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Map editor added

Shattered Trials map

Hero changes:

• Effects of following abilities were not displayed to enemies if area of effect's center was not visible (in bushes, for example). Now effects for the abilities will be visible if any part of area of effect is not in fog of war:[list]
• Ace: Avalanche (W);
• Aemon: Consecration (Q);
• Bo: Inner Rage (W);
• Buford: Poison Slug (Q);
• Caprice: Anchors Aweigh (W);
• Carter: Yak Attack (W);
• Claudessa: Dragon's Reach (Q), Scorched Earth (R);
• Eanu: Breaking Wave (R);
• Flak: Explosive Shot (W);
• Iah: Quickpit (W), Eclipse (R);
• Jin She: Whirling Embers (W), Firestarter (R);
• Malady: Dark Storm (W), Gloden Gate (E);
• Midknight: Chains of Judgement (R);
• Moxie: Catastrophe (R);
• Pal: Trip Beam(Q), Energy Reversal (R);
• Ray: Burrow bots (Q) (just explosion, not mines);
• Rip: vanish (W);
• Shank: Ground Pound (Q);
• Trixie: Pot Shot (Q), Croaking Curse (R);
• Vermillion: Cheese Shot (Q), Rocket Jump (R);
• Vex: Orbital Drop (R);
• Zaku: Sticky Trap (W) (once trap triggered).

• Ray: Death Ray (R);
• Rip: Smoke Cloud (Q);
• Trixie: Pot Shot (Q) (last bounce), Aether Beam (E).

• Hunter Mode (R) [list]
• Reduced bonus damage from 100% to 10%.

• Piledriver (R) [list]
• If enemy hero use CC Break to avoid being launched into the air, Nikolai gets mana refunded and ability is put on 3 second cooldown instead.

Quality of life

• Ability Cooldown Pings added: now you can ping your ability icon to quickly let your teammates know if the ability on cooldown, you have not enough mana or you are ready to attack! Works with items and pet active ability as well.
• While searching for match number of players in queue is shown.
• Hero selection is now using grid view by default.
• Effects and voiceline in skin store preview disabled.
• On hero select screen added a warning about longer queue times to heroes, that are selected by too many people in queue already.

Bug fixes

• Fixed Jin She Whirling Embers (W) area of effect decreasing after she learns Firestarter (R).
• Removed Blazer's missing skin from UI.
• Fixed or improved tooltips for following abilities:
[list]
• Jin She: Everthrist Flame (Q);
• Claudessa: Scale Shield (W);
• Bo: Inner Rage (W);
• Lady Tinder: Tinder Touch (W).

Miscellaneous

• Baldir and Cindara colors reverted to the original colors.
• Discord button added to main screen.
• Removed 'New' markers from non-new Heroes, Skins.
• On Windows removed restriction to 32x32 size for cursors.
• Disabled currently unavailable or broken options:
[list]
• Clubs tab disabled;
• Scrim Arena mode button disabled;
• Game quests and Player Ladder tabs on Account details disabled;
• Boosters buy button for feathers and craft materials;
• Gem purchase buttons removed;
• Community website guides button removed;
• First login prompt to link existing account removed.

New Website and Leaderboards

Shoutout to everyone involved in developing or testing the changes brought to Strife so far:

• Pad
• The Chiprel
• Kairus
• Gab
• nudelchef
• chainsawkid