[STEAM] Valve fixes super broken Midas glitch in Dota 2—but players found another workaround

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Dota 2 overnight, Valve quickly swooped in to fix the exploit related to it. But it didn’t take long for players to figure out another exploit with the same result, which is using the Hand of Midas with no cooldown whatsoever.

Yesterday, Valve suddenly issued a 140 MB patch with no notes or announcement, which seems to have aimed to fix some bugs in the game, among them the

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. While it previously required

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players to use Midas, then drop it on the ground, purchase another from quick buy, and then sell it to refresh the dropped item’s cooldown, there’s now a different way to achieve the same result. If two players purchase the Hand of Midas, use it, and then swap it between each other, one of them will get two full charges of the item reset instantly, allowing the exploit to continue flourishing.

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