A Little Update

New Artwork in S2Blog

So this is the update news about the test client and map editor.
Maybe we are going to get it in the next patch this week in 1.0.11.
The patch contain :

Grimm's Crossing, the complete rework of Darkwood Vale with no boss and 1 runespot in the middle.
Kraken's Tidal Pull changed to Splash and his new ulti with Tentacles ! - It's cool
Also Deadwood rework, the ulti now can strike you away !

That's some of the things in the test client.
Now about the map editor, Idejder said that in Sept, some of the crew will move to Michigan, and there'll be a downtime in office.But after that, we should get the map editor, maybe in October?

Latest tweet of S2Nome, We just finished initial concepting for a new hero :3.
Is it a port or no?I already asked him, hope we can get an early answer guys.

Okay, for now that's all, stay tune for the fastest and latest update.

Next Test Patch will Contain : (Coming Tomorrow)

Today or monday on test client according to Idejder:

Kraken rework including tentacles
Deadwood tweaks
Grim crossing(Darkwood Vale with complete rework) with 1 runespot and no boss - Some of you maybe still can't find or play or test it, there's still no solution to fix it.

Source:

http://hon.esportmedia.com/podcasts/...kly-episode-10

PS
There might be more info but the casted games in witch Idejder is are not up yet

Patch 1.0.10 Changelog

Version 1.0.10
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== General ==

- Fixed Flint Beastwood's icon to show up in player stats properly
- Fixed the remaining issues related to watching a replay when skipping past the hero loading portion
- Fixed an issue where the "permanent keybind" feature for control groups was not allowing the camera to center when the control group key was double tapped
- Fixed the "Save Channel" button to work properly
- Fixed an issue with the display of player stats, win percent should once again be accurate
- Fixed advanced game mode filter and advanced game options filter on public game interface to correctly save values


== Items ==

Stormspirit
- Using Storm Spirit on an enemy will now block item usage, for example it will disable a homecoming stone from being used
- Using Storm Spirit on an ally will no longer be dispellable

Striders
- Striders will now go into cool down when channeling a spell
* They will stay in cool down for the duration of a channeled spell or item, meaning that if a player teleports to a lane with a Homecoming Stone, they will have to wait 3 more seconds to get full speed from Striders
- Striders will now remain in cool down while dead
- Striders will not longer be put into cool down as the result of dealing damage over time (DoT) damage on another player
* Casting the spell that deals DoT damage will still put them into cool down, but the lingering DoT will not keep the boots in cool down if the player has otherwise exited combat

Puzzlebox
- Added more sound effects for spawn and ability usage


== Heroes ==

Armadon
- Fixed an issue causing Spine Burst to not always deal its damage

Flint Beastwood
- Fixed base damage from 39-50 to 36-42
- Lowered base armor from 2.94 to 2
- Adjusted Hollowpoint damage from 30/40/50/60 to 20/30/40/50
* Fixed tooltips to show corrrect % chance to proc
- Fixed an issue causing vision to never be lost on a target if Flint used his ult and had his mana drained during the channel time
- Aggro range for Flint Beastwood increases to 850 when Dead Eye is at max level
- can no longer target Mechanical units with Money Shot

Sand Wraith
- Fixed an issue causing his Desert's Curse to not properly track targets when an enemy hero is selected

Succubus
- Fixed an issue preventing Mesmerize from dealing its damage


Patch Notes Coloured by Warchamp7

Patch 1.0.9 Changelog - Flint Beastwood and Striders Patch

Version 1.0.9
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== General ==

- Greatly optimized client performance on all systems
- Optimized various interfaces to run more efficiently (9000% more efficient!)
- Fixed an issue causing F6 to re-set the position of the scoreboard
- Fixed various crashes that could occur during gameplay
- Fixed experience popups to off-set from gold popups, such that they do not overlap
- Added a new music track to Caldavar, entitled "Encounter at the River"
- Fixed in game match stats screen to display the correct XP/Min, such that it will not calculate time spent playing after reaching level 25
- Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the game
- Fixed an issue causing FPS hitching when new music is loaded
- Added hero selection announcements for bubbles, chipper, doctor repulsor, gauntlet, and tundra
- Pre-match time for all game modes changed from 1 minute 15 seconds to 1 minute 30 seconds
- Fixed several interface crashes
- Fixed advanced game mode filter on public game interface to correctly save values.
- Fixed animations getting stuck when rewinding replays
- Fixed rewinding tree deaths in replays
- Fixed projectile orientations
- Fixed attacking buildings and towers without sight of that building or tower
- Fixed duration of deny animation glow

- During modes that use alternating pick (Banning Draft, Banning Pick, etc), once a player selects their hero it will instantly switch to the other team (rather than waiting the remaining time)
* Each player now has 40 seconds to select their hero, from 30
* Transition time between banning and picking is now 15 seconds, from 20
* The time after the hero picks has been reduced from 2 minutes to 45 seconds
- Hero selection time in all pick reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute

Heroes of Newerth #1 Newsletter

See it here : http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/newsletter/vol1/news.html

And also the Video Guide by Nigma and Ms.Pudding :

Test Client Changelogs 0.2.82

Version 0.2.82
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== General ==

- During modes that use alternating pick (banning draft, banning pick, etc), once a player selects their hero it will instantly switch to the other team (rather than waiting the remaining time)
* Each player now has 40 seconds to select their hero, from 30
* Transition time between banning and picking is now 15 seconds, from 20
* The time after the hero picks has been reduced from 2 minutes to 45 seconds
- Hero selection time in all pick reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute

- tweak/clean up effect and add sfx to Blood Chalice and Striders
- fix projectile orientations
- fix attacking buildings and towers without sight of that building or tower
- fix duration of deny animation glow
- Added effect/animation for Tundra's Cold Shoulder


== Heroes ==

Forsaken Archer
- Reverted the Aura back into Split Fire, same as in Retail.
* Note to the testers: We appreciate all of the feedback and help on this, but we are not happy with where this is, so we are not comfortable putting it out there for the general public. We are going to keep these numbers the same as retail for now since we don't have the time to test anything more detailed right now. Stay tuned till next patch for more iteration!

Mr Beastwood
- Added better sounds and voice/picksound
- Slowed down his turnspeed slightly
- Exploding Flare reveal removed, radius reduced from 350 to 300
- Hollowpoint wont double hit gadgets anymore
- Fixed tooltip on Money Shot
- He will now gloat and say "Headshot!" when killing someone with Money Shot
- Fixed state on Money Shot so you can't inifinte reveal someone

Test Client Changelogs 0.2.79 - 81

Flint with his Headshot !

version 0.2.81
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== General ==

- Experience share changes reverted (same as retail, now)
- Pre-match time for all game modes changed from 1 minute 15 seconds to 1 minute 30 seconds
- Fixed several interface crashes
- Fixed advanced game mode filter on public game interface to correctly save values.
- Fixed animations getting stuck when rewinding replays
- Fixed rewinding tree deaths in replays

Medusa Theory

I read someone in the private forum talk about this topic, so I think it's quiet interesting, so I post this with my own way.

As what you guys will know soon, Forsaken Archer's 2nd Ability the Split Shot are going to be changed into the Barbed Aura, see it in the 1.0.9 and also Electrician's Mana Shield was changed into this(in the 1.0.5) :

Electrician
- Shield is now a self target cast instead of a toggle
* Cast time removed
* Costs 20% of max mana to cast, if mana is less than that, uses all of it
* Mana consumed is applied as the shield for 12s
* Absorbs 50% of damage at the cost of 2/1.66/1.25/0.75 mana consumed per damage taken
* DPS of the shield AOE increased from 12/24/36/48 to 15/30/45/60
                                    * Shield is unremovable 

So the point is, it is an undirect info that tells us that Medusa/Gorgon port is going to coming soon?

How about Furion and the INT Community Hero Contest winner?

It's just a theory and a prediction, maybe true or false, let's wait for the time to answer it.

 

Next Hero : Flint Beastwood or Sniper Port

Exclusive reveal at the PCgamer.com, as what I've read before in the forum, someone says the Warthogillo model, as you can see in the art library, but i'll show it here :

So that person said the next hero will be that hero, first I was thinking that's just a troll, but at the end, it will come soon.
So here is the original article I copied from pcgamer.com :

I’m convinced that the team developing new heroes for Heroes of Newerth over at S2 Games doesn’t sleep–they’re adding another new hero to the game this Friday and we’ve got the exclusive first look at the bad-tempered badass who’s dual-wielding shotguns.

Flint Beastwood is the latest Agility hero to join the Hellbourne team. Described as a “bad-tempered, dual wielding gunslinger”, Flint excels at pushing towers, providing sight for his team, and is able to engage enemies at a longer range than any other hero in the game. If there’s something more terrifying than dual-wield long-range boomsticks, I haven’t heard of it.
Let’s take a look at this orc gunner’s skills (disclaimer: ability names are not final):

• Flare: Fire a flare at a position, dealing damage and leaving a slow-burning glow that slows enemies and provides sight.
• Sharpshooter: Passively deal extra damage and a mini-stun on occasion.
• Long Barrel: Passively increases attack range.
• Focused Fire: After taking time to line a shot, Flint fires at a faraway enemy, dealing critical damage.

Flint is being introduced on live servers via a patch this Friday, August 13, so be careful this weekend–Flint’s gunning for you!

NOTE : I think 99% Flint Beastwood is Kardel Sharpeye port, but then what about Scout?

Test the Next Patch ! New item/reworks/XP system/code optimizations/etc

Hey guys,

To those of you who helped us beta test HoN, you may be familiar with our test client system. To those of you who didn't (or never participated in a test patch), here's your chance to help with HoN's continued development.


We have a second HoN Client available, called our Test Client. This client installs to a different directory than normal retail HoN and updates separately. On it we've got new content that is just waiting to be tested. The reason we put these changes on a test client, rather than patch it directly to the full game, is that we're trying some exciting new things that we want to really test thoroughly before putting it in the full game. We've got some reworks, some new items, some changes to the experience system (based on how experience for hero kills is awarded to reward more aggressive early game play), and a ton of crash fixes and performance optimizations. Later in the week we will even be putting a new hero onto the test client.

In order to help us test this upcoming content and give us the feedback we need to polish and balance and fix up the patch, you'll need to visit our super secret Upcoming Content forum. The forum, along with a full changelog, can be found here:
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33
password = scoutisimba

Do not share information from inside the forum with the outside. Our moderators will come down on anyone who does this - until we're ready to unveil the contents of the upcoming patch officially, keep all discussion on our IRC channels or in the forum itself. That said, the forum is clearly very widely accessible and anyone who wants to participate in the test may do so. We'd just rather not see discussion of the upcoming content spill out into our regular forums just yet.

Anytime this week, grab the test client and try to play some games. We encourage players to try to get on around 2pm PDT / 9pm GMT, but you can hop on and test whenever you like.

Please communicate thoughts / first impressions / etc within the upcoming content forum.

[S2]Fielding

S2 Staff Member

Heroes of Newerth Store with SplitReason

We've teamed up with SplitReason to design some awesome swag! The HoN store is now open and you can purchase your gear at http://www.splitreason.com/heroesofnewerth.

To top it off, we are offering a 10% discount on all purchases till August 21, 2010!!! Enter promo code HON during the check-out process.

Check back often. We will be continuously adding new items to our "Secret Shop."

[S2]S2Lulu

S2 Staff Member

This Friday Nigth We..

... Not Patch!

But, we figured we would share one of the new ideas that we are working on for the next patch.

KEEP THIS IN MIND:
This is just an internal idea that is still in the "Playtesting" stages. This might not ever make it into the game if we find a better solution to what it is doing, but we are confident enough to share this with you all. No numbers since everything is in flux. Everything is subject to change. Everything. Deal with it!

Striders

Marchers + Recipe


Very cheap boots, gives just base Marchers movespeed and no other stats.

When you are out of combat for a little while, they build up bonus movespeed that you retain until you attack, cast a spell, get hit, or use an item (except wards or bottle, those don't reset it).

The point is to give a roamer/ganker who doesn't always get the last hits (or any farm at all) a cheap pair of boots that gives them awesome mobility. This lets them get from one lane to another much faster, but once they enter combat the boots are equivalent to just Marchers.

They are quite fun to play with I must say. =]

That's all for now, you will find out more when we patch!

New Hellbourne Trailer - Special Event F2P with Dr.Repulsor

Free 2 Play HoN 1 Week Full

You can now play HoN for FREE! Come join us for a Free To Play Week starting Monday, August 2nd at 1:00 PM EST and ending on Monday, August 9th at 1:00 PM EST.

Set up your free account and download the client at https://www.heroesofnewerth.com/free2play.php. It's fast and easy to do. You'll be playing HoN again in just minutes! And, for FREE.

Come see what you've been missing. You will have access to the full game and all 68 heroes, including the newest hero, Doctor Repulsor. You will be able to see all game replays, but no cumulative stats will be available for F2P accounts.

[S2]S2Lulu

S2 Staff Member