Valve’s Latest Update to Dota Underlords Introduces Strong Nerfs to Bloodseeker
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Valve has made a significant update to Dota Underlords, targeting the problematic hero Bloodseeker. Bloodseeker has been dominating the meta as an inexpensive and powerful unit, thanks to his Bloodrage ability. This ability grants him bonus attack speed and health regeneration every time he kills an enemy, even without the need for an alliance. To address this, Valve has introduced substantial nerfs to Bloodseeker.
The update also includes memory optimization, which is expected to improve performance on all platforms, especially on 2GB iOS devices. You can find the full patch notes for the latest Underlords update, The Update In Which Bloodseeker, here.
General Improvements
- Improved memory efficiency to reduce crashes on 2GB iOS devices.
- Fixed random opponent selection during matches, which was particularly noticeable in Duos mode.
- Addressed an issue where tilting the camera on mobile could cause bench units to disappear under certain circumstances.
- Corrected alliance pip displays that sometimes showed incorrect information when moving units during the prepare phase.
- Enhanced the District Complete flow in City Crawl.
- Implemented UI performance improvements for a smoother experience.
- Improved the user experience of the progress popup.
- Fixed incorrect display of the “Has Available Objectives” button when there are no available objectives.
- Resolved a purchasing issue related to Parental Controls on iOS, and added extra logging to identify and fix any further problems.
- Fixed the unit info panel using incorrect models for Target Buddy and Barricade contraptions with equipped rewards.
- Fixed victory dance rewards for Hobgen, Enno, and Jull when using skin rewards.
- Addressed a bug where the “Equip” button sometimes did not work on the reward popup.
- Fixed the overlapping of “Invalid” with the Hardcore XP bot difficulty selection in some cases.
- Improved sell/send unit UI region sizing on 4:3 mobile displays to prevent overlapping with the board and accidental sales.
- Fixed an issue with dragging items that caused incorrect UI display when a unit was selected.
- Corrected some typos in newspaper headlines.
- Various sound improvements.
Underlord and Hero Changes
Hobgen
- Friendly Fire: Explosions now deal full damage to all cells in the blast area, instead of full damage to the center cell and half damage to surrounding cells.
Bloodseeker
- Bloodrage: Bonus Attack Speed reduced from 500 to 300. Target health at which Bloodseeker reaches maximum bonus Attack Speed changed from [25, 30, 35] to 30.
Earth Spirit
- Geomagnetic Grip: Cooldown reduced from [20, 18, 16] to eight.
Io
- Tether: Tethers no longer snap when Io is BROKEN. However, the tether target will not gain any benefit from the tether if the target itself is BROKEN.
Legion Commander
- Duel: Both Legion Commander and her target cannot receive healing while the Duel is active.
Queen of Pain
- Assassin Blink: Blink duration increased from 1.0 to 1.25.
Shadow Shaman
- Maximum Mana: Reduced from 100 to 70.
- Mass Serpent Ward:
- Cooldown reduced from 60 to 20.
- Mana Cost reduced from 100 to 70.
- Shadow Shaman will now try to target an enemy and position wards in a way that allows all four wards to be summoned.
Shadow Shaman’s Serpent Ward
- Maximum Health: Changed from [300, 400, 500] to [360, 480, 600].
Tusk
- Walrus PUNCH!: Can now be cast while Tusk is BROKEN.
Item Changes
Aegis of the Immortal
- Resurrection Time: Reduced from five seconds to three seconds.
- Not Disabled by BREAK.
Kaden’s Blade
- When the carrier is BROKEN: The carrier now performs its normal attack instead.
Quelling Blade
- No longer targets summons: Will not target summoned units outside of the carrying unit’s attack range.
Alliance Changes
Primordial
- Now tries to spawn Eidolons up to two cells away if nearby cells are occupied.
Void
- Added a 0.5-second cooldown to the damage proc. The extra pure damage can now only occur once every 0.5 seconds, regardless of how quickly the unit is attacking.
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