7.27 update

[scarredwithcrayons]

Some time around the 7.27 update we had to change the settings that we use for this mod.

Previously we would select around 50 skills to choose from in ability draft. We had 5 human players and usually added 8-10 bots, also enabling custom spells and possibly imba spells too.

Frequently when I picked the starting settings, the game would boot us all out to dota, with the option to reconnect, which always worked ok.

Sometimes when loading the game or playing, you would crash dota and have to boot it up again and reconnect. Reconnecting often loaded ok, showed the loading screen, then get stuck. You could hear the game sounds playing in the background so the game was running but you could not get the loading screen to leave. We have had to reconnect sometimes up to 12 times before getting the loading screen to leave when reconnecting.

Sometimes also when a bot spawned with its new abilities at the start of the game, one of the bots would fail and stay dead. Any bots after this in the list to spawn also got stuck dead. This could be from 1-6 bots.

Since these issues I have been cutting down on the options that we usually choose to try and combat this issue or at least find out what it was. We now play 7v7 with the default number of 25 skills to choose from and a few other settings turned on and we have not had any more issues. Getting booted out of the game issue stopped, most crashing issues stopped and no bots have spawned incorrectly.

I have not been able to narrow down this issue any further than this.