Poll: Do you own a Interactive Compendium?

**Mahti**

(05-24-2013, 06:52 AM)Adman Wrote: I remember I got really into Dota for a few days. It might be useful for newer players to post a link to a guide or something, especially explaining lingo such as 'carry' and other things that I've already forgotten.

Ask and you shall receive!
http://www.purgegamers.com/welcome-to-dota-you-suck probably best guides out there.

Catkillerfive

May 24, 2013 - Valve

GAMEPLAY
- Elder Titan: Fixed Natural Order not upgrading on Elder Titan.
- Elder Titan: Fixed Ancestral Spirit waking up units that were hit by the Spirit Stomp.
- Elder Titan: Fixed Ancestral Spirit having the wrong radius while returning after it expired.
- Fixed Shadow Blade incorrectly revealing its owner on secondary attack types if they occurred after the fade time.

UI
- The combat log is now localized.
- The Watch tab will now default to the Tournaments sub-tab if there is a live match.
- Added an automatic "(idle)" tag in Rich Presence for players that are AFK.
- Tournaments are now sorted by their last game played.
- Fixed a bug where notifications of item purchases didn't work if the courier did the purchase.
- Fixed bug where chat ban notifications weren't displaying hours left correctly.

PERFORMANCE
- Reduced memory usage.

AUDIO
- updated Nightstalker ult, made global for teammates.
- fixed Mana Leak target sound.
- fixed Dust sound

Catkillerfive

4th Stretch goal for the Interactive Compendium. All owners of a Compendium will receive a Brand new Taunt item now (Or in the hear future, the one that come first).

This means that the total prize pool is now 2 200 000 U$D

Catkillerfive

Communication Reports
May 28, 2013 - Dota Team

One goal we have for Dota 2 is to have as many people playing and enjoying the game as possible. To do so, we suspected we’d need to encourage behaviors that have positive effects on the game and community and discourage behaviors that have the opposite effect- like causing other players to play less or not at all or to discourage them from trying out the game in the first place. One of the things we also suspected was that we wouldn’t be able to tackle that kind of problem without releasing the game – it’s the sort of thing where you need a lot of data to know whether or not your changes are having any effect.

Now that Dota 2 has been out for a while, and gathering a nice mix of new and original Dota 1 players, we’re able to gather data to find answers. One of the first things we dug into were the factors that contributed to a player quitting. While it might seem obvious that someone is more likely to quit if they have a negative experience in a game, we’ve learned in the past that we really need to test our assumptions to make sure we’re not fixing the wrong thing. Interestingly, some of the factors we assumed would affect leaving didn’t – for instance, the outcome of matches doesn’t correlate at all to the likelihood of quitting. Losing a bunch of Dota 2 games doesn’t seem to cause people to quit. But one thing that did stand out in the data was the amount of negative communication between players. Put simply, you are more likely to quit if there is abusive chat going on in your games.

So, further investment in discouraging negative communications seemed like it would be valuable. But where to draw the line? Should we allow all (potentially) abusive behavior in-game, or should we work to diminish it and push players more towards the positive and collaborative side of things? We don’t want to restrict anyone’s speech nor prevent anyone from speaking their mind, but for everyone who feels slighted by their inability to say exactly what they want to their teammates or opponents in-game, there is someone on the receiving end of that criticism who is having just as bad an experience (or worse).

After some discussion internally, we reached the decision that it seemed in the best interest of the Dota community to not push away players who actually enjoyed the game. As a consequence, this meant restricting the ability for some members of the community to say whatever they want. To put it another way, we only want people to quit playing if they actually just don’t like the game. That thinking led us to the current communication ban system. Its goal is to reduce the toxicity that occurs verbally or via text chat, and as a result, to avoid causing players to quit the game solely due to negative communication experiences.

Now that it’s been live for over a month, we’re able to see some of the effects it’s having, and the conversation the community is having around it, and we felt we should answer some of the questions we’re seeing out there and pass on some of the data we have.

First, a couple of notes on the implementation:

Multiple people ganging up on you to report you in the same game has no effect on whether or not you are banned. We are looking at patterns of behavior over time only.
If you are currently communication banned, any communication reports you receive in that time period do not contribute towards, nor result in additional bans.
The system is not yet ideal, but we felt it was better to gather data on this first step before trying to complicate it with extra nuance. We’ve changed the algorithm several times already, and we’ll continue to update it in response to the community’s feedback, and the data we’re gathering.

The most common question we get is why we added the communication ban system when we already have an in-game muting system. Shouldn’t players who don’t like what they’re hearing just mute the speaker? Ignoring the side problems around some players not knowing about muting, and that the damage is often done before you know you should mute someone else, the real problem with the muting approach is that it doesn’t provide strong feedback to the speaker. Some of our earlier data showed us that offensive players can be rehabilitated and that they manage to modify their communication so that they don’t cause negative interactions. To be able to do that though, they need to know when they’re producing negative interactions, and the communication ban system lets them know this. Our data shows this is working exactly as we hoped – many players banned eventually reach a ban free communication style, and the percentage of players being reported for communication bans is dropping over time.

We also hear from users reporting false reports and unwarranted bans, and when we investigate them we typically see that they’re unaware of how they are coming across to other players in-game. The perspective one has over what is or isn’t warranted or abusive varies by player, and that’s one of the reasons why we’ve tried to build a system where the community gets to own the definition of abuse, and the community’s overall decision finds its way back to the people who cross over the line. We’ll continue investigating these claims to make sure the system is working as intended, but ultimately, this system is not designed to please everyone, and our data makes us believe that even those banned by it are better served by the positive effect their lack of speech has on the community’s health.

A few statistics:

Since the ban system has been implemented, there’s been a 35% drop in negative communication interactions.
Less than the 1% of the active player base (players who have played Dota 2 in the last month) are currently banned.
60% of players who receive bans go on to modify their behavior and don’t receive further bans.
Total reports are down more than 30%, even after accounting for the reduction in the number permitted per week.
Overall, we’re happy with how the system is proceeding. The communication ban system was an attempt to remove a specific set of behaviors in the community, and given its harshness and the change in expectations it engendered, it was always going to be something that was met with criticism. As is often the case, there’s still a lot of work to do, but the early results are promising.

**Mahti**

http://www.playdota.com/changelogs/6.78 Newest patch notes, In dotA will be probably coming in dota 2 next week.

Catkillerfive

The 2 new heroes are very interesting.

**Mahti**

Haven't downloaded newest map yet though but surely will test them out soon.

Catkillerfive

"Batriders vision decreased from 1800/800 to 1400/800" - What a nerf Cheese

"Bloodseekers Rupture damage is now HP loss" - No BKB for you.
"Chainfrost bounce count increased from 7 to 10" - ...I don't even know what to say about this. 10x550-25%=4125 O_o
"Lions Aghanim's Finger of Death CD decreased from 160/100/40 to 100/60/20" - 20 Seconds WHAT!!!!
"Spirit Bear now has its HP drained by Armlet when active" - There goes that metagame
"Necrolyte Aghanim's Reaper's Scythe causes buyback to be disabled on heroes it kills for that death" - Now we get a good reason to buy Aghanim's for Necrolyte.
"Omniknight can now use Aghanim's Scepter, Guardian Angel AoE becomes global and affects buildings (including regen)" - FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Rikimaru Permanent Invisibility fade time decreased from 3/2.25/1.5 to 3/2/1" - Fuck me.
"Silencer can now use Aghanim's Scepter, Applies the current level of Curse of the Silent to all units and increases ultimate duration by one second." - Haha yeah Cheese

"Tiny can now Toss units to Runes" - Tactical rune denying incoming.
"Assault Cuirass Positive armor aura is no longer prevented from stacking with other items, This means that it works with items like Vladmir's Offering" - Finally
"Black King Bars Magic Immunity now has a 6th level of decrease, So it decreases on usage until it gets to 4 duration and 50 CD. Previously the lowest level was 5 duration and 55 CD." - No comment
"Bloodstone now get a active ability that instantly kill yourself, This will cause it to trigger the AoE heal that always happens when you die with Bloodstone. 300 second cooldown. Targets the ground to be used, to help prevent accidental usage." - [URL="http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/0/0a/Doom_deny_06.mp3"]Like hell, heh-h[/URL]
"Gem of True Sight can no longer be destroyed" - Nope
"Quelling Blade can now target Observer or Sentry wards dealing 100 damage (wards have 200 hp)" - Time to chop down Wards

Catkillerfive

The 4th stretch goal is reached for the Interactive Compendium.

All Compendium owners will now also get a Taunt pack including taunts for: Anti-Mage (The Magic Ends Here), Crystal Maiden (Beautiful Snowangel), Drow Ranger (Keep an Ear Out), Juggernaut (Sharp Blade), Pudge (Shake Your Money Maker) and Lina (Get Burned).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NimeCKROk

Remember that if you buy the Interactive Compendium, you will gain all the previous Stretch Goals and the ones that is yet to be unlocked (A courier that you can change styles on, a powerful long lasting Battle point Bonus, A unique HUD, A taunt set and all items that get unlocked when the stretch goals get unlocked, including: Able to vote on an 8 player Solo Championship at The International, a newly created Immortal item and the ability to select the next Hero shipped in Dota 2 (Most voted on according to Reddit is Goblin Techies).

Catkillerfive

Spoiler: The changes are slightly different than in the playdota changelog

Poll: Do you own a Interactive Compendium? You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
Yes	28.57%	4	28.57%
No	14.29%	2	14.29%
Planing to buy one	0%	0	0%
What is that?	57.14%	8	57.14%
Total		14 vote(s)	100%