It's another Frosty Christmas, which means that Skeleton Frost has awakened from his hibernation under the dark, wine-like Seas of Blood surrounding the Frosty Castle... sent legions of goblin children he kidnapped to toy mines for gifts... harnessed his bone sleigh with twin direwolves, Lumpo and Rupertus, who gleamed with red eyes... and has already landed on the roof of your house or even entered it.
If you've been good, get ready to decorate your Christmas tree with new and classic Coldplay accessories, a bunch of client improvements, new premium Dota Plus packs, and the 7.35 update - you can read about all of that.
If you've been a bad boy, we have great news for everyone else and bad news for you - this year we're going to have a bloodbath. You may remember that in September we took out the ban hammer and permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts. Since then, we have continued not only to personally monitor player behavior but also to analyze their actions using automated systems. In the last few weeks, we have seen another, more aggressive wave of blocking, including tens of thousands of accounts blocked today.
At The International, some professional players discussed their smurf accounts with us. These discussions continued, and the professionals reached a mutual agreement: blocking their smurf accounts improves the Dota community. The rules should apply to everyone, and now they will. And smurfing is not the only questionable activity. Among other things, some offenders spoil the games of others and lose their integrity, and then hire other people to bring it back up.
Regardless of what you've done, we've been watching you (but certainly not how you sleep), and today we're taking strict action. All of the above violations will be punished, including a reduction in decency and, in the most serious cases, blocking of your main accounts.
As we've said before, smurfing (and other negative behavior) spoils the game, and we want to make the New Year's Eve experience as enjoyable as ever. So we wish you all a happy cold-weather update! Everyone except the smurf accounts, who are unlikely to be happy with their more than deserved gifts.
Kholodryzha chest 2023:
Each chest contains one of 30 items divided into 4 tiers, or an extremely rare Roshanchik courier.
Items of the same tier have the same rarity. You will not start receiving duplicate items of a particular tier until you have received all the items in that tier.
Five items of one tier can be exchanged for a random item of the next tier.
An extremely rare item is found in 1 out of 100,000 chests. The rest of the chests contain an item of one of four tiers. An item of each tier, starting with the first tier, has a 10% chance of upgrading to the next tier.
When you open a chest or exchange items, you have a 1 in 300 chance of getting an additional unusual item - either a copy of a common item you received or, if you received a set, a copy of one of the items in the set. Each rare item has one of three random special effects. Their rarity is the same.
Correction:
Fixed a bug that caused the recharge of Gem of True Sight lost by a hero killed by Chronosphere to freeze.
Fixed a rare crash that occurred when combining items.
Fixed a bug where re-freezing the cooldown of an ability with a frozen cooldown would cause the cooldown to end too soon.
Fixed an issue where built-in ability effects would not stack when purchasing Aghanim's Shard.
Fixed a bug where switching abilities (or buying Aether Lens, etc.) would not update the range indicator if it was already displayed.
Fixed an issue where Chaos Bolt particle effects on Chaos Knight were sometimes displayed in the wrong place.
Fixed a bug that caused Dawnbreaker's Starbreaker to be immune to pure damage without Aghanim's Shard.
Fixed a bug that caused the Bindings of Deep Magma set for Earthshaker to not display the correct (new) particles for the anniversary style and incorrectly remove expired particles.
Fixed an issue where the Bushwhack ability pointer for Hoodwink would sometimes highlight trees outside of the area of effect.
Fixed various issues with the animation of Tusk's Walrus PUNCH! ability.
Fixed a bug where the Magic Missile projectile from Vengeful Spirit with Aghanim's Shard could bounce into an invisible enemy that was immune to invisibility reveal.
Fixed a bug with the effects of Voodoo Restoration particles in Witch Doctor with Awaleb's Trundleweed Immortal item.
Now the neutral item cell is only highlighted when there is at least one unused token in the stash, not any item of any ally.
Fixed a bug where using an ability with the Alt key pressed would also send a signal.
Fixed a bug that caused the existence timers of wards and summoned creatures to be cut off in the interface.
Fixed a bug where hotkey icons were blocking talent descriptions.
Now the completion of an allied tower is displayed as an in-game event, not as a chat message.
Fixed an issue where some stickers in the arsenal were displayed as available, even though the capsule with them was no longer available.
Fixed an issue where capsules with expired event stickers were displayed as available for purchase.
Fixed an issue that could cause generic items to be displayed incorrectly in pop-up messages.
Fixed a bug where clicking on the "Show all modes" button in the search section of a regular game would cause the menu to be unusable.
Fixed a bug that sometimes displayed a professional player's Steam name instead of their nickname.
Fixed a bug that caused too long names to be displayed outside the interface on the history and combat statistics pages
