HoN: Noticias HoN Test Server

parche 0.2.80 test server

Striders:

• Fixed an issue where dropping them would not remove the speed boost visuals
• Fixed an issue where picking them up (when not in cool down) would not apply the speed boost visuals

Chronos:

• Damage from Curse of Ages proc from 20/40/60/80 Magic to 15/30/45/60 Physical

Forsaken Archer:

• Base Agility lowered from 22 to 20
• Base damage from 44-50 to 36-42
• Fixed various skills interacting with FA's new barbed Armor skill, causing far more damage to be dealt than what was intended (such as blood hunter's alt, rampage's drag)
• Barbed Aura will no longer proc off Splash damage

Rampage

• Can now target and affect Magic Immune heroes with all of his abilities

Tundra:

• Attackspeed from Cold Shoulder increased from 10/20/30/40 to 15/30/45/60
• Attackspeed will linger for 2 seconds after changing targets
• Fixed an issue preventing the attack speed buff from not lasting long enough on Cold Shoulder

parche 0.2.81 test server

• Experience share changes reverted (same as retail, now)
• Pre-match time for all game modes changed from 1 minute 15 seconds to 1 minute 30 seconds
• Fixed several interface crashes
• Fixed advanced game mode filter on public game interface to correctly save values.
• Fixed animations getting stuck when rewinding replays
• Fixed rewinding tree deaths in replays

Blood Chalice:

• No longer has deflection or takes a Shield
• Now takes a Mark of the Novice (+3 int) and Crushing Claws (+3 str) instead (Still takes Trinket of Restoration)
• Gives +3 Str/Int and +2 Health Regen (down from +3 Health Regen)
• Health cost (and return after successful kill) increased from 100 to 150

Ring of Sorcery:

• Reverted recipe changes, same as retail now

Striders:

• Fixed an issue causing some sources of damage not to properly put them in cool down
• Updated effects and icon. Now 120% more cool.

Flint Beastwood:

• New Hellbourne Agi hero, based on DotA's Sniper
• Skills:
• Explosive Flare - Deals damage in an area immediately, then gives vision over that area and slows/reveals any enemies who come within the vicinity
• Hollowpoint Shells - Gives a chance that an auto-attack will deal bonus damage and apply a mini-stun
• Deadeye - Increases attack range
• Money Shot - Channels for a brief time then fires a massive shot, dealing high damage at a long range to a single target

Forsaken Archer:

• Agility increased back to 22
• Base damage increased by 4 to 40-46
• This is 4 lower then what it is on retail
• Volley range from awful/awful/decent/800 to 800 at all levels
• Volley immobilize time from 1.75/2/2.25/2.5 to 1/1.5/2/2.5
• Renamed Barbed Aura to Putrefy
• Removed the damage popup numbers from appearing when a unit is hit under the effects of Putrefy
• Aura will no longer work against self damage (Accursed Cauterize, etc)
• Skeletons no longer apply the DoT

Soulstealer:

• Cast time on Soul Burst changed to 1.4 seconds from 1.6 seconds
• This is still 0.4 seconds slower than current retail client

Tundra:

• Ranged pet attack cooldown from 1.5s to 1s
• Cold Shoulder manacost increased from 0 to 40
• Cooldown lowered from 14 to 12

parche 0.2.82 test server

• During modes that use alternating pick (banning draft, banning pick, etc), once a player selects their hero it will instantly switch to the other team (rather than waiting the remaining time)

• Each player now has 40 seconds to select their hero, from 30

• Transition time between banning and picking is now 15 seconds, from 20

• The time after the hero picks has been reduced from 2 minutes to 45 seconds

• Hero selection time in all pick reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute

• tweak/clean up effect and add sfx to Blood Chalice and Striders

• fix projectile orientations

• fix attacking buildings and towers without sight of that building or tower

• fix duration of deny animation glow

• Added effect/animation for Tundra's Cold Shoulder

Forsaken Archer

• Reverted the Aura back into Split Fire, same as in Retail.
• Note to the testers: We appreciate all of the feedback and help on this, but we are not happy with where this is, so we are not comfortable putting it out there for the general public. We are going to keep these numbers the same as retail for now since we don't have the time to test anything more detailed right now. Stay tuned till next patch for more iteration!

Mr Beastwood

• Added better sounds and voice/picksound
• Slowed down his turnspeed slightly
• Exploding Flare reveal removed, radius reduced from 350 to 300
• Hollowpoint wont double hit gadgets anymore
• Fixed tooltip on Money Shot
• He will now gloat and say "Headshot!" when killing someone with Money Shot
• Fixed state on Money Shot so you can't inifinte reveal someone

parche 0.2.83 test server

- Darkwood Vale removed

• Added new map: Grimm's Crossing

• New Armor system for Towers added

• Tower Armor is now based on what heroes on that team are alive

• Scales smoothly from 100% normal armor with everyone alive to 0% when everyone is dead

• Example: 5v5, 2 players die, Tower armor on the team with the dead players from 18 to 10.8 while they are dead

• Only active on Grimm's Crossing for now

• Pets and Summons are new deniable

• Fixed a potential crash on the chat server that occured when a user was not able to be resolved during a clan invite.

• Fixed an issue where players were able to invite other players to their clan even if the targetted player was already in a clan.

• Cleaned up some of the error messages to properly represent the error occuring

• Fixed an exploit where players could set d_drawAreaAffectors to true, and they could see the effect of Madman's stalk in action while he was invisible. This cvar will only work on practice games or replays from now on

• Added global announcer sounds anytime Kongor is slain

• Fixed drag selection of flying units (Tundra Bird or Courier)

• Spectators can now view the shop

• Fixed shop error messages not showing up when shopping from the main shop panel

• Fixed spectator gold/min inaccuracies when players sell items

• Little fix for the tiny icons in spectator mode

• New Effects for minotaur and catman

• Update Frostburn tooltip to show max of 3 charges, instead of 5.

• Updated effects and sounds for several items like Blood Chalice, Puzzlebox, and Striders

• Updated sounds to several heroes

Blood Chalice

• Cooldown from 25s to 35s

Chronos

• Agi Steal from Curse of Ages removed

* Target Self
* 50 Manacost
* 25 Second Cooldown

* Target Entity
* Enemy Units
* 150 Range
* 100,150,200 Manacost
* 85,65,45 second cooldown

Engineer

• Range of Keg lowered from 1000 to 800
• Turret no longer does individual bullets, now does 7 'waves' of damage once a second over 6 seconds. Everything hit by the wave takes 25/40/55/70 damage, is pushed 25 units away, and is slowed by 7%, stacking up to 5 times for the slow.

Gauntlet

• Enfeeble no longer has charges set to 0 when attacking creeps, only when hitting heroes
• Enfeeble duration incresed from 3s to 4s
• Now steals 1% of anything hit's total damage per charge and gives that damage to gauntlet for the duration of the slow/steal
• Max charges from 50 to 35

[list]* Target Unit
* Enemy Units
* Magic
* 700 Range
* 120 Manacost
* 12 second cooldown[/list]

[list]* Target Position
* Visible Enemy Units
* Magic
* 800 Force Range
* 200 Radius, 55 Touch Radius
* 110 Manacost
* 14,13,12,11 second cooldown[/list]

[list]* Passive
* 8 Second Cooldown[/list]

[list]* Target Position
* Nonboss Organic Enemy Units
* 750 Range
* 300 Radius
* 150 Manacost
* 90,70,50 second cooldown[/list]

Nymphora

• Grace of the Nymph now also increases the target's Movespeed by 25/50/75/100
  Nymphora
• Stun range lowered from 1200 to 900
• Speed of the projectile lowered from 1100 to 1000
• Infoheight changed so the healthbar isn't on her face

Sand Wraith

• Fixed targeting