[OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Brinson » 16 Dec 2009, 19:24

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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby JesterJ. » 16 Dec 2009, 20:40

Family dinner/celebrating my friend getting into MIT. Soz. Wont be on tonight.
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Postby Oderus Urungus » 18 Dec 2009, 06:27

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Postby Oderus Urungus » 18 Dec 2009, 16:34

stopped a little after 15 hours when we couldn't get a game for some reason...
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Xix » 24 Dec 2009, 15:22

New version out now.
Two new heroes, some overhauls on others.
Murloc hero is imba.
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Postby Oderus Urungus » 24 Dec 2009, 16:27

Dark Seer and Razor got crushed....but...CHAOS KNIGHT GOT HELLA BOOSTED!! YA!!!
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Xix » 13 Jan 2010, 20:31

New map, new balances.
I think they totally buffed Doombringer now.
Now he gets stomp and/or any abilities the creeps have.
Imagine him with net?! Oh god.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Kyran » 25 Feb 2010, 09:30

Oh hi there. I play the Hons. Join me in the Hons? Yes?

Also, my IGN is Daedrin. I'm about 1700PSR normally. It was about...1400 yesterday. Working it back up. Teaching noob friends is hard.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Smeghead » 03 Jul 2010, 08:47

Something for you guys: Touhou DotA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODdYnIeJG8s
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Skystryke » 11 Aug 2010, 13:49

Not sure if yo guys have seen this but it might interest you.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... k-for-DotA
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Merrymaker_Mortalis » 19 Nov 2010, 00:52

Seems today, on the day of Desert Bus, a new hero will be released:

http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showt ... p?t=182879

Coincidence? Will this year's be bless'd with axes of the fallen gods? Nah it just means it's time for a dual moniter usesage and playing just no-stats games.

On a serious note, this hero excites me. I personally enjoy playing "Tank" heroes (well, more hard carries with alot of health). Seems to me, he is very much a portal key hero. Need numbers and figures and to actually piss about with him to gain a better understanding really.

As always, people who can pick him up very quickly will be blooming sick with this guy.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby simesdink » 29 Nov 2010, 03:01

Really I want to play a new game, like tonight DotA or something, my name is Birdhouse I will probably be up 12-1, then send me a whisper, if someone wants to play something.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby dulcesTeve » 02 May 2011, 01:31

Been playing Dota recently but I keep on using the -WTF cheat for the mana cost not to cool down .
Aside from that, I keep on playing the Onepiece vs Bleach that was part of the Warcraft3 game.. :D



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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby the_lone_bard » 01 Jun 2011, 23:46

So anyone still play hon?
i got it a week or so ago and have nobody to play with, which is rather discouraging when i get yelled at for picking nighthound.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby ANeMzero » 29 Jul 2011, 05:48

Heroes of Newerth has now gone free to play, should anyone be interested.
and now; back to me.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Draken693 » 12 Sep 2011, 08:04

I'm just curious what everyone's opinion on League of Legends is here.

My views it is a much more simplified version of DotA but I still enjoy it.

I feel like there will be some hatred but still.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Merrymaker_Mortalis » 14 Sep 2011, 06:24

Draken693 wrote:I'm just curious what everyone's opinion on League of Legends is here.

My views it is a much more simplified version of DotA but I still enjoy it.

I feel like there will be some hatred but still.


HoN is a closer representation of DotA than LoL, so if you want to practise for DotA2 then HoN is better.

HoN and LoL are just two different games. HoN is a DotA clone, LoL is doing a good job at making itself different. There's no creep denying in LoL (except a few heroes' spells, but they're cooldown rather than something you spam like Plague Rider's or Laning Parasite's). LoL is emphasises more on ganking as a Team. HoN is about a complex web of teamplay; warding, ganking the enemy carry/enemy in general so your carry can farm in pease/gets kills, using spells conjointend for 'teamplay'.

Both are now F2P, however Hon gives a larger variety of cycled-free heroes to play than LoL. HoN has an in-game hero guide, LoL as far as I'm aware doesn't. LoL people don't have a clue and don't really care about the game. HoN some people still don't have a clue but care too much.

The graphic style of LoL makes it hard to know what's actually going on. HoN's crisper.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Merrymaker_Mortalis » 04 Oct 2011, 09:21

I think Heroes of Newerth would be a better game if it was less cuntful towards the losing team.

1) For a start bitter players who bicker and play the blame game/rubbish players who are too up their own arses refusing to be responsable for an aspect of losing.

2) Gleeful opposing players who enjoy rubbing salt into wounds. Yes, it's competative spur of the moment comments but they really are not needed.

3) Getting steamrolled is not fun.

4) Having some announcer saying a variation of "DEFEAT" really helps the 'at least I played my best' attitude die.

I know life is cruel and competative sports is about the winning and the saying "it's the taking part which counts" is said by hippy unhealthily optimists. HoN is a game. So why does it make you feel like if you don't win you'll die a painful death. In tourment games there's the element of 'losing to the better team, good game'. In the pleb public matches it's just bile and poison swapness. A little sportsmanship attitude in HoN would make the game more enjoyable. There isn't that in the game. Any amount drowns in the quagmire of human failour. Doesn't help that the game mechanics and voice announcers reinforce this "you're shit go off and die in a corner" feeling.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Merrymaker_Mortalis » 02 Dec 2011, 02:13

Well I have DotA 2 Beta...
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Trymantha » 06 Jan 2012, 14:40

Merrymaker_Mortalis wrote:
Draken693 wrote:I'm just curious what everyone's opinion on League of Legends is here.

My views it is a much more simplified version of DotA but I still enjoy it.

I feel like there will be some hatred but still.


HoN is a closer representation of DotA than LoL, so if you want to practise for DotA2 then HoN is better.

HoN and LoL are just two different games. HoN is a DotA clone, LoL is doing a good job at making itself different. There's no creep denying in LoL (except a few heroes' spells, but they're cooldown rather than something you spam like Plague Rider's or Laning Parasite's). LoL is emphasises more on ganking as a Team. HoN is about a complex web of teamplay; warding, ganking the enemy carry/enemy in general so your carry can farm in pease/gets kills, using spells conjointend for 'teamplay'.

Both are now F2P, however Hon gives a larger variety of cycled-free heroes to play than LoL. HoN has an in-game hero guide, LoL as far as I'm aware doesn't. LoL people don't have a clue and don't really care about the game. HoN some people still don't have a clue but care too much.

The graphic style of LoL makes it hard to know what's actually going on. HoN's crisper.


1. off the only spell that can be used to deny in lol was removed a long time ago,

B. the whole hon is crisper eaiser to tell argument is on both sides ive seen people argue that lol is easier to tell whats going on

III. your praragrah descibing the different play style has a huge amount of bias in it(lol also has the same complex web of teamplay; warding, ganking the enemy carry/enemy in general so your carry can farm in pease/gets kills, using spells conjointend for 'teamplay'. ), it comes down to in HON the goal is to get one guy fed who can wipe them out single hanedly in LOL its a lot more team focused a single person can not wipe out the whole enemy team singlehanedly.

it comes down to personal preferance, the differeance between HoN/DOTA and LOL is equivalent to the diffeance between Call of Duty and Battlefeild yes they are both fps game but there play style(in multiplayer) is quite different
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby vazhkatsi » 07 Jan 2012, 19:26

Hon might have been nicer when it was pay to play, but lately, i've played a bit and its got the same trolls and bnet kiddies as lol. creep denying was only there because it was a relic of the warcraft 3 engine that you couldn't really get rid of, that got turned into this big "strategic" thing. maybe you're fond of it, but to me its not a very interesting or fun mechanic.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Kajamakuji » 10 Jan 2012, 12:41

Yeah I am definitely not a fan of denying. I mean creep kills were always a factor for gold but I prefer when the targets are the players not your own troops...
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby Merrymaker_Mortalis » 07 Feb 2012, 09:44

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The aim is to post slightly sarcastic but sincere guides to how to support as any hero. For the actual support heroes I'll think of something, different or odd which is still plausible (think, Tank Empath).
I'm eager to find out if people take my words too seriously.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] DOTA/HON THREAD!

Postby I X » 07 Feb 2012, 17:48

Been thinking of starting a LoL thread for ages, because HoNestly*, I think they're different enough that if we were talking about them all in the one thread, it would descend into debate about their differences rather than actually discussing the games themselves.

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