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[Putnam]

Eh. It's all so blurry on low settings everything in DotA 2 is just kind of a blob. Definite props to LoL for that -- everything is much more clear with everything turned down.

There's a specific setting in there that is literally "make everything blurrier to run better", so I think that may be your problem.

[Frumple]

Nah, the problem is the game doesn't run worth a damn on this rig without everything tuned as low as it can go, including blur mode. LoL's the same way, it just happens that its "low as you can go" doesn't involve gratuitous graphical fuzz. LoL seems to run a little better in general for me,* really, though I desperately wish it had DotA 2's load-once-and-subsequent-games-load-faster whatever the zog it is.

That said, even when m'watching youtube replays or whatever DotA's definitely less... distinct, I guess. Muddier, less vibrant, harder to tell what's going on -- mostly an issue of coloring (less contrast, darker/more same-y colors), I think. Don't remember the WC3 map being quite as bad, but it's been a few years since I last played that, so it could just be memory. Definitely have to give props to LoL's aesthetic design  (well, re: coloration and whatnot.), personally. Suits my eyes a bit better, generally somehow less chaotic despite arguably having more effects and whatnot flying around, that sort of stuff.

*E: In game, anyway. LoL's client is kinda' a piece of shit.

[Putnam]

I think it might be more of an issue of you not being used to it; I have the exact same problem with League, everything looking too samey.

[Flying Dice]

The VU for the Rift ought to help with that, the crispness and distinct lines look really, really nice, to my recollection.

[Stuebi]

LoL's Launcher is probably THE worst piece of Software I ever had the displeasure to use. Patching turns into a mess every time, with it restarting around 3 times, and downloading random amounts of data each time. And dont even get me started on that Pan do media Booster bullshit.

Apart from that, I liked the difference in style between the two games. Since I frequently swtich from one to the other it tends to be refreshing to jump from LoL's "friendlier"-Look to Dota's grittier one. There are a few features i'd like to see ported from one to the other tough.

- I think LoL desperately needs the "Game abandoned"-mechanic. It makes me furious that you HAVE to finish a 4vs5 or 3vs5, even tough it's a massive waste of time in most cases. Give the leaver a 5 minute timer to reconnect and then make the game leavable. It's seriously not okay that someone can reconnect after 25 minutes and not receive a leaving penalty for it.

- Pausing would be nice too. I think there would be little to no harm in implementing it, since it works pretty nicely in Dota 2.

On a completely different note, does anybody know a way to disable emotes? I know LoL has a reputation to maintain for "worst community ever" but it seems a lot of people have taken to spamming laugh and that other audible crap while playing. It's super annoying. I've only recently come back and play a lot of Duo-queue with a buddy, and I swear it's gotten worse. He's in his placements and i'm Silver III, and I remember how bad it was last season when I tried to get to gold. But it seems even worse now, with barely a match where all 10 people are present or not going totally nuts. I'm basically just waiting to finally get a streak of luck in terms of matchmaking so I can get at least to Gold V before this season ends. I feel that making an altered from of the Team builder accessible for ranked would make things easier for me.

[Cthulhu]

There might be a way to disable champ sound effects, but yeah, with the popularity of trick2g and shit that kind of thing has definitely gotten worse. 

Though I don't really see league being any worse than dota, at least in league the people flaming you speak English.

I'm definitely taking a break from league though, all my friends play dodo now and I'm kind of mad at league.  Salty as hell about Nasus, that kind of scaling would be one thing in a game like dota where you can be shut down hard, but League's got so many comeback mechanics it seems impossible to actually keep a champ like that down.

I went Vlad against one and harassed him the whole laning phase, killed him twice, meanwhile the rest of my team is losing and it's like, I'm the only one on my team doing well but if I try to make something happen to help my team Nasus will instantly be back in the game.

And eventually he wins anyway.

[Skyrunner]

Before, games could end early. Now they can't and late scalers are immensely strong.

[Jopax]

Go ARAM.

Get Olaf. It's cool, I have two rerolls.

Roll. Get Skarner. Ugh, well I have one more left, might as well..

Roll. Get Kha'Zix......

I feel the RNG really hates me sometimes. Especially since the rest of the team is ok at best, while they have fucking Soraka and Blitz :I

[frostshotgg]

Kha Zix isn't too bad in ARAM. He's definitely in the upper 50%, maybe even 75%.

If you don't want to hear champ laughs and such, in the audio settings menu, put the voices bar on mute.

[Jopax]

It's not that he's bad, it's that the other team got all pure top tier champs for aram. The only one we got that is as good as anything of theirs is Ori, and he was afk after a while.

[frostshotgg]

Nothing can be as painful to play against as the Varus/Soraka/Sona/Ali/Nid team I was against the other day. Our team had a bunch of great champs, but dear god the heals. I'll have nightmares for weeks.

[IronyOwl]

Varus/Soraka/Sona/Ali/Nid

I'm pretty sure this is a layer of hell. Or I guess maybe a surprise joke present, if it's your team.

[frostshotgg]

Nah, definitely a layer of hell. We did fairly well, all things considered. We actually managed to push and get the inner tower level 6-7 because of how much poke we had plus our ults comboed well (I was Ziggs, and we had an Ez and a couple other decent pokers), but after that we could not fucking win the grind game holy shit. We'd get someone's bar halfway down, and a moment later it was 100% again and none of their mana pools were any worse for it.

[Stuebi]

There might be a way to disable champ sound effects, but yeah, with the popularity of trick2g and shit that kind of thing has definitely gotten worse. 

Though I don't really see league being any worse than dota, at least in league the people flaming you speak English.

Oh no, I didnt wanna imply that. Both communities are basically shit. And worst of all, Dota has Voice Chat.

And I definetly agree with scaling. I've been playing Veigar a lot lately, and boy oh boy. If you play carefully early on, it's basically free win. I've reached over 1k ap thrice now, and no amount of Magic resist will keep me from absolutely wrecking anything but the tankiest of dudes. I dont mind it too much, since there are other nice Lategamers yolu can pick agaisnt Nasus, or just ban him if he gets annoying. It's other things that anger me out of my mind in league.

Since the dawn of this accursed ranking system, i've tried to reach Gold. For no other reason than wanting that damn goldborder when loading. I KNOW that i'm at least on that niveau. I regularly play with people who reached Gold I and higher, and I see myself being on that level. I improved my play, think about warding, got at least a handful of assorted champs for every role even if I hate it (*cough* support *cough*) But for the live of me, I cant get past Silver I. I know its frowned upon, and I know the usual shtick is that you can appearantly totally carry yourself out up to Platin without having to rely on those morons that populate the lower leagues like a plague. But I reached the point where im convinced that Luck is a major factor in getting anywhere league-wise. Luck in getting no leavers in your promos, not having a freaking 0/10 feeding lane, or ADC that plays like hes drunk and never laned bottom before. Luck in having a team that actually tries to pick a decent Combo or at least some counters, instead of opting for some Hipster "Zed Jungle is totally viable guise"-bullshit, combined with the fact that the guy cant smite shit.

Excuse the rant and the semi-arrogant "I know im gud", but i've been so frustrated with ranked lately, its unbelievable.

[Jopax]

That's why you play carryhard broken champs in promos.

The only reason I got to Gold that one time was because I said fuck it and played Rene every god damn time. And this was before some of the recent nerfs.