Race before game start

[GnarlyGoat]

I was just wondering what factors impact the race that happens just before the start of each match, is it based on your PC specs or internet connection speed? Also, what is the point of the race, is there any real difference between coming first and coming last?

In my experience I tend to finish towards the end of the field, but there have been some matches where I have finished first or second, could someone please explain this?

[Ritsuno]

It's not really a "race" it is just showing everyone loading the game, you get nothing for loading the game faster or slower (unless if you're really slow people may make fun of you a bit or have such a piece of garbage computer)

So based off of what I just said. Yes, the faster your computer and internet connection the faster you'll run in the... race... (or load the game.)

Also this is a option to do in all WC3 custom maps, but most people leave a message on how to play, recent update, etc...

[Bonburner]

This screen has confused me many times ... sometimes I am done loading it the second the timer goes off, and sometimes I spend a good 10 seconds waiting.

[Heliotic]

It pre caches, so if you've just been playing or it is a remake orsomething it will load faster, the first time in the night is slower.

I like this, usually i'm first or second
lol

[RailStorm]

Best loading screen imo.

[Grimace]

It's super fun. Loading races are a good addition.

[A`nub`is]

Leagues will probably enforce all players to use the precacheall command (or activate the option to do so when the game is started - though, that option has yet to be implemented by S2), thus no more race xD

[biyabo]

It would be really funny if they added chibi or super-deformed icons of all the heroes, running across the tracks as players load, like those horse race festival games.

[SESnut]

ive been trying to figure that out myself, i loaded the game onto a ram drive and it didnt load any faster, also manually extracted the s2z files so there wouldnt be any cpu usage from extracting them but that didnt really make it load faster either

[TreeHorse]

It would be really funny if they added chibi or super-deformed icons of all the heroes, running across the tracks as players load, like those horse race festival games.

I would love this.

[Vadi]

At first I thought that you actually had to press something to win the race. Like... space. :/

[BlacRyu]

I believe it's only loading the hero's at this point, so If its a 5v5 it will load much slower than if its a 3v3, also it depends if you've played with those hero's in a previous game and have stuff cached. I always thought it would be nice to be able to mouse-over a person's hero and see their hero's skills like you can in the selection room, or something else just to give us something to do on long loads.

[GnarlyGoat]

Thanks guys for replying, especially Artanis22 for clearing some stuff up. I was looking around the forums and found this thread (http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=201), which is pretty much about the same issue (*facepalms for not using the search feature first*). I think what happens is that every time you start a match, you load a whole lot of stuff onto the cache, like heroes and stuff, but the cache doesn't clear itself at the end of each match. This means that if you have played a few games before hand you will already have a number of heroes and stuff already loaded into the cache, and so the loading times will be quicker.


It would be really funny if they added chibi or super-deformed icons of all the heroes, running across the tracks as players load, like those horse race festival games.

OMG yes chibi would be AWESOME! This so has to be implimented, maybe a future mod or something.