played a bit on pbe client, idk if i can post screenshots but i didn't take any so nothing lost lol
i only played one game cos it seems like matchmaking was really dead. i was just gonna dodge after fooling around in champ select but i felt like that would be kind of dickish and had a fun arams with the usual pbe weirdos like ad zyra, a kayle narrating every item she bought and nidalee kept asking me if this was the new client lol
also it only had like launcher, main screen, lobby, champ select and post-game lobby
anyways, impressions:
- looks very pretty in general, nice animations for anything but all kept pretty simple. they should probably be a bit more fancy with some stuff, it feels kind of unceremonious sometimes, specially when you're gonna start a game
- it's generally a lot more responsive but some stuff feels really delayed since there's now animations for everything. like tooltips have this second delay that's super bad, that shit gotta go
- not a ton of big new features, two things i noticed were being able to wrap around when browsing ur skins in champ select, which is pretty nice, and being able to use the client while the game's patching. it's probably on a reduced capacity (like only chat or shop or whatever) but still pretty cool
- they shuffled a bunch of stuff around. i don't particularly see why they put things where they did since it feels just as arbitrary as the current placement except now you have to relearn where's everything. but like something simple like dropping out of queue is more annoying now cos the "quit lobby" button is on the far right while the "play" button is on the far left.
- i really didn't like the mastery edit screen in champ select, looks really dark and icons are smaller and harder to click. specially here it's really annoying about the tooltips, i got nautilus and had to dump lots of points into defense tree which is the tree i literally never do (i mean, i play mid, i just tunnel for thunderlords like every other mid)
- not sure about the post-game lobby, the side by side layout is pretty cool but it's kind of an eyesore since most elements seem about the same size and it kind of looks like a cluttered mess of icons.
- chat box is ridiculous on most screens, it's so tiny and easy to miss
- no new loading screen or anything, that part seems to be totally handled on the game client side. which is kinda bad cos the game client got stuck in the loading screen and then crashed. reconnecting was pretty quick tho
overall didn't feel like a big improvement, tho i can see it being a good foundation for something decent down the line, specially as new features get added.
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