Dota 2 update resolves Watcher color confusion

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A new Dota 2 update is here with a bunch of fixes for some of the most annoying issues troubling players. Valve’s MOBA game recently got completely shaken up by the arrival of Dota 2 New Frontiers, but some of the new additions and tweaks have caused other complications to spring up. Thankfully, these Dota 2 patch notes address some of the biggest, including the rather confusing team colors for the new Watchers.

If you’ve not had a chance to check out New Frontiers yet, Dota 2 Watchers are basically neutral wards that you can capture for your team, granting vision for a limited time or until they’re turned off by the enemy team. You can also turn them all to your side simultaneously by defeating Roshan, adding yet another bonus to Dota 2’s biggest, baddest world boss.

However, for some reason, they were colored based on the team controlling them – meaning they’d be teal when held by the Radiant side, and red when held by the Dire side. While this makes sense, it doesn’t actually match up to the way the minimap colors work, and I found myself double-taking on numerous occasions thinking one was assigned to the enemy team when it was in fact ours.

Thankfully, that’s now been changed and their color will now be determined by whether they’re on your team or the enemy team. There’s also plenty more handy updates in the patch notes, which you can read below. Auto-selected summons will no longer cause your shop UI to close, and items such as Wisdom Runes and Tormentor will ignore players who have abandoned when deciding who to grant their bonuses to.

Here are the full Dota 2 patch notes for the May 30 update:

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