Heroes of Newerth (HoN) is an online battle arena multiplayer video game developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. [2] The game is heavily inspired by the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map Defense of the Ancients, and the first multiplayer game S2 'online battle arena (MOBA) judul.Permainan was released on May 12, 2010 and re-released as a game free-to-play on July 29, 2011. [3]
Gameplay
Heroes of Newerth puts two teams of players against each other: the Legion and the Hellbourne. [4] Both teams are based at opposite sides of the map. Defensive towers are positioned evenly through each lane, until the path ends at the base of a tim.Unit-unit, called creep generated every thirty seconds, and run along their lane until they meet opposition - then attack. Victory is achieved when one of the teams managed to push to the headquarters of the opposing team, and destroys their primary structure. A team can choose to concede after a certain period of time, ie at least when the game runs 15 minutes.
Players on each team choose ten of 111 heroes, featuring a variety of capabilities and benefits to compensate for the shortfall. The player controls the hero, while common features of real time strategy games such as base management and resource collection removed. [5] Each hero has four abilities that can be acquired and upgraded as the hero gains experience and levels up. The experience gained since the range of enemy units when they were killed. The maximum level a hero can achieve is 25 and the experience required per level gain increases with each new level. Players earn gold or money in the game despite the periodic income and combat experience, which is used to purchase items that increase strength or character. The game ends when the opposing team's main structure was destroyed.
Development
In October 2009, the Association Game Designer Alan "Idejder" Cacciamani claims that Heroes of Newerth has been developed over the past 34 months, but spent the first 13 months mesin.Keseluruhan development assets, including maps, items, heroes, and art were made in 21 months. "[6]
New features, balance changes and new heroes are regularly introduced with patches. Game mechanics and the most hero in Heroes of Newerth was based on Defense of the Ancients. The addition of distinguishing Heroes of Newerth from Defense of the Ancients are features independent from game play, such as the tracking of individual statistics, in-game voice communication, GUI-streamlined hero selection, game reconnection, match making, banlists players, penalties for leaving and chat features. Some of the features added via updates include Hero Compendium (a list of the hero in the game with detailed statistics about them), the ability to set the "following" trait on a friend which makes the player join / leave the games that a friend joins (similar to the "party" in other games ), in-game ladder system, and a map editor. The game uses a proprietary K2 Engine S2 Games' and the client-server model similar to that used in many modern multiplayer games.
Heroes of Newerth was in beta from April 24, 2009 until May 12, 2010. Throughout this time, over 3,000,000 registered account .. [7] uses S2 Games Facebook fan page and word of mouth to attract players to the game. Many people who had bought one of S2 Games previous games also received an invitation to the game through their registered email.
On August 22, 2009, pre-sale of Heroes of Newerth began for members of the closed beta. Players who purchase the game at this time received additional benefits, including name reservation, gold-colored nameplate, gold shield insignia, and the ability to taunt in the game. Open beta testing for Heroes of Newerth began on March 31, 2010, and ran until May 12, 2010 when the game officially launched.
S2 Games released Heroes of Newerth 2.0 on December 13, 2010. [8] Also included in the update were casual mode, a new user interface, team matchmaking, an in-game store, and the offline map editor. also introduced microtransactions through the in-game store using koin.Koin can be used to purchase alternative hero skins, avatars, and customized announcer voice. In-game currency can be purchased with real life currency or earned via Matchmaking game. [9] [10]
S2 Games released Heroes of Newerth as a free-to-play game on July 29 2011.Account purchased before this date retain access to all content and updates without charge tambahan.Account only have access to the game mode All Pick. Through purchasing coins or earning them in play, players can purchase the ability to use additional heroes. Players must pay for tokens to play additional game modes.
On July 19, 2012, nearly one year after it announced a free-to-play model of its S2 Games announced publicly that the game will be completely free to play without any access restrictions heroes, including early access to unreleased heroes.
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