On November 06 2014 02:53 GrandInquisitor wrote:
Is Singed ult the first non-linear stats progression in an ability? 35 -> 50 -> 80 is a huge jump at level 3. I know there's a nonlinear scaling on WW, Ziggs, Sona, and Diana passives, but I'm not sure I've seen it in an ability yet.

Renekton

Vaporized

United States1471 Posts

November 05 2014 19:28 GMT

#24

those azir changes on the pbe are interesting. shift of power from his soldier attacks to his other spells. i think this will help his early lane, and possibly make his 2-6 all ins a bit stronger, at the cost of some late game dps.

Gahlo

United States35117 Posts

November 05 2014 19:36 GMT

#25

Nothing better than seeing two ragers AFK to lose their series in a game where it would have been an easy win if they could just keep their cool and wait til lane was over.

RouaF

France4120 Posts

November 05 2014 19:39 GMT

#26

Thank fucking god they finally fixed that warwick bug !!

PrinceXizor

United States17713 Posts

November 05 2014 19:45 GMT

#27

On November 06 2014 03:58 Alaric wrote:
20 minutes vision runes is some dumb shit. It's not "DotA stuff", it's "stupid, hamfisted, forcefully shoved device to accomplish Riot's goal the same way killing someone makes him less noisy".

Flask isn't the issue by itself, boots made unimportant by their nerf did, because it and the initial flask price made the 13 health pots / flask+5 pots / flask+3 pots+ward possible, and the huge sustain that came from it destroyed the lanes by invalidating a bunch of mana-dependant lane bullies (like Pantheon, Viktor) and giving a free laning phase to champions for whom it was supposed to be a weakness (Kassadin, Katarina, etc.). Again, non-related to DotA having bottle.

yeah those are actual discussion you could have from those changes. they sure as FUCK were not the ones the lol community brought up on reddit and the lol forums.

Goumindong

United States3529 Posts

November 05 2014 20:00 GMT

#28

On November 06 2014 04:45 PrinceXizor wrote:

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yeah those are actual discussion you could have from those changes. they sure as FUCK were not the ones the lol community brought up on reddit and the lol forums.

Eh, to be fair it feels like they're doing a lot of things because dota does them. They make a change towards something that Dota does and don't give a clear rationalization beyond "shaking things up" and that to me screams "we're doing it because dota did" and well, doing something just because dota did it is dumb. (primarily because many of Dota's design decisions are really bad)

PrinceXizor

United States17713 Posts

November 05 2014 20:04 GMT

#29

I'm aware you believe dota has tons of bad design. but there isn't really a reason to not learn from the things dota has done. riot was adamant to avoid everything dota-related for a long time, and the game suffered greatly because riot was too stubborn to learn lessons from other games, instead they had to make the mistakes that dota made in its past themselves.

you can argue riot isn't really learning anything, because some of their attempts to add features seems like they don't understand why things work, and they are just guessing and checking.

739

Bearded Elder29903 Posts

November 05 2014 20:56 GMT

#30

"We're currently investigating an issue post 4.19 where the game loading screen sometimes loads as a black screen, causing players to quit out and re-launch to load back into the game. From our findings so far we believe this issue is more prevalent for players on a full screen display mode (as opposed to windowed or borderless mode). Also, using ALT+Tab while the game is loading may result in the loading screen to come up as a black screen, which we believe to be a graphical issue where the game is still loading but it's not showing this visually as it normally would. We're actively working on getting this resolved and will post with updates as we go. Thank you for your patience."

I was just playing a game, I've alt-tabbed and it was all black-screen and I'm like dafuq.

nafta

Bulgaria18893 Posts

November 05 2014 21:01 GMT

#31

Just wait the game starts.I play on windowed and it is pretty much frozen permanently LOL

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

November 05 2014 21:03 GMT

#32

On November 06 2014 05:56 739 wrote:
"We're currently investigating an issue post 4.19 where the game loading screen sometimes loads as a black screen, causing players to quit out and re-launch to load back into the game. From our findings so far we believe this issue is more prevalent for players on a full screen display mode (as opposed to windowed or borderless mode). Also, using ALT+Tab while the game is loading may result in the loading screen to come up as a black screen, which we believe to be a graphical issue where the game is still loading but it's not showing this visually as it normally would. We're actively working on getting this resolved and will post with updates as we go. Thank you for your patience."

I was just playing a game, I've alt-tabbed and it was all black-screen and I'm like dafuq.

DARKNESSSSSSSSS MUAHAHAHAHA

PrinceXizor

United States17713 Posts

November 05 2014 21:19 GMT

#33

That used to happen a long time ago and they fixed it. the previous workaround was to minimize/maximize using the task manager.

Zdrastochye

Ivory Coast6262 Posts

November 05 2014 21:19 GMT

#34

Singed back? I'm back.

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

November 05 2014 21:52 GMT

#35

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/gameplay/preseason-2015-forging-diverse-armory
Item changes, prepare for more toxicity, more diverse playstyle, more diversity and more toxic diversity.

Also new elixirs, those are cool.

FinestHour

United States18466 Posts

November 05 2014 21:54 GMT

#36

it says something about the people that play this gsme when half or more of reddit threads are all always screaming for the company to do this or change that

PrinceXizor

United States17713 Posts

November 05 2014 22:22 GMT

#37

I'm pretty worried how streamlined items will be. No early game guys. Just buying for late. It seems really worrying. Used to be able to just attribute the moves as ignorance. But its a goal now apparently.

Uldridge

Belgium4700 Posts

November 05 2014 22:23 GMT

#38

Why the fuck is adding an extra 30 instead of 15 being borrowed from Dota?
Why would non linear scaling HAVE to be borrowed from Dota?
This is exactly like my friend who says shit like: Omg, I do not want to watch Legend Of Korra because it's a rip off from Naruto. Okay, they may have drawn influences, but it's not the same fucking thing, it's a completely unique setting. I feel like this is a similar issue..
Sometimes you will have similarities in design, simply because it's the most elegant way of addressing certain problems. It's called convergent evolution/design/technology/discovery/whateverthefuck.
Singed needed a buff to be introduced? They don't want to add any cryptic figures or do some magical math to introduce some random numbers in his lvl 16 ult so they doubled the values. It seems pretty elegant to me. It also seems fine to me. It also does not in the slightest fucking way seem to be borrowed by Dota per se. It could be, but that's not even relevant.
Just, please, whine about relevant things.

Also, I agree on the Ryze nerfs, they seem a bit too much on the lvl 5 side, but that's perhaps so he couldn't blow up a carry in the fight if he finds one, perhaps they should've compensated by lowering the cd on his ult by a little bit.