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Heroes of Newerth |OT| Free-To-Play [PC /Mac /Linux]
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Sebulon3k said:If it didn't have the leg details there would be no question that its an original concept, but those legs
Yeh without the swirls and curves in the fur, you might be able to say it was maybe coincidental. But he/she very very clearly took direct influence from Okami and didnt think enough about differentiating this from the original Okami design.
Just seems lazy.
Or on purpose; nowadays people will always replicate what is good and popular on that premise alone. Ie. Having an Okami like character is perhaps an incentive for some people to play the hero and enjoy it. Because they like Okami a lot.
I don't think it's lazy, but done on purpose. Hon avatars have always been a mix of tongueincheek or slight tweaks or even blatant ripoffs of common fantasy tropes or existing dota heroes. Let's not pretend like they have stuck to their original savage lore and have a consistent unified artstyle when chtulhuphant, spacemarine behemoth/midas, and vacationdampeer exists already.
If they would do a wolf i'd prefer something along the lines of:
If they would do a wolf i'd prefer something along the lines of:
Sebulon3k said:Should've made the hero look like this, and no one would've complained
To be fair though, isn't Amaterasu a part of Japanese Shinto religion? Maybe their just basing it off the same person, with very similar look.
I can't see anyone seeing that image and not thinking they copied Okami though.
Same Circular type details on the fur, are a dead giveaway where it's inspired from.
Fucking weeaboos.
Archie said:
"Lack of maps" and then right after that was "too many heroes" lol.
Also "Casual-friendly features lacking"? when people start playing Dota 2 going to be intestersting.
And why did it take them nearly a year and a half to review HoN.
Squire Felix said:
What do you mean, they don't stack? You can't keep swapping every 5 seconds?
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=347683
We should try queueing as 5 and see if we go up against them.
We should try queueing as 5 and see if we go up against them.
Lone_Prodigy
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1400 TMM group go.
PuppetYuber
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Thanks idejder!!
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Puppet and Swag, so lucky.
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What you talking about, I had his stream up all day.
You swindled, but not me!
You swindled, but not me!
PillowKnight
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Could be to make 2-1-2 viable in comp games. The pull just gives bot/top lane too much of an advantage.Ikuu said:
Ah so warding their pull will block it for at least the first pull because the first rev ward won't be available until a minute into the game. I guess this is really just for the competitive scene that focuses on a try lane that autobuys a counterward from the start to ensure they can pull and jungle effectively from the start. It is... arguably OK. Typical TMM games don't feature rev wards being bought at level 1 anyway, so most players won't even feel the effect. By the time they'd think about getting a rev ward, the cooldown would have came and went many times over.
It's basically like matchmaking except we have our own ratings system and teams are drafted instead of randomized. Balancing is ad-hoc, since we don't have enough data to balance by numbers. Although, one of the reasons we're doing this in the first place is as an experiment to see what works/what doesn't and data for future IHL games in HoN or DOTA2.