So now I have a girlfriend Casey with double D boobs who cooks me noodles for late lunch and only likes to use pretty girl heroes.
That's the only way to get those horny Garena bastards to wait for your friend who is cooking spaghetti to join game.
And they did wait. With NO cursing. NO flaming. NO whining. NO leaving.
They only thing they asked was:
1. Is your gf hot???
Men lah. Niapet. Can only think of boobies.
So KC finally arrived and we were ready to act noob then own with our ice couple - crystal maiden and ancient apparition - when my streamyx terus dc.
POTONG STIM WEI.
Not even 5 minutes tau!
Chaocheebai.
So while I'm talking about RTS games, let me continue with a shameless plug for HoN.
First and foremost, I don't care how many of you whiny DotA fanboys complain that HoN is a total DotA ripoff.
Because it's MEANT to be a ripoff. -_____-
Yes, they have most of the same heroes and spells and items because it's meant to make a player's transition from DotA to HoN easier. And may I reiterate that S2 has the permission from Icefrog to modify and use his map, albeit on a different gaming engine.
So basically, most of the DotA players now use Garena to play. (Are UCPro and Blueserver even active anymore?)
And with Garena comes a whole slew of problems:
1. Difficulty in joining a room to play with your friends.
2. Cannot see friend's game.
3. Easy disconnection - once you're out, it's OVAHH.
4. Friend list is all wonky - offline and online people are often muddled up; sometimes messages cannot be sent.
5. LAG. LAG. LAG. FUCK THE LAG.
So okay. This are the 5 main problems I have with Garena besides the chao ah bengs who have the IQ of my pants size.
Ah bengs cannot be avoided, but you have a 80% less chance of encountering them on HoN, due to the fact that you are playing with players WORLDWIDE (or a significantly larger region than your own country.)
Benefits of HoN:
1. Reconnection capability. If you dc, (fuck you streamyx) just reconnect and open your HoN again. You're allowed to rejoin a game within 5 minutes of leaving.
2. NO LAG. I have never ever lagged while playing HoN. Even if a player lags, the rest of the people in the game are unaffected.
HELLO, SMOOTH GAMES; BYEBYE TUNNELING.
3. Rebindable hotkeys. Say goodbye to warkeys that mess up your typing. You can rebind any key you like in your settings, much like in CS.
4. VOIP. BYEBYE SKYPE. You can chat in game by simply pressing 2 different keys - 1 for your lane only (good for initiating battle) and 1 for allies mapwide (HERO MS HERO MS)
5. Easy to join a friend's game. Just right click your friend on your friend list and click 'join game.' End of story. No stupid JOIN ROOM 23 SPAM SPAM SPAM I INVITE WHEN 224 OK?
Not to mention, no 'I CAN'T SEE GAME! CHANGE HOST pl0x!' *changes host 23842 times*
6. Autokicking for afk players. You don't need some saboteur on your team refusing to agree to a votekick anymore - the person is OUT after 5 mins of not leaving base. (Yea, I got kicked while brushing teeth once. And we were on the brink of victory already. Niapet.)
7. Private channels. Create your own channel and invite friends to join. You have admin capabilities over your own channel so goodbye public KPSs.
8. Stats recording. Kills, deaths, assists, apm, ck, cd anything you can think of is recorded permanently by default for sweet nostalgia. :) (You can opt to host stat-less games if you wish, to learn a new hero maybe.)
Best of all LEAVING is permanently recorded and you can host games with strict criteria to not let people above a certain % of leaves join.
And due to the current closed beta, people can't just spam create accounts to wipe their record clean. Therefore, they leave MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH less that in Garena. (Each game in GGC has a 99.99% leaver rate.)
9. -userinfo and /w (whisper) command. You can whisper to friend's already in game to see how far along their doing or just type -userinfo to see whose game they're in and how long since the match commenced. No more communication breakdowns.
10. Autoupdate. Everytime a new version comes out, the program will autoupdate when you next open it. This is compulsory so everyone's games are ALWAYS compatible. And you don't have to go map hunting at getdota.com.
Blah. Not to mention cooler graphics and sound effects. However, you may need a good graphics card and higher RAM for HoN so perhaps that's the only downside at the moment.
People complain that the heroes are imba. Please la, it's still in beta mode - that's what it's FOR. To make tweaks and improve gameplay overall.
And while I have seen some imba heroes (mostly the HoN originals) - Engineer wtf gatling gun - they are nerfed almost immediately. A few days waiting time, that's all.
Not like DotA where you have to wait AGES for a new map and new heroes.
Bah.
Okay la. I know I'm a shameless advertiser. The only reason I still play on Garena now is because I don't have enough HoN kakis yet.
SO GO AND DOWNLOAD LA.
Stop clinging on to DotA, however much you love it. It's obsolete and it's time to move on!
Yes I'm 100% biased.
www.heroesofnewerth.com
Play beta.
~_~ If you have no account I may be really nice and lend you mine. Open beta, where people can freely create accounts, has not commenced yet. Join their facebook page to know when beta keys are released so you can get yours ASAP.
And stop complaining that they're snobbish WTF LIMITED KEYS SO LANSI MEH?
It's CLOSED BETA people. A smaller testing group so bugs and stuff can be detected and reported and removed before the OFFICIAL RELEASE. (Don't know if they will charge upon official release though. PLAY IT NOW WHILE IT'S FREE!)
:)
Okay. Gonna go DotA now. Sadly. :(((
Note: Comparisons are made between HoN and Garena's DotA. I don't know much about UCPro or Blueserver, though I know both are vastly better than Garena anyway.
Glhf byebye.
Update:
I didn't know closed beta is open (ha ha punny) again exclusively to facebook fans.
BUT IT IS!
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