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On September 07 2011 03:49 E-Coffee wrote: I dont follow the HoN scene but is this the biggest tournament for it now?
There was a 50k tournament hosted by gosugamers a 3-4 months ago.
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Article on CNBC is legit. Gogo NASL <3
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On September 07 2011 20:14 bigjenk wrote:Show nested quote +On September 07 2011 18:36 Manit0u wrote:On September 07 2011 18:31 Renew wrote: This just shows how poorly the decision making is behind NASL. HoN is sadly going to die off once DotA2 is out. The community behind it is very small in comparison to the competition. Must... Control... Anger... Would you guys please stop with dumb comments like that? DotA2 isn't out yet and you don't know when will it be out. After it's out there will still be some time required to assess its potential as an e-sport and overall quality as a game. Only then will we be able to ascertain if it's going to kill anything or fail hard. I, for one, am not the least bit interested in DotA2. I might be interested if they made something new with it and not DotA with better graphics. I've been playing DotA for years and welcomed HoN for its innovations. Um beta is out and there is a 6 month timetable for release... Dota and lol have 10x the playerbase and hon has been seeing a decline in player numbers despite going f2p. It is a poor decision on nasl part to back 3rd place out of a 3 game race. Beta isn't out yet... And since HoN goes f2p, it constantly hit 50k players online at the same time in International server, and just hit 25k players online in Garena server a week ago.
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On September 07 2011 20:14 bigjenk wrote: It is a poor decision on nasl part to back 3rd place out of a 3 game race.
Let me try and get to you some reasoning behind NASL to get HoN instead of LoL and DotA.
1. DotA is just a mod, it's way too old and half of its playerbase resides in China. Hard to make a league like that. DotA2 isn't out yet.
2. LoL might have large playerbase but it also suffers from certain problems and let me quote someone more knowledgeable on the matter than myself ([EG]chu, who got to #1 rank in LoL in under 2 months):
Well made casual game, donkeyshit competitive game. There is only one way this game can be played at top level and that is passive farm-lane-entire-game, with its metagame heavily reliant on a stupid free blink that probably plagued that game since the beginning of time.
3. HoN has great spectator/LAN tools and some really good players (I mean, Testie plays HoN, what more do you need?).
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Yay for HoN. It's a great game. So great that I couldn't give any less shits about Defense of the Hats 2.
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Finally someone picks up a good MOBA game.
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I think, with DOTA 2 coming up, this is extremely stupid...
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North American Star League....with HON
NASLHON
D:
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On September 08 2011 03:00 Darkkal wrote: North American Star League....with HON
NASLHON
D: NASLwHON u mean?
I can see it:now:
Bloodlust............ brought to you by NASL, NASL: keep your virginity safe for $5/week or $25/season.
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tried watching HON, very difficult even for noobies then i played hon for a week used parasite, couldn't infect boss's on map because i wasn't a star member shortly uninstalled later
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On September 08 2011 03:17 br0fivE wrote: tried watching HON, very difficult even for noobies then i played hon for a week used parasite, couldn't infect boss's on map because i wasn't a star member shortly uninstalled later
You can't infect bosses regardless of what kind of member you are.
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I have been playing HoN since the beta, and watching it as well. If you play the game, it is great to watch, and Breakycpk (the best/main commentator of the game) is awesome. If you haven't played it, it is probably just as hard as LoL to understand, although it is somewhat more competitive, with lots of strong teams for it's whole life time.
Graphics are pretty good too. I suggest not playing it on absolute highest though, the game becomes a little *too* shiny ^.^
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On September 07 2011 10:51 RaiKageRyu wrote: This is why they chose StarLeague instead of Starcraft League. They kept in mind for future games beyond Starcraft.
I don't think that's true. I think they did that because in BW there were "starleagues" like, OSL meant OnGameNet Starleague. I'm pretty sure that North American Starleague was very much intended to mean SC2 league, like GSL.
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On September 08 2011 03:57 Surili wrote: I have been playing HoN since the beta, and watching it as well. If you play the game, it is great to watch, and Breakycpk (the best/main commentator of the game) is awesome. If you haven't played it, it is probably just as hard as LoL to understand, although it is somewhat more competitive, with lots of strong teams for it's whole life time.
Graphics are pretty good too. I suggest not playing it on absolute highest though, the game becomes a little *too* shiny ^.^
I agree and let me add that breakycpk is as good of a caster as tasteless or artosis in starcraft 2 , I love his casts.
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I don't feel hon is that balanced, or maybe it's just me disliking how the game has so many jumping and leaping and "blink" skills
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On September 08 2011 04:08 ETisME wrote: I don't feel hon is that balanced, or maybe it's just me disliking how the game has so many jumping and leaping and "blink" skills
So many blink skills compared to what game? HoN is basically a clone of dota, an LoL is the game where every hero has a free blink spell.
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Thats nice, I'm glad HoN is still going a bit. I switched to LoL, but I still love watching HoN over LoL.
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On September 08 2011 04:15 Daozzt wrote:Show nested quote +On September 08 2011 04:08 ETisME wrote: I don't feel hon is that balanced, or maybe it's just me disliking how the game has so many jumping and leaping and "blink" skills So many blink skills compared to what game? HoN is basically a clone of dota, an LoL is the game where every hero has a free blink spell. This^ + there aren't really that many jumping/leaping/blink spells, don't remember the excact number on the top of my head but I am certain it is below 10.
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On September 08 2011 04:08 ETisME wrote: I don't feel hon is that balanced, or maybe it's just me disliking how the game has so many jumping and leaping and "blink" skills Blink heroes are all weaker than other heroes.
Magebane: Melee, Master's Mantra is one of the worst skills in the game.
Wretched Hag: Decent hero but nobody will scream imba. Doesn't have any sort of disable skill unlike other nukers like Pyro and Witch Slayer.
Valkyrie: very well rounded hero. The blink is directional and fixed length but in return she gets a stun, even tho it has pretty bad reliability.
Actually. that's pretty much it with blink heroes. There's Doctor Repulsor in a way but every time he uses it he loses like all his mana.
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Why HoN? Test run for DOTA2?
Nobody is going to be playing HoN in a year.
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