Project : [PvP] World of Honor, between WoW and DotA... | 3.3.5a

[Selenashtwo]

Hello !

World of Honor

I'm back in World of Warcraft emulation, bringing back World of Honor to life with a stronger base.
It's not just a private server, like every other are, and that for many reasons :

Developer's philosophy :

- A different point of view : We don't want our players to feel like they're in "a private server", we want them to say "I'm gonna play Word of Honor !". World of warcraft is a good game, but we all know it, and it's more and more weary... World of Honor is a completely new game. The only thing is that a WoW client is needed to connect on.

- A different aim : World of Warcraft was a PvE based game, and it's PvP balance suffered from that. World of Honor is a PvP based game. Class balance is made for PvP, and it's our primary aim. PvE will be available, but not a huge part of the World of Honor's experience.

- Different tools : We're using ArcEmu on it's last build in order to create our world. Lua help us creating and modifying quickly content and allow you, as player, to discover a comfortable game with tons of new features.

- Different roots : We took the Strategy of DotA and the Combat-style of World of Warcraft, and bound them by our player experience.

For a short resume :

World of Honor it's... :

- 30 entirely new classes (forget the World of Warcraft ones !) with a low number of spells, balanced to be strategics and teamplay based.
- Challenging 2v2 and 3v3 arenas with rewards for the best teams of each seasons !
- A balanced and immersible PvP, where strategy and skill are main weapons !
- A developer's team listening to it's community and debugging content for your pleasure...

And much more !

This post has been created with the aim to collect troughs, hopes and maybe suggestions about the project (witch is still in development).

Learning from the past :

World of Honor was, back in time, quite bugged and we didn't have enough knowledge to debug it. This time seems to be over, as we already made a great job on Arena debug (Studying C/C++ IRL give you awesome tools !), and we won't stop there !
We also improved comfort of players, and are adding a real solo PvE experience to reward players and help them with their new class(es) (as you can change class as you wish).

A French project :

Why is it french ? Because it's my native language. So, why do I post on a English forum ? Because I think my English knowledge is good enough to permit an English version of World of Honor and listen English feedback right (I assure my English is better when I read than when I write ^_^). The main question is : Are English players interested in this project ? I'll let you answer.

[phantom325]

Hm, this does seem like it would be extremely cool, /stab myself for deleting my 3.3.5 version of WoW the other day... Oh well, going to go re-download it, and I'll be on in a little bit, what's the Realmlist and the place to register an account?

EDIT: Didn't see you were working on it, hopefully you release it soon ;D

[stoneharry]

A project like this is possible, but you would need to put in a lot of work. Have you seen the DoTA WoW project?

DoTA WoW Fun - YouTube

A 2.3.3 WoW version of DoTA, many custom heroes and such. This was in development for over a year before becoming this good, and it's still nowhere near completion.

If you think you can do it though, I encourage you to go for it. Post about what you get stuck with, or what you accomplished, any changes of plans, how you went about doing it... It's nice to read and others can learn from you. We can even help you if you get stuck.

As far as an English version goes - no offence but your English is not fluent. Your grammar is a bit disjointed, as is your syntax. But it is still very good! Much better than my french (spent 3 years learning french and I can only remember a few sentences now). I'm just saying that if you do decide to make a English version, it will be understandable but not fluent, unless you get someone else to translate/fix up grammar.

Good luck!

[Selenashtwo]

Hm, this does seem like it would be extremely cool, /stab myself for deleting my 3.3.5 version of WoW the other day... Oh well, going to go re-download it, and I'll be on in a little bit, what's the Realmlist and the place to register an account?

EDIT: Didn't see you were working on it, hopefully you release it soon ;D

Beta tests aren't that far.

Hope you'll like it.

A project like this is possible, but you would need to put in a lot of work. Have you seen the DoTA WoW project?

DoTA WoW Fun - YouTube

A 2.3.3 WoW version of DoTA, many custom heroes and such. This was in development for over a year before becoming this good, and it's still nowhere near completion.

If you think you can do it though, I encourage you to go for it. Post about what you get stuck with, or what you accomplished, any changes of plans, how you went about doing it... It's nice to read and others can learn from you. We can even help you if you get stuck.

As far as an English version goes - no offence but your English is not fluent. Your grammar is a bit disjointed, as is your syntax. But it is still very good! Much better than my french (spent 3 years learning french and I can only remember a few sentences now). I'm just saying that if you do decide to make a English version, it will be understandable but not fluent, unless you get someone else to translate/fix up grammar.

Good luck!

Awesome project I heard about. Anyway, I think they shouldn't have use the Wc3 UI, it's so ugly.
Our project is totally different, and use more World of Warcraft than DotA. Actually, it's more a World of Warcraft MOBA. You choose a class who gets you ~7 spells with differents cooldowns and uses and, teamed up, you have to care about what your team do, you have to work together...
We'll release some videos soon.

You're right, my English isn't professional enough to pretend making nice texts... And that makes me sad 'cause my french is barely better, but, well, I think asking someone to translate or at least fix me is a good idea.

It's hard to talk about our plans 'cause we sometimes just say "Sh*t, I don't want to script this BG, I'll do this one", 'cause if we don't have fun working on this project, it's useless. We don't learn anything, we just use our knowledge to make a good game and have fun. I think at release we'll say what we would have done if we could have and things like that.

[yuravazh]

Are we interested? HELL YES WE ARE. This sounds brilliant!!!!!! I cant wait. I just told my friends about it and they thinks it's an awesome idea too. If this comes out, and has an English version, I would be so happy. I would easily donate to your server.

Also, your English is better than some Americans I know so you're fine.

[Selenashtwo]

Are we interested? HELL YES WE ARE. This sounds brilliant!!!!!! I cant wait. I just told my friends about it and they thinks it's an awesome idea too. If this comes out, and has an English version, I would be so happy. I would easily donate to your server.

Also, your English is better than some Americans I know so you're fine.

The beta will be only avalible in French as we still try to find a way for both English and French to co-exist on a unique realm, but it's definitely one of our aims.
Howerver, you'll still able to play the Beta if you have some basic french knowledges.

[yuravazh]

The beta will be only avalible in French as we still try to find a way for both English and French to co-exist on a unique realm, but it's definitely one of our aims.
Howerver, you'll still able to play the Beta if you have some basic french knowledges.

One of the friends I mentioned is actually French! Will the beta be an open beta? And when do you think it'll be up?

[Selenashtwo]

One of the friends I mentioned is actually French! Will the beta be an open beta? And when do you think it'll be up?

The Beta I'm speaking of is the Open Beta (We do some "private Betas" with our friends since months), and will be opened this Friday.

The game modes avalibles will be the Deathmatch, the Mastodonte, and some other little things (plus Warsong and Arathi).

Soon will come Zombie survivor and much more, but, well, you'll see

[Selenashtwo]

French Open Beta started less than 24h ago !

Hope to see you soon !

[phantom325]

Hope you get an english client soon, would love to play.

[Selenashtwo]

Hope you get an english client soon, would love to play.

It's now one of our priorities to let English communauty play on our servers! We learnt a lot with the Beta and will improve the game as much as possible.
For now, adding single player content is mandatory. Players can't enjoy a PvP server if they play alone, so we want them to stay on the server enough to see other players and play with them !


We still don't have a decent webmaster so if you're interested, pm me

[Selenashtwo]

The English version of World of Honor is now available !

[stoneharry]

Please do not use this thread for advertisements, we have a server listings section for that.

[Selenashtwo]

Please do not use this thread for advertisements, we have a server listings section for that.

My bad, sorry !

[ntsmarkv]

So... been trying to find the server, and community. *cough* any word on this server?