I just want to say that to all of my dear blog visitors, thanks for being my visitors and thanks for supporting me in my blog, I hope in this year, my blog can grow better and better than the last year.Hope you guys keep visiting my blog and support me. I'm sorry if i made mistakes in the past, and I hope all the best for you guys too..
Lately, because it's near to 2010, I see no good updates from the forum also S2Crew about Heroes of Newerth, I think they're busy for the Open Beta, so I suddenly amazed by the fan made wallpaper, and the other fan media. I posted some of them here, hope you guys love it.
HoN League: Check-Six SideWinder Tournament Series visit site Heroes of Newerth - North American Cup presented by Alienware Arena visit site $300 GameReplays Championship Invitational, Sponsored by S2 Games visit site And this is the video teaser for the tournament:
So, just talking off from the main topic in my blog, Heroes of Newerth blog, but now talking about DotA, the new patch and 2 new heroes, also some of older heroes were remake... I don't want to post the pictures or anything about it, because i got the information from the other blog, and I think that blog have the good articles about DotA v6.65, so here's the link to that blog
Size 5.90Mb Version 0.2.23 ------------- - Added 2 more neutrals camps in the existing spawns - Added all of the new neutrals to all 3 maps - Defiler's ghosts won't kill runes or chests anymore - Fixed the Banana tooltip
Okay, today DotA v6.65 has been released, 1 day before christmas...cool stuff, i want to see the new hero, now i realized that those 2 heroes teaser pictures, i'm the one who posted earlier in my blog, as what you guys can see in IceFrog's blog. he just posted it later after me. So this is the DotA v6.65 Changelog And in HoN, they've announced a North American Cup as what you can see in Alienwarearena(1500$ cash prize), you can also see it here : http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/tournaments.php So as what I said before, it'll be a cool christmas... Also the S2Phlogiston Twitter will be off for maybe 1 week, as what he said in his Twitter
This one I still can't predict about it And the Nightcrawler hero, I think is this one: And predicting the hero model should be the same as the neutral creep in Warcraft III : Frozen Throne, named Murloc Nightcrawler...Here's the model, and the it match with the model in the picture. I found those 2 image in here http://www.getdota.com/map_archive/map/last/lang/en But, It appears to shown randomly, maybe 3 times trying then the picture come, but if it's not, the normal page will be shown. I also don't know whether i'm too late about this news, or i'm the one who notice it? Also the video that was posted long time ago :
And the news about DotA v6.65, Icefrog are going to remake the Visage
And also Kunkka, the LoadScreen artist announced that there will be an updated version on LoadScreen in Dota 6.65. He said changes will be based on cosmetics and some Dota fan arts. Also, he made a smoking fan art of Traxex, The Drow Ranger. Looks like Dota 6.65 will come along with many great surprises. Anyway, read more to check his post.
Quoting Kunkka @ PlayDota: Hey guys,
just letting everyone know that the next version will have an updated loadscreen. edits are mainly cosmetic, nothing major. so look out for it in the next release..
Also, I finally got to painting single heroes of DOTA, (epic battles are way too tiring ) which are much more fun to do. Who better to kickstart it than Traxex the Drow Ranger. She is one of the most iconic heroes in Dota. also partly due to Icefrogs unhealthy obsession with her... (haha, just kidding Ice)
They're now working on the polishing stage of the game, include the matchmaking, replay system, map editor and many more. But I don't know when we're going to be able to try those feature, maybe in the open beta..But when will the open beta comes? This Christmas?I think it will not come in christmas... Maybe in January 2010... And the latest news from Icefrog too, I read that the dota v6.65b already closed to be released..Some of the dota player guess it'll be out in Christmas Day, that mean 2 days more..
24 hours of open beta registration coming this week. We will update all our fans with the special URL to get into the HoN beta. Keep your eyes peeled and you can be part of the HoN craze soon enough! :)
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General -Kongor now drops a Banana instead of Cheese! - Players can now scroll through the chat buffer in game by holding the z button (Credit to Ice_Phoenix) - Couriers will no longer run at enemies when attacked (they were too friendly) - Fixed being able to give neutrals you take control of items out of your stash by accident - Updated Kongor's area with a more winter theme - Runes now have spawn/death effects - Double Damage now plays an extra noise when you attack and have it active - A few trees are now snow covered - Fixed a bug that was showing the "leave without penalty" message any time after Bloodlust
- Ensure ui is correctly sized if a mode change happens while the interfaces are being reloaded in the mac and linux clients - Hooked in functionality for the lobby/hero select interface that allows users to hold shift and hit enter to send a message to the chat mode opposite of what they currently have selected. (Credit to Tisser, Thread 52664) - Added new AFK and DND functionality (Credit to Norroar, Thread 52727) * /available -Sets your chat status to available * /afk - Toggles chat status to AFK, automatically replies to whispers with the message specified. * /dnd - Toggles your status to DND, automatically replies to whispers with the message specified and stops incoming whispers from being sent to you. * This requires a chat server restart, might not work right away
- Many new neutrals have shown up on Newerth, including: *Vagabond Leader, who can cast a wave nuke and has a health regen aura *Vagabond, who has a targeted manaburn *Vagabond Assassin, who has a targeted Cleanse/Shock *Sporespitter, who has a slow on attack *Earthoc *Antlore Healer, who has a single target small heal *Antling
Items
- Added Major Totem to outpost - Fixed Void Talismanand Frostfield Plateso you can use them while channeling to not interrupt -Fenrir's Fang removed -Hack and Slashrework
-Hack(Renamed to Icebrand) * Old: Armband (450) Mighty Blade (1000) Recipe (800) Total Cost: 2250
16 Strength 10 Damage 15% chance for -20% Movespeed for 4 seconds (proc)
* New: Major Totem (540) Mighty Blade (1000) Recipe (960) Total Cost: 2500
10 Damage 25 Strength 25 Agility 25 Intelligence 200 Health 150 Mana -30% Movespeed slow on attack -20 Attackspeed slow on attack
Heroes
The following heroes now have voices: -Jeraziah, Puppetmaster, Pyromancer, Rampage, Soul Reaper
Arachna -Spiderling now grants 60-70 gold when killed.
Dark Lady - Reskinned and model updated.
Deadwood - Got a proper background story (Grumble... Mahogany) -Rotten Grasp now triggers after 1.5 seconds (down from 2.5. Was bugged and doing an extra .5 seconds) -Rotten Grasp now reduces the armor of anyone caught in it by 2,3,4,5 -Uproot no longer has a cast time, letting you grab and run -Clearcutting now lasts for 12,14,16,18 seconds -Willowmaker's strength reduction state (everyone hit with the strength reduction) now slows moment speed by 80% for the first second and 35% for the rest of the duration
Defiler - Semi-Reverted her third ability to 2.5/5/7.5/10% Movespeed (Stringtables will not show this, but it works). - Ghosts won't kill runes or chests anymore.
Demented Shaman -Storm Cloud is now correctly typed as Magic (was a typo, nothing changed).
Engineer - Cast time on Keg reduced to 0 seconds (from 0.4 seconds). Overall delay is 1 second.
Forsaken Archer -Crippling Volley now has a 225 radius at all levels (from 150/200/250/300) -Crippling Volley now has a 1 second delay (including cast time), reduced from 1.295 seconds -Skeletal Minions no longer burn mana with their attacks - Number of maximum Skeletal Minions changed to 3/4/5/6 from 2/4/6/8 - Immobilize time on Crippling Volley changed to 1.75/2/2.25/2.5 seconds (from 2.5 at all levels)
Kraken - Whirlpool will no longer drag gadget pets such as Engineer's Turret or Arachna's Spider with it
Legionnaire - Fixed the tooltip for Whirling Blade
Pebbles - Fixed his effects that were playing through fog - Fixed up his Ult's tooltip to clarify the damage the thrown unit takes
Pharoah - Ult will no longer hit PseudoPets (Skeletons from Forsaken Archer) when he has SotM
Plague Rider -Plague Carrier can no longer target couriers - Fixed his story
Puppet Master - Base strength lowered to 19 (from 20) - Strength gain lowered to 1.9 (from 2.1) -Puppet Show will now correctly interrupt abilities that are mid-cast - Damage dealt via Voodoo Puppet will no longer pass through Magic Immunity
Scout - Cast Range on Electric Eyes reduced by 50 * This fixes an issue allowing the scout to put eyes in spots just out of their detection range
Soul Reaper - Fixed his level 3 ultimate multiplying by .9 (was using .8)
Soulstealer -Soul Burst impact time reverted to 1 second (with a 1.5 second total cast time)
Tempest - Clarified the tooltip for Elementals to say they do not lose charges for attacking buildings
Valkyrie -Call of the Valkyrie radius increased to 650 from 600 * This allows the skill to hit targets with it when she attacks from her maximum range
Voodoo Jester -Mojo mana cost reduced to 105/115/125/145 from 110/135/160/185
The rising cost of "Free"
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As any nostalgic nerd may remember, back in the day, games were not free to
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