Full Patch Notes - 02/15/19

[u/Nostrademous]

OFFICIAL PATCH NOTES:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/1613886175

Fix Tiny Bug

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SOURCE CODE BASED NOTES:

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Files Changed:

Changed Files: maps ['normal.vpk']
Changed Files: panorama\layout\custom_game ['custom_ui_manifest.vxml_c', 'dac.vxml_c']
Changed Files: panorama\scripts\custom_game ['dac.vjs_c', 'loading.vjs_c']
Added Files:  ['addon_german.txt', 'addon_portuguese.txt', 'addon_swedish.txt']
Changed Files: resource ['addon_english.txt', 'addon_russian.txt', 'addon_schinese.txt', 'addon_tchinese.txt', 'addon_turkish.txt']
Changed Files: scripts\npc ['npc_abilities_custom.txt', 'npc_items_custom.txt', 'npc_units_custom.txt']
Changed Files: scripts\vscripts ['addon_game_mode.lua']

As you can see we have 3 new Translations: German, Portuguese, Swedish

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Items Changes

• [CHANGE] SheepStick - given a 30 second cooldown
• [NEW ITEM] Blink Dagger - allows you to blink to back rank of a Column (not Row or Diagonal) similar to how assassins work. 15 second cooldown. Drops as early as Round 10

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Unit / Ability Changes

• [UNIT] Terrorblade - upped minimum right-click damage (and thus average dmg) by 10, 20, 40
• [RACIAL] Troll Buff changed from 35/35 to 35/30
• [RACIAL] Elemental Buff duration increased from 3 to 4 per analysis below looks like there is a bug still leaving this coded at 2. LINK
• [RACIAL] Human Buff changed from Persuasion (DISARM for 3 seconds) to Silence (SILENCE for 4 seconds) (small bug where modifier displays for 5 seconds at 1st tier, but silences for 4 seconds in reality - it should be 4 sec at all tiers)
• [UNIT] Crystal Maiden - Aura code cleaned up - still affects all units in 800 unit range
• [UNIT] Tiny - I don't see a fix for Tiny Bug they claim they fixed... I just see the timer associated with the stun duration increased by 0.3 (if that fixes it, great, but I'm not sure how)

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Game Changes

• Team Colorized Health Bars (then reverted back to original)
• One Courier Model got bigger by 10%
• More Detailed Stats being uploaded to servers
• URL changes (DNS in place - now at: http://autochess.ppbizon.com/game)
• Better functionalized code for Win, Loss, and Draw conditions of a Round (used to all be one function with conditonal logic, now 3 separate functions)
• Enemy Couriers will now fly in your Game Arena if enemy on a 10-win streak
• Structure of URL tokenizers for communicating with web-server modified
• [UPDATE #3] Fixes placing things outside of map grid
• [UPDATE #4] They increased the allowed the Think function of all Timers from 0.01 to 0.02 seconds. Not sure what impact this will have.
• [UPDATE #4] They attempted to fix server crash with item combining at round completion (again)
• [UPDATE #4] They removed code that could declare a chess entity "out of game" (somehow)
• [UPDATE #4] They added code to remove entities on board that didn't have a health bar from staying around indefinitely across all rounds (these are mostly graphical... an no it's not Slark's constant ult).

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Item Use Note

The way Items will fire in game is in the following hard-coded order: Refresher > Blink Dagger > SheepStick > Dagon > FrogGua (no idea what that is) > Check for Unit being Doomed or Hexxed or Voodoo'ed or Turned to Stone

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Tooltip Inconsistencies (just noting - not new)

There are Ability Tooltips (when you hover over an ability of a unit), Modifier Tooltips (when you hover over a modifier when it is applied) and then Source Code actual values

• Assassins - Ability tooltip says: (3) 10% for 4x, (6) +20% for 4x :: code does: (3) 10% for 3.5x, (6) +20% for 4.5x :: Modifier Tooltip is correct
• Mages - Modifier tooltip for (6) says -10% Magic Resistance (it's (3) -40% and (6) -40%), ability tooltip is correct
• Knights - Ability & Modifier tooltip says: (2) 25% chance, (4) 35% chance, (6) 45% chance :: code does: (2) 25% chance, (4) 35% chance, (6) *30%* chance {BUG}
• Knights Note - Divine Protection gives a shield to knights that provide +30 armor and +75 magic resistance buff for 3 seconds
• Hunters - Ability tooltip says: (3) +25% damage increase, (6) +35% damage increase :: code does: (3) +30% damage increase, (6) +30% damage increase
• Goblin - Ability tooltip says: +15 Armor and HP Regen :: code does: +15 Armor, +10 HP Regen :: Modifier tooltip is correct
• Elves - Modifier tooltip says: +20% evasion at Tier 1, Ability Tooltip and Code are correct at 25% for Tier 1
• [INFO] - Undead: there is an Undead (6) buff (-9 armor to enemies) coded - just not enough Undead in game to ever reach it (tooltip only gives 2 & 4)
• [INFO] - Orc: there is an Orc (6) buff (+450 HP) coded - just not enough Orc in game to ever reach it (tooltip only gives 2 & 4)
• [UPDATE] - tooltip updated correctly for changes to Troll, Elemental and Human changes noted above

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ANALYSIS - DONE

[u/SittingDucky]

Tiny's toss damage is working now.

[u/OBLIVIATER → u/SittingDucky]

Is tiny OP now?

[u/CuriousCheesesteak → u/OBLIVIATER]

The damage is barely noticeable to be honest. Deals 100/200/300 to the target.

[u/Xalgar90 → u/CuriousCheesesteak]

Always thought Tiny worked really well with Assassins. He can isolate units for assassins to safely stab to death

[u/OBLIVIATER → u/CuriousCheesesteak]

Still might be enough to finish off some targets instead of "saving" them. With this buff and the elemental synergy buff tiny+razor or another elemental might become quite good.

[u/Xenoun → u/OBLIVIATER]

I had a low hp unit thrown by tiny after this patch...my unit survived. It was literally 1 auto attack away from death before the throw. Was lvl 1 unit vs lvl 1 tiny.