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Deleted member 77995
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From my 10 or so games I've played this year the toxicity is a bit underwhelming, annoyingly so. Maybe I'm just acclimated to the baseline aggression that an unregulated Dota community musters but League players are very passive aggressive and whiny. Like fuck off if you can't talk shit without coming across as an ultra beta bitch.
Loss prevented has nothing to do with individual players dcing.
Orochinagis
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Silver surfer alt skin pls, LATAM version is up, the Rock voice
I still dont see the loss prevented still
I really liked hashinshin's post about queue times on reddit. Even at a shit tier like plat1-3, Rex and I regularly get 20-30 minute queue times, sometimes longer when it involves champ selects that go to lag pick and then a dodge, over and over. Our record is 40 some minutes iirc
I even stopped putting support as secondary from time to time because it had 0 effect on getting into lobbies faster
Its the primary reason that I pretty much only play on my smurf now (the basis of his post)
The thing is if these queue times were ONLY for master or challenger it'd be fine but it's ridiculous for even my low elo plat main account. And it'll get worse with the pure solo q option.
I even stopped putting support as secondary from time to time because it had 0 effect on getting into lobbies faster
Its the primary reason that I pretty much only play on my smurf now (the basis of his post)
The thing is if these queue times were ONLY for master or challenger it'd be fine but it's ridiculous for even my low elo plat main account. And it'll get worse with the pure solo q option.
how do I get a loss prevented because this is crazy.
It's not like League is more/less toxic than other mobas. Maybe Heroes is less toxic but they literally hold your hand in heroes.
My queue times are pretty fast usually.
Server issues.
:< welp back to grinding
i don't mind teasing, just make it meaty
tho can't say anything cos i haven't watch today's video, maybe that's like the bard anime or whatever
it's also frustrating cos it's so inconsistent and random. not only between different champion releases but in the same one
and if the payoff is just gonna be "here's the champion" i just feel like my time's being wasted
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I've only played 3 ranked games so far and there are lots of sighs, zz's and ?'s
I can appreciate someone who mixes creativity and an aggressive tone but what I've seen so far in mid gold is really disappointing. I think it might have to do with Riot's culture on punishing players. I remember a reddit post a couple years ago on reporting people who say bg instead of gg and couldn't believe the support that discussion held.
League is definitely as toxic as any other moba but it's just a different kind of toxicity.
muting is the best thing in this game.
I agree here a bit. Riot places a lot of emphasis on chat, so people tend to get passive aggressive.
It also means that troll picks and troll summoners almost go completely unpunished.
I'd be surprised if reporting someone during champ select wasn't in the pipeline.
Probably has to do with the time you play at.what a wonderful world you live in
PhillipCostigan
Member
Yeah I can understand that. We're not perfect at it.
Honestly though, anyone who posts in here are like the most engaged players. We've been through dozens of champion releases and it's understandable that you just want to go straight to the kit with minimal teasing or a short cadence. There are so many players out there though that don't go seeking the latest PBE notes and know patch cadence etc. that this stuff just works for.
Also, it comes down to what the folks publishing this stuff think is cool too. They're smart people that have different ideas for every thing they publish so there will be a lot of variance. They want to hit the right thing for the right character.
Is the person designing the champ in charge of the reveal? Or is it split between them and a different group of people?
it was legit never a problem until this new dynamic queue system came out. at most we'd wait for 5-10 minutes, sometimes. 20 is a regularity.
Same here, I don't have any issues with queue times. Below 4 minutes, usually.
It will be interesting to see if space is treated like an "element" in the kit.
i just want like a bigger payoff if there's gonna be a long teasing period (this is gonna be like a three weeks-month i guess? since splashes are already up i'm guessing 6.5 is next week so his reveal will then probably be wednesday or something)
jhin got the whole sona, zed, vi thing and he got a fancy slow mo trailer and whatnot and for what, it was all just a big red herring that didn't matter at all in the end
that was a huge disappointment
illaoi was an example of a long running story that had a good payoff, even if the champion is kind of crap. azir is another example
Yeah that'd be pretty dope, especially if he could create black holes or something. That'd be pretty awesome, although that's more gravity than space.
The dragon face was really goofy when it appeared. I almost cracked up.
EzekelRAGE
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Loving his voice, sounds like a familiar animated character. Like a more evil Scar from Lion King?
I hope he is a mage, his role hasn't been confirmed yet has it?
I hope he is a mage, his role hasn't been confirmed yet has it?
Dreams-Visions
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I fucks with this.
Nah his role hasn't been confirmed yet, although mid laner would make the most sense.
EzekelRAGE
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I think Vel's teasing stuff was well done iirc.
Mostmanlyman
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Yeah it would be cool to have another ap bruiser the only 2 i can think of is rumble and maybe ekko, i guess elise is also.
Stone Ocean
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You play the second least popular role, when bot laners start getting massive queue times under Masters matchmaking is doomed
gragas and elise are the big two
Mostmanlyman
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Yeah.
PhillipCostigan
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It's a big collaborative effort. Obviously champions don't just have a game designer, there's narrative, art, and many others involved. Each champion has its own team with people from various disciplines embedded on them.
Champion teams will work with publishing on the reveal stuff. There's a lot that goes into them. Even localisation is a colossal effort, when you consider Riot Europe alone serves 10 languages.
all in all, considering his first tease was on February 29th, it'll be just over a week (providing everything goes well). I'm not counting the context post because that was more a look into our process of why Ao Shin was no more, rather than a part of the Aurelion Sol tease.
Dreams-Visions
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Hey Costy, how big is the team that designs a new champ? Like from art styles and renders to modeling to skill set and animation?
PhillipCostigan
Member
I'm not sure on exact numbers, but there are a decent amount of people from multiple disciplines embedded on the team and others that work with it.
It's near guaranteed we're getting it next week; we've already seen a couple of skin splash arts.
PhillipCostigan
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btw, Aurelion Sol's designer is Rabid Llama. His first champ was Bard.
one of the visual designers was also Nami's visual designer amongst other things.
one of the visual designers was also Nami's visual designer amongst other things.
i mean, the targon stuff started on the 25th and by then it was assumed it was gonna be a new champ or something like that but yeah, hasn't been that long
still, i wanna make it clear it's not the teasing itself i'm annoyed by, it's the quailty of it
cool. i'm not 100% sold on bard but i feel like the cool shit in his kit (like the portals and the aoe zhonyas) was held together pretty wellbtw, Aurelion Sol's designer is Rabid Llama. His first champ was Bard.
one of the visual designers was also Nami's visual designer amongst other things.
is zeronis no longer working on champions?
btw, Aurelion Sol's designer is Rabid Llama. His first champ was Bard.
one of the visual designers was also Nami's visual designer amongst other things.
That's pretty good. At least it wasn't certainlyt.
PhillipCostigan
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I'm not 100% sure. I think he's on skins.
Ghost is Bad
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everyone beats ryze.
Hydrophobic
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Any comment on the fan theory that the egg Bard was looking for in that Mountain teaser is related to Aurelion Sol? The egg does look kind of Space-y, and not in a Kevin way.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Hey Costigan, does Riot pay attention to surveys they send out? Cause boy I put a whopper of a response in one they sent me right now.