Patch Version 0.1.66.2 Changelog

Version 0.1.66.2
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- Fix buddy and ban list saving

Cheat Fix Patch Forthcoming

"We are aware of the gold/item bug and a resolution is underway. Please do not create threads regarding this exploit or any players that you think have abused it.

Thank you for your cooperation, a fix will be available as soon as possible."

 We have a patch (very difficult for us to sift through deeper code that can't be used, our apologies for the delay) to deal with the current gold cheat and will also fix a few other minor issues we were waiting to be resolved with our bigger patch coming soon.

Be patient, we'll get this out as soon as we humanly can. 

[S2]Maliken

S2 Staff Member

  

I think this issue is the headline news today in the forum, because i see those big red warning and about S2Arnej and S2Maliken said about it.

What S2 Is Doing? The Gameplan!

Hello everyone!

I wanted to take the time to let everyone know that what we've been doing, what we're going to be doing, and what our plan is for open beta & retail release.

We've been developing and are working to finish the following:

1.) Automated Match Making
2.) New Interface (We call it Front End 2.0 or FE2)
3.) Art Polish
4.) Gameplay Balance

Much of this stuff has been in the works for a while and progress has been great. We're getting near the end of having this stuff is a testable state.

Our plan is to do the following:

1.) Release a Beta Test Patch with the above mentioned *when it is ready*
2.) Test & Fix & Patch (as many times as necessary) issues related to the above changes
3.) Finalize and put patch into Beta Client
4.) Go to Open Beta which will run for an unset period of time (we plan to release some new heroes during the open beta)
5.) Release the game as retail requiring payment to continue to play at such time we feel Open Beta has run its course.
6.) Continue to polish, improve, and create new content for HoN (this will include the eventual release of a Map Editor, SDK, New Heroes & Items & Maps)
7.) ?????
8.) Profit!

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[S2]Maliken

S2 Staff Member

original post

Another New Hero Concept Art

I got this from Facebook

Another new hero on the horizon. This one will leave a lot of you guessing. We're excited about what this magical lil turtle brings to HoN's gameplay.

The thing is, is it me or anyone think those froggy previuous hero concept, use a similiar staff like this turtle hero did?I think it's a port, but who?

S2Games likes to use animal as the hero, we got a froggy, scorpion, and now turtle, lolz

Cant wait for them

Pugna?Furion?

Vote for HoN !

Hello HoN community!

VOTE FOR HON HERE: http://www.igf.com/audience.php

(must use a valid email address to verify vote)

For those of you who don't know, Heroes of Newerth has been selected as a finalist out of 301 submitted games by Independent Game Developers.

It's just been put up for the audience award for the world to vote on.

Help Heroes of Newerth show the world that this independent game developer (S2 Games) has what it takes to produce a quality game the world can fall in love with.


S2Lulu (Laura Baker) and myself will be there at the IGF which is in the Game Developers Conference of San Francisco representing S2 Games, and hopefully taking home the award for technical excellence and with your help, the Audience Award!


IGF Audience Award Opens

IGF organizers have also opened this year's Audience Awards, with members of the public able to vote on all 2010 Independent Games Festival Main Competition finalist games that have (or have had) publicly available versions.
Voting for eligible titles is now open at the IGF Audience Award page, and will stay open until Friday, March 5th at midnight PST, with gamers encouraged to play through the games and pick their favorite via email-verified voting.


VOTE FOR HON HERE: http://www.igf.com/audience.php

(must use a valid email address to verify vote)

Thank you everyone who votes for HoN, and thank you for supporting S2 Games who works very hard and without complaint as the whip is hurled at them coming so close to the Launch Party!

[HL]HunteR_

Competitive Crew

Original Post 

Facebook Fans, 9 Hours Left to Create Beta Acc.

Facebook Fans, Create Beta Acc. Now (9 Hours Left)

HoN will be Launched on 1st of April

"After enjoying lunch, we headed over to check out the location of where the HoN Launch Party is set to take place on April 1^st."

So, I just quoted what Hunter_ and Breakycpk write on their post in HonCast about their visit to S2Office in SanFransisco.
HoN will be launched on April 1st then.


See the rest here :
http://honcast.com/2010/02/honcast-trip-to-san-francisco-and-s2-games/

Reset Stats on Release

I don't know whether it's old news or new info for you guys, sorry if i'm late about this, so I got statement from Renofox from forum, he's sort of like a moderator, he announced that we'll have a stats reset when hon released soon, PSR, clan, and banlist, but about clan and psr, read the statement below :

Your stats will be reset on release.

Things like ban lists, clan (depends on if the leader purchases the game I think) and friends lists will remain. 

Haha, It's me Blacksmith by S2Aaron

Upcoming Maintenance Window 2/12 6:00 AM - 10:00 AM (GMT -5)

We are planning some additional maintenance tomorrow morning 6:00 AM - 10:00 AM (GMT -5) the game servers will be offline during at least part of this period. We will also be putting the forums into maintenance mode at the same time. We expect this downtime to last no more than 2 hours but are scheduling for 4 at the max.

We thank you for your patience while we improve the systems that run HoN.

[S2]Toolz

S2 Staff Member

Hope there'll be a new patch this week 

And A cool Zephyr Video,

Some News

Ask S2 #3

here's the link to the original post, I won't post it here, because it's too long and a little bit messy :
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=75695
And the discussion thread about this :
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=75763

The Beta Client 1.66.1 / 1.66.4 Issue

Below is a list of known issues in the current Beta version.

Latest Version: 1.66.1 / 1.66.4 (Mac / Linux)
Last Updated: February 8th

• Friends added to the friends list after the patch will not be saved.
• Player's added to the banlist after the patch will not be saved.
• Pollywog Priest's/Witch Slayer's Miniaturization is causing a number of issues.
• Pyromancer + Kongor exploit.
• Soul Stealer's Demonhands and aura toggle
• Pharaoh's mummies
• Clan Creation isn't working
• Scout's Marksman Shot causes the "target" to float over your head even if you're out of range or the ult is cancelled
• Dominated neutrals used to block creep from leaving base
• You can cliff walk to destroy wards.
• Upgrading someone's courier causes their buy menu to open up when shopping with said courier
• Chat Channel List Bug
• Bananas on replay system crashes the game.
• Can't see ults from fog
• Couriers can pick up tokens
• Game crash on "Disable All Sounds" while playing a match
• Mini-freeze during game server refresh
• Joining a channel from the channel list crashes the game
• Heroes run in place after Homecoming stone
• Chronos will return to last targeted enemy after blink

Forsaken Archer Voice SOON

The sample voice for Forsaken Archer that's going to be implemented to the game soon, maybe I think in the next patch, hear it here : http://drop.io/Idejder/asset/forsakenflavorsample-mp3
And I found it from Idejder Twitter

Scheduled Downtime 2/8/10 7AM-10AM (UTC -5)

Tomorrow morning 2/8/10 there will be a maintenance window from 7 AM -10 AM (UTC -5) while we perform a database upgrade. Though we anticipate this upgrade will only take 10-15 minutes it may take longer. During this time period you will be unable to login to the game and game servers may experience irregularities. We apologize for the inconvenience while we work to make our services more robust.
[S2]Toolz

S2 Staff Member

Thank you

Heroes Status Table

The Top table refers to the heroes status now, and the bottom one refers to the changes, Idejder said nothing is guaranteed there, I also found it on his Twitter :

Idejder's Twitter

The Future HoN UI

Watch live video from s2mercenary on Justin.tv

See the future hon ui when it launched I think, cool one, S2Mercenary livestream-ed the video, not very good quality, but god info...

Add - If you guys can't clearly see it, I got some screenshots for them :

Another Hero Concept

Pyro maybe? She definitely looks better :)

Another New Heroes Concept Art

Another new hero concept art has been uploaded 22 minutes before, I just want to check some new hon news, having a cereal and playing my 5x5x5 rubik's cube, and then, Blar !
A new cool concept arts, is it the 62th and 63th hero before the launch?A froggy totem guy?Magmus reskin?
Broodmother?
Who is it?
Port?Or original?

Always expect more for the surprise, I can't wait for this Saturday, hope we got those 3 new heroes !

Multiplay, i39 and Heroes of Newerth Cup

Win £6,250 as the Prize for this tournament, for more information please visit this link :

http://iseries.multiplay.co.uk/newsid/4200/

Idejder on Reddit

So, S2Idejder announced that he open an AMA(Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, but he also added that this won't replace the Ask S2 #3.
So what you guys are waiting for?
Visit..Register..and Ask !
Join the Reddit here :
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ax1r7/by_request_i_am_a_dev_for_heroes_of_newerth_ama/

Also got some info from there, there's a chance that we get the 61th hero or maybe the 62th and more before the Launch, but don't make it serious, just hope they can done the 61th hero before Launch.