{"id":48643,"date":"2012-12-20T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T10:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48643"},"modified":"2012-12-20T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T10:03:04","slug":"heroes-of-newerth-3-0-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48643-heroes-of-newerth-3-0-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Newerth 3.0 in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in an <a title=\"Heroes of Newerth 3.0 adds bots, hopes to teach new players (interview) Read more at http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2012\/12\/19\/heroes-of-newerth-3-0-adds-bots-hopes-to-teach-new-players-interview\/#vTZt6zGGGVPfLwUU.99\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2012\/12\/19\/heroes-of-newerth-3-0-adds-bots-hopes-to-teach-new-players-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Venture Beat<\/a>, S2 Games CEO Marc DeForest discusses the health and future of their free-to-play MOBA game Heroes of Newerth.<\/p>\n<p>The main points to take away from the lengthy interview are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heroes of Newerth 3.0 will be launching in early 2013. A seven-figure budget went into developing the massive update. The promised improvements include:\n<ul>\n<li>AI bots, and better training modes for new players through use of AI bots.<\/li>\n<li>30 of the original character models are getting an overhaul.<\/li>\n<li>The map is getting an overhaul, including the buildings, towers, wells, and general textures.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to user interface, in-game chat, buddy list, and notifications.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to the &#8220;report a player&#8221; system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>HoN has has 50% player-base growth in 2012, with most new players coming from South-East Asia.<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, S2 Games has doubled in personnel to close to 100 people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_48644\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hon-thelegionwell-update.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48644\" class=\" wp-image-48644\" title=\"HoN Legion Well update example\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hon-thelegionwell-update.jpg\" alt=\"HoN Legion Well update example\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hon-thelegionwell-update.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hon-thelegionwell-update-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hon-thelegionwell-update-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HoN Legion Well update example &#8211; Source: Venturebeat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DeForest also took the time to discuss the aggressive nature of the MOBA community, and the high barrier of entry this creates for new players. He hopes that the new AI bots and other improvements will help ease newcomers into the game.<\/p>\n<p>DeForest also remarked that despite the growing popularity of HoN&#8217;s main competitors (Dota 2, League of Legends), HoN has also seen a continual increase in the number of concurrent players in the game. &#8220;We\u2019re still expanding and we see a bright future in front of us in 2013,&#8221; said DeForest.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Heroes of Newerth 3.0 interview\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2012\/12\/19\/heroes-of-newerth-3-0-adds-bots-hopes-to-teach-new-players-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venture Beat<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45861-what-is-the-most-played-game-in-the-world.html\">What is the most played game in the world?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46121-league-of-legends-player-caught-playing-solo-during-livestreamed-game.html\">League of Legends player caught \u201cplaying solo\u201d during livestreamed game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48149-league-of-legends-pro-banned-for-persistent-toxic-behaviour.html\">League of Legends pro banned for \u201cpersistent toxic behaviour\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S2 Games speaks about the growth of their game and big changes ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":48645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2218,21,2249,5811,8181,631,473,639],"class_list":["post-48643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-dota-2","tag-headline","tag-heroes-of-newerth","tag-hon","tag-hon-3-0","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol","tag-moba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48646,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48643\/revisions\/48646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}