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I was lever busted for something that is Riotgames fault.

Patwick··29 votes·4,278 views

Before people say it's my computer I have a decent gaming rig and it should not be the issue.

There are a couple bugs that are really becoming an annoyance to me.

  1. Today I got into a match and after champion select I never connected and the "League of Legends" logo never came up and I could not get into the loading screen. This has happened 3 times now and the result is that I can't open ANY programs or task manager. Your client literally made me force restart my computer manually (by holding the power button) and I couldn't even shut down my PC by opening the start menu and clicking "Shut down". It's quite tedious to restart my computer like this since it takes longer due to force shutdown. I'm 100% sure this is not a problem with my client or my PC. I really didn't want to type "I agree" to the leverbuster system when it was something that I literally couldn't do anything about.

  2. Skin selection in Team Builder is really buggy and needs to be fixed. It ends up putting on a default skin even after I've selected it multiple times.

Thank you for reading my post . :3

44 Comments

Lao Fu the Tiger5 votes

I've downvoted this thread because you're giving a brand new system a bad name out of ignorance.

You weren't punished by LeaverBuster. The "I agree" statement is a one time statement that appears at your very first leave, regardless of reason. It happens for everyone. It isn't a punishment, and it will have no impact on future games. It's only purpose is to serve as a reminder for newer players that leaving games CAN result in punishment. It shows up for people who have played forever like you and me only because the system is brand new.

Also, any program on your PC can hang and crash your PC.

Patwick5 votes

Okay first let me say that It wasn't a leave, I literally was disconnected for about 12 minutes, then I reconnected and we won the game.

It is not ignorance and that's a bit audacious of you to say.

Second I appreciate your debate but there are no programs that slowed my system and this has happened to multiple people and I'm just starting to speak up about it.

I don't care that I wasn't punished. It's the fact that I got this warning and I never got a "Leave" in my match history.

Lao Fu the Tiger1 votes

I apologize, I had to type fast due to family things. Allow me to clarify.

The "I agree" statement isn't a result of a flag by the new system as a leave. It is simply a result of a disconnection, regardless of reason, targeted towards new players. It isn't meant to be an admonishment, but rather just a statement saying "okay, we see you left a game, just be careful." The reason WE get it is because it is a brand new system applied across the board to all players. Lyte even stared that even if it was an intentional disconnect for real life reasons it won't result in any form of a punishment. The word "ignorance" literally just means you weren't knowledgeable about how the system works; it wasn't intended to be audacious.

So it's a little misleading to entitle the thread that you got leaver busted for something when in reality you weren't busted at all. It's just a first time DC warning message saying there exists a system that punishes chronic leaving.

As for locking up your computer, it is very true that this is in fact possible via any program on your PC, but not necessarily due to your "toaster" as some may say, because these problems are prevelant on all computers. It's more a combination between hardware components, software components such as drivers, and other miscellaneous things you may not have control over. Even rebooting your computer can change the way programs interact with your PC. While we want all code to be optimized for every computer, the nearly infinite combination of computers both hardware and software-wise makes optimization incredibly difficult. So yes, League may be more prone at the moment to fail on specific setups than others, and they're actively being worked on, but even the most random things can fail due to the smallest things like a corrupt boot of Windows (which was the case with me yesterday when plugging in a simple flash drive killed my Windows Explorer, forcing me to restart).

Patwick1 votes

I will agree the title was a bit dumb, but I assure you that it isn't anything to do with programs, drivers, or miscellaneous things.

This is literally just an issue that happens with the client.

Patwick1 votes

I will agree the title was a bit dumb, but I assure you that it isn't anything to do with programs, drivers, or miscellaneous things.

This is literally just an issue that happens with the client.

I've also went through your comment history and it seems like you're literally trying to make a lot of people with persisting problems feel like they have no clue what they're talking about. (Obviously some of them do but not all of them)

Lao Fu the Tiger1 votes

I apologize if I came off that way. It honestly is not my intent. I want to help others with problems so we can all happily enjoy this game too! The only comments I've made regarding persistent issues is with regard to internet problems, and since my schooling and work are at this time predominantly remote and online, many times (though not all, as you said) are simply easily remedied solutions :P

I agree, I've had client problems in the past too, and I wholeheartedly believe you when you say it's only a client problem.

Have you cleared out the cached files League stores? If these become corrupt (for who knows what reason) they can cause the game or possibly even the PC to fail. I'll try to dig up a list of files you can remove and try again if it's still persistent.

EDIT: okay, so try this. Try going into the LoL directory where it's installed and delete everything in the RADS/projects folder, and everything in RAD/downloads/release/live/projects. This was causing hangs for some people a couple months ago from corrupted files.

Patwick1 votes

I'll give it a shot.

Gelluka5 votes

i had an identical problem. i have recently bought a new pc, (a month ago). i am connecting with a very good internet connection, but today my game crashed 3 times, and i had to exit the game, because it wouldn't reconnect. I don't care for the leaver buster, but i do care that i cannot play league of legends because i got fourteen thousand ms of ping. i swear, it was 14373 ping. all my other programs were closed, there was only lol open. it is upsetting knowing that you cannot play the game, with no apperent reason. also if i knew i would have had continuos disconnections i would not have played. can't riot add some sort of "ping prediction" before the matches? that way if i saw it was more than 200 i whould have chosen to do something else. how come yesterday i had 83 ping stable and today 600 stable with 1400 peak?

Patwick1 votes

I don't think that problem is identical to mine.

Although the only ping issue I have which isn't a problem with my internet is that I get 90-110 ping average on normal servers. but on the PBE I get 60-80 which is further away and in LA I believe which is funny. It could be the fact that normal servers just get more revenue.

Jimmyyy1 votes

but on the PBE I get 60-80 which is further away and in LA I believe which is funny.

The NA server is in Culver City, along with the PBE server, so you kinda stated something pointless ^^

Patwick1 votes

I didn't know where the NA normal servers were, although it's still annoying how I get higher ping on the normal servers than the PBE. It isn't my net I'm 100% sure of it. I just get a lot of weird ping-spikes sporadically which is really annoying when I want to play ranked.

Jimmyyy1 votes

I didn't know where the NA normal servers were, although it's still annoying how I get higher ping on the normal servers than the PBE. It isn't my net I'm 100% sure of it. I just get a lot of weird ping-spikes sporadically which is really annoying when I want to play ranked.

You must also remember that the normal NA servers have way more traffic than the PBE servers, since the PBE is literally limited to hand picked summoners.

Keevalroy1 votes

i had an identical problem. i have recently bought a new pc, (a month ago). i am connecting with a very good internet connection, but today my game crashed 3 times, and i had to exit the game, because it wouldn't reconnect. I don't care for the leaver buster, but i do care that i cannot play league of legends because i got fourteen thousand ms of ping. i swear, it was 14373 ping. all my other programs were closed, there was only lol open. it is upsetting knowing that you cannot play the game, with no apperent reason. also if i knew i would have had continuos disconnections i would not have played. can't riot add some sort of "ping prediction" before the matches? that way if i saw it was more than 200 i whould have chosen to do something else. how come yesterday i had 83 ping stable and today 600 stable with 1400 peak?

I have this problem with the laptop I'm typing on. My desktop is fine, all of the same settings / virus protection / etc. and yet this one will randomly spike anywhere from 200 to 20,000 ping. I've followed all of the support steps, and read steps from other players who had this problem, but nothing works. It's ONLY for League. I can play WoW on here just fine.

Dr Easter1 votes

My ping is stable but I have strange lags and disconnects and have to try a lot to reconnect. This only happens in LoL :( Reds are ignoring these posts pretty bad. I guess Riot got something very messed up in this patch

XxBattleKingxX5 votes

A RED never comments on these type of threads

Budupops4 votes

typical rito

TonyTonyMordecai3 votes

I had a bot match earlier where LoL complained about the firewall, even though I had a game seconds earlier. Then, the next day, I got notified by LeaverBuster that I left a game, and I have to say "I Agree" to not leave any future games. LeaverBuster needs to come up only if you are playing PVP games. If I can't control some things with League or the client just stops working, I shouldn't get LeaverBuster knocking down my door to tell me I did something that was rude, but I couldn't control it anyway.

PL552 votes

What pisses me off is that I have a friend that literally leaves like every 4 games, but he hardly ever gets punished for it. He never actually learns and randomly leaves a game for something stupid like to take a shower or eat rice.

Patwick1 votes

Well I'm off to my Thanksgiving dinner for now. Happy holidays and I'll check back on the thread later!

SheikaRei1 votes

I have a similar problem. My pc is perfectly fine and more than capable of running league in a buttery smooth fashion, it's done it before. Also, my internet is not the problem. But I have been getting disconnected and getting caught in "Attempting to Reconnect" loops like crazy. I have now been tagged by the leaver buster program for something that is obviously Riots fault. I am pissed about this. They can't recognize when someone is getting kicked off by their system and differentiate it from when someone purposely leaves the game. No Riot, I am not happy.

Riot, you need to fix this. This is not a request.

Hell, in my last match, none of my team got into the match until 4 minutes in. None of us were happy and most of us got tagged with some sort of leaver status for the match. This is not good Riot. Your customers are not happy with this and you need to recognize that.

Not only that, lately I have been having huge disconnect problems and have been getting tagged with "Leaver" because of it. Riot, that needs to be fixed, now! I was just put in a lower priority queuing because of your system that fails to meet expectations. I don't know what is going on here, but I don't like it.

Now I'm going to teleport out of here summoner 12 and leave the rest up to you, Riot, and my fellow summoners. Good day.

Gavran1 votes

A computer being decent doesn't mean it can't be the problem. The fact that you're experiencing the problem and I (and everyone I know/play with) are not, means your computer likely is the problem. It is possible that it's a specific compatibility issue rather than there being something "wrong" with your computer. But that would still make it your computer.

AlloranK1 votes

Ok not to get to caught up in this fight, but aside from the Lever Buster i kinda agree with Pat here. This bug is getting a lot of people ( IE: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/xB7pZZEi-in-champ-select-yet-not ,http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/W0AfEfUk-anyone-else-noticing , http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/uaLiVMhp-enter-queue-denied-champ-select ) Tho i need to point out one thing, all this started with patch 4.20. Before the patch my "Potato powered toaster that makes great bagels and start up my dirt bike" could play League with no problems, after the patch i could only play when i had all my sound turned off(and only then). Now that i can deal with but this whole thing where you don't get to champ select is bull, i have been stuck with a 30 min timer because of the doges.

Kitten Eater1 votes

I just had this happen to me and im pissed as hell because it's a rank match. I'll join your crusade in making a thread of my own!

Hello I am Bird1 votes

Lol on this note I would like to say Nami has two "Default" skins and selecting the second one causes League to say you have an invalid skin and wont let you join team builder.

Brenticus121 votes

I had this happen to me yesterday, but thankfully it was in a nornal match (The one normal match I played that day, thank goodness it wasn't one of my ranked matches). Mine went slightly different though. I got into the loading screen and it was all fine. Everyone loaded except for one person whose title card was blanked out like you would see when someone DC's during the start.

I decided to leave it alone and surf the web till I heard the intro beaming sounds but after a few minutes, it never came.

I just closed the game and reconnected and apparently that guy who was blanked out had connected fine BUT I never connected. The match was 10 minutes in and I was behind by alot.

I really wamted to win that game too since the enemy team was trash talking us but they had a Nasus that our top laner couldn't stop from farming.

It was a close match even though I had dc'd :/

What pissed me off was that Riot made ME agree to not leave again when I wasn't the one who caused this.

Patwick1 votes

"What pissed me off was that Riot made ME agree to not leave again when I wasn't the one who caused this."

This is exactly what I mean, and it also didn't let me open anything at all which was kinda annoying. I mean it wasn't malicious, but it definitely was a bit much to force restart my computer.

Kitten Eater1 votes

It's a Police State Riot and RIOT is at the top as the NWO. We're all doomed, DOTA2 might be our savior but I hate valve's undermining tactics just as much. Everyone! To Heroes of the STORM!

You would think that that if it was just an agreement, it would prompt you as you try to log in kind of like a TOS agreement after every patch but no, you have to do it to trigger it. Even if it's accidental or not your fault. YOU'RE BEING BLAMED.

Kitten Eater1 votes

if they only wanted us to agree not to afk/leave they could've done it as we click the play to get to the login screen like they do with the TOS or as we log in. This is triggered because we have been flagggedddddd

flibitydoo1 votes

Technically every leaver buster is riotgames' fault since they 1. made league of legends (can't get busted for leaving a game that doesn't exist) and 2. they made leaver buster to punish you for it.

Although more on topic, I've had issues similar to this where i would be stuck in champion select and would have to exit game and re-log. Sometimes I would be put in a black screen, where I would have to use task manager to close the game and restart the client. Doing this is a lot harder than said due to the mouse usually being invisible and also because the client covers up the task manager preventing me from closing the game until after I wait a few minutes. I believe this might be caused by an error in connection.

Kitten Eater1 votes

I just got my thread deleted for posting in the wrong forum because complaining about not being able to load the game even after I did everything I could on my side and the faulty leaver buster and it was posted in Report a Bug forum... Censorship?

Rikari1 votes

This used to happen to me a lot,with some bs firewall message.hell i got cut off from the login screen. I should say beware when playing the new map as my fps dropped to 2 when a Syndra picked up her dark balls spheres

Kitten Eater1 votes

that new map dropped my fps from 80 to 20-30 and with low settings 150 fps to 50 fps. quite bad. im sure this doesnt happen to everyone.

Kitten Eater1 votes

if it was a rads problem it would say something about it since i had a RADs problem before. this problem say it cant connect, no internet or or no validated server. the no validated server portion only shows up when you try to send a bugsplat but it cant find/connect to any even though your internet is perfectly fine. its like they are preventing you from reporting this so they can hack as much as they want. idk, i might be over thinking it but the truth is stranger than fiction.

SKWHA1 votes

the past few day the server has disconnected on me in champion select and in game and leaver buster is punishing me with temporary bans and i do not believe this is fair because I've never had my own connection problems

Original Xin1 votes

I have a very very similar issue. I have a brand new custom built pc and 2.5 mb/s internet. I connect to games and it says I have 40 ping but for some reason I can't move and it keeps saying attempting to reconnect and crashing. I spoke to one of the Server guys for Riot (he was in game with me when I was having issues) and he told me very firmly that it was not his issue and that the problem was my pc or internet. That's bull. I am a comp-sci major and set this pc up myself, and pay 80$ a month for high-speed internet. There is SOMETHING going on on Riot's end and I hope to god that they fix it because the game is literally unplayable right now. I've been able to run it fine for years, and only today have I ever had issues. I can still run every single other game online/singleplayer perfectly fine. Seriously riot, give me back my goddamn LP.

Kitten Eater1 votes

how many games you played afterwards? if its happening to only that one game, you probably being trolled by a hacker. I use to have that problem where i had 80 fps and my ping was around 100 and it said i cant connect to the server. how i know its not my fault? because in other games i can connect to the server. you cant actually tell me that my compter is throwing a tantrum and randomly not connect me for certain games i play for LOL.

It's a known issue and nothing has changed because they don't know how to deal with it. Maybe shut down rank for several hours. its usually rank games that I experience this because theres where all the cheaters are. either they are elo boosting or grinding an account to sell. People dont even bother with thinking of cool names to attract buyers anymore because name change is available.

StarkTheSavage1 votes

I have an identical problem to you except for the fact that the logo doesn't freeze my computer, but right after champ select my game crashes a million times, and what I have heard from most people is that deleting the Logitech files in your game will make it work, I tried it and it worked for a couple days then the problem came back, but you should give it a shot if you haven't yet.

Junkο1 votes

I haven't had problems like this lately, but i remember having that in Season 2 and 3, especially when EUW servers were absolute shit. The new leave buster is in no way a good approach to afks, do i even have to mention that it punishes you even if you reconnect?

Riot needs to fix their servers before making dumb punishments like this.

Hérô1 votes

I had a problem that was similar. After champ select i loaded almost everyone but when the last person came up he didn't load i was forced to quit on my client and connected at 6 minutes in ( i know cause my brother was in the game ) I then continued to play the game through but after it asked me to say ( I Agree ) but i didn't want too. Riot please if someone dc's dont catch them with that.

Zana Lyrander1 votes

Haven't been banned yet, but given how often this game crashes, it's only a matter of time. Ever since new rift, my game has been crashing in the loading screen with stupid regularity. I've already been warned by leavebuster, at this rate I'm gonna get banned simply because the game is buggy as hell.

DarkLiquidDeath1 votes

Rito really has to get on this.

AbbyRA1 votes

Something similar happened to me, except that time warner cable had an outage when i was loading... wasn't my fault, but I did load back in when it was over..

Grashnim1 votes

I do believe leaver buster only truly gets mad if you tend to leave games frequently. One or two little issues shouldn't matter unless it's back to back, I imagine.

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