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@github-actions github-actions released this 09 Aug 21:01
· 698 commits to main since this release

Everything here came from what people said after 2.0.

Drag a mod to where it should load

The arrows moved a mod one slot per press, so getting a mod to load before
thirty others took thirty presses. Rows now have a grab handle. The list rearranges under the
pointer as you move it, the other rows slide out of the way, and it scrolls itself when you
near the top or bottom. Nothing is written to the game folder until you let go.

Every mod shows its file

A row now prints its own file, named exactly as your mods folder names it, and carrying the
.off suffix when the mod is switched off. There was no other way to tell which of forty pak
files belonged to which mod.

A preset looks like what it holds

A preset used to be its mod names joined by dots, which at eighty mods is a paragraph nobody
reads. It now leads with the covers of the mods in it and a line of counts by category, with
the full list one click away and grouped. A preset of eighty looks the same as a preset of ten.

The window behaves like a window

Text no longer selects when you drag across a list, and pictures no longer pick up and follow
the mouse. Both used to happen while scrolling, and the second one ended with the app offering
to import the picture you had just dragged off its own card. Text fields still select, and so
does the file name on a mod row, which is the one string there worth copying.

The help menu no longer slides behind the mods when the page scrolls, and it closes when you
scroll away from it.

The app says where it lives

The help menu now has the site next to the wiki and Discord, in the language the window is
speaking. Nothing in the program mentioned it before.

A support report that says what is wrong

Same button, same file, same place to send it. Inside, the archive now opens with a one-screen
summary that starts with the verdict: if nothing is wrong it says so, and if something is, it
is named in plain words - the game is not patched, mods are going to a folder the game does
not mount, downloads are failing, the drive is nearly full. A second, full report next to it
carries everything for whoever is going to dig: the whole mod list in load order, the open
windows, the errors the interface reported, the updater and the config.

It also collects more: the two game files our patch edits, Dota's own console log if you have
ever run with -condebug, and listings of the app's own folders.

Fixed

  • The pill that says a mod is overruled had its icon sitting crooked next to its own text.
  • "How many mods are overruled" was blank in every support report ever sent: the report asked
    for something that does not exist and quietly wrote nothing.
  • Update errors were thrown away entirely, which is unhelpful when the report is that it never
    updates. They are still silent for you, and now recorded for a support report.