Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Got a message during a game this morning: Patch is being prepared for deployment. IT'S TODAY
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Heroes of Newerth |OT| Free-To-Play [PC /Mac /Linux]
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Procarbine
Forever Platinum
It was a system message sent out during the game to all players online. WHERE IS THE PATCH
I know it's pretty expected and I should be prepared for it, but seeing a date of nov 13 I somehow naturally expect the patch that day. But it obviously never is in european time ._. Oh well. Rather have a working patch tomorrow than a buggy rushed mess today, if there was still testing to be done till the very deadline 
Would be kinda cool, if S2 thinks they can get patch x into release state at feb 25 and they are going to announce it weeks ahead... Make the announcement for wed 26 and release it "surprise early" that day instead? Would be probably less whining online at least!
Would be kinda cool, if S2 thinks they can get patch x into release state at feb 25 and they are going to announce it weeks ahead... Make the announcement for wed 26 and release it "surprise early" that day instead? Would be probably less whining online at least!
Lone_Prodigy
Member
LoL is free, and accessible for those who've never played DotA. I started as a total DotA noob with HoN and it took a long time for me to become not totally incompetent.
And it's almost guaranteed that there will be bugs. I don't think I've ever seen a near-perfect launch of anything.
Matchmaking tonight? I'll probably be on from 7:30-10:00pm PST.
And it's almost guaranteed that there will be bugs. I don't think I've ever seen a near-perfect launch of anything.
Matchmaking tonight? I'll probably be on from 7:30-10:00pm PST.
spermatic cord
Member
Matchmaking not being out right now is the stupidest decision of all time. They could completely ignore all that other shit they put in here and I would be fine if team mm were enabled.
spermatic cord
Member
If matchmaking were in game right now I wouldn't be sitting in a room with 4 other people in a no ab game for 30 minutes...
I played a lot of casual mode with friends that don't play often. There were a lot more team fights in the game than normal and the new map facilitates that A TON. It was great fun and most everybody had a good time (except for one guy who didn't get his normal hero thanks to random). Casual mode gets an A in my book for what it tries to accomplish.
Archie said:
I thought everyone got at least one namechange for free? or was that a stat reset?
Anyway, I logged in just to check the shop and everything looks mighty expensive. It's actually worse than Microsoft points in there. I wonder just how much grinding we'll have to do to get a skin.
I'm 200% busy right now but will hopefully have time to get back into playing starting tomorrow night. TMM better show up soon!
Lone_Prodigy
Member
The UI changes will take some getting used to. At least I don't have to click on my teammates to see their builds anymore; just need a rollover.
Not really a fan of pinging the map and designating a target though. Often you're just pinging as an alert, not a call to attack. And "NEMESIS" is way overdone.
Not really a fan of pinging the map and designating a target though. Often you're just pinging as an alert, not a call to attack. And "NEMESIS" is way overdone.
Whew. Finally able to sit down and chill after finishing up (don't worry, my portion of the work for MM is done, and everyone else is working on it this very moment). Been reading a chunk of the thread so far, haven't gotten through all of it.
I can probably answer at least a few questions relating to the patch if you guys are interested.
I can probably answer at least a few questions relating to the patch if you guys are interested.
I want to know how the coin thing is gonna work out. Nobody has said exactly what kind of income we can be expecting game-to-game. I'd assume it's pretty low so people won't have everything in, like, a day, but it'd be nice to get some numbers so I can know if the Sand King skin will take me 5 games or 50.
spermatic cord
Member
If I had to guess it's gonna take more games for fake money than less.
Kapura said:
I think it'll be pretty safe to say that given users' average rates of play, they'll be able to get items every while or so - even if they don't do particularly well in each match. Still is much faster to win though.
spermatic cord said:
A lot of time was spent considering the amount of games that might be required to earn a decent amount of coins (and the amount of grinding that people may do). I think we've chosen numbers that generally favor the majority of players' play times and it's my understanding that we're willing to accept players' willingness to grind hardcore for items - it'll keep more people playing longer, and that's good for things like the matchmaking system which benefits from high activity (far shorter queue times), etc.
kagete said:
As far as I understand, PSR still has its place, and MMR will not simply start at 1500 for everyone. I'm not sure about the specifics.
Lyphen said:
There's a bunch of ways to earn gold in a match/as you play subsequent matches and they're set up to give some nice rewards to the entire team in addition to the player who met the reward condition.
Lyphen said:
Got a kick out of that first time I saw it. Hope nobody takes it too seriously though.
spermatic cord
Member
Any upcoming changes to Casual Mode? At first the idea seemed interesting in changing the way HON was going to be played but after playing a few matches it just feels like EM mode on steroids. The hero pool is basically limited to hard carries.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
spermatic cord said:
I think the issue with CM (and EM) is that you can't make the entire metagame accessible to casual players so you have to take liberties with certain advanced concepts in the game (denying, for one). Unfortunately it skews hero selection toward late-game carries (just like EM did). Plus no one will ward/courier in casual games, will not feed kills to the carry, pull neutrals, etc.
spermatic cord
Member
Team Matchmaking coming incoming
