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They could calculate a very rough DBR by only keeping stats for people who's profile is public. Of course those peoples skill level would skew higher than average, but it still would give people who were interested in keeping track of their progress a way to do so.
 
You can't calculate DBR anymore b/c people have private ids. In order for dbr to work u gotta have access to everyone's accounts

If you are about to lose a game you can just turn your privacy on and it won't count that game on dotabuff. Making dbr pretty pointless even if they could gather it.
 
They could calculate a very rough DBR by only keeping stats for people who's profile is public. Of course those peoples skill level would skew higher than average, but it still would give people who were interested in keeping track of their progress a way to do so.

It would be a complete mess and not worth doing at all.
 
Tusk seems essentially done, so... not really sure why they'd hold him another week.

Bristlebog could pull a Treant and come out of nowehere, but that's unlikely.

Or we could get a couple of retextures, some bug fixes and an Sven Sword.
 
I don't think Tusk looks close to done personally, but I'll be pleasantly surprised if he shows up today.

Does anyone have that list of unreleased heroes that were being worked on? From TI2 I think. Has it been followed pretty well up to now?
 
Tusk seems essentially done, so... not really sure why they'd hold him another week.

Bristlebog could pull a Treant and come out of nowehere, but that's unlikely.

Or we could get a couple of retextures, some bug fixes and an Sven Sword.

Or Skyworth could just show up done. He looks fairly complete to be honest.

I really do wish Valve would add in like 50 odd ball cosmetics, rather then all these sets. I liked the one off items.

I don't think Tusk looks close to done personally, but I'll be pleasantly surprised if he shows up today.

Does anyone have that list of unreleased heroes that were being worked on? From TI2 I think. Has it been followed pretty well up to now?

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Only 9 heroes left omg.

IT'S HAPPENING.

Your counting skills sucks, there is 13. Tusk, Bristle, Tauren, Legion Commander, Phoenix, Pit Lord, Abaddon, Ember, Terror Blade, Arc Warden, Skywrath, Techies, and Winter Wyvern.


Also, I think LoL has more Heroes then Dota now. I think they are upto 111 now, while Dota is at 110.
 
Those weren't on the list, I was just working off of what I was given.

I stand by what I said, 9 heroes left.
 
I played my first Enigma game today, team was all carry but me. Managed to get dagger even when everybody was feeding, and then did a pgg black hole. After that i got a nice 3 or 4 man one and naga ulted.

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At 13 heroes if they want them all in by TI3, they're going to have to pick up the pace a bit. 26 weeks will put them dangerously close to TI3.

Ultimately that's when I see Dota 2 being officially released, at TI3 with a huge event, lots of items, huge marketing, etc. Maybe even manage to get some of TI3 aired on Spike or ESPN or whatever.
 
If the spell was from Axe' battle hunger, its not deniable.

You can only deny low hp allies if they are under the effects of DoTs like doom, poison nova, poison sting, shadow word, Viper strike etc not sure with battle hunger

You can also deny using nightmare, Bloddseeker'sQ and toss even if they are not under DoT.

Also they need to have one of a few specifics abilities on them in order to be denyable.

http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Deny#Denying

Ahh, that makes much more sense now, thanks.
 
NOTE: This update has reorganized the file layout of Dota 2 to speed up loading and for future localization support. This will result in a large update and may take a while to download.

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed how magic damage is amplified when there are multiple sources of bonuses.
- Death Prophet: Fixed Exorcism healing never resetting.
- Enigma: Tightened selection area of Eidolons to make picking individual units easier when they clump
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down not slowing magic immune units.
- Spectre: Spectral Dagger now properly trails invisible units.
- Spectre: Fixed various properties of Haunt illusions being incorrect.
- Tiny: Fixed Craggy Exterior working on illusions of Tiny.
- Visage: Fixed Roshan decreasing Gravekeeper's Cloak charges.
- Visage: Fixed Gravekeeper's Cloak not restoring its layers independently of one another.
- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fist damage not leveling properly, damaging magic immune units, and having incorrect chance to proc.
- Fixed a bug with Radiance kill credit and illusions.
- Fixed Roshan no longer casting Slam to slow and damage nearby units.

UI
- The Smooth Drag option now works for anyone that's spectating (whether through DotaTV or as a broadcaster).
- Reduced waiting time in hero picker during All Random to 10 seconds.
- Reworked how your personal hero performance is done on your profile page (provide feedback here).
- Added preview for summoned items like the panda and watcher golem to store and backpack.
- Added the ability to filter out empty teams from the team list.

BOTS
- Fixed some incorrect timing calculations that were causing bots to miss some last hits.
- Fixed Practice vs Bots not properly selecting the nearest server.
- Fixed Death Prophet bot to know about the true range of Crypt Swarm.
- Fixed bots thrashing selling a situational item (dust, wards, TP scroll) to purchase another situational item.

WEBAPI
- Added Captain's Mode Picks and Bans.
- Added ability upgrade order and times to each player.
- Added inventory for additional units (Lone Druid's Spirit Bear).
- Added an API for getting match details in the order they were recorded.
 
Interested in seeing how much faster loading is. I wouldn't say it's bad now, but improvements are definitely welcome.
 
Hope there is some bristlebog stuff. They are going to have to speed up hero release especially since wc3 will probably get a handful of new heroes this year. The game has to come out sometime.
 
Still don't understand why they aren't adding any heroes to CM. Waiting for G-league to finish maybe? A couple reworks coming in 6.88? Da fack.
 
Still don't understand why they aren't adding any heroes to CM. Waiting for G-league to finish maybe? A couple reworks coming in 6.88? Da fack.

Icefrog swimming in his pools of money.

(I dunno)

Need competitive slark.
 
Which newish heroes seem to be OK for cm mode friend?

Dusa, Slark, and Troll are all safe bets. All of them are weak in their own ways and unlikely to upset the current competitive meta. Drow and Centaur are still kind of wild cards although the centaur QQ has died down in the last few months.
 
Looks like Abaddon is going to come soonish. Likely early March is my bet.

Also, teams are going to get a rank soon.

Anuxi's Enchatress set is coming, along with some Antimage, Chen, and Windrunner items. Lich and Warlock wards too. Chicken courier should be able to be purchased now.

I can't seem to extract that materials from this update at all, so Mats stuff will likely also be delayed.
 
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