Heroes of Newerth Game Development 10-3

What S2 Is Working On 10/3 Update

Citizens of Newerth!
I wanted to throw out another update of things we're currently working on:

1.) Spectator / Replay Interface: This is an interface specific to spectating or watching a replay. It will have more information and options to expand & collapse lots of detailed information panels. This also includes full functionality of replays with planned full backwards compatability.

2.) Match & Player Web Stats: We will be releasing access to the online systems that gives all the data for every HoN played. This includes access to replays and player stats. Only accounts that have Pre Purchased the game will access.

3.) Automated Match Making: Now that a majority of our Chat Server scalability is handled we have begun work on the match making system. The initial iteration of this system will only allow for individual and entire team play (5 man teams).

4.) Automated Tournament System (Leagues to follow shortly): We are almost complete with our automated tournament system which seemlessly integrates the ability to create a tournament from web interface directly to the game server, chat server, and game client for creating scheduled games, notifying players of upcoming games, and automatically submitting results and updating brackets. We'll host a $10,000 initial beta tournament for this upon completion (more details will come down the road).

5.) Pathfinding Tweaks: While pathfinding works as intendedly most of the time there are situations we would like to improve.

6.) New Heroes: We will continue to push out new heroes. Here is a list of the next group of heroes we're working on.

(a) Sand Wraith: Mercurial (Spectre) port
(b) Silencer port
(c) Rhino Rider: port but who?

We will also be working on other polishes, tweaks, balances, mechanics, etc... while the rest of this is going on.