General Discussion/Off-topic - Page 337

On February 12 2011 00:53 BlackPaladin wrote:
Yeah Blizzard has always been my favorite PC game company. They always had great customer support imo. Their only real problems have been recently with all the SCII things because bnet 2 was so horribly designed during beta and had like no features to speak of, etc. I remember from original SC people complaining about how useless mutas were and that they needed buffs lol. Wow, I was around 9/10 back then. o_o Remember how BC's were 8 supply even. ^^

But yeah, Riot is really interactive and responsive to the community as a whole. I kind of like that about them. I can tell most of them have good senses of humor but they have to sometimes hide it to not offend many morons who troll the LoL forums.

A big problem with Riot though is that they have so much on their plate it's ridiculous. The game is relatively new. It's not a 10+ year old game like SC or 5 year old game like DotA. And they're trying to do way too much at once because, well, they kind of have to. They need to bring out new champs because of their business model. They need to balance the game because of the addition of new champs and changes in the metagame. And during this they need to find ways to increase server stability, get more/better servers, add features such as replays and observer mode, and also come out with new content such as maps (magma chamber), modes (PvE), or even items (boots of lucidity anyone?) to keep the game new and evolving. It slows everything they want to do down because they're all over the place.

On February 12 2011 00:58 barbsq wrote:
using riots new patcher atm

it looks remarkably similar to the mac patcher..... :o

On February 12 2011 01:24 Mogwai wrote:
I sincerely doubt you've ever had your eyes gouged out if you honestly think that an online game stalling out on you is in the same league of fun -_-.

On February 12 2011 01:15 WaveofShadow wrote:
What's the deal with the Mac client anyway? A friend of mine just started playing but he's using bootcamp because we couldn't find any proper info about Mac usage or beta anywhere, even on the LoL forums.

On February 12 2011 01:45 Hynda wrote:

fixed

On February 12 2011 01:35 tec27 wrote:

Do you have any idea how it actually differs in patching? Seems like a bit of bullshit from Riot to me, especially with the timing of its release. I assume that the ability to download previous versions doesn't actually exist yet, and that this new launcher is really more of a new skin that anything else. That all comes without any real evidence, however, as I haven't actually installed it since I'm waiting for the 3rd party replay stuff to update to support it.

On another somewhat related note, I cracked open the 3rd party replay stuff and looked at its source, and its code is quite ugly. During games it simply saves out all the packets the game receives, then sends them back to replay them. Fairly simple, and what I expected. Kinda got me interested in developing my own version though, although I'm far more interested in a project that doesn't duplicate its functionality: streaming. The same method they use to save replays could be used to buffer that data on a server and then redistribute it to any number of clients at once, allowing people to watch players live ingame. Combine that with screen position syncing and perhaps mouse actions and you've got something really interesting, I think.

Of course, I'm pretty certain that with school and work, I don't have the time to finish a project of that scope. Won't stop me from trying, though.

On February 12 2011 03:26 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:

What did you fix

it looks like an exact quote to me

just fucking leave

On February 12 2011 04:17 Two_DoWn wrote:
So my post on the lol forums from yesterday got a reply from tryndamere. And its clear he didnt even read the post. Sigh, Riot just doesnt care.

On February 12 2011 05:10 Seuss wrote:


I'm guessing replays are completely overwhelming Riot's thought process at the moment due to the uproar LoLReplay caused. I think it's wrong to say they don't care, the problem in this particular instance is likely more a state of mind/communication issue.

On February 12 2011 05:42 spinesheath wrote:
Did anyone else have this bug where you have a Mejais, kill someone, and don't get any stacks (should go from 0 to 2)? No AP either.

On February 12 2011 06:04 Kaniol wrote:
I'm not sure if you get stacks if your minions kill enemies. I know that when tibbers deals last hit to golem you don't get the blue (NEITHER TIBBERS)

On February 12 2011 07:25 spinesheath wrote:
I was Annie and I killed with Q. Pretty sure that was the killing blow.
Also if a minion kills it, shouldn't I at least get an assist?