Submitted a bug on Shen a while ago, Its been a known bug for over 3 months.... (Hail of Blades Bug)

Senjoy·May 15, 2019·69 votes·14,885 views

So I was making a new rune page one day, and i realized the amount of potential that Hail of Blades has on Shen, as it synergizes really well with his q. His q counts as a basic attack, not an ability, and I know this because frozen mallet passive works with it, and frozen mallet only procs off basic attacks, not abilities. So i try Hail of Blades out, and It simply doesn't go off... It legit doesn't proc off of Shen's q. This bug has a really weird effect though, when he uses his q, Shen doesn't get attack speed, but he swings his sword faster. If that makes sense. The physical swing is faster, but he cant attack again any quicker. Shen has to perform a normal basic attack and then use his q to make use of this keystone, which is terrible. PLEASE fix this bug!! Thanks

25 Comments

Towboat421May 16, 201920 votes

Riot doesnt care. I say this as some one who feverously used to post bugs only to have them ignored.

HethaleanMay 16, 20194 votes

I've probably found 150 bugs in my years here that I've reported with video evidence and a TO REPRODUCE LIST. I can't remember one where it was fixed within 3 patches.

EDIT: Oh wait, that weird Chogath visual bug recently on his Q throwing the spikes up a 2nd time.

BLIGHTBRINGERMay 16, 201916 votes

I know that feeling. There are tons of bugs on Varus, and they aren't getting fixed either.

I posted them on Boards, Reddit and Bug Reports and still nothing (some of these bugs go back all the way to 18th of April from last year).

But hey, here's hoping they fix your bug. Have my upvote friend.

Clone Is FriendMay 16, 20191 votes

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I know that feeling. There are tons of bugs on Varus, and they aren't getting fixed either.

I posted them on Boards, Reddit and Bug Reports and still nothing (some of these bugs go back all the way to 18th of April from last year).

But hey, here's hoping they fix your bug. Have my upvote friend.

+1

there aer so many bugs but they do nthing to ones that arent gamebreaking and broken

SHROOMTALITYMay 16, 20198 votes

Riot games is a cesspool of incompetence .. think about it, in 13 years all they could come up with is a copy/paste dota, most of the champions are stolen from other games even some of the lore is stolen, nothing's original almost everything's STOLEN (intellectual theft, vivi final fantasy for example and warcraft/arthas lore, more people should just sue them)

They won't fix anything, lower your expectation (remember the rage blade bug ?! on yi it was dealing dmg to yi .. that bug took about 3+ months to fix) they'll probably never fix this bug, there's a higher chance the runes will get reworked AGAIN.

"Riot Games loses 'League of Legends' lawsuit to retired soccer star":

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/15/riot-games-league-of-legends-lawsuit/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMWoAkD8rTsB9XAUm1umNazBgbSwfWNUcBFan0QsHSlMDcK6LdedZ5OfPVvTl96F4w68w7SoRT-abLFAs2hCRv2dPEwXEs9zuhqwuJXb1ibBf9zsUPl4IXnVcLQP3hfwofsZXtDsILeP1jZJbSGKbKny6Laq_8LdVNBY94jHMtos

They only care about the lootbox ca$$ino not the game or the players/customers every once in a while there's an "ACCIDENT" and someone loses some money trying to buy a skin .. but don't worry they'll "fix" it soon .. or at least that's what they say in support.

Don't forget

https://kotaku.com/top-riot-executive-suspended-without-pay-following-inve-1831084598

"COO, Scott Gelb .. he has repeatedly touched subordinates’ balls or butt or farted in their faces"

RIOT GAMES YOU ARE DISGUSTING ..

This is what keeps them busy .. instead of fixing bugs or making a NEW GAME IT'S BEEN 13 FREAKING YEARS ..

ThefrostyvikingMay 16, 20198 votes

Lots of bugs go unfixed for ages, Riot simply doesnt know how to fix many of them.

Dont believe me?

They remade Mordekaiser from scratch because it was too difficult, despite ....was it 2? Mini reworks.

Then there is still that bug with titanic hydra that´s been there since the item was added with a massive ATS slow for 1 auto after its activated.

Lots of people maining one champ or another also frequently make posts about various bugs but either get no answer or no fix is delivered.¨

Shen&hail of blades is far from the only thing left undone for ages :(

"Edit"

oh and while stalking the Syndra mains reddit i came over a post stating that some bug or several that have been there since her release remain unfixed-

wolviusMay 16, 20193 votes

Don't worry it only took 6 months for them to fix the diana E bug that pushed enemies away instead of in, seriously they'll probably fix it but they merely adopted the spaghetti they were not born in it, molded by it like ~~Bane~~ italians so it may take a while.

Zacaroni SaladMay 16, 20193 votes

This is a company that doesn't care about quality assurance

The EcdysiastMay 16, 20192 votes

It might be mistakenly considering every single swing to be an auto-reset.

General Esdeath May 16, 20192 votes

On the topic of swinging faster but not attacking faster, it's giving him attack speed during the auto but not refreshing the CD faster, which is really odd but should be easy to fix.

AndrewiusMay 16, 20192 votes

Wish they put more efforts and resources into balancing game or bug fixing instead of creating new stupid skins

EleshakaiMay 16, 20191 votes

Wait wait wait... you want ARTISTS working on game-balance and bug-fixing? Oh that's a recipe for success right there. You should start a software dev company, I'm sure it'd be the best ever.

Star PlatinumELOMay 16, 20191 votes

Believe it or not, you could fire the artists and hire more programmers, but you had to be a snarky fuck, huh

EleshakaiMay 17, 20191 votes

There's such a thing as 'too many cooks in the kitchen'. Hiring more programmers does not ACTUALLY speed up design past a certain point, because they have to spend too much time chekcing their changes against the changes everyone else is making and it just becomes inefficient. Also, if you hire people who don't fit in the culture, it's just a waste of money. Also good devs can be hard to find. There is a lot more to this problem than you're giving credit for.

ITZ ICYMay 16, 20192 votes

I mean... Hail of Blades states that it activates when you hit an enemy with a basic attack. Shen's Q is an ability that applies on hit effects, it's not a basic attack so it should not apply HoB. No bug here. [slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Unemployed NinjaMay 17, 20192 votes

I too posted this months ago. As a huge Shen fan, it has been really upsetting, because it would be so much fun on him.

HotarµMay 17, 20192 votes

Same, lol. I posted this the same day that the patch came out (the one that caused the bug in the first place), posted 2 more times after that, tagged Rioters on Twitter, filed MULTIPLE support tickets, and even made Reddit posts. I usually try to stay optimistic about Riot but I think it's pretty obvious they just don't give a shit.

And that breaks my heart.

DUDE BROMay 16, 20191 votes

It used to be amazing, then they made it so on-hit abilities don't consume a stack of Blades. (since you usually use it right after a basic attack) Well, shens Q is 3 on-hit abilities in a row, whoops!

Surprised they not only didn't realize it, but still haven't fixed it.

EleshakaiMay 16, 20191 votes

In any tech environment, there is always more work to do than time to do it. Riot most likely has some form of ticketing system internally where they track reported bugs and flag them based off of severity, impact and complexity(time to fix). I would suspect that they work, like most tech groups, from top down.

This isn't what a person who knows a bug exists wants to hear.... but it's a reality of design. Unfortunately, this bug(if it is even counted as a bug - it may be WAI) sounds fairly low impact(one rune on one champ), not terribly severe(slightly reduced champ strength as opposed to like crashes, or an ability not working at all, etc.), and potentially fairly complex (since I remember them saying their system for abilities counting as attacks was awkward at one point - although they may have changed that since then). As a result, I would expect it to sit in the queue for a while.

TremaursenMay 16, 20191 votes

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In any tech environment, there is always more work to do than time to do it. Riot most likely has some form of ticketing system internally where they track reported bugs and flag them based off of severity, impact and complexity(time to fix). I would suspect that they work, like most tech groups, from top down.

This isn't what a person who knows a bug exists wants to hear.... but it's a reality of design. Unfortunately, this bug(if it is even counted as a bug - it may be WAI) sounds fairly low impact(one rune on one champ), not terribly severe(slightly reduced champ strength as opposed to like crashes, or an ability not working at all, etc.), and potentially fairly complex (since I remember them saying their system for abilities counting as attacks was awkward at one point - although they may have changed that since then). As a result, I would expect it to sit in the queue for a while.

That's true as a rule of thumb but it's a piss poor excuse on Riot's part for the severity of their bugs. Warwick as a champion is an example of absolutely unacceptable quality control and that is just ONE champion. The fact of the matter is that Riot does not invest enough rescources into bug fixing, period. They will the moment it bleeds into Esports, but as long as it's not their meta or their client, they don't care enough

EleshakaiMay 16, 20191 votes

I'm not going to claim Riot's perfect, but we do see at least 5-10 bugs fixed every patch so they definitely are working on bugs.

There's a reason the "99 game-breaking bugs in the code, 99-gamebreaking bugs. Take one down, patch it around, 127 game-breaking bugs in the code" meme exists in the first-place. Because software development is a lot more complex than most realize.