Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker

“My love for you is like a truck BERSERKER!
Do you want to make some–”

Oh. Hey there. Didn’t see you for a second. I’m too busy celebrating the release of the newest Heroes of Newerth hero, Berzerker, a melee strength hero that was unleashed with patch 2.5.9, as well as a new free hero pool, a new alt avatar, as well as some hidden files that are, presumably, more alt avatars.

Here’s Berzerker’s preview video:

Here’s the full patch notes:

- Free Hero Pool has been updated. The list is as follows:
* Magebane Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Magebane
* DarkLady Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Dark Lady
* MoonQueen Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Moon Queen
* Nomad Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Nomad
* WildSoul Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Wildsoul
* Dampeer Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Dampeer

* Revenant Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Revenant
* Ophelia Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Ophelia
* Vindicator Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Vindicator
* Glacius Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Glacius
* Geomancer Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Geomancer
* Parasite Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Parasite

* Accursed Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Accursed
* Cthulhuphant Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Cthulhuphant
* Gauntlet Patch 2.5.9 Hits Heroes of Newerth, Introduces Berzerker Gauntlet

- Added new Early Access Hero: Berzerker
- Added new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Chaos Berzerker

- Added Pollywog Priest Alt Avatar: Classic Pollywog Priest
- Added new Alt Courier: Panda Courier

- Fixed a bug introduced in patch 2.5.6 that caused a significant drop in FPS for some players. The game should now run a lot smoother for the users affected by this. We apologize for this issue and thank the community members for providing their feedback on tracking down this issue.

- Fixed Rhapsody’s Alt Avatar model
- Fixed Portal Key so it can properly blink into Engineer’s Electric Field again
- Fixed Dampeer’s Alt so his model changes when he gets sheeped
- Fixed Flux so he can’t push or pull allies that have selected the “No Help” option
- Fixed Dark Lady’s Alt Avatar animations
- Fixed Gemini’s Movespeed tooltip not updating sometimes
- Fixed up Pharaoh’s Alt Avatar sounds and animations
- Fixed Arachna’s Spiderling so it follows invulnerable units properly
- Fixed a minor tooltip glitch with Succubus Smitten
- Fixed Gravekeeper’s Defiling Touch so that it will only eat up 1 corpse if he is standing on a pile of corpses
- Fixed Tremble’s Terrorform so it properly is showing charges
- Fixed Shudder’s Terrorform tooltip to be more accurate
- Fixed Shudder’s Terrorform so its mana cost scales the same as Tremble’s __________________

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