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Introducing the new Hero, Shiv!

General Changes

Localization

• Added localization for Simplified Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portugese, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech and French. These are currently a work in progress.
• Language can be selected from the settings menu.

Matchmaking

• Matchmaking windows are now open 1 hour earlier in all regions.

• You can now prioritize your roster into three groups to indicate your preference ordering to the matchmaker: Selected, Priority and High Priority.
• Games can now be watched by an unlimited number of spectators.
• Spectator games now have a 1 minute delay.
• Improved smoothing of spectator camera position and angles.

Builds

• You can now author a suggested ordering of ability upgrades.
• You can now add per-item author comments by right clicking on items while editing builds that will show up in the item tooltip for users of the build.
• Fixed a bug that allowed published build data to overwrite local changes to a published build.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the last used hero build from loading when it was not a favored build.
• Hovering items in the shop will now highlight their components, or which item they are components of.

Shop Changes

• Reworked the Hero Stats UI in the Shop.
• Hero Stats in the shop have been expanded and are now broken up by Weapon, Vitality and Spirit. Various additional stats that were previously hidden have been added here.
• Individual stats can now be hovered over to see a breakdown of all the bonuses contributing to a value, including things like golden statues.
• Added descriptive gun information to each hero.
• Added Spirit Power Impact panel that displays the effect of spirit power on your abilities and items.
• Using an active item or ability now removes the undo option for the item/ability.

Settings

• Added Outgoing Damage as a UI display mode that you can toggle through.
• Added a setting to let you customize the ability cancel hotkey (Default is spacebar)
• Added a "Friends Only" checkbox to filter the watch tab.
• Added an option to control zoom sensitivity.
• Added customization options for your crosshair.
• Added a video setting to reduce some flashing effects.

Visual Changes

• Improved visual clarity of Icon not found (). Grey Talon's Icon not found (). Immobilizing Trap armed state.
• Replaced the Soul Urn drop parachute with new effects.
• Improved Icon not found (). Abrams' Icon not found (). Siphon Life and Icon not found (). Seismic Impact effects to not obstruct player view as much.
• Various visual adjustments on highlight and strobe effects being too loud in some cases.
• Updated bullet whizby sounds for nearly all characters.
• Updated Icon not found (). Haze's Icon not found (). Sleep Dagger cast, projectile loop and whizby.
• Updated Icon not found (). Haze's Icon not found (). Smoke Bomb sound.
  • Additionally removed Smoke Bomb voice line for everyone except the casting player and spectators.
• Fixed some spectator/replay sound and music bugs.
• Various sound related performance improvements.
• More impactful damage indication sound for attackers.
• Remastered Icon not found (). Abrams, Icon not found (). Pocket and Icon not found (). Dynamo weapon fire sounds.
• Improved lighting performance around the shop.
• Improved Icon not found (). Wraith's tracers to feel more connected with their bullet.
• Improved visibility of AOE around Icon not found (). Bebop while casting Icon not found (). Hyper Beam.
• Improved effects around Icon not found (). Lady Geist's Icon not found (). Soul Exchange to help with clarity.
• Updated Icon not found (). Infernus' tracer, muzzle and impact fx revisions for better performance.
• Added a sound for movement being restricted by Slowing Hex and Vindicta's Icon not found (). Stake.
• Revised sounds for Icon not found (). Pocket's Icon not found (). Flying Cloak duration and warp.
• Added Refresher cast sound.
• Unpause hotkey is now displayed when the game is paused.
• Added new Silence status effect sound.

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Pause cooldown per player increased from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.
• Fixed some abuse cases with undoing AP cooldown reductions.
• Fixed Candle Troopers sometimes instantly disappearing on death rather than going into their flash state.
• Fixed some cases where comeback souls would be higher than intended in the early game.
• Fixed being unable to ping while dead.
• Fixed Icon not found (). Bebop's Icon not found (). Sticky Bomb sometimes misfiring.
• Fixed a bug that allowed teleporters to be used while carrying the Soul Urn.
• Fixed targeting previews that draw a model (like Icon not found (). McGinnis' turrets) to update every frame, instead of being fixed at 60hz.
• Fixed stuns resetting their duration if you were on the ground and became airborne.
• Fixed some cases where Icon not found (). Lash's Icon not found (). Ground Strike would cause your hero to be stuck.
• Fixed Ricochet sometimes shooting the extra bullet from your gun rather than the target.
• Fixed ESC not working to close settings popup sometimes.