Leaked 2.5 Patch Notes via Reddit

• Player Spectating
• Can now join a friend's game in progress and watch from their point of view!
• No delay on this, your camera is locked to the view of the specific person you are watching
• Mentoring
• Same as Player Spectating (View), except you have special functions
• Holding Right Mouse Button will show your mouse to your Mentee
• CTRL+Enter will message your Mentee or Mentor
• Holding X will let you have voice chat with only your Mentor or Mentee
• You can also ping your Mentee's Minimap screen as a Mentor
• Matchmaking Rework
• The "Average Wait Time" displayed when waiting for a match should now be much more accurate based on the groups settings.

• The game lobby and hero select screens now show match gain/loss values with more precision.
• Greatly improved the rating algorithm to better predict match outcomes and place players into fairer matches. (Too much to mention here)
• Optimizations to the matchmaking and MMR rating algorithm that should result in reduced queue times for all players.
• Improved accuracy of match gains/loss values, players will now have their MMR adjusted according to their group makeup, their recent match history and fairness of the match. (As well as other factors not mentioned)
• Introduced a "Provisional Ranking Period" for new players that will facilitate adjusting them to their true skill level (whether higher or lower) much faster than before.
• Group leaders can now select whether they prefer to have a shorter queue time or a fairer match when queueing for matchmaking, this option cam be changed without leaving the matchmaking queue.
• Players with team members who have been terminated should lose less points for their loss, and gain more points for a win.
• The minimum PSR/MMR has been increased from 750 to 1000.
• All players will have their ranked (normal + casual) MMR compressed towards 1500. (For example a 1750 score would become (1750 + 1500) / 2 = 1625)
• Hero Spotlights will now automatically pop up the first time you enter the game after a new one is posted
• Caldavar significantly updated
• New Trees for both Hellbourne and Legion side
• Ambient Sounds
• Water changed significantly and updated, now has realtime reflections and flows down the river
• New Lane Creeps for both Hellbourne and Legion
• New Map doo-dads like bushes, props, and a giant Jeraziah head
• Significant UI work, should be much more effecient and faster
• Referrals (people you refer who play the game) can now be seen ingame
• New Item: Grave Locket
• New Item: Genjuro
• Homecoming Stone: Minor info added to the entity file to remedy tooltip
• Runes of the Blight: Added new Sounds
• Void Talisman: Removed the 'use' animation, fixes animation bugs with channels and while moving
• New hero: Shadowblade
• Cthulhuphant: Fixed Trample so it doesn't hit behind him in the initial cast position
• Cthulhuphant: Fixed his ultimate so that it really doesn't hit stuff behind him if positioned at very specific points.
• Dampeer: Fixed his Ult so that the heal you get accounts for Spellshards
• Plague Rider: animation smoothing
• Plague Rider: fixed SotM tooltip issue and an interaction with deleted characters with the alt's ultimate
• Lord Salforis: Animation Smoothing
• Myrmidon: Attacks in ultimate form now go through Void Talisman.
• Jeraziah: Animation Smoothing
• Moraxus: Animation Smoothing
• Pandamonium: Animation Smoothing
• Gemini: Fixed an issue with the third ability that made him do less attack DPS than intended
• Panda: When the ult channel starts, Pandamonium does 1 autoattack right off the bat instead of waiting 1 second for the first hit.
  
  
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