Dota 2 dataminers leaked images of three new medals in the game with yet unknown purpose – although players already have educated guesses.
Dota 2 dataminers are still hard at work in trying to find out what’s coming out next for the decade-old game. In their most recent attempts, dataminers actually found new content, although not as exciting as new heroes. Instead, the dataminers discovered new medals that currently have unknown purposes. This was found when a minor patch came out earlier this week for Patch 7.31c.
While the Dota 2 medals are not labeled in the images, fans do have some pretty convincing guesses on what these are going to be used for. Since the game’s latest update’s source code has also been uploaded on github as per usual, fans were able to investigate, comparing this version of the source code with the previous ones – discovering that these are actually referred to as “Battle Report Medals.” Three were found, specifically:
- panorama/images/battle_report/bronze_medal_psd.vtex_c CRC:00d0017173 size:264148
- panorama/images/battle_report/gold_medal_psd.vtex_c CRC:003ece8844 size:264148
- panorama/images/battle_report/silver_medal_psd.vtex_c CRC:00385f9ed8 size:264148
This makes fans believe that these new Dota 2 medals are actually awarded to players who have done a lot of Overwatch cases. Overwatch is Dota 2’s peer-review report system. Players get to determine if other reported players were actually cheating, griefing, or feeding on purpose as reported by their teammates or opponents in the game. Until now, there has been no tangible reward from doing this aside from the sense of justice players get for helping Valve impose sanctions on these players with negative behavior. This seems about to change as Valve appears to be preparing a medal-based awarding system to these exemplar members of the Dota 2 community.
