Some minor Zed audio/visual bugs that have been persisting for a few months.

Desiderium·3/5/2016, 6:08:51 PM·2 votes·2,619 views

These bugs have been around since PROJECT Zed's release. Though they are admittedly not very impactful to gameplay, it's still been quite a while.

  • The sound that PROJECT Zed makes when he creates a W shadow, is switched with the sound he makes when he jumps to a shadow, and vice versa. - To reproduce, select the PROJECT skin and use W. Zed will make a quick "HAAA" sound, (this used to be the "jump" sound before PROJECT's release bugged it) when before, he used to make a long "hhhrrrraaaahhh" sound. Then wait a moment, then jump to the shadow. Zed will then make the latter sound. Before PROJECT's release, these sounds were swapped.

  • This is also true for his other skins, including Classic. The voice lines for shadow creation has been changed to the sound he makes when he jumps to a shadow, but his other skins don't play a voice sound when he jumps to a shadow. It seems to be entirely missing. - To reproduce, pick any skin except PROJECT, and use W. Zed will make the incorrect "HAAA" sound as mentioned earlier. Then, wait a moment. Then jump to the shadow. Zed does not make any sound. This is on all of his skins except for PROJECT.

  • PROJECT Zed does not have an "idle reset" animation. This is the animation that usually plays after a champion finishes an emote, to bring a smooth transition back to their idle state. PROJECT Zed does not have this animation. - To reproduce, simply do any emote (except dance) and look closely at the player model when the emote finishes playing. After the animation ends, the model "slides" into an idle state rather than having the same idle-transition animation that his other skins have.

ZED'S ORIGINAL SOUNDS can be heard in his old Skin Spotlights. Notice that whenever he makes a shadow, he makes a whispery sound, and whenever he jumps to a shadow, he makes a quick, loud sound. In PROJECT, these sounds are swapped, and in his other skins (including classic) one of the sounds (creation sound) is entirely missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLGc5pZkl28

Disregard the buggy, slow recall in the Shockblade video. That video was made when Zed was on PBE. The recall animation was fixed before his release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCs6uCogfBE

4 Comments

RiotRiot Galetta3/18/2016, 11:08:19 PM3 votes

Yo Desiderium!

Thanks so much for this detailed write up!

I've gone ahead and written bug tickets for the missing effort Vo on his shadow swap (classic, Shockblade, and Skt) and his missing idle transition on the Project skin. The effort VO on Project sounds correct to me, but I'll get an audio engineer to check it out to verify. I can't say when these will be fixed but we have them in the system now, it all depends on the audio teams bandwidth. :D

Desiderium3/5/2016, 6:16:02 PM1 votes

I made some edits for clarity and included reference videos.