2.1.8.1 Patch Notes

[Auph]

Version 2.1.8.1
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- Fixed the silly stuff going on with the MOTD image

Version 2.1.8
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- Cost of displaying taunt should be correct now
- Store tweaks to how the heroes are listed in the HoN Store
- Added a Server Status announcement to the MOTD
- Moved some of the video options around in the options menu so they are actually usable
- Fixed Monkey King, Master of Arms, and Geomancer icons being blank in the player stats panel
- Fixed a possible crash when destroying items

- If a neutral creep gets the last hit on a hero, they now always get credit
- Hellbourne / Legion will now only get kill credit if no enemy hero has done damage to the target in the last 20 seconds
* It will award the kill to the last person to do damage to the target if the Hellbourne or Legion get the killing blow

Blood Chalice
- Fixed it giving 150 HP per additional enemy hero killed on the same frame if you kill more than 1 enemy hero on the same frame


== Heroes ==

- New hero: Midas
- New Early Acces Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Lord Midas
- New Alt Avatar: Dark Jeraziah

Removed selectable gadgets from:
* Balphagore's Regurgitate corpse gadget
* Bombardier's Sticky Bomb invis gadget
* Parasite's Infest gadget
* Revenant's Mortification gadget

Bombardier
- Starting int reduced from 25 to 22
- Sticky Bomb cooldown from 14 to 20/18/16/14
- Optimized Sticky Bomb

Bubbles
- Take Cover increased from 0.25/1/1.75/2.5 to 0.5/1.00/1.75/2.5

Dampeer
- Fixed crucial bug where his Consume was not healing with the proper numbers

Geomancer
- Fixed his Dig not triggering Vindicator's Glyph of Silence
- Fixed the explosions from Earth's Grasp to be where they should be now

Magmus
- Fixed an incredibly weird bug where Volcanic Touch effect would play in fog if Magmus was on the Legion team

Master of Arms
- Acid Bomb reduced damage from 20/40/60/80 to 15/30/45/60 damage a second
- Fixed Acid Bomb so it damages magic-immune units and doesn't affect physical-immune units

Monkey King
- Fixed a Heavenly Vault displacement bug where if Monkey King gets unbound mid-Vault and quickly changes direction, then the enemy gets displaced about 90 degrees away from the original intended direction
- Fixed Heavenly Vault so it won't unbind invulnerable units (ie, Geomancer in Dig)

Moon Queen
- Moon Finale cooldown from 160 to 160/140/120
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Version 2.1.7
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- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Dr Repulsor
* Magebane
* Scout
* Valkyrie
* Corrupted Disciple
* War Beast
* Pharaoh
* Balphagore
* Revenant
* Thunderbringer
* Gauntlet
* Wretched Hag
* Demented Shaman
* Ophelia
* Plague Rider

- When purchasing Heroes, you can now bundle the available Alt Avatars for that hero and receive a discount on buying them all together
* In order to bundle, you must check the box in the Purchase Confirmation Screen after clicking to Purchase the hero
- Tagged a lot of gadgets as un-selectable
* Many abilities in the game would create gadgets for only a few seconds and you could tab to them while they were alive. We fixed this for the vast majority of instances

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Mist Runner Scout
- Added a new Premium Alt Courier: Nyan Cat Courier

[Auph]

Version 2.1.6.1
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Removed persistent groups for now to fix some load issues. We have fixed up Matchmaking and logins so everything should be much more stable now

Version 2.1.6
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- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Forsaken Archer
* Arachna
* Soul Reaper
* Maliken
* Madman
* Legionnaire
* Amun-Ra
* Tundra
* Pyromancer
* Deadwood
* Slither
* Bubbles
* Glacius
* Jeraziah
* Keeper of the Forest

- Matchmaking groups are now persistent
* After a match or when a game fails to be made you will still be in the same group you were in before for easy requeueing
- Made some adjustments to the matchmaking algorithm that should match up groups with other groups much closer to their MMR value than before
- Groups of 5 solo players will no longer be matched against a full group of 5 under any circumstances
- Made several improvements to decrease the chances of players failing to load into a matchmaking games, especially for matchmaking groups with multiple players on one IP address that are behind overly strict routers/firewalls (causing grey circles)
- Adjusted how the PSR/MMR calculations work slightly and put a low end cap of 750 PSR/MMR
* Any players who are below this value will have their PSR/MMR adjusted up to 750 after the patch

- Over the weekend we plan to turn on and test a new feature we've been working on: match stat re-submissions
* If at any time a game server is unable to submit match stats properly at the end of the game, it will let players in game know that the match submission failed, and attempt to re-submit the stats from that match at a later time (normally within 15-30 minutes)
* To those that have experienced frustration due to matches not being recorded in the past, we apologize. Moving forward we are taking serious action to mitigate this sort of occurrence from happening and want to thank everybody for their patience with us

- When receiving an incoming whisper coming from ClanWhisper or BuddyWhisper the game client will no longer add the sender to the /reply history
* This is to stop players from having a conversation, getting a clan or buddy whisper, typing /r and then realizing they sent the message to a person they didn't intend to
- Fixed a crash with an unexpected format for JPEG custom account icons

- Fixed projectiles stopping mid-air if the touch active schemes were invalid
- Buildings in the bases now have 0 death time so they don't block movement after death
- Current Health and Mana Regen are now shown on the right side of the bars
- Touched up all of the Taunt voice responses in the game to be more clear and able to be heard well

- Wards
* Attacks will always hit wards now, no more uphill miss chance against them
* Now have 4 max health, each hit takes off 1 health

- Added a New EA Hero: Geomancer
* Based off the Intelligence Community Contest Winner
- Added a new Early Access Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Centipedalisk
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Sub Zero Accursed
- Added a new Taunt: Heavy Metal Taunt

- Monkey King fixed so auto leveling his abilities through a Guide will work properly

[v3z-skydragon]

Perhaps this is why Matchmaking is down. See patch notes of 2.1.6.

They are improving matchmaking and stat not recording issues. This is just my guess

[le4slie]

nice & sweet. can't wait 'till i get home from school tomorrow to check this out (it'll be patched tomorrow, right?).

Perhaps this is why Matchmaking is down. See patch notes of 2.1.6.

They are improving matchmaking and stat not recording issues. This is just my guess

maybe your right, but, i think it has nothing to do with MM being down. just a guess also.

[scoopmoves]

Hooray.! nyan cat and more gold gold gold..._

[Harthelos]

nice & sweet. can't wait 'till i get home from school tomorrow to check this out (it'll be patched tomorrow, right?).


maybe your right, but, i think it has nothing to do with MM being down. just a guess also.

Maybe they needed to update the patches due to the MM bug which comes with 2.1.5(the one we have now) patch.
It just seems pretty unusual that they are updating on a Tuesday.

[demonic_Vital]

How about My Master of Arms I buy it yesterday but i can't use it when i click MA icon There's a notice Like a EA Hero Notice.......Please Fix This Problem........................

[CFF3333FFKaito]

wow 3 patch in tomorow
what`s wrong ?

[^_^cool_boy]

will they extend 2x coins..

[cocos]

yeah baby Discount

[oblivion0]

oh thank heavens!!!... i've been dying to have new patches here... XD

[scarecr0w141]

where is mist runner?

EDIT: nvm saw it

[einfachlieben]

so how much will they cost?

[wJun07]

hopefully there wont be a delay issue happened tomorrow... Which happened to most of the patches in the past.. =D

[yyolaxx]

I hope it will not happen.............so we can play right away!what time well the new patch release?

[le4slie]

Maybe they needed to update the patches due to the MM bug which comes with 2.1.5(the one we have now) patch.
It just seems pretty unusual that they are updating on a Tuesday.

yep. you got it all right.

you also foresighted the 3 in 1 grandslam patch back from the other thread, right? your a prodigy, man.

[ako_si_weng]

COOL! im looking forward into it

[xSlAsh3Rz]

wat the hell..stil no pupet master on the list? wth?? there some hero being on the list for a few time !!

[oktaaaa]

why i always crash if download this patch ? please help

[decayedramen]

where's the nyan cat courier?
i was waiting for that..