Version 38832 Release Notes for Sins of a Dark Age August 1 2014

[Fyst]

Vallamere Remake

Passive changed from Champion's Breast Plate to Heroic Stand

• Now gives Vallamere 10/15/20/25/30 (+0.1 bonus AP) Attack Power for 10 seconds when the shield is triggered.
  
• Damage shield scaling changed from +1 Special Power to +0.15 bonus Health
  
• passive cooldown increased to 180/165/150/135/120 from 60 seconds

Shield Bash

• Now deals Physical Damage instead of Magic Damage
  
• Damage amount changed to 115/160/205/250 (+0.9 bonus AP) from 135/170/205/240 (+0.7 SP)
  
• Mana cost reduced to 80 from 85

Chivalrous Defense

• No longer gives Vallamere bonus damage on his attacks when fighting near the shielded ally.
  
• Now gives Vallamere the same damage shield, Armor, and Magic Resistance bonuses as his target ally upon arrival.
  
• Now positions Vallamere to arrive between his target ally and the closest nearby detected enemy hero.
  
• Now gives Vallamere 15% Movement Speed for 2 seconds after the dash is completed.
  
• Damage shield amount changed to 60/115/170/225 (+0.1 bonus Health) from 90/130/170/210 (+0.6 SP)
  
• Armor and Magic Resistance bonus reduced to 15/20/25/30 from 25/35/45/55
  
• Shield and attribute bonus duration reduced to 3 seconds from 10 seconds
  
• Mana cost reduced to 50 from 60
  
• Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10 from 15 seconds

Might of the Empire

• Now gives a stacking basic attack damage bonus of 4/5/6/7 for each damage shield Vallamere has applied with his abilities since Might of the Empire was last activated, to a maximum of 5 stacks.
  
• Splash damage radius increased to 2.1 from 1.5/1.7/1.9/2.1
  
• Duration reduced to 9 from 14 seconds
  
• Mana cost increased to 45 from 40
  
• Cooldown reduced to 21/19/17/15 from 28/26/24/22 seconds

Battle Standard

• No longer affects allied minions.
  
• Vallamere can now place the banner anywhere within a range a 5.5 rather than it being placed right in front of him
  
• Vallamere can now dash to the banner using Chivalrous Defense.
  
• Now gives Vallamere and allied heroes a 75/125/175 (+0.1 bonus Health) damage shield when they first enter the radius. They may only receive the shield once per use of Battle Standard.
  
• Armor and Magic Resistance bonuses reduced to 5/10/15 from 8/16/24
  
• Mana cost reduced to 100 from 125/150/175

Twitch

• Streaming game name is now properly set (so all Soada streams show up properly in the Watch window).
  
• Players can now set the title name of their stream in Options->Twitch.
  
• Users can now start/stop their stream from the Hero portrait window button.
  
• Added auto-reconnect for certain types of streaming disruption.
  
• Various optimizations.
  
• Users can now select their ingest server in Options->Twitch. Choose the closest to your location.
  
• Right clicking on the front end Twitch chat window now allows you logout of Twitch.
  
• Removed login/logout from options screen.
  
• Chat window now shows when streaming has started/stopped.
  
• Friends are now notified if you start streaming.

General Gameplay

• Fix bug where Heroes could get stuck.

Heroes

• Updated various Serewyn visual effects.
  
• Updated Grugg's Ultimate visual effect.

HUD and UserInterface

• New minimap icons for Heroes.

FrontEnd

• Fixed bad tooltip rendering of player levels and karma level requirements.
  
• Fixed bug where Fellowship bundles weren't immediately visible.
  
• Added new Transactions window.
  
• Game History Details Inspect Dialog improved.

Items

Updated purchase sounds for a variety of items.

[Dagon]

Great update guys, the Vallamere overhaul is real!

[Exmatrix]

nice updates, thx

[Bones]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Sweatshirt:

Great update guys, the Vallamere overhaul is real!

[Corpsefoot]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Fyst:

• New minimap icons for Heroes.

Still kind of difficult to see, especially if some players choose to downscale the mini-map portion of the HUD later on.

I think the issue lies solely in two things: you are using purely circular hero icons, unlike the much more personalized "silhouettes" you see being utilized so successfully in DOTA 2.

Also, if you choose to stick with the circles, note that League of Legends' icons are much larger in relation to their proportion within the minimap, albeit at the cost of slightly obscuring other icons such as jungle creature or tower indicators.

[Vindeb]

Not exactly sure when this update was made to the map, but I love the new look of the Moonbloom. It's got a nice ethereal feel (kind of like a foil card) and blends well with leaves scattered around it. Awesome!

[Corpsefoot]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Vindeb:

Not exactly sure when this update was made to the map, but I love the new look of the Moonbloom. It's got a nice ethereal feel (kind of like a foil card) and blends well with leaves scattered around it. Awesome!

It blew me away, too, especially since it stood out so clearly against its more archaic backdrop haha; I think it was implemented with the update before this one, when quote, "ongoing visual improvements to various map elements" were enacted.

Those sneaky devs XD

[Fyst]

The map is undergoing such massive revisions that I don't have the time to list all the details. Expect similar polish changes to the map for the next several updates.

[Corpsefoot]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Fyst:

The map is undergoing such massive revisions that I don't have the time to list all the details.

That's good to hear, guys; anything past one step at a time would be overkill, I think

Honestly, if it was up to us then glitzy graphics wouldn't really factor into our enjoyment of the game anyway, but not all future consumers will be as discerning =P