March 08, 2012 Patch

Source: Dota 2 Update Released

Patch notes

GAMEPLAY

• Enabled Bane in Captain's Mode.
• Bane
  • Fixed the attack timing on when Nightmare gets transfered.
  • Fixed Enfeeble working on Roshan
  • Fixed being unable to attack allied Nightmared heroes to transfer the debuff.
  • Fixed Nightmare being able to transfer to towers and wards.
• Batrider
  • Fixed being unable to easily pull units over cliffs with Flaming Lasso.
  • Fixed timing of Firefly damage ticks.
  • Fixed rounding error with Firefly damage ticks.
• Bloodseeker
  • Fixed Rupture hurting cycloned units.
• Chen
  • Fixed Holy Persuation interrupting allied channeling spells on cast (rather than upon tping).
• Death Prophet
  • Fixed Exorcism hitting an invisible hero if the hero was hit before.
  • Fixed Silence not affecting basic units.
• Dragon Knight
  • Fixed Elder Form's Corrosive Breath and Frost Breath working with DK illusions.
• Faceless Void
  • Fixed Courier interaction with Chronosphere
• Jakiro
  • Macropyre now does the correct amount of damage with a Scepter.
  • Fixed Macropyre not hurting siege units.
• Omniknight
  • Fixed Repel canceling Ursa's Overpower.
• Outworld Destroyer
  • Fixed Astral Imprisonment being able to cause you to lose mana regeneration.
• Pugna
  • Fixed Netherward mana degen not showing the proper numbers for players.
• Spirit Breaker
  • Fixed Netherstrike vs cycloned units.
• Tinker
  • Fixed Rearm refreshing level 2 and 3 of Necronomicon.
• Ursa
  • Fixed Fury Swipes incrementing when the attack missed.
• Vengeful Spirit
  • Fixed Wave of Terror hp loss not properly functioning on magic immune units.
• Warlock
  • Fixed Golem being considered a creep for some spells like Paralyzing Casks.
• Attributes can no longer fall below 1.
• Fixed some issues with negative mana regeneration.
• Fixed Basher stacking with Spiritbreaker/Slardar/Faceless Void's bashes.
• Fixed Armlet not draining life while you are magic immune.
• Fixed couriers not being able to use wards.
• Fixed temporary trees (like Sprout) not respecting the pause.

UI

• Changed Empowering Haste passive legacy key to G to avoid stomping H (halt).
• Captain's Mode now has 5 bans once again.
• Added countdown when unpausing the game.
• The spectator graph events now get correctly cleared when rewinding in a demo.
• The tooltip for Doom now correctly updates when Doombringer has a Scepter.
• Inventory keys are now hidden while spectating.
• The combat log now works while spectating and in replays.
• Fixed a bug where the minimap was unclickable after spectating a game in player perspective mode.

VISUALS

• Dragon Knight plays a range*enabled effect when Dragon Tail is cast while in dragon form.
• Lifestealer now has his own variation on the lifesteal effect rather than using the generic one.
• Updated Lifestealer's Open Wounds and Infest effects for clarity.
• Updated Bloodseeker's Rupture effect (added blood trail so it's more obvious).
• Added Team Only Marker for Kunkka's Ship
• Fix to unit rings sometimes getting offset from the unit at low framerate/high replay playback speeds
• Perf and visual tweaks to Alchemist's Acid Spray
• Made Pudge's hook conform to terrain for more accurate visual read
• Tinker Rockets now visually show duds when no enemy units are available
• Fixed buildings visually popping back to earlier state when being damaged repeatedly.
• Optimized tree destruction effects and fixed crash in certain situations when many were destroyed simultaneously
• Fixed Split Earth drawing in FoW in some situtaions (Roshan)

AUDIO

• Updated Rupture effect.
• Announcer now says "Single Draft" when starting single draft mode.
• First Blood lines now play mapwide.

• Added rival taunts and misc. lines to Razor, Zeus, Tiny and Tidehunter to fill out basic voice set.

BOTS

• Bot difficulty now defaults to Normal.
• Re-added ability for bots to team-roam-and-gank enemy heroes during the latter part of games.
• dota_bot_dump_state can now be run in non-cheat-enabled games.
• Fixed cases where Juggernaut would use Blade Fury and Razor would use Plasma Field when there weren't enough creeps nearby.
• Added Passive bot difficulty level, in which they won't do anything but lane.
• Loosened the time-to-arrive constraints for deciding to defending a lane (should improve base defense).

UNDOCUMENTED

• Updated Queen of Pain's hero icon.
• Added ability icons for Roshan's first three abilities.
• Updated the textures of the following heroes:
  • Lina
  • Puck
• Added idle injured animations for the following heroes:
  • Axe
  • Beastmaster
  • Broodmother
  • Lifestealer
  • Shadow Shaman
• Added a spawn animation for Bane.