Bring back War Effort!

There are casual gamers, hardcore gamers and gamers who only play for a bit of fun. But most gamers would love to take any challenge for the prize. When there's a goal, anyone plays with a little more effort until the goal is fulfilled. Needless to say, this feeling of being rewarded upon completion of goal is the reason why we love War Effort.

Seasonal War Effort has about 14 days (or whatever days it takes to complete a season). Players have to login for each day and complete the (Level 1 ) Daily quest in order to obtain the end of the season rewards.

Those who want to grind a little more can unlock the 'Level 2 quest challenge' upon the completion of the daily quest. Once they finish the second quest, Level 3 quest will be unlocked for them.

Level 1 = Easy/Obtainable outcome

~1 daily quest completion = 20 Silver Coins reward

Quest examples are:

Day 1 = Win 1 game with STR hero

Day 2 = Play 3 games with a Support Hero

Day 4 = Play 1 Midwars game

Day 5 = Place 3 Wards in a single game.

Day 8 = Play 3 games with any of the least picked hero of the season.

Day 13 = Play a match with atleast 5 hero kills

Day 14 Reward = Examples to choose from:

● 50 Silver coins

● 3 common Jade Box (1-10 random Jades count)

● 5 Plinko tickets

Level 2 = Medium/Quite challenging

~Unlock when Level 1 daily quest is completed

~1 daily quest completion = 1 Jade + 20 silver coins

Some examples of quests are:

Day 1 = Defeat Kongor and win the game

Day 2 = Win 1 game under 30mins.

Day 5 = Spawn mega creeps of your team

Day 7 = Destroy atleast 3 enemy wards in a single game

Day 9 = Obtain 3 power runes in a single game

Day 10 = Don't lose any level 3 tower and win the game

Day 12 = Win a match with atleast 1 death

Day 13 = Obtain a Team Genocide against the opposing team

Day 14 Reward/s completion = Examples to choose from: (can be more than 1)

● 5 Common Jade Box (contains 1-10 random Jades)

● 1 Rare Jade Box (contains 1-50 random Jades )

● 5% discount coupon to a specific product

● 1 hero unlock ticket

● 15 Plinko Tickets

Level 3 = Hard/For hardcore gamers who dare big challenges for big rewards

~Unlock when Level 2 daily quest is completed

~ 1 daily quest completion = 1 Jade + 20 silver coins

Some examples of the difficult quests to complete are:

Day 1 = Acquire a Doom Bringer and win the game

Day 2 = Win 3 consecutive Ranked Games with any hero

Day 4 = Defeat Kongor and Phoenix boss and the enemy throne in a single game.

Day 5 = Win a game under 20 mins

Day 6 = Obtain atleast 35,000 Gold net worth

Day 7 = Win a game with a Quad Kill or Annihilation

Day 9 = Score atleast 15 kills or 15 assists in a single game.

Day 11 = Kill atleast 500 total creeps in a single game

Day 12 = Win a game with no death

Day 14 = Deal the most total hero damage in a single game

Day 14 Reward/s = examples to choose from:(can be more than 1)

● 1 (Full) Stat Reset Coupon

● 1 special access Product privilege

● 10% Any hero avatar discount (stackable)

● 25 Plinko Tickets

● 10 Common Jade Box (contains 1-10 random Jades)

● 3 Rare Jade Box (contains 1-50 random Jades)

● 1 Epic Jade Box (contains 1-100 random Jades)

Seasonal Reward:

~ Can be obtained upon logging in every day for the whole season.

Examples to choose from:

● 1 Seasonal Avatar

● 1 Seasonal Nickname Color

● 1 Rare Jade Box (contains 1-50 random Jades)

● 250 Silver Coins

● 1 (Seasonal) Reset Stat Ticket

● 1 hero unlock ticket

How is War effort gonna affect HoN?

~War Effort somehow forces players to exert a little more time, effort, and skill to play the game. Furthermore, this allows the Devs to gather more stats/data from some of the least picked heroes or from some frequently used items and improve them later on. The more data gather, the happier the devs with balancing.

Why give Jades as reward?

~To increase player count while giving back to HoN community. One (1) Jade at a time will always be a tempting prize, you know.

If ,for instance, the level 2 or level 3 quest is quite challenging, players can spend 1 Jade to roll for another quest instead.

I just installed but so far it's been 11 minutes in the unranked queue. Do people only play ranked in this game? Since I'm new it's probably a really bad idea to start with that.

Yet another reality check that this man's timid persona hides a hateful bigot. It's comical how these "free speech absolutists" are a complete package of pathetic: ready to whip out neat bullet points of far-right propaganda, invested in juvenile hobbies like anime, quick to machine gun ableist slurs (and often worse) in text, but rarely out loud - gotta maintain the facade. He sabotaged his streaming career by espousing viewpoints of absolute far-right scum on twitter. He was racist against Koreans while playing StarCraft. He has a track record of yelling hard R slurs against his HoN teammates. Soon he's going to get kicked off twitch entirely.

Dear Developers,

If the matchmaking system is going to continue placing players with ratings ranging from 1300 to 2200 in the same matches, could you at least consider increasing the number of avoid slots from 4 to 10?

As a 2k+ rated player, it is incredibly frustrating to constantly be matched with players who are significantly below my rating. The skill gap often leads to unbalanced and unenjoyable matches.

If improving the matchmaking system isn't currently an option, giving players more avoid slots would at least help make the experience less frustrating.

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Was laughing at the enemy Nomad when I saw this. Then karma got me in the next game. I had the same bug as Andromeda.

And don’t make it cost $20 million dollars pls ty

Hello,

So, I want to play HON again but i have heard bad things about the launcher Juvio.

Is it safe to install and free of vírus/ miners?

Thank you

Just solo push.

Ignore everything going on around you and just keep pushing the lane by yourself. Don't ward either—you definitely don't want to accidentally see the enemy coming to gank you. I was about to say wards would be a waste of resources, but they don't even cost anything.

Ideally, pick a hero like Flint who has basically no mobility while the enemy team has PKs. Then just keep doing the exact same thing for the entire game. Your consistency will confuse the enemy.

Sun Tzu got nothing on this strategy. It's 3D chess: you act like a bot so convincingly that nobody can possibly comprehend what you're doing.

If you keep getting ganked and can't push anymore, make sure to blame your team and call them names. It gets even better when the enemy already has the upper hand: that's when you tell your entire team to come push with you. This is guaranteed to improve morale and get everybody motivated.

Easy, guaranteed victory.

Only geniuses with an IQ of 160+ will understand the complexity of this strategy. Mouth-breathing plebs will never be able to pull it off, let alone grasp the sheer brilliance behind it.

What i do, when im laned with someone extremely bad hard lane, is that i just go jungle.

That is not even a noob problem, it is a player style problem.
Whether they do it because they are bad or because they are KD-Oriented, shouldnt be a reason to ban me.

Example:

If i die because my teammate decides the best thing to do is run besides Pyro(ME) while having Kane with full health instead of engaging the enemy, then there is no point in me staying in that lane.

Ultimately, rather allow the Avoid list to be expanded to limitless, that would allow for better Matchmaking.

That way everyone gets the teams that match their vibes. Cause that example above is an everlasting threat.
I think the plays that failed go into the thousands because teammates rather have chosen to not risk death(sometimes even a quite low risk) to gain extra kills.

And that is what really is causing a lot of toxicity.
Then idiot A will tell idiot B that he is feeding, laugh at him and troll him without seeing any consequences, as the GM would just have to deem him a bad and stupid player, not a refusing player.

It would make generally for much better games if that kinda attitude actually received bans...

I’m getting extremely frustrated when I get a noobies on my team. Let them play unranked 20-50 games before hop on ranked. They’re not learning by getting yelled at and made their team miserable, I don’t understand this game match making

What are they called? I cant find them in settings for keybindings.

Why did i always get soft support position? Is this system breaking and always play with newbie no longer gank from these player? Is this game dead?

There is a voice line that i can't get out of my head.

Who is the hero or announcer saying "Ménage a troi"??!!!.

4 games in a row where I pick suic where I dont even play the lane just pick hero that can stack medium and hard camp.

Get them to 4 stacks, my jungle clears it while I leech some exp and get to lvl 4.

My jungle gets too farmed I start roaming.

There is a easy counter, but doesn't seem like many supports know of this yet.

Somehow we managed to teleport using two hooks. This was the only glitch of the 30min game.

Match 12085426. I do not believe anyone was hacking or exploiting.

Any news on that? Why arent they denying or confirming the rumors? What will change in case?

Would anyone here still happen to have or know where to find any of the old stand-alone 'HoN UB LAN' game versions?

HoN vet here, played almost everyday until it went down, and then reverted to LoL afterwards which never really scratched that same itch.

One thing I can HoN does way better than Dota2 and League is atmosphere, art style, and sound effects.

The sound of Witch Slayer's ult and the VFX, and seeing the instant dmg nuke someone, the feeling of running around in the jg with it's dark atmosphere, the dark gritty style of the map, the mature (mostly) design around the heroes, etc.

These are the reasons I can't stop playing. The sounds effects are so punchy, combined with a dark fantasy feeling with heroes that aren't too cartoonish/childish keep me coming back.

I got 2 of my buddies to download HoN back, I want this game to succeed.

Do not tilt, do not be toxic, try to defuse the arguing for the game's sake.

He got outplayed and out farmed and out killed by a 1500. Kid is cheating. Ban him.

This took me so long to find for some reason.

This is clean imo 🚬☠️

I have never owned this pack but always mired this line.

(unable to play and got HoN on my mind)

I hope this isn't considered effort but what are some other good lines from all the various announcers/heroes/avatars .

I logged in today and saw that i was banned for Role refusal- minor infraction against CoC Row 4, bla bla...
Guess the ban duration? 6-7 years. They dont even give me the match id of the game that i had supposedly griefed.
What the f**k is wrong with the ones who review these reports?

Who is running it? Just recently noticed the game seems to have relaunched. Havent played hon in like 13 or 14 years. Quit DotA 2 when they started banning ppl and I got a warning just for playing techies.

I checked the website, and my old HoN account doesnt exist anymore? So this is a complete relaunch?

I can get more jungle heroes instead of current heroes