September 16, 2026ID: version-262

Heroes of Gota — Update 2.6.2

A fresh battlefield, more ways to play with friends, and improvements across combat, rewards, and performance.

✨ Features

🗺️ A new look for battle: Redesigned the map with updated towers, bases, and new creep models and animations.
🏴‍☠️ Meet Captain: Pudge is now called Captain! His outfits, arena name, and tutorial dialogue have been updated too.
🤝 Challenge your friends: Added Friendly 1v1 and Friendly 2v2. In Friendly 2v2, each friend gets a bot teammate. Friendly matches do not affect trophies or account progression.
🪙 Shared gold: Teammates now receive 50% of the gold from allied creep kills, without reducing the killer's reward—even while waiting to respawn.
🛒 Shop improvements: Added a five-second full-refund window after purchasing an item, better quick-buy recommendations, and clearer purchase feedback.
🎁 More daily rewards: Daily Spree now offers separate rewards for logging in and earning your first win of the day, with clearer claim buttons and reward previews.
🏆 Clearer progression: Added a celebration when you unlock 2v2 at 300 trophies, Trophy Road shortcuts, and clearer match rewards and level-up screens.
📊 More useful match stats: Added kills, deaths, and assists (K/D/A) to match displays, plus assisting-hero portraits in kill announcements.
🎨 Menu polish: Added new-cosmetic indicators, animated emote reward previews, saved hero sorting, and smoother menu transitions. Eligible seasonal cosmetics remain available through December 2026.

🌐 Smoother multiplayer: Improved invitations, matchmaking, ready checks, reconnecting, and returning to your lobby after a match. Friends' outfits now display more reliably.
⚔️ Better combat: Improved attack timing, movement, animations, tower targeting, Captain's Hook, Archer's arrows, and stealth visuals.
🤖 Smarter bots and creeps: Improved routes around towers and bases, creep formations, bot ability use, and item purchases.
🚀 Performance and polish: Optimized mobile graphics and battle updates, with a 60 FPS target normally and 30 FPS in Low Graphics mode. Includes numerous tutorial and interface fixes.

⚓ Captain: Increased the radius of Waves from 2.5 to 3.5. Hook Grab now grows stronger with hero level.
🧙‍♀️ Witch: Increased the radius of Wave from 3 to 4.
🛡️ Items: Rebalanced 31 items, increasing HP bonuses on health items while reducing ability damage and selected attack-damage bonuses.