From the beginning you could allready see that hon never, would achive anything big.

when i started playing it was pretty good, around x-mas 2 years ago i think

there were some small stuffs that were bad but then they patched it so it would be more simular to dota which was just awesome, then they ported gladi and bubbles which was also awesome


then they were not allowed to port anything else and started barfing out crapy heroes aswell as that huge patch where they changed like 10 heroes torturer among those,


remember 2 sec stun with 0.1 cast time at lvl 1?

better than behemoth stun
best stun in the whole game

and then they thought after 2-3 months "no this is too broken, lets nerf it and add 0.1 cast time and reduce the stun duration to like 1.5 on lvl 1 soo much more balanced"
jesuschrist, in dota leshrac is still the same i believe yet he was used at least once in the dota2 tour, people need to expand their thinking range

HoN beta was fucking great.

Woah this shit is much better than DotA. No delay, better shop, better way to find games compared to bnet. Stats were amazing, though they still had recording issues. Replays, they saved replays of your fucking games, and you could rewind! Though it was later found out replays were only saved for a month, but the stats pages of each game were saved. But now the stats pages before June 9th 2011 are forever gone. The chat interface was great, you could join multiple channels and it even had an IM client. It had wide screen support and support for linux and mac. Rebindable keys and mod-ability. They promised a map editor and a match making system, which would make this game insanely replay-able. The sky was the limit with this game. It would shit on DotA 1, ten times over.

Then HoN suddenly went into retail with about 2 weeks notice. People were pissed at first since they were selling a game that was in a very incomplete state, but then later realized that charging $30 for an account got rid of a lot of griefers/leavers.

Months passed, still no sign of improved match making. It was true solo queue match making, but the mode was changed from BD to BP, and queues took 10+ minutes. There was no sign of the map editor. 7 months after retail HoN 2.0 came out. MM wasn't available since they were still testing it, but you could still use the shop and buy coins with money... And I think we all know the events after that which lead us to today's current state of the game.

Anyways, beta was fucking awesome at the time. Lots of potential and a much better engine than Warcraft 3.

yes, the only heroes who are good, and balanced are dota heroes, hons own heroes are overpowered like hell, take for an example monkey king, op like hell.

I agree with prickster, beta was good original hon is bad considered, dota 2 will completely dominate the scene when it comes out.

hmm

so true

LION stomps DM, Era has to shut off Stream because of rage team rage

era getting shat on nothing new

clan LION, talented + smart players

not sure if you were in that game pirat where i went like 5-0 soulstealer vs [LION]UniqueDez's aluna and he raged so hard before he quit and logged off

different lion, stop talking about hon you are 6 months behind.