Dota 2 update made Regular and Turbo games reward Scrap tickets, with 6 Scrap tradable for a Hero ticket

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A post titled “Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026” appeared in the Steam announcements of Dota 2 on Jul 1, 2026, and said Regular and Turbo games rewarded Scrap tickets in Dark Carnival, with 6 Scrap tradable for a Hero ticket of the player's choice. Regular games rewarded 2 Scrap and Turbo games 1, whether the player won or lost. They also listed a change to the Role Queue rule, under which solo players needed to select at least one of the high-demand roles, not both, to avoid spending a Role Queue Game. The full list of fixes, among them one for various server and client crashes, is in that Steam post.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7