League of Waiting: 15 min before any actual gameplay? (Ranked)

Jay Hairston·Feb 25, 2017·2 votes·644 views

Such a poor overall experience.

Matchmaking is a joke. Taking upwards of 10min with the amount of dodges due to: -Random leavers -Players being AFK from ridiculously long ban/selection phase. -Locking in two specific roles and being assigned something you don't know how to play.

3 minute load time (Insert Hamster joke here)

Finally made it to the rift! Awesome! Oh wait... Now we are just standing here because no one wants to coordinate for any early game antics.

-Sitting idle at towers and jungle monsters for another 1:30 because there's no real risk/reward incentive for invading.

Then comes the harassment we all know and love.

So much streamlining to do. Get to work, kk thanks bai

4 Comments

Stick In MuddFeb 25, 20171 votes

Damn I know, it's almost like you have to wait for other players all around the world (the US in this case) to sit down at their computer and log in, and want to play ranked, and are at your same elo (more or less), and want to play a specific role to make a coherent team (more or less), ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

I mean, I agree, WTF is rito thinking?

They really need to streamline this shit or I'm gonna lose it!!!!

Jay HairstonFeb 25, 20171 votes

Think about Overwatch load times and boot up to ranked gameplay time with 6 players of equal skill level.

CancerBasedGodFeb 25, 20171 votes

No. It's not the same.

DrCyanideFeb 25, 20171 votes

Overwatch hides their loading better.

They know they'll have to load every character for every game, so they can start loading all 23 heros when you fire it up, as well as the skins you're using (since, well, you'll be using those). The remaining load times are to load the skins other players are using but you aren't and the map itself. Note that Overwatch is sneaky here too, giving players a "free play" time rather than making them wait the whole time.

League can't use either of those techniques, but content could start being loaded in Champion Select. You'll know what map it is because of what you queued for, start loading that. As soon as a champion is locked in wait a few seconds then start loading the selected skin in.

We will have to wait until everyone is on the new client before anything like that can start though.