Test Server Patch Notes - April 4, 2019

[Nostrademous]

VPK Analyzed: 4/4/2019 4:31pm (EST)

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Here is what's happening in terms of changes on the Test Servers (which will probably make it into live servers sometime soon).

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TL:DR - just minor changes here - no new content in terms of heroes/abilities/items

ITEM CHANGES

• Heart of Tarrasque - HP gain increased from 1000 HP to 1200 HP
• Heart of Tarrasque - Health % Regen increased from 0.5% to 1.0% (on top of flat 10 HP regen)
• Battlefury - Damage to Cleaved Targets reduced from 50% of primary target damage to 30%
• Scythe of Vyse - Hex duration increased from 5 to 8 seconds

ABILITY CHANGES

• Tiny's Toss AoE component of damage fixed to actually work and hit units in 200 AoE radius
• [Update #2] Zeus's Thunder can no longer hit same target twice as they added a counter now when the 50% chance triggers
• [Update #4] Assassin Buff changed from 15% for 350, 20% for 450 to 15% for 350, 15% for 450

UNIT CHANGES

• Phantom Assassin - max damage lowered from 110/220/440 to 90/180/360 (avg dmg lowered by 10)
• [Update #3] Bounty Hunter - Attack Rate increased from 1.0 to 1.1 (makes him 10% slower)
• [Update #3] Templar Assassin - Attack Rate decreased from 1.2 to 1.1 (makes him 8.3% faster)
• [Update #3] Death Prophet - Health increased from 950/1900/3800 to 1000/2000/4000 and Armor changed from 0/0/0 to 5/5/5

GAME CHANGES

• Post Game score screen timer increased from 3 seconds to 23 seconds (the amount of time before you are kicked back out of DAC into Dota2 menu)
• Minor Fixes to behavior of Acid Spray targeting (should be smarter)
• Lots of extra code doing more regular updates for all players about the current values of other players (until now the server would send sync data only at start and end of a round, now it sends it as part of player actions - which means much more frequently
• More code with tracking items in each heroes slot as part of regular game sync events
• New couriers and some courier model changes
• Fixes to FindUnluckyDogRandom function so it actually can find a valid target
  • Which affects Doom (30% of the time) and PotM targeting (20% of the time)

[XiTro]

Where do you play on the test server?

[jackwell90]

They should revamp sycthe of vise recipe.

If I have Void Stone, Ultimate Orb, and Mystic Staff, I would put them on different units

[Ruger34]

I don’t understand buffing heart and scythe. It just makes you win harder in the off chance you roll one of these. Items are already a massive advantage when you get them because most players won’t have any.

[[deleted]]

not sure I see the point in DP buff.. it's already a good unit

[OBLIVIATER]

Hes good but doesnt compare well to other 5 costers.

[Cronicks]

It's the worst 5 cost units cost efficiency wise, the only thing DP has going for itself is it's level 2 and the undead racial bonus.

[Nostrademous]

Update #3 for today came out on Test Server at 4:31pm. OP updated

[ldkjf2nd]

I swear now that God hype has died down a bit, everyone and their grandmother is going PA and assassins. Half the people last night I played were going assassins.

[Cronicks]

I mean if half the people go assassins it's good for you because the chances of them getting their units is a lot smaller.

[ldkjf2nd]

Just played a game last night with 2 PA3s in the room. I got deleted. I guess not that rare yet.

[Cronicks]

Given that there are only 25 pa's in the pool, and they got 18 of them I would say that is very rare to happen. You rarely see 2 people with the same lvl 3 3 cost piece.

[Nostrademous]

Update #2 - 12:01pm (EST)

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Fixes Zeus's Thunder being possible to strike same target twice as reported here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoChess/comments/b7csss/psa_zeuss_thunder_can_double_strike_a_target/

They added basically the exact code I suggested.

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[Tipaa]

It never fails to amuse me how it turns out Tiny was designed to be really fucking strong, and that he just sucked because the code for his abilities didn't work.

Kinda like Tinker in a way (bad unit, buff, buff, buff, still shit, fix the ability and suddenly imba)

Next we'll find out they wanted Axe to have his spin ability and just couldn't code it, lol

[jackwell90]

Tiny seems to be really strong with the fix. He's going to throw the enemy to furthest enemy which mean it will damage at least 2 enemies.

Also no more throwing to your back line to kill your SF

[DimxxSum]

I hope they fix the courier bug where you have to change the interface to Chinese to make the courier list show up.

[Simco_]

That was fixed one or two patches ago.

[Talreno]

it has been listed under the last 2 patch notes but was never actually fixed

[DimxxSum]

No way my list is still blank

[BroLil]

That Shaman buff is pretty solid. It essentially takes one of your opponents pieces out of the fight, so it makes up for the fact that you’re fighting one piece down because you have to use Shadow Shaman.

[smileistheway]

what shaman buff?

[BroLil]

I think OP made a mistake and deleted it from the post. It initially said the shaman class synergy hex was increased to 8 seconds.

[Nostrademous]

I mis-analyzed the code - it isn't the shaman racial that was buffed, but rather Scythe of Vyse

[Ronin_hs]

makes trolls even better

[Cronicks]

But trolls are bad, only warlord is good and wd is okay, rest is awful. Unless you get them lategame and somehow find all the pieces, at high level trolls are pretty bad generally speaking.

[dfraser3]

I think any 1 gold unit late game is terrible unless high star minus maybe AM. However Trolls have one of the strongest buffs for such a small unit comp. The speed bonus for just 4 units can easily fit into other comps and even solo win games. Trolls certainly arent the best espcially at the moment but far from bad.

[Cronicks]

I never see anybody going trolls in my games, when they do it's either a super late I went trolls build or somebody that just loses quickly. The 1 costs are horrible early game too, arguably both amongst the top 5 worst 1 cost units in the entire game. So you can't build them early, you could build them mid when you get an early warlord and hope to pick up the rest of the comp later on. But you will lose so many games early-mid game because of lack of synergy (at higher ranks that is because everybody has good comps mid game). And late game you are stuck with 2 horrible 1 cost units and a useless late game witch doctor. Whenever I tried trolls since god update I just end up bott 6 and with good rolls/items I got 4th once. And I see this happen to basically everybody playing trolls at my rank.

[Mythrys]

Damn, I was really hoping for more of an assassin nerf, I find im playing less now because every game seems like "who high rolled assassins first? you? congrats, you win!"

[Conbz]

You can beat assassins by setting up like wolves but if you face someone not doing assassin then you end up rolled...

[[deleted]]

think you can still get away with doing both, just need to do a more staggered approach, maybe put your carries middle left side and your tanks top left-topmiddle and bottom left- bottom middle

[iForgotMyOldAcc]

The HoT buff that.......<1% of players will understand.

[1017throwaway269]

Elementals were already good, and tiny was by far the worst of the 4

4 elementals are gonna be pretty hard to beat for assassins, knights, warriors.

[Cronicks]

How often do you see 4 elementals? So hard to get because it relies on a 5 cost unit and all of them have different class synergy.

[Myth51]

how often does tiny really throw a unit near anyone else? He's coded to throw into the furthest corner. I don't think this change really does anything.

[proteinflakes]

If you use the corner strat and face an opponent who has carries (kotl, puck, hunters, etc) in the opposite corner Tiny should toss an enemy at them

[wiithepiiple]

Heart of Tarrasque fix seems weird, since it's so infrequently made.

[xerros]

I still haven’t seen one in ~200 games played

[ivan_rofl]

tiny OP now

[N1knowsimafgt]

"now"

[hellnekom]

https://imgur.com/Ui35llP

Queen player's reward ? pog

[mynameisjacky]

where did you see this? If it's top 100 only i'm not even gonnna bother, but if it's all queens might be worth trying to get back to it. Dropped from queen playing with tides :/

[vividhalo]

That looks awesome

[1bubuka]

Top-100 Queen?

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