Heroes of Newerth

Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1203 Location: Sweden

Looks like we'll be in open beta pretty "soon" anyway.

But I didn't realise that ppl did that until I had already given keys away.
Will hold on to the rest for a little while and see if any more of my friends want any.

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1591 Location: USA

hey, my username on it is fuag155555 if anyone's down for a game, i tend to be on around 2am pacific time

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

hallabro · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 24

gforum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 140

we should make a linux, or gentoo-linux clan sometime.

see you in game!

Naib · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:07 am Post subject:

gforum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 140

you need 5 players for it, and i only know you Phenax and me that play on linux atm.
maybe i should check other linux forums, make some posts and whatnot.

Naib · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject:

Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1203 Location: Sweden

I don't play very often. (though I'd like too) But when I do I already have a clan with my friends

I'm guessing that will be the case for some others too

gforum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 140

well i'd personally rather play on a linux team, so ill keep looking.
im not to avid of a player myself though

. not atm anyways.

St3v3 · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 25

Sevis · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

This thread alone has made moving over to Gentoo very much worth it

Now, just to fix up the RAM problem and wait for open beta. Hm, wonder what'll happen first...

Naib · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:34 pm Post subject:

Sevis · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

Naib · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:08 am Post subject:

Anyone who wants/needs a key

join the facebook group !!!
http://www.facebook.com/heroesofnewerth

they are at 195,183 fans

and

gajop · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 21

offtopic:
oh i see gentoo has a HoN board as well, cool =)
started using gentoo recently, and have to say i'm liking it (compiling got easier when you have 6 cores to do the work

), used to use archlinux, which had a similar mind
ontopic:
So how is HoN compared to DotA? I used to play (and still do) DotA a lot, probably if you would rank my playtime in any game, DotA would come top 2.
I wonder if they managed to resolve the 'leaver issue' that any DotA player is well familiar with - i.e people leaving after a while when they get beaten up a lot.
The other problem with DotA is ability to feed (unwillingly) the other team, that is, you keep giving the similar amount of gold each time you die, no matter how often you have died, unless you had a streak of kills or something.
Those two issues resulted in a pretty rude community, well, compared to other games.
Also how does it run on linux? Natively or through wine? Since, well, if this thing is better than DotA, and if it runs perfectly through linux (Warcraft doesn't even run on gentoo 64bit, unless you use a 32bit chroot (or virtualbox like me), since it requires wine compiled with gnutls and gentoo doesn't give 32bit gnutls, but that's another topic), I'll probably gladly give 30$, that is, if you can buy it online, since knowing my country, that will come here with 1 year delay.
PS: oh, and if it anyone has a key to spare, send it this way (otherwise you'll force me to make a facebook account!)

Xzarr · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

It runs natively, has much less heroes though.

As it's an open beta the leaver problem is still an issue because if your leave % gets too high you can just scrounge another key.

The community is just as awful I would say. (There are of course exceptions

)

gajop · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 21

Xzarr · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

Naib · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject:

the beta is being opened for 24hours thats all

open beta still a way away
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gajop · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 21

Yeah, i did manage to get the key in the end, game's really nice, through the first one crashed for me half in the game

.
What I did find very annoying was the crappy sound, anyone else experiencing this? I'm using pulseaudio atm, but if that's the cause I'm going to be getting rid of it!

Naib · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject:

sound is fine here
you will have to set sound quality to LOW though if you are using PA. its a known problem
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gajop · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 21