Dota Allstars v6.66b.w3x Map Changelog update — The Dota 6.66b Changelogs are now officially available, released directly by IceFrog to address stability and balance concerns within the Warcraft III engine.
Having spent significant time analyzing the competitive landscape during this era, these changes were vital for maintaining game integrity. The following technical adjustments were implemented to resolve high-priority exploits and refine hero mechanics:
DotA 6.66b Allstars Changelogs:
- Fixed a major exploit recently discovered
- Recoded Bounty Hunter's wind walk damage bonus as to not require two seperate attacks to trigger his new passive
- Some Doombringer nerfs:
- Reduced base armor by 2
- Reduced base movement speed by 10
- Increased Scorched Earth cooldown from 60/50/40/30 to 60/55/50/45
In my experience, the following quality-of-life and engine-level fixes significantly improved the reliability of public matchmaking:
- Readjusted the Divine Rapier pickup rules to prevent some abuses.
- Unlock now requires a majority vote before the gold and items of a leaver will be released. As a reminder, once a hero is unlocked, it cannot be switched.
- Added a 15 second wait period before the drafting begins in -CD to give both teams a chance to look at the heroes.
- Renamed the controlon/off commands to be clearer which is which. They are now -disableselection (-ds) and -enableselection (-es)
- Various map optimizations
- Fixed an old recipe fusing exploit with leaver items that could result in crashes
- Fixed Essence Shift on units that change form
- Fixed a couple of bugs with Dark Pact debuff
- Added replay data for creep kills/denies (at time intervals, format: "CSK"+I2S(PlayerID),value and "CSD"+I2S(PlayerID),value)
- Fixed various tooltips
- Fixed gold not being split after using -unlock when someone leaves via -kickafk
- Fixed being able to -unlock while a switch vote is ongoing
- Fixed some spells incorrectly triggering Magic Stick/Essence Aura (Devoured Neutral Troll Priests Heal, Radiance Swap, etc)
- Fixed some -CD language text issues as well as some missing parser information
- Fixed Arcane Ring recipe purchase hotkey
- Fixed some potential Basher bugs on some levels of Spirit Bear
- Fixed an abuse possible with one hero carrying multiple Urn of Shadows
- Fixed the second Forged Spirit from being added to your control despite having control helper turned off
- Fixed a bug with -switch when you have Rapier (that you don't own) on you
- Fixed a few other misc minor bugs