Heroes Of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth is a Real-time Strategy game made by S2 Games based on the Warcraft III scenario Defense of the Ancients otherwise known as (DotA).
Players in Heroes of Newerth control a single character in a 3/4 perspective, fantasy-based world. HoN focuses on hero control and development, and removes many of the common features of classic real time strategy games, such as base management, resource collection and single-player missions. Currently there are a total of sixty heroes consisting of thirty for each faction, the Legion and the Hellbourne.

S2 Games has stated more heroes are forthcoming, but have not officially stated the number of heroes that will be available at release.
 
Hero selection is dependent on the type of game being played. As of Patch 0.1.66.1, game modes that have been implemented are as follows:

• Normal Mode: Players can select freely and in any order from the entire pool of heroes from their faction in a first-come first-picked method;
• Random Mode: Players are given a random hero.
• Single Draft: Players are randomly assigned three heroes, one of each attribute type, to select from.
• Random Draft: Players pick from a common, randomly reduced pool of heroes in an alternating fashion.
• Banning Draft: Similar to Random Draft, except for the addition of the ability to ban heroes from the pool.
• Banning Pick: Team Captains first ban 3 heroes from the entire pool and then teams alternate hero selection similar to Random Draft.

There is also a Deathmatch game mode, but it has not been fully implemented.

In addition to game modes, there are game options, which are additional modifiers on the game. For example, "All Heroes" option allows players to choose heroes regardless of their faction, while "No Agility" takes out Agility heroes from the available hero pool, or "duplicate heroes," which allows players to pick the same characters regardless of whether it has been picked. Players may also opt to randomly select a hero from the available pool. In normal mode this results in a bonus to starting gold for the player.

Heroes of Newerth is currently in open beta with over 1,000,000 users registered. On average, over 40,000 active users play the game at any given point in time. S2 Games used a Facebook fan page and word of mouth to attract players. Registered users can also send out invites to others, which allow for the creation of a beta account.

On August 22, 2009 the pre-sale of Heroes of Newerth began for members of the beta. Pre-sales of the game includes the benefits of name reservation, gold-colored nameplate, gold shield insignia (which will both remain once the game is released), in-game taunt ability, and well as additional beta invitations (3 for every pre-ordered account).

Open beta testing started March 31, 2010. Since then invites are no longer needed to create an account. New accounts can be created at http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/ 

Available Heroes

Source: www.wikipedia.org

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