Dota 2’s new ghostly gunslinger hero is live
Muerta, who was revealed at The International 11 in October 2022, has arrived as part of the new Dead Reckoning update.
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Muerta, the Dota 2 hero who was announced way back in October 2022, has finally arrived in the game as part of the now-liveDead Reckoning update.
Valve didn’t reveal much about Muerta when the character was announced, but it turns out that she was a killer of such impressive talent that “Death himself put her on the payroll.”
“A twin-pistoled engine of dead-eyed vengeance, Muerta shepherds wayward souls to the other side, whether they want to get there or not,” Valve said. “And if they need more convincing, she’s ready to reveal her true form as a murderous spectral nightmare if it helps them die a little faster.”
In practical terms, that adds up to four abilities:
The Dead Reckoning update includes a new mini-game, The Quick and the Dead, which offers points for kills and assists against assigned targets during matches. There’s also a Dead Reckoning chest, “advanced battle stats,” new Quickcasting customization options, and improvements to Dota 2’s friends list.
Still, some Dota 2 players were expecting bigger things andaren’t happywith the relatively minor nature of the update overall. Valve acknowledged the discontent in ablog postannouncing the update, and said that the hoped-for big update is on the way.
“The Dead Reckoning Update has a lot of features we’re really proud of—a new hero, item sets, a mini-game,” it said. “But we get it. Many of you were hoping for Patch 7.33.
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“We’ve been working on an ambitious gameplay patch for a while, and we were hoping to get it done in time for this update. We’re currently aiming to release it in late April. So in the meantime, while we put the finishing touches on it, enjoy the Dead Reckoning Update and Patch 7.32e.”
This update is also the one that finally removes OpenGL support from Dota 2, a change Valve first announced all the way back inSeptember 2021. Valve also warned that it will update Dota 2’s SIMD support from SSE2 to SSE4.1 later this year, “to allow higher performance in physics, particles, and general gameplay code.” Nearly all processors released over the past 10 years support SSE4.1 so the change should only impact “a very small portion of Dota players,” Valve said, but if your CPU doesn’t support it, you’ll need to upgrade if you want to keep playing.
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