Just going off of what my friends tell me, I wish I had some sort of actual data.

They go faster than Dota but thats to be expected at this point and time. Dota is so limited because its not a standalone.

Any ETA on the editor?

Well what else can you compare the patch frequency to, other than DotA? LoL? Obviously patching in the beta would be more frequent after retail.

I got these dates off a blog so they could be slightly off/wrong.

5/12 - retail launch
5/22 - 1.01 (major patch, new items, new heroes, balance changes)
5/26 - 1.02 (minor patch, bug fixing, balancing, polishing)
6/14 - 1.03 (major patch, bug fixing, balancing, polishing, ui improvements)
6/19 - 1.04 (minor patch, bug fixing)
7/2 - 1.05 (major patch, bug fixing, balancing, polishing)
7/3 - 1.06 (minor patch, balancing, bug fixing)
7/29 - 1.07 (major patch, bug fixing, balancing, polishing, new hero)
7/30 - 1.08 (minor patch, bug fixing, balancing, polishing)

New content every 1-4 weeks seems fine for this game. Adding new content/changes every week wouldn't seem to work too well for the competitive scene.


S2 made a comment on 7/19 that the map editor is a high priority for them. There is no exact date.

Though you can expect that when it does come out, it will be buggy as shit, and it'll take them 6 more months to fix all the bugs and polish it so it's a nice product.

Always like your comments =)

Editor is a high priority for me; there are some things I want to check out in the game in terms of programing.

You can compare it to LoL which does minor patches almost every week, usually just nerfs/buffs of heroes/new heroes to try and balance everything.

Is there even another game of this genre? lol

HoN = cs 1.6
LoL = CSS

get it?

i get it
one difference, though, is that no pro players have migrated to LoL

wow LoL kiddies are in serious denial....the game has 2D Nintendo NES graphics and all competitive qualities removed. Two words. Summoner Spells.

ahh so true. tho if there's easy money in LoL just a matter of time I think, it was the same with CSS. scrubs/semi elites went over to CSS since that was the case, ezy money.



youz dun get it ?

This post was edited by Etachi on Aug 8 2010 10:18pm

you see the funny thing i've noticed is i am exceptionally good in dota was at 1850-1925 psr in hon beta and i still prefer LoL
why? simply because of the fact that LoL seems to be a lot more balanced, atleast compared to what HoN was and not only that a standalone dota game that costs $30? just playing fucking dota seeing as that is all HoN is right now, yes it looks nicer but in the end does graphics really make a game? i still stick with either dota or LoL due to the sole fact that LoL has different heroes and dota is well.. dota


tl;dr dota > lol > hon

lol you talk about hon being unbalanced while LoL is balanced?
what the fuck have you been smoking, there is only 1 thing in hon atm which is unbalanced and that is nymphora, but since she is banned 24/7 in any high tier game it doesn't matter

while in LoL you have to unlock heroes you can buy better passive crit and all kinds of shit like that which mean there is much less of a skill factor and will give rich kids/nerds an unfair advantage even though they cant play the game