The language barrier

[dvx]

Given the varied geographical regions that have access to Heroes of Newerth, it's inevitable that some people would be familiar with some languages and others with other languages.

It would be awesome if some sort of filtering mechanism (much like map selection or game mode selection) would be implemented for choosing languages that one may be familiar with - as far as the UI is concerned, a bulletted list where languages could be checked would suffice:



[ x ] English
[ - ] Spanish
[ x ] Portuguese
... etcA game where two people can't speak English will almost inadvertently lead to a loss where the rest of the team is English-speaking (or vice-versa).

[Manu311]

Yeah, let's implement this and hope Russians and Romanians don't choose english.

If this is implemented the only thing that will happen is, teams of 5 players will choose russian as their only language and therefore play versus russians because they are (said to be) very bad players.

In the end you can't verify the language which is spoken by a user and since hon itself still is only available in english (unless you install something third-party) every player should know that language (I think every person on earth should), so that's the official language for all hon-games - if you don't speak english, go name your game: "frensh only" or whatever - if you want to be ranked in MM you should learn to speak english.