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Most of the people playing Warcraft / Frozen Throne / Dota confront this problem when they install windows 7. The game doesn’t run on full screen and there are black areas on both sides. There are lots of forums already discussing this issue and since I was having trouble as well, I was subscribed to some of them myself. But never found a solution, untill now!
I found a utility (13KB only) that widen’s warcraft / Dota in a second. Just download, run, press OK and enjoy warcraft in full screen (Widened – better graphics) mode.
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If you’re a Dota (Defense of the ancients) fan, you might have confronted different VOD’s where (mostly asian) players have a different terrain. Most of the people always wonder how did they do that, here’s how. There’s a app called DTMV aka Dota Theme Manager which let’s you change your default terrain. You can choose from 6 Terrains
- Beach
- Barrens
- Hell
- Highlands
- Snow
- City
I personally love and use Beach and City terrain and these are used in most of the asian games. Â It’s very easy to install these themes. After downloading DTMV, copy / extract folder in your warcraft directory (C:/Warcraft/DTMV). Run DTMV executable file and you’ll see the screen where you can install the themes by clicking on the one you like (See screenshot above).
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If you don’t know, Dota 6.60 Official version has been released. Since it’s huge, getdota.com is down and some of the other servers as well. Here are alternative download links and the official changelog.
Dota 6.60 Official Changelog:
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## Heroes ##
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* Added a new hero Batrider to the Scourge [details below]
* Added a new hero Tauren Chieftain to the Sentinel [details below]
* Lightning Revenant: Reworked [details below]
* Medusa: Replaced Chain Lightning with a new ability Mystic Snake [details below]
* Medusa: Replaced Purge with a new ability Stone Gaze [details below]
* Netherdrake: Replaced Frenzy with a new ability Nethertoxin [details below]
* Rogue Knight: Replaced Toughness Aura with a new ability Warcry [details below]
* Slayer: Replaced Ultimate with a new ability Fiery Soul [details below]
* Twin Head Dragon: Replaced Autofire with a new ability Liquid Fire [details below]
* Troll Warlord: Replaced Rampage with a new ability Battle Trance [details below]
* Rogue Knight: Reworked how Stormbolt works [details below]
* Morphling: Reworked how Morphiling’s Adaptive Strike works [details below]
* Crystal Maiden: Replaced Frost Nova with a similar new ability Crystal Nova [details below]
* Phantom Assassin: Changed Blink Strike to a new ability Phantom Strike [details below]
* Ogre Magi: Reworked Multicast chance mechanism [details below]
* Sniper: Replaced Scattershot with a new ability Shrapnel [details below]
* Troll Warlord: Replaced Fervor Aura with a new ability Fervor (works like Beastmaster’s passive used to)
* Beastmaster: Replaced Beast Rage with a new ability Inner Beast (works like Troll’s old attack speed aura)
* Anti-Mage: Reworked Mana Void damage mechanism (now deals equal splash damage to units near the target)
* Silencer: Recoded Last Word to properly detect animation canceling and silence after a spell is casted
* Treant Protector: Reworked Eyes in the Forest [details below]
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I was reading IceFrog’s blog 3, 4 days back where he mentioned that he found out some exploit and bugs in the current map (Dota 6.59c). And instead of making people wait and fix those in Dota 6.60, he decided to released Version 6.59d. Changelog doesn’t offer much though..
* Fixed some item exploits
* Fixed a rare memory related bug
* Temporarily changed switch voting system. It requires 100% of the vote for now. There will be a better -switch implementation in the next version or two
* Fixed a few other misc bug/exploits
Regarding Dota 6.60, he mentioned that it’s still in active development but not closer to release. When it will be, everyone will know.
Anyway, you can download Dota 6.59D here.
I downloaded some replays of ASUS Winter 2009 Dota Tournament but couldn’t view it because it wasn’t played on the regular Dota map but a version of their own. It’s called DOTA 6.59c Asus Cup. So after searching for it, I found the perfect link where you can download it.
DOTA 6.59c AsusCup Download here
Update: Dota 6.60 Official version has been released. You can now download the map at our Dota 6.60 Official Map Download post which contains the changelog and alternative download links. Enjoy.
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There is so much hype for Dota 6.60, while browsing I’ve confronted a lot of websites who claim that they have Dota 6.60 and when you download it, it turns out to be Dota 6.59c. Honestly, this isn’t confusing, it’s just lame. I have actually seen people with topics like Download Dota 6.60 and Dota 6.60 AI and guess what, it’s all blank. lol?
Anyway, Up till now, there is NO Dota 6.60 map, it’s still in the making, beta hasn’t been leaked yet. People who are anxiously waiting for it must have researched and know what information IceFrog released before going into it’s development. If you have missed it, here’s what happened (Relating to 6.60).
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Dota 6.59c has been released a few days back. It doesn’t offer much of a change-log except for some bugs/exploits fixes.
Download Dota 6.59c | Official Website
Download Dota 6.59c | Alternative Link 1 – Alternative Link 2
Alright, this is amazing. BuffmePLZ released Dota 6.59 AI and you can now download and play it in single player mode from the following links. Take a look at what it has to offer first.
DotA Allstars 6.59 AI+ 1.52 Revision 01
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This is a port of RGB’s AI+ v1.52 (originally written for DotA Allstars 6.48b).
It behaves the same as the original AI, and has only been updated to account for balance changes, new item recipes, and most new features. As such, some new content does not work fully with the AI yet.
THERE IS NO AI FOR LIFESTEALER, INVOKER, CLOCKWERK GOBLIN, ADMIRAL, WINDRUNNER, STORM SPIRIT, OR UNDYING. THEY WILL GET ITEMS BUT WILL NEITHER USE NOR LEARN THEIR SKILLS.
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Dota 6.59 is here early with some great performance upgrades, bugs fixes, some reworking (I love to see Enigma’s Eidolons now. Also a good news, Tauren Chieften will be in the next version – Dota 6.60 – Much awaited now. Anyway, here’s the full changelog for Dota 6.59.
Changelog Dota 6.59:
* Some performance improvements
* You can no longer attack items you do not own if they are in the fountain area
* Fixed some rare memory corruption bugs that could cause random abilities/items to malfunction or result in a fatal error
* Added a new subtle cooldown effect to make it a little clearer when spells are in cooldown and when they finish. This is mainly for long cooldown spells where it is sometimes difficult to tell. More work will be done in this area soon, but it needs a bit more time to make sure that anything extra is not visually intrusive. (PGRu-Unexpect3D)
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Dota 6.58 has been released for download. A lot of changes have been made. Check out the changelog Below and Download Dota 6.58 here.
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## Highlight ##
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* Remade Storm Spirit (see details below)
* Remade Dirge (see details below)
* Rewrote many different parts of the core game code to improve the usual performance drop that happens later in the game
* Added a new experimental command -switch to switch player slots with other players or leavers (requires player agreement, see details below)
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## Items ##
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* Blademail: Remade (see details below)
* Cranium Basher: Remade (see details below)
* Heart: Changed the regen mechanism, it now gives 1% non-stacking passive HP regen
* Javelin: Cost increased from 1400 to 1500 gold and damage from 16 to 21
* Demon Edge: Cost reduced from 2600 to 2400 gold
* Buriza: Recipe cost increased from 1000 to 1200 gold
* Monkey King Bar: Improved damage from 75 to 80 and chance from 30->35%
* Rapier: Now requires Demon Edge and Sacred Relic only and provides 200 damage instead of 250
* Eul’s Scepter of Divinity: Recipe cost reduced from 800 to 600 gold
* Mask of Madness: Amplified damage is now applied at the end instead of within the duration
* Mask of Madness: Cooldown reduction from 30 to 25 seconds
* Diffusal Blade: Lowered the Agility bonus from 25 to 22
* Diffusal Blade: The purge now lasts the same on non-hero units like Spirit Bear as it does on heroes (15->4 seconds)
* Sentry Wards: True sight range increased by 100
* Illusion Rune: Now creates 2 images instead of 1, images deal a little less damage
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