Should riot make themed summoner's rift maps?

Twilight Shinobi·Sep 29, 2016·5 votes·405 views

I know this has probably been suggested and talked about quite a few times. But I feel as if riot should start bringing back themed holiday maps to summoner's rift. It has been a while since they have done a seasonal type map one of which (the Halloween one) was one of my favorites and to not see things like that come back saddens me a bit. The last kind of map skin was in the bilgewater event and the last one for summoners rift was the snowdown showdown. And that was in the old summoners rift before it received it's visual update. I know there have been issues before with certain abilities not showing up as clearly on the themed map but I think that is something that could probably be fixed with a little bit of tweaking. What do you think? Should riot try and bring back holiday or seasonal themed maps for summoners rift/Howling abyss?

4 Comments

Elite4RunnerSep 29, 20161 votes

I'm going to give you the same answer I give everyone else when I see this request.

When Riot did a VU overhaul on Summoner's Rift, they worked very hard to make the landscape saturation balance just the way they felt best optimized the contrast between terrain and the champion models and abilities.

Now, this is NOT to say that I would not love to see an alternative color and texture scheme for Summoner's Rift, but I imagine that they would want to put just as much effort in to any recoloring as they did with the default. So I would expect to see very few of these, and a good amount of time between, if ever.

XunthraeSep 29, 20161 votes

They probably already have themed maps but they encountered issues and complaints. For example during the gangplank sound thing people were experiencing lag issues and it just didnt work for people who had lower spec computers. And you can just install some yourself by going to a website. but i do think they should add an optional kind of thing that you could toggle on and off if you wanted the theme like they have with minions in certain events like project and poolparty and the winter skins