Valve has released an update for Dota Plus and guilds
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On October 15, Valve announced an update for Dota Plus and guilds on their official website, as well as revealed information about the new hero.
Updates to Dota Plus:
- Dota Plus members can now purchase a new treasure with shards. This treasure features 12 community-created sets.
- The new seasonal treasure available for purchase with shards every 3 months. The next treasure will be available on Dec 1st, and then again every 3 months after that.
- In addition to the existing ways to earn shards, Dota Plus members can also earn up to 57,850 shards from a new season of quests for Fall 2020
- The Chat Wheel sound effects are now available by redeeming shards.
- The pull timers when holding ALT are now available to Dota Plus members.
- The post-game healing and gold breakdowns have now merged with the existing Dota Plus damage tab.
- The Battle Pass MVP feature is now available for all players, but Dota Plus customers can earn extra shards with a new Seasonal quest.
- All players can now reach up to Hero Level 5 without a Dota Plus subscription. Only subscribers can reach Silver tier and above.
- All players can now use tipping for shards.
- All players can now earn the weekly shard reward for winning 3 matches. Non-subscribers earn 500 shards per week, while Dota Plus members earn 1000.
- The Dota Plus Rewards store has been renamed to the “Shard Shop”, and the premium hero sets, legacy hero sets, and tools are now purchasable by everyone. The Seasonal treasure, Chat Wheel sound effects and Hero Relics remain Dota Plus exclusive.
Guild Updates:
Guilds no longer have a Guild Level – instead there is now a weekly leaderboard of guild points earned in a given region. Once a week, guild members will receive their new guild rank and can claim a reward of shards; Dota Plus members earn double the amount of shards. A Guild’s weekly leaderboard position also determines access to special perks that may change over time. The current set of perks is:
Guild contracts now earn both guild points and shards. All players have access to one contract slot per day, and Dota Plus members have access to a second slot. Guild challenges are still completed in parties of 3+ guild members, and they earn guild points for leaderboard position. Playing a match while in a guild earns guild points, with bonuses for being in parties with your guildmates.
Ranked Season:
- For this season, the MMR reset optional will take place according to the following scenario: first, it will become optional; secondly, it will be introduced for different players gradually, so as not to create too much unpredictability.
- Upon logging in, you can go to Settings, and under the Account tab there is a new MMR Recalibration section. To prevent everyone from recalibrating at once, start-times will be spaced out evenly between October 22, 2020 and November 22, 2020 and can be activated anytime until the Season is over.
Other changes:
- Valve is currently aiming for the end of November for a new hero release, followed by more that are spread throughout next year with the next one in the first quarter next year.
- Valve made improvements to smurf detection systems. Smurf accounts are now much more likely to play with other smurfs only, this includes parties where only one player is a smurf. They are also likely to inherit any negative behavior scores of their alternate accounts, to limit their negative impact when playing. Also done a few more improvements on making new accounts converge to their correct MMR faster.
- Improving the booster detection system, over the past 30 days Valve has blocked more than 14,000 accounts and prepared systems continually ban for boosting moving forward.
- In terms of toxicity and game ruining behaviors from players, Valve is working on a new Overwatch style system, similar in some ways to that of CS:GO.
- Valve has done engine development that results in moderate performance improvements on multi-core CPU’s and will be bringing those to Dota. It is aiming towards the next week.
