Cheats

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 ?

Farming Account Statistics

We have discovered it is possible to increase your Heroes of Newerth account statistics such as KDA ratio and PSR using multiple accounts. If you have spare beta keys you can create new accounts to use on the HoN servers; you can also run multiple instances of HoN. Therefore, make a private game with your main account and use a subsidiary account in a second instance to join the game and go on the other team. Then start feeding kills to your main account – we have managed to farm about 200 kills in 30 minutes using soulstealer against madman, thinking about what items to buy, what spots on the map to use etc. Sure enough, the unanswered kills get added to your account and your KDA improves.

Although less effective, you can also farm PSR. You need to have many subsidiary accounts and as many instances (or many friends with second accounts) running – and make a team on the enemy of 4 or 5 accounts, against your 1. This will ensure you gain a lot of PSR from the game. You then win the game and your PSR will increase. You can only do this a few times as when your PSR gets too high, it will stop letting you gain any because of the mathematic algorithm involved. Even if you make more and more fresh accounts, a team of 4 1500 players against your 1 will still not let you gain a lot of PSR at all later on.

S2 games have discussed the issue and concluded that for now at least, they will not take action to prevent this activity because players cannot farm PSR very well, and the player’s PSR will not represent how skilled they are. ‘True’ high PSR players will identify quickly that you are not as good as your rating. If you look at people’s statistics profiles, it can be a little obvious when people have farmed K:D ratio. Usually the normal relationship between games played, games won, PSR and KDA gets upset in a way identifiable to others.

What do you think? Should S2 take a stand against stat farming? Or should it be left for those players with no conscience?