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I hear LOL is trash
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Having played both LoL and HoN, I have to say LoL is garbage compared to HoN.
I'm not really seeing much reason to play this over dota...the matchmaking and interface are great and it looks very refined, but thats because thats where all the time went, seeing as they didn't have to spend any time being creative or balancing...the leveling up, the items, the map (supposedly they will have multiple maps)...there's no originality whatsoever.
My question is, when a new version of dota is released, what happens? Do they just copy all the new stuff so hon is basically just the previous version of dota? Maybe this is just the starting point and they do their own thing but I see no evidence of that yet.
It really reminds me of the iphone app store with the relentless, shameless ripoffs of other people's work.
Icefrog is going to stop development of DOTA very soon from what I hear. Why the hell would he dedicate his time to a map that's basically his time for free when he could be developing HoN for money?
Also, HoN is made BY ICEFROG. The same person that made DOTA. So I don't see what you mean by "originality." He's continually porting over the old heroes and making new ones as well as rebalancing the old ones. You can see that certain heroes have changed a bit such as Naix to make them more fun/useful to play.
The whole purpose of HoN was to have a standalone game that could have it's own engine and not be restricted by the WC3 engine. It also is designed to have better games for players due to their stat tracking of leavers (keeping leavers out, etc) and have a ladder rank system. The main problem with DOTA was you either pub stomped with your friends or tried to play in a league like DXD/IHCHS but if you weren't up to DXD standards, you would get banned extremely quick. Neither of these foster any real growth of skill, where as a matchmaking/ladder system lets you play people on the same level as you, so in theory by playing people on the same level as you, you'll get better over time.
Also with centralized servers, you don't have to go through the hassle of hosting LC games or hosting a GHost Bot and all that other stuff.
They've well publicized the fact that they asked him for permission and that he's fine with it, but I haven't seen anything saying he's specifically working for S2 games. I'd like to read that article though if you could post it. It definitely would make sense for him to do so, obviously, but he's worked on dota for so long for no pay, and really at this point it doesn't take all that much effort in terms of scripting...its mostly coming up with new ideas and lots of playtesting for balance. For these things there's tons of community support.
Either way the interface and stat tracking is nice, I certainly don't deny that, I'd just like to see more new stuff. Like I said, its easy to develop a nice interface and infrastructure when you don't have to spend much money at all developing the gameplay or content (outside of the art, of course) because you just use someone else's stuff. Again I hope it works out but everyone seems very confident they will maintain balance and introduce good solid content but its entirely possible they'll fall flat on their face when they have to be creative on their own. As of yet I don't see enough new ideas in there to be as confident as most other people.
it would be luck if you got 3 or more keys, each person gets 3 keys.. im not even sure if they get more.
New Shop Interace - New smaller, streamlined, repositioned shop with cursor positioned tooltips (we're going to try and squeeze this in, hopefully it makes it, if it doesn't it'll be next patch)
Some people say League of Legends sucks and like Heroes of Newerth better. Heroes of Newerth is better if you love Dota and find it perfect and can't imagine how it could be better. Its reskinned, heroes are basically copies. Visuals impress in the complexity but not interesting. Spells are bland etc. There are two maps. Neither is original but the Dota like one is better. The other is the same but its just straight up and down lanes. The only thing that I actually love about Heroes of Newerth is that they have a mac version.
League of legends has much better shop, visuals that are interesting as well as spell effects. A lot of people say its childish, I guess i'm bored of games that remind me of GeoW visuals. League of Legends is one of those games that 5 years from now, its gonna look a lot better than Heroes of Newerth. Heroes are unique and spells are unique. Gameplay is slightly different. No stupid systems such as creep denying (I played Dota and did deny but I did it knowing it was stupid). I'm glad the devs realize that killing your own creeps when there almost dead makes no sense how thought should hinder the xp gain of your enemy. I agree that it is just a pointless minigame done to make the early game in Dota and HoN less boring.
I'll give HoN slightly more time but its a struggle.
Anyone that heard that League of Legends sucks but hasn't played it yet, I should have 1 spare friend keys so PM me if you actually want to try it.
He's just saying it's stupid to be killing your own men. As in... if you were in an army and you had a bunch of soldiers that were injured, would you go around killing them while the enemy was at your gate?
He's just saying it's stupid to be killing your own men. As in... if you were in an army and you had a bunch of soldiers that were injured, would you go around killing them while the enemy was at your gate?