Cheats

Flint Beastwood permanent vision trick. (now fixed)

Yesterday i found out about a trick with Flint Beastwood. This will give you permanent vision of an enemy hero until he dies, that includes heroes with invisible!

First of all, make sure you have level 1 Money Shot, that’s his ultimate. When u get to level 11  don’t level up level 2 of Money Shot. Next make sure you have enough mana for level 1 Money Shot but not level 2, that’s in between 175-275 mana.
OK, now find a target you want permanent vision of, start channeling your ultimate and level up the ultimate to level 2 WHILE channeling.
If you’ve done it right you will now have vision of that unit where ever he goes until he dies. Have fun!

Soul Reaper vs Kongor, we know who wins. (now fixed)

The other day one of our visitors commented on our Soul Reaper hero page.
This comment basically stated that Soul Reaper’s ultimate (Demonic Execution) worked on Kongor.
Intrigued we tried it out and it worked.

What this means

-With a Soul Reaper on your team it will take half the time to kill Kongor.
-Soul Reaper’s Ultimate is now the highest damage dealing spell in the game reaching excess of 9k damage (even more with Staff of the Master)

Should it be fixed or was this intentional?

We think this is a bug, it’s implication is fairly huge, making it possible to kill Kongor in under 10 seconds with a reasonably leveled team. Making the dangerous task of killing Kongor, while watching your backside, a breeze.

In terms of fair play and balancing we think Soul Reaper ‘s ultimate should be corrected as to not deal damage to Kongor.

Either way, whether this “bug” is intentional or an accident, Heroes of Newerth player’s will prioritize Soul Reaper over other heroes as to give their team the advantage.

How to record replays manually

It has emerged there are console commands which enable us to record our own Heroes of Newerth replays manually. We have tested these commands and they do indeed work – the quality is remarkable and we recommend their use however there is no interface, it is literally just your screen and the action. Here’s how to do it:

When you’re in a game go into the console (Ctrl-F8; same to exit) and type “replayrecordstart <filename>” (filename can be anything, for example replay1.rep)

Once you’re done recording type “replayrecordstop”. It saves the replay into your user files folder, under linux it’s ~/.Heroes of Newerth/game/replays. Under windows it puts them in ‘Application Data’ or ‘My Documents’, so you have to move the replay file into your root game folder where the HoN executable file is (hon.exe or hon-x86).

After that, to play the replay you have to go into a practice game and type into the console “startreplay <filename>”.

Acknowledgments to zdd on this one. We hope you capture all of your epic triple kills from now on!

Heroes of Newerth open beta ?

This last week S2 games announced that Heroes of Newerth will be moving to the next stage of testing very soon.
So with Open beta around the corner and already over 4.2 million… yes million games played,any doubts about the future success of HoN start to dwindle. Can anything can stop this monster ?

Well… yes,

Starcraft 2 :  Release date first half of 2010.

Diablo III : Release date 2010, quarter unknown.

League of Legends : In closed beta.

Along with others…

So what will happen to our community when these, unquestionably bandit title’s get released?
We are already seeing growth of the LoL community, regardless of the fact the majority of them are under the age of 12 and couldn’t tell the difference between a good RTS and their elbow. But that’s just my personal opinion.
The hardcore Starcraft and Diablo fans among the HoN community will be beyond any doubt buying and exclusively playing their respective titles, unless they turn out to be somewhat of a blunder.

Where does your loyalty stand, will you be playing playing Heroes of Newerth in a years time ?