On 2nd July 2020, Valve released a new patch for Dota 2, with which they added a new mode called the ‘Anonymous Mode’ to the game. The mode will disable players from being able to see player avatars, nicknames or in-game chat messages from other players with whom they aren't friends with.
The Anonymous Mode can be enabled in the settings.
Once the Anonymous Mode is activated, the player will not see the avatars, nicknames, and messages from users who are not on their friend list. The player will also not be able to see information from guilds that they’re not a part of.
With Anonymous Mode Enabled | Without Anonymous Mode Enabled |
This was likely enabled to help players who kept seeing profanity in the form of player/guild avatars, despite enabling the recently introduced profanity filter. It will also likely help streamers for the same reason, helping them avoid bans for showing inappropriate content on stream.
Some other quality of life changes were also made in yesterday’s update.
On 29th June 2020, Valve released patch 7.27 for Dota 2. It redesigned Captain's Mode, All Pick and Random Draft modes, changed creep camps, added new two new items: Voodoo Mask and Blitz Knuckles, and balanced several other items.