- Ogre Magi is here! Introducing everyone's lovable idiots as our newest Pathfinders!



- Live hero selection screen had been removed due to numerous request from users with lower-end hardwares
- Magician difficulty had been added. All 5 difficulties are now available in Pathfinders!
- Various bug fixes and improvements to furthermore optimize your gameplay :)
- Drow Ranger is no longer bald. It was also Doom and Nyx's turn to go onto the shopping trip
- Temple Guardians now destroy trees with their abilities.

Attempted Fix for Troll and Naga Siren room not unlocking after being cleared
Neutral Item Tier 3 and below had their price halved at the Bristle Shop
Neutral Item Tier 4 and above price re-scaled to be 4500 max.
Fixed neutral items dropping too early due to the price drop.
Bonus Gold Rooms UI is no longer obscured by the left hand chat
Added an empty click handler to the hero selection screen to prevent crash on lower-end computers.
Fixed Phantom Assassin's Phantom Strike Attack Speed buff duration not using upgraded value.

- Fixed Aghanim not summoning his frieds during spell swap
- Improve the new in-progress narrator with situational voicelines
- Various bug fixes
- Morty Hop hitbox size increased by 20%, should make collecting gold a bit easier
- Laying the ground work for Elite trap rooms that contains enemies, coming next patch

- Fixed a bug where invulnerability would kick in late after respawning
- Add Hero Selection confirmation voicelines
- Additionaly underlying work for the upcoming custom announcer
- Orge Magi ground work
- Announcer greeting should now use your local time instead of server time, that means no more "good evening" at 1AM

More UI hotfixes

The patch from yesterday is finally stable and ready to be published again. Let me know if you encounter any issue!

Now, onto the changes:

- A new and glorious, never done before (I hope) hero selection screen! I'm pretty proud of this and I hope you guys would love it as much as I do.
- Venomancer Terry Improved: Fire Breath range increased to 1000, Terry will now continously spawn Venomancer's current level of Plague Ward around himself.
- Phantom Assassin's Global Dagger now also passively grants all Stiffling Dagger 100% lifesteal
- Legendary Shard can now be pinged in the scoreboard to alert your team if what you have
- TA's Meld invisibility duration increased by 10 times, up to 20 seconds.
- More UI QoL changes, text chats will never be blocked by shard selection screen.
- Kill Cam moved down so you can more clearly admire the smug face of the unit that killed you.
- Ursa bought his kids some clothes, Ursa Minors no longer running around naked.
- Trap rooms camera zoom reduced
- You can now random in the new hero selection screen
- Attempted to fix a mid game crash related to Legion Commander
- Attempted to fix a crash related to difficulty selection
- Omnislash cast time removed, it no longer considers enemies spell immunity while searching for initial bounce target
- Laying the ground work for the new custom announcer that would eventually replace Aghanim
- Decorated the starting area with happy little corpses :D
- Bonus gold for solo and duo players now granted as extra midas charges
- Fixed a bunch of bugs and created twice as many in the process.

Known bugs:
- Upgrades cheat codes are temporarily not working
- All heroes are appearing as Io on the minimap

Reverting to a more stable version while I iron out the kink of the new major patch

Hotfixes for loading screen being locked in place if players disconnect before it goes away

Hello all! This is a pretty chunky update. No new hero (im sorry) but a whole lot of code overhaul! I think everyon will love the new Hero Selection Screen that I've spent the past 2 weeks building. While I and Mastiphal had been pretty dilligent in our bug testing, it is nevertheless a very major patch so definitely let us know if you encounter any issue!

Now, onto the changes:

- A new and glorious, never done before (I hope) hero selection screen! I'm pretty proud of this and I hope you guys would love it as much as I do.

- Venomancer Terry Improved: Fire Breath range increased to 1000, Terry will now continously spawn Venomancer's current level of Plague Ward around himself.
- Phantom Assassin's Global Dagger now also passively grants all Stiffling Dagger 100% lifesteal
- TA's Meld invisibility duration increased by 10 times, up to 20 seconds.
- More UI QoL changes, text chats will never be blocked by shard selection screen.
- Kill Cam moved down so you can more clearly admire the smug face of the unit that killed you.
- Attempted to fix a mid game crash related to Legion Commander
- Attempted to fix a crash related to difficulty selection
- Omnislash cast time removed, it no longer considers enemies spell immunity while searching for initial bounce target
- Laying the ground work for the new custom announcer that would eventually replace Aghanim
- Decorated the starting area with happy little corpses :D
- Bonus gold for solo and duo players now granted as extra midas charges
- Fixed a bunch of bugs and created twice as many in the process.

Known bugs:
- Upgrades cheat codes are temporarily not working
- All heroes are appearing as Io on the minimap

LC Duel Reset Shards now has a clear particle to indicate if the ability was succesfully reset
Omni-Slash cast time removed
LC's MoC AoE attack shard bonus radius reduced by 20%
Storegga hull typed changed to Structure, which should make her easier to click on
Pudge miniboss Dismember Cast Range reduced by 100
Carty's Revenge got cartier