Engage in close quarters combat with nine of your nearest friends. Now you can create a local lobby and use your computer to host a rousing round of Dota 2 through your home or café network.
Gather a team, choose a captain, and face off against your opponents in a test of wits to assemble a squad from a randomized pool of twenty-four heroes. Each team takes turns banning two of the available heroes from the match while picking and counter-picking to compose their lineup before charging into battle.
Your Backpack is now your Armory! Never fumble through piles of weapons and announcers while trying to find your rare couriers again. Build filters for, and navigate your armory by item type, quality,
rarity, and more.
The acerbic wit of Portal's GLaDOS finally makes her Dota 2 announcer pack debut! The sarcastic A.I. will be only too happy to tell you when your barracks or towers have fallen. Included in the pack are the new Aperture Science Wardcores as well as the Portal HUD skin, both of which are only available through purchase of the Portal Pack.
What wonders lie within? Unlock a new creation from the artisans among the community. Discover a design from the craftsmen at Polycount. Claim new armor, new weapons, new masks, new hairstyles, new couriers, and more!
Gameplay

    Neutral creeps now properly use cast times and animations
    Upgraded Items can always be disassembled within 10 seconds of the combine (same rules as sell back)
    Item purchases can be made at the secret shop if the courier is at that location without selecting the courier
    Enabled Medusa in Captain's Mode
    Outworld Devourer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment not restoring the right amount of mana after the debuff is removed
    Timbersaw: Fixed Timberchain not being interrupted by stuns
    Pudge: Meat Hook now pulls the target to the initial hook position regardless of where Pudge is
    Fixed being able to instantly toggle Armlet on and off
    Spirit Breaker: Fixed Greater Bash not applying further knockback on units that were already getting knocked back
    Clockwerk: Fixed Power Cogs night vision being too large
    Lone Druid: Fixed Level 1/2 Spirit Bear having 1800 day vision instead of 1400
    Fixed Shadow Blade revealing only when the attack hit the target rather than when it was launched

UI

    Control groups are now saved to the cloud, per hero, and will persist across games and disconnects. They are saved per hero
    Added profile privacy option to prevent viewing of Steam/DOTA profiles
    Added a button to choose to be captain in a Captains Mode or Captains Draft game
    Alt-left clicking on an enemy icon in the top bar will send a chat message that the hero is missing
    Limit the frequency we show map pings from muted players
    Added Double Tap Self Cast Timeout, controllable with the dota_ability_self_cast_timeout convar
    Darkened disabled heroes in Captains Mode and Captains Draft
    Added three new matchmaking language preference options: Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese
    Spectator health bars in the top bar are now red for the Dire
    Added a button to add friends inside the game
    Fixed spectator health bars in the top bar drawing over buyback and ultimate status
    Enemy health bars are now red in the HUD when querying them
    Fixed checkerboard flash on html panels
    Renamed backpack to armory
    Previewing couriers from the store or the armory opens a single preview window to display both versions of the courier
    Taunts are previewable in the armory
    Fixed many items not being previewable
    Buff icons draw above the portrait frame to avoid being covered by custom HUD materials
    Equipping a player slot item ( HUD, Ward, Courier ) from the armory now makes the player slots appear in the loadout panel
    Fixed various buff tooltips ( Mekansm, Armlet, Urn, Ghost Scepter, Ethereal Blade, Veil, Buckler, Assault Cuirass )
    Cleaned up some extra UI elements present in Dragon Scale HUD 4x3 aspect ratio
    Fixed the taunt key not working if an action item ( like Coal ) was equipped
    Fixed alt-pinging dropped recipes not printing the correct item name in chat
    When a courier you ordered to the secret shop enters the shop radius, the shop sound is played even if the courier is not selected
    Fixed a case where buying an item at the secret shop with a full inventory and while surrounded by trees could leave one component on the ground

Community

    Beginning soon, users will be suspended from Dota 2 for 30 days when external tools attached to Dota 2 are detected by the Valve Anti-Cheat system
    Increased length of forgiveness threshold to reset the severity of communication bans to 3 weeks

Economy

    The quality of the item drops you are eligible for is now tied to your Dota profile level. You can see your current drop level in your profile page
    A quick-search bar has been added to the armory
    Filters can now be created for the armory. These filters are stored in the Steam Cloud so that every machine you use will know your armory filter settings
    An armory page now contains 60 items instead of 64. Armory sizes have been increased upwards slightly to account for this adjustment
    Many items have been removed from the store. These can now be sold and bought on the Steam Community Market! Workshop contributors will receive a share of each resale of their items. The items that have been removed are not immortal: they may return to the store in future sales or events, or they may appear in the drop list from time to time
    The item drop list has been greatly pared down and will now change over time. As new items are introduced old items will be removed (and will be accessible on the Steam Community Market). This should help keep the item drop list interesting over time
    Entropic Shield and Entropic Axe are now a part of the Entropic set

Technical

    Fixed an issue where players could end up in a continuous loop of "received uncompressed update from server"
    Added UI texture streaming to reduce memory usage
    Fixed a startup crash with corrupt customization files
    Fixed a case where the game would return with a black screen after alt-tab

Visual

    Updated Phantom Assassin's head
    New Centaur Conquerer War Stomp
    New Satyr Tormentor blast
    Minor tweaks to Wildwing Ripper Tornado
    New Satyr Banisher projectile
    Fixed visuals on Satyr Banisher purge
    Improved Vhoul's spear throw effect
    Fixed LOD1 on Ol' Chopper Pudge hook
    updated cloth settings and skinning Crystal Maiden, Invoker, Lina, and Rubick
    Fixed several bugs with portrait particles relating to death and dormancy for visibility in the portrait and kill cam
    Fixed Io death effects
    Moved all of Chaos Knight's particles onto individual items, such as the mount, helmet, and others, as well as support for local attachments, so that new items can support different positions based on new mounts of helms
    Revamped Doom's weapon effect to better support community items
    Fixed a bug where models that failed to combine would get double effects in the preview panel
    Fixed Spirit Breakers missing effects
    Moved Spirit Breaker's effects into individual items to better support community items
    Fixed Spirit Breaker's knockback distance being too low

Audio

    Add sound to Radiance debuff (only audible to target player)
    Fix last hit sound for Alchemist and Lone Druid ults

Hero Builds

    Added a language filter to the in-game UI when selecting a hero build. Build authors will need to republish hero builds and choose a language when publishing in order for builds to be filterable by language
    Fixed slow hero build loading times for users with a large number of subscribed or previously used hero builds

Local Play

    Local servers allows players on the same physical network to connect to a locally hosted game
    By selecting "Create Local Lobby", the leader of the lobby will become the host for a match by running a local server
    Players can see Local lobbies available on their physical network by going to "FIND A LOBBY" and selecting the "LOCAL LOBBIES" tab
    Local Lobbies follow the same rules as Private Lobbies.
    Upon completion of the Local game, the replay will be stored on the lobby leader's computer in replays/<match-id>.dem

Captains Draft

    This game mode randomly selects 8 str, 8 agi, and 8 int heroes that both teams can choose from
    Each team's captain bans 2 heroes (1/1/1/1) out of that list
    Each team's captain selects 5 heroes (1/2/2/2/2/1) out of the remaining list
    There is a 150 second total time pool for each team to complete all of their bans and selections

Workshop

    Added Abaddon to the Workshop submission tools and website requirements

Mac/Linux

    [Mac] Fixed problems with sounds cutting out or not playing for the first few minutes of a game
    [Mac] Made the Dock icon bounce when a game is ready
    [Mac] Play a ready sound when game is not focused and matchmaking has found a game
    Make "Sound while alt-tab" setting work
    Added a fix for missing lip sync in hero portraits
    Fix corrupted GUI after changing video settings
    Hero Library videos now play on Linux