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Special Event: Patreon Level 1 activated for everyone for 48h, until Sunday 19.10.2025 04:00 CET
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1. Update Ability Draft Mode
- Fixed special upgrade for Legion Commander (Duel)
- Fixed special upgrade for Shadow Fiend
- Increased post-selection time to 60s
- If a player selects an ability with a facet upgrade that increases its max level, the Attribute Bonus ability will be removed due to missing hero levels to add all Tree Talents. A better solution will be added in future updates.
- Fixed issue with disappearing Aghanim’s and Special Upgrade icons from the Ability Pick Board

1. Ability Draft Mode is now available as a separate map: hub_ability_draft

2. Update keys for unlocking cursed slots
- A single key now unlocks 1 cursed slot for all players
- Increased single key cost to 750 gold (-25% with Blessings discount)
- Removed option to buy keys in the regular shop

3. Update Ability Draft Mode
- Base abilities are now ordered in the same column as ultimate abilities
- Players can now use the "I'm Ready" button to reduce post-selection time to 5s
- Added missing Unborrow ability for Nyx's Burrow (Aghanim's Scepter upgrade)
- Fixed issues with Venge's Strong Illusion ability copying (Aghanim's Scepter); Nyx's Burrow ability is blocked for illusions to prevent crashes
- Bristleback's Hairball (Shard upgrade) is no longer swapped with Quill Spray when using autocast
- Optimized hero and ability precaching

1. Update Ability Draft Mode:
– Increase single-player pick time to 15s; if more players are present, reduce by 1s per player
– Increase post-selection time to 45s for a single player; if more players are present, reduce by 2s per player
– Group base abilities
– Reduce the total number of selectable hero abilities to 15 (15 ultimates and 15×3 base abilities)
– Fix the broken Gyrocopter Side Gunner extra model
– Fix issues with autocasting abilities
– Fix a bug where players receive special upgrades for stolen spells using the Longclaw Amulet

1. Update Ability Draft Mode
- Reduced the number of selected hero abilities to 17 (ultimates/innate/facets, base x3 = 51)
- Increased player pick time to 10s
- Added tick sound when less than 3s remain and the player hasn't picked an ability
- Fixed removal of ability_capture, which can be useful in some rooms

1. Update Ability Draft Mode
- add some missing sounds
- increase pick time and pre-round time

1. Add New Mode: Ability Draft
- This new mode introduces many changes to abilities, facets, and talents. Please be understanding if something doesn't work correctly and report any issues.
- Results in this mode will not be saved on the leaderboard.
- There are 6 rounds to pick abilities. In each round you can pick 1 ability. Total pick: 3 base abilities + 1 ultimate + 1 innate ability + 1 extra facet ability.
- Talents can be chosen independently of players' pick order.
- Unpicked abilities will be assigned randomly; unpicked talents will be replaced with their gold equivalents.
- Warning: Always select a facet during Hero Strategy. An unpicked facet will result in an empty facet that does nothing.

2. All Pick Mode
- Works the same as before, except players must always select a facet during Hero Strategy; otherwise, they will have an empty, non-functional facet.

3. Fixed an issue that allowed players to avoid being transformed into silenced/muted units during the bonus round.

1. Update Void Time Lock
- now Bosses are immune to freeze debuff

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Special Event: Patreon Level 1 activated for everyone for 48h, until Monday 15.09.2025 00:00 CET
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1. Remove Boss immune particle effects from Void Time Zone

1. Update Faceless Void
- now Bosses are immune to Time Zone debuffs

2. Update Bonus Rounds
- increase start time to 45s
- fix issue with chicken bonus room (Aghanim 1) didn't start correctly

1. Update Bonus Rounds
- Bonus rounds now start automatically after 30s

2. Update Vendor Vault Room (before Final Boss)
- The first player entering the room will now fully activate it