The New Frontiers Update comes with version 7.33 for Dota 2, which brings a bigger patch that expands the map by 40% and modifies the matchmaking process. What’s best is that it also changes the UI and adds a new type of hero. How cool, Dota 2!
Check out what Dota 2 v7.33 introduces:
- Any team that activates one of the eight observers that are dispersed over the map gains vision. That’s helpful since outposts no longer provide True Sight or vision
- Instead of one pit, Roshan has two
- 12 more creepy camps!
- To destroy its Ancient, Defender’s gates, which are one-way emergency back doors on each base, combine the sparkling high fantasy of Dota with the practicalities of doors on your house that you can shut when you go to the grocery store
- The Mines, The Statue, The Graveyard, and The Well are the four newly named POIs
- You may teleport between the top lane and bottom lane using twin gates. They are also used by Roshan to travel between his pits
- Only 20 minutes into a game, tormentors, neutral creep minibosses, spawn close to the bases
- Two new power runes have been introduced: shield runes in the river grant a barrier equal to half your maximum HP, while wisdom runes at bs and at the border of the map grant XP; Barrieris the new name for shield
- The left and right lotus ponds on the map contain healing lotuses that also grant mana
- Two new outposts have been added, and the previous ones have also been moved
Due to what Valve refers to as “an undesired clumping in the 0-1000 MMR range” and the difficulty returning players had in regaining a cooler Matchmaking Ratio after a break, matchmaking has been changed. The Glicko method will now be used in Dota 2 to compute MMR in place of the Elo system.
However, one of the biggest changes appears to be the Universal heroes. These heroes can deal up to 0.6 damage for each attribute point they have instead of specializing in a specific quality. Existing heroes, including Enigma, Bane, Lone Druid, Broodmother, and Vengeful Spirit, have been moved to the Universal category.
Finally, maintaining track of your HP and everyone else’s should be simpler, thanks to the new incredible UI enhancements. The health bar now shows barriers, and anything that doesn’t have an HP total but instead defeats you after taking a certain amount of hits has pips in the health bar to indicate that. And much like mana cost, abilities that cost health display that cost as a numerical value.