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What's New in Heroes of Newerth 2.0

Brad sits down with S2's senior game designer Pu Liu to see what's new...erth.

Dec. 3 2010

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Heroes of Newerth

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HoN is really great if you liked DoTA check it out!

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Bradley Shoemaker: suber noob.

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@Lifestrike said:
" @Nonentity said:
" Decent, I guess. Not a fan of HoN.  Also, T-minus 10 posts to LoL and HoN slapfights. "
*slaps HoN fans* "
What excellent foresight!
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This patch is gonna be awesome. Can't wait!

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@Jeffsekai
Lame, who cares it just trying to be LoL
Why would it want to be something worse?
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I love how people keep saying "LoL" so seriously.
 
also
@TheRedOne said:

" Multi-player is all well and good, but I like to play my HoN solo.  "

...you win the internet. :)
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Casual mode is a good idea, it seemed like most of the assholes from the DotA community went to the HoN community. 
 
Though, League of Legends is more noob friendly and free, so maybe people don't feel as entitled as with HoN. If I was paying for the game I would probably be more pissed off if a noob ruined a 40 minute game for me.
 
Its cool that LoL and HoN have differentiated themselves from eachother. I'm definitely a fan of LoL though.

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LoL sucks
come at me nerds
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@Xeiphyer:  You must not play much LoL if you think it doesn't have its fair share of assholes. 
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Now isn't that DoTa part deux...

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HoN is a game that only works if you've played ridiculous amounts of DotA, cause it's got just as horrible an interface and stuff, so you pretty much need to know exactly what to do before coming in. Cause 95% of the playerbase are pro DotA players, and they will fucking MURDER your ass. 
LoL is way more forgiving in that respect.

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@ZachRost said:
" @Xeiphyer:  You must not play much LoL if you think it doesn't have its fair share of assholes.  "
Nah, I said most of them. Still plenty of assholes in LoL.
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@daghastlybeast said:
" all i hear is "i'm bad at games so i love LoL"  man up nerds "
I can tell you came from the thread on the HoN forums, right? xD Heroes of Newerth is awesome, but no need to hate. ^__^
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@NekuSakuraba said:
" @Jeffsekai
Lame, who cares it just trying to be LoL
Why would it want to be something worse? "
idk bro ask them. 
 
They are taking everything the makes LoL different and adding it to HoN.
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Hands Of Sorrow knight for WC3 is better than HoN or LoL

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Okay, you guys. I haven't played Heroes of Newerth, but having just gotten out of my fourth consecutive match of League of Legends where we lost because literally no one would communicate with me, I'm starting to think that, maybe, being free to play isn't the best course of action when you're playing a game that requires strategy. 
 
I'm interested in Heroes of Newerth. I'd like to think that, because people pay for it, they genuinely want to play and will attempt to, you know, play. 

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Video didn't seem very informative to me, although I will admit I'm not 100% with it at the moment. I didn't get what casual mode was as it didn't seem to be explained very well. I love the store though, hopefully coins aren't too hard to earn through playing the game as I don't think I'd want to spend money on it (and by the looks of it it's bloody expensive!).

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Why isn't this called Quicklook EX ?

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DarkDude, take a look here:
 
 http://worthplaying.com/article/2010/12/2/previews/78586/

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Holy fuck the character he chose is super annoying. Towards the end it was bordering on "Rider, meet horse" levels of annoyance.

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@sissylion said:
" Okay, you guys. I haven't played Heroes of Newerth, but having just gotten out of my fourth consecutive match of League of Legends where we lost because literally no one would communicate with me, I'm starting to think that, maybe, being free to play isn't the best course of action when you're playing a game that requires strategy. 
 
I'm interested in Heroes of Newerth. I'd like to think that, because people pay for it, they genuinely want to play and will attempt to, you know, play.  "
I'm pretty sure the only way to get good teammates in any game is Arranged Team.  This is kind of a universal constant, from MMOs to FPSs to DotAs.
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@floodiastus said:
" HoN is a glorious awesome game, but, it lacks innovation. It is more or less DOTA. Whereas LoL got a ton of new and fresh ideas that make the game more complex and customizable. On the other hand, LoL looks like total shit ;) "
Yes! LoL is fun but the art-style, graphics and their lame internet meme-jokes just get on my nerves, it just seems to be for kids (one of the characters is a giant ball of spaghetti for christ sakes). Now Hon seems to be moving in that direction too.
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While SC2 has been draining 100% of ReTarDedFisHy's gaming time, the introduction of a possibly shorter game of HoN is very attractive. Want. 
 
Edit: ReTarDedFisHy just bought an account for himself :)  
Used to just share one with his brother.

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Could they do a quick look on good snacks.

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@andybear said:
" LoL sucks
come at me nerds "
y u mad tho? brah u just jelly of ma skills. come at me bro
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@oatz said:
" @andybear said:
" LoL sucks
come at me nerds "
y u mad tho? brah u just jelly of ma skills. come at me bro "

Why was I involved in this quote pyramid?
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It seems they grabbed some ques from LoL and the good thing is they took it farther than LoL did. Now sadly LoL seems to be behind. I'm never going to play HoN, but I don't want all the competition to convert to another game!

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@sissylion:  I can see it, a natural honrager! You should wait till 2.0 comes in hon before buying it.
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looks cool, still.
 
But I dont have time to get good at it and otherwise people just hated me everywhere I went.

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The characters never seem to shut up. I'm guessing you can turn that off, but who thought the constant repeat of vo was a good idea.

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Yup this still looks like DotA.

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@MrCaptain: Wait, which is the giant ball of spaghetti.  I think I have almost every champion in LoL, and can't recall any like that.  
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@Addfwyn: 
Heimerdinger. maybe its supposed to be a giant brain or something but its too silly ether way