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Heroes of Newerth |OT| Free-To-Play [PC /Mac /Linux]
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I've tried, several smurfs accounts. I hate that kind of people, they love screwing up someone else's fun.
The first game there were 2 smurfs in the opposite team, we lost very fast. In the 2nd one, there were 2 in our team and one in the enemy team, so I could try more things. But I don't really like the game, the fog of war is very close to the char, you can't zoom out properly, and so on.
And I don't want to play with smurfs for who knows how much time, so bye bye
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The first game there were 2 smurfs in the opposite team, we lost very fast. In the 2nd one, there were 2 in our team and one in the enemy team, so I could try more things. But I don't really like the game, the fog of war is very close to the char, you can't zoom out properly, and so on.
And I don't want to play with smurfs for who knows how much time, so bye bye
.Lone_Prodigy
Member
kagete said:
PK on every hero. Even Hag and Magebane.
I don't understand this, when I tried playing LoL there were much more smurfs and leavers than my games in HoN.Valygar said:I've tried, several smurfs accounts. I hate that kind of people, they love screwing up someone else's fun.
The first game there were 2 smurfs in the opposite team, we lost very fast. In the 2nd one, there were 2 in our team and one in the enemy team, so I could try more things. But I don't really like the game, the fog of war is very close to the char, you can't zoom out properly, and so on.
And I don't want to play with smurfs for who knows how much time, so bye bye
how sad cuz dota fog is even worseValygar said:I've tried, several smurfs accounts. I hate that kind of people, they love screwing up someone else's fun.
The first game there were 2 smurfs in the opposite team, we lost very fast. In the 2nd one, there were 2 in our team and one in the enemy team, so I could try more things. But I don't really like the game, the fog of war is very close to the char, you can't zoom out properly, and so on.
And I don't want to play with smurfs for who knows how much time, so bye bye
delirium said:
I don't know why, but when I started playing LoL I played only with my friends, and we only encountered a smurf in the enemy team like 1 out of 10 games. That was back in march, or something like that. But I guess now it should be worse than in HoN, and the worst was when the European server was crashing almost daily and a lot of people were playing on the US server with a smurf account.
I'll try a few more games, two is not enough to have a fair opinion about the game. Any recomendations for newbie-friendly champions?
Teknopathetic
Member
I use it out of spite, now.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Valygar said:
Join the "Clan NeoGAF" channel and play with some of us, or jump in our in house games at night (8pm+ EST) to play or just hang out and get some laughs in, we always have a good time.
Good heroes to start with are Plague Rider, Kraken, Witch Slayer, Armadon, and maybe Slither. In-game hero guides are a good place to start, but not the end-all guide to the hero. Don't be afraid to ask for advice. The biggest thing with new HoN players is to not judge the game too soon, because starting out the game is brutally hard without extensive dota experience. LoL only helps so much.
Sanja-claw
http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/news/16461-mi-julz-asus-interviewed-by-gosugamers
Looks like Dota 2 right now doesn't have every Dota hero in game.
Looks like Dota 2 right now doesn't have every Dota hero in game.
For new players: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU5URjPUJ24
Top 5 heroes for new players.
Top 5 heroes for new players.
Teknopathetic
Member
As a noob, I think Thunderbringer is a pretty noob friendly champion.
Meteorain said:
You think that's bad, when I play Street fighter AE I get caught saying hero instead of character/player all the time. It's a curse.
Procarbine said:
Man I was so looking forward to go up against Maliken with my build that game.
Guesong said:
People call my SS the shittiest they ever seen, but don't listen to them, keep picking SS!
FromTheFuture
Member
Guesong said:
Come on the Mumble server a bit more. I will personally watch over you and coach everything you do. And I'm sure others will pitch in as well.
And try to not let the things people say get to you. People will say things, and even people who are worse than you will call you a noob and stuff. It's just the unfortunate side of HoN. If you can avoid it, don't play solo queue TMM, but instead join one of the GAF groups. I'm sure you'd learn a lot more and have a lot more fun if you did so.
Freakinchair
Member
FromTheFuture said:
Come on the Mumble server a bit more. I will personally watch over you and coach everything you do. And I'm sure others will pitch in as well.
And try to not let the things people say get to you. People will say things, and even people who are worse than you will call you a noob and stuff. It's just the unfortunate side of HoN. If you can avoid it, don't play solo queue TMM, but instead join one of the GAF groups. I'm sure you'd learn a lot more and have a lot more fun if you did so.
Yeah, the GAF community is very nice and helpful for the most part
Just dont ask Alumnus (fromthefuture) how to counter Monkey King because he's bad at that.
FromTheFuture
Member
Oh, I'm over that broken ass hero now. I can deal with him easy. If he's in my game and he's on the other team, I just quit. Problem solved!Freakinchair said:Yeah, the GAF community is very nice and helpful for the most part
Just dont ask Alumnus (fromthefuture) how to counter Monkey King because he's bad at that.
Jungling might be worth a shot if you're new, don't need to bother with last hitting and at lower levels people won't come and gank you.
I don't get the UI comments, especially when people have played the game twice and say it sucks, but don't say what is wrong with it.
I don't get the UI comments, especially when people have played the game twice and say it sucks, but don't say what is wrong with it.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I don't think Kraken is a noob-friendly hero. Placement of his ult takes some practice.
Jungling can be hard unless you're Tempest, Keeper, or Wildsoul. I've seen plenty of bad Legos and Preds die to neutrals. Also, don't ever pick a jungler when the other team has Blood Hunter.
Jungling can be hard unless you're Tempest, Keeper, or Wildsoul. I've seen plenty of bad Legos and Preds die to neutrals. Also, don't ever pick a jungler when the other team has Blood Hunter.
Lone_Prodigy said:
In my noobie opinion, jungle is easy but not simple. Also stressful.
Was having alot of trouble timing when to take on a creep stack, to stack properly and so earlier with Tempest ; fights themselves were easy but the whole process...like you KNOW you can be more efficient but that requires technique.
And stressful because dammit a gank on you is so easily done, especially when you buy wards and they get destroyed because enemy has eye or something and some dude keep telling you to buy wards and you're like DAMMIT I DID AND THERE'S NO POINT IN IT and you get railed and then you are fearful and jungle less and as such are not efficient and as such you get railed on even more.
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Yeah I think I'll try to TMM with you guys alot more lol
www.playdota.com/forums/430551-page25/dota-2-discussion/
Bunch of little dota 2 tidbits from the gosugamers interviews..shadowfiend and doombringer is in the game and they look similiar? Sniper's assassinate has the awp sound effect from cs lol
Bunch of little dota 2 tidbits from the gosugamers interviews..shadowfiend and doombringer is in the game and they look similiar? Sniper's assassinate has the awp sound effect from cs lol
That was just his nuke. It did 100/150/200/250 damage and 250 bonus damage if the other person's level was a factor of 6/5/4/3. Which lead to some pretty funny scenarios, where they'd level up and it just happened to be a factor of my LVL? Death and I blew them up, or if I leveled up and then put a point into LVL? Death and blew them up.Dreavus said:
The best part, however, was Doom, which basically said "no, fuck your bullshit," to any one hero.
The MrMister HoN IH Curse: I win a game, I lose 3. In addition, I get to play horrible in those games.
The problem is that I hold myself to a high standard, yet I can never meet that standard, even if I do well and my team wins there's a good chance my brain is going "That was bad.", fuck my skills. I should be 1600 at least if I were to get back into TMM.
The problem is that I hold myself to a high standard, yet I can never meet that standard, even if I do well and my team wins there's a good chance my brain is going "That was bad.", fuck my skills. I should be 1600 at least if I were to get back into TMM.
Ikuu said:
It's not intuitive, that's all. My main concern is the shop, the first time I tried to buy something I could not, because single click didnt work, double click didnt, and when I managed to do secondary click I didn't have enough money. I tried to look what were the secondary items to do the big one, and once again I couldn't.
Also I don't like the general UI because it's a bit done in baroque style. I like UI's to be very simple, not "beautiful" or something like that. But well, all these are concerns that once you get used to it you just don't care.
About the game, I'm going to give it a shot. Done 2 games with witch slayer, it was very bad but at least I knew more or less what was happening on screen. That you lose money if you die is not newbie-friendly at all, so I can't buy anything and I suck even more as the game goes on.
Not much:
Version 2.1.2
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- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Wildsoul
* Emerald Warden
* Aluna
* Nomad
* Pandamonium
* Electrican
* Moraxus
* Tempest
* Myrmidon
* Dampeer
* Torturer
* Succubus
* Accursed
* Flux
* Hellbringer
- Purchasing Early Access to a hero now unlocks a Limited Edition Alt Avatar for that hero for free
* This Limited Edition Alt Avatar is only available while the hero is Early Access
* You can see what the Alt Avatar looks like in the Early Access part of the Hon Store
* All prior purchases of Monkey King will be given the new Alt Avatar automatically
- Hero picking screen expanded
* OMG HOW DID WE DO THAT? MAGIC!
- UI fixes to the HoN Store and game lobby
- Fixed some spec UI cornercase bugs
- New option that lets you switch between OpenGL and DirectX in options
== Items ==
- Abyssal Skull, Nome's Wisdom, and Refreshing Ornament can now be toggled between all and only heroes
== Heroes ==
- New Intelligence Hero: Rhapsody
- New Early Access Agility Hero: Master of Arms
- Added a new Premium Alt Avatar: Overseer Hellbringer
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Commander of Arms
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Jade Warrior
Drunken Master
- Fixes him playing animations while dead
Martyr
- Can now cast Hand in Hand on Magic Immune units
Monkey King
- Fixes to him hitting people who are Physical Immune
Parasite
- Tweak to Infest so it checks better for when he dies
- Fixed Infest giving gold and exp from allied units in cornercase situations
Tempest
- Tweak pets visuals
Version 2.1.2
-----------
- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Wildsoul
* Emerald Warden
* Aluna
* Nomad
* Pandamonium
* Electrican
* Moraxus
* Tempest
* Myrmidon
* Dampeer
* Torturer
* Succubus
* Accursed
* Flux
* Hellbringer
- Purchasing Early Access to a hero now unlocks a Limited Edition Alt Avatar for that hero for free
* This Limited Edition Alt Avatar is only available while the hero is Early Access
* You can see what the Alt Avatar looks like in the Early Access part of the Hon Store
* All prior purchases of Monkey King will be given the new Alt Avatar automatically
- Hero picking screen expanded
* OMG HOW DID WE DO THAT? MAGIC!
- UI fixes to the HoN Store and game lobby
- Fixed some spec UI cornercase bugs
- New option that lets you switch between OpenGL and DirectX in options
== Items ==
- Abyssal Skull, Nome's Wisdom, and Refreshing Ornament can now be toggled between all and only heroes
== Heroes ==
- New Intelligence Hero: Rhapsody
- New Early Access Agility Hero: Master of Arms
- Added a new Premium Alt Avatar: Overseer Hellbringer
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Commander of Arms
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Jade Warrior
Drunken Master
- Fixes him playing animations while dead
Martyr
- Can now cast Hand in Hand on Magic Immune units
Monkey King
- Fixes to him hitting people who are Physical Immune
Parasite
- Tweak to Infest so it checks better for when he dies
- Fixed Infest giving gold and exp from allied units in cornercase situations
Tempest
- Tweak pets visuals
It's pretty easy with Wildsoul and I always forget to stack, and at lower levels people don't try all that much to come in and mess with you, just throw up some wards just to be safe. The only problem is with the person soloing, but aslong as they don't mess up that badly it's fine.Guesong said:
Most games with WS I end up with stupid farm compared to the rest, and then proceed to shit all over the other team.