Heroes of Newerth

[Cookiz]

Good day. Just wondering about some otakus' who plays Heroes of Newerth --> short HoN.
It would be interesting to deal with you/play together. Give and gain experience! Add me ingame --> Cookiz or leave a message!
Open for discussions related to HoN!

[GoGeTa006]

Im a HoN player myself, made a thread about it. . .but it just got washed away. . .they like LoL here

[Cookiz]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa t. LoL? for real? o_O Me no liky

Add me ingame? And we could take a game? :3

[ant900]

I have a HoN account but I never play it, I play LoL instead.  If I wanted to play a DoTA clone I would just play DoTA (or the soonish to be released DoTA2).

[Ufgt]

I play HoN. Strictly a 1500-1600 player though, because I'm bad and make bad decisions rofl.

Add me: Ufgt

It seems like LoL has a MASSIVE player base over HoN because of the free-ness of it. Seen this on numerous forums already.

[xShadow]

Looks like HoN has gone F2P.

"Time to get your free game HoN! Heroes of Newerth is now free-to-play, operating under a new model designed to expand the HoN community and enhance the gameplay for our existing fan base. In just over a year’s time we’ve grown to be a community of 540,000 players – a direct testament to our game’s quality. With the transition to free-to-play we’re opening HoN up to new audiences as you can now easily introduce the game to your friends. To learn more about HoN or to create an account and download the game, visit http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/f2p_create.php

2 has a serious level of commitment to our current players to continuously improve both the game and their experience. We have gone to great lengths to ensure that the superior experience HoN delivers will remain untouched for our loyal fan base during and after the free-to-play transition. Existing players should read the following post for details on how the new model works and what to expect during the transition."

Just got this 5 hours ago in my email.

540 thousand... a drop in the bucket for LoL.

Let's see if their new model will work. Personally I"m kind of tempted to give it a shot. It's exactly like DoTA, except improved a bit, IIRC?

[Sosseres]

HoN stopped reflecting DotA a while ago. Something about copyright problems with them directly copying its patches. It was like 90%+ the same for a long while though. Probably still a bit below 90% the same. I havn't actually played HoN, so I can just trust second hand reports.

Added new Strength hero: Flux

Having a patch note that simply says that and forces me to go into heros and look it up feels like something that is bad enough for me to skip considering a f2p game when comparing it with its competitors. Generally speaking I hate f2p games.

[xShadow]

HoN stopped reflecting DotA a while ago. Something about copyright problems with them directly copying its patches. It was like 90%+ the same for a long while though. Probably still a bit below 90% the same. I havn't actually played HoN, so I can just trust second hand reports.

Added new Strength hero: Flux

Having a patch note that simply says that and forces me to go into heros and look it up feels like something that is bad enough for me to skip considering a f2p game when comparing it with its competitors. Generally speaking I hate f2p games.

What competitors? There are no paid competitors to it. DoTA itself is simply a mod.

As for the last part of your first sentence/paragraph, you should probably have a go yourself before judging it. It's free now anyway. *Shrug*

I haven't tried it much myself though. I played it a bit during closed beta (or was it open? Don't remember anymore), but I don't remember what I actually did in it....

[Sosseres]

A mod is a competitor with real games. Please tell those that made CS or DotA that it can't be. Both those mods are probably among the most played non-MMO games with a competitive scene and money involved.

[xShadow]

A mod is a competitor with real games. Please tell those that made CS or DotA that it can't be. Both those mods are probably among the most played non-MMO games with a competitive scene and money involved.

... I never said that they can't be. I'm saying that DoTA is itself Free to Play. It's a mod, hence it's completely free. Perhaps different in the sense you CAN'T buy anything in it... but it's still a free to play "game".

There are currently no non-F2P competitors to HoN (unless you count the initial purchase of WC3... though tbh my not-quite-proper version of it started working on Battlenet <_<).

[Sosseres]

Oh I didn't count it as F2P due to the theoretical wc3 cost. Probably where the misunderstanding came up. Most mod games require you to "buy" the original game for them to work.

[Ufgt]

Free to play now, and MMR reset. Should be an interesting couple of weeks while the ladder gets sorted out.

F2P model doesn't affect me, really. I just keep playing verified anyways.

[xShadow]

I think I'll give it a shot. Probably gonna start out in casual mode (though I'll probably suck there anyway, since I haven't done DoTA in ages).


Edit:
I lost the first one, won the second one.

In the first game I was playing a support champ that was just weird. "Drag your mouse to set up a wall"; I thought the wall would outright prevent them from moving past it but somehow people kept going through it. It was just really annoying to use.

Second game I played some witch hunter guy or something. He had some nice disables and stuff. Was actually kinda fun. But I could tell the people I was laning against were bad. I may not play well myself but I know when others aren't playing well. Oh, and my team this time was actually just good...

[Ramnator]

The first hero you played is called "Empath", and the skill that makes makes a wall only affects enemy heroes. Allies can walk through it.