{"id":58554,"date":"2013-09-20T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58554"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:56:35","slug":"dota-2-lan-support-first-blood-update-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/58554-dota-2-lan-support-first-blood-update-announced","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 LAN support First Blood update announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has announced that Dota 2 will be getting LAN support via the upcoming First Blood Update, which drops on 23 September.<\/p>\n<p>The update will allow 10 Dota 2 players to engage in some close-quarter combat through a local area network, with\u00a0 players able to search lobbies to find an appropriate game to join.<\/p>\n<p>This update couldn\u2019t have come at a better time, with the NAG LAN @ rAge 2013 around the corner, the participants will surely be pleased to know they won&#8217;t have to connect to the Internet in order to get their Dota 2 fix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local play:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local servers allows players on the same physical network to connect to a locally hosted game<\/li>\n<li>By selecting &#8220;Create Local Lobby&#8221;, the leader of the lobby will become the host for a match by running a local server<\/li>\n<li>Players can see Local lobbies available on their physical network by going to &#8220;FIND A LOBBY&#8221; and selecting the &#8220;LOCAL LOBBIES&#8221; tab<\/li>\n<li>Local Lobbies follow the same rules as Private Lobbies.<\/li>\n<li>Upon completion of the Local game, the replay will be stored on the lobby leader&#8217;s computer in replays\/&lt;match-id&gt;.dem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The update also adds the Captain\u2019s Draft, which allows players to \u201cgather a team, choose a captain, and face off against your opponents in a test of wits to assemble a squad from a randomized pool of twenty-four heroes. Each team takes turns banning two of the available heroes from the match while picking and counter-picking to compose their lineup before charging into battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to an improved armoury and user-interface, there are some additions to the economy of the game, most notably:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The quality of the item drops you are eligible for is now tied to your Dota profile level. You can see your current drop level in your profile page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dota2.com\/firstblood\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2 First Blood<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Dota 2 news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57146-dota-2-team-wins-over-r13-7-million.html\">Dota 2 team wins over R13.7 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56705-clan-owner-charged-in-global-bank-hacking-scheme.html\">Clan owner charged in global bank hacking scheme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56638-new-sa-dota-2-server-added.html\">New SA Dota 2 server added<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56259-dota-2-finally-gets-linux-and-mac-support.html\">Dota 2 finally gets Linux and Mac support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56150-dota-2-launches-on-steam.html\">Dota 2 launches on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local play is finally reality for Dota 2 through the First Blood update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":58553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6514,637,2218,11312,11313,21,2399,85,697],"class_list":["post-58554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-defence-of-the-ancients-2","tag-dota","tag-dota-2","tag-first-blood","tag-first-blood-update","tag-headline","tag-lan","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58555,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554\/revisions\/58555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}