the death recap is so outdated that it shows icons from pre-reworked champs.

lolipopevelynn··68 votes·16,027 views

the icon for eves whiplash shows as the old ravage icon. sometimes icons dont display at all. and it certainly doesnt show correct damage outputs from all sources. how many years has it been? please rework this system, its perhaps the most checked menu in the entire game right along side tab and shop menu.

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ExplodingFist6630 votes

death recap will never be worked on

riot has other things to worry about like new lux, annie, and ezreal skins

ZaFishbone2 votes

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death recap will never be worked on

riot has other things to worry about like new lux, annie, and ezreal skins

And toxic trolls on the boards, apparently.

revliledpembroke4 votes

Are the skins people the same people who would work on a new death recap?

Marshbouy1 votes

No. It's a shit comparison but not an entirely worthless one.

Someone at riot has to schedule projects and decide what gets worked on, but they're putting effort towards shit like buffing champions who have new skins on the same patch.

Ęsdeath18 votes

I recall hearing a Rioter literally asking everyone why people want death recap at all. This is how far their ideology has gone to.

TwitchInMyPants6 votes

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I recall hearing a Rioter literally asking everyone why people want death recap at all. This is how far their ideology has gone to.

Lmfao "Why do people want things that make the game more playable? I just need to work on the next skin line!"

Arakadia5 votes

Except the people who work on skins have nothing to do with deathrecap. Good luck if your going to have artists and skin production people trying to code a major system for the game.

TwitchInMyPants1 votes

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Except the people who work on skins have nothing to do with deathrecap. Good luck if your going to have artists and skin production people trying to code a major system for the game.

And anyone working on coding is working on client events to make money or champion reworks. Not that I necessarily blame them but its super obvious they don't care about most things that don't generate revenue. Like the push for lore recently has involved a lot of skin lore and now they're selling comics, its not just to tell a story. The client is bugged as hell and only the most gamebreaking stuff gets any attention paid to it.

Like I bring up skins since its the obvious cash cow. I don't literally expect artists to work on death recap but its clear if Rioters don't even understand why people want Death Recap to work that they don't give a fuck about the gameplay beyond making champions people wanna buy.

Tomoe Gozen2 votes

You wanted a new client. You got that.

You wanted a Replay system. You got it.

You wanted a Practice Mode. You got that as well.

You wanted runes reworked. You got that.

You wanted to pick your roles. You got that.

You wanted to swap between game modes without remaking your party? You got that.

You wanted clubs? Sure thing.

You wanted a voice chat? OK.

Just to name a few things that were the most requested over the years that eventually became features.

Where is this "Riot doesn't give a shit" coming from? If you want to make an argument that it takes years of asking for this for them to make it happen, make the appropriate argument. It would be the correct one. However, i find it disingenuous to claim how Riot doesn't care when that's the opposite of the truth.

We all know that if Riot doesn't have the appropriate Features team brainstorming and taking feedback to make them on time, it takes a considerable more amount of time and effort to fix or refactor something that exists when even more things get added to the game. That's called tech debt.

They ran into the same problem with the new client because they waited years to commit to renewing it, only to have to refactor everything new client did and then remake the same functionality and allow for modular implementation of the new features.

Theorex2 votes

Lets talk about some of those things.

Voice Chat. In games by default. Since before League of Legends was a game. CS, CoD, DotA, etc.

Clubs were in games as well, most notably MMORPG's and Steam games (Since Username is able to be changed all the time)

Why the fuck did they make us remake our parties? How the fuck was it even coded like that? Seriously. I can't think of any other game that was that fucked. Maybe MAYBE some 1999 - 2003 games.

Picking your roles, alright thats cool. I'll give them that, that wasn't in games.. mostly because they could all talk, but we can leave that for another statement.

Runes reworked? Fuck that, I hated that idea. Every fucking time they touch something in the game they fucked it up. Runes weren't good, but they weren't bad. Because. They fucking sucked dick. If you could abuse something, it was in a very very very minor way. Not like how Ezreal and GP can abuse Klepto, or how Brand, Malz don't even have a keystone.

Practice mode, that is fine. Most games big name games had it.

Replay System wasn't a thing back when, became a thing later on. I say that they made this system at the correct time. So I will give it to them as well.

The new client kinda.. sucks dick.

Just saying half of that list that you gave, was reasons to be mad at riot for just not having it in the game to begin with. Or taking forever. Just like Clash. Just saying. Clash should be a thing by now. Pretty sure its fucking gone and never coming back.

lolipopevelynn2 votes

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I recall hearing a Rioter literally asking everyone why people want death recap at all. This is how far their ideology has gone to.

YIKES thats fucking sad. For years they have never considered it a priority yet they bug fix the most pointless shit just for casuals

LatetotheRace2 votes

Just give me a matrix of what % for each type of damage I took.

WyvernEgg1 votes

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I recall hearing a Rioter literally asking everyone why people want death recap at all. This is how far their ideology has gone to.

I recall all the time and don't hear anyone say anything. You're crazy.

Krys Star1 votes

Honestly an incredibly stupid question. If I'm playing a tank, I'd like to know what source of damage was doing the most to me: physical, magical or true. As a non-tank, it can be nice to know what murdered you so much so you know who and what to avoid next time.

It's amazing how Riot has come so far with such simplistic, narrow-minded ways of thinking.

TisBis1 votes

Annie? You do realize most of her skins are very very old, right?

DUDE BRO11 votes

It's perfectly fine.

Today I was killed by Lux's summoner spell "Flash", which did 18 damage. And the assist was also lux, with the spell "champion_182_spell14_bin..".

That's working as intended, right?

Omaki8 votes

What's wrong big boy ? Can't handle when baron kills you with lux's statikk's shiv?

KidnapperMorde5 votes

So perhaps... Aatrox lives on? :(

Spooks and Null5 votes

Riot's official page for Aatrox has the old champion spotlight still, funnily enough.

General Esdeath 4 votes

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Riot's official page for Aatrox has the old champion spotlight still, funnily enough.

haha holy fucking shit, their skill descriptions also have no numbers. What a fucking joke.

Spooks and Null3 votes

Actually quite a few descriptions have no numbers, due to how the HTML is coded. Basically its meant to hook into the game's data somewhere and then just spit that data out into the ability descriptions, but theres been some cleaning up of the spaghetti code behind league abilities.

General Esdeath 1 votes

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Actually quite a few descriptions have no numbers, due to how the HTML is coded. Basically its meant to hook into the game's data somewhere and then just spit that data out into the ability descriptions, but theres been some cleaning up of the spaghetti code behind league abilities.

They could put it in themselves, like the wiki page does. It's not hard work.

Phreaktastic1 votes

Why would they? It's incredibly easy to just pull data for values (thus, preventing the need to update multiple abilities' descriptions every patch) and takes a ridiculously low amount of time. If they're too lazy to update the data bindings, are they really going to update the description with every patch? I think not.

Saianna4 votes

Oh give it a rest already. Riot is small indie group working in moms garage. This game is more of summer project so they can't fix everything.

/s

Jennifer4204 votes

just turn it into a joke

once this game dies riot can look at their deathrecap what killed them. infernal drake statik shiv.

9mm Valentine3 votes

There's a few outdated things like Dragonblade Talon's art still has his old blade models.

floo3 votes

If they ever rework it, pls don't let it say "deals damage and stuns for a duration" when hovering an ability. That's the most infuriating thing about this thing for me. If it can't count by itself, at least let me do it.

Phreaktastic1 votes

Agreed. Players who start the game need to know what unfamiliar champions' abilities are doing to them. Someone starting out and saying, "why couldn't I move??" is not helped at all by horrendous, nondescript text. If they don't know that an ability is an ultimate, they also don't know what just dealt a trillion dmg (Veig ult for example). In a perfect world, it'd show the pre-mitigation damage and the damage it actually dealt to you. CC would show the pre-mitigated duration and the duration applied to you as well.

I'd just take a damage type matrix as mentioned above, but ofc that'll never happen.

floo1 votes

Honestly though, I can't understand why they are so behind with these types of things. The death recap hasn't been touched ever since it was released, shop items aren't changed according to patches, the launcher is an absolute mess.. and every 2 weeks anew, all these things seem to get even worse.

Saezio3 votes

FIX THE FUCKING THING.

CHAMPS IN MY TEAM DO DAMAGE TO ME WITH ABILITIES OF CHAMPS NOT EVEN IN THE GAME.

OTHERS DO DAMAGE TO ME WITH ITEMS THEY DONT OWN.

WHEN THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA FIX THIS RIOT?

Teriyaki Bukkake2 votes

It's probably been way too long since they looked at the code, meaning any small code change could have large ramifications

lolipopevelynn1 votes

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It's probably been way too long since they looked at the code, meaning any small code change could have large ramifications

all the more reason to FIX IT NOW then instead of letting it go on.

Teriyaki Bukkake1 votes

It's nearly been a decade though. As much as I want them to, RIOT isn't a decent enough company to spend money on greatly improving the quality of the game, because they would have to make a sacrifice for their customers: something we haven't seen them do in a LONG, LONG, LONG LONG TIME.

SovereignMammal2 votes

What are you talking about? Death Recap is working as intended

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

I mean, how would we know Infernal has a shiv if death recap was broken?

14daysuspensionk1 votes

I honestly thought that the reason for the old Eve E on death recap was because they were too lazy to update that icon for death recap. Also FIzz ult shows to have done ONLY 266 dmg to me (with my max hp being around 800, and this was in VERY early game), yet it still oneshots me when it should've done something like 1/4th.

Kr1sys1 votes

Small indie company bruh

TisBis1 votes

Moe: Why did I get damaged by Janna??? Janna isn't in the game? JANNA'S ON MY TEAM?

TomiMan72 votes

I mean when Brand stunnes an enemy, they have Jannas W icon as a debuff, Rylias slow has item 3110 icon. [zombie-brand-mindblown]

KingVKB121 votes

I read item 3089

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

Krynnˉ1 votes

At this point, they don't even need to rework it, I'd rather them just remove it entirely and release a newer version at a later date. It's not like it's even remotley useful in it's current state anyway, 99% of the time I look at it, it's to see if I died from Statikk Shiv from Drake.

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