More 1.67 Patch Sneak Peaks! Tutorial and Deadwood

Check out the changes to Pollywog Priest.

S2Idejder:

So to jump right into it, here are the upcoming Deadwood balance changes:

This is a general sweeping rebalance of this hero to bring him more in line with where we want him. Reducing his lategame scaling slightly along with making his Oakbolt better and balancing the Punch a bit for earlygame.

Keep in mind other then internal games, these changes are generally untested. This is what the beta-beta build is for when we can make one.

And now, onto the part I am sure a lot of you want to see shots of;

The Tutorial

Now, I am not going to walk you through every new step, voiceover, and effect in the tutorial. That would ruin the fun for when you test and play it yourself. Keep in mind what you are seeing is just a fraction of all of the cool stuff we have scripted for this.

When you get into the game on the new interface, you will see this great button on the left side of the screen:

Clicking this will load and launch into the tutorial.

When you finish loading you are presented with a very direct menu:

Most people will click “Start Full Tutorial” the first time through, but using the different segments you can pick up later if you decide to stop part way through.

I am going to show one screenshot of a cool moment during each of the segments.

1. Overview

2. Basic Hero Controls

3. Hero Types
* This is also what the new hero picking screen looks like as well, minus the color pointing out the Strength hero section. Leaking! Also, we added more slots. How did we do that?!?

4. Items and Shopping

5. Gold and Experience

6. Laning Phase