Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical, Card & Board Game
Dota Underlords
Season One is Nigh
Hello! In 5 days, Dota Underlords is coming out of Early Access and shipping Season 1. Ahead of the big release we wanted to share a few things about what’s coming.
Launch Party
To celebrate the launch day and share what’s new with the community, join some of your favorite personalities for our Launch Party on Twitch. The day will be full of Underlords matches, City Crawling, and general shenanigans with guests and players from the community.
What’s staying from the Beta Season?
First off, thank you all for being part of the beta – we couldn’t have gotten here without you! Players who participated in the Beta Season will keep the following things:
Major Rank We are doing a soft reset of Underlords Rank. Players will keep their Major Rank (eg. Outlaw, Smuggler, Boss) and will be reset to Minor Rank 1. This shift applies to Standard, Duos, and Knockout ranks. The only exceptions are Lords of White Spire, who will be reset to Big Boss III.
Boards On Tuesday, we are shipping a brand new default board and five new unlockable boards. For players who reached Level 5 in the Protopass, the two Beta Season boards (below) will be available as well. The Path to Sunbreeze and Streets of White Spire boards will also be available to Level 5+ Beta Season players.
Additional Rewards for Beta Players If you reached Level 5 in the Beta Season, you’ll also get a golden Ricky Ravenhook board prop and a Beta Season wanted poster title.
Wait, board props? Titles?
We’ve added a bunch of new features and content to the game for launch, including new ways to customize your Loadout and Underlords game. Board props and Titles are just a couple of examples of this:
Gold Ricky will be granted to Beta players who reached Level 5 in the Beta Season, and Stone Ricky will be available for anyone who purchases the Battlepass (yes, you can get both)
Boards are now customizable – level up your Battlepass and earn additional props to place on your board.
Wanted posters are now customizable as well – players can earn Achievements to unlock more titles. Custom poster artwork by Botjira and J.R. Doyle - these and more are unlockable in the Battlepass and City Crawl.
See you Tuesday!
We’re launching Season 1 of Dota Underlords on the morning of Tuesday, February 25th. This will ship simultaneously on Steam, iOS, and Android (normal caveats about propagation on mobile app stores still apply).
That’s it for today. The team is looking forward to shipping this next week and playing Season 1 of Underlords with you all!
Yoink! We Stole Some Healing From Enno
HOTFIXES
Enno - Dr. Enno's Soothing Balm: changed initial heal from [ 40, 40, 60, 60, 80, 80 ] to [ 30, 30, 45, 45, 60, 60 ]
Fixed an issue where the sell unit button could be hidden when you select a unit on the board after combat.
Note: The gameplay change will take effect immediately for multiplayer games. The client-side UI change will roll out to mobile clients as it is approved by Google and Apple.
Rabid Update
GENERAL
Fixed Sand King Burrowstrike not visually lifting enemies other than the last one.
UNDERLORD CHANGES
Enno
Death Spin: Damage changed from [ 35, 35, 45, 45, 55, 55 ] to [ 25, 25, 35, 35, 45, 45 ]
All Out Attack: now reads: Enno launches an All Out Attack against all enemies, applying 5 stacks of Poison, dealing 50-175 physical damage and stunning them for 2 seconds.
Dr. Enno's Hotfix
ENNO CHANGES
Death Spin:
Damage changed from [30, 30, 40, 40, 50, 50] to [35, 35, 45, 45, 55, 55]
Dr. Enno's Soothing Balm:
Initial Healing changed from [55, 55, 80, 80, 105, 105] to [40, 40, 60, 60, 80, 80]
All Out Attack!:
Cooldown changed from 12 to 10
Fixed bugs with draws.
Ennouncing A Small Tweak
HOTFIXES
Added poison stack count FX.
Fixed a pathfinding bug that caused units to try to move to a beneficial cell even if they had no path to it. This fixes a case of units standing still instead of attacking.
Fixed Tiny chasing after an enemy after tossing them only to change his mind a few steps in.
Added indicator on the UI to show what item Enno has stolen.
Fixed new 4-Underlord picker not fully fitting on 4:3 aspect ratio on PC.
Fixed healthbar icons for Enno and Jull.
UNDERLORD CHANGES
Anessix:
Enthrall:
Cooldown changed from 15 to 10
Enno:
When spinning, Enno now prefers targets that already have poison on them to keep the poison from wearing off.
Escape Artist:
Enno now Purges his debuffs as well when he escapes.
Healin' n Stealin':
Dr. Enno's Soothing Balm:
Target Count changed from [3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5] to [3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5]
Healing changed from [30, 30, 45, 45, 60, 60] to [55, 55, 80, 80, 105, 105]
Now reads: Enno leaps into the air and shoots a poison dart at up to (Target Count) enemies that are within 3 cells applying a stack of Poison. Dr. Enno triages and heals all allies, healing the most injured one first for (Healing) and successively halving the amount on each additional ally.
Rabid Furball:
Death Spin:
Target Count changed from [3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5] to [3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5]
Damage changed from [30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55] to [30, 30, 40, 40, 50, 50]
All Out Attack!:
Cooldown changed from 15 to 12
Now reads: Enno launches an All Out Attack against all enemies within 2 cells, applying 5 stacks of Poison and displacing the victims onto a random cell. Enemies not involved just watch their crewmates get torn to pieces.
ITEM CHANGES
Refresher Orb:
No longer stealable.
ALLIANCE CHANGES
Spirits:
Fixed an issue where units not on the ground could be counted for Delta Slam targeting.
Hey, it's Ennother Underlord
Hello White Spire! We have someone to introduce - but before we get to that, a couple words.
As mentioned a few weeks ago, this will be our last major update before we come out of Early Access and ship Season 1. The team is now heads down adding features, creating content, and polishing UI. With Season 1, Underlords will introduce new content with City Crawl, new rewards with a full Battlepass, and a new meta with a Hero / Item rotation.
Oh, and we have a date - Dota Underlords Season 1 is shipping February 25th. Also, keep an eye out for February's PC Gamer. They're running a cover story on the upcoming Underlords release and will have more information about Season 1 (as well as some behind the scenes info about the game's development).
Apart from that, things will be pretty quiet on the update front until we ship. We'll be sharing more about Season 1 in the coming weeks though, so stay tuned.
And now, we'd like you to meet our little friend:
INTRODUCING ENNO
Most visitors to White Spire see the refuse-filled alleyways that make up The Warrens as merely slums...but to Enno, it is a Kingdom. Today, his people live in the margins of White Spire; scavenging and stealing to get by, but Enno has bigger aspirations. He believes it’s his destiny to lead his people out of the shadows into greatness, and he will employ every underhanded tactic he can think of in order to make that dream a reality.
Enno is always on the move - darting around and poisoning enemies with ranged attacks. If he's ever in a pinch he pulls the ripcord and escapes the board for a breather, before coming back and stunning adjacent enemies.
Depending on what mood you catch him in Enno employs different "tactics". Sometimes Enno will steal items from the enemy crew, while healing his own crew. Other times he'll amp up his own damage and pull the enemy crew in for an all out attack.
A ranged menace, Enno leaps around the board poisoning enemies and generally wreaking havoc.
Enno will be one of the four Underlord options available at the end of Round 1 in Knockout and at the end of Round 9 in Standard and Duos game modes. One of two Enno builds (detailed below) will be randomly presented.
Passive Skill - Escape Artist
Once per combat, when dropping below 25/50/75% health, Enno escapes in a cloud of smoke, reappearing elsewhere on the board, stunning adjacent enemies for 1.5 seconds.
Build 1 - Healin' n' Stealin'!
Dr. Enno's Soothing Balm: Enno leaps into the air and shoots a poison dart at up to 2-5 enemies that are within 3 cells, applying a stack of Poison and healing adjacent allies for 15-60 per stack.
Yoink!: Enno steals the lowest tier item from the enemy crew at the start of combat. Whenever an enemy dies in Enno's attack range, he loots them if they have a better item equipped. All items return to their original owners at the end of combat.
Build 2 - Rabid Furball
Death Spin: Enno leaps into the air and shoots a poison dart at up to 2-5 enemies that are within 3 cells, applying a stack of Poison and dealing 20-55 physical damage per stack.
All Out Attack!: Enno lassos the enemy team and launches an All Out Attack! dealing 50-225 physical damage, applying 5 stacks of Poison and displacing them into a random cell.
POISON Added a new status effect, Poisoned. Poisoned units take 15 physical damage per second and healing is reduced by 10% for 5 seconds. Poison effects can stack up to 5 times.
GENERAL CHANGES
Improved lighting used by the Underlords.
Fixed issues with low resolution textures on the Underlords on mobile.
Further fixes to the map not loading when starting a match.
Fixed an issue where a dead unit on a cell could prevent a live unit from being selected.
Fixed wrong rank icon sometimes being displayed on the post-match screen.
Fixed more places where an Underlord's base ability icon or name would be shown, rather than the version of that ability used by the Underlord build.
Added more pizzazz to the Underlord picker.
Target Buddy has begrudgingly put away his holiday hat, since it's apparently "not the season" anymore.
UNDERLORD CHANGES
Jull: fixed Barrels of Fun barrels hitting Spiderlings.
Hobgen: fixed enemy Spiderlings causing other enemies to take decreased damage from Implosion and Shockwave.
UNIT CHANGES Venomancer:
Venomous Gale:
Now applies poison to its targets.
ITEM CHANGES Blade Mail:
Fixed bonus armor error in description.
Orb of Venom:
Instead of applying damage, Orb of Venom now applies poison.
ALLIANCE CHANGES
Brute: Fixed an issue where Brutes could switch targets mid-swing.
We Delta Slammed Some Bugs With Bugs
GENERAL CHANGES
Improved board-loads-black bug. There are still some rough edges here that have been hard to track down, though, and we're still working on it.
Fixed an issue where tapping on an Underlord ability in the unit status panel during preparing/combat, rather than on the ability icon in the lower corner Underlord displays, would trigger the wrong popup description.
Fixed an issue with Underlord ability tooltips/popups that showed numbers from one level higher than the current player level, if the number was level dependent.
UNDERLORD CHANGES
Anessix:
Damage Support:
Enthrall: Duration of Enthrall targeting changed from 5.0 to 6.0
The End of Medicine: Attack Damage Bonus changed from 30% to 35%
Hobgen:
High Damage Dealer:
Implosion: Damage changed from [560, 750, 930, 1125, 1310, 1500] to [600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600]
Friendly Fire: Damage changed from [250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500] to [250, 300, 360, 430, 500, 600]
HERO CHANGES
Batrider:
Sticky Napalm:
Change minimum damage threshold for Sticky Napalm damage to proc from 25 to 5.
Fixed a bug where Radiance and Orb of Venom could trigger Sticky Napalm damage.
Dragon Knight:
Maximum Health changed from [1400, 2800, 5600] to [1350, 2700, 5400]
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [50, 100, 200] to [45, 90, 180]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [60, 120, 240] to [55, 110, 230]
Breathe Fire:
Enemy Attack Damage Reduction changed from [25, 40, 55]% to [25, 35, 45]%
Damage changed from [150, 250, 400] to [150, 200, 250]
Gyrocopter:
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [75, 150, 300] to [65, 130, 260]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [80, 160, 320] to [75, 150, 300]
Ace Effect:
Pierce percent changed from 100 to 75
Io:
Relocate:
Fixed a bug where Refresher Orb would not refresh Relocate
Legion Commander:
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [40, 80, 180] to [40, 80, 160]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [50, 100, 228] to [50, 100, 200]
Duel:
Bonus Damage per duel win changed from [5, 10, 15] to [5, 8, 12]
Slark:
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [50, 72, 126] to [60, 90, 126]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [60, 92, 174] to [70, 110, 174]
Essence Shift:
Bonus Damage gain per attack changed from [3, 4, 5] to [3, 5, 6]
Attack Speed gain per attack changed from [2.0, 3.5, 5.0] to [3.0, 4.0, 5.0]
Sven:
Maximum Mana changed from 200 to 150
God's Strength:
Mana Cost changed from 200 to 150
ITEM CHANGES
Barricade:
Number of Barricades changed from 2 to 3
Tier changed from 2 to 3
Maximum Health per Barricade changed from [600, 600, 600] to [750, 750, 750]
Blade Mail:
Bonus armor now shows during preparing phase on unit status panel.
Claymore:
Bonus Attack Damage changed from 30 to 33
Desolator:
Added missing FX.
Hand of Midas:
Percent Chance to gain gold on kill changed from 30% to 25%
Horn of the Alpha - Thunderhide:
Attack Damage Minimum changed from 100 to 120
Attack Damage Maximum changed from 150 to 160
Attack Rate changed from 0.935 to 1.0
Maximum Health changed from 3750 to 4500
Mekansm:
Tier changed from 3 to 4
Morbid Mask:
Lifesteal percent changed from 20% to 30%
Orb of Venom:
Damage Per Second changed from 30 to 35
Pipe of Insight:
Tier changed from 4 to 3
Satanic:
Bonus Health changed from 750 to 850
Tombstone - Zombie:
Attack Rate changed from 0.833 to 1.0
ALLIANCE CHANGES
Primordial:
Eidolon:
Attack Rate changed from 0.667 to [0.667, 0.8]
Armor changed from [3, 5] to [3, 8]
Spirit:
Fixed Delta Slam targeting to not count spiderlings when computing which triangle damaged the most enemies.
Fixed Delta Slam no longer killing spiderlings.
Anti-Tank Guided Hotfix
HOTFIXES
Now that we have a fully operational beef-station in Jull, it looks like the tanky fellow is a bit too hard to kill. Changes below.
Crystal Maiden will no longer cast Frostbite on a target that is currently frostbitten.
Fixed an issue where Void Spirit could Dissimilate on top of another unit.
Jull:
Armor changed from [10, 15, 15, 15, 20, 20] to [8, 8, 12, 12, 16, 16]
Maximum Health changed from [2100, 2550, 3000, 3450, 3900, 4350] to [1900, 2450, 2750, 3250, 3550, 4100]
Magic Resistance changed from 25 to 15
To Your Health and Roundhouse: Damage reduction changed from 70% to 50%.
To Your Health: changed friendly healing from 200% to 100%.
To Your Health! Here's an Update
GENERAL CHANGES
Fixed an issue with assassin pathfinding that led to them standing still or ignoring forced targets.
Improved pathfinding performance, leading to better local bot game performance.
Fixed an issue with a Batrider voice line. We failed you and we're sorry.
Fixed Anessix's Golem using the upgraded model all the time.
UNDERLORD CHANGES
Jull:
Maximum Health changed from [1360, 1620, 1940, 2330, 2795, 3355] to [2100, 2550, 3000, 3450, 3900, 4350]
Added base Magic Resistance of 25%
Aggressive Tank: fixed Barrels of Fun giving enemies damage resistance rather than taking increased damage.
Aggressive Tank: replaced Slow Burn with Roundhouse: Jull gains 70% damage reduction, 200 Attack Speed, and 50% lifesteal for 5 seconds.
Healing Tank: replaced Righteous Healing with To Your Health: Jull gains 70% damage reduction for 5 seconds. Adjacent allies are healed for 200% of damage taken by Jull during this time.
HERO CHANGES
Alchemist:
Acid Spray:
Armor Reduction changed from [-5, -8, -11] to [-4, -7, -10]
Crystal Maiden:
Frostbite:
Damage changed from [100, 125, 150] to [100, 150, 200]
Duration changed from [3, 4, 5] to [4, 5, 6]
Dragon Knight:
Maximum Health changed from [1500, 3000, 6000] to [1400, 2800, 5600]
Earth Spirit:
Tier changed from 3 to 2
Ember Spirit:
Tier changed from 2 to 3
Morphling:
Waveform:
Damage changed from [100, 175, 450] to [100, 175, 325]
Cooldown changed from [8, 6, 4] to 6
Omniknight:
Maximum Health changed from [1205, 2415, 5795] to [1100, 2200, 5280]
Razor:
Plasma Field:
Minimum Damage changed from 25 to 40
Maximum Damage changed from [100, 200, 300] to [150, 200, 250]
Shadow Shaman:
Voodoo:
Will not hex the same target twice unless all other targets have been hexed already.
Sniper:
Assassinate:
Cooldown changed from 10 to 12
If no units are alive on the enemy side except the Underlord, Sniper will be able to cast Assassinate on the Underlord after all. In all other circumstances Sniper will still not cast on the enemy Underlord.
Storm Spirit:
Ball Lightning:
Base Damage changed from [70, 120, 225] to [90, 140, 210]
Extra Damage (per cell traveled) changed from [10, 20, 30] to [15, 20, 25]
Tiny:
Maximum Health changed from [975, 1950, 3900] to [1000, 2000, 4000]
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [60, 120, 240] to [65, 130, 260]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [100, 200, 400] to [110, 220, 440]
Treant Protector:
Leech Seed:
Cooldown changed from 7 to 10
Viper:
Nethertoxin:
Damage changed from [100, 200, 300] to [100, 150, 225]
ITEM CHANGES
Diffusal Blade:
Clarified tooltip to mention the damage it does per hit.
Damage per hit changed from 20 to 30
Horn of the Alpha:
Fixed an issue where a unit with Horn of the Alpha, if revived by Io, would summon another Thunderhide.
Mask of Madness:
Fixed an issue where Mask of Madness would not get credit for healing on the Healing unit meters tooltip.
Vladmir's Offering:
Damage percent increase changed from 10% to 8%
ALLIANCE CHANGES
Heartless:
Armor debuff to enemies changed from [3, 8, 15] to [4, 9, 16]
Hunter:
Extra Shot Chance changed from [25, 35] to [30, 38]
Insect:
Fixed a bug where spiderlings won't be summoned if Insects are boxed in and can't move at the start of the round.
Knight:
Damage reduction changed from [15, 20, 25] to [15, 22, 28] base, or [30, 40, 50] to [30, 44, 56] total if standing next to another Knight and attacked from the front.
Mage:
Extra Magic Damage changed from [25, 75] to [35, 75]
Spirit:
Damage per Spirit during Delta Slam changed from 200 to 225
Happy New Year, White Spire!
Hello Underlords, happy new year! Before we get to today's Update, some words:
New year, new you, and coming soon – new season. That’s right, the Beta Season is nearing its end, and Underlords Season 1 will ship by the end of February.
In addition to our standard bug / balance patches, we’ll probably have one more update before the big ship date - one more Underlord to round the game out. Otherwise the team will be heads down working on Season 1. This includes work on the Battlepass, City Crawl, Hero / Item rotation, and UI updates.
We’ve said it before, but we want to thank you all again for playing with us during this beta / early access period. The community’s support and feedback has been invaluable to getting the game to where it is. We’re in the home stretch and are excited to ship Underlords 1.0 soon - and get the word out to a wider audience.
And now, this week's update:
GENERAL
To prevent misclicks/mistaps, block input for 1 second when the Underlord-chooser UI appears during the game.
Fixed an issue with Freestyle item list where items assigned to enemy units would be highlighted as if they were unassigned.
More FX improvement and optimization.
Enthralled units now get full healthbars, not summon-unit healthbars.
Fixed an issue where ranked mode could stay locked when returning to the main menu after completing your last required unranked game.
UNDERLORD CHANGES
Anessix:
Damage Support:
The End of Medicine: Self damage on cast changed from 20% to 0.
Enthrall: armor reduction changed from 5 to 10. When Anessix casts Enthrall and targets an enemy unit, and friendly units run to attack it, if a friendly unit must move more than 2 cells to attack the new target, it will disregard the new target and keep its old target.
Healing Support:
Rejuvenating Ritual: Self damage on cast changed from 20% to 5%.
Summon Demonic Golem: The golem will now stun nearby enemies 0.25 seconds after it lands. This will prevent one golem disrupting the summoning of the opponent's golem.
Anessix's Golem:
Fixed a bug with the attack damage stats, they were not converted over properly from the old base-plus-talent version of Golem to the new scaling system in the Jull update when the Golem's health was.
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [125, 250] to [210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 270, 285, 295]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [145, 290] to [230, 245, 260, 280, 290, 310, 320, 330]
Hobgen:
Support Damage Dealer:
Let's Go Crazy: Attack Speed Bonus changed from [20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90] to [15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 70, 80, 90]
Jull:
Aggressive Tank:
Barrels of Fun: the barrels now ignore Spiderlings.
HERO CHANGES
Clockwerk:
Battery Assault:
Delay between damage procs changed from [0.7, 0.7, 0.35] to 0.7
Ember Spirit:
Sleight of Fist:
Bonus Damage changed from [100, 200, 300] to [100, 150, 200]
Kunkka:
Maximum Health changed from [1425, 2850, 5700] to [1500, 3000, 6000]
Attack Damage Minimum changed from [75, 150, 300] to [90, 180, 360]
Attack Damage Maximum changed from [90, 180, 360] to [110, 220, 440]
Sniper:
Assassinate:
Will no longer target Underlords.
Viper:
Maximum Mana changed from 50 to 70
Nethertoxin:
Cooldown changed from 5 to 6
Mana Cost changed from 50 to 70
ITEM CHANGES
Battle Fury:
Bonus Attack Damage changed from 35 to 50
Fixed an interaction with Ember Spirit's ability Sleight of Fist where Battle Fury could cleave damage to 4 additional targets, rather than 2, on each Fist hit.
Scythe of Vyse:
Fixed an issue where Scythe could waste its charge on an un-piggable enemy.
Vesture of the Tyrant:
Duration of the Undying effect changed from 4.0 to 6.0
ALLIANCE CHANGES
Assassin: Critical Hit bonus damage changed from [300, 400] to [300, 375]
Hunter: Bonus Attack Chance changed from [25, 40] to [25, 35]. Number of Bonus Attacks changed from 2 to [2, 3].
Scrappy: Bonus Armor changed from 8/16 to 7/14. HP Regen unchanged at 8/16.
Warrior: Bonus Armor changed from [9, 18] to [9, 19]
