Quote Originally Posted by Pok View Post
Beta testers are allowed to talk about HoN now (no screenies or videos) so here are my first impressions of the game. These are my opinions only:

The good
-Voice chat in game
-A 'dota keys' set up in game
-Better graphics
-Concede / Vote kick in game
-Reconnect

The bad
-Stat tracking, if you are playing without friends expect to get owned. You will get pubstomped and you will not be able to find a game that will fill with shuffled players. Bad win / loss or kill / death means that hosts will not have you on their team and your record will only get worse, team stacking is key. I hate stat tracking, it strangles fun from the game. Certain tracked stats are fine (% of games left would be dandy), but the KDR and w/l ratios ruin it, especially since this is a team game and the quality of your team directly affects your stats. Yes, I have terrible stats for HoN, even though I have really good stats for DotA.
-The game is DotA, but it changed the appearence of all the heroes (some skill changes) and renamed them and the items. You're going to be confused as to which hero can do what for a while.
-The pretty graphics can obscure what is going on.
-Lack of DotA's giant hero selection.

Overall the game isn't bad (I'm starting to think it needs to be balanced a bit more), but it isn't as polished as DotA. Yes, I know it's beta and that a lot of the negatives will likely work themselves out in time.

Way to go, but remember most (or all) of your points on the negative section will be fixed, it is in closed beta, the priority is bug squashing, new heroes, maps, features all will come and is coming . What about the awesome server solution? I'm just saying, do not judge the game by its current state (it owns now aswell), more content to come, just hang on there .