Version 2.1.0
Heroes of Newerth is now Free to Play!
Account Type Explanation
Basic: The standard, free account new players will receive upon sign up.
* Access to the weekly 15 free heroes
* Matchmaking restricted to All Pick
* Can purchase access to additional Heroes through the in-game store
- Verified: Basic accounts that have been upgraded through a show of commitment to their account, by either purchasing Goblin Coins or surpassing a certain threshold of play time
* Access to everything a basic player has, plus the ability to participate in Verified Only Matchmaking, to guarantee separation from Basic players if desired
* Can choose to play all matchmaking modes, however the use of Tokens or Passes are required (some tokens are awarded once a Basic account upgrades to Verified)
- Legacy: anyone with a paid HoN account before the F2P switch has automatically been upgraded to a "Legacy" account
* Access to Verified Only matchmaking
* Can continue to play all game modes without the need for Tokens or Passes
* Will continue to enjoy free access to the general hero pool
HoN Store
- NEW ANNOUNCER: British Gentleman Announcer
- Alt Avatars are now in a big list and can be sorted by Hero Name, Price Low to High, Price High to Low, or Avatar Name
- Previews for Alt Avatars changed to be much larger and more detailed
- Alt Avatars are no longer in the vault, if you own them there is a checkbox next to them in the list
- Early Access
* New heroes may be released as part of the Early Access Program
* Early Access is a new system that allows Legacy players to purchase the ability to play these heroes prior to being available for FREE in the general hero pool
* Early Access Heroes are disabled in Tournament Mode
* For Basic/Verified ("Free to Play" accounts), purchasing a hero that is in the Early Access period will unlock access to that hero for all time
General HoN Changes
- Matchmaking
* Improved matchmaking algorithms to result in slightly faster match times, with potentially more well-balanced teams
* Significantly improved matchmaking algorithms for how they pertain to 3v3 solo matching. Queue times for Grimm's Crossing should be significantly faster for solo players.
- Social Bonus for Matchmaking added
* Social Bonus is a replacement for Quick Victory
* If you play with 1-2 friends (total of 2-3 people in the party), you get 1 additional coin
* If you play with 3-4 friends (total of 4-5 people in the party), you get 2 additional coins
- Compendium removed, replaced with the Herodex
* Now contains detailed information about Heroes, including usage stats and Guides
- General Interface Changes
* A lot of the Interface has changed and been updated for ease of use
* Midbar redesigned to be more clear and catchy to both new and veterans
* Status Bar has players online moved from right to left side and now displays your current coins, tokens, and passes
* Friends List is now limited to 100 max and shows how many you have online
- Tutorial Fixes
* Fixed music warning spam in console (slightly improves performance)
* Fixed an issue that was preventing the confirmation button on the "you have died" message from allowing the player to continue
- Randoming in All Pick no longer gives bonus Gold
- A few small updates for stat submissions
- Group chat channels will no longer show the "Auto-Connect" checkbox and accompanying tooltip next to it
* Clicking the "X" in a group chat channel will now remove you from that group
- Fixed a few typos in the Matchmaking window
- All Random is no longer a checkbox. It is now a Game Mode similar to All Pick, Random Draft, or Banning Pick
- Practice mode can now only be All Pick
- Can now spawn Alt Avatars in Practice mode if you own them
- Added new tooltips for when players hover over the voice chat button in the game lobby.
- If a player is ignored then the player who has ignored them will no longer receive messages about them when the ignored player silences them from a channel or bans/unbans them from a channel
* This also fixes people spamming you with clan invites while under the effects of /dnd
- Editor now has the Water Tool added!
General Gameplay Changes
- When attacking from the fog, the amount of time you are revealed to the enemy has been lowered from 3 seconds to 1.25 seconds
- All neutral creeps abilities have had their cast times lowered from 500ms cast time to 250ms
- Removed a rock in the west Legion large neutral camp that blocked movement
- Removed the statue on top of the hill to the west of the Legion Ancient Camp
- Water on Caldavar replaced with dynamic better water
- Added new tooltips to the in game buttons for sharing units with allies, enabling/disabling no-help, and toggling voice chat.
- Fix to Homecoming Stone and Dr Repulsor's Electric Frenzy
- Fix to Homecoming Stone and Steamboots causing a visual Max HP/MP desync
- Teleport (like BooBoo) will now clear fog vision reveal
* This should fix the infamous Booboo Cross-map Creep Pull
- You can no longer swap an item in your stash with an item on the courier if you do not own the second item
- New Selection System
* Heroes and units are highlighted with outlines instead of circles
* White is your selection, Green are allies, Red are enemies
* By Default, your hero is NOT highlighted. This option can be enabled in the options menu by selecting "Self Hero Outline"
* Can switch between circles and outlines in the options menu
- Hero Guides Fixes
* Plugged some cases where guides wouldn't work
* Should better handle the case where two timeouts occur before the guide is opened (fixes no guide bug)
* Featured guides prompted because of a timeout in the second part of the retrieval should now show items and abilities every time (fixes text only bug)
* Should recheck the hero every time the guide is opened, in case the ui hasnt loaded when the hero spawn trigger fires (fixes wrong hero bug)
- Spectator Interface reworked
* Showmatch between MSI and OK using the new Interface
* Now has three major adjustable pieces: Information Panel (Bottom Middle), Pushbars (Top Middle), Hero Panes (Top Left and Top Right)
* Spectators can now zoom out much farther
- Can now free look with the \ key while a Spectator
* Spectator Options menu is accessable in the bottom right of the Information Panel (Gear)
* Pushbars at the top now easily show which team has more Gold and Experience
* A hero taking damage sets off the Gank Alert at the top of the screen
* Any item bought that is more expensive than 700 gold pops up next to a hero portrait and plays a gold noise so you know they bought something and what it is easily. The value that triggers this event is adjustable in the Spectator Options.
- Replay Controls
* Based off the Small Replay mod by Duker
* Can now free look with the \ key
* All buttons are now bindable
* Now features a hold to fast forward key (Default F)
* Jump to PoV (R) temporarily changes your perspective to that of the unit you have selected until you release the key
- Friend / Foe Health Coloring
* Optional feature to aid newer players, available in the Mods option tab.
* Your team is always green, enemies are always red
Neutral Creeps
- Wild Hunter (The Magic Immune ones)
* Now have the ability to stealth for 15 seconds with 50 bonus attack damage on attack out of stealth and 20% movement speed
- Ice Ogre armor
* Increase cooldown from 5 to 10 seconds
* Remove Melee Slow part
* Duration from 45 to 30 seconds
Items
- Removed the Winged Courier recipe!
* The Upgrade ability on a Ground Courier will now take 200 gold from whoever uses the ability and upgrade the courier
* Can be done anywhere on the map
- Basic Ground Courier cooldown increased to 10 seconds
- Fixed Stormspirit to work with new channeling state for Homcoming Stones
- Nullfire Blade moved to Combative shop from Morph Attack
- Energizer manacost lowered by 50 and movespeed buff increased to 75
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