Valve has unveiled its Dota 2 holiday mode for this year.
A new website introduces 2013's seasonal Frostivus holiday. "Collect bright winter berries and sprigs of fir," says Valve, "and twist them together into mementos for family and friends," suggesting that the game's recently introduced crafting mode will play a part in this year's event.
Last year's peaceful Frostivus was "cancelled" due to a greevil invasion, birthing The Greeviling. The holiday mode saw players transform into customisable greevils, with unique abilities, and compete against the other team to wipe out enemy greevil camps and reclaim the stolen Frostivus presents.
But it's highly unlikely anything untoward will happen again this year, Valve says. "However you choose to celebrate the season, the byword is relaxation. There is nothing more to worry about, nothing you need to do."
"Nothing can possibly go wrong."
But make no mistake: season events in Dota 2 are no joke. Last month, Valve admitted that it underestimated the demand for a return of its Halloween event Diretide, with the company bringing the mode back in a subsequent update.
Valve also recently announced that it will be including a ranked matchmaking mode in a future Dota 2 update. "This mode is aimed at experienced players," the company said, "who want to play in a more competitive environment and know their matchmaking rating (MMR). Dota 2 matchmaking has always calculated MMR and used it to form matches; in ranked matchmaking we make that MMR visible."
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