Riot, could you add a tool that calculates ping/lag and fps in the game client?

Wuju Lord·3/4/2018, 10:13:49 PM·6 votes·980 views

I mean really, how great would it be to know if your internet is gonna be unable to play a league game well before you start a game? It would also be great so your would-be future teammates wouldn't have to suffer a potential loss and waste of time because we have no way of testing our net capability. Nothing triggers teammates like that one guy who says his internet is making him lag...

The response they always give is "I didn't know I would lag" or "its normally not this bad". Give people with sporadic and unpredictable internet the ability to check first before they go in.

Because It's not the player's fault a lot of times. How hard would it be to implement such a tool? That would really buff the 'quality of life' of the game in general.

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bunnypenors3/5/2018, 1:11:27 AM2 votes

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91929298DEL13/4/2018, 10:19:54 PM1 votes

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Pandeonor3/4/2018, 10:22:28 PM1 votes

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Because It's not the player's fault a lot of times.

If 1% is called "a lot of times".

Leylania3/4/2018, 10:18:51 PM1 votes

You can already test your ping by going into the practice tool. But no ping test will ever help if you get the problems while in the match. If I start with 24 ms and 20 minutes into the game it suddenly spikes to 500, that's nothing I can avoid with a ping test tool.

xelaker3/5/2018, 4:58:10 AM1 votes

I've always said there should be a bar for bad internet in ranked. can't meet certain requirements? sorry man, play normals. and this coming from a guy who didn't play ranked for like 5 seasons since I had crap internet.

Reformedfindlay3/5/2018, 4:18:01 PM1 votes

Starcraft has had this in client capability for a while so i dont see why riot cant implement it

Hμghes3/4/2018, 10:47:24 PM1 votes

Here's the thing: Riot cannot afford decent Servers.

If i play League i usually play with 150fps & 89ms to 110ms If the Loading Screen has issues like only loading 22% for all of my Team, my fps is somewhere around 12-16 or my ping goes from 89ms to 16547ms

Yet in other Games where they run it with 250ish/300 ppl connecting from all over the World to their servers in France (!) the ping goes down to 40ms up to 67ms. (btw these servers cost 300bucks a month)

So the thing is: Riot Direct sucks and Riot can't afford Servers.

Riot makes 2.4b a year, can't afford to spend 300 in servers