Broodmother got a new hero model and portrait and looks even scarier now with her red eyes and sharp teeth. Another visual improvement has been made for Hand of Midas; it has a a noticeable effect and sound now. You can see those changes in the latest Dota Cinema videos.
Broodmother's new model:
Hand of Midas' new effect:
An interesting mechanical change is that Pseudo Random chances have been enabled for some abilities. To quote the Dota 2 Wiki:
There has also been a few bot and UI improvements, check out the full changelog:
- Updated Broodmother's model
- Added sound and FX for hand of Midas
UI
- Clicking on a hero row in the Heroes Played tab on the profile now shows a match history filtered by that hero.
- Greevil Egg contents are now displayed correctly in the Steam trading UI.
GAMEPLAY
- Pseudo Random chances are now enabled for these abilities: Coup de Grace, Slardar's Bash, Time Lock, Drunken Brawler's Crit, Headshot, Blade Dance, Chaos Knight's Crit, Lycan's Crit and Skeleton King's Crit.
BOTS
- Lich Bot will no longer Dark Ritual an ally's dominated creep (heh).
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to never try to avoid linear projectiles.
- Bots will now try to avoid Illuminate (both during the channel and when the projectile is released).
- Bots will now buy invisibility-detection items for an enemy Weaver.
- Bots who are the targets of Life Drain and Mana Drain will now try to break the channel by outranging it.
- Lich bot will no longer stop to cast Frost Armor when frantically attacking or retreating.
- Bots will no longer pick up a droppable item if it would require them to drop an item.
- For new players, the default coop bot difficulty level is now Easy.
- Bots will now drop muted items that they've picked up in the fountain.
Source: Dev forum post, Dota 2 Wiki







