These keys are so hot!

Aug 08, 2011 - by Strom

It has been over four months since the last repel update. Some of you may have been wondering whether it will receive any new features at all. I'm happy to say that we haven't been sitting idle all this time.
Me and aRkker worked hard on adding hotkeys. We had a working version ready and tested it for some time. However I was not happy with it, it had several limitations. So we trashed it and went back to the drawing board. After a while we had the second incarnation ready for testing and I've been testing it for about a month now. Today we are releasing Repel 1.6.0 and I'm excited to hear what you think of it.

Out of all the possible improvements, why did we choose to work on hotkeys? During the four years I've played DotA, I've only used the original ingame hotkeys. Now custom hotkeys aren't a new idea, in fact I've tried several different programs over the years. They all sucked. Some are too complicated, some require manual tweaking for every hero, some ruin chat (Think of all the players who7talk7like7this) etc. The goal for us was to create a custom hotkey system that just works. Repel's system works with all heroes (think Invoker), with all skills (think Rubick), with all secondary abilities (think Phoenix sun ray), with all minions (think Necronomicon, Chen), with all objects (think Lanaya traps), with all item shops that have hotkeys and it will work with new DotA versions without needing to do anything. Also, your personal hotkey configuration travels with your account. This means that when you play at a friend's house, as soon as you log in you will already have your own hotkeys and you don't need to think about them. Finally, some of you may be worried about ALT + Q, well don't be - it will not quit the game if the repel hotkey system is enabled.