6.48 Exact Changelog, Giant list of changes Options

[Jack_The_Ripper]

Just released. Only found out because I refreshed.

Havnt had a chance to play it yet, still at work.

So lets discuss the exact changes. Probably a huge amount from 6.47

This post has been edited by Jack_The_Ripper: Aug 27 2007, 10:27 PM

[darkpatejl]

its the same as 6.47 - but the bug with faerie was removed

[TrabajarTrabajar]

Could someone with active access to wc3 pls describe what aspect of the code was causing a crash? I don't have access to my main compy atm, so I can't really check.

[ICallBotSolo]

This changelog refers to changes from 6.46b to 6.48. 6.47 was temporarily reduced, but recalled due to severe stability issues with the new hero.

6.48 Changelog
===============

* Added a new hero from the Model-To-Hero contest (see below)
Puck, the Faerie Dragon. Details below.

* Added a new ability for Animal Courier to change its model.
Self explanatory.

* Fixed Planeswalker's Cloak and Hood of Defiance stacking issues on various heroes' innate magic resistance abilities.
Theoretically no longer a need to "properly" stack them.

* Fixed an old rare bug with Leshrac (and recently Storm) that would cause them to constantly drain mana.
Not sure about the bug, but it's allegedly fixed now.

* Fixed a bug when killing heroes with Crow
Sometimes Crow kills (dagon crow, etc.) would cause a crash. This has been fixed.

* Fixed Flesh Heap to work properly with suicides
Previously, Suiciding with Flesh Heap caused erratic behavior. (At level 4,) sometimes it would increase your STR by 0.2, and other times it would decrease it by 0.8. Now Suicide will not affect your STR.

* Fixed a bug in -dm -nd that causes the hero after Bristleback to have Warpath if Bristleback dies with the buff on, and the player quickly picks a new hero.
Self explanatory.

* Fixed the game mode text to display in proper order
Self explanatory.

* Fixed Starfall doing extra damage on the second hit
Self explanatory.

* Restored Freeze Hero functionality
You might remember this from 6.46. You can put leavers on their Circle of Power and "freeze" them, making them immune to damage etc.

* Added a command -test to enable single player commands to be usable in multiplayer for easier extensive testing
Thanks, Ice! Self explanatory.

* Added new command '-terrain snow'. This transforms the current terrain into a snow terrain. This is a very experimental mechanism and is still very much a WIP in the visuals department.
Adds a visual effect to the map (like -weather). I don't think you can go back to grassy (Azeroth) once you're in snow (Northrend). You must type -terrain snow in the beginning parts of the game.

* Fixed Death Pulse to hit properly non-magic-immune Ancients
Self explanatory.

* Improved Alchemist's movement speed a bit
290 -> 300
Chemical Rage now also gives more ms, 0/5/10 -> 5/10/15 -Astros

* Increased ranged creep's mana pool
200 -> 300

* Rebalanced Sanity's Eclipse (Less damage, better leveling)
Old Sanity's Eclipse:
If you have more INT than they do, you will deal 10/12/14 damage per int difference.
If you have less than 10/30/50 more INT than they do, you will reduce their mana by 75%
600/600/600 range
400/500/600 AoE
160 cooldown
200/250/300 mana cost

New Sanity's Eclipse:
If you have more INT than they do, you will deal 8/9/10 damage per int difference.
If you have less than 10/30/50 more INT than they do, then you will reduce their mana by 75%.
600/650/700 range
400/500/600 AoE
160 cooldown
175/250/325 mana cost

How exactly is this better leveling? Either I or IceFrog made a mistake somewhere.

* Improved Harbinger's casting animation time
Cast Point 0.5 -> 0.25 (one of the lowest in the game now)
Backswing 0.51 -> 0.51

* Fixed a visual glitch with Dispersion that would make it look like it did more Dispersions than it actually did
It would display the animation twice for each Dispersion.

* Fixed a bug with Unstable Concoction when used during the transformation of Chemical Rage
There will be 3 ways to go if you are still channeling Unstable Concoction but your Chemical Rage is gone:
1. You will lob one at it at the time you transform back into the normal form, but this doesn't count as finish casting it, you will still lob another one afterward, resulting in lobbing a total of 2 Unstable Concoctions at a same target;
2. You will stop channeling and lob it at the target at the time you transform back into the normal form; or
3. Just as the same as that in .48 -Astros

* Fixed a bug with Greaterbash
No longer works on images. Also the cooldown has been increased to a reasonable amount.

* Improved Lion's movement speed a little
280 -> 290

* Fixed Panda's Storm Wind Walk stats
Fixed an unintentional nerf from 6.46 or 6.45. There's a thread about this somewhere in Mechanics...

* Game now gives an error message when attacking Roshan from a disallowed area
Self explanatory.

* Added -nr(-norepick)
Self explanatory.

* Added -mute as a custom player command to disable kill sounds
Self explanatory.

* Fixed a bug with Weave and Reincarnation
Previously if you died with Reincarnation with Weave, you would feel the effects permanently. This has been fixed.


- Lots of effort was made to fix stability issues with the map. Either this or 6.48b will be the new stable version, depending on reports after it gets played in the open for a bit first.

- Congratulations to the final 8 and everyone that participated and voted in the hero contest. Vodoun's hero was the primary selection with one ability from coldlikehell's hero. Once again, thanks to everyone participating in contest.

[N00B]
Name=Faerie Dragon
Propernames=Puck
Hotkey=F
Ubertip="In Sentinel's search for heroes to aid them in the war against the Scourge, they discovered the lost lands of the mystical Faerie Dragons. Upon explaining the conflict to the Faerie Queen of Agrace, she sent forth Puck, a personal guardian, to turn the tides of war. Despite his small size and mischievous personality, the little dragon soon proved to pack more than his fare share of power on the battlefield, blasting through the enemy ranks with balls of magic, faerie dust, and the capability to stupefy an entire army with nothing more than his imagination. His foes all learned the hard way that size matters not in combat, and that appearances are, ultimately, deceiving.

Strength - 15 + 1.7
Agility - 22 + 1.7
Intelligence - 27 + 3.5

Learns Illusory Orb, Waning Rift, Phase Shift, and Dream Coil.

Attack range of 600.
Movement speed of 300."

Vital stats:
Base HP: 550
Base HP Regen: 0.25 always (same as most other heroes)
Base Mana: 225
Base Mana Regen: 0.01 (same as most other heroes)
MS: 300
Sight: 1800/1200 (slightly further sight at night than most heroes)
STR: 15 + 1.7
INT: 27 + 3.5
AGI: 22 + 1.7
Acquisition range: 800
Cast point: 0.1 (I think this is second lowest in the game, after Dragon Knight.)
Cast backswing: 0.51
Range: 600
BAT: 1.7
Base damage: 12+1d12
Attack point: 0.5
Attack backswing: 0.8


[A0S9]
Name=Illusory Orb
Ubertip="Sends a magic orb flying down a straight path damaging everything in its way. At any time during the life of the orb the Faerie Dragon may teleport up to it, taking its place. 1800 Range, 225 AOE. 70/140/210/280 damage.

Cooldown: 15"
Hotkey=R
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Mana cost: 125
Range: 3000 (How far away you can click. The orb will only travel 1800.)

[A0SC]
Name=Waning Rift
Ubertip="Releases Puck's mystical faerie dust around him dealing 60/120/180/240 damage and silencing enemies for 0.1/1/2/3 seconds

Cooldown: 12"
Hotkey=W
Cooldown: 12 seconds
Mana cost: 100/110/120/130
AoE: 400

[A0SB]
Name=Phase Shift
Ubertip="Shifts the Faerie Dragon out of existence for up to 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 seconds, temporarily avoiding any further damage.

Cooldown: 6
Manacost: 50/40/30/20 "
Hotkey=F
Note: Right click for auto-cast.
Cooldown: 6 seconds
Mana cost: 50/40/30/20
Duration: 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 seconds

[A0S8]
Name=Dream Coil
Ubertip="Puck's powerful imagination engulfs an area, creating coils of volatile magic that deals 100/150/200 damage and stuns enemy unit for 0.5 seconds as it latches on to them. Stretching the coils beyond 600 range causes it to snap and deal an additional 100/150/200 damage and stun for 1.5/2.25/3 seconds. Lasts 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 85 "
Hotkey=C
Cooldown: 85 seconds
Mana cost: 100/150/200
Range: 750

Stealthnerf:
On the map preview thumbnail, the space between "DOTA" and "ALLSTARS" has been removed. IMBA!

Stealthchange:
Some of the methods by which the RNG works has been changed. Some users were experiencing issues with Multicast and Dispersion. I doubt there will be any actual change in results.

This post has been edited by ICallBotSolo: Aug 29 2007, 02:16 AM

[SoletLuna]

As I remember from 6.47 the cooldown of Sanity's Eclipse is 160/150/140 now and does cost less mana, but i don't know the value, if at all.

The bug with Storm and Leshrac was, that you still lost mana even after turning off Pulse Nova or Electric Rave.

EDIT: Mana cost of Harbringer's Ultimate now 175/250/325

That new Attack Animation is damn fast...

This post has been edited by SoletLuna: Aug 27 2007, 11:46 PM

[ICallBotSolo]

I'm still updating a lot of the values in my post. If the tooltip says "150" for Sanity's Eclipse, it's lying. It's 160 at all levels in both 6.46b and 6.48.

This post has been edited by ICallBotSolo: Aug 27 2007, 11:43 PM

[SoletLuna]

Ah, damn Tooltips kidding me.

Thought they were always right...

[ERazER]

Ah, damn Tooltips kidding me.

Thought they were always right...

I thought the tooltip fixes present in every patchlog would make you beleive otherwise

This post has been edited by ERazER: Aug 28 2007, 12:10 AM

[SoletLuna]

I thought the tooltip fixes present in every patchlog would make you beleive otherwise

Never to trust a tooltip^^

[Astros]

Just something to add for ICallBotSolo (those in RED)

Am I going insane? 6.47b hasn't been released yet, much less 6.48...

That'll teach me to not refresh.
This changelog refers to changes from 6.46b to 6.48. 6.47 was temporarily reduced, but recalled due to severe stability issues with the new hero.

6.48 Changelog
===============

* Added a new hero from the Model-To-Hero contest (see below)
Puck, the Faerie Dragon. Details below.

* Added a new ability for Animal Courier to change its model.
* Fixed Planeswalker's Cloak and Hood of Defiance stacking issues on various heroes' innate magic resistance abilities.
Theoretically should now stack with diminishing returns regardless of acquisition order.

* Fixed an old rare bug with Leshrac (and recently Storm) that would cause them to constantly drain mana.
Not sure about the bug, but it's allegedly fixed now.

* Fixed a bug when killing heroes with Crow
Sometimes Crow kills (dagon crow, etc.) would cause a crash. This has been fixed.

* Fixed Flesh Heap to work properly with suicides
Previously, Suiciding with Flesh Heap caused erratic behavior. (At level 4,) sometimes it would increase your STR by 0.2, and other times it would decrease it by 0.8. Now Suicide will not affect your STR.

* Fixed a bug in -dm -nd that causes the hero after Bristleback to have Warpath if Bristleback dies with the buff on, and the player quickly picks a new hero.
Self explanatory.

* Fixed the game mode text to display in proper order
Self explanatory.

* Fixed Starfall doing extra damage on the second hit
Self explanatory.

* Restored Freeze Hero functionality
You might remember this from 6.46. You can put leavers on their Circle of Power and "freeze" them, making them immune to damage etc.

* Added a command -test to enable single player commands to be usable in multiplayer for easier extensive testing
Thanks, Ice! Self explanatory.

* Added new command '-terrain snow'. This transforms the current terrain into a snow terrain. This is a very experimental mechanism and is still very much a WIP in the visuals department.
Adds a visual effect to the map (like -weather). I don't think you can go back to grassy (Azeroth) once you're in snow (Northrend). You must type -terrain snow in the beginning parts of the game.

* Fixed Death Pulse to hit properly non-magic-immune Ancients
Self explanatory.

* Improved Alchemist's movement speed a bit
290 -> 300
Chemical Rage now also gives more ms, 0/5/10 -> 5/10/15

* Increased ranged creep's mana pool
200 -> 300

* Rebalanced Sanity's Eclipse (Less damage, better leveling)
Old Sanity's Eclipse:
If you have more INT than they do, you will deal 10/12/14 damage per int difference.
If you have less than 10/30/50 more INT than they do, you will reduce their mana by 75%
600/600/600 range
400/500/600 AoE
160 cooldown
200/250/300 mana cost

New Sanity's Eclipse:
If you have more INT than they do, you will deal 8/9/10 damage per int difference.
If you have less than 10/30/50 more INT than they do, then you will reduce their mana by 75%.
600/650/700 range
400/500/600 AoE
160 cooldown
175/250/325 mana cost

How exactly is this better leveling? Either I or IceFrog made a mistake somewhere.

* Improved Harbinger's casting animation time
Cast Point 0.5 -> 0.25 (one of the lowest in the game now)
Backswing 0.51 -> 0.51

* Fixed a visual glitch with Dispersion that would make it look like it did more Dispersions than it actually did
It would display the animation twice for each Dispersion.

* Fixed a bug with Unstable Concoction when used during the transformation of Chemical Rage
Not sure about this one.
There will be 3 ways to go if you are still channeling Unstable Concoction but your Chemical Rage is gone:
1. You will lob one at it at the time you transform back into the normal form, but this doesn't count as finish casting it, you will still lob another one afterward, resulting in lobbing a total of 2 Unstable Concoctions at a same target;
2. You will stop channeling and lob it at the target at the time you transform back into the normal form; or
3. Just as the same as that in .48

* Fixed a bug with Greaterbash
No longer works on images. Also the cooldown has been increased to a reasonable amount.

* Improved Lion's movement speed a little
280 -> 290

* Fixed Panda's Storm Wind Walk stats
Fixed an unintentional nerf from 6.46 or 6.45. There's a thread about this somewhere in Mechanics...

* Game now gives an error message when attacking Roshan from a disallowed area
Self explanatory.

* Added -nr(-norepick)
Self explanatory.

* Added -mute as a custom player command to disable kill sounds
Self explanatory.

* Fixed a bug with Weave and Reincarnation
Previously if you died with Reincarnation with Weave, you would feel the effects permanently. This has been fixed.
- Lots of effort was made to fix stability issues with the map. Either this or 6.48b will be the new stable version, depending on reports after it gets played in the open for a bit first.

- Congratulations to the final 8 and everyone that participated and voted in the hero contest. Vodoun's hero was the primary selection with one ability from coldlikehell's hero. Once again, thanks to everyone participating in contest.

[N00B]
Name=Faerie Dragon
Propernames=Puck
Hotkey=F
Ubertip="In Sentinel's search for heroes to aid them in the war against the Scourge, they discovered the lost lands of the mystical Faerie Dragons. Upon explaining the conflict to the Faerie Queen of Agrace, she sent forth Puck, a personal guardian, to turn the tides of war. Despite his small size and mischievous personality, the little dragon soon proved to pack more than his fare share of power on the battlefield, blasting through the enemy ranks with balls of magic, faerie dust, and the capability to stupefy an entire army with nothing more than his imagination. His foes all learned the hard way that size matters not in combat, and that appearances are, ultimately, deceiving.

Strength - 15 + 1.7
Agility - 22 + 1.7
Intelligence - 27 + 3.5

Learns Illusory Orb, Waning Rift, Phase Shift, and Dream Coil.

Attack range of 600.
Movement speed of 300."

Has abilities: Dream Coil,A0SC,A0SB,A0S9, (and Stat Bonus)

[A0S8]
Name=Dream Coil
Ubertip="Puck's powerful imagination engulfs an area, creating coils of volatile magic that deals 100/150/200 damage and stuns enemy unit for 0.5 seconds as it latches on to them. Stretching the coils beyond 600 range causes it to snap and deal an additional 100/150/200 damage and stun for 1.5/2.25/3 seconds. Lasts 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 85 "
Hotkey=C
Cooldown: 85 seconds
Mana cost: 100/150/200
Range: 750

Stealthnerf:
On the map preview thumbnail, the space between "DOTA" and "ALLSTARS" has been removed. IMBA!

This post has been edited by Astros: Aug 28 2007, 04:04 AM

[ICallBotSolo]

I think I got all of them. If anyone has anything else to add, feel free to state it.

[ERazER]

Main page still not updated.

[Rulah]

* Fixed Planeswalker's Cloak and Hood of Defiance stacking issues on various heroes' innate magic resistance abilities.
Theoretically no longer a need to "properly" stack them.

So this basically means that I don't have to make magic resistance item before the magic resistance skill?

[pyreorsfeeld]

if the host types -terrain snow will all the players see the effect?, what if a non-host types -terrain snow will he be able to see the effects?

[SaZ]

So this basically means that I don't have to make magic resistance item before the magic resistance skill?

looks like it.

[ICallBotSolo]

So this basically means that I don't have to make magic resistance item before the magic resistance skill?

If all is working properly, then that is accurate.

if the host types -terrain snow will all the players see the effect?, what if a non-host types -terrain snow will he be able to see the effects?

I'm not sure. I think it's user variant (i.e. what one user sees isn't indicative of what another user sees, like -weather), but I haven't done any tests on this yet.

[wafuf]

Oh sad now no one will use spirit breaker again..

Sanity eclipse 100 increased casting range?
ah right
....

its needed.....

they could have just buffed his range though

now we need refresher to do 2 hit penta kills with sanity..

sad...

anyway no more problems in astral imprisonment

poor scourge

faerie dragon is so...invulnerable...

[Astros]

I'm not sure. I think it's user variant (i.e. what one user sees isn't indicative of what another user sees, like -weather), but I haven't done any tests on this yet.

Only host can do -terrain snow before anyone picks a hero, everyone will see the effect, and you can't change it back once it is changed.

(Made some changes with the Unstable Concoction bug posted above)

This post has been edited by Astros: Aug 28 2007, 04:01 AM

[ChaosMasterKron]

* Fixed a bug with Greaterbash
No longer works on images. Also the cooldown has been increased to a reasonable amount.

Oh thank god, I knew this wouldn't last.

[DUCKVILLE]

Only host can do -terrain snow before anyone picks a hero, everyone will see the effect, and you can't change it back once it is changed.

I think once this is fully worked out it could be very cool, to add some slight variation to games.