An Autonomous Game Mode

OC GFRIEND Yerin·7/4/2019, 10:28:51 PM·1 votes·764 views

Here is how to story begins: I was just playing a normal normal game on sommoner's rift. My computer crashed for whatever reason, and I was taken to Windows update. Surprisingly the team did not remake, and I afked for about 20 minutes. Nothing happened to my account, no leaverbuster what so ever.

Although the story has nothing to do with the title, just keep reading.

I wanted to investigate what was wrong with my computer, because after I restarted my computer, League went clean slate on me: It showed me the "Welcome to league of legends" login screen, and I had to manually input my username for the first time in a couple years. I decided to play a couple games of Twisted Treeline, but that's when things got a whole lot worse.

Many of you probably already know that the game mode is full of bots trying to grind for a purpose that I am completely unaware of. I expected bots, but I didn't expect to be the only human in all the games.

The first game was fine, I was playing Yasuo because he has a lot of carrying potential. And well, everyone except me is bot. Link to the match history: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3085071683/239781453?tab=overview

The second game was the worst, still, all bot, but my bots are afk. I was playing Sylas, simply I needed some mastery points for him. I did end up winning, but hell it was difficult. I simply can't outpush the the bots. https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3085059458/239781453?tab=overview

The third game was the game that actually made me question this game mode. Are there any human at all? The third game I learned my lesson, I picked the champion that is well known for pushing to inhibitor at 15 minutes: Yorick. This game, still all bots, but with a twist. On the enemy team, there was a Qiyana, a new champion, not only that, she has the Arcade skin as well. She also grabbed smite and heal as summoner's spell. I was excited, so I typed in all chat "Is that a human I see?". No replies. After 3 minutes into the game, I immediately realized that she is just another bot for the following reasons:

  1. Took smite but did not step into the jungle a single step.
  2. Completely ignored the Altars, a real player would never ignore them.
  3. Bad https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3085085726/239781453?tab=overview

Then I just pushed out the towers and won the game. But it leads me to a very irritating discovery: If nearly all players are just bots, the game mode is essentially running for a whole bunch of people exploiting the unpopular mode for some sort of a profit. The games without a single human are essentially autonomous. The server is just running on its own for no reason. If this is the case, the game mode should actually be canceled. It appears that a lot of players still play the game mode, NO! They are just bots! Or there should be a detecting method that simply detects the bot accounts and ban them.

I am just trying bring some attention to this well known issue. The game mode still being there is consuming Riot's resources. This really needs to end!

3 Comments

preternatural7/4/2019, 11:17:13 PM1 votes

oh i see so because NA has it filled with bots cause they can't even populate the server we all lose serviceable game modes. just bring back dominion ffs.