der Hand. Je größer das Turnier wird, je mehr befreundete Teams ihr in das Turnier und die 4Players Liga schafft, desto tiefer greifen wir in die Preisgeldkasse. Den Teilnehmern winkt natürlich auch immer ein Platz in der Hall of Fame. Dem Platz in der 4PL, wo sich nur die Besten der Besten eines Spiels wiederfinden.

Alle weiteren Informationen zum Cup, sowie Details könnt ihr hier einsehen.

Außerdem wurde mit dem heutigen Update das Dota 2 Demo Format von Valve bereitgestellt, ein Tool, mit dem man Daten direkt aus Replay-Dateien extrahieren kann. Den Download und weitere Informationen könnt ihr unter diesem Link finden.

Das Neue Dota 2 Interface und Lion

Was haltet ihr von dem neuen Interface und der neuen Textur von Lion? Lasst es uns in den Kommentaren wissen.

Changelog:

GAMEPLAY
- Added Brewmaster to Captain’s Mode
- Fixed non-hero units like Spirit Bear breaking smoke of deceit.
- Fixed Burning Spear counter being reset by BKB.
- Fixed illusions stealing Magic Stick/Wand charges from the owner.
- Fixed a new bug with Riki’s Blink Strike causing it to not attack right away.
- Fixed True Form / Druid Form being cancelled and interruptable.
- Fixed attack FoW reveal to happen when an attack fires off, rather than when your animation starts.
- Fixed bug that would sometimes cause move commands or abilities to execute at odd times.
- Fixed bug where DotaTV director would stop directing in the last minutes of the game.
- Fixed Vanguard’s block chance being too low.
- Fixed Brewmaster’s primal splits creating illusions from Wall of Replica.
- Fixed Brewmaster not receiving XP when split.

VISUALS
- Heroes will no longer lose their shadows.
- Item Icon have been redesigned
[We plan to continue update these over the next few weeks, please give us your thoughts in this forum (http://dev.dota2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=353)]
- New visual style for Lion.
- New Town Portal effect.

AUDIO
-Some heroes will now call out to allies they encounter in the field during the early phases of a game.

UI
- Fixed control groups breaking in the case where a hero has unit sharing enabled and another hero tries to control group one of the summons.
- Fixed a case where casting an ability to control a unit (ie. Chen’s Persuasion), then querying the unit before the ability fired would not end up with the unit in a selected state and the abilities would not be usable.
- Fixed damage done to player-controlled units not showing up in the combatlog.
- Fixed attributes tooltip not showing the correct values for Spirit Bear (or other hero-like) units.

BOTS
- Bots can call out “top missing!” etc if an opponent goes away during the laning phase.
- Bots are now more likely to use the Side Shop. They will hold off purchasing items if they think they’ll be able to get them from the Side Shop soon, and are more likely to actually walk there to pick them up.
- Bots no longer forget/ignore units that are reincarning.
- Bots will now use couriers that are holding their items, even if the courier is currently returning to base.
- Bots will only use couriers that are idle in base, so they shouldn’t grab couriers as soon as they stop moving in, for example, the secret shop.
- When a bot dies, if it had a courier en route, it will send the courier back to base.
- Juggernaut is now more likely to use Omnisliash in teamfights, particularly when he thinks he can get all slashes on heroes.
- Bots will no longer purchase items during the hero pick phase of the game.
- Bots will no longer use any of their abilities on Passive difficulty.
- Made Windrunner bot slightly more likely to use Powershot when ganking, and less likely to use Windrun for non-panic retreats.
- Fixed bug that, under certain hero combinations, could cause lane selection to thrash.
- Improved the Team Roam behavior, they should no longer clump up and get stuck, and should deal with any creeps attacking them.
- Increased bot sensitivity to human pings for pushing and defending.
- Increased range at which a non-carry bot will defer last-hitting to a carry bot. Non-hard-carries will now also defer to hard carries.

Neben einem neuem Held wurde unter anderem auch wieder an Shadow Fiend gebastelt und seiner Ulti wurde ein neuer Effekt geschenkt.

Außerdem scheint Valve ebenfalls das Benutzerinterface zu bearbeiten, so wurde unter anderem die Schriftart und die Textur der Tooltips geändert und eventuell werden wir in näherer Zukunft ja ein komplett neues Interface zu sehen bekommen.

Was haltet ihr von Brewmaster und den Änderungen von Shadow Fiend und der Tooltips? Lasst es uns in den Kommentaren wissen!

Changelog:

GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Brewmaster!
- Bane: Fixed Nightmare dispelling on self damage (e.g. Rot).
- Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot target sometimes being able to move away while you are traveling.
- Clockwerk: Fixed aoe around Hookshot not reliably affecting the area.
- Earthshaker: Fixed cases where invulnerable units could get stuck inside Fissure.
- Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash jumping to couriers.
- Lina: Fixed Dragon Slave’s cast range being too short.
- Lone Druid: Added a visual effect at the Spirit Bear’s old location when it’s recast.
- Lone Druid: Fixed a bug when Spirit Bear would disassemble an item, causing it to have no owner.
- Nightstalker: Added duration buff for Darkness.
- Pudge: Fixed Dismember damage happening one second too late.
- Spirit Breaker: Fixed case where he could get stuck when using Nether Strike.
- Viper: Fixed Corrosive Skin affecting Serpent Wards.
- Fixed being able to deny yourself (while under poison) if you attack through the hero icon at the top.
- Fixed Linken Sphere proccing for secondary hits of Chain Lightning and Lightning Storm.
- Fixed Magic Immunity removing Poison Attack debuff.
- Fixed hero deaths not disjointing incoming projectiles (in the case of fast respawns/buyback).
- Fixed bug that was causing attack projectiles to be slightly out of sync with the server.
- Fixed units not always respecting the ability backswing time (without animation canceling), causing animations to sometimes end faster than normal.

UI
- Fixed creepstats not being visible to spectators.

VISUALS
- Updated Nevermore’s Requiem of Souls.
- Added an effect for Nevermore’s Necromastery.

DOTA 2 BOTS
- Bots will now use couriers.
- While there are any disconnected humans on the opposing team, bots will now select the most appropriate corresponding hero or heroes on their team to go back to the fountain to try to keep teams somewhat balanced.
- Bots will no longer forget about heroes they’re trying to kill when they go invulnerable.
- Changed how bots think about attacking wards/minions, they should behave more reasonably now.
- When bots defend a tower, they should now be more aggressive about transitioning into attacking, rather than milling around behind the tower.
- Mid bots are now less likely to roam at early levels.
- Fixed bug that was causing Zeus to killsteal (too much) with his Ult.
- Earthshaker bot will no longer use Echo Slam to kill a lone hero unless that hero is a hard carry.
- Earthshaker bot will no longer use Echo Slam on a target that it thinks is about to die anyways.
- Windrunner bot will now buy Mekansm rather than Blademail.
- Fixed bug that could cause poorly-aimed fissures and powershots.
- Windrunner bot will now use Powershot when pushing/defending a lane, and sometimes to harass/last-hit while laning.
- Fixed bug where Kunkka bot would freeze when trying to kill a non-hero target.
- Fixed bug where Dire bots would respond to pings from spectators.

Die Diskussion begann mit dem Showmatch zwischen Captain Planet und World Elite, als der Caster Yu ‘N3komata’ Zhang die spielerischen Leistungen von YaphetS kritisierte, was anschließend zu heftigen Fan-Reaktionen führte.

Um seine Aussagen zu erläutern berichtete N3komata über seine Begegnungen mit YaphetS und erklärte, letzterer habe kaum Erfahrung mit Dota 2. Zudem vermutete Yu Zhang, dass der DotA-Profi das Showmatch nur gespielt habe, um schnell Geld zu verdienen. Zum Schluss kritisierte N3komata YaphetS dafür, dass er die Dota 2 Accounts anderer Spieler gegen Bezahlung auf ein höheres Niveau spielen würde. Den Posts auf Tencent Weibo kann man die unterschiedlichen Positionen der beiden entnehmen und erkennen, wie unterschiedlich die Intention hinter dem Verhalten ist.

YaphetS’ Statement zum Trainieren von Accounts:

How should I explain this, when I first started doing it I did not give it much thought, because I’m not the first person to train accounts for others, as it has been done in World of Warcraft and other online games before.
As someone that loves Dota, I can’t play Dota forever, I have to think about my future plans, just like how many professional players have to think about what to do after they retire. Sadly, I have no other skills, I can only find a way to survive with playing this game, even if I am the first one and there are controversies I am willing to give it a try.
Also, I don’t think training accounts for Dota is the same as training accounts for other online games. It does not create an unfair environment, and every game’s replay will be given to the account holder, so he can learn the skills by watching the replay. If its the desire of players, why not fulfill them? At least I’m doing so with my own effort.

N3komatas’ Antwort:

YaphetS’s talk about training accounts, I cannot agree. What training accounts mean, if its good or bad, we can think about them from a few points.

1. Who is training accounts good for?
2. Who is training accounts bad for?
3. The difference between the good and bad.

1. Training accounts will only benefit the parties involved, which will be the person that gets the service, and YaphetS that gets paid for doing so.

2. Training accounts will affect all players the most, specifically the players that encounter the account holder after the transaction. For example, a noob like me pays YaphetS and train to a high level ladder, then I will hurt my teammates and cause them to lose points. If I lose too many points, I will pay YaphetS again to get back into the ladder, continue hurting the players.

3. Based on the benefits and harm done, YaphetS did not seek to understand the feelings of other players, working hard to play at a high level, but only to be matched with or against unworthy noobs that pay for trained accounts like me.

YaphetS’ letzte Worte:

I won’t stop training accounts. I didn’t know this issue will invoke so much discussion, it is something my friends and I thought about, since we play together anyways, we will just help train accounts whilst we play……

Truthfully, even if I don’t do it, others will do it too. I can’t satisfy everyone, but I don’t think I’m ‘selling drugs’. Although it isn’t the most ethical job, but there are boundaries, and I will never use hacks.

Die Worte sind aus dem Chinesischen ins Englische übersetzt, der Inhalt bleibt jedoch dem Original getreu.

N3komatas‘ Argumente sind unbestreitbar, jedoch hält YaphetS‘ an seinem Vorhaben weiterhin Accounts zu trainieren fest.

Was haltet ihr von der Situation? Nutzt die Kommentare um uns eure Meinung mit zu teilen.

Quelle: joinDOTA.com

Darüber hinaus ist dies aber nur ein kleines Update. Die Entwickler haben einige Änderungen am Interface vorgenommen (Die Icons toter Helden werden grau anstatt farbig zu sein) und einige Effekte eingebaut. So gibt es nun eine Buff/Debuff Icon für Razors Static Link und einen Held-Effekt für die Fountain.

Außerdem arbeitet Valve weiterhin an den Bots. Die Bots, insofern sie eine Support-Helden spielen, sollen nun öfters Wards kaufen und aufstellen, aber immer welche für den menschlichen Spieler im Shop lassen. Des weiteren wurden einige Bugs an den Bots behoben.

Gut zu wissen: Nächste Woche wird ein kein Update geben, da Valve, vermutlich im Hinblick auf Gründonnerstag, eine Pause einlegt.

Viel Spass mit den neuen Inhalten wünscht euch inDota2.de

Changelog:

GAMEPLAY
- Added Lone Druid!
- Fixed small bug in the timing of sequential attacks.
- Lifestealer: Fixed being unable to Infest Mud Golems.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse interaction with Aegis.
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed a bug where Ice Blast could get stuck on the map.
- Enabled Lycan in Captain’s Mode

UI
- The top bar game timer no longer is reset when a game ends.
- Heroes in top bar now draw grayscale when dead.
- The buyback cooldown time now appears in the gold tooltip.
- The buyback cooldown now appears in the form minutes:seconds.

VISUALS
- Added a buff/debuff effect for Razor’s Static Link.
- Added effect for fountain heal.
- Fixed heroes drawing parts of their models in portraits when sheeped, hexxed, etc.
- Updated the effects for Shadow Demon’s Shadow Poison.
- Decreased darkness of fogged areas

BOTS
- Fixed bots being too aggressive about destroying enemy items.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up items like Rapier or Aegis without giving humans a chance at them.
- After all humans have picked heroes, the remaining bots will now immediately pick their heroes.
- Fixed bug where bots would try to farm the same neutral camp that a human was farming.
- Added support for bots buying and placing Observer Wards:
. The more of a support a hero is, the more likely they are to buy wards.
. If they have a human teammate, they will not purchase enough wards to fully deplete the store.
. They will ward the runes, their jungle, and sometimes the enemy jungle (depending on how pushed the lanes are).
. They won’t go to locations to place wards if they think it’s too dangerous.
- Fixed bug that would sometimes prevent bots from defending their top/bottom lanes when the tier 3 towers/racks are gone.
- Fixed bug where if the incoming threat was small, no one would ever be a selected to defend (typically resulting in no defensive response to creeps).

Des Weiteren sollen diese Woche wieder mehr Beta-Einladungen versendet werden. Die aktivsten Dota 2 Spieler sollen, vorerst in der Region “US Western”, weitere Beta-Einladungen für Freunde bekommen.

Kompletter Changelog:

GAMEPLAY
- Added Lycan!
- Fixed Tranquil Boots visual charges being 3 instead of 4 (actual was still 4).
- Fixed the first slash of Omnislash not applying vision properly.
- Fixed crash bug where you could leave the lobby chat channel while in a lobby.
- Enabled Shadow Demon in Captain’s Mode.
- The Stable version is now updated to the Latest version.
- Added All Random game mode for private lobbies.
- Alchemist: Fixed Acid Spray killing couriers.
- Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak not having an aoe targeting cursor.
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes killing couriers.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed illusions procing Jinada’s critical strike.
- Clinkz: Fixed a bug with level 2 Death Pact not gaining the .5% damage buff.
- Mirana: Fixed Arrow getting blocked by Linken’s Sphere.
- Morphling: Added timer to Replicate that shows up as a buff.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment stealing Intelligence from illusions.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment being castable on Warlock Golem.
- Queen of Pain: Fixed being able to dispell Shadow Strike
- Razor: Fixed Static Link damage from being purgable.
- Shadow Demon: Fixed attack animation time
- Shadow Shama: Fixed Serpent Wards having instant attack point (instead of 0.3)
- Storm Spirit: Fixed attack projectile speed
- Sven: Fixed Storm Bolt not stunning nearby targets if the primary target became magic immune while the projectile was traveling.
- Venomancer: Fixed being able to dispell Venomous Gale, Poison Sting and Poison Nova
- Warlock: Fixed Golems having incorrect magic resistance.
- Weaver: Fixed Time Lapse forgetting its history when upgraded
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Death Ward projectile speed being too slow
- Fixed Diffusal Blade’s mana burn effect going through Magic Immunity.
- Units that are smoked can now be revealed by magic immune enemies.
- Fixed some abilities having incorrect durations against creep heroes (like Dismember).
- Fixed Disruption being castable on Warlock’s Golem.
- Fixed gold over time being very slightly off sometimes.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit not showing movement speed in the stats area
- Fixed Fountain projectile speed being too fast
- Fixed Furbolg attack point being too high
- Fixed Black Drake projectile speed being too fast
- Mjollnir: Fixed Static Charge damaging friendly units and towers. Note that towers can still proc the ability.UI
- Added a hero performance rating graph to the player persona page.
- Added setting for ambient creatures in the Advanced Video Settings.
- Advanced Video Settings is now versioned and will automatically update this release
- Undroppable items are no longer put in the stash when near the fountain.
- Items will no longer move when they are attempted to be picked up by a unit with a full inventory.
- The courier can no longer pick up certain items (Aegies, Rapier).
- Hooked up XP graph button.
- There is now a different ring effect for the primary unit when you have multiple units selected.
- Fixed second courier not being controllable if enabled by a courier
- Fixed bug where you could cast your ultimate by pressing either the Ability 4 or Ability 5 keys, on a 4 ability hero.
- Added setting to draw hero icons as default in the minimap. Alt will show X’s and O’s.BOTS
- Increased bot ability usage reaction time by about 50%.
- Fixed bug where bots would pick up or destroy teammates’ items on the ground.
- Increased bot desire to defend their base.
- Fixed nasty bug that would often cause bots to idle in their current location when wanting to go defend.
- Bots now get an added desire to attack a hero that Bane has Gripped.
- Bots no longer random their heroes. They will now try to build a somewhat reasonable team comp based on hero role, stuns, and melee/ranged, and do so over the entire hero selection phase.
- Reworked bot lane selection logic. They should be smarter about which lanes they select, and who they pair with.
- Changed how human pings affect the bots’ desires to push/defend. Should be more consistently powerful now.
- Bots in lanes with carries will try to avoid stealing their farm.
- Fixed a few cases where bots would oddly try to cast abilities at neutral creeps (such as when pushing or defending a lane).VISUALS
-Improvements made to some of Shadow Demon’s effects.