General DiscussionNext hero release who will it be?

Pit Lord.

I wouldn't mind Winter Wyvern or Pit Lord to get released next.

@IM they are making new heroes is just that they have to release every hero in dota 1 1st b4re moving on but since they are too slow or lack of staff that will only happen like 2 years maybe ...

hahahah why the fuck would icefrog make a new hero when his "dota 2 team" assigned by gabe jewell cant even port the current existing ones from wc3 dota

the only hero icefrog wanted to make is the monkey king anyways

Porting a hero isn't the same as designing a new one since you have existing data to work with, plus you can separate different jobs for different people to work on. For the existing ones, you need to make the lore, code the abilities into Dota2 and make a character design based loosely on the existing hero in Dota1. Hero design will require what I just mentioned AND gameplay design.

what the fuck did i just read? and theres only 4 people working on dota

It's oracle for sure.

With the old "techies hack" you could play it against bots when techies got released. Now got fixed.

abyssal underlord

abyssal underwhat

im the pitlord bitch.

Let's just accept it, he is pitlord no more
Better accept it now before it's too late, mate

ive heard about monkey king but it feels like its a copy from heroes of newearth coz they have that hero 1st

http://www.gamesinasia.com/icefrog-on-facebook-a-fake-there-will-be-no-sun-wukong-hero-in-dota/

old invoker will be next hero, 27 spells ftw

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/notoriouslawyers/KaelCollection.jpg

@wave, looked like you were complaining about how long it has been since a major patch. Just saying there are multiple people working on different things.

" there are multiple people working on different things. "

you seem to work for valve, do tell more, i assume ur 2k but in reality ur 9k mmr too? just reading your first post pissed me off entirely, "ITS EASIER TO CREATE AN ENTIRELY NEW HERO THAN USE EXISTING DATA TO PORT ONE"

holy fuck these ppl exist

I would say Oracle and Pitlord, their spells are in custom hero survival

ive come to the conclusion nubtrain is not a retard but in fact a troll

Lets end a little of this argument here.

1. The Dota2 Valve team is actually really small (4-5 people as wave said) however they do have external contracts with people for stuff but this is mostly design related and cosmetics as the game is pretty up and running so doesn't require more than a couple people to bug fix stuff from time to time.

2. Making a new hero would require a lot more work than redesigning an existing one, all the difficulties you described would have to be worked into a brand new concept whereas the concept for existing heroes already exists so all they have to do is simply replicate the skills, what they do, and then get Cyborgmatt or someone else to take the existing look and assimilate it into the Dota2 design model.

To reiterate what you said

"For the existing ones, you need to make the lore, code the abilities into Dota2 and make a character design based loosely on the existing hero in Dota1"

..so what you're saying is that if they make a brand new hero they don't have to do any of the above? No lore? No Abilities? Either way they will have to code abilities, write lore, and create a character. At least with Dota1 they have a basic ideas' template to work off of.

Also just watch Cyborgmatts stuff he test heroes all the time and I have seen Pitlord and Oracle being played around with.