Heroes of Newerth - Ripoff of Dota

Lets start off with a quote:

"Heroes of Newerth is a game by S2 Games which is heavily based upon the Warcraft III scenario Defense of the Ancients"

Alright, it is not heavily based upon Dota, it is Dota. Its plain plagiarism. They didn't even attempt to change it. You have the same heroes, same map layout, same skills, same items, same creeps, same everything. With the exception of adding a few new items removing some items and removing/adding heroes. That's like photocopying a picture drawing a smiley face on it and say its a new drawing.

"Heroes of Newerth has been in development for around 3 months. The first 13 months consisted of further developing S2's K2 Engine used by previous projects for Heroes of Newerth, while the remaining time was spent replicating DotA mechanics and content as correctly as possible, re-skinning the game with new art, and developing a small amount of new content in the form of maps, items, heroes and hero tweaks."

Like Dota, it also attracts the most horrible and retarded player base. Thankfully, they added a rating system so if people rage quit early they get penalized. Dota had that problem and people could just make new accounts when they get ban listed. Here, you can't make a new account and/or avoid a drop in rating. If you leave too many games you'll automatically get banned from games that require a low leave rating. HOWEVER! HoN has a feature called concede. Like what the word means, its pretty much surrendering. If the full team concedes then the game is over. What happens usually is people die a few times rage and spam the concede button and everyone eventually clicks and then the game is over in 15 minutes. You can't concede before 15 minutes and people ensure that you concede by reminding you of how much of a failure the team is at life itself, false claims of everyone's sexual orientation, and repeated accusations of how everyone's mom may or may not have slept with many men.

There is also a huge flaw in the rating system. Even if you're great you have a team of morons who doesn't know the right end of a sword, you're going to get your ass handed to you. And no one likes to receive their own ass. This also makes people host games that require you to have a certain rating to play. You automatically assume that your allies won't be completely retarded but you find out that they're just as stupid as someone at 1300 rating because they've been carried the whole way. They also added an auto balance tool that automatically balances the game based on rating so its as close as 50/50 as possible. However, you always get loser hosts that sneakily stack his own team right before game starts so its like 80/20.

Like Dota, the same modes are there, all pick, all random, easy mode, single draft, random draft, banning draft, etc etc. Like Dota, you get morons who can't play non easy mode. In easy mode money and level is gained at an increased rate so people who like to play carry can reach late game easier. There are different types of heroes like tank heroes, support heroes, carry heroes, and the super carry heroes. Tank heroes usually run in first and initiate the fight, they usually also have lots of stuns letting them do a lot of ganking early and mid game forcing the carry heroes to stay low while your carry heroes gain lots of exp/gold. Support is support with usually lot of disables and nukes. This means they're the best assist/ganking hero. Carry heroes suck shit at early and mid game and start to shine at late game. During late game they get so powerful they can carry the entire team. These heroes usually have no stuns or nukes and rely heavily on gear and level. They are extremely vulnerable early and mid game.

What does all this mean? It means everyone would pick a carry hero suck at it and then get ganked repeatedly until they rage quit. In easy mode games this is doable, but in non easy mode you're going to have to work very hard to farm up without tankers and support. The game itself isn't bad, but the player base itself for public games pretty much ruin this game. Player base problems aside there is also the problem with balance. There are new heroes that S2Games added and or "rebalanced." These heroes are completely overpowered and can dominate anyone if played by anyone would a positive IQ. This also means every retard spams the button on those heroes the second the game starts and picks them asap.

Overall, Heroes of Newerth is nothing new, just a re-skinned Dota with blaring balance issues. It suffers from the same player base problems that Dota has and S2Games even duplicated bugs in Dota which was caused by Warcraft 3's Engine. Biggest issue I have with this game is that they didn't even attempt to change anything. Half the people still refer to the heroes, items, creeps, skills, and everything in Dota terms. They layout is the same the combat is the same even the UI is the same. Everything is the same, even the recipes. They used almost the same UI, there are some flaws that I really dislike about it but its not much different from Warcraft 3. I still prefer Wacraft 3's any day. Whats funny is they're not copying the whole game, they're copying a game, within a game. Its like you made a game off of Final Fantasy 7's chocobo racing and sell it and made money off it but called it "Giant Bird Racer." The worst part is Dota is free, they don't make money from it. These guys decided to rip it right off and make money off it. Fucking assholes.