General
• Spirit character is now automatically selected whenever you die
• Opening the shop now automatically selects your main hero so your hero inventory is always visible
• Added visual effects when right-clicking the ground to Move or Attack Move
• Added a new settings option to customize or disable the ground-click visual effect
• Gold bounty text now appears for all kills instead of only hero and neutral creep kills
• Adjusted the volume of various sound effects for more consistent audio levels
• Added hotkeys for leveling abilities (Ctrl+Q/W/E/R) along with feedback sounds
• Added an option to scale the bottom-right UI buttons, improving support for ultrawide monitors
• Reorganized the ESC menu into three columns instead of two
• Multiple Barracks can now train units simultaneously with a single click when selected as a group
Bug Fixes
• Potentially fixed an issue where certain DPI settings or resolutions could cause the mouse cursor to leave the game window while edge-scrolling
• Fixed an issue where right-clicking yourself or an ally sometimes failed to move the selected unit correctly
• Fixed an issue where Attack Move targeting yourself or an ally sometimes failed to move the selected unit correctly
• Fixed an issue where random sounds and visual effects could appear while exploring the map due to an overly aggressive optimization
• Fixed an issue where the Second Chance upgrade could allow Builder units to avoid death multiple times
• Fixed an issue where Dragon Artillery flames could fail to explode under Dragon Wind in certain situations
• Fixed bug where builders had 0% crit damage
• Fixed rare crash on test map
Balance
• Nerfed Wraith summons, including summons created by evolutions leading up to Wraith
• Skeleton summons now grant more XP and gold
• Undead heroes now grant more XP
• Certain Human-trained units now grant more XP and gold
• Siege Trolls summoned by items now grant significantly more XP
• Split XP between teammates now has a minimum value of 1 XP
• Human buildings now award 10–50 gold depending on the building type, making base attacks much more rewarding
• Increased passive gold income for Humans (5 → 6) and Undead (7 → 8)
• Increased XP bounties for Undead Orc Warriors and Orc Riders
• Reduced hero respawn time by 5 seconds (respawn time still increases by 5 seconds after each death)
• QoL: Paladin Guild upgrade research time reduced from 3s → 0.5s
• Adjusted damage values for various Dragon abilities and increased their damage against minions from 50% → 80%