Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The 100th Hero Celebration Has Begun!


We've got our 100th hero Kinesis incoming and we aint afraid to show it! Starting today is our 100th hero celebration event, where we're giving away and unlocking oodles of content for both F2P and legacy players all week long.

If you hadn't noticed already, we've already activated double silver coin matchmaking and taken 75% off the gold coin prices of all non-Early Access heroes. The free hero rotation pool even got a little classic HoN loving for this week. Now for the fun part.

For the next week, we'll be giving away over $100,000 worth of Gold Goblin Coins. To qualify to win these coins, all you have to do is log in and win a matchmaking game of HoN. This will give you one entry to win a piece of our $100,000 Gold Coin Giveaway. You'll only be entered once each day, but dont let that stop you from Coins will be dispersed as follows:
  • Monday-Friday -
    1000 x $10 Gold coin packages each day
  • Saturday + Sunday -
    1000 x $50 Gold coin packages
  • Sunday -
    One Grand Prize Winner of 100,000 Gold Goblin Coins

Go HERE for an updated list of the winners!

In order to qualify for the grand prize, you must log in and win a matchmaking game of HoN everyday starting today until this Sunday, March 4th. Keep in mind that these times will be determined using our local time at S2 Games (EST, or GMT - 5:00).

In addition to the coin giveaway we will be releasing free copies of Kinesis through our social media channels at random times on launch day - Friday, March 2nd. To increase your chances of winning, Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/heroesofnewerth or follow us on twitter @heroesofnewerth. Only NA/EU players will be able to redeem these free copies of Kinesis and we'll be giving them out periodically all day long so stay closely tuned.

We'll also be hosting another S2 Games vs. The Community event this Friday, March 2nd to celebrate our 100th hero release. This time, we're waging an all out war and we've got exclusive symbols and Alt Avatars up for grabs for anyone who's up for a little friendly competition. All you have to do to qualify for community prizes is play a single game this Friday. Should S2 Games fall at the hand of the community, prize distribution will be as follows:
  • 5 x S2 Losses - 100 silver coins
  • 10 x S2 Losses - An exclusive symbol
  • 15 x S2 Losses - A free copy of the unreleased Voodoo Raptor Voodoo Jester Alt Avatar. We'll even throw in a copy of Voodoo Jester for those F2P players who still haven't picked him up yet.

To end the week with a bang for F2P, we're going to unlock all non-Early Access heroes from Friday, March 2nd until Sunday, March 4th

So let's get down and party like Newerth has never seen before. Its a celebration we want everyone to join in on and benefit from to thank everyone for their continued support.

A complete breakdown of this week's festivities can be found at: http://heroesofnewerth.com/100_hero.php

Kinesis Hero Spotlight

Friday, February 24, 2012

2.5.12 Patch Notes - Night hunter



Version 2.5.12
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- With our roster hero roster preparing to hit the big 100, this week's free hero pool is a throwback to HoN's youth
* We have expanded the free hero pool to include 24 old school heroes for this week only
* Swiftblade
* Sand Wraith
* The Madman
* Blood Hunter
* Night Hound
* Chronos
* Dark Lady
* Moon Queen

* Puppet Master
* Blacksmith
* Hellbringer
* Torturer
* Wretched Hag
* Pollywog Priest
* Ophelia
* Tempest

* Pharoah
* Magmus
* Maliken
* Hammerstorm
* Pandamonium
* Legionnaire
* Keeper of the Forest
* Pestilence

- Added Night Hound Alt Avatar: Night Hunter

- New taunt: Dropping G's Taunt

- Added a new command /friendlychat or /fc for short
* If a player turns this feature on their client will only accept incoming whispers, game invites, group invites and other similar messages if the sender is in their clan or on their buddy list

- The alt avatar list can now be sorted by release date (suggested by community member iruul)

- UI bug fixes: (Thanks to Elkano for his help with these)
* Right click menu no longer occasionally appears behind other windows
* Fixed bug causing notification icon tooltips to be stuck to the cursor
* Matchmaking window player double click invites no longer occasionally target the wrong player
* Added missing double tap announcer preview
* Improved sub-account drop-down behavior
* Fixed large stat numbers being cut off in post game stats screen
* Fixed bug causing add friend button to disappear in-game

- Matchmaking groups who have a large skill difference among their members will no longer be able to choose the "Fairer Match" option for their match fidelity
* An appropriate message will be displayed to the group leader indicating that the value they had selected is not available for their group should they try to

- Updated RAP interface

- The following Heroes have been removed from the Tournament Rules game mode:
* Artesia
* Bezerker
* Gravekeeper

- Fixed white textures showing up when you use the "Low" Model setting for:
* Behemoth
* Hammerstorm
* Hellbringer and Malphas
* Kongor
* Moon Queen
* Night Hound
* Pollywog Priest

- The Night Vision of the following heroes have been changed to 800:
* Bombardier (had 1200)
* Bubbles (had 1200)
* Deadwood (had 1200)
* Keeper of the Forest (had 1200)
* Torturer (had 900)
* Tremble (had 1200)
* Valkyrie (had 1200)

- Visual Exploits have been fixed that involve the following heroes:
* Deadwood
* Devourer
* Emerald Warden
* Engineer
* Fayde
* Gladiator
* Madman
* Revenant
* Sand Wraith
* Silhouette

- A new chatserver is needed this patch. You will automatically reconnect to the new one after patching
- Fixed an issue where players could repeatedly invite other players to create a clan even if they were already in a clan or in /dnd mode
- Players will no longer longer receive matchmaking group invites while in /dnd mode
- Fixed an issue where right-clicking the Auto-Join channel button in a chat room was not removing the saved channels from the Auto-Join channel list
- Fixed a display issue where a players MMR shown on the matchmaking interface would appear to be 1 point higher than it should have
- Fixed a "Tooltip Sticking" bug


== Items ==

Astrolabe
- Now does not apply the Astrolabe Immunity to Stormspirit'ed targets

Brutalizer
- No longer works with Split Attacks

Null Stone
- Reduced mana regeneration from 200% to 150%

Plated Greaves
- On use, now also grants +2 Armor to nearby heroes

Ring of the Teacher
- Reduced damage from 6 to 5

Savage Mace
- No longer works with Split Attacks

Sol's Bulwark
- No longer stacks incorrectly with or overrides Daemonic Breastplate

Staff of the Master
- Recipe old: Any two 1000g items + Glowstone + Recipe
- Recipe new: Glowstone + Mighty Blade + Quickblade + Neophyte's Book. Auto Assemble

Stormspirit
- Cast range reduced from 600 to 450
- Increased cost from 600 to 1000 gold
- Now cannot be healed while Stormspirit'ed


== Heroes ==

Amun-Ra
- Fixed Pyroclasmic Rebirth from playing in fog

Arachna
- Increased turnrate from 360 to 450

Behemoth
- Fissure increased duration from 5/6/7/8 to 6.5/7/7.5/8 seconds
- Shockwave tooltip update no longer affecting corpses.

Blacksmith
- Fixed Kuznya Avatar so that the icons in Flaming Hammer and Frenzy match the states
- Smoothed Kuznya's attack animations

Cthulhuphant
- Hook 'em can now target Allied creeps only at level 2 and above

Demented Shaman
- Unbreakerable health restored reduced from 150/250/350/450 to 125/200/275/350

Drunken Master
- Stagger's bonus Movement Speed and Attack Damage reduced from 20/40/60/80 to 15/30/45/60
- Drink's charges gained from 2/4/6/8 to 2/3/4/5 a second
- Drink's charged gained from enemy death from 2/4/6/8 to 2/3/4/5

Fayde
- Deep Shadows is now the correct cast type

Flux
- Fixed Discharge and Release from playing in fog
- Release's slow is now transferrable

Geomancer
- Added Staff of the Master effect:
* Adds a bonus 100/120/140 Magic Damage and 4 Second 50% Movement Speed Slow in a 600 radius to the explosion
* For reference, the normal explosion is 300 radius
- Fixed the Alt Avatar's model from playing Earth's Grasp animation/sound indefinitely if the target creep moves out of range & Geomancer is not aggro'ed/no other orders are carried out after casting Earth's Grasp
- Quicksand won't draw on the minimap anymore
- Quicksand is now a status debuff, meaning it can be dispelled and stolen/transferred

Gladiator
- Pitfall effects touched up

Hellbringer
- Starting Strength increased from 16 to 17
- Death Boil reduced manacost from 100/130/160/190 to 100/120/140/160

Keeper of the Forest
- Fixed Root from playing through fog

Legionnaire
- Fixed his Alt Avatar's Whirling Blade so it plays the correct model when spinning

Maliken
- Sword Throw teleport is no longer prevented by Immobilized

Midas
- Fixed Santa Midas' icons so they aren't blank
- Reduced starting agility from 16 to 12
- Reduced agility gain per level from 1.5 to 1.1
- Reduced starting armor from 3.24 to 1.18 (after agility nerf)
- Fixed Lion's Pride from playing through fog
- Lion's Pride reduced ranged from 900 to 800
- Cleaned up Transmute scripting a bit

Monarch
- Icon updated
- Alt Avatar sounds fixed
- Crippling Pollen duration reduced from 1.5/2/2.5/3 to 1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds
- Crippling Pollen increased damage per second from 50 to 70

Myrmidon
- Touched up previews

Parasite
- Infest can no longer target allied creeps until level 2

Pestilence
- Alt Avatar Horseman sounds updated


Pharaoh
- Reverted creep grab mechanic to only work on other heroes

Slither
- Toxin Ward vision increased from 300 to 600

Succubus
- Fixed icons

Tempest
- Elemental reduced magic armor from 17 to 15

Torturer
- Reduced starting agility from 23 to 16
- Chain reaction damage reduced from 70/140/210/280 to 65/130/195/260
- Agonizing Bonds cast range reduced from 700 to 650
- Agonizing Bonds damage rescaled from 80/140/200/260 to 65/130/195/260

Tremble
- Shudder renamed to Boris~!
- Terrorform increased gold gain on mounds from 25 to 25/30/35/40
- Boris no longer gains Impalers and instead gains a passive movespeed slow of 10/15/20%
- Increased gold gain from killing Boris from 75 to 75/100/125
- Boris's negative armor on Attack from -2/-4/-6 to -1/-2/-3
- Increased Boris's Attack Damage from 50/75/100 to 60/85/110

Tundra
- Cold Shoulder is now Magical instead of Physical

War beast
- Fixed effects

Wretched Hag
- Increased turn rate from 450 to 500
- Lowered Attack Action Time from 560ms to 500ms
* This is when the Attack Projectile launches