Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth is basically an upgraded DOTA and is still in beta. HoN is a standalone game that does not require you to have Warcraft installed to play. It has new heroes, a lot of the same heroes with a new appearance and a lot of skills have been changed from others. If you have ever had an idea about how dota could be improved (or the battle.net system for playing dota) then there is a good chance it is implemented in HoN. Here are some examples:

- Leavers are penalized and if you have a bad leave % you can't join some games.

- If you accidently disc due to internet problems or a crash you are able to rejoin the same game that you left.

- Easily join the same game your friends are in, or invite others to the game youre in.

- All skills are, by default, bound to q w e r. Q being your first skill and R being your ult. Obviously you can bind all your keys to do whatever you want, but it is convenient to not have to memorize a bunch of diff hotkeys for diff heroes.

- One shop at base. You can click on the recipe and it will have a list of the mats needed to make whatever recipe you are looking for.

- In game voice communication (you can talk to your teammates and talk to others in your specific lane so you can coordinate without bothering the others)

- Countdown stops if a player leaves during countdown.

- Host can swap players to whatever color he/she wants. So you can ask the host "I'm with my friend on the other team" and the host can easily fix that by swapping two players.

- Records a bunch of stats for your account.

- Easily filter the game list to find the game types you want.

- A couple new maps (including one for 3v3 with 2 lanes)

- A rating system (you get points for winning and lose points for losing). If the other team has an overall better psi (the acronym for their skill rating system) then you won't lose many points for losing the match because the other team has a better rating. Likewise, if you are playing against a bunch of people with lower psi you will not gain as much by winning if you played people with high psi. There is also a team winning % that is predicted. For example, if your team has a bunch of low psi players and the other team has high psi players, your team will probably have a predicted victory % of around 30%. Obviously this system isn't perfect, especially the predicted victory/loss %, but I find that the personal player psi is actually pretty accurate. Players that have 1300 and below normally suck donkey balls and players with 1800+ are normally good.

- An autobalancing ability to even out the players' psi to make it so both teams have about a 50% of winning. You can be locked with your friends so when it autobalances it keeps you on the same team with your friends.

- Awesome graphics compared to that Warcraft III engine!!


So if you like DOTA I can almost guarentee you will like Heroes of Newerth. It is currently in beta and I thought they were giving away beta account by facebook? http://www.facebook.com/heroesofnewerth

Anyways, I have one more invite to beta that I can give away...so the first person that posts their email can have it. (If you haven't played dota don't bother asking for the beta because it is a very unique game that isn't enjoyable to a lot of people.)

EDIT: The Skill rating system is PSR, not PSI. I'm assuming it stands for Player Skill Rating.

Playing this atm.
Moved on from DoTA.
Has Great graphics and Gameplay and most of the heroes are being brought forth from dota.

I was playing this, but the new 1.4 update broke my game. Something about a model null loader error causing it to crash on load.

I never liked this game that much in the first place, so I can't be bothered to fix it. Guess I'm done for now.

My friend got me a beta key and I've been playing this as well. I haven't played DotA in like 6 months + the shop takes a little getting used to so I've been sucking it up. The most recent game I owned as the Sven-alike character so I'm getting better =) The only problem I'm having so far is that I can't see the tooltips for the second row of items when I hover over them. If I want to see them I have to move them to the first row. Anyone else have that problem?

Also, their facebook group just handed out 75000 beta keys. There's about 50,000 keys left. Go here to get one! http://beta.heroesofnewerth.com/H829BYwa3z/facebook.php

Been playing this and it's great fun! Games take rather long, more then dota's games at least.

And im hating on how some heroes are so OP compared to others.

BTW PSR stands for Public Skill Rating

Thanks, I honostly was just guessing what PSR meant. :P

And to me it seems like -em games last shorter and non-em games last longer than dota games. Either way I guess I don't mind the longer game since it is so much fun. :D

uhh.. just registered for an account and currently DLing the client...anyone care tell me what to do after that... sorry if it's a noob question

just sign in with your account name and password and should be fine.

BTW I just dominated a game as the slardar-alike character. 7-1 with like 10 assists. I only died cuz I had no idea what abilities the dude I was fighting had. I got my revenge though so all good =)

Shame that it will be P2P when its fully released.

Whats wrong with that?
Also, I hate fuckers who just farm the lane all day =(

It just feels kind of strange... I enjoyed DOTA but not to the point that I'd pay for it. I just generally try to avoid P2P games since when (not if) I lose interest, I'll feel guilty about the money I spent. If I don't lose interest, I'll feel guilty about all the time invested.

Oh I thought you meant how the games are hosted. I've never heard of it being pay-to-play. When it comes out of beta they will just ask for $30 up front and that'll be the end of it. Eventually they are hoping down the line that it will be free to all. My cousin and his friend already prepurchased it. I'm still undecided if I will or not but for now its a fun alternative that what I've been gaming lately. If it only cost like $10 or $15 I would undoubtedly buy it though just to play with them. Also, I honestly only bought warcraft 3 because of DotA back in the day. I suck at the actual game. =X

I got my friend to get it to test it for me >.> (I don't like dirtying my own hands). He took a screenshot and from what I understand, it seems it will be P2P with a $30 one-time fee after betas are done. Does anyone know anymore details?

I'm not paying a cent to play it right now. But when it does come out of Beta they will require you to purchase an account for $30 if you want to keep playing. I'm not understanding what you mean by P2P.

bottom line is that as of now its in BETA and free to play. You are given a chance to pre-order the game now, once it becomes fully active people have to pay a $30 one time fee.

i'm gonna start playing this soon once my computer is fixed

I refuse to believe that you will have to pay anything more than just the $30 to buy the game...

So, none of their A keys work properly?
Erth?

Just wondering if anyone plays this game. Its like dota but i like it better then dota

I wanted to play that but I do not have an account :3