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Six onthe ballot
The Cursed Apple got a new face: a remade map, new neutrals, a banned merchant and six heroes asking for your vote. The first one arrives October 2.
You vote in the new pregame lobby. The winning team's votes count double, and so does your first win of the day. Two heroes a week, Tuesdays and Fridays at 2:00 pm PT.
The candidates
Six new heroes · you pick the order
The Broker
Limited time · until the first new hero
- Trade a high-tier item you own for its Corrupted version: stronger, but with a catch.
- First shipment around minute 30, then a new one every ~15 minutes on average.
- The catch: every match rolls random downsides for corrupted items, the same for every player in that game.
- He shows up somewhere different each time and leaves town when the first new hero arrives.
- Street Brawl hands you a corrupted item after the round 5 draft.
The city, remade
Map and neutralsEvery lane was redone and the neutrals you knew are gone. Between the lanes there are now four districts to fight in: Theater, Chinatown, Haunted Lot and Plaza.
Wanted
The new neutrals
A loose hand in a jar, crawling around.
Overdue library books with a grudge.
Trash bags that came to life.
A gunpowder barrel that bites back.
Puppets dancing across the stage.
Paper lanterns that want you dead.
Potted plants with teeth.
Fungi that learned to walk.
Pickpocket souls that stay low.
Things to do
New spots on the map
High risk, high reward: the deeper you go, the more the outside sound fades, and so does your stamina.
A packed soul hotspot at the top, but the bell rings across the whole map while you collect.
They only break with a Heavy Melee, and carry extra souls.
The golden statues now also give permanent Spirit Resist, Bullet Resist, Ability Range and Move Speed.
Hidden around the map, to heal up in a pinch.
Stand on one for invisibility and a bit of regen.
New pings
15,000+ new lines
Minimap and top bar wheels to call a plan in one click: split push, stay together, retreat.
Say more about any hero in the match, like when their ultimate is ready.
Detailed, live ability pings to track the cooldowns that matter.
Ping items in the shop to say you're buying them, or ask someone else to.
Call out critical health, a death, or an enemy about to respawn.
Pinging a cluster on the minimap calls out how many are there.
Troopers, neutrals, ziplines, the Rift, bridge buffs, the shop and more now react to pings.
Everything else
HUD, shop, pings and moreHUD and health bars
- New health bars: player names, Rejuvenator and ultimate indicators, live health, stamina and critical status.
- Allies visible at any distance, clearer stats, and your shop stats update as you buy.
- Build-ups and durations under your health bar (hello, Love Bites).
- New event feed: what landed the killing blow, full bounty and your share, and soul bags.
The shop
- Popular Items per hero from live player data, with how often and when each one is bought.
- Stat filters you can mix, better search, and keys 1–6 to jump between tabs.
- Kill feed, chat and scoreboard while shopping; build copy/paste and a new build browser.
Pings and voices
- Reworked pings: minimap and top bar wheels, ability cooldowns, items, enemy status and clustered enemies.
- Over 15,000 new ping lines and a typing indicator.
- Pre-match conversations went from 700 to 1,500, plus 10,000+ new voice lines and a dialogue player.
Accessibility
- Enemy UI color, subtitles with custom size, color and font, and reticle colors.
- Auto move, auto mantle, auto fire and reduced camera shake.
Sandbox and settings
- Bot recording and looping, combat log, speed graph, DPS meter, falloff guides and free shopping.
- Keybind map, shareable settings and reticle codes, per-hero settings and cloud-saved settings.
- You get notified when a report gets action; comms abuse means a mute for the match and a 30-day comms ban.
In the match
- Abilities and items fire the moment you press the button.
- Parrying objectives no longer resets your Parry cooldown.
- Graves can destroy Venator's traps with her gun, and Walkers stop firing after dying.
- Respawn timers in the world for camps and Mid-Boss, plus a Mid-Boss timer on the top bar.
- Latest Source 2, better anti-cheat, network prediction and performance.