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What might be coming for Christmas...

With the preview of new hero Myrmidon, we are guaranteed that there will be a patch tomorrow. Aside from the usual and probable festivities-customized lobby music and in-game models, will there be anything big in-store for us HoN players? S2 Games has definitely been slowly and progressively building up the hype with leaks of what they've been working on, and who knows, some might just come out this Christmas!

It all probably started around September when S2 Games's Marc "Maliken" Deforest made a forum post regarding updates about the working progress on the map editor.
[S2] Maliken
Hey Everyone,

I wanted to post a few screenshots of the new interface that we've been putting on the Map Editor.

I also wanted to updated everyone on what is going on. K2 Engine (the game engine used to power HoN) has always had an editor. That editor was used primarily for 1 thing, create the maps (meaning terrain and doodads) in which we use for Savage 2 and HoN. That said, it was for internal use and was very archaic and missing some features that we would use console commands or scripting for.

What we have been doing, yes, working on it VERY diligently for the last few months, is clean up all those console commands and put a brand new interface that makes it much user friendly. That is no simple task mind you.

We are now on the finishing touches of that portion of the editor. We also have another set of features we must add now that the editor as a map creating tool is complete (or really close to). Those features turn the map editor into a much more powerful game editor. We could literally spend YEARS doing this portion of the editor as the sky is the limit. However, we want to incorporate many basic functions for altering the scripting within games. Once this is finished, we will have a tool that can be used to create other game types (say a tower defense) within the HoN framework.

Anyways, there is more information to come and I wanted to make sure you guys were all aware this isn't a vaporware feature! Enjoy the screens and sorry for the wall of text.

TL;DR - Check out some of the interface of the map editor, we're making good progress and trying to get it done ASAP.

Along with that post were images of how the map editor would look like:




Besides that, recently S2 has further revealed sneakpeeks of 2 other long awaited features, unveiling an image of Team Match Making on their twitter account while [S2] Nigma, recently uploaded a video on S2 Games's youtube account, with some in-game models which suggest the alternate female models for heroes Pyromancer and Glacius.



Here's the mentioned video:



It is all further confirmed in an article by worthplaying.com, stating that the release of Heroes of Newerth 2.0, a free update for existing players, is approaching ever so quickly:

Barring any last-minute issues, Heroes of Newerth 2.0 is scheduled to go live on or about December 13, 2010. It is a free update to all players, so if you own Heroes of Newerth, you're getting the 2.0 update without any additional charge.

You can check out the full article here, which includes some insight into what's coming up, including a new casual mode, which while not feasible for serious play, offers an alternative for people who just want to kick back and have some LMAO moments with some friends and more customization for every individual player cosmetic-wise.

Let's hope that the stars align and everything falls into place, and HoN 2.0 will be out and running as scheduled!


Links
Replicate of Maliken's post - Source
HoN 2.0 preview - Source

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