Features, additions, bug fixes

Updated to v6.84 B3

Disclaimer

This is a loooong list of changes made. Features placed on top, bug fixes then. List divided with headers to make reading a bit easier.

Gameplay

Accurate landscape

Terrain reworked to be just the same as DotA2. IceFrog's version has many issues and overlooks with terrain design, especially when it comes to juking.

Right click deny

Right clicking on allied creeps will order "attack" instead of "follow". You can now deny creeps using mouse only. Can be disabled by player.

Autoattack disabling

Every player can now disable autoattack for all controlled units and directly issue unit to hold it's attacks, using double Hold command. Both options can be disabled by player.

Free camera

Every player can choose camera height he likes to play with. No side tools required.

Powerful Circle of Power

Circles of Power now provides access to game options like Autoattack, Right click deny, Camera Settings. It can also be used to tell to allies which heroes are availabe at -SD mode. More than that, Circle of Power now shows Networth of player, which turns red if player cannot afford buyback. Died courier timer is also visible over Circle of power.

No delay

Every Warcraft 3 map has "random delay" setting, which delays any given order for 0-0.25 seconds. This delay now removed, so you won't get caught anymore.

Easy testing

In order to maximize testing power new commands were introduced. They heavily increase potential of any kind of test, allowing to check literally everything in single player. More than that, secret shop now available directly at fountain if it is Single player.

More statistic!

Observers can now see player's damage dealt to heroes and towers. These data also available at final board, after Ancient's death. Gold and Experience per minute statistic is also available there. Aside from that, any player can now check allies creeps statistic using -csa command and check their -st data using -sta command.

Eye-candy

Some heroes and items received a new, imrpoved visuals.

Buildings and base

Fountain hold

Fountain zones provides regeneration as soon as unit enters area, instead of waiting few seconds. Since 6.84 fountains are also invulnerable.

Glyph of Immortality

Glyph of Fortification no longer allows to damage structures even for 1 hit point. In official versions you still can penetrate this protection. No more! Also Glyph usage announce who ordered it.

Decorations

Decoration only buildings like Ziggurats or Moon Wells are all adjusted as they should be. No difference between all of them.

Fast start

First towers are no longer invulnerable until first creep wave spawns. Enemy can pressure these towers on their wish, but Glyph will be refreshed on first creep spawn either way, so it's easy to defend.

Items

Phase Boots

all bashes and critical strikes work in Phase state. The only issue here is red numbers, which will show post-reduction damage values instead of pre-reduction. This means Phased critical strikes will looks less impressive but still will be just as effective.

Bottle

Refilling Bottle at Fountains happens 3 times more often. You can as well put all runes into Bottle using simple right click. More than that, using Rune from Bottle no longer stops your hero (but will stop channgeling). Last thing - you can share bottle charge with ally, dropping bottle directly to him or nearby youself. As soon as ally grabs yout Bottle and you stays nearby, he will take a single charge and return it back to your inventory instantly.

Smart courieris

You no longer have to drop items on the ground to combine them with those from courier. If anything can be combined from all items courier and hero have, it will be combined. Just press "Delivery" button and that's all.

Everything is droppable*

Items no longer locked after using. Feel free to move you Daggers and Boots of Travel on Tinker anytime you want to. In case if item drop is completely unacceptable, there are chat command to swap items positions.

Easy disassembling

You can disassemble any allowed item anytime - just click it with right mouse button 4 times. You don't need to back to Fountain to disassemble Arcane boots!

Full price selling

Newly bought item can be sold back with refunding spent gold. Doesn't affect combined items, consumables and Ring of Health. You have only 10 seconds to sell item.

Heroes

Rubick, son of Aghanim

Rubick now able to steal Morph, Shapeshift, Chemical rage, Firefly and Elder Dragon Form. Other than morphs, he successed at Spirits, Trueshot aura and Refraction as well. We aiming at possibility to allow him to steal every ability possible soon.

Morphling

Morph no longer has "single cast", instead pressing hotkey will turn autocast on or off. If unit is disabled, hotkey won't be able to act this way, but autocast still can be activated manually.

Weaver

Weaver can now benefit from Desolator.

Original game bug fixes

There are so many bugs were fixed, it cannot be described that well as features.

General

Roshan respawn no longer can be spotted on minimap

Roshan no longer dies instantly from some effects

Respawning faster than 5 seconds no longer cause issues with vision range

Buyback now has visual debuff and gold text doesn't shown if it doesn't count

Assist bonus gold now shown in the kill string

Neutrals with manapool now have full mana from the start

Secret Shop no longer provides bonus vision

Creeps no longer stand still if stopped (Sprout / Power Cogs / Toss)

Haste rune now provides 1000% bonus MS instead of 100% (Hex could slow Hasted unit due to low base movespeed, no longer)

Adjusted creeps negliglible stats

WTF mode now supports charge-based abilities

Heroes

Abaddon

Frostmourne no longer based on Bloodlust

Admiral

Added visual trail for X marks the spot

Fixed Disable help iteraction

Alchemist

Fixed Unstable Concoction illusion-targeting issue when illusion dies mid-air

Alchemist's bonus gold now comes in the same texttag as normal bounty, not secondary

Ancient Apparition

Ice Blast is no longer visible to the enemy, but allies can still see it via minimap pings

Axe

Fixed Axe's Counter helix not reacting to orb-attacks

Culling Blade bonuses no longer removed on transformation

Batrider

Fixed Sticky Napalm removing didn't reset counter

Fixed Flaming Lasso not being broken by Nether Swap

Napalm no longer shows number overhead invisible heroes

Banshee

Exorcism Ghosts no longer disappears when Banshee moves too far away - they will catch her up

Changed Exorcism' ghosts attack type from ranged to melee - no more suicide bugs

Spiritbreaker

Fixed Charge of darkness targeting linken didn't start cooldown

Spiritbreaker can no longer use Charge of darkness when ensnared or rooted

Barathum no longer bash charged target preventively

Bristleback

Bristleback's cast point and backswing removed, Goo now has 0.3s cast time instead (you can use spikes without interrupting previous orders now)

Nasal Goo no longer dispell heals

Bloodseeker

Bloodseeker's Thirst vision aoe improved - targets won't flick anymore

Bloodseeker's Thirst now require less CPU

Bounty Hunter

Fixed Track gives bonus bounty even when dispelled

Brewmaster

Primal Split now should always select Earth - Storm - Fire spirits

Broodmother

Fixed Broodmother's pathing inside webs - now it's flying

Centaur Warchief

Fixed Centaur's Return not returning damage to orb-walkers

Clockwerk

Power Cog no longer provides soul for SF

Power Cog no longer counted for Sadist

Power Cog no longer counted for Battle hunger

Crystal Maiden

Entangling Root's (CM) now can target flying units (Batrider), the only issue - it doesn't prevent them from attacking. All other effects works just fine. Previously you cannot cast it at all.

Disruptor

Fixed Static Storm (agh) disabling unit passives

Doom

Fixed Doom turning morphed units back to their non-morphed forms

Devour can now be learned while devouring creep

Dragon Knight

Eldger Dragon Form no longer ends when Manta style is used

Drow Ranger

Gust no longer pushing units too harsh (f.e. it no longer prevent you from blinking away)

Earth Spirit

Stone charges now have stones on spell icon instead of another counter

Invoker

Forged Spirits now support all abilities. Previosuly some of them instantly destroyed forge spirits (Void's Timewalk), now everything work fine (Janggo, for instance).

Invoker's Tornado now affects invisible units, throwing them in air

Invoker's Tornado now put enemy asleep if it cannot be cycloned (like Eul)

Corrosive Skin no longer triggers on zero damage events (e.g. Track)

Juggernaut

Juggernaut's Healing ward now targetable spell. When casted on allied unit created ward will follow it automatically

Healing ward's heal now stacks with Heart or Fountain's

Keeper of the light

Kotl can no longer teleports you with disablehelp active

Fixed Mana leak being undispellable with Magic Immunity, also no longer affects invulnerable units

Lich

Dark Ritual now restores correct mana even if you already have full mana

Chain Frost no longer provides the primary target with 0.01 seconds of invulnerability

Legion Commander

Fixed Press the Attack issues with morphs - bonus being lost on transforming

Fixed Moment of Courage could attack more than once if attacker wasn't original target of attack

Duel now included into -st option

Duel no longer restricted by 511 damage, its virtually unreachable now (2000+)

Fixed Moment of Courage not reacting to orb-attacks

Leshrak and Lina

Leshrak and Lina can now cast their stuns wherever they want

Lion

Fixed Finger of Death (upgraded) being chainlighting instead of AoE-nuke

Lone Druid

Spirit Bear lose attack when out of range instead of stopping

Fixed Spirit bear's items being active near fountains

Lycanthrope

Shapeshift no longer ends when Manta style is used

Fixed Lycanthrope appearing like Earth spirit on the multitable when morphed

Medusa

Mana shield automatically activates after Manta Style if was turned on before splitting

Stone Gaze now ends if Medusa dies

Meepo

Fixed Meepo had no penalties for buyback

Meepo clones now have their own Tranquil Boots, which means everyone can have them disabled or active regardless any other clone.

Naga Siren

Fixed being able to ignore Song of the Siren using some skills

Nature's Prophet

Wrath of Nature no longer reveals caster in fog of war

Furion no longer stand still playing animation after Teleportation

Ogre Magi

Multicast'd Fireblast should now affect fogged units

Oracle

Negative magic resistance no longer allows Oracle to kill allies using Purifying flames (damage amplifiers still can)

Pit Lord

Fixed Pit of Malice not triggering on units under some conditions

Phantom Lancer

Phantom Edge no longer counts illusion from other sources (manta style / rune / whatever else) as passive illusion (you can spawn more illusion)

Phoenix, Tiny and Tuskarr

Supernova, Toss and Snowball now respects Disablehelp

Phoenix

Sun Ray perfomance improved

Sun Ray no longer blocks Gem for Phoenix

Fixed some abilities hurting Supernova twice (Gondar's Windwalk)

Fire Spirits can now be learned while the skill is active, before the spirits are released

Puck

Fixed issues with Phase shift and invibility

Fixed Puck can be ignored when spreading assist gold if Phase Shifted at moment of the kill

Pudge

Pudge Hook pause moved into cast effect instead of foreswing. This means you can cancel it as any other spell but can't do anything after cast point

Pugna

Removed secondary attack which allowed him to attack ethereal

Riki

Fixed bug when Riki's illusion lose invisibility after any attack

Backstab now respects evasion and deals damage only on hit, not on foreswing

Rubick

Rubick no longer show which spell was stolen

Sacred Warrior

Burning Spears are no longer orb-effect

Silencer

Silencer Int steal projectile speed buffed from 450 to 900

Shadow Fiend

SF's Sould projectile speed buffed from 500 to 1000

Skeleton King

Fixed Leoric doubled lifesteal when carrying orb-effect

Slark

Shadow Dance regeneration now stacks with Heart or Healing Ward

Fixed Slark being able to slide along the map border with Pounce

Shadow Dance no longer visible for spells which affect only visible units (e.g. Heat seeking missiles won't target Slark)

Shadow Dance no longer remove Slark's model

Shadow Dance will no longer cause AI units to stand still, trying to attack Slark. Instead they will try to attack enemies around

Spectre

Spectre now flying while under effect of Spectral dagger.

Spectre's dagger is no longer based on shadows

Spirit Breaker

Barathum now bashes only on hit, not on foreswing, respecting evasion

Storm Spirit

Fixed Overload not slowing fogged enemies

Fixed Storm Spirit Lightning Bolt cannot be targeted on ally units or self. Now you can instantly charge Overload using ultimate on youself.

Storm no longer has backswing when use Ball lightning

Sven

Fixed Warcry issues with morphs - bonus being lost on transforming

Templar Assassin

Fixed being able to stack Psi Blades damage

Refraction now blocks damage properly when taking multiple damage instances at the same time, using only 1 charge

Refraction now blocks damage without interrupting Dagger

Psi Blades now affects ancients

Tiny

Fixed Craggy Exterior not reacting to orb-attacks

Techies

Fixed Suicide Squad Attack damage could kill Techies before he actually explodes (via Blademail for example)

Troll

Fixed Berserker's Rage didn't improve movespeed (regardless what frog said, it has not been done since 6.79)

Battle Trance no longer lost on troll's from change

Twin head Dragon

Fixed Liquid Fire ignores mega siege units

Fixed Liquid Fire didnt applies if casted too fast

Jakiro can autocast Liquid Fire

Fixed Unstable Current triggering on Liquid Fire cast

Fixed Ice Path not triggering on units after Eul's ending

Ursa

Ursa's Fury Swipes no longer added to normal attack as bonus but independent damage instance

Ursa and WR

Ursa's Overpower and WR's Focus Fire now attacks 20% faster, which is the same as there was 500 AS cap instead of 400

Venomancer

Fixed Venomancer's wards causing suicide on targets

Fixed Venomancer's wards creep stop abuse on bottom line

Can no longer kill heroes using Poison Nova and Veil of Discord (damage amplifiers still can)

Fixed Poison Sting dealing less damage than stated (3/5/7/12 instead of 5/10/15/20)

Fixed Poison Sting being prolonged by Plague wards, now they place their own debuff which doesn't affect unit while Poison sting from hero still applied

Fixed Poison Sting preventing targets from using Dagger

Viper

Corrosive Skin no longer triggers on zero damage events (e.g. Track)

Nerubian Weaver

Attack from Shukuchi now reveals Weaver on frontswing but now allows you to proc Geminate attack. Previously, the first attack from Shukuchi could not trigger Geminate on heroes.

The Swarm no longer damage buildings

Wisp

Fixed Relocate timer being visible to enemy

Spirits can now be learned while the spirits are still alive (Learning skill ID for custom keys: [A35G])

Xin

Fixed Xin's Sleight Of Fist no-cooldown abuse

Fixed Sleigh of Fist being able to miss units if attack was on cooldown

Added timers to Fire Remnants

Items

Black King Bar

BKB can now be sold

Fixed losing BKB's Magic Immunity on morphs (Troll & Manta = no BKB effect)

Blademail

New effect for Blademail with instant birth time

Blink Dagger

Fixed Dagger didn't disjoint avoidable triggered projectiles

Blink Dagger now shows cooldown when disabled

Blink Dagger now can be targeted anywhere - no longer restricted by fog or anything else. Blink range won't cut to 1000 when targeted too far away but will use maximum 1200 range. Can be used on cliffs as well - its up to you to decide if you want to stuck somewhere or not. By default will try to find proper location. Double click will try to blink on fountain, no matter where Dagger was picked up.

Bottle

Fixed Runes dropping out of bottle on the ground sometimes

Courier

Fixed Courier's permanent death

Courier's transfer items from 350 range instead of 100

Courier's transfer items now complete everything possible item regardless empty slots count

Couriers no longer waste Magic Stick charges if upgraded inside courier

Couriers now upgrades wherever they are when recipe is bought. Order is: firstly your couriers, then allied controlled couriers, then allied non-controlled couriers.

A single player cannot buy more than 2 couriers anymore. Dead couriers still count.

Chat command -ui now switches courier respawn label on and off

Courier respawn timer no longer shown if courier uncontrollable to player

Courier respawn now also visible over circle of power (ally and observers only)

If courier killed, but not by scourge/sentinel player, it won't provide bonus gold

Killing courier now reveals the killer

Killed courier won't ping on minimap for enemies