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Kild
Apr 24, 2010

stringball posted:


Did leauge ever add replays, voice chat, ingame tournament watching, custom games, community market?

No

Replays are only enabled in their test client or some poo poo.

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Geight
Aug 7, 2010

Oh, All-Knowing One, behold me!
I'm pretty sure the league playerbase made a third-party replay thing before the devs have been able to finish theirs

Eye of Widesauron
Mar 29, 2014

Who watches replays? Serious question. Is there a benefit to it?

Geight
Aug 7, 2010

Oh, All-Knowing One, behold me!
It's a good way to see a cool thing that happened in a game you weren't in!

ThePeavstenator
Dec 18, 2012

:burger::burger::burger::burger::burger:

Establish the Buns

:burger::burger::burger::burger::burger:

Geight posted:

I'm pretty sure the league playerbase made a third-party replay thing before the devs have been able to finish theirs

Yeah but it only works for games that you've been in.

BigLeafyTree
Oct 21, 2010


Widestancer posted:

Who watches replays? Serious question. Is there a benefit to it?

I have to learn how to play X hero, to work on my own game, to see how exactly I just got dumpstered, or to see if I was justified in thinking my allies were being deadweight. Also sometimes to help people if they ask.

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros

titaniumone posted:

Just quickly, Dota’s free champion rooster is a bad thing. The fact that you have to buy a champion means you will actually spend time learning them rather than having the ability to play any champion at any time. I have played both games for many years and just find LoL’s learning curve to be better, it’s community to be better and just overall more fun to play. In regards to which will win, I don’t think there needs to be a winner. It can just be like rugby union and rugby league, very similar games with slightly different rules to cater to slightly different audiences.

Some dumb fucker actually said that holy poo poo

Widestancer posted:

Who watches replays? Serious question. Is there a benefit to it?

Yeah if you watch your replays you learn from your mistakes a lot more and if you watch pro replays you can learn mechanics.

Hypha
Sep 13, 2008

:commissar:
Interesting, the only winning move is not to play.

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
posting in a widestancer thread again

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros
Tbh who cares a fan will remake LoL in Source 2 soon enough.

Samog posted:

Antimage

I'm pretty sure farming of that scale is a profession

AlmightyBob
Sep 8, 2003

League still installs pando media booster, a compromised spyware delivery mechanism, despite promising to take it out of the installer like a year ago

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

"Antimage"
-Antimage, Attack on the Maguses 2

LordHippoman
May 30, 2013

I, frankly, want this smug Jagen to be my avatar on all forms of social media immediately.

AlmightyBob posted:

League still installs pando media booster, a compromised spyware delivery mechanism, despite promising to take it out of the installer like a year ago

IIRC the latest patch removed Pando? So, uh, I guess it's gone now at least.

AlmightyBob
Sep 8, 2003

LordHippoman posted:

IIRC the latest patch removed Pando? So, uh, I guess it's gone now at least.

Lmao that it took that long

n4
Jul 26, 2001

Poor Chu-Chu : (
MOBAs are awful but I still play LOL and Awesomenauts all the time. I just can't help it.

That said, after reading this thread I'm going to try Smite, Strife, and the Orcs Must Die moba.

AlmightyBob
Sep 8, 2003

Another thing that dota has that no one else does: sharable in game guides for skills and items.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

11/10 thread Widestancer, would read again.

(ASSFAGGOTS is a terrible game genre and nobody should play them)

occipitallobe
Jul 16, 2012

league has urgot who is a fat robot

but then dota has pudge who is basically a robot made of meat

i guess what im saying is they should get married

Pirate Jet
May 2, 2010

Widestancer posted:

Who watches replays? Serious question. Is there a benefit to it?

People very often post their replays in the Dota thread and ask for advice on the matches, and usually get responses on it. The fact that Dota lets you skip around the replays or just watch the auto-generated highlights also helps.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

AlmightyBob posted:

League still installs pando media booster, a compromised spyware delivery mechanism, despite promising to take it out of the installer like a year ago
Pretty sure Steam quietly revealed that they track 100% all of your internet use earlier in the year, so dota requires that kind of thing too.

Pirate Jet
May 2, 2010

jBrereton posted:

Pretty sure Steam quietly revealed that they track 100% all of your internet use earlier in the year, so dota requires that kind of thing too.

They were using a similar service to track the history of game servers that cheaters connected to, and by the time people had discovered it, it had been patched out anyways. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/

Dr_Amazing
Apr 15, 2006

It's a long story
Everything I hear about the guys that run lol sounds like a joke.

CraigK
Nov 4, 2008

by exmarx
they're both terrible timesinks and worse than my posting, OP

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros

Dr_Amazing posted:

Everything I hear about the guys that run lol sounds like a joke.

Now why would you say that

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
But seriously, have Riot ever said why they still persist with their lovely client? I guess the game is so popular that they feel they don't need to put the work in to change it?

Original_Z
Jun 14, 2005
Z so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvBKF3_-7_k

Best thing to have come out of League.

Great Joe
Aug 13, 2008

Imba and moba are good words that sound totally normal in everyday conversation? (:

What is Antimage? (:

Dr_Amazing
Apr 15, 2006

It's a long story
I used to play DOTA a lot and I still don't know what MOBA stands for.

Great Joe
Aug 13, 2008

Dr_Amazing posted:

I used to play DOTA a lot and I still don't know what MOBA stands for.
I looked it up and it stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.

So, it's actually a good way to describe Quake 3.

Kild
Apr 24, 2010

Bardeh posted:

But seriously, have Riot ever said why they still persist with their lovely client? I guess the game is so popular that they feel they don't need to put the work in to change it?

Someone else was making a better 3rd-party client and they shut it down.

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros
Oh yeah didn't it have in game voice chat somehow?

Mayheim
Jun 15, 2006
One game lets you play as beautiful anime girls, the other game looks like this:

Kild
Apr 24, 2010

Mayheim posted:

One game lets you play as beautiful anime girls, the other game looks like this:



gangnam reference
Dec 26, 2010

shut up idiot shut up idiot shut up idiot shut up idiot

Mayheim posted:

One game lets you play as beautiful anime girls, the other game looks like this:



gangnam reference fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Oct 21, 2014

Lets! Get! Weird!
Aug 18, 2012

Black King Bazinga

Mayheim posted:

One game lets you play as beautiful anime girls, the other game looks like this:



Want dat Tiny cosmetic.

Disinterested
Jun 29, 2011

You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?
Honeypot thread of the year.

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty

Great Joe posted:

I looked it up and it stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.

So, it's actually a good way to describe Quake 3.

Actually it stands for ARTS in tagalog

Lets! Get! Weird!
Aug 18, 2012

Black King Bazinga
The term "MOBA" was invented by a pedophile. I'm unsure if he too liked Star Trek but make with that what you will.

Chunjee
Oct 27, 2004

Clinkster posted:

No one does it better than S2 games did for HoN.

http://www.twitch.tv/honcast/b/392108835?t=12m30s

Cringing so hard right now. :stonklol:

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Bholder
Feb 26, 2013

Bardeh posted:

But seriously, have Riot ever said why they still persist with their lovely client? I guess the game is so popular that they feel they don't need to put the work in to change it?

same reason Dota is keeping their lovely client.

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