>have an actual games studio with actual employees and a real budget >put all your efforts into perfecting a WC3 custom map instead of making a real time strategy game with a good editor
this is so disgraceful
he was such a raging gay, playing with anybody from S2 was like punishment than low pool in dota 2
play a few games with those clowns and you will see how toxic people can be
these people are still liberals. The faux-moral outrage is simply to erase their troublesome past. The Governor of Virginia did black face and now he is a shitlib.
Gameplay was fun but the community and devs were so toxic it was impossible to play. Its one thing to shitpost in chat and another to make every single match impossible without someone trying to kill their own team.
>Friday during highschool, a new patch with a new hero incoming >Round up the boys and hop on skype >The servers don't work for the whole evening like usual
Those were the times...
Flux and Scout were honestly my favorite heroes in any game like this. It's a shame once they started cranking out heroes every two weeks or some shit they just started putting out increasingly gimmicky and complicated concepts instead of sticking to the simple but fun designs that all their best original heroes had. This game was glorious in its glory days.
They fricked up the monetizing so hard. Even the backpedaling into free2play was done so shittily, what the frick was that early access shit to a hero?
Probably the ugliest game ever made. Completely unreadable with smears of gas and aura everywhere. Just an awful, awful game visually. There was a lot of love for the mechanics but my god was it ugly.
I'd argue it's a fine genre that's over shadowed with years of horrible business models, balancing skewed by skin sales and decade old bugs not being addressed only to be pushed with monthly champ releases adding more to the spaghetti code. If League's bullshit peaked at Camille, season 9 it would be fine.
But as of now, champs revive other champs, here's a Drake that gives you a Sion passive and increased stats, bloated weapons, bloated kits, skins that make tons of spells hard to read or notice.
I miss old Smite, League, Dota, Dota 2, HoN,Gigantic was shitty but fun, HoTs is okay as a casual niche game (sometimes).
The genre can work if there was a fully realized game with a set amount of characters that isn't overwhelming or sparse (whether it be actual space or homosexual METAS).
Anyone remember that HoN championship tournament in the basketball court? It was the cringiest shit ever with the players walking through smoke from darkness and the announcer sounding like a complete homosexual
>Mechanically superior to both LoL and Dota2 >original heroes are fun as frick and creative >taunts and smackdowns >Moraxus
It's literally the best Asshomosexuals that ever came out. I can't play Dota2, I feel gimped by turn rates and sluggish controls.
Any good MOBAs?
I actually liked HotS since it dropped the last hitting mechanic. Been playing Pokemon Unite too ltely but it's a bit too simple.
Should I just suck it up and learn DotA or LoL?
>hardcore >DotAlike
Its kinda in conflict with the reality of the genre. The true lightning in a bottle of mubas was season 3 LoL. Fast casual fun to play for 20 minutes and forget.
>game displayed your fricking KD/A during draft
I loved the game but this was just so moronic, it just made it so everyone played extremely selfish just to boost their own KD/A. And you were forced to just pick the most dumb KD/A boosting heroes if you wanted to pick carries.
I really like how both League and even Dota2 took ideas from HoN
Clockwerk finally gets circular cogs like Pharoah
Target vector abilities get added in
Now when the frick is Deadwood being ported into dota
if you farm like a moron
deadwood was a like a melee lion, his point was to shut down or slow down enemy cores while not needing a lot of farm himself
tiny needs a blink, or needs to be so far ahead in farm you might as well push mid and end early
3 years ago
Anonymous
>deadwood punch chronos >he lives with 5% hp then rewinds it all back
My first experience with HoN was a free weekend. I realised I couldn't hack it in actual matches and didn't wanna bring my teams down, so I joined a "noobs only" custom game. It turned out the enemy team was a bunch of high level veterans who mercilessly stomped us and told us to kill ourselves. I wasn't super discouraged so I tried again, joined another "noobs only" lobby... and the same thing happened.
The designs on HoN heroes were so much superior compared to Dota 2.
Dota 2 just did bad copies of the DotA 1 wc3 models while HoN actually did their own take on the heroes, and 99% of the times it was vastly superior.
Both gameplay and design wise, like the feedback from Flint Beastwood's ulti vs sniper.
>But iirc they had to slightly change everything when he went to work for valve.
You do not recall correctly. HoN had almost carbon copied the character's fuctions, but changed pretty much every character to be something unique in appearance, all of this way way before valve doing dota 2 was even a thought.
Yeah but they still did such a better job at making small changes than Dota 2 did. Like removing RNG bullshit with bashes and such, giving unique cool flavor to abilities like allowing Glacius(Crystal maiden) to freeze her own ability, making snipers shrapnel more bursty and useful, Lina/pyromancer attacks and spells doing a small dots on enemies.
My friend participated in a tournament or something at a dreamhack, but it was not a regular tournament but something like "The one that could get the most exp/m in 5 games" or something.
They got 3'rd price or so, but never got their money.
>Devourer hitting with hook when it returns >Deadwood PK/Ult sound/effect scaring the shit out of you >The fun of Torturer when compared to the abject shit that is Leshrac >Old Blood Chalice >Christmas music in the menu
HoN was fricking amazing. I never had as much fun with a moba before and since its glory days
Say what you will about the graphics but HoN's sound design was absolutely on point. >Witchslayer bullet >Codex >Deadwood punch >Hammerstorm's autos with ult on
Basically every single character's voice lines were memorable and well done too. Game had so much soul.
god damn shame they abandoned savage 2 to work on this generic wannabe-warcraft 3 custom map
>have an actual games studio with actual employees and a real budget
>put all your efforts into perfecting a WC3 custom map instead of making a real time strategy game with a good editor
this is so disgraceful
Literally the best moba game during the beta when it was free in 2009
>CEOs will never be this based ever again
It hurts
Maliken gave me a ban from the forums after I called him fat...
TO THIS?
he's simply carrying on the proud German tradition.
he was such a raging gay, playing with anybody from S2 was like punishment than low pool in dota 2
play a few games with those clowns and you will see how toxic people can be
these people are still liberals. The faux-moral outrage is simply to erase their troublesome past. The Governor of Virginia did black face and now he is a shitlib.
please tell me about your boogeymen and how they're the source of all lifes problems,
Gameplay was fun but the community and devs were so toxic it was impossible to play. Its one thing to shitpost in chat and another to make every single match impossible without someone trying to kill their own team.
a fantastic game from a time when games were for men
MOBAs have always been a dog shit genre.
>Friday during highschool, a new patch with a new hero incoming
>Round up the boys and hop on skype
>The servers don't work for the whole evening like usual
Those were the times...
>Will never play Gauntlet, Martyr, Chipper, Myrmidon, Electrician, Belphegor, Kraken or Moraxus again
Gauntlet and Flux were honestly great design and quite interesting, even tho Gauntlet was just full gorilla mode.
You know you can still play it right? I don't know how active it is but the servers are still up.
For me? It was
>Devourer, Flux, Legion, Behemoth, Blacksmith, Soulstealer, Pebbles, Chronos and Scout
Almost all of those are direct dota copies, just go play dota 2.
Flux and Scout are unique I think.
Flux and Scout were honestly my favorite heroes in any game like this. It's a shame once they started cranking out heroes every two weeks or some shit they just started putting out increasingly gimmicky and complicated concepts instead of sticking to the simple but fun designs that all their best original heroes had. This game was glorious in its glory days.
>pay to play
God the devs were so fricking stupid for doing this.
They fricked up the monetizing so hard. Even the backpedaling into free2play was done so shittily, what the frick was that early access shit to a hero?
I love HoN but like 90% of the original game was lifted from Dota
started playing again and it still fun. They've updated the map and the client and its looks pretty good for a 10+ year old game imo
Great game for awhile, but funny enough, I think adding too many heroes to the game made it less enjoyable to play. Also Sandwraith, represent.
Probably the ugliest game ever made. Completely unreadable with smears of gas and aura everywhere. Just an awful, awful game visually. There was a lot of love for the mechanics but my god was it ugly.
MOBAs are a shit genre that eventually get ruined balance-wise. If league was still the same game from 2012 i'd probably still play it
I'd argue it's a fine genre that's over shadowed with years of horrible business models, balancing skewed by skin sales and decade old bugs not being addressed only to be pushed with monthly champ releases adding more to the spaghetti code. If League's bullshit peaked at Camille, season 9 it would be fine.
But as of now, champs revive other champs, here's a Drake that gives you a Sion passive and increased stats, bloated weapons, bloated kits, skins that make tons of spells hard to read or notice.
I miss old Smite, League, Dota, Dota 2, HoN,Gigantic was shitty but fun, HoTs is okay as a casual niche game (sometimes).
The genre can work if there was a fully realized game with a set amount of characters that isn't overwhelming or sparse (whether it be actual space or homosexual METAS).
And lastly, frick metas.
pre dota2 HoN was the very definition of SOVL
Anyone remember that HoN championship tournament in the basketball court? It was the cringiest shit ever with the players walking through smoke from darkness and the announcer sounding like a complete homosexual
>He didnt have the best skin
>He didnt have the Midas taunt
>He didn't have the best announcer pack
FABULOUS!
patrician taste
I BUILD MY CODEX LEVEL 5
IT'S A BLESSING AS KILLSTEALS MAKE ME THRIVE
THEY SAY I'M A LAMER BUT WHY SHOULD I CARE
CAUSE STATS ARE MY LIFE
I still remember how the force staff equivalent in HoN ministunned...
to this day there hasn't been anything even remotely as fun for me in gaming as pubstomping easy mode rooms with scout
i got into so many verbal throwdowns with my friends over this game whenever one of us would frick up, friendships were literally ruined
THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST
>Mechanically superior to both LoL and Dota2
>original heroes are fun as frick and creative
>taunts and smackdowns
>Moraxus
It's literally the best Asshomosexuals that ever came out. I can't play Dota2, I feel gimped by turn rates and sluggish controls.
Any good MOBAs?
I actually liked HotS since it dropped the last hitting mechanic. Been playing Pokemon Unite too ltely but it's a bit too simple.
Should I just suck it up and learn DotA or LoL?
Sadly both are shit
Dota has turned to garbage and League is getting worse with each Champion release and item rework
Unironicaly try out HoN
Its like time capsule to 2011
>hardcore
>DotAlike
Its kinda in conflict with the reality of the genre. The true lightning in a bottle of mubas was season 3 LoL. Fast casual fun to play for 20 minutes and forget.
Anyone still around from back then….?
Frick I remember some of those names.
Yes my man t. Duist
Would be a miracle if anyone remembers. From those names I only remember Mellow
I remember jesus_tsk, Mellow, KleinAberOho and Cosmo.
I think my name at the time was either Brosiris or Nintenbro. Probably the latter.
>game displayed your fricking KD/A during draft
I loved the game but this was just so moronic, it just made it so everyone played extremely selfish just to boost their own KD/A. And you were forced to just pick the most dumb KD/A boosting heroes if you wanted to pick carries.
I really like how both League and even Dota2 took ideas from HoN
Clockwerk finally gets circular cogs like Pharoah
Target vector abilities get added in
Now when the frick is Deadwood being ported into dota
There is hero in dota called tony I don't know if you heard about him
and what he has to do with deadwood?
He can grab a tree but it's not clearcutting running through the forest to instagib punch the enemy carry
He can clearcut and delete enemy carry with his scepter though
if you farm like a moron
deadwood was a like a melee lion, his point was to shut down or slow down enemy cores while not needing a lot of farm himself
tiny needs a blink, or needs to be so far ahead in farm you might as well push mid and end early
>deadwood punch chronos
>he lives with 5% hp then rewinds it all back
T-thanks Buckley
Best moba, had so much fun with my friends back in 2010, good times
My first experience with HoN was a free weekend. I realised I couldn't hack it in actual matches and didn't wanna bring my teams down, so I joined a "noobs only" custom game. It turned out the enemy team was a bunch of high level veterans who mercilessly stomped us and told us to kill ourselves. I wasn't super discouraged so I tried again, joined another "noobs only" lobby... and the same thing happened.
This was so long ago and I still remember it.
YOU NEED TO ADD THE NEEDFUL INDIAN FLAG! REDEEM THE INDIAN FLAG OR WE WILL BE MAD YOU NEED TO BE NEEDFUL WITH INDIAN FLAG NOW!
The designs on HoN heroes were so much superior compared to Dota 2.
Dota 2 just did bad copies of the DotA 1 wc3 models while HoN actually did their own take on the heroes, and 99% of the times it was vastly superior.
Both gameplay and design wise, like the feedback from Flint Beastwood's ulti vs sniper.
HoN beta was a carbon copy of Dota 1 and they had icefrog's blessing. But iirc they had to slightly change everything when he went to work for valve.
>But iirc they had to slightly change everything when he went to work for valve.
You do not recall correctly. HoN had almost carbon copied the character's fuctions, but changed pretty much every character to be something unique in appearance, all of this way way before valve doing dota 2 was even a thought.
HoN was fun but let's be real; it was basically a 1:1 copy of dota1, almost all the original heroes were unbalanced garbage.
But I still want to go back and play Nomad, frick me I'll never have as much fun with a MOBA ever again.
Yeah but they still did such a better job at making small changes than Dota 2 did. Like removing RNG bullshit with bashes and such, giving unique cool flavor to abilities like allowing Glacius(Crystal maiden) to freeze her own ability, making snipers shrapnel more bursty and useful, Lina/pyromancer attacks and spells doing a small dots on enemies.
Lots of cool stuff like that.
I miss this game so fricking much it hurts. I remember when it didn't even have a matchmaking system yet.
Autobalance
Lock me and blue please
>Ults you
>turns Q ability on
>turns this bad boy on
>auto-attacks you
>one-shots you
>be Puppet Master
>when the whiplash crits
reminder asians ruined moba games forever
league of legends in its current state is the most cancerous thing I have ever seen
Asians are the only ones that play moba games
monke
I remember when they held the finals of their biggest tournament on a Basketball court.
The ending ceremony was in the locker room.
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My friend participated in a tournament or something at a dreamhack, but it was not a regular tournament but something like "The one that could get the most exp/m in 5 games" or something.
They got 3'rd price or so, but never got their money.
i 'member
>Devourer hitting with hook when it returns
>Deadwood PK/Ult sound/effect scaring the shit out of you
>The fun of Torturer when compared to the abject shit that is Leshrac
>Old Blood Chalice
>Christmas music in the menu
HoN was fricking amazing. I never had as much fun with a moba before and since its glory days
pull them fukers in
Say what you will about the graphics but HoN's sound design was absolutely on point.
>Witchslayer bullet
>Codex
>Deadwood punch
>Hammerstorm's autos with ult on
Basically every single character's voice lines were memorable and well done too. Game had so much soul.
shit genre for low t gays
LoL always been the superior game
I'm always gonna miss playing Deadwood n throwing trees at dudes