Dota 2s 7. 0. 7 Dueling Fates update is now live. Subscribe to PCGames. How to Play DotA. Defense of the Ancients, or DotA, is a map in the game Warcraft 3. It was created by players and is arguably the most popular custom map ever made. N on You. Tube. Update, October 3. Dota 2 update 7. 0. Theres not much else to be said. Dota 2 7. 0. 7, otherwise known as the Dueling Fates update, is now live. The downloads over a gigabyte, featuring two new heroes, a new matchmaking system, a faster game mode, and much more. Fill some time with our list of the best Dota 2 heroes for beginners. You can either scroll down a bit for more details or just launch the Dota 2 client and dive in for yourself. Update, October 3. Purge will run his usual, in depth Dota 2 patch stream today. DotA/DotA-small-13.jpg' alt='Latest Dota Games' title='Latest Dota Games' />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. Latest Dota Games' title='Latest Dota Games' />Read all the patch notes, but want a more in depth, visual look at everything thats changing with Dotas latest 7. Legendary caster Kevin Purge Godec is aiming to run his usual patch stream in just a bit, which should provide every detail you could possibly want on the new update. You can check out Purges Twitch channel here. Purge says the stream is scheduled to start just a few minutes from now, so check it out. Update, October 3. Valve have detailed whats coming in the 7. After months of speculation, Valve have finally detailed whats coming in the 7. Dueling Fates update. The biggest additions are, of course, the two new heroes, and weve now got details on their abilities. The first is Pangolier, a swashbuckling melee hero built on dashing into battle to disrupt enemies. Here are his abilities Swashbuckle. Pangolier dashes to a new position, assaulting enemies in the target direction with multiple quick thrusts, dealing physical damage and apply on hit effects. Shield Crash. Pangolier jumps in the air and slams back to the ground. Enemies around him are damaged and grant him temporary damage reduction the more heroes he hits. Heartpiercer. Pangolier reads his enemies perfectly, deftly slipping his blade past defenses to give his attacks a chance to slow the target and fully negate enemy armor after a short delay. Rolling Thunder. Pangolier curls into a magic immune ball and thunders forward, damaging and stunning any enemies he hits. Shield Crash can also be used while this ability is active to jump over obstacles. Has a brief channeling period. Then theres Dark Willow, a ranged fairy adept at controlling enemy movements with magical binding attacks. These are her abilities Bramble Maze. Dark Willow creates a maze of brambles that latch onto enemies who walk into a thicket, damaging them and applying a root. Shadow Realm. Dark Willow recedes into the Shadow Realm, becoming untargetable and gaining increasing bonus magic damage for her next attack the longer she remains in the shadows. Cursed Crown. Dark Willow bestows a cursed fae crown upon an enemy. After a four second delay, the target and any other enemies nearby are stunned. Bedlam. Dark Willows companion Jex circles around her, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Cannot be used while Terrorize is active. Terrorize. Dark Willows companion Jex strikes fear into her enemies, causing them to run towards their home fountain. Cannot be used while Bedlam is active. On top of that is a change to how matching works, as players will now be matched according to a six month seasonal cycle. Both ranked and unranked players will have their MMRs reset each season, seeded by their previous seasons value, and theyll earn medals based on their skill rating in each cycle. The search queue now offers a new game mode called Dota Turbo, which features the same rules as All Pick but quickens the pace by increasing gold and XP rewards, making towers weaker, and reducing respawn time. Theres a new hero guide system under the Learn tab, allowing players to create, annotate, and share their own hero builds, helpfully marked by role and patch to make its uses clear. Ability Draft has also been updated with a new interface, hotkey swapping, and team chat during the draft. Ancient Apparition has been remodeled, and the Ping Wheel allows for easier communication options. Other gameplay changes are far too numerous to list here, but you can check out the full rundown with the official patch notes. The update is due to hit this Wednesday, November 1. Update October 2. The system works to get a Dota patch release date, you just need one six hour parody stream, the most intricate machinima troll of all time and a lot of faith. Valve have announced the release date for Dota 2s next patch, the Duelling Fates. Theyll be adding two new heroes and a whole big batch of balance changes on November 1, and everyones quite excited. The announcement was made via Twitter Amusingly enough, Valve didnt specify a year, but were gonna go ahead and assume at least 2. Who knows Exactly whats in the patch hasnt been divulged, and there have been relatively few teasers besides the original trailer embedded above. Theres a lot of expectation for a major shakeup, though its unlikely to add as many systems as the 7. The release date means Dota Pit 6 will be the first major tournament using it, featuring the two teams that were in the finals of the most recent International Team Liquid and Newbee. Should be good. This also means well be getting 7. Expect more extremely long analysis videos and streams. Update October 1. The wait for Dota 2s patch 7. Summoning the Ice. Gl2800 Manual. Farberware Electric Fry Pan Manual. Frog, Dota 2s pseudo anonymous lead designer and hero of the community, is a long held secret nobody has ever truly unlocked. The latest attempt, however, is the closest anyone has gotten. Using Valves various tools for creating custom items and effects, one Reddit user has made this video of their personal unholy ritual In order the effects are, usually targeting the object that sets it all off A mango expanding into a large number of other mangos there are apparently 4. Five Pugnas draining each other in a pentagram. Three Venomancers casting Poison Gale. Six Vengeful Spirits casting Wave of Terror towards the center. Nine Shadow Demons casting Shadow Poison towards the center. Four Warlocks casting Upheavel on top of themselves in the center. Six Lichs casting ice armour before dying. Three Ogre Magi cast bloodlust before being hit by several Overwhelming Odds from hidden Legion Commanders. Four Linas cast Dragon Slave in a square. Four Death Prophets cast Crypt Swarm in a square the opposite direction. Eight Tusks cast Ice Shards in a circle pattern. Seven Shadow Fiends cast Shadowraze Six Jakiros cast Dual Breath. Four Sanitys Eclipse hit on the outside, then nearer the middle, then nearer still. Phoenixs spawn and Icarus Dive in a circle. Magnuses cast Shockwave. Four Freezing Fields go off. The Golem summoning effect from Warlock goes off in the center. Four Terrorblade sunders. Golem summoning effect again. A giant Enigma appears with screenshake and casts Black Hole with additional, custom frog particle effects. Nine Morphlings cast Waveform away from the center. Four Necrophos cast Reapers Scythe. Everything dies and the Ice. Frog spawns, with 3. Dota 2 meme regarding matchfixing. The Ice. Frog also has 7 strength, 0 agility and 7 intellect, to represent the patch number. Good memeing everyone. It is hardly the only post of its kind on the sub recently, as others clamour for something, anything to do such as analysing Terrorblades backstory. Art makes an appearence too, along with needlessly cruel patch day ideas. Its an intense time to be a Dota fan, but were not expecting the wait to last much longer. After the ESL One Hamburg Major the Christmas down period is expected to start, the perfect timing for a patch.