The Singing Siren added to Dota 2 Beta

In yet another weekly update, Valve has added the much feared carry hero Naga Siren to the Dota 2 Beta hero pool.

Apart from the weekly new hero, the patch also brings in various updates and changes. The spectator system of the game gets a new look and some new graphs that detail out on all the statistics of the game in real time. A very interesting and much needed feature for any eSport – a casters dream come true.

Dota 2 Spectator Graphs

The patch also fixes up a lot of older technical bugs and adds a few more UI changes. Read through for the entire changelog after the break.

The patch goes live in the main client tomorrow so it will be very interesting to see Naga Siren being picked up in competitive matches over the weekend.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Added Naga Siren!
- Added new stats dropdown feature when spectating!

GAMEPLAY:
- Enabled Naga Siren in Captain’s Mode.
- Beastmaster: Fixed the path that Wild Axes take. It should now work the way it was originally intended.
- Disruptor: Fixed Glimpse affecting Warlock’s Golem and Spirit Bear.
- Rubick: Fixed Warlock’s Shadow Word refreshing its debuff version when stolen and cast as a buff.
- Rubick: Fixed Dazzle’s Weave refreshing its debuff version when stolen and cast as a buff.
- Rubick: Fixed restealing an ability (stealing another ability in-between) not restting its cooldown.
- Silencer: Fixed Curse of the Silent affecting Warlock’s Golem and Spirit Bear.
- Storm Spirit: Fixed Static Remnant blocking creep camps.
- Templar Assassin: Fixed Refraction being dispellable.
- Undying: Fixed a case where early game zombies could sometimes get stuck with an earlier or invalid level of Deathlust into the late game.
- Fixed Diffusal Blade stopping Force Staff movement.
- Fixed Templar Assassin’s Refraction and Pipe causing Blink Dagger to not get disabled.

SPECTATOR:
- The Director will now acknowledge all Ultimate usages not just the ones that damage, so you can no longer pretend that Echo Slam in the jungle by yourself didn’t happen.
- Tweaks to Directed camera framing and movement.

UI:
- Added new stats dropdown feature when spectating!
- Sellback times no longer expire when moving items to the courier.
- Fixed item stocks not restoring correctly when multiple items are sold back within the sellback time.
- Added a message when a player destroys the Aegis.
- Added confirmation dialog before starting a Tournament game with one or more teams not specified.
- Added client-side console variables allowing spectators to locally disable certain announcer lines. Especially useful for broadcasters. The cvars are:

- cl_dota_speech_spec_towerattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_towerfalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_barracksattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_barracksfalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_ancientattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_enemybasefalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_idles .
- Set any of them to ’0′ to prevent that line from playing. (Broadcasters will almost always want to set cl_dota_speech_spec_idles 0 ).

- Multiple players who have the same announcer equipped in the same game should now hear the same line being spoken.