After months of waiting a new Dota 2 gameplay patch is finally arriving later today with some massive changes teased in the half-completed patch notes.
The second act of the Crownfall event is set to release this week and we now know that a major gameplay patch is arriving alongside it thanks to a new tease from Valve. An update to the original Crownfall map added a new description to the previously inaccessible encounter that revealed a new gameplay patch is coming later today and offers some blurry or dark partial patch notes, which the community has already figured out.
The notes required some visual wizardry to either light them up or focus the image, and there have seemingly been different changes teased in different languages. None of the notes give away the full change, but some of them are reasonably easy to figure out.
While the tease kicks off with a meaningless change, with one hero getting their armour decreased by 0.5, the following changes are a little more interesting. Something will reveal the whole map whenever a day starts, which could be a Phoenix change or a new map item, while one hero will be able to use items in their backpack as if they were normal items. Some think this could be a buff to Alchemist, who is one of the few heroes to regularly fill up their inventory, and that the change where one hero gets a bonus 250 starting gold could also be for him.
Disruptor is also getting at least one ability rework, with a tease for his Kinetic Field being replaced with some other Kinetic ability, while Life Stealer will permanently gain something whenever he kills a creep. There’s also one hero that can no longer be silenced, with many thinking this is a buff for Silencer.
Then towards the end of the teased patch notes, there is one change that could tease the arrival of new Dota 2 hero Ringmaster. The change reads “Enemies with the – cannot see their allies.” This doesn’t fit any kind of current ability or item and seems a little extreme to be an item effect in the first place. So that could mean that this is a debuff Ringmaster can place on enemies with one of his abilities. His teaser trailer showed him trapping a hero, and this debuff would make sense for a hero trapped in some kind of contraption.
Of course, this is all speculation, but we won’t have to wait too long to find out what the big changes actually are as the new Dota 2 patch is set to launch later today.
