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Dark Carnival: Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026

Dark Carnival • Playing Regular and Turbo games now reward Scrap tickets. 6 Scrap can be traded for a Hero ticket of your choice. Regular games reward 2, Turbo games reward 1. Scrap is rewarded regardless of winning or losing.

Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026

Dark Carnival • Playing Regular and Turbo games now reward Scrap tickets. 6 Scrap can be traded for a Hero ticket of your choice. Regular games reward 2, Turbo games reward 1. Scrap is rewarded regardless of winning or losing.

• Seeing Stones can now be earned by playing Co-op Bot Matches on Hard and Unfair difficulties

• Candyworks now displays if an offered item is already owned

• The Dark Carnival Hero Filter button now shows a tooltip displaying the ticket requirement for the next reward

• Fixed the Ticket Trader not working after being unlocked for some players

• Fixed Ability Draft and cooperative bot matches not granting Tickets

Source details

• Fixed Candy Shop Rerolls granted from the Fortune Teller being capped by the weekly maximum

• Fixed Pick the Lock area gameplay changing with FPS

• Fixed Automaton Personas having the wrong hero chat wheel lines

General • Players no longer need to select both high-demand roles in order to not spend a Role Queue Game for Ranked Roles. Instead, solo players need to select at least one of the high-demand roles in order to not spend a Role Queue Game.

• Innate abilities with an Area of Effect now correctly display their range in the world when hovering over the ability

• Fixed Dark Carnival Pies showing which hero is the real one versus an illusion