Phil the thrill gets his first job since being in the marines 17 years ago; Competitive HON dies immediately

If you haven’t got one of these yet you haven’t been to the HONCast Discussion forum which is currently named Competitive Discussion. In the wake of small disgusting son xanderk becoming something at S2, philthethrill has taken over as the least competent person to be hired at S2 yet.

Originally Posted by The_Thrill
Actually, expect me to have a conversation with Leyst, as well as look for 1 or 2 more moderators. This forum is going to change, and those who don’t feel it necessary to conform to be removed from it. New rules will be made specifically for this forum, and there is already a “problematic users” thread started in the mod section. No more bias, letting some things slide and other things not… If you troll, insult competitive players, casters, staff members, post things that are not competitive; your post will be removed and you will receive an infraction.

This isn’t a threat, this is a necessary step to clean up one of the most inconsistently moderated sub-forums we have. I hope you all get on board!

Regards,

Phil

This was Phils greeting post in a thread announcing his new position as Director of Esports. A post that was promptly edited by xanderK but remains irrelevant because it is quoted immediately below it. As director of esports, phil has swooped into the S2 forums with his virtual truncheon wreaking havoc on all those who have tarnished his name or the name of Honcast. No more will the trolls be allowed to comment negatively on every single cast that phil idled through, or bash breakycpk.
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Big SoCal LANs this weekend

Gentlemen there are 2 big events this weekend:

Milkfats World Record Attempt (76 hrs straight of Hon)

11 AM Thursday 1/26/12 to 4PM Sunday 1/29/12

Okay, everyone knows Milkfat talks big but never gets shit done. Here’s some of the shit he said he’d do:

• Be #1 in League of Legends in 90 days (never happened)
• Open his own LAN center 2 years ago (never happened)
• Get paid 4 figures to play Hon (never happened)

When it comes down to it he’s just a big attention whoring pub who spends more time in the dumpster than on the podium.

BUT, here he stands, finally poised to make something of himself in E-sports and really earn that self-proclaimed legend status. Remember this records based on quantity, not quality lmao. HE JUST MIGHT DO IT. Milkfat put that record back small son, some Korean kid will break it in like a week. Oh well.

On to the main event…

Odyssey Gaming LAN

10AM Saturday 1/28 till midnight

Hon double elimination tourney starts at noon. Big names like moon are flying in from Vancouver to attempt putting the local likes of Orie and bkid in the dumpster firsthand. Everyone wants to see if these kids will talk a little too much trash irl and then get in a big fight heh. My plan is to get dumpstered quick, ragequit and make the 50 min drive to Milkfats LAN and troll him when he’s at his most sleep deprived like 60 hours into that shitfest (if he hasn’t died already from treating his body like shit). Good times.

Hon spiking since 2.5.6 patch

There’s nothing worse than getting a big lag spike when you are in the middle of delicately placing some kid in the dumpster.  If you haven’t thrown your computer out the window yet, don’t waste 3 hours with reinstalling and running virus scans and shit like that, basically a ton of other people are having this issue and nothing fixes it so just post your system specs here:

http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=381730

or here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/HeroesofNewerth/comments/opldb/lets_talk_about_this_post256_periodic_fps_lag/

so S2 can fix this asap.

Also that’s why if you notice in the below video my fucking comp freezes up every 5 sec and then Ggsucka’s replay gets ahead of mine.

S2 breaks Alchemist Bones

In an attempt to normalize gold gained from creeps and neutrals over time, S2 accidentially released a patch this afternoon that gives Alchemist Bones such big outputs as 900 Gold for a Vagabond Leader, 650 for a Minotaur, and 680 for a Vulture Lord. April Fools isn’t for another couple months, small sons S2.

Any time you transmute a jungle creep for the first time in a game it dumps the jackpot on you. Kids are rolling out 650 gpm Predators. Big Glaciuses are showing up with bones too. And unable to help himself, Moon is getting each of his 27 smurf accounts banned one by one for bug abuse.

Warchamp calls out Diva, Maliken, Honcast in big cryfest

TLDR version:

Warchamp, a global moderator claims:

• he’s quitting after 3 years of volunteering since it has turned into a shitfest
• community contributors made the game great and many were hired by S2
• Diva’s design decisions suck and his control over all design stifles its success
• Maliken is the main problem with Hon and his greed-motivated decisions ruin it
• Honcast is a monopoly because of S2′s support and Breaky & Phil suck at the game & therefore suck at casting
• Hon is just a cash grab now

Full version (read while crying):

As of yesterday, I am no longer a global moderator for Heroes of Newerth, I was forcefully removed from the team without even getting to post a goodbye. After 3 years or more of volunteering my free time to a game I loved, I eventually became too disinterested and inactive to warrant maintaining the status. As such, I think it’s time for a nice big post. I warn you now I’m a terrible writer so I’m probably just gonna toss out a wall of rambling.

The Beginning

When HoN first entered beta, I got in relatively early through a friend. I was never a big dota player but I had played it ocassionally and had heard about LoL being in development (And expected terrible things simply because of the name). I enjoyed the game and ended up participating on the forums, including making a big mega thread at one point filled to the brim with hero information.

Eventually, as I do with most games, I started tinkering with the game files and I created a simple mod that put all the DotA names for items next to the HoN one in-game. It was crude and imperfect, but it got the job done. With that, mods for HoN were born and an incredible and talented community began to thrive, leading to the later creation of the mod manager. Shortly after I made that first mod and released it in the “Interface” section of the forums, it was altered into a modding section with me as the moderator in charge. Around this time, S2 was still a small indie company, with only 20 – 30 people total with nearly half of those being the artist team.

I joined a moderator team along with a number of other really cool people that I’m friends with still to this day. Most of them are listed on the credits page in the ‘Moderators’ section.

Looking at that list, I wanna quickly go over a couple of them.

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