DOTA 2 is Now Officially Free to Play

DOTA 2 is Now Officially Free to Play

June 1, 2012 · by Raziq · in ,

Valve has recently announced that DOTA 2 will be free-to-play and it will be powered by the in-game store and Steam Workshop. According to the update, all the items in the store are cosmetic, and will not affect gameplay and all of the heroes will be available free of charge unlike others ARTS games like League of Legends or Heroes of Newerth where players are required to buy new heroes either with real money or the in-game cash system.

Check out the latest changelog below for the DOTA 2 Beta update.

- Added the Dota 2 Store!

GAMEPLAY
– Enabled Ogre Magi in Captain’s Mode.
– Ogre Magi: Fixed Bloodlust autocast interrupting your TP scroll.
– Ogre Magi: Fixed Multicast Fireblast not extending the stun duration.
– Ogre Magi: Fixed Bloodlust being castable on magic immune units.
– Ogre Magi: Fixed Bloodlust Multicast being used up by couriers.
– Ogre Magi: Fixed Fireblast Mutlicast stopping if you die while it is multicast.
-Ogre Magi: Added unique effect for unrefined fireblast
– Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Arcane Orb not working on Illusions recently.

  UI
– Fixed losses and abandons not showing correctly on your own profile.
– Kill Cam panel now shows any custom items the killer was wearing.

VISUALS
– Empowering Haste visual no longer shows up on creeps
– Added new effect for unrefined fireblast.

DOTA 2 BOTS
– Fixed bug where bots would run out of their base immediately after teleporting to it.
– Fixed bug that could cause bots to prioritize a temporarily invalid unit (nightmared, reincarnating, etc) over one that is currently valid.
– Fixed case where bots would prioritize other desires over picking up Aegis/Cheese/Rapier.
– Fixed a number of bugs that could cause bots to get stuck near Roshan.
– Easier and Easy bots will now have ability usage lockouts where they’re periodically unable to use items and abilities.
– Fixed bug where passive bots would get stuck trying to ward.
– Fixed bug where Dire-side lobby slots would be inaccessible when there were bots in the corresponding Radiant-side lobby slot.

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