HoN Hero Spotlight: Bramble!

[Viole]

When the war spread from the northlands into the jungles of Newerth, both man and Deamon discovered why the natives call the land “Death’s Cradle.” Creatures warped from the chaos of the past abide in these forbidden lands, where beasts are prey and plants are predator. Deep in these jungles, the Keeper found the eldest of the mantraps and fed it the blood of the corrupted – Deamons and the fallen. Filled with their dark power, Bramble now stalks her chosen meals across the battlefields, helping destroy the enemies of the Keeper…


Bramble goes to Newerth this Friday! She's a capable tank who can support her allies

with heals and movement speed buffs.


Plant Snap Cthulhuplant Bramble! (http://youtu.be/fsDyMFVgucI)

http://i.imgur.com/grzJc.jpg

[Kohun]

This is going to be epic, I am sure you did a good job Viole!

nice thought out ending, really makes you think who loki is.

[SmashNess]

I'm so buying this one!


LOL at the avengers at the end! Cap. America, Thor, Hulk and Iron Man!

cuul

[Itzhak]

That Avenger Ending :D

[Skyve]

Looks like somebody recently played Druids vs Shamans :D

[Kainiet]

Meh. First and fourth ability are just tweaked from balph and empah.

[Iuchiban]

great spotlight good job, can't wait to that brable creature :D

[Baer]

Looks good.

[Gilgame]

didnt see the alt avatar in there at all. any clues?

[Spongebob1]

Meh. First and fourth ability are just tweaked from balph and empah.
There is nothing wrong with tweaks :3

[Alumando]

I didn't see the alt :[

Also, will we get an Iron Man Flux alt? would be nice to complete the avengers.
You could also make an Hawkeye from Forsaken Archer/Valk/MoA.

[MudButt17]

Meh. First and fourth ability are just tweaked from balph and empah.

Witch slayer and pyro and codex have same skills... just tweaked. Meh.

[LateFebruary]

Avengers ending lol!!!!!!

[Viole]

didnt see the alt avatar in there at all. any clues?

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/220/5/2/Bulbasaur_by_demidemi.jpg

[dragons_rise]

Well done with the ending, S2! Loved it!

[facedown]

Awesome spotlight.

[blackperl]

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/220/5/2/Bulbasaur_by_demidemi.jpg

lol really i can bet 10 bucks it wont be bulbasaur for sure :D such trolls

[Fairy_]

Good video, but jesus S2 has no creativity. The first skill is so poorly done. The stun at the end is such a poor element to it. Really like the ult though.

[Gcandy]

anyone else notice that is just the DR alt avatar colored different.

[zstarkey42]

Looks pretty awesome.

[Revick]

Every moba has a meta-game in mind. S2's metagame involves stuns and AoE. Thought you'd realize that by now. Those older heroes are out-dated.

[Crais]

First skill balphagore, Ult combo of empath's wall and polly ult.

[PetriFemboy]

Oh god if the Alt Avatar will look like the alien plant from "Little Shop of Horrors" i'm so gone buy it :D

[MudButt17]

I don't mind the fact that the new heroes are similar to older heroes. Every here is similar in some regard. The thing that's getting me upset is just how often the heroes come out. I think S2 should look at a monthly hero release pattern. And to the guy saying that they should release heroes with more passives... Just no. I don't want 10 soulstealers/armadons/swift blades/magebanes/ and more running around.

[Squire]

http://www.yoism.org/images/noodly3.JPG

[Sherwood]

Since she is a supportive hero that dabbles with movement speed, I wonder whether Frostburn would work with her?
Provides movement speed (echoes E) and slow (echoes W and helps her ult do damage for longer).

Everything else is speculative.

[GooseBoi]

Compleatly unoriginal

[Ezzik]

alt avatar should have bewbz

[Alumando]

If it looks like a Bulbasaur....instant buy
If it looks like a spaghetti monster....instant buy

[Rkey]

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/220/5/2/bulbasaur_by_demidemi.jpg
IF YOU ARE SERIOUS I WILL PLAY BRAMBLE ONLY TO 1700 BULBASAUR FTW

EDITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was all caps and it was important that it was.

[Vixxi]

Please change the things you copied from balphagore? We are not this stupid s2, we notice stuff like that you cant just copy and paste stuff and think noone will notice

[Ooglyboogly]

Please change the things you copied from balphagore? We are not this stupid s2, we notice stuff like that you cant just copy and paste stuff and think noone will notice

SBT =/= live release.


edit:
To elaborate: They use placeholders during testing.

[T0x]

Bramble looks amazingly strong. I won't go as far as to say overpowered without first seeing her in action... but she really does seem like she's going to decimate her opponents.
Can't wait to play her :) Good job S2!

[Gilgame]

Cant wait to play this hero.

[BattleHungeR]

Epic Ending :D

[Huskie]

The stupid stuff you guys release every two weeks is slowly ruining this game week by week. This hero just makes me sick to think of being in hon. THUMBS DOWN BOO

[Jeroz]

was hoping for more interaction with the trees~ :P

it's been a while since we last had a terrain modifying skill

[Anthrxx]

I fully appriciate what you guys are trying to do but please for all of our sakes STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! This game has plent of heroes instead of release a new heroes every two weeks, find out which ones are never played and idk mayb REWORK them?!?! would still give you the income of new heroes but gets rid of forcing players to learn a new hero every two weeks, as well as making it a more noob friendly game. LESS HEROES = MORE NOOB FRIENDLY.

[AngryPeasant]

It's obvious you can't come out with a well thought out, interesting hero every two weeks. I get it. No problem. Slow down. Fix some bugs and work on game play. Stop with the new heroes.

[D0ri]

The HoNvengers are here! No, really, that was epic, did not see that coming.

[HeliumBamboo]

The amount of QQ on this page is pathetic. BRING ON THE NEW HEROES, BURN THE NAYSAYERS.

[Jeroz]

What happened to the recommended skill/item build in the video descriptions? Do you not include them anymore?

[Brainfreak]

Can already say without seeing the hero ingame that the passive is too strong :o Teammates also get boosted? siiick. That will be so OP and annoying.

[sirPanda]

hmmm looks like Martyr just found his new best friend...

[Kainiet]

Dota Heroes/ Item. Nothing to do with s2.

[Vredezbyrd]

Seriously stop *****ing about NEW CONTENT.
I welcome it with open arms.
More heros, more maps, more items. Bring it on.

HURR NEW CONTENT I CANNOT ADAPT TO AN EVER CHANGING GAMEEEEE. Seriously, how stupid is that?

[Sherwood]

*with regards to the qqers about frequency of new heroes released*

I understand your points when you actually say them (and not when you just spew hatred with no foundation stated.)

But what do you think S2 are meant to do when they employ artists to design character models and concept art work, voice artists to voice probably as a permanent post?Have them idle doing nothing, being paid to do nothing whilst S2 do a crusade of fixes. You believe S2 is an organisation that moves as a single mass. They can only focus on one thing at once. They aren't. They have different people doing different jobs focusing on different projects. That's how an efficient company works, everyone is busy, keeping all plates spinning. I do believe whilst they have artists working to create new heroes, at the same time they have people review and working out how to balance existing heroes.

In my opinion, it's easier to make on surface a balanced new hero than tweak and existing hero to be balanced. With a new hero you can use an existing hero as a reference. Say with Bramble, she looks like a Jeriziahy Balphagore. So pick stats that are of the same as those heroes and tweak so they make sense.
Existing heroes, you have to firstly make sure you don't make them more powerful, worse off or utterly destroy the original 'feel' of the hero.

Take Keeper. Before he was a Supportive hero who could carry due to his generous STR gain. He has eyes that could be placed on trees that granted vision. When they allowed Hatchets to be tossed and added more tree destroying heroes, he became trash. They rebuilt him into a strange Pusher who could semi-carry. He had the same Ulti and Team buff but drastically changed his game play. Before he used to run around giving vision and jungling in the enemy's jungle to impede their farm. Now he jungles to a point and starts to aggressively push. It's a shame imo.

I think you're very upset about the state of balance of existing heroes and the influx of new ones, that you forget to think.

If there are heroes that need attention, make a thread about it. Posting 'S2 needs to slow down new heroes' doesn't really help. Comparing HoN release schedule to DotA doesn't work either. DotA was made by people who probably didn't earn much from it and thus couldn't employ an army of developers. So hero creation was slower. The time may have helped refine each hero but you never paid for DotA so players didn't mind. S2 have employees and technically you do pay for HoN even if it's a F2P account. Thus players need new content to confirm to them that it was worth paying for. You can debate whether just new heroes count, but I have no idea how they allocate people to "Hero development" and "Map Development" etc..

[H2O_Melon]

I didn't see the alt :[

Also, will we get an Iron Man Flux alt? would be nice to complete the avengers.
You could also make an Hawkeye from Forsaken Archer/Valk/MoA.

and have a black widow alt for dark lady or arachna :P

[Ledenial]

Good job, Viole! Especially on Avengers' part! ))

[Mortz]

can i be the new hero designer for s2 plx, i got great ideaz. <3

On subject though, i am really glad you listened to the community about the name, s2 = the best 2. THE BEST 2, NO OTHER GAME COMPANY CAN TOP S2 WITH THEIR 'game name' 2 GAMES

[CraftyPanda]

Loving the Avengers Assemble Spoof. :) good Work

[Alumando]

It's obvious you can't come out with a well thought out, interesting hero every two weeks. I get it. No problem. Slow down. Fix some bugs and work on game play. Stop with the new heroes.

So you think people who design the heroes and the people who fix bugs are the same people?

[Nospheratu]

I like the new hero (both looks and skills), i love the various movie referrences (like Little shop of Horrors and Monthy Python's Holy Grail) and i LOVE the spotlight, especially the epic ending with the Avengers. Good job as usual, keep it up!

[Master_One]

If they bring iron man flux, i will play that hero only, and get 99% played with flux!!!!

[Gortex]

Awesome ending! :D

[ProtoProtoss]

He looked so overpowered in that video, lmao.

But that ending (The Avengers Spoof) was awesome!!! HAHAHA.

For the idiots whom didn't get it:
Pebblez = Hulk (hence green skin)
ThunderBringer = Thor (hence thor avatar)
Flux = Iron Man (metal... duh)
Bubbles = Captain America (patrioitic shield, duh)
The kick at the end was to the punch when they were standing there after fighting a huge army.

[n00buaddib]

Hate all the Avengers references (unless that means we get a Batman skin for something next :p ) but LOVE the new hero. Srsly, first new hero I'm excited about (and will get in EA if it has a nice alt) since....Cthulhuphant? Or Salforis. Not sure which one was the later, I think Salf.




Also 40+ Predators should eat everything and anything in the game. That 4 dudes can stop them, especially magic heavy ones is bullfeces.

[BrainSap]

All i know is gonna be epic i got 2 suggestions for alt avatars i dunno if u like it but i do xD
1)plans insta alt avatar http://el.4m7.de/sammelalbum/images/monster/monster30.jpg



2)Alt avatar devo you all know when som1 dies he gets fat i though something like this and a cake hook it would be funny and awesomehttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MQGl3yFI3x8/TZSU3l18hkI/AAAAAAAABV4/ae18Ag42OVk/s1600/fat+eater.jpg

[RaViJ]

Please change the things you copied from balphagore? We are not this stupid s2, we notice stuff like that you cant just copy and paste stuff and think noone will notice

If the skill hit enemies in an aoe around her instead of just in front of her, you wouldn't even think about comparing it to Balphagore. :P

[RaViJ]

Also 40+ Predators should eat everything and anything in the game. That 4 dudes can stop them, especially magic heavy ones is bullfeces.

Don't take everything so seriously or you might miss out on everything cool.

[ArcticBeef]

I only played this game a few times. It's been hard to get into because most of the characters just look similar and boring to me, but this will probably let me give the game another shot. How much do the new heroes usually cost when they come out?

[IPeonPeons]

and have a black widow alt for dark lady or arachna :P

But look at the team...
Strong impervious green man that smashes
Charismatic billionaire with epic robotic suit
Demigod
War hero with impenetrable shield and stronger than the average man
Archer with interchangeable arrow heads that include bombs, hacks and hookshots.

and finally...

Girl with gun.

[BrainSap]

The new heroes are only EA= Early access.They can only be purchased with Gold which u have to pay for it with real money. Now if u still want it go buy it if i was you i would get some gold its not that much espensive and you get your hands to this new hero or any new hero which can boost your gameplay or etc etc.Hope i Helped you

[Vinance]

Liked the hero, loved the ending!
LOVE YOU S2!

[Sherwood]

IMO only buy an EA hero if you prefer the alt skin over the original skin.

[Batchman]

do we really need these huge models in hon, i mean looks nice but every fight is cluster**** because of them :)

[Killroy]

Nobody is mentioning the blitz alt avatar? In the intro I thought I saw a thundercat alt there (0:47-0:53):)

[Ceriss]

Nobody is mentioning the blitz alt avatar? In the intro I thought I saw a thundercat alt there (0:47-0:53):)

why mention something, that is already ingame for a long time?

[Alumando]

how many hours left till release?

[Sherwood]

11ish hrs?

[_BIGboss_]

8 hours? hum i dont know :D

[shad0w303]

****ing ****,this hero is not normal,OP OP OP OP OP ..........give us one ****ing normal hero in one ****ing year.....we dont need every 2 nd week new OP heroes..

[xdebex]

****ing ****,this hero is not normal,OP OP OP OP OP ..........give us one ****ing normal hero in one ****ing year.....we dont need every 2 nd week new OP heroes..

totally agree,
S2 ruins the game for profit, nothing else. A new OP hero every 2 weeks so the people buy them, because its annoying to play against an overpowered hero.

And specially this hero beats all ....
A slow with damage with stun with extra movementspeed if you hit a target meanwhile + extra movementspeed for your allies so everybody can follow + tanky and heal your allies if get attacked + (2nd time) a slow around yourself + a wall who blocks with (3rd time) a slow and damage.
wtf are you thinking?