HoN: Noticias HoN Test Server

• Removed two neutral spawns, replaced them with outposts
• Replaced two of the higher tier neutral camps with tier 1 neutrals
• Outermost towers are now level 1 towers (instead of level 2)
• This means they will do slightly less damage and less starting health, same as the outer most towers on Caldavar
• Lowered building health on this map by 25%, lowered ranged rax health regeneration rate by 25% (these changes only affect the darkwood vale map)

• Players will no longer see trees die in fog

• Meaning, juking with Logger's Hatchet / runes of blight is now much more fun!

• Toggle abilities (Web Shot, Decay, etc) and toggle items (Steamboots, etc) will no longer interrupt autoattacks

• Added an interface option for "Double Activate." When enabled, certain items and abilities may be double-clicked (or double-activated) for automatic use:

• Homecoming Stone and Post Haste teleports you home

• Health Potions and Mana Potions are used on self

• Tablet of Command, Stormspirit, Charged Hammer, and Nullfire Blade are used on self

• Portal Key blink towards home

• Grace of the Nymph, Inner Light, Protective Charm, Camouflage, Nature's Protection, Arcane Hide, Healing Wave, Cursed Shield, Fire Shield, Frenzy, and Focus Buffer are used on self

• Added new game interface option "Move To Spawn On Disconnect"

• When enabled, the server will automatically issue a move command to your hero to move back to base whenever you crash, freeze, or lose your internet connection

• Added new keybind: "Cancel And Hold Position"

• Functions exactly like "Hold Position", except it also cancels animations

• Players who want this functionality can replace their current Hold keybinding with the new Cancel and Hold keybinding

• A unit in the air no longer gains the 25% "uphill miss chance" evasion

• Units stunned by Witch Slayer or Magmus or tossed by Pebbles won't gain extra evasion

• Couriers and Tundra bird won't gain extra evasion

• Health and Mana bars for heroes will now show the damage they take

• This new 'shadowed' bar can be turned off in the options menu

• Scorescreen now contains voting options (kick, pause, concede, remake) and add friend functionality

• The camera will no longer shake when an effect (such as homecoming stone) is played in fog

• Fix to properly calculate a player's exp/min, even if he reached max level

• Neutral creep agro range for allc reeps set to 300 (some were 250, some were 300)

• Vulture Lord now has a +3 AOE armor aura

• Fix to Kongor so he won't wonk out and no one can hit him anymore

• Added a visual effect for Main health bars, they now course with energy

• Modified the internal random number generator to use a much higher quality distribution of random number

• Dual target abilities now properly ignore trees if their target scheme ignores them

• Hero health/mana bars are now shadowed with 500ms delay on the shadows

• Gold lerps to its actual value over 350m

• Toggles are correctly propagated to illusions

• Fixes illusion steamboots, illusion fayde stance, etc

• Added "Potential Hero Selection" functionality
• At the hero selection screen, you can right-click on any hero to make it your "Potential Hero"
• Spectators and anyone on your team can see your potential hero (the enemy team can't)
• If you run out of time, you will select that hero rather than randoming
• Prevent the "5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Let's get it on" countdown from happening after the hero selection screen
• Loading bar now courses with energy
• The game lobby will no longer display the message "PlayerName has connected." once for their initial connection, and again when they have finished loading
• It will now say "PlayerName is connecting." and "PlayerName has connected." to distinguish the different events
• Set the max channel chat message (250), max game chat message (150), chat channel topic (140), and channel name length (30).
• Channel messages will only play sounds when receiving a message in the current channel that has focus
• This fixes all the sounds that used to play when a user was in multiple channels at the same time
• The channel name + topic area of the channel is now truncated off properly and no longer wraps off the panel onto the rest of the UI for long channel topics
• Added a hovertip to the channel name + topic so if the topic is 95+ chars, if you hover over it it displays the full topic, similar to how long game names work in the Public Game interface
• The game lobby will now play the epic lobby.mp3 music
• Moved the voip mute button/icon things to the small colored circle to the side of the player slot (which normally is only used for the right-click menu) in all game phases
• The normal right-click menu (which is only available pre-hero-picker) now occupies the same spot used to show the player's avatar/left-click to join button)

• Fixed a bunch of random crashes caused from clicking the "Disconnect" button
• Before, clicking the button had a small random chance to corrupt a random place in memory that caused you to crash at a random time doing something random
• Updated the wording of some of the tooltips to be a bit more clear
• When viewing a player's stats, "Public Statistics" is now selected by default (previously "Ranked Statistics")
• Prevent a buddylist bug when the user loses connection to the chat server, then reconnects to the chat server
• Russian stringtables updated
• Fixed lock camera on player not turning off after a replay
• Profanity filter is now optional
• Follow fix: If two players are following each other and one of them joins a game, the other one will now join that game instead of both of them disconnecting
• Fixed a spelling error in the matchmaking interface
• Fixed crash when CLIPBOARD selection is unowned and an attempt is made to paste
• Fixed an issue that disconnected a user if they typed a player's name into the IM window
• Fix to the close button of the MOTD so you can click it easier
• Fixed mousewheel events not having the correct coordinates in windowed mode
• Re-organized the options menu slightly

Taunt

• Cast time removed

Courier

• Will now be attacked by Towers and the Well

Geometer's Bane

• Grants 0.1sec invulnerability on activation
  
  Hellflower
• Damage increased from 40 to 45

Plated Greaves

• Will no longer apply it's buff to Wildsoul's bear
  
  Puzzlebox
• Recipe increased from 1100 to 1250
  
  Shrunken Head
• Added to the tooltip that it cannot be dispelled

Steamstaff

• Price lowered to 800 from 900
  
  Stormspirit
• No longer silences or perplexes, just stuns
• This allows you to queue up orders while under it's effects

• Maliken, Warbeast, and Wildsoul transformations will no longer act stupid when Dark Lady Ults
• Valkyrie Arrow, Devourer Hook, and Voodoo Casks will no longer hit couriers

- Added new Legion Strength hero, Tundra

• Based on Rexxar the Beastmaster from DotA

Accursed

• Fire Shield dispels stuns once again
• Flame Consumption will no longer automatically activate below 400hp. Must be cast manually.
• This means that silences/stuns/etc will prevent Accursed from triggering his ult
• Staff of the Master now lets Accursed use Flame Consumption while silenced
  
  Arachna
• Spiderling will no longer stand there like a dummy if a hero blinked while the projectile was midair

Behemoth

• Initial 200/275/350 Magic damage on the ult is now Superior Magic, meaning it will go through magic immunity

Bubbles

• Shell Surf vision increased from 600 to 800 units and now keeps granting vision if it goes the max distance for 3.34 seconds.
• Fixed a bug with Shell Toss that was resetting the cooldown incorrectly
• Song of the Sea now hits units in fog and invisible units
• Take Cover no longer perplexes
• Kelp Field will no longer deal damage or stun magic immune heroes

Chipper

• Attack time increased from 350ms to 450ms

Corrupted Disciple

• Electric Tide now is now correctly displayed when originating from a position within fog

Deadwood

• Base strength increased from 23 to 25
• Base Armor increased from 2.24 to 2.74
• Creeps will no longer dispel the tree

Engineer

• Fixed the Turret's attacks eating Nullstone
• Tinker cooldown increased from 15 to 20
• Tinker manacost increased from 25 to 50

Forsaken Archer

• Skeletons will no longer trigger neutrals to use their abilities
  
  Gauntlet
• Ability 1 now has an instant cast time
• Cast range on second abiity increased from 625/800/975/1150 to 725/850/975/1150
  
  Hammerstorm
• Mighty Swing can now be toggled on and off

Hellbringer

• Base armor lowered from 2.4 to 1.4
• Life Void cooldown increased from 7 seconds to 10 seconds
  
  Magmus
• Volcanic Touch now correctly deals damage to Mechanical units
  
  Maliken
• Fixed tooltips
• Possession manacost lowered from 150 to 100

Nymphora

• Number of people taken with her Teleport increased from 0,1,2 to 1,2,3 additional targets per level

Pandamonium

• Slow from missing a Cannonball lowered from 4s to 2s
  
  Pollywog Priest
• Max distance of Jolt lowered by 200
  
  Pyromancer
• Phoenix Wave can now target both units and the ground
  
  Sand Wraith
• Using Manifest no longer kills all active illusions
  
  Soul Reaper
• Added to the ult tooltip to correctly state the cooldown changes to 70s at all levels with it
  
  Soulstealer
• Fixed the "being knocked down" while using an item bug

Succubus

• Fixed a bug causing sleep to sometimes be removed instantly by a creep
• Succubus' Hold cooldown lowered from 120s at all levels to 120/110/100
  
  Swiftblade
• Base movespeed increased from 300 to 305
• Returned attack no longer triggers responses like Corrupted Disciple's Static Discharge
  
  Valkyrie
• Javelin will now leave lingering vision if it hits nothing
• Tweaked Prism to correctly hit invulnerable allied heroes

Wildsoul

• Damage when the bear dies now properly goes through immunities
• Updated his tooltip to reflect that he takes damage when his bear dies
• Beardulon abilities reworked very slightly
• Gains Return at level 1
• Gains Entangling Claws at level 2
• Gains Demolish at level 3
• Gains Magic Resist at level 4
• Wild cast time removed, letting him cast it on the run
• Base movespeed while in Bear form increased from 270 to 285

Wretched Hag

• Bat Blast can now target both units and the ground

Zephyr

• Cyclone damage halved against non-hero units