6.65 Development

Posted 10-23-2009 at 01:29 AM by IceFrog

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Just a quick update to keep you guys in the loop. The 6.65 development cycle is underway and I'm hoping to make it an enjoyable update. It will have some fresh new content in addition to the usual improvements. I'll try to post more information about it later.

DotA vs HoN?

What S2 Is Working On 10/26 Update

I wanted to throw out another update of things we're currently working on:

Clan Management & Tools
We've developed several advanced Clan Management tools and features (including a Clan Activity Index that you can use to compare your clan's activity to others). More information on these systems and how you can help us test them can be found here:
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...ad.php?t=36970

Automated Tournament System
This is still a work in progress, and to those who didn't catch our last update on this, it's a system that allows users to create tournaments on the website and seamlessly integrates into our other systems, notifying players of upcoming games, automatically submitting match results, and automatically updating the brackets. Participating in competitive HoN and organizing competitive events will be a breeze!

Once the ground work for the Tournament System is in place, we'll have most of what we need to very quickly get our League system operational, with a similar level of integration and support. As previously announced, we plan on having a $10,000 initial beta tournament for this upon completion (with more details down the road).

Match Making!
Many of you are aware that the initial testing and development of our match making system is already well underway. We're making good progress, and are excited to share the details of how this functions later. For now we're testing solo-match making, but once that is complete and functional we'll be able to pretty quickly introduce arranged team-style match making, as well as potentially a team finder tool so that groups of 2 or 3 can more easily find other groups of 2 and participate in the 5v5 match making system.

Spectator Interface / Replays

Part of our replays system has been revealed with the latest feature addition, the Match Stats tool. This tool already allows players to look up past games, but we'll be adding features and functionality to it. When replays are available, this tool will be capable of downloading and watching replays.

The rest of the spectator & replays interface is still being worked on. This is an interface specific to spectating or watching a replay. It will have more information and options to expand & collapse lots of detailed information panels. This also includes full functionality of replays with planned full backwards compatability.

The interface has been designed with competitive play in mind, with lots of little features and nuances that should make it easier for spectators or shout casters to catch the action and make detailed assessments of the gameplay based on the stats we provide.

We've got some code hook-ups to tie in here to get this all functional and then the spectator interface should be done. This isn't our highest priority, so it's getting done as the programmers are able. Expect to see it soon!

New Heroes
We've got several heroes planned and several still being designed. Expect to see two more hero ports and a few new HoN-original heroes too.

Misc optimizations / fixes
As always, we'll be continuing to work on improving and polishing existing functionality, balance fixes, hero/item reworks, and pathfinding tweaks are still planned.

Corrupted Disciple - Razor Equivalent

And also the new spectator viewing mode :

Hi !

I just went to a public internet corner, so i can update it(better late than later)
and hope ya guys understand that i'll be back to my home tomorrow night at 11PM(GMT +7)
and also, I cant get my own screen shot of Corrupted Disciple, no hon here , hiks

Patch Version 0.1.51 Changelog

Version 0.1.51
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General (Gameplay)
- A new spectator interface awaits those who like to watch
- Victory or Defeat arcade text and announcer yell now plays when a team concedes
- Can no longer give illusions items
- Shops now have all items hotkeyed
- Several heroes now have enhanced visual effects when they hold a Staff of the Master
* Done so far: Thunderbringer, Magmus, Swiftblade, Moon Queen, Nymphora, Pyromancer, Plague Rider

- Banning draft now has a wait time before and after the banning phase
- A kick vote can now only be called by teammates and must be unanimous to pass (needs 9/10 in a full game)
- Lifetime should now show up for allied gadgets
- Fix the 'popping' of heroes on the minimap when they enter or exit stealth
- Control groups of multiple units tweaked slightly including better sight of which unit is selected
- Using a bound hotkey or clicking the hero portrait now selects the hero even when dead
- Right clicking a friendly unit issues a follow_guard command, attacking enemies near the target unit
- Post Game Stats Screen tweaked slightly
- Remake now disbands the game. No stats are recorded. This is a temp fix to some other remake issues until we resolve them.
* K/D/A column will no longer cut off longer numbers
* Should no longer display 0's when a team concedes
* Can now sort by column by clicking the column name

Items
- Fixed Behemoth's Heart to increase the damage of Agility heroes by 10% instead of 20%
- Barrier Idol's passive effect no longer stays around forever
- Doombringer should now clear ownership when someone holding it dies. For real this time. I'm serious...
- Assassin's Shroud now breaks stealth when a spell finishes casting, not when it starts

New Hero
- Corrupted Disciple, inspired by DotA's Razor

Heroes

Devourer
- Devour's max channel range increased to 400 (from 260)

Maliken:
- Sword throw projectile speed decreased to 700 (from 800)
- Life Essence will no longer heal Maliken when attacking structures
- Possession no longer lowers maliken's attack cool down time (previously it lowered from 1.7 seconds to 1.4)
- Possession mana cost increased to 150 (from 100)

Pandamonium:
- Cannonball no longer deals extra damage in a 400 radius. Instead, only units within stun range (200 radius) are damaged. Total damage dealt remains the same.

Puppetmaster:
- Whiplash's bonus damage is now dealt via a critical strike
* This prevents it from stacking with other critical strike items. Note that you have multiple critical strike sources that proc on the same attack, you will automatically use your most powerful critical strike.

Rampage
- Stampede should no longer randomly drop vision on the charged target
- Horned Strike's push now destroys trees
- Casting Favor of Sol no longer stuns Rampage for a second

Scout:
- Disarm's bonus damage is now dealt via a critical strike
* This prevents it from stacking with other critical strike items. Note that you have multiple critical strike sources that proc on the same attack, you will automatically use your most powerful critical strike.

Swiftblade
- Counterattack can no longer proc of spells

Vindicator
- Sage's Lore is no longer removable by Attack Abilities

Wretched Hag
- Flash of Darkness is now 800,900,1000,1150 range (from 700,850,1000,1150)
- Bat Blast will now apply Haunt's Haunted state when cast. The strength of the Haunted state depends on the level of Haunt.

Corrupted Disciple Video - Razor Equivalent

Sorry Again

Tomorrow morning at 7am (Thursday 30/10/2009)
Ill go for a Biology competition in Jogjakarta, in order to have a match with the other Senior High School students, and I'll be back to Surabaya on Sunday(1st Nov) or Monday(2nd Nov)

So, what i'm afraid of is the new patch, if there's a new patch on this weekend, then i'll be late for the update again for sure, and im very sorry for that, I dont want to have a late update, but as a student, i need to do it, phew

Hope ya all can understand it, as soon as i got back, i'll update my blog again
dont go away from my blog ya know, hehe
Again, sorry for this inconvinience

Next 5 Upcoming Heroes !

S2 actually is working on An Int, 3 Agi, and a Strength Heroes, here's some pic of those upcoming heroes - original post

And what does S2Idejder answer ? here

Corrupted Discipline = Razor - Agi Witch Slayer = Lion - Int Forsaken Archer = Windrunner or maybe Bone Fletcher ??? - Agi Exorcist = ? - Str maybe ? Dishonest Abe = ?

Or maybe There'll be Pit Lord port for the Strength? - Str

Or maybe it'll be Nomad? - Agi

Clan Management

Clan management is now up for your testing pleasure! Visit http://clans.heroesofnewerth.com/ to check it out. Features include: clan searching, profiles, management, and creation. Enjoy!

From Heroes of Newerth Facebook, be the fans now !

Random Announcer clips

Succubus ft Soulstealer Song - LOL

2 Downloadable Hero - Fan Made

Pandora

Black Phantom

3 Heroes Artwork

Scorcher

Vindicator

Dungeon Master - Pit Lord Equivalent ?

S2Crews 's Blog List

Visit their blog, so many hidden info there, heroes design, video, and behind the scene...Also the artwork !

http://s2moebiwan.blogspot.com/

http://www.carlosmachuca.blogspot.com

S2Bruce - http://s2bruce.blogspot.com/

S2Aaron - http://s2aaron.blogspot.com/

S2Ari - http://s2ari.blogspot.com/

S2Jesse - http://s2jesse.blogspot.com/

S2Cracky - http://s2cracky.blogspot.com/

S2Shippy - http://s2shippy.blogspot.com/

S2Los - http://www.s2los.blogspot.com

S2Los - http://www.s2los.blogspot.com/

S2Aaron's website:

http://www.aaronholley.com/index.html

S2Bruce's website:

http://www.bruceglidewell.com/

Im back

A fail old fairy hero :

Okay guys, sorry for the late update, and i was very very tired from the camp, got flu and fever...phew

The ESL Introduces HoN with The Grand Opening Cup

S2 Games has learned that Heroes of Newerth will be featured by the Electronic Sports League (ESL), the largest league for computer games in Europe. The ESL is kicking off its recognition of Heroes of Newerth with the Heroes of Newerth Grand Opening Cup.

Beginning on October 26, 2009, the cup will feature competition between teams of five. It will conclude with the Grand Final and crowning of the "First HoN Champion" on December 3, 2009. Following this, the ESL is planning on gradually opening HoN ladders for ESL members to compete in.

For more information on how to register for the Heroes of Newerth Opening Cup please visit this link.

Posted By: S2Lulu

link

Next Upcoming Hero ! Who is it?

Maybe its Razor...
Check it here, the official of s2 crew blog, the S2Jesse's blog

Patch Version 0.1.50 Changelog

Version 0.1.50.1 (This will be up in the next few hours)
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- Fixed Banning Draft not being on the game filter
- Fixed Stats Screen close button so you don't have to hit the button twice to get the screen back
- Fixed Behemoth's sight range and aggro range
- Fixed Soulstealer's aggro range
- Fixed Plague Rider popup when he gains mana

Version 0.1.50
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General
- Happy Halloween!
- New Post Game stats screen
- Heroes now be announced in the proper epic voice. Choose Wisely...
- Cooldowns that are ready will no longer show 1s left on the cooldown in the ally info panel
- Players can right click a CC panel notification to close them now
- More restrictive map borders
- Certain abilities will no longer miss stealthed allies
- Hero effects now show up in their 3D portrait (Torturer has a head again)
- Attacks per second now show the correct rounded value in the tooltip
- Fog of war now updates every 400ms instead of every 500ms
- Fix how stunned units affect pathing
- Trees no longer block single target abilities that can't target trees
- Items no longer block neutral creeps from spawning when dropped on the ground
- Right-clicking an ability icon no longer activates non-toggle abilities
- Fix Post Haste minimap ping
- Fixed several abilities including Homecoming Stone and Pyromancer's Stun so they no longer play effects in the fog
- Added Darkwood Vale to icon key
- Fixed Torturer pick sound
- Units will no longer aggro when disarmed or can't attack

OpenGL
- mesh_color_andromeda and mesh_color_unit_reveal shaders are fixed
- Fixed Arcade Text rendering behind the terrain

Banning Draft
- Set up like Random Draft, only with 24 heroes instead of 20
- Top players on either team (Blue or Pink) alternate banning 1 hero each until 4 heroes are banned
- Picking proceedes like a normal RD match after bans, everyone picks their own heroes

Items
- Totem of Kuldra renamed to Kuldra's Sheepstick
- Ring of Sorcery's radius increased to 600 (from 400)
- Slayer's damage increased to 46 (from 36)
- Insanitarius now takes a Steamstaff instead of a Punchdagger. Recipe cost lowered to 500 (from 900)
- Void Talisman no longer lowers Magic Armor
- Bound Eye now only grants the Reveal Sight when held by a hero
- Mana Battery and Power Supply cooldown is lowered to 17 seconds (from 25)
- Charged Hammer cooldown reduced to 35 (from 45)
- Symbol of Rage cooldown reduced to 35 (from 50)

Enhanced Marchers:
- Cooldown time increased to 15 seconds

Steamboots
- Now grants +6 to all attributes and +6 to the active attribute (from +5)

New Heroes
- Vindicator, inspired by DotA's Silencer
- Rampage, inspired by DotA's Spiritbreaker

Heroes

Accursed
- Cauterize range increased to 600 (from 300)

Andromeda
- No longer mute

Arachna
- No longer mute

Blood Hunter
- Hemmorage can no longer be removed

Chronos:
- Attack impact time set to 0.5 seconds (from 0.6)

Devourer
- Any enemy hero killed in a 400 radius of devourer will grant him the +0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8 strength that he normally gains from killing a hero
- Strength gained from creep kills reduced to +0.03/0.05/0.07/0.09 (from +0.03/0.06/0.09/0.12)

Electrician:
- Static Grip's area damage now deals 30/45/60/75 Magic damage per second, increased from 30/40/50/60
- Energy Absorption now deals 40/75/115/150 True damage to nearby enemies, from 75/100/125/150 Magic damage
- Energy Absorption will now hit Magic Immune units
- Energy Absorption now returns 12/16/20/24 mana per charge, from 15/20/25/30

Glacius
- Reworked Glacial Downpour to be more consistant (It's so cool now)

Hammerstorm
- Galvanize radius increased to 500 (from 350)
- Movement speed bonus increased to 14% (from 12%)
- Armor bonus lowered to 3,5,7,10 (from 3,6,9,12)

Jeraziah:
- Righteous Strike bonus damage reduced to 10/20/30/40, from 12/24/36/50
- Righteous Strike now deals 75% splash damage, decreased from 100%

Madman:
- Fixed a bug allowing the Madman to activate items without breaking his stealth from Stalk

Maliken:
- Hellbourne Zeal provides a maximum of +100 attack speed

Night Hound
- Can now Pounce 200ms faster

Nymphora
- Nymph's Call no longer shares a cooldown with Teleport

Ophelia
- No longer mute

Pandamonium
- Increase based str gain from 2.5 to 2.7
- Flurry speed increased by roughly 40%
- Mana cost of Flurry reduced to 30 per hit, from 40
- Cannonball mana cost set to 100 at all levels (from 95/110/125/140)
- Flick mana cost reduced to 65 at all levels
- Smash Face mana cost reduced to 100/175/250 from 100/200/300
- Smash Face can no longer be evaded

Pestilence
- Stun ground effect is now a bit more accurate to the range

Pharaoh
- Wrath of the Pharaoh no longer hits mechanical units

Plague Rider
- Plague Carrier will no longer bounce to the Well structure

Pollywog Priest
- Issuing a move order to the wards will no longer cause them to do nothing
- Voodoo Wards duration increased to 45 seconds (from 30)
- Pollywog's evil cousin, Pollygon Priest, should no longer make an appearance

Predator:
- Armor reduction reduced to -2/-4/-6 from -4/-8/-12
- Attack speed bonus for attacking a debuffed enemy set to +20/40/60 from +30/50/70
- Mana cost reduced to 50/75/100, from 100/150/200
- Cool down decreased to 60 seconds, from 120 seconds
- Predator will now automatically attack the target of his Venomous Leap after the Leap completes

PuppetMaster:
- Fixed a bug preventing Puppeteer's Hold from being dispellable

Soul Reaper
- Strength gain increased to 2.0 (from 1.5)

Treant
- Root will no longer root gadgets such as Pollywog's Wards

Valkyrie
- Yet another great voice added

Wildsoul
- Base movement speed increased to 315 (from 305)
- Base movement speed while in Bear Form decreased to 270 (from 305)
- Armor bonus from Bear Form increased to 4,6,8 (from 2,4,6)
- BooBoo can no longer attack when more then 925 range away from Wildsoul. He longer instantly teleports back.
- BooBoo's Root can now be removed

Wretched Hag
- Flash of Darkness cast point changed to 0.33 (from 0.5)
- Has gained a voice

The TestClient 0.2.10 Changelog

Version 0.2.10
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General
- Happy Halloween!
- New Post Game stats screen
- Heroes now be announced in the proper epic voice. Choose Wisely...
- Cooldowns that are ready will no longer show 1s left on the cooldown in the ally info panel
- More restrictive map borders
- Certain abilities will no longer miss stealthed allies
- Hero effects now show up in their 3D portrait
- Attacks per second now show the correct rounded value in the tooltip
- Fog of war now updates every 400ms instead of every 500ms
- Fix how stunned units affect pathing
- Trees no longer block single target abilities that can't target trees
- Items no longer block neutral creeps from spawning when dropped on the ground
- Right-clicking an ability icon no longer activates non-toggle abilities
- Fix Post Haste minimap ping
- Fixed several abilities including Homecoming Stone and Pyromancer's Stun so they no longer play effects in the fog
- Added Darkwood Vale to icon key

OpenGL
- mesh_color_andromeda and mesh_color_unit_reveal shaders are fixed
- Fixed Arcade Text rendering behind the terrain

Matchmaking
- Solo players can enter the Matchmaking Queue. Paired up with 9 other players near your rating.
- Uses a seperate PSR Rating. Players will now have two PSRs, one for Matchmaking and one for Public Play.
- All games are Banning Draft (for now)

Banning Draft
- Set up like Random Draft, only with 24 heroes instead of 20
- Top players on either team (Blue or Pink) alternate banning 1 hero each until 4 heroes are banned
- Picking proceedes like a normal RD match after bans, everyone picks their own heroes

Items
- Totem of Kuldra renamed to Kuldra's Sheepstick
- Ring of Sorcery's radius increased to 600 (from 400)
- Slayer's damage increased to 46 (from 36)
- Insanitarius now takes a Steamstaff instead of a Punchdagger. Recipe cost lowered to 500 (from 900)
- Void Talisman no longer lowers Magic Armor
- Bound Eye now only grants the Reveal Sight when held by a hero
- Mana Battery and Power Supply cooldown is lowered to 17 seconds (from 25)
- Charged Hammer cooldown reduced to 35 (from 45)
- Symbol of Rage cooldown reduced to 35 (from 50)

Steamboots
- Added an additional passive bonus based on the active toggled attribute:
* Strength: +1 Health Regeneration
* Agility: +5 damage
* Intelligence: +0.3 Mana Regeneration

New Heroes
- Vindicator, inspired by DotA's Silencer
- Rampage, inspired by DotA's Spiritbreaker

Heroes

Accursed
- Cauterize range increased to 600 (from 300)

Andromeda
- No longer mute

Arachna
- No longer mute

Blood Hunter
- Hemmorage can no longer be removed

Devourer
- Any enemy hero killed in a 400 radius of devourer will grant him the +0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8 strength that he normally gains from killing a hero
- Strength gained from creep kills reduced to +0.03/0.05/0.07/0.09 (from +0.03/0.06/0.09/0.12)

Glacius
- Reworked Glacial Downpour to be more consistant

Hammerstorm
- Galvanize radius increased to 500 (from 350)
- Movement speed bonus increased to 14% (from 12%)
- Armor bonus lowered to 3,5,7,10 (from 3,6,9,12)

Maliken:
- Hellbourne Zeal provides a maximum of +100 attack speed

Night Hound
- Can now Pounce 200ms faster

Nymphora
- Nymph's Call no longer shares a cooldown with Teleport

Ophelia
- No longer mute

Pandamonium
- Increase based str gain from 2.5 to 2.7
- Flurry speed increased by roughly 40%
- Mana cost of Flurry reduced to 30 per hit, from 40
- Cannonball mana cost set to 100 at all levels (from 95/110/125/140)
- Flick mana cost reduced to 65 at all levels
- Smash Face mana cost reduced to 100/175/250 from 100/200/300
- Smash Face can no longer be evaded

Pestilence
- Stun ground effect is now a bit more accurate to the range

Pharaoh
- Wrath of the Pharaoh no longer hits mechanical units

Plague Rider
- Plague Carrier will no longer bounce to the Well structure

Pollywog Priest
- Issuing a move order to the wards will no longer cause them to do nothing
- Voodoo Wards duration increased to 45 seconds (from 30)
- Pollywog's evil cousin, Pollygon Priest, should no longer make an appearance

Soul Reaper
- Strength gain increased to 2.0 (from 1.5)

Treant
- Root will no longer root gadgets such as Pollywog's Wards

Valkyrie
- Yet another great voice added

Wildsoul
- Base movement speed increased to 315 (from 305)
- Base movement speed while in Bear Form decreased to 270 (from 305)
- Armor bonus from Bear Form increased to 4,6,8 (from 2,4,6)
- BooBoo can no longer attack when more then 925 range away from Wildsoul. He longer instantly teleports back.
- BooBoo's Root can now be removed

Wretched Hag
- Flash of Darkness cast point changed to 0.33 (from 0.5)
- Has gained a voice

2 New Heroes : Vindicator & Rampage

Using the test client, i can post it earlier, so im not too worried about the late post, so here it is guys!


Vindicator - Silencer Equivalent



Rampage - Spirit Breaker Equivalent


Both of them :

From Heroes of Newerth Facebook

(screen shot of Rampage-new upcoming hero, ya can try it in testclient)

We are going to put up the beta registration page for facebook fans tomorrow at noon EST. We will only update facebook fans of Heroes of Newerth (fan update), so if you want the info on how to get your Closed Beta account, become a fan now and tell your friends. We look forward to having you join the crowd.- link

I'm goin to camping

Guys, there's an info from me here, i'll having a school camping on Thursday 22th-Saturday 24th October, so I desperately apologize to my blog visitors, that maybe if there's updates, or maybe new patch..I'll post it late, cant up to date...
I'm very sad about this, in the camping site, there are no internet connection, so I cant update my HoN Blog...
Phew, hope ya guys can understand it, but after as soon as i got home, i'll update this blog guys, maybe on Sunday morning, got tired ya know
Again, im sorry for this inconvinience
Here's the link :
latest changelog

Builder - Future Hero Concept

http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?p=431394

Made by :
[S2]Idejder

S2 Staff Member

Join Date: Jul 2009

Posts: 1,757

2 Upcoming Heroes in 0.1.50 !

Vindicator(left) and Rampage(right)
Rampage will be Spirit Breaker port, but Vindicator, I still dunno whether it's Silencer port / Invoker port / Another new hero !

News !

Help us test match making & other upcoming features

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http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=34108
We've got a pretty big patch in the works, but before we can release it to the general beta populance, we need to run it through the pre-beta test client first to clear up any obvious issues that we can't quite test ourselves.

To those of you unfamiliar with the pre-beta test client, it's a special client that updates and installs separately from the regular beta client. When we have content that we know is going to require some more thorough testing, we put it through the test client to get the obvious bugs/issues out of the way (in addition to feedback on experimental balance changes). Some people like to ask "what's the point of the main beta test, then?" The second client really doesn't diminish the value or meaning of the primary beta test. Rather than put out a patch/update to the beta client that we know will have some glaring issues, we run it through this secondary process first. This actually helps the main beta test by not slowing it down with potentially game-breaking issues (our test patches on the pre-beta client receive minimal testing and often we'll patch multiple days in a row as we work on it, a process which would be quite troublesome if attempted on the main beta client).


To participate in the pre-beta test client games, you'll need to participate in our IRC channel. This is open to anyone who wants to join. Our IRC information is:
server: irc.s2games.com
ports: 6667
channel: #hondev

Or to join IRC through your browser, click here.
Once you're in, you can use /nick to change your name.

We'll be posting the link to the pre-beta test client in the topic of that channel, as well as information as to where to contribute feedback and discuss the patches.

The first test is going to take place 10/20/2009 at 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT

Now, everyone's favorite Red Jedi (S2Idejder) will be posting what kind of things you can expect to see down the road, some of which will be featured tomorrow on the test client. The main thing we need help testing tomorrow is the beginnings of our automated match making - it could completely fail and break, or perform marvelously. Find out by joining us on IRC!

It has been over a week since our last patch and seeing as it is 0.1.50, we figured we would do a bit extra. We are gunning for this to be quite a large patch and to change a few things about how you guys play. It will still be a bit of time from now, but hopefully we will get a test client build up in the next few days. Hopefully.

Here is a short “work in progress” list of what you should see in the next major build.

Matchmaking
Version 1

The first version of matchmaking will allow solo players to queue into the automatic Ranked Play system, putting 10 players of equal skill together and then starting the game. We will enhance this as time goes on to include full teams, partial teams, etc, but for now we want to make sure the groundwork is in place.

More details on this as we get closer to releasing it, but keep an eye on the test client for the first iteration of Matchmaking.

Two New Heroes

You will see the debut of Vindicator and Rampage in this patch. Reinforcements for the Legion.


New Game Modes

Look for the addition of Captain picking and Banning in a HoN game near you!

New Post-Game Stats Screen

A great and smooth new way to see the stats after a game ends and the stats of any game you have played in the past.



Stats Reset and PSR scaling

When we release this patch we plan to reset everyone's stats back to zero and scale everyone's PSR to compensate for the changes we have made to the system. Details about this will come soon.

Hero and Item Balance Tweaks

As always, we are tweaking and changing the item and hero balance to improve gameplay for both the casual player and the competitive pro.

Holiday Celebrations

The spirit of Halloween has come to Newerth...

__________________
When trying to get an X-Fire live stream to work...

Some news of Heroes of Newerth

Q : S2 what have you been working on?
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=33989

A : Maliken

http://hon-devs.limi.co.uk/posts/s2-what-have-you-been-working-on

2009-10-20 02:02:18

Hero Additions
Automated Matchmaking (Ranked Ladders AMM)
Spectator / Replay Interface
Replay Backwards Compatability

Many things are starting to come together.

A : Idejder also confirms that match making in hon is now "close"

Q : Next hero port - Lion
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=32169

A : Idejder
http://hon-devs.limi.co.uk/posts/next-hero-port-lion-2

2009-10-18 02:12:33

Heroes of Newerth - Battle Channel Blog

I just made a blog, actually a video blog of HoN, like the visitor said before, they want to see the clan battle, or the battle video..
So I got a plan, and finally can make it, so if ya guys want to watch the clan battle videos, of the battle series videos, just watch it in my Heroes of Newerth Battle Channel Blog, instead of opening the YouTube and search between a hundred of useless vids..That's why i made the blog
Keep visit bith guys, thanks !

About Patching

"Patching will be more regular and scheduled once we hit release, but for now major patches are generally at the end of the week if we can while minor fix patches happen over the weekend (since some of us work weekends)."
link to post

Idejder

2009-10-15 09:02:06

Heroes Animated .GIF

download it in MediaFire

HoN - DotA App

Interested in this application?
Find it more here and the DLink of course
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=13901
The BetaForums for HoN Mod and Applications

Another Heroes Concept Art

Does anyone like to play Lion in DotA? You'll love the Witch Hunter! :)

This is a concept for something I'm not quite sure we are using.
Maybe this is the Rhino Rider - Barathrum Equivalent

"This is the Wretched Hag and if you like to play Queen of Pain she will feel right at home. Her bat effects are awesome in game."

"This one is a mystery but you won't have to wait long to play him in game."

Patch Version 0.1.49.1 Changelog

Size : 3.78 Mb - if im not mistaken
Version 0.1.49.1
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- Fixed the Widgit spam in the console
- Fixed Wall of Mummies so you can target them once again

Version 0.1.49
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- Fixed some major server crash and lag issues
- Images no longer revive from Token of Life along with fixing some other image issues
- Fixed Geometer's Bane movespeed so it stacks properly with items such as Hack and Slash
- Sand Wraith's Desert's Curse now properly casts at 300ms instead of 500ms
- Sand Wraith's Desert's Curse buff now lets the Sand Wraith path through Fissure and Mummies
- Sand Wraith's Dissipation to not hit Kongor
- Sand Wraith's images from Mirage now have unitwalking and have 400 base movement speed
* Mirage now grants vision of all enemy heroes for the duration of the spell
- Fixed Moon Queen's attacks to not bounce to runes
- Puppetmaster's Voodoo Puppet is now immune to everything but Magic and Attacks (IE: Transfigure, Push, etc)
- Kraken's Whirlpool no longer brings Bosses with it
- Kraken's Splash now takes 25 mana (used to be 15)
- Tweaked how attack speed rounds
- Hosts can no longer autobalance once the game starts (Tricky hosts...)
- Heroes are no longer able to deny themselves when they have a DoT on them

Sand Wraith - Spectre Equivalent (Waited from long time ago)

Here's the Hero video preview, made by HatTrickGamer: