I wanted to throw out another update of things we're currently working on:

1.) Spectator / Replay Interface: This is an interface specific to spectating or watching a replay. It will have more information and options to expand & collapse lots of detailed information panels.

2.) Practice Mode: The ability to locally create a game on any map, play as any hero, give gold, give experience, spawn other heroes and units, change heroes, etc... This change will allow you to experiment in the game and test maps (when you get the editor  ) This will also disallow single player games on remote servers which will increase our server capacity.

3.) Chat Server Scalability: We've just recently streamlined the Chat Server's speed and CPU usage and are working on making it fully scalable. This is the last piece of the puzzle for system wide scalability.

4.) New Heroes: We will continue to push out new heroes. Here is a list of the next group of heroes we're working on.

(a) Maliken: New strength Hellbourne hero
(b) Andromeda: Vengeful Spirit port
© Sand Wraith: Mercurial (Spectre) port
(d) Panda dude: New hero based on a panda (we had to do it guys!)
(e) Diseased Rider: Lich port

We will also be working on other polishes, tweaks, balances, mechanics (game pausing), etc... while the rest of this is going on.

I hope this update helps you feel good about what is going on with HoN. I hope you feel as though we are getting a lot accomplished. Just think, this is a small self-funded team. Just image with the success of HoN & increased capital and more developers what we can get done (yes, *wink* *wink*, pre purchasing is good hehe). Ok, sorry, that what the capitalistic pig in me coming out. Back to developer mode - thanks for testing and thanks for the feedback everybody!

Heroes of Newerth Hopefully you have checked your Updates from the Inbox to see the link to redeem 1 of the 75,000 keys. We decided to do it today as a celebration of hitting 1,000,000 matches played in just over 2 short months of closed beta. That is awesome!

Version 0.1.41
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General:
- Added Practice mode. To access practice mode, create a game online with the server set to "practice"
- Fixed a couple pathing routes through the trees near the Hellbourne secret stop on Forests of Caldavar
- Leaver threshold changed to 8% (from 10%)

New hero:
- Andromeda, based on DOTA's Vengeful Spirit

Items:
- You can now drop items onto the upper left hero portraits and you will attempt to give the item to that hero
- The bottle can now only be used by heroes
- Nullstone now properly negates targeted channel spells (such as devour)
- Shrunken Head's Magic Immunity is no longer dispellable
- Whispering Helm now plays life steal effects
- Abyssal Skull's aura will no longer apply to gadgets

Arachna:
- Spidersting's Spiderling is now a gadget
* This fixes an issue causing it to receive life steal and health regen, making it too hard to kill due to the mechanics of how it is killed
- Added a passive effect to the Spiderling to make it more noticeable

Behemoth:
- Cast impact time on Enrage set to 0.69 seconds (from 0.5)
- Cast impact time on Shockwave set to 0 (from 0.3 seconds)
- Magic Immune targets will cause Shockwave to spawn an additional wave of damage (though it will not damage them)

Electrician:
- Mana shield now auto-toggles off when incoming damage puts electrician's mana below 10

Hellbringer:
- The AOE stun from spawning Malphas will now affect units with Magic Immunity

Pebbles:
- Chuck now throws the closest nearby targets, rather than a random one
- Increased speed of Pebbles' stalagmites' projectile to 1200 from 1000
- Fixed Grow causing Chucked units to not take double damage from Stalagmites
- Attack animations now scale properly with Grow

Swiftblade:
- Swift Slashes now applies a 0.1 second ministun to the primary target

Torturer:
- Impalement will no longer hit splash-immune targets (such as Arachna's Spiderling and couriers)

Wretched Hag:
- Fixed an issue causing Haunt's effects to display abnormally large on some heroes
- Added improved impact effects to Sonar Scream
- Added improved impact effects to Bat Blast
- Fixed an issue causing Bat Blast's effects not to play when Wretched Hag has Staff of the Master

Valkyrie:
- Call of the Valkyrie now only hits visible units
- The extra wave of damage to one nearby target on Call of the Valkyrie now correctly deals half damage rather than full


Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue that would cause some players to be unable to buy back sometimes
- Fixed an issue with units bound to projectiles (Valkyrie's leap, electrician's grip) being targetable at their original location
* This fixes issues like Pyromancer's Dragonfire stunning Valkyrie if it impacts while valkyrie is still in the air, despite having leaped outside the range of the AOE
- Fixed an issue causing auto-assemble items not to sell for their correct price
- Fixed an issue causing players to lose an item when it is swapped from a courier into a lot of the stash that already had an item on it