BreezyLimbo
Banned
Makes me sad because Riot will never release a skeleton champion for that same reason
and lol
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Makes me sad because Riot will never release a skeleton champion for that same reason
and lol
BreezyLimbo
Banned
https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/202294884
Skarner is getting another gameplay update
and so is Garen I suppose
all before Poppy
Poppy is suffering
Skarner is getting another gameplay update
and so is Garen I suppose
all before Poppy
Poppy is suffering
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I thought the Nami bug was only on pbe.
killatopak
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whew. Had my promo game and suddenly my computer started shitting on me. Can't connect on my ethernet. Tried wifi but my router suck ass. I had ping on 300. Restart computer tried to reconnect. fucking direct x error. Tried again and when I went back enemy was level 6 already and the Xin Zhao on our team flames me like hell. Good thing we had a pretty good comp vs their squishy comp except shen. 1 more win and I'm G4
Then what's the hotfix for? Spooky.
WHY?! I like current Skarner the way he is...=(
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Well Rito wants you to like him even more. Or something.
Poor poppy. Taric isn't even in sight..
played a bit with the new mode
can't really say i like it, apparently the matchmaking is kind of trash as my friends yesterday played against an all challenger team and like today most of the games have been really bad with one player feeding for most of the game and ppl generally doing lots of dumb shit like only building the new items or whatever
overall it feels like a lot of complexity that isn't really there. you get to choose how to upgrade your dudes i've had trouble identifying the effect my upgrades have been doing on the actual game, like if upgrading health instead of damage made an actual difference or whatever
similarly the items sound cool but they're obviously not ready for real sr. the shield support thing is fun when it's targeted but when it becomes a skillshot it's just pretty exhausting to be constantly throwing out those things since it has like 10s cd or whatever. the multiple morello upgrades are cool in theory but i think most mids would pick the damage one over like turret dmg or mobility (unless the mobility is like really broken, i didn't really check).
and you gotta win like a million games to get that damn icon lol
also
wtf is going on, this is not good for my computer lol
can't really say i like it, apparently the matchmaking is kind of trash as my friends yesterday played against an all challenger team and like today most of the games have been really bad with one player feeding for most of the game and ppl generally doing lots of dumb shit like only building the new items or whatever
overall it feels like a lot of complexity that isn't really there. you get to choose how to upgrade your dudes i've had trouble identifying the effect my upgrades have been doing on the actual game, like if upgrading health instead of damage made an actual difference or whatever
similarly the items sound cool but they're obviously not ready for real sr. the shield support thing is fun when it's targeted but when it becomes a skillshot it's just pretty exhausting to be constantly throwing out those things since it has like 10s cd or whatever. the multiple morello upgrades are cool in theory but i think most mids would pick the damage one over like turret dmg or mobility (unless the mobility is like really broken, i didn't really check).
and you gotta win like a million games to get that damn icon lol
also
wtf is going on, this is not good for my computer lol
killatopak
Member
Won my last promo game.
SKIP RANK BOYSSS!!!
I just hope it's a minor rework for Skarner, a bit of a touch up. There's so many good things about his kit it'd be a shame to see him significantly changed because people are too goddamn stupid to engage instead of peel.
Any rate, first Xin Zhao game since mid-Spring. I don't think I touched him since Cinderhulk was first introduced. 9/5/13 and had the team up 4-0 before the 6 minute mark.
Our Irelia was losing vs. Nasus even though I spotted her a kill at 3:50. Kept whining about needing help to hold him back top. Told her to not bother and just group 5 mid and push because their only actual damage threat was Diana and we can light her up in flash in we're 5. She bitched about how he was just going to TP.
Well, there's only one thing you can do in a situation like that as Xin. You put your fucking man pants on.
"I'll take care of Nasus. Just kill Diana."
Group 5 mid, push, Nasus TPs in on queue. Diana's patient, she isn't dumb. Me? I'm keeping an eye on Nasus. Just as he gets close to the carries Diana jumps in. I call the target. She dies in a flash. Nasus is just about to get on our Brand as he's being pelted by Cait and uh oh...I gots me a knockback special saved up just for him. Dumb fucker keeps trying though, because all Nasus players are more tool than man. Doesn't get remotely close before he dies. Clean Ace follows. G-fucking-G.
Any rate, first Xin Zhao game since mid-Spring. I don't think I touched him since Cinderhulk was first introduced. 9/5/13 and had the team up 4-0 before the 6 minute mark.
Our Irelia was losing vs. Nasus even though I spotted her a kill at 3:50. Kept whining about needing help to hold him back top. Told her to not bother and just group 5 mid and push because their only actual damage threat was Diana and we can light her up in flash in we're 5. She bitched about how he was just going to TP.
Well, there's only one thing you can do in a situation like that as Xin. You put your fucking man pants on.
"I'll take care of Nasus. Just kill Diana."
Group 5 mid, push, Nasus TPs in on queue. Diana's patient, she isn't dumb. Me? I'm keeping an eye on Nasus. Just as he gets close to the carries Diana jumps in. I call the target. She dies in a flash. Nasus is just about to get on our Brand as he's being pelted by Cait and uh oh...I gots me a knockback special saved up just for him. Dumb fucker keeps trying though, because all Nasus players are more tool than man. Doesn't get remotely close before he dies. Clean Ace follows. G-fucking-G.
killatopak
Member
literally translates to "fucking stupid"
Thanks! I was super surprised. My mmr must have been through the roof at my last rank since I never did play solo. I played every ranked with a higher ranked duo. IIRC you get matched with a higher mmr opponents when you duo which means every win I get only makes my mmr that much higher than normal and every lose I get reduces the amount I lost. My greatest guess is because I only lost once during G5.
favorite thing of the week to come out of reddit
lol
nooto-chan so tsun tsun
now record this in a funny voice!
which language is it? sounds funny
yea that's how i went through gold, tho i lost a fair share of games in the way. but i kept skipping tiers which is super satisfying
best thing tho was skipping promos for gold with my ranked 5s team
it was like, gold skins for everyone and we never ever need to play a ranked game again lol
lol
nooto-chan so tsun tsun
now record this in a funny voice!
ahh i c
which language is it? sounds funny
yea that's how i went through gold, tho i lost a fair share of games in the way. but i kept skipping tiers which is super satisfying
best thing tho was skipping promos for gold with my ranked 5s team
it was like, gold skins for everyone and we never ever need to play a ranked game again lol
killatopak
Member
It's Filipino. The land of the super slow internet.
I know some guys who have Challenger frames but has Silver Rank in solo queue. They just joined a ranked 5 team who were already challenger and played a few games. I'm super jelly until I get to play with them and realize they're actually not that great players.
Play ranked.Normal mmr is too high to enjoy anymore
wat do?
What's the reason behind new champion updates (Maokai, GP, MF) not having recall animations? Actually I don't care nor I'm surprised taking into account the amount of absurd, illogical and stupid decisions this company makes. It's just one more I guess. I swear they couldn't come up with more obtuse choices even if they tried to.
Tizoc
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As is Garen is just Q, E, Ulti ain't much to him outside of tanking shit.
You remind me of this match I played
A boomerang attack would be awesome doe.
killatopak
Member
Anybody know where I can find some good League wallpapers?
Stone Ocean
Member
They've said a billion times that Taric and Poppy kits are done and they're just waiting on new visuals. Do you see any visual updates besides Fiora on that list? Poppy is being worked on, complete relaunches take time.
Official stance is "update team has too much shit to do and adding recall animations are low priority, we'll get back to these eventually"
I honestly don't get what's so hard about making the champion do a half-assed pose but eh.
Meh, if I have to choose between 5 visual reworks and 4 visual reworks WITH portal animations, I would rather have 5 reworks. More people enjoying proper visuals with their champions.
And from that point, not doing something hastily put together is better than doing that AND revisiting it. It is either nothing->add it sometimes in the future vs doing SOMETHING once, calling it done.
And from that point, not doing something hastily put together is better than doing that AND revisiting it. It is either nothing->add it sometimes in the future vs doing SOMETHING once, calling it done.
EclipseGST
Member
And I lose. Then the next queues proceed with adc soraka and jungle vayne, both times. Dodge both now I have 30 minutes of waiting.
wouldn't have ever thought i'd miss u, but welcome back lol
also reasoning for recalls is that they only change the models but keep the old rigs and most of the animations.
but yeah, it's kind of weird, i guess they want to at one point redo all the animations for these characters so they don't want to have like a cool looking recall that looks really good comnpared to the other animations, maybe
like having really high res textures next to really blurry low res ones, something like that
https://copy.com/ZN0GJpgbjQZa6UhD
pick one, i'll resize it (as long as it makes sense)
u cray
did u see pool party lulu's recall animation?
did u see madoka lux recall?
did u see kpop ahri recall?
u can't help but stare at them works of art
actually the problem is that making a half assed animation vs a more complicated one still takes testing time and discussion and whatever
like, they have to come up with the idea, sketch it out, discuss it, implement it, test it with like enhanced recall and baron buff and whatever, test the crossfade when cancelling it, etc.
that's the thing with videogames, everything you do has to go thru a ton of testing, so i'm guessing they'd rather not go through that for a low priority thing as u say. running animation is more worth it cos it's something that's on screen like 90% of the time, which is why they redid mf's (and i think mao's too?)
I love free kills.
Stone Ocean
Member
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I dunno theyve been able to pump out a complete relaunch for fiora much faster than taric or poppy
Its been like 3 years since reworks for poppy and taric were promised. 2 years for yorick. But lets update skarner again~
Stone Ocean
Member
Fiora wasn't relaunched, Fiora just got a new costume and kit.
Poppy is a Sion-level rework. That means new theme, design, personality, voice over, kit, particles, SFX, redesigns for all skins, all that jazz. Same for Taric.
it's not a complete relaunch, they tweaked her visuals a bit but she's still the same character with pretty similar spells
taric and poppy are sion reworks, fiora wasn't by any means a sion rework
fiora got:
* some new animations and sfx for her new spells
* new default splash art and new models for all her skins
* mostly new kit
* improved design
taric and poppy will get:
* all new animations
* all new sfx
* all new vo in like 14 different languages. this includes writing all the new lines (which, by riot standards, will probably overdo themselves again and do a million taunts and shop references and other fun stuff), translating them and recording them in every language
* new lore (again in a million langauges)
* completely new kits
* completely new design
* new default splash art and new models for all their skins (poppy has a shit ton of skins btw)
taric and poppy are sion reworks, fiora wasn't by any means a sion rework
fiora got:
* some new animations and sfx for her new spells
* new default splash art and new models for all her skins
* mostly new kit
* improved design
taric and poppy will get:
* all new animations
* all new sfx
* all new vo in like 14 different languages. this includes writing all the new lines (which, by riot standards, will probably overdo themselves again and do a million taunts and shop references and other fun stuff), translating them and recording them in every language
* new lore (again in a million langauges)
* completely new kits
* completely new design
* new default splash art and new models for all their skins (poppy has a shit ton of skins btw)
killatopak
Member
Cool thanks! I'll start checking these out.
Hueheuheue.
It doubles as a taunt too.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
funnily enough, I'm pretty sure taric and poppy have been on the list even longer than Sion
I mean, it's ok to admit that Riot just doesn't care about them. I came to that conclusion long ago for the forgotten champions
Stone Ocean
Member
Sion took like two years. Poppy has been officially in the list for like 8 months? Ever since the Trist rework got announced. And she's slated to be released this year still.
In Yorick's case you could say Riot officially doesn't give a shit about him.
Who?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Hehe, Yorick.
'Yorick is a fringe case who isn't overpowered but is strong enough that he's toxic in top lane. So we're going to nerf him while we work on his rework'
Xelnath-"So I'm reworking Yorick! And I have a pretty cool idea...he opens a gate where a bunch of ghouls come out!"
That was like, 2 years ago.
these things take a shit ton of time
look how long it took for sion
learn something about game development and then whine pls
i mean, same thing happened to warwick
making a healthy kit out of these monstruosities that still keeps their original identities while being interesting and new isn't something u just throw more ppl at and gets fixed
things like current taric being a sort-of-homophobic cartoon, how the fuck do you keep him funny gay but like not offensive gay and also like badass and cool and all those things. do we maybe reference it in the lore and make him "sexually neutral" in the game? or just try to push his flamboyant personality in a bit less of a sexual direction or whatever? or maybe we embrace it completely and he's got like flirting lines with all the dudes in the game? how do you make any of that not-offensive?
you can't just put 10 more people for this shit and make it happen twice as fast
You should ask him. I think he hangs out in our GAF channel in-game. At least he used to.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I think riot should learn something too, if their engine is anything to go by :^)
I haven't seen him on either the League forums or online(Well, the chat room. I've seen another rioter.) And unfortunately he's not one of the Rioters I have on my friends list @_@
I like Xelnath. I wonder what happened to him, what he's working on. I don't think he's worked on a new champion, has he?
Stone Ocean
Member
I mean, Riot is finally addressing fighter itemization as a whole while reworking champions that have been left in the dust for a good while like Darius and Morde. Fiora also had a garbage kit for over two years and she's finally getting some love, it's not like Riot is reworking shit that is popular and played already.
Xelnath's Yorick rework was scrapped and he's working on other things IIRC
xelnath is a systems designer now
i mean, they've made the most succesful game in the world by almost accident, but they've kept it there thanks to very smart decisions
they know a shit ton more than you
and like always, 2009 riot is not the same as 2015 riot, but you're dumb so what can i say
i mean, they've made the most succesful game in the world by almost accident, but they've kept it there thanks to very smart decisions
they know a shit ton more than you
and like always, 2009 riot is not the same as 2015 riot, but you're dumb so what can i say
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