Finally! However, do note that it’s an unofficial map and it’s still in “beta” so look out for any bugs.

Download link after the jump.

Download

Time for 6.68d?

DotA-Allstars.com Visitor,

Some of you may know me; many of you probably won’t these days. This website was born on October 14th, 2004. It was a mere 2 months after I turned 18, and it was the first website I’d ever made. Guinsoo was the lead developer (before Icefrog), DotA had no competitive scene and maybe 5% of the players that it does today.

In the years that followed, the site turned from a small forum with only 30,000 users to a massive community with over a million visitors every month, a million page views every day, and a staff of over 100 volunteers. It’s been incredible discovering the generosity of individuals who selflessly donate their time to create a positive experience for others.

In the summer of 2008, I met Guinsoo in real life for the first time. He and his boss were in town and they wanted to meet up and go out for a steak, (how could I say no!?). I soon learned that they were working on a game based on DotA, free from all of the limitations of the Warcraft III engine and Battle.net. Several months after meeting them and after several trips to their offices to learn more about the project, I joined the Riot Games team working on League of Legends.

When I first joined the team in September of 2008, my original intent was to work on League of Legends full time and continue to build DotA-Allstars.com into an awesome thriving DotA community after Icefrog’s departure.

While I originally intended to leave this out of this letter, in light of the fact that this information is now out in the open, I think it’s important to set the record straight. Many believe that Icefrog left because I wanted to commercialize, and he did not. In reality – I had learned that Icefrog had been secretly working for S2Games after conducting a series of meetings where he was attempting to sell a full DotA game concept to a number of companies (including Riot). The differences of opinion that we had were merely that I chose to be transparent and honest about the project that I was working on, and the direction my career was going.

After working on and launching LoL, I began to realize that – in addition to having no free time anymore – with LoL available to play I no longer possessed the passion for DotA which once drove me.

The traffic on the website slowly began to decline, settling where it’s at now (about 50% of where it was a year ago), and I recently realized that I had a decision to make. I could either continue to say that I would rebuild the website as a strong DotA community, knowing that my heart wasn’t really in it, or I could archive the site, ending an almost 6 year chapter of my life that I’ve invested thousands of hours into. Ultimately I believe that the right decision here is to not trick myself into thinking that this site will be rebuilt into what it once was, and to shift my full focus and time to my new project, with an eye towards the future.

This website and the DotA community will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been an amazing experience working with so many wonderful people and gaining so much insight about communities, people, and ultimately myself. There are more people deserving of thanks than I could possibly remember – so rather than leaving anyone out, I’ll simply thank everyone who has volunteered or contributed to this site over the last few years, and everyone who helped make it one of the premier DotA websites in the world.

The website will be offline for the next week or so while the database is moved to its new permanent home where its contents will remain archived and available to the public for the sake of historical preservation.

In the meantime, I hope some of you will join me and over 3 million other players for a game of League of Legends (it’s free!)

Should you wish to contact me, you can reach me at:
AIM: Gippis
MSN: DotA-Allstars@hotmail.com
Email: Pendragon@dota-allstars.com

Sincerely,
Pendragon

I don’t know how long has the message been there, cause frankly, even before my current hiatus from the game, after losing its “official” website status, I’ve stopped visiting DotA-Allstars.com.

I guess I wasn’t the only one and that’s not unexpected.

Thank you for all the good times DotA-Allstars.com!

On other DotA related news, Valve (the company behind Half-Life) has recently filed a trademark application for DotA. What does that mean to the future of this awesome game?

Long overdue AI map update but it ain’t easy work. So anyway, for those who thoroughly enjoy playing with AI compared to real people, this one’s for you.

Not much changes as compared to the previous AI map with hero, item updates mainly.

Changelogs:

6.67b v2c (06/20/2010) fixed by PleaseBugMeNot & Phaselock
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1. Fixed the actual skill when Puck`s trying to use Dream Coil with scepter (last fix just added Dream coil to the scepter`s spells dream team).
2. Track`s buff was not visible when in range of tracked enemy
3. Track`s visual on enemy head was not disappearing after Track`s 30 sec end
4. Fixed Soul Steal channeling text in the tooltip
5. Added passive icon for Strygwyr’s Thirst
6. Added passive icon for Plague
7. Fixed a rare Mac issue with shared Soul Ring
8. Fixed casting distance exploits with Skewer
9. Changed Soul Ring icon / added the new icon to the map
10. Nerubian Weaver: Added Hardened passive skill icon of the swarm bugs (BTNHardenedSkin.blp)
11. Nerubian Assasin: Added Missile Speed of Carrion Scarabs (undeadunitfunc)
12. Nerubian Assasin: Impale damage reduced from 80/160/230/300 to 80/140/200/260(6.67)
13. Game-wide sound gets muted when Global Silence is used (173422)
14. Fixed memory leak (6.67c) in Silence trigger. (tnx PhaseLock)
15. Curse of the Silent now displays a buff indicator
16. Bristleback – Warpath maximum stacks increased from 4 to 5
17. Fixed error in Broodmother`s item build – she was staying with Wraith and RoR at late end game. Now buys HoT and Linken`s Sphere
18. Fixed the prices of some recipes/items for the AI:
- Manta Style Recipe increased from 500 to 600
- Dagon Recipe decreased from 1350 to 1300
- Sange Recipe decreased from 800 to 750
- Yasha Recipe decreased from 800 to 750
19. Added some new items in Pugna`s item build (now he buys scepter… what a smart guy)
20. Fixed Mekansm not healing Visage’s Familiars

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Note: i used WinMPQ to compress the map and i hope it didn`t screw up something. If any problem arise from that i`ll upload it uncompressed.
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Dota 6.67b AI Rev2b
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Bugs fixed:
1. Blademail now works
2. *New visual effect for the offensive use of Urn of Shadows
3. Tracked visual effect by Bounty Hunter on enemy unit
4. Leshrac`s Diabolic Edict was missing the explosion effects on random places when no units in range… thus hitting invisible units
5. Dark Seer Ion Shell stackable(fixed but not tested by me)
6. Puck’s scepter now bringing stats up and adds + 50 mana use
7. Nerubian Assassin’s scarabs couldn`t use Infestation (clicking the button did nothing). Now fixed – blowing up doing silence and dmg
8. Nerubian Weaver
* Fixed Cleave/Anchor Smash from instantly killing Swarm creatures
* Various performance improvements when casting The Swarm
* Non-hero units now do half damage to The Swarm
* Fixed a bug with lifesteal and The Swarm creatures

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Dota 6.67b AI ver.06/11/2010
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Bugs fixed:
- Spirit Breaker’s Charge of Darkness causes target suicide and then becomes invulnerable.
- Sacred Warrior’s Inner Vitality heals instantly .
- Double Click Scroll of Town Portal doesn’t go back to fountain.
- Puck’s Aghanism doesn’t work.
- Goblin Techies doesn’t gain XP when kill emey heroes by Land Mines or Remote Mines.
- Other slightly errors.

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Dota 6.67b AI ver.06/07/2010
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- The first Dota 6.67b AI map
- Bug is expected
- AI player cannot use new items. And because Magnus, Nerubian Weaver, Bone Fletcher and Spirit Breaker have some skill modifications, so AI player cannot use their new skills, too. Please use -repick to make AI player choose another hero.

Enjoy.

Download link after the jump.

Download

The latest and greatest DotA Allstars AI map download. Obviously some abilites are not working for the bots yet (they learn them but never use them). This is expected and will be addressed by the map creator BMP in future versions.

Other than that, this version should be good enough for all new players who would like to simply try out or practice using the new heroes, Slark the Murloc Nightcrawler and Kaldr the Ancient Apparition.

Download link after the jump.

Download

2 new heroes; Slark the Murloc Nightcrawler and Kaldr the Ancient Apparition. From my thorough and extensive testing, I have no doubts Slark will get alot of play in weeks to come and by thorough and extensive testing, I mean 1 round of DotA.

Also…

IceFrog’s way of wishing all the players Merry Christmas I guess.

Changelog and download link after the jump.

Download Link – Changelog

IceFrog posted a Dota 6.65 teaser video demostrating a somewhat invisible hero with storm cloud above his head.

My guess is, someone’s hero suggestion must have gotten the ‘APPROVED’ stamp.

Wow, Kunkka keeps outdoing himself each time round, though I don’t really fancy this rendition of Tiny at the top left.

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Yet another very nicely done video! Definitely worth the watch!