Dota 2 purge interface dermatitis

Dota 2 purge interface dermatitis

As you might have heard by now, DK and defending champions Na’Vi are the first teams to be invited to The International.

This year we are moving to Benaroya Hall, located here in beautiful sunny Seattle. It will be held during the last weekend of August, from the 31st to September 2nd.

For those that want to catch up on last year’s event, the archive is located here.

We will be releasing information on how to acquire tickets in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for details.

From one: an army

Team Phantom Lancer is back and they don’t like the way you’re looking at them.

You can’t go in alone, here – take these:

• The Prodota2 League and Gigabyte’s Dota Masters league started last week.
• We don’t usually drink rum, but when we do, we enjoy the Brewmaster approved smooth flavors of Admiral Kunkka’s Tidebringer Rum.
• The Starladder finals VODs are up.

You can find the latest changelog is here, no wait: here, nope: here!

Our force comes.

Don’t worry, your eyes are not playing tricks on you! That is indeed a brand new HUD you’re seeing. Today’s update includes the first of many upcoming revisions to our UI, starting with the in-game HUD.

When looking at feedback that we’ve gotten related to our interface, the first concerns we decided to address were:

• Inefficient use of space across all resolutions
• Having to jump through hoops to interact with the courier and glyph
• A lack of aesthetic coherency with the rest of the game visuals

To more efficiently use space in wider resolutions, we’ve made adjustments to the layout of the stats section. This also allowed us to include Move Speed as one of the stats readily available to players.

The Courier UI now exposes the state of the little guy, and allows item delivery with just a single click. Glyph state is also clearly exposed and easier to reach when you most need it.

And finally we’ve also updated the look of our item icons.

As always, we would love to hear what you think of the changes, so feel free to leave feedback over in our UI forums.

Also released today is the Dota 2 replay parsing tool. This tool allows technically minded community members to extract data straight out of game replays. You can check out the technical documentation here. We can’t wait to see what kind of awesome data visualizations people come up with.

Meanwhile the community’s as busy as always, peep this:

• The Star Series is happening right now! Check out Purge’s stream for all the action, or if you’re just interested in seeing where he sleeps.
• And look at this thing!

I love you guys!

Everyone raise your glass and welcome Brewmaster back into the world of Dota. Dota 2 purge interface dermatitis

These community highlights just stumbled onto this blog:

• Gigabyte and Beyond The Summit announced the Dota 2 Masters tournament. With the top Asian teams competing it will be hard to find a game lacking any action.
• The VOD for The Arena’s finals between Mousesports and CLG is now available.

Update notes can be found here. Please read responsibly.

There’s trouble brewing

Yep, we are back with a brand new update.

This week we see the return of Random Draft mode. In this mode only 20 heroes are available and players take turns picking.

A wild pack of community highlights has been spotted!

• The Corsair sponsored Vengeance Cup taking place during Dreamhack Summer 2012 has been announced.
• The ProDota2 league is set to start tomorrow, Friday April 13th. Our friends over at GosuGamers have you covered with a nice write up about it.
• Episode 1 of TheGDStudio’s Learn To Play Dota 2 series is out. Better tell your loved ones you’ll be busy for the next 3 hours.

We’ll see you again next week, you might want to get a designated driver by then.

Changelog is available here.

From exile, I emerge!

We celebrate Happy Bear Pun Week a day earlier as Lone Druid joins Dota 2’s cast of heroes.

• It’s Gosu’s Monthly Madness tournament finals are tomorrow, March 29th. You don’t want to miss this, we hear it could be more than we can bear.
• Bear witness to Team Dignitas’ Ultimate Guide to Warding. This should be required teaching in clawsrooms across the globe.
• Great Explorer Nullf has compiled the eating habits of the legendary Tidehunter in one handy chart. This might give you paws before deciding to head to the beach.

Bear in mind that there will not be an update next week as we will be hibernating during that time.