Entwickler S2 Games macht Heroes of Newerth im Rahmen der “Free2Play”-Aktion eine Woche lang kostenlos verfügbar und erlaubt interessierten Spielern somit “unbeschränkten” Zugriff auf das Spiel.

Auf der offiziellen Website heißt es zwar “There are absolutely NO content restrictions during the Free2Play week.” (dt.: “Es gibt absolut keine Inhaltsbeschränkungen während der kostenlosen Woche”), jedoch kann man als so genannter “Trial-User” nur No stats-Games beitreten.

Die Aktion läuft bis Montag, 9. August 2010 um 19 Uhr, wobei ihr einen bereits bestehenden Account dafür nutzen könnt oder einen neuen Account unter diesem Link erstellt.

Diskutieren könnt ihr über die Free2Play week in unserem HoN-Forum.

Der neue Held wird dem DotA Helden Kunkka entsprechen.

Hier ein Bild des neuen Helden:

Diskutiert diese News in unserem HoN Forum!

Über die neuen Changes könnt ihr in unserem HoN-Forum diskutieren.

Hier noch die kompletten Patch Notes:

Version X
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Darkwood Vale

- Removed two neutral spawns, replaced them with outposts
- Replaced two of the higher tier neutral camps with tier 1 neutrals
- Outermost towers are now level 1 towers (instead of level 2)
* This means they will do slightly less damage and less starting health, same as the outer most towers on Caldavar
- Lowered building health on this map by 25%, lowered ranged rax health regeneration rate by 25% (these changes only affect the darkwood vale map)

Ingame

- Players will no longer see trees die in fog
* Meaning, juking with Logger’s Hatchet / runes of blight is now much more fun!
- Toggle abilities (Web Shot, Decay, etc) and toggle items (Steamboots, etc) will no longer interrupt autoattacks
- Added an interface option for “Double Activate.” When enabled, certain items and abilities may be double-clicked (or double-activated) for automatic use:
* Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home
* Health Potions and Mana Potions are used on self
* Tablet of Command, Stormspirit, Charged Hammer, and Nullfire Blade are used on self
* Portal Key blink towards home
* Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature’s Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self
- Added new game interface option “Move To Spawn On Disconnect”
* When enabled, the server will automatically issue a move command to your hero to move back to base whenever you crash, freeze, or lose your internet connection
- Added new keybind: “Cancel And Hold Position”
* Functions exactly like “Hold Position”, except it also cancels animations
* Players who want this functionality can replace their current Hold keybinding with the new Cancel and Hold keybinding
- A unit in the air no longer gains the 25% “uphill miss chance” evasion
* Units stunned by Witch Slayer or Magmus or tossed by Pebbles won’t gain extra evasion
* Couriers and Tundra bird won’t gain extra evasion
- Health and Mana bars for heroes will now show the damage they take
* This new ‘shadowed’ bar can be turned off in the options menu

- Scorescreen now contains voting options (kick, pause, concede, remake) and add friend functionality
- The camera will no longer shake when an effect (such as homecoming stone) is played in fog
- Fix to properly calculate a player’s exp/min, even if he reached max level
- Neutral creep agro range for allc reeps set to 300 (some were 250, some were 300)
- Vulture Lord now has a +3 AOE armor aura
- Fix to Kongor so he won’t wonk out and no one can hit him anymore
- Added a visual effect for Main health bars, they now course with energy
- Modified the internal random number generator to use a much higher quality distribution of random number
- Dual target abilities now properly ignore trees if their target scheme ignores them
- Hero health/mana bars are now shadowed with 500ms delay on the shadows
- Gold lerps to its actual value over 350m
- Toggles are correctly propagated to illusions
* Fixes illusion steamboots, illusion fayde stance, etc

Pre-Game

- Added “Potential Hero Selection” functionality
* At the hero selection screen, you can right-click on any hero to make it your “Potential Hero”
* Spectators and anyone on your team can see your potential hero (the enemy team can’t)
* If you run out of time, you will select that hero rather than randoming
- Prevent the “5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Let’s get it on” countdown from happening after the hero selection screen
- Loading bar now courses with energy
- The game lobby will no longer display the message “PlayerName has connected.” once for their initial connection, and again when they have finished loading
* It will now say “PlayerName is connecting.” and “PlayerName has connected.” to distinguish the different events
- Set the max channel chat message (250), max game chat message (150), chat channel topic (140), and channel name length (30).
- Channel messages will only play sounds when receiving a message in the current channel that has focus
* This fixes all the sounds that used to play when a user was in multiple channels at the same time
- The channel name + topic area of the channel is now truncated off properly and no longer wraps off the panel onto the rest of the UI for long channel topics
- Added a hovertip to the channel name + topic so if the topic is 95+ chars, if you hover over it it displays the full topic, similar to how long game names work in the Public Game interface
- The game lobby will now play the epic lobby.mp3 music
- Moved the voip mute button/icon things to the small colored circle to the side of the player slot (which normally is only used for the right-click menu) in all game phases
* The normal right-click menu (which is only available pre-hero-picker) now occupies the same spot used to show the player’s avatar/left-click to join button)

General

- Fixed a bunch of random crashes caused from clicking the “Disconnect” button
* Before, clicking the button had a small random chance to corrupt a random place in memory that caused you to crash at a random time doing something random
- Updated the wording of some of the tooltips to be a bit more clear
- When viewing a player’s stats, “Public Statistics” is now selected by default (previously “Ranked Statistics”)
- Prevent a buddylist bug when the user loses connection to the chat server, then reconnects to the chat server
- Russian stringtables updated
- Fixed lock camera on player not turning off after a replay
- Profanity filter is now optional
- Follow fix: If two players are following each other and one of them joins a game, the other one will now join that game instead of both of them disconnecting
- Fixed a spelling error in the matchmaking interface
- Fixed crash when CLIPBOARD selection is unowned and an attempt is made to paste
- Fixed an issue that disconnected a user if they typed a player’s name into the IM window
- Fix to the close button of the MOTD so you can click it easier
- Fixed mousewheel events not having the correct coordinates in windowed mode
- Re-organized the options menu slightly

Taunt
- Cast time removed

Items

Courier
- Will now be attacked by Towers and the Well

Geometer’s Bane
- Grants 0.1sec invulnerability on activation

Hellflower
- Damage increased from 40 to 45

Plated Greaves
- Will no longer apply it’s buff to Wildsoul’s bear

Puzzlebox
- Recipe increased from 1100 to 1250

Shrunken Head
- Added to the tooltip that it cannot be dispelled

Steamstaff
- Price lowered to 800 from 900

Stormspirit
- No longer silences or perplexes, just stuns
* This allows you to queue up orders while under it’s effects

Heroes

- Maliken, Warbeast, and Wildsoul transformations will no longer act stupid when Dark Lady Ults
- Valkyrie Arrow, Devourer Hook, and Voodoo Casks will no longer hit couriers

- Added new Legion Strength hero, Tundra
* Based on Rexxar the Beastmaster from DotA

Accursed
- Fire Shield dispels stuns once again
- Flame Consumption will no longer automatically activate below 400hp. Must be cast manually.
* This means that silences/stuns/etc will prevent Accursed from triggering his ult
- Staff of the Master now lets Accursed use Flame Consumption while silenced

Arachna
- Spiderling will no longer stand there like a dummy if a hero blinked while the projectile was midair

Behemoth
- Initial 200/275/350 Magic damage on the ult is now Superior Magic, meaning it will go through magic immunity

Bubbles
- Shell Surf vision increased from 600 to 800 units and now keeps granting vision if it goes the max distance for 3.34 seconds.
- Fixed a bug with Shell Toss that was resetting the cooldown incorrectly
- Song of the Sea now hits units in fog and invisible units
- Take Cover no longer perplexes
- Kelp Field will no longer deal damage or stun magic immune heroes

Chipper
- Attack time increased from 350ms to 450ms

Corrupted Disciple
- Electric Tide now is now correctly displayed when originating from a position within fog

Deadwood
- Base strength increased from 23 to 25
- Base Armor increased from 2.24 to 2.74
- Creeps will no longer dispel the tree

Engineer
- Fixed the Turret’s attacks eating Nullstone
- Tinker cooldown increased from 15 to 20
- Tinker manacost increased from 25 to 50

Forsaken Archer
- Skeletons will no longer trigger neutrals to use their abilities

Gauntlet
- Ability 1 now has an instant cast time
- Cast range on second abiity increased from 625/800/975/1150 to 725/850/975/1150

Hammerstorm
- Mighty Swing can now be toggled on and off

Hellbringer
- Base armor lowered from 2.4 to 1.4
- Life Void cooldown increased from 7 seconds to 10 seconds

Magmus
- Volcanic Touch now correctly deals damage to Mechanical units

Maliken
- Fixed tooltips
- Possession manacost lowered from 150 to 100

Nymphora
- Number of people taken with her Teleport increased from 0,1,2 to 1,2,3 additional targets per level

Pandamonium
- Slow from missing a Cannonball lowered from 4s to 2s

Pollywog Priest
- Max distance of Jolt lowered by 200

Pyromancer
- Phoenix Wave can now target both units and the ground

Sand Wraith
- Using Manifest no longer kills all active illusions

Soul Reaper
- Added to the ult tooltip to correctly state the cooldown changes to 70s at all levels with it

Soulstealer
- Fixed the “being knocked down” while using an item bug

Succubus
- Fixed a bug causing sleep to sometimes be removed instantly by a creep
- Succubus’ Hold cooldown lowered from 120s at all levels to 120/110/100

Swiftblade
- Base movespeed increased from 300 to 305
- Returned attack no longer triggers responses like Corrupted Disciple’s Static Discharge

Valkyrie
- Javelin will now leave lingering vision if it hits nothing
- Tweaked Prism to correctly hit invulnerable allied heroes

Wildsoul
- Damage when the bear dies now properly goes through immunities
- Updated his tooltip to reflect that he takes damage when his bear dies
- Beardulon abilities reworked very slightly
* Gains Return at level 1
* Gains Entangling Claws at level 2
* Gains Demolish at level 3
* Gains Magic Resist at level 4
- Wild cast time removed, letting him cast it on the run
- Base movespeed while in Bear form increased from 270 to 285

Wretched Hag
- Bat Blast can now target both units and the ground

Zephyr
- Cyclone damage halved against non-hero units

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Der Held hat exakt die gleichen Fähigkeit wie Puck aus DotA. Werden durch weitere Helden Ports mehr DotA Spieler zu Heroes of Newerth wechseln?
In diesem Patch wurden nur Kleinigkeiten verändert, ein größerer Patch wird nächste Woche erscheinen. Diskutiert diese News in unserem HoN-Forum.

Changelog 1.0.1

Matchmaking
- Fixed average wait time and percent successful matches stat tracking for matchmaking
- Added some matchmaker logging
- Fixed substitutions not working properly

- Tweaked some oddities in the pathing code
* Heroes might ‘stick’ on each other slightly again. We are developing a more permanent solution
- Toggling autocast and attack abilities no longer interrupt any current actions

Items

Harkon’s Blade
- No longer stacks with Lifeleech & other attack modifiers

Nome’s Wisdom
- Recipe cost from 600 to 200

Plated Greaves
- The activated effect can now apply to all allied non-hero units (including player controlled units).

Puzzlebox
- Recipe cost from 1000 to 1100

Heroes

Added New Legion Int hero, Bubbles, inspired by Puck the Faerie Dragon
* Fun Fact: The voice of this hero was recorded by Robert Jadah, who also voiced Morla The Thousand Year-Old Turtle for ‘The Neverending Story’

Balphagore
- Un-Dev
- Fixed Recommended Items
- Base armor lowered by 2
- Demonic Pathogen silence from 1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds to 1/2/3/4 seconds
- Demonic Pathogen damage from 100 magic DPS to 60 magic DPS
- Corpse Conversion cooldown from 30 to 20
- Gold bounty from minions from 21/26/36/41 to 10/13/18/20
- Minions now have 3 Magic Armor
- Now takes 30 seconds for charges on his ult to start disappearing
- His ultimate now gains 0.6 charges per 1% of enemy mana spent (increased from 0.5)

Bloodhunter
- Blood Sense now grants full vision of low HP targets

Deadwood
- Uproot‘s Mana Cost from 60 to 30
- Uproot‘s charges from 5/6/7/8 to 5 at all levels
- Willowmaker now casts 100ms faster

Devourer
- Armor from 1.96 to 2.96

Engineer
- Base STR from 22 to 20
- Base INT from 19 to 21

Fayde
- Scythe Stance now causes Cull to stun and Burning Shadows to destroy mana
- Shadow Stance now causes Cull to destroy mana and Burning Shadows to stun
- Fayde now starts in Scythe Stance by default (This makes Reflection deal Physical damage by default, even when stances are unleveled)

Hellbringer
- STR growth from 2.5 to 2.1
- AGI growth from 1.0 to 1.2
- INT growth from 2.7 to 2.9

Legionnaire
- Armor from 1.8 to 2.8

Madman
- Stalk cooldown lowered by 1

Nymphora
- Grace of the Nymph now only dispels from player-controlled unit damage
- Teleport no longer displays graphic/sfx to enemies when in fog

Pandamonium
- Cannonball now snares by 60% for 4 seconds instead of stunning when missed

Slither
- Toxin Wards now have 1/1/2/2 charges for placement, decreased from 1/2/2/3
- Toxin Wards attack effect changed from -10% Movespeed to -25 Movespeed at all levels
- Fixed tool tip of Toxin Wards displaying the incorrect amount of health

Swiftblade
- Counter-Attack no longer uses real attacks, meaning it will not trigger things like critical strike, life steal, or Frostburn. It now simply deals damage equal to Swiftblade‘s base attack damage.

Changelog Version 1.0.0

Release Build
————-
Bug Fixes
- Fixed terminating players properly ingame when they left
- Fixed disconnection caused by the terminated player message
- Fixed upside down taskbar icon under Linux
- Fixed matchmaking giving improper point values
- Fixed the black and white box when picking a dev hero
- Fixed MinPSR/MaxPSR not being reset back to 0 when a game ends
- Rate of passive income is now adjusted when a player terminates (Higher with less players)
- Cleaned up create game dialog
- Added a frame that holds the disconnect button on the loading screen
- Updated tooltip description for hardcore mode so it doesn’t say items are dropped
- Tweaked Linux resource auto-reloading

Heroes

New Dev hero, Gauntlet

Balphagore
- Minions spawned by Balphagore’s ult will now die if their target dies
- Won’t eat Items, Wildsoul’s Bear, or Mechanical units anymore

Diskutiert diese News in unserem HoN-Forum!

Mit dem Release kam auch ein neuer Stärke Held: Gauntlet

Damit man keine Spiele verpasst, wird das komplette Turnier von honcast.com begleitet.

Alle weiteren Informationen zu diesem Turnier findet ihr in unserem Forum.

Durch das DREAM Feature kann jeder angemeldete Benutzer auf der offiziellen Homepage seinen eigenen Held kreieren und von der gesamten Community bewerten lassen. Dazu wird es weitere Helden Contests geben, bei denen die bestbewerteten Heldenideen direkt von S2Games umgesetzt werden.

Wir können also weiterhin gespannt sein wieviele und welche Helden in HoN integriert werden.

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Bei einem DDOS Attacke gibt es sehr viele Zugriffe auf ein bestimmen Server oder Rechner und dadurch wird das ganze System lahm gelegt.

S2Games gab folgendes Statement zu der Überlastung ab:

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that the game is currently offline as we are being targeted by a DDOS attack. We are working to track down the cause, have good leads, and will be notifying the proper authorities and diverting their efforts.

Die HoN Server werden in den nächsten Stunden noch überlastet sein. Ihr könnt euch also wahrscheinlich erst wieder morgen früh einloggen und HoN spielen.

Des Weiteren ist ein neuer Patch mit dem neuen Helden Balphagore erschienen. Hier gibt es alle Patchnotes:

Game Modes

- Added Dev Hero Mode
* When enabled, Dev Hero Mode allows work-in-progress “development” heroes to be played
* All future S2 Hero additions are going to be added as “dev heroes,” this allows us to get feedback on a large scale and evaluate balance before including the hero in the stable hero pool
* Dev hero mode must be enabled when hosting games. It can be filtered in the game list. Dev heroes will not be used in matchmaking or competitive tournaments
- Added new advanced game option “Tournament Rules”
* When enabled, allows the host to specify in the game lobby which team gets first ban
* Only affects BP and BD gamemodes
- Added “Hardcore Mode” advanced game option
* No passive gold/sec gain
* A creep/hero deny results in 0 experience for the enemy team
* A tower deny results in 0 gold for the enemy team
- “Item Drop” advanced game option now drops all items on death.
* Items dropped on death cannot be picked up by couriers, sold, or killed on the ground.
* Items dropped on death can be picked up and used by anyone.
- Added 5 seconds to each players pick time in Random Draft (25 -> 30)
- Added 5 seconds to transition between bans and picks in Random Draft (15 -> 20)

Important Bug Fixes

- When using Runes of Blight on a tree, heroes will now approach from the correct side. (Will now no longer go all the way around a tree to eat it)
- Heroes are much less likely to keep blocking each other as they try to run past each other (HUGS!)
- Fixed ability tooltips sometimes getting stuck on screen
- Fixed an issue causing buying while dead to sometimes not work
- Abilities used from in the fog will no longer originate from the 0,0 position
* This includes Devourer’s Hook, Electrician’s Grip, Pollwog Priest’s Tongue Tied, Puppet Master’s Puppeteer’s Hold and Voodoo Puppet, and Witch Slayer’s Mana Drain
- Fixed sound system/voicemanager interactions that were causing crashes upon sound system restart
- You can now drop an item into an inventory spot with a building under it

Matchmaking 2.0

- Matchmaking has received some serious revisions that should drastically improve match making quality. Please help us further perfect our match making system by giving it a try and leaving feedback on the forums
* Reworked how matches are formed to more consistently replace players who fail to load and to decrease time to find matches for players with exceptionally high or low SMR ratings
* Players new to matchmaking must complete 5 provisional matches, in which they will be matched with other new players. If not enough new players are available, they will eventually be matched with regular players.
* Players now have the option to set their initial standing according to general skill level, which affects the types of players they will be matched against. The three options are Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
* Solo matchmaking uses Banning Draft (BD)

Ingame Changes

- Added a new keybinding: Direct Pathing
* When held down and an order is given (Move, Attack, Cast, etc) will move the hero in a direct path towards where you click no matter what is in the way. Ignores cliffs, heroes, and creeps. Useful for chasing through the woods or pushing yourself against a cliff to cast into the river!
- Re-arranged some of the shop to put modifiers into the correct (bottom) shop. This includes all lifesteal items. Brutalizer and Lightning items are now in the Combat shop. Be wary of your hotkeys!
- If you buy an item on a courier then transfer that item to your hero, you can now sell that item for its full value within the 15 second sellback period
- Added game option “Minimap Rightclick” (default on). When disabled, the player cannot right-click on the minimap.
- The game will no longer display an incorrect disconnect message indicating that the hero was removed and assets distributed to their team if the disconnected player was a referee or spectator
- Fixed disconnect messages appearing twice when a player disconnects in game
- Calling a vote to remake, pause or kick (through the console) before the pre-match game phase will no longer work. (ie. only after the players are loaded into the map can they call these.)
- If displaying chat timestamps were enabled in game, various game messages sent to both teams were not being timestamped (disconnects, Kongor kills, Barracks destruction, etc). These messages now display the timestamp properly if the client has this option enabled.
- New death for the legion main building
- Finally took down our Christmas lights…
- New Hellbourne sounds and effects for buildings
- Random small chest sound/model fixes
- The game option “Show exp numbers” is now on by default for new installations.
- Added an option “Center Camera on Respawn” that allows users to toggle whether or not the camera will automatically focus on their hero after respawning
- Unpause now plays a noise so players are aware
- Fixed some neutral NPC sounds playing globally
- Updated map to remove texture seams
- Added a visible ‘corpse’ for NPCs dying
- Heroes can no longer pickup runes while stunned
- Referees are now treated as spectators
* Fixes the fog issue, allows them to see the scoreboard, allows them to talk with other referees and spectators
- Added some environmental sound effects on Caldavar
- Double Tap returns!
- Fixed the sound bug where muting someone might not always work
- Restrict most actions while the game is paused
- Fixed the “Share All” courier button to reset its state at the start of every game
- Fixed a bug that occurred when spectators used the “Disable Fog of War” or “Lock Camera” options would see those settings carry over into the the next game they joined or played
- Fixed some tooltips for items in the shop
- Fixed spectators at 1920×1080 resolution

Pre-Game Changes

- Hero icons no-longer react to mouseovers/clicks when there’s no hero
- The loading race values now start at 1 and end at 10, the old race values should no longer appear when loading the next game
- Pressing ALT in the game lobby will now toggle the chat mode between “Team” and “All” chat modes.
- Moved the Ping/Players/Version labels in the game lobby a bit to the right as we weren’t making use of the space and server names with long names like those we use for South Africa overlapped into these labels
- Voice chat indicator/mute button shows up in the hero picker/etc. now (on the inner side of the hero name)
- Pressing the “All/Team” button in the game lobby will now set focus to the chat input line
- Lobby now has sounds for actions (kick, join etc)
- Increase the max spectator slots to 10
- Fixed the Alternate Picking crash
- The host option “Disband” has been changed to “Disconnect”, Upon disconnecting the game server will assign another player as the host and print a message to the game lobby indicating the transfer of hosting privileges

General Changes

- Replays now begin recording during the picking phase
- Removed the “Tier” filters, columns and inputs from the game browser and create game interface
- Added filters, sortable columns and all inputs for Min/Max PSR to the game browser and create game interface
* Players may now specify a Min/Max PSR range when creating a game. Min/Max PSR games will appear normally as they would in the game browser and other players may join a game if their PSR falls within 2% of the range the game server Min/Max PSR is set to. (This means a player with 1471 PSR should be able to make it into a game marked Min 1500, and a 1734 player would be able to join a game marked as Max 1700, but those are the very edge of the 2% tolerance, so anything higher or lower would be rejected.)
- Games outside of a player’s PSR range are grayed out in the game browser similar to the way “No Leaver” games appear to a player with leaver status. If no range is specified when the game is created then no range is enforced. If a player is invited to a game, the server ignores the PSR restrictions for them allowing friends to play in games they may not normally be able to be playing
- Added Min/Max PSR to the /gi or /gameinfo commands
- The players PSR is now retrieved and stored locally on the client when logging in, and is accessible through the UI_CMD() GetPSR()
- Removed the ticks, grinds, blips and whatnot that were playing when the game started up
- Added an option “Disable Background Effects” that allows users to toggle whether or not all the background lobby effects and animations are played. (Credit to Pancakeslp for the original mod)
- Fixed some buddy request/add notifications playing sounds a bunch of times when logging in if a player had those notifications saved in their history
- The Notification Duration slider under options->interface now sets the duration (1-15 seconds) a notification is displayed for
- Fixed a number of incorrectly labeled tooltips on the options menu. Disabled the “Health/Mana Bar Scale” in the options
- Removed the “Options” menu from the F10 in game menu
- Fixed “Add PlayerName” buttons on options menu to align properly and correctly add the player clicked on
- Increased max size of joinable channels to 30
- Using the slash command /join <channelname> “password” will now attempt to join the channel with the password specified. (Anything in between the quotes at the end becomes the password)
- Fixed some issues in the client/interface causing the change password dialogue to not work
- Fixed the lock/unlocked tooltip for hosts to display the correct tip (was previously showing the opposite tooltip it should have been showing)
- Players can now select Logon/Logoff and Join/Leave Game notification settings for clan members separately from the notifications they select for their friends
- Fixed an issue where notifications were not being saved to the history properly
- Fixed the default notification time to be 10 seconds instead of 10000
- Updated sub-account description
- Removed “Show Menu Transitions” from the options menu as the option is not currently being used
- Fixed iris closing sound being heard on disconnect
- Fixed “/r” to not reply to a clan whisper automatically with “/c m”, instead it will reply directly to the sender with a “/w PlayerName” just like how “/b m” works
- Trying out new color for the selected item in listboxes
- Fixed the “Show Winner” button on the match stats screen to correctly display and announce the team who won
- Fixed sound driver list sometimes showing the current driver incorrectly
* This means the sound system will only restart if it is indeed necessary
- Fixed a couple places where linux system class was using incorrect character conversions
- Added console command “precacheworld <mapname>”. So for example type “precacheworld caldavar” to precache its resources
- Removed cvar browser_maxPing as it was not being used
- Invisible Mode will now remember its state the next time the game re-loads
- Players in “Invisible Mode” will no longer auto join default HoN or Clan channels when leaving a game, allowing them to properly remain in a hidden state
- Clicking on the clock in the system bar now toggles between 12 hour and 24 hour display
- Re-arranged Public and Create Game interfaces to make more space and added icons/checkboxes for the new “Hardcore” and “Dev Heroes” game options
- Moved “Alt Hero Picking” on the Create Game interface to an Advanced Option, which is what it is actually categorized as

Items

Bananas
- Can now be sold for 500 gold

Doombringer
- Can no longer be transferred to your stash, manually dropped on the ground, or given to teammates.

Frostburn
- Snare is now 5% a charge and stacks 3 times

Frostwolf Skull
- Recipe cost increased by 500

Geometer’s Bane
- Now spawns illusions in a triangle and randomizes the position of the hero on use

Nome’s Wisdom
- Rebalanced
* Strength lowered from 6 to 4
* Agility lowered from 6 to 4
* Intelligence lowered from 16 to 14
* +Damage lowered from 10 to 6
* % Mana Regen removed
* Aura armor lowered from 4 to 3
* Healing from the Aura tweaked so that if the healing exceeds your max health, a shield of equal value is applied for 10 seconds.

Nullfire Blade
- Fixed so it can now properly dispel Jeraziah’s Protective Charm
- Recipe will sell for the correct value again

Plated Greaves
- Cooldown increased to 30s, duration lowered to 15s
- AOE effect now grants +20% damage but only affects allied non-player controlled creeps
- AOE effect no longer grants armor

Stormspirit
- Can now target all heroes (allied and enemy). Can no longer target Kongor.

Tokens
- Can no longer be sold

Winged Courier
- Recipe will sell for the correct value again

Heroes

- Added Balphagore as a dev hero. Must host games with the dev hero option enabled to play him
* Feedback on this hero is appreciated, as we are still fine-tuning balance and making necessary adjustments

Behemoth
- Fixed weird shadows with Fissure

Blacksmith
- Fixed some issues with multicast and Frenzy

Chipper
- Voice added. Nuts.
- Tar Toss will no longer apply its slow to Magic Immune units
- Sawblade Showdown‘s Staff of the Master upgrade no longer provides a static 70% movement speed slow. Instead, units who walk into the saw blades will have a 4 second snare applied to them that starts at 90% and quickly reduces in strength over the duration.
- Sawblade Showdown won’t slow couriers anymore

Deadwood
- Clearcutting now causes trees to die with a cooler animation.

Madman
- Barrel Roll will once again grant invulnerability during the duration of the roll

Magmus
- Lava Surge once again provides invulnerability during travel time

Engineer
- Ult to 85s at all levels from 90/75/60

Fayde
- Voice added
- Updated description
- A ton of effect changes
- Slice renamed Cull
- Illusions from Burning Shadows now attacks much faster
- Illusions from Burning Shadows are back to full size
- Illusions from Burning Shadows can no longer be selected or show healthbars
- Cooldown on switching between Scythe and Shadow Stance removed
- Fayde now starts in Shadow Stance
- Charges on Shadow/Scythe Stance increased to 2,3,4,5
- Reflection
* Manacost increased to 150,175,200 from 150
* Duration changed to 30,35,40 from 40 at all levels
* Reflection stealth state will no longer have charges that do nothing
* Shadow Cripple now reduces all healing on the target by 50% while it’s active
* Shadow Cripple is no longer dispellable

Glacius
- Updated Ice Imprisonment tooltip to explain that it lasts 10 seconds when cast on creeps

Keeper of the Forest
- Updated Root effect to match the area better

Legionnaire
- Added custom sounds for his charge

Maliken
- Updated recommended items

Ophelia
- Command will no longer give the bonus HP to couriers she has bought or to heroes/herself in weird situations

Pandamonium
- Voice added

Plague Rider
- Voice added

Pollywog
- Units under the effects of Morph can no longer evade or deflect attacks
- Cooldown of Wards changed from 110/95/80 to 100

Pyromancer
- Fixed a bug causing ult to trigger Nullstone twice (causing the cool down to decrease too much)

Soul Reaper
- Rewrote some tooltips

Witch Slayer
- Units under the effects of Miniaturization can no longer evade or deflect attacks
- Fixed a bug causing ult to trigger Nullstone twice (causing the cool down to decrease too much)

Valkyrie
- Call of the Valkyrie will now determine the close-range target to get hit twice at the time the ability is used, rather than after a 0.5 second delay
- Tweaked leap distance from 630,690,780,840 to 630,720,780,870

Vindicator
- Voice added

Voodoo Jester
- Cask now bounces for 2/4/6/8 times, instead of the incorrect 2/4/5/8 times

Warbeast
- Metamorphosis will no longer apply to his courier

Wildsoul
- Wild will no longer apply to his courier

Zephyr
- Correctly credit him for damage that his ult does