Heroes of Newerth

Yah, the shops are definitely easier to navigate in HoN. It's all round a much more noob-friendly game. (besides the community obviously)
 
just heard it was free to play :D
Glad they finally made it free, now they will have a bigger player base for it :D and it will probably outnumber LoL players on a local level.
 
Think I'll download it later in the morning. Should be done after a good sleep. Anyways, my name will be the same as on here: Hraffnir
 
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People who bought the game don't have to worry... Paid players have Legacy accounts(all heroes and have the option purchase new heroes before they become available)... Free players only have access to a number of heroes.

I think this is merely to give everyone a chance to try the game out for themselves.
 
Dragonic said:
People who bought the game don't have to worry... Paid players have Legacy accounts(all heroes and have the option purchase new heroes before they become available)... Free players only have access to a number of heroes.

I think this is merely to give everyone a chance to try the game out for themselves.
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According to the article, once you've played enough games you are automatically upgraded to legendary status. Don't think this is a demo kind of thing. Think theyre just going for a freemium/microtransaction kinda vibe.
 
Cobalt said:
According to the article, once you've played enough games you are automatically upgraded to legendary status. Don't think this is a demo kind of thing. Think theyre just going for a freemium/microtransaction kinda vibe.
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Not legacy but verified accounts. If you did not pay you don't get a legacy account.

Q. Can I still get a Legacy account?

No. These accounts are no longer available.
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http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/f2p_faq.php
 
So whats the difference between Legacy and Verified? I played a game last nite, but it seems with the unverified accounts you dont get all the characters and you can only play AP. So it makes playing SA games difficult and hence progressing to verified as well.

My nick is CobaltZA if anyone wants to add me.
 
Cobalt said:
So whats the difference between Legacy and Verified? I played a game last nite, but it seems with the unverified accounts you dont get all the characters and you can only play AP. So it makes playing SA games difficult and hence progressing to verified as well.

My nick is CobaltZA if anyone wants to add me.
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If you clicked that linked there is a nice image showing you what the diffrence is. I rarely play on sa side since they are some of the biggest dicks players I have seen in gaming.
 
Crzwaco said:
If you clicked that linked there is a nice image showing you what the diffrence is. I rarely play on sa side since they are some of the biggest dicks players I have seen in gaming.
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but my ping is like 250 on international servers. which isnt great. and yes...i played with guys last nite that said the word "kaffer" repeatedly. I was like wtf...is this Apartheid era. Idiots!
 
An example of LoL player, playing HoN
Having just a moment ago installed, played and then immediately uninstalled the Game That Shall Not Be Named, I have to say I'm not surprised it's dying on its arse (allegedly). Within seconds of loading up the game for the first time a Goblin leapt onto the screen and almost gave himself a hernia trying to get me to sign up to Paypal. I then panicked when I saw that the news screen was revealing H*N's latest champion........Monkey King (yeah. check it out if you don't believe). I thought I had stepped into a parallel universe where I had perhaps made a different choice in my younger days (I suspect the choice was "Fall down the stairs more often").

Clicking on the shop during a game presents you with a screen of such migraine-inducing complexity I thought I was playing Eve Online again (double-shudder). I frantically bashed buttons until all my gold was gone (all 1500 of it, because everyone knows the best online games are ones where tryhards can theorycraft the **** out of their initial items and then insert them into new players in new and interesting ways) and then waited for some minions to spawn.

And boy, did they ever. Charging their way out of the base like lightning out of a gun that shoots lightning, they charged past me and headed into battle with frankly irresponsible fervour. And I couldn't keep up. I repeat, my minions were faster than me. When my f***ing minions are making me feel inferior, I start to get twitchy and not in a matrix way. When I finally caught up with my creep wave (or creep raging tsunami, if you will), I noticed with confusion that some of my minions had gone rogue and were brutally slaying their betrayed comrades. But this apparent insubordination was soon explained by the fact that every single thing that moves in H*N looks exactly the same. Friends, enemies, monsters, trees. Basically you right click on something spazzing out in a lane and hope to your deity that it's not on your side.

You see, in LoL, the allegiance of a champion or minion is readily determined by the colour of its health bar. Green = Friend, Red = Foe. It is a simple yet pants-wettingly effective method of working out what you need to kill. In H*N, the colour of a thing's health bar is determined by its......health. Green = I have lots of health. Orange = Oooer, bit dodgy, not sure why that dude on my side is hitting me. Red = I am about to die, starting to regret running to this lane like a freebasing gazelle. BECAUSE YOU SEE, YOU FOOLISH LOL PLAYERS, YOU CANNOT WORK OUT HOW MUCH HEALTH SOMEONE HAS JUST BY LOOKING AT HOW SHORT THEIR HEALTH BAR IS OH NO NO NO! YOU MUST HAVE TWO SEPARATE VISUAL CUES TO ALLOW SUCH A COMPLEX STATISTIC TO BE CONVEYED TO THE PLAYER!

Oh, and another thing. I hope you're ready, here it comes - terrain height fog of war. That scream of terror you just heard was probably you (to quote an old Seanbaby article). I hope you liked X-Com, people.

Finally we reached a tower. As it began to focus my minions (or maybe they weren't my minions, who the hell can tell) I slid past them and began to attack the tower. It immediately switched focus to me for no apparent reason other than this game was getting desperate in thinking up new ways to suck. An enemy champion/minion/monster/cobblestone then jumped over an entire forest and killed me in one shot. I attempted to click on the World of Warcraft Endgame Raid UI that is the shop to see if I could buy anything with the 13 gold I had acquired thus far, but suddenly I was greeted with a pitch black screen and silence. My desktop then appeared and windows cheerfully informed me that it had blocked an unknown program from accessing the network.

I hope that in a year's time, it will be an unknown program.
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@Cobalt, some locals are indeed assholes. I just banlist them.
 
Ugh, it's hard to play when the game is so damn buggy. I constantly have menu items getting stuck on my screen which leaves me completely unable to click certain spots on the screen and completely disables the menu button...
 
Crzwaco said:
If you clicked that linked there is a nice image showing you what the diffrence is. I rarely play on sa side since they are some of the biggest dicks players I have seen in gaming.
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So true. I'll only ever play on a SA server if I've got no other choice.
 
Isengard said:
Ugh, it's hard to play when the game is so damn buggy. I constantly have menu items getting stuck on my screen which leaves me completely unable to click certain spots on the screen and completely disables the menu button...
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Never seen or heard about that bug before, and I've been playing HoN for a long time. Your using any mods?
 
Ditto, haven't experienced any bugs per se. anything laggy etc has mostly just been internet lag.
 
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