Dota 2 Heroes

1.9.6 - Pudge Dismember Revalidation

• Preserve Pudge's original NoAI setting after Dismember cleanup and mid-channel save/load; retain the legacy transient-save unfreeze behavior.
• Give Dismember its own movement restraint modifier, leaving external Slowness effects intact when the channel ends.
• Revalidate friendly/creative target eligibility at the actual channel commit.
• Cancel Dismember windup and channel on Time Lock/Chronosphere, including the queued commit; release removed targets and preserve another owner's restraint.
• Add client-only stylized-blood intensity (zero disables particles), a global per-tick burst cap, and world-change sequence reset without latency catch-up spam.
• Suspend melee/ranged victim AI while restrained, restoring its original NoAI state on release/reload; clear orphaned restraint before dimension transfer.
• Align the Dismember loop with the existing 10-tick impact cadence and synchronize all 76 start/loop/end keyframes across Blockbench source, candidate, and runtime.
• Preserve full phase-clip durations, clear stale recovery on a new windup, and fix Pudge boss-bar dash encoding on Windows builds.
• Verified with 27 JUnit tests, 160 dedicated-server assertions, real-tick damage/heal traces, rendered particle/accessibility checks, and two clients with measured

  =150 ms gameplay-packet delay in each direction, including reconnect/interruption.