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[31 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

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[31 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

So I read this:
“Special guests will include Laura “[S2]S2Lulu” Baker, the Marketing Manager for S2 Games.

Topics will include:
Direction of Heroes of Newerth
Plans for Promotion of HoN
And everyone’s favorite topic, how it feels to be a female in a completely deprived male infested community!
Last but not least, plans for HoN’s release, and what that entails!”
..and thought.. I wanna know about that stuff! Boy was I wrong.
I don’t know if you are into podcasts. I myself haven’t found the patience to go through all of the ones I’ve tried to listen …

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[27 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

Version 0.1.66
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General
- Banning Pick
* 3 bans per team, done by captains. Then alternates everyone picking their own heroes out of the remaining choices.
* 60s total extra time is given per team. Time is subtracted from your extra time when the normal countdown has reached 0. If the extra time reaches 0, a random choice is made.
- Attack abilities (Webbed Shot) and attack toggles (Harkon’s Blade) now override attack modifiers (Frostwolf, etc)
- Building invulnerability now provides 9999 Magic Armor as well as the Physical Armor
- When a player buys back, it …

Featured, Guest Posts, World of Warcraft »

[25 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]
Attention WoW Bloggers!

I’m looking for WoW bloggers to post once a week on their class.

Heroes of Newerth »

[22 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

This patch has NOT been released yet. Meaning they could change anything on here.
Official Notes here: http://gamerofsorts.com/2010/01/hon-official-1-66-patch-notes/

Notes To-Date for Upcoming 0.1.66
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General
- Banning Pick
* 3 bans per team, done by captains. Then alternates everyone picking their own heroes out of the remaining choices.
* 60s total extra time is given per team. Time is subtracted from your extra time when the normal countdown has reached 0. If the extra time reaches 0, a random choice is made.
- Building invulnerability now provides 9999 Magic Armor as well as the Physical Armor
- If …

Heroes of Newerth »

[17 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

After my first game of HoN I realized that people disconnect often. And by often I mean 70% of the games I play there is always at least 1 disconnect. It’s more than frustrating to play a game and be at a sudden disadvantage because our carry has decided to quit at 15 minutes because he died. So reading about the No Leaver game option I decided I was only going to play games that had it enabled.
The No Leaver option means that it will not allow players with over …

Heroes of Newerth »

[15 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

Be sure to bookmark: Current HoN Patch Notes. It will always have the most current patch notes. No more searching google!
Version 0.1.65
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General
- Significant Lane Creep AI changes
* These all involve the assist trigger that causes the creeps to aggro you when you attack an enemy hero:
1. When a hero causes the assist trigger to go off, there is a 200ms delay before the creeps will turn and come at you
2. Creeps will chase for exactly 1600ms (down from 1800ms)
3. If a creep is in the middle of an …

Heroes of Newerth »

[11 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

Version 0.1.64
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- Fixed the crash that happened when you have a mod installed
- Fixed the Hellbourne Meatball building so it cannot be attacked by the Hellbourne
Version 0.1.63
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General
- REPLAYS!
* Due to a technical hurdle(and us getting a new giant FTP to store these things), replays will not be able to be downloaded from past versions. All replays from this version forward will always work (backwards compatible!) and you can download any of them through the Match Stats panel when online.
* “It’s like a time machine, you can only go back to …

Hero Guides, Heroes of Newerth »

[8 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]
HoN Quick Glance Guide to All Heroes

Please go to the following for up to date quick 30 second hero guides:
Heroes A-J
Heroes K-P
Heroes R-Z

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[6 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]

Alrighty guys here’s to come:

A 1 stop shop for a quick 30 seconds hero guide. Basically it’s going to be a page were you can quickly find a skill and item build for all heroes. This is for all those times were you play BD or SD and just need a quick glance to get you started. It’ll also include a link to the guide that I used to give the item/skill build so for later if you are interested you can read the entire thing.

More hero guides. I’ve only …