Explore the evolution of Dota 2's in-game guides and hero builds through patch notes, from initial implementation to recent UI and functionality improvements.
This page details the history of updates and changes related to Dota 2's in-game guides and hero build system.
Walkthrough
- 1February 21, 2013: Introduction of In-game Guides and Hero Builds.
- 2March 07, 2013: Added a dialog to prompt players to rate their currently-used hero build.
- 3August 23, 2013: Prevented guides for the previously-played hero from erroneously showing up at the start of the next game.
- 4September 23, 2013: Added a language filter to the in-game UI for selecting hero builds. Build authors must republish builds with a chosen language for filterability. Fixed slow hero build loading times for users with many subscribed or previously used builds.
- 5December 18, 2013: Fixed various crash bugs related to Guides in Frostivus.
- 6November 05, 2014: Fixed hero guide submission.
- 7September 28, 2016: Backend updates for Hero Builds, including marking default suggested builds, other builds, and the option to save item builds to Steam Cloud.
- 8January 20, 2017: Fixed visual overlay with Guides on the Talent Tree.
- 9January 23, 2017: Added Guide support for Talent Trees. Fixed unpublished guides in the cloud not showing up in the Guide browser.
- 10July 06, 2017: Changes to the format of all Hero Guides.
- 11July 07, 2017: Fixed a couple of UI issues on the Guide Builder tool. Added new strings and options related to guides.
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