You may have noticed a few new heroes though, and your two minute timer for selecting a hero is running out, so here's a list of all the new, and altered heroes. By now you should probably have noticed that when you mouse over a hero you can see every single one of that hero's abilities and attributes, including primary attribute, base attributes, attribute gain, base movement speed and attack range! All of this is fairly useful (and noob-friendly), and can help you decide which hero corresponds to it's DotA counterpart. Which hero should I choose? I don't know who any of these heroes are!? I'm so confused! PLEASE!! HELP ME!!! But now it's time for a difficult decision. So by now you've joined a game, picked a side and made it to the hero selection screen (GOOD WORK!!!). Since so many of the classic DotA heroes and skills were kept, there's not that much for an ex-DotA player to learn. Both games have crisp gameplay and similar mechanics, but there is one huge difference between how the two games play out, and thats the pace of the actual. So now we present to you, The DotA Player's Guide to Heroes of Newerth! Heroes, items, skills, damage values, AI behavior, even the map! Of course a few things were altered in translation, and S2 has added it's own personal touches, but the game will definitely appeal to any fan of Defense of the Ancients. HoN is an active attempt to emulate DotA. Sure, they're the same genre, but they are not the same game. Now, you may have already heard of a few 'DotA clones' such as League of Legends or Demigod, but you can be assured that those two games are as different from DotA as Counterstrike: Source is from Call of Duty 4, or Warcraft III from Command and Conquer. The biggest difference between them is the pacing. Heroes of Newerth is a Multi-player Online Based Arena (MOBA) style game developed by S2 Games that attempts to mimic the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) experience. Dota 2 and HON even feature many items and heroes that, aside from their names, are pretty much identical.

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