Heroes of Newerth is a multiplayer online combat arena game. A bit more than a year passed since the game's release and the developer adopted the free-to-play model. The game is now fully free to play, however at first you only get access to a limited amount of heroes which changes on a weekly bases. By playing you gain points with which you can unlock other heroes, ultimately if you play for a very long time you can unlock them all. The game also offers the possibility to buy coins which can be used to unlock the heroes instantly.
The gameplay is largely left unchanged, although new heroes are added once every two weeks, and sometimes even weekly. It is still considered one of the top multiplayer online battle arena games by critics and players alike. It has a large player base and since the switch to the free to play model more and more players keep joining.
At first Heroes of Newerth was regarded as a DotA clone, due to a large number of similar heroes and even the main map was heavily based on DotA's one. Now the game has a lot of new heroes and maps. There are 3 different types of maps: the original DotA lookalike map, a 3v3 map and a different looking 5v5 map.
Over time they have also added new features like "taunt" and special sound effects that are only available if you purchase coins with real money. In any case Heroes of Newerth is still growing and with new heroes coming to the table every week or so. The developer was proven right when saying HoN is in continuous development and never-ending improvement.
v3.0.3 [Feb 18, 2013]
Added Early Access Hero - Salomon the Djinn
Added aSalomon Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar - Tengshe of the Soul Serpents
Added aSalomon Premium Alt Avatar - Sharac the Riftreaver
Added Shadowblade Alt Avatar - Shadowbeast
Added Solstice GOLD EDITION Alt Avatar - Guan Yu (Releases 2/25/2013)
Added Berzerker Alt Avatar - Gutbuster (Releases 2/27/2013)
Bug Fixes and Optimizations
- Updated effects for Celsius
- Updated effects for Time Lord Chronos
- Fixed a memory leak in the Mac client
- Fixed a minor detailed ability tooltip issue with Blood Hunter's Feast stating that the debuff lasted 1.5 seconds instead of the proper 1 second
- Fixed being able to make the hero model rotate forever by holding the rotate button and then right-clicking
- Fixed notification sounds defaulting to off on a fresh install
- Fixed the Game channel not being joined when joining a matchmaking game
- Fixed All chat being the default chat at hero selection when joining a matchmaking game
- Fixed the news opening over other panels if you open them at a very precise time before the news finishes fading in
- Fixed rolls/emotes from other channels showing up in in-game chat
- Added high contrast visuals to Nullstone's passive effect to make it easier to see on certain avatars
- Changed Barbed Armor's passive effect so that it ignores bone rotations and always points vertically
- Updated Co-Op and PvP icons for matchmaking
- Tiny pieces of foliage will no longer be created
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