Dota 2 patch brings bottle refill changes and some unannounced updates
It’s been a big month for Dota 2, with the arrival of the MOBA game’s new hammer-swinging hero Dawnbreaker and the chonky 7.29 gameplay patch late last week. Since these, Valve’s battler has seen a couple of weeny follow-up updates to make a few changes here and there, with a new one dropping today that adjusts how a key item works, and brings a handful of unannounced changes.
Today’s Dota 2 gameplay update brings just one solitary change to the multiplayer game, but it’s one to make a note of: “Bottle now only refills two charges when capturing Water or Bounty runes”. This follows some discussion on Reddit wondering if a change some players had spotted following the recent 7.29 update – that a full bottle item with three charges would lose a charge (down to two) if you scooped up a Bounty or Water rune – was a bug or a gameplay update.
Dota 2’s new Hero Hoodwink has arrived along with the massive Mistwoods Update
Earlier in the week, Dota 2 developer Valve announced its flagship MOBA game was in for a shiny new update on December 17 – so, this very day. The studio revealed practically nothing about the patch’s content, other than its name – “the Mistwood update” – and previously that the multiplayer game’s newest Hero would be dropping with 7.28. Now, however, we know what’s in store – the patch notes have dropped, and we’ve laid it all out for you below.
As detailed in the Dota 2 7.28 update notes, the newest addition to the character roster is Hoodwink. She’s a creature of the forest, looking like a kind of fox with a hint of red panda, and Valve lists her as a ranged nuker who specialises in escapes and disables.