Dota 2 Update - December 19th & 20th, 2013

Happy New Year!!! I'm very sorry for not posting anything for this 2 week.... I'm not posting because I'm too excited to play Dota 2 and forgot that i have this blog. So today is the end of the wraith night event and i already have the evergreen stalker item for NP (Natures Prophet). The update is about 150MB and 15 MB
So the update conclude:
December 19th, 2013

WRAITH-NIGHT
- Added Queen of Pain, Storm Spirit, Templar Assassin, Witch Doctor, and Elder Titan to Wraith-Night.
- Added new rewards to Wraith-Night.
- Juggernaut now gains evasion during Blade Fury.
- Fixed a bug where pausing the game would break certain Wraith King abilities.

ECONOMY
- Added sets for Luna, Drow Ranger, Skywrath Mage, and Naga Siren
- Added a player set for Invoker by iceiceice
- Added weaponry for Sven, Doom, Spectre, Windranger, Alchemist, Warlock, and Slark.
- Added hairstyles for Drow Ranger, Mirana, Lina, Windranger, and Templar Assassin.
- Added three HUDs
- Added a 400% Battle Booster (80% stacking for other players). Available until January 3rd.

COMMUNITY
- Only decrement low-priority game count in a coop-bot match if you win and you are not playing on passive difficulty.
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December 20th, 2013
- Fixed Governor's Salakots that had been wrongly converted into Ancient Imbued Spinal Blades.

- Fixed the 400% battle booster giving only 300%. Active battle boosters of this type have been reset to 500 minutes remaining. The 9 players that already fully consumed their battle boosters have each been granted two new boosters.

- Launching the game will now allow you to reconnect to a match in progress even while searching for the Dota 2 Network. In concert with this change, all existing low priority punishments have been reset. 

Solo DotA?!?

Hello again readers! So after the update which brought us ranked matchmaking, There is a rating which rates our party rating and our solo rating, but for me, I don't want to play any solo MMR. 

There are several reasons why I don't want to play solo MMR, I've observed that when were playing MMR the teams need to have all the roles; carry, support, intiator,etc. I can't play any of the roles especially support, so when I'm playing MMR until now I've only played it with a party. 

As my past experience while playing MMR me and my buddies have met many annoying players such as the one that always say everybody is a noob and stuff like, but then again that's part of the DotA 2 community, and ofcourse very good players which kicked our ass pretty much, but MMR is a good thing because it shows us how good we are at playing and ofcourse the higher our rank is the more people will be scared of you.

To conclude this random post, MMR is good for high skilled players but is going to be a nightmare for newcomers, good thing valve decided only 13 lvl up players can play this. If not well I'll stop playing MMR

Dota 2 Update - December 18th, 2013

So There is an update yesterday. The update is about 100MB.
So the update conclude:

• Added Legion Commander to the workshop
• Updated workshop files for Dazzle, Dragon Knight, Bloodseeker, Broodmother and Batrider that include separated fbx and smd files
• 5 solo players will never match against a 5 man party in Ranked Matchmaking (and will be extremely unlikely in Unranked)
• Fixed bug where you could have multiple recruiters, or active recruitment requests once accepting a recruiter
• Some players with multiple accepted recruiters will have their recruitment status reset
• The armory filter dropdown will no longer be hidden by any active Battle Point Boosters
• Fixed various crash bugs around Guides in Frostivus
• Improved audio mix of player and caster voice on surround sound systems
• Fixed a crash on systems with multiple gamepads connected
• Fixed a case where backdoor protection would not function properly
• Fixed Ember Spirit base HP regen being 0.25 instead of 0.75
• Fixed Naga Siren base HP regen being 0.25 instead of 0.75
• Match history now shows MMR and change for your ranked matches

 Hope this is useful, GL :)

DotA 2 Night

Hey guys tonight me and some of my buddies will be playing DotA 2 until next morning, so for all of you Indonesians add our steam and maybe you guys will get rares or some other stuff, all you have to do is come and say hi to us and maybe we'll play together!!!! See you at the game guys.

You can add our account at the link at the right side of the blog.

Customizing Your DotA 2 Loading Screen

So, are you bored with your loading screen? (of course!) I just read the steam community and got this tutorial. I will tell you how to change your old loading screen. The first thing you need is VTFEdit (download the installer).
Now you open it and you open an image(The image you desire for the loading screen) in the VTFEdit. After that you just save the file with these settings

Save the file with the name:

• "background01_widescreen.vtf"(name the file with this when there is no event like The International, Diretide, and frostivus)

After that you open steam, and right click DotA 2 in the library. You open the properties and click "set launch option" and you type "-override_vpk"in the box. ("-console" is only optional) And click OK

K, now you just need to copy your file before (the image) to....
(your Steam folder)\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\materials\console (If you don't have a "console" folder just create it)

 Here are some Dota 2 loading screens.

And you are done with your custom loading screen.... Sorry for my bad English... If you didn't understand just comment below. Hope this is useful! GL :)
NOTE;

• The game resolution will affect the image quality. This will only affect on one PC (the one who you did this tutorial).
• This won't work if you use a loading screen item
• This won't work if dota 2 have an event that change normal loading screens *ex; The International 4

Dota 2 Update - December 14th, 2013

Hmm... Today update is bug fixes and about the server.. it seems DotA 2 have a bug that cause run out of available servers (long waiting time when finding match). The update is about 14MB.
So the update conclude:

• Fixed a significant bug that was causing regions to run out of available servers
• Fixed a bug with Batrider's vision during Firefly

Dota 2 Update - December 13th, 2013

Today there is an update about bug fixes and the back of the skeleton king(It's the wraith king). So, skeleton king is back, i mean wraith king has risen! There is no big different on the hero, only different skin and animation. So the update is about 60MB.
The update conclude:

• Wraith King has risen (Skeleton King is back, that's mean you can play him again)
• Fixed Recruits sorting in the wrong direction 
• Fixed Captain crowns showing on all players when spectating CM games
• Added matchmaking preference to use themed or classic map (You can choose either winter or normal map)
• Ranked matchmaking will always use the classic map. (This is to minimize fragmentation of the matchmaking pool)
• Tuned quality thresholds in ranked matchmaking to wait longer and require a higher quality match
• Private lobbies will use classic map if tournament version is selected in lobby settings
• Fixed bug causing full parties of 5 players to wait needlessly when searching for Wraith-Night or Coop Bot matches 

For Frostivus (Wraith Night game mode) :

• Rebalanced both Shadow Fragments and Shining Fragments rewards
• Fixed towers sometimes becoming invulnerable
• Fixed CM hero selection being limited after a Frostivus game
• Fixed buy back cost not being reset on new game with increased difficulty
• After defeating Wraith King end panel now correctly shows up and shows fragment rewards and allows voting
• Added conversion of Shining Fragments to Shadow Fragments  

 And that's all the update for 13th December. Hope this is useful! GL :)

Thank you

This thank you actually goes to a friend of mine. She is also a blogger, so if you have time you should go and check out her blog:

satelituranus.blogspot.com

Dota 2 Update - December 12th, 2013

Hmmmm....... Today (or yesterday) updates is kinda huge for me because the update size is about 500MB.
But, the update is worth for it. Because there is a new hero, new matchmaking, and NEW GAME MODE.
The update conclude only three of it ( I think so) :

• Added Wraith Night (Game Mode, till 31 December I think)
• Added Ranked Matchmaking
• Added Legion Commander (The hero is female)

And that's all for 12th December updates. Hope this is useful :) GL!

Valve SE and AUS Server Can't Handle the King's Celebration!!

Wraith Night has made the masses of from SEA and the Aussie to go crazy, at 10:00 PM at my time I'm still trying to find a match, and this is very frustrating because who doesn't want to play DotA 2?!?!?! And of course people are coming too for opening the chest as welcoming gifts, You'll get free announcer, ward, couriers, and some inscribed gems. This is very frustrating for me, I'm actually writing this while I'm waiting for SEA server to get on working again, So get your thing on valve come on we all want to play!! But I know you guys are busy because of all of this so I forgive you, thank you Valve for the announcer, HUD, etc.

Wraith Night

So if you guys remembered, yesterday I made a prediction saying that Skeleton King is tired for all of those reincarnation and stuff like that. So if you guys already did the 523 MB update you will see all this new game mode. If you see you will get like presents that contains presents (no shit)!!! Yeah go open them all if you were high leveled you'll get many presents in one go but after that you'll need to earn them presents but I guess it'll be 5 per level.

So going to the main topic, WRAITH NIGHT. Wraith night in a nutshell is a wave game, you need to kill waves of creeps to pass each rounds. As my last experience I've reached the 5th round. I will tell you all the things I know so far so let's do this!

1st Round Kobold's everywhere:
This round like the title says Kobold everywhere!!! As my last experience I used Axe and it worked pretty well, and it kills the wave fast like hell and to be noted at Wraith Night heroes are very limited so yeah Limited. If you kill enough creeps you'll pass to the next round!

2nd Round Left 5 Dead:
This round is full of zombies!!! There is this mini boss he looks like undying and it spawn zombies and stuff. Just like last round stay alive! If you die you either buy back or be revived by your friend. Keep on killing and you'll go to the next round

3rd Round Ugly Sticks:
You will be facing ogre's at this round this one has a mini boss which is huge and it has AoE bash where it will hit the ground and anyone who stands there will be stunned. So be careful because it's pretty tanky and yeah try not to die its hard for your teamate if you die.

4th Round Slithreen .......:
 At this round you'll be facing mini slarks and Slardar the will stun you and you need to be careful not to be pounced by those mini slarks. At this round you need to defend the base very well because they push really fast.

5th Round ........:
This round you'll be meeting treant protector and nature prophet they will be spawning trees and they will try to push your towers like a abdjiabf so its gonna be very hard. especially because the Boss here is very I mean very tanky you need to kill this guys together and just like treant he have that annoying skill.

That's all I can share for now because this game is very very hard, I recommend playing this game together with your friend so you can yell at eachother.

Long Live The King!!!

As you saw our last post, The great King Leoric has been removed from the hero menu or something... So what's this all about? Let us see the possibilities

1. Skeleton king= Skeleton Santa???. This actually could happen because Valve is full of suprise!

2. Skeleton King the New Roshan!?!? Ok this one is full of bull poop.

3. Skeleton King is on vacation. Well those old bones need to go have vacation after all those making itsel to whole again everytime reicarnation happens. 

4. Skeleton King is having a wedding with someone. Well maybe he found the Ms Leoric. 

Well thats all I could think of if you have any idea where he went be sure to tell us first hand. So comment down below!

Dota 2 Update - December 10th, 2013

December 10th, 2013. The update is about the skeleton king being removed from the game (we can't choose skeleton king). Why skeleton king is removed? Skeleton king removed because he want to cancel the frostivus (maybe? i don't know for sure). So valve removes skeleton king from the gameplay because he cancel the frostivus........ Or maybe valve is up to something?? The update is about 5MB (maybe? i didn't open steam this week). Hope this information is useful! :)

GAMEPLAY
- Skeleton King: Removed for pressing ceremonial reasons

Dota 2 Update - December 5th, 2013

Sorry for the very late post. I was very busy studying for my exams until the next friday. Maybe i won't post anything for a while until my exams is done. So the update was on 5th December is about 120MB.
And the update conclude :

• Fixed a bug that caused some gem names and stat values to get truncated in the tooltip.
• Recipe costs have been reduced. This change will affect newly dropped recipes.
• Items with gems that convey the Inscribed, Autographed, and Ascendant qualities will now appear consistently. If the gemmed item already had a special quality (like Genuine) then that special quality will take precedence over the gem quality.
• Several issues with crafting have been fixed: 

• A bug that made it appear that items were 'eaten' by crafting has been fixed. No items were actually eaten (they are still in your inventory). For example, a recipe that took 5 inputs would sometimes only consume 4 of the inputs and remain incomplete. The 5th item was never consumed even though it appeared to be by the UI. Recipes will now consume the correct number of items.
• A bug has been fixed that made the display of some recipes show the wrong type of items already fulfilled (i.e.: 4 of the same thing when actually 4 different items were fulfilled).
• The server is notified of a crafting attempt earlier in the crafting process so that crafting results will appear earlier.
• The crafting completed animation now also plays for partial crafts. A dialog will appear during a partial craft indicating the recipe is not complete and needs more components to be finalized.

• The tradability policy for socketed gems and crafted items has changed:
• Gems extracted from an item that is "tradable after date" now become tradable after the same date.
• Gems extracted from an item that can never be traded no longer inherit that restriction. You can safely add gems to a permanently untradable item without the gems becoming permanently untradable.
• Gems that are not tradable (like Ascendant gems) will make the item they are added to untradable, but only while those gems are socketed. Extracting the gems will remove the trade restriction from the item they are added to.
• If one or more crafted inputs are "tradable after date" then the recipe and output will become "tradable after date" with the latest date of the inputs.
• If one or more crafted inputs are permanently untradable then the recipe and output will become permanently untradable.
• All previously crafted items have been grandfathered into these new rules and have been made tradable.  

And that's all for the update. Hope this is useful :) GL, see ya next week.

Bye DotA 2!!!

Hello all!! been awhile since I've post something, all I want to say is that I'm not gonna be playing DotA 2 for...e.....v....... two weeks because the finals are coming. I know it is not that important for you guys to know about this thing, but because I've kinda grown into the blogging stuff so I guess its nice to say to you all of you 241 Indonesian people who saw this blog and understood all of the thing that I'm typing to this blog of ours. So far I know the DotA 2 map has been changed into a winter wonderland, and I know that because I watch Dotacinema's videos.

Until now I've missed DotA 2 because in last post about the DotA 2 life, It have been a part of my life DotA 2. So not doing it for two weeks has been a burden for me, and I think if you guys have been reading closely the way I tell stories like this is like I'm talking from a video. Actually I really love to make videos about being a part of the whole six million DotA 2 community and maybe do a livestream. Plans like that are probably going to be run next year, but I think I'll be doing it if... There are more people, I need you guys to start commenting or other stuff like that, maybe if you want add my Steam account Fishtail42  so of you guys already add me say something like "dude I saw your blog and I got your account from you blog" so by that I could know that is you guys! ( no sh*t). I guess I'll be seeing you guys later on! 

Good Luck Have Fun

BGM 2

I'm going to upload the second part of the Dota 2 BGM. So it's going to be plain maybe, but from now i will upload the sound with the example of the sound. To download the sound click here.

No more Essence!

Hello again guys! It's been awhile since my last post and that was a day before Diretide was done. At Saturday ( at my time) There was a 1.4 mb update which was pretty normal because there was many patch update for tweaks and stuff, but I was surprised that DIRETIDE IS GONE!!! That day I was planning to play Diretide all day because I had a holiday. So yeah if you guys have essence leftover you can save it for the next event which can be probably smeevil or frostivus. Anyway that's all I can say to you guys I'm really sorry that there haven't been a long post for awhile because we have many school work and the finals are coming, that also means I need to start learning and less DotA 2, So I won't be playing DotA 2 for the two weeks or less.

All I can say is Good Game Well Played ( I don't know why I said that)

Axe Sounds!

 

It's been 3 days since I publish the last post. Now I'll post the axe sound! Enough with the chit chat here is the download link. Hope this is entertaining and useful GL :)