Nearly a decade Later - can we fix this now?

Goju·8/10/2018, 7:58:23 PM·57 votes·15,606 views

League of Legends came out in 2009 - it is almost 10 years later, Riot is no longer a small company that is just doing what it can for its fans. In 2009 they sought to create a company that continuously improves on an already released game, instead of commencing development on a new one. And they have delivered in champions, Items, (on both sides of enjoyment and WTF riot) however, I am here to talk about something that has been IN the game since 2009, gotten NO love, and is still as buggy and broken as it was nearly a decade ago..** Death Recap **- I mean I cannot be the only player that when he dies and sees "Death Recap" in a game - checks it to see who is doing what type of damage so if i need to build mitigation against that type - Be it Armor, Magic Resist, both..

However Either True dmg is being given away in the mail with free samples of Tide by Noxus, or Riot needs to actually sit down and fix this death recap - or remove it completely and when you die just the words "Guess who killed you, we're not tellin" can come up on the screen.

Because too often , much too often for a 10 year old game, you see things like - _(These images were taken from Google - and not my own personal experience, however i have seen much the same in my own death recaps.) _ http://apollo-na-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1432542711/LeagueWhatKillSelf3.jpg

or Warwick really decides to go to pound town

http://apollo-pbe-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1417483423314/Screen02.png

But its not just the champions as we all know. the Creeps tend to get upset now and then too, and call out the Hero of the Hour "Purple Melee Minon" http://apollo-na-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1438823810/MinionDamage.jpg

Ok but seriously - no joke - the death recap is meant to be useful information on how you died, so if you desire to adjust a build accordingly you can - in its current stand the death recap is good for at best a laugh and at worst and string of curses. Because if these death recaps are "correct" someone needs to take a serious look at Warwirk and Rammus (haha)

Its time for you to actually give us a death recap - and not just a odd mix of numbers done to you in .09 seconds.

Thank you for your time

47 Comments

Poop Johnson8/10/2018, 9:36:33 PM23 votes

The issue is that this game is held together with twine and superglue and the death recap is so deeply embedded that fixing it would cause so many more issues then it's worth. Notice how they have that early league aesthetic because, even after multiple UI and map changes, Riot is too afraid of breaking the whole game to make it look nicer or actually work.

Leetri8/10/2018, 9:46:09 PM10 votes

Meddler talked about that recently. Here's the quote.

"We could skip skins for a year and it wouldn't help us work on death recap - the issue there's what expertise is needed for each job. Skins are mainly artist dependent. Death Recap by contrast primarily needs engineer time. That means the trade offs we'd need to make for Death Recap work are things like working on client bugs, FPS optimization, enabling new features for game modes etc. Completely with you that Death Recap isn't in a good state, our conclusion's been that other work like that's going to improve people's experiences more (on average, certainly not for every given person) though."

Arcane Blue Boi8/10/2018, 9:24:28 PM9 votes

whatcha talking about, its clearly obvious infernal drake hit me for 255 damage stattic shiv

Primaquarius8/10/2018, 8:05:09 PM8 votes

Rammus did true damage by blinking LuL

EvilUnicornLord8/10/2018, 9:21:34 PM4 votes

Would be nice to have 5 "who killed you" slots so us tanks can see exactly what needs to be built.

Towboat4218/11/2018, 7:16:47 AM3 votes

I'd like to point out Hot's and dota have a working version of this, Riot really is just lazy

Emo Twink8/11/2018, 3:55:59 AM3 votes

I want warwick to go to pound town with me..

Saianna8/11/2018, 8:14:41 AM3 votes

Riot is no longer a small company that is just doing what it can for its fans.

They got big, slow, stupid and greedy. But they still try to use as tiniest teams when it comes to develop the game.

Stróc Dúnmharú8/11/2018, 1:48:28 PM2 votes

Imagine an in-game replay that you can watch, let's you turn the camera angle and put the game in slow motion, disable number pop ups from specific champions so you can isolate where the damage came from. AND... imagine being able to do it for longer than just "until you respawn". Don't tell me the technology doesn't exist, because it most certainly does.

Riot, come on, give us picture-in-picture player unique death replays so we can see what killed use and how.

Infinixity8/11/2018, 9:10:11 PM1 votes

badpassive

Autrah Fang8/12/2018, 1:02:22 AM1 votes

Read title, expected death recap. Got what I was expecting 10/10

PaladinNO8/12/2018, 3:46:08 AM1 votes

The first thing I read:

1081 damage in 2,84 seconds

vs.

1008 damage in 11,52 seconds

I see what you did there.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

On a serious note: Yes, I also want details on what happened. Not just some numbers for the sake of giving me numbers - I want the how (exact ability details and combos), when (timestamps), and a short text telling me what I can do to improve based on the various amounts of damage i took.

Goju8/12/2018, 5:19:53 AM1 votes

First - wow, in a way I am happy to know its not just me - but in a way I am saddened at the state of it ..

And I agree that yes with the huge availability of tools out there now, (like that one i saw on youtube that lets you see who on the other team has a low W/L % with the champ they are playing (this is just cheating in my view) - death recap is not high on the "to do list"

And yes, maybe the game is held together with string and duct-tape and McGyver skill - but I mean put some of it toward a load-out that tells you how you died - for the the love of god someone get on the True dmg (unrelated note) -

I thank you all for posting and agreeing that for tanks, or support, which is what i normally play knowing how you died -(by what damage type, who was dealing X damage of what type) is actually what your supposed to do (at least i thought) to build accordingly and mitigate for your team-mates -

Granted its less so now with the influx of Crit / True Dmg / %Max HP dmg, / %Max HP True dmg - since really your only hope against Velkoz Vayne Fiora MasterYi --(wow this list gets long fast) is hope for a bad player, or run like hell, because mitigation is no longer a factor - they are dealling 100% of whatever they want to you, (hope you got a warmogs)

Still , a man can dream - and again thank you all for responding.

LordGeovanni8/12/2018, 7:39:39 AM1 votes

With how damage is now days i could beleive that the melee minion has that bad passive passive for real

Whisperwind238/12/2018, 1:06:09 PM1 votes

I believe they said a while back that because the way the game is coded, they cant fix it.

SMOKE THIS8/12/2018, 2:11:11 PM1 votes

Whatever they do to it, I really hope they keep the visuals the same. It is the only last remnant of the game reminding me of the good old times of yesteryear and looks runic and archaic.

koshkyra8/10/2018, 10:16:07 PM1 votes

Sona's W did 37 (4%) magic damage to me a few days ago

Terozu8/10/2018, 11:17:29 PM1 votes

What? No. A minion definetly killed me with Soraka's ult for 1000 true damage despite Soraka not being in that game.

What are you talking about.

And are you implying Nidalee is unable to passively deal damage that consists of 1's trailing off the screen with no source?

Flashes8/11/2018, 2:32:58 AM1 votes

"BadPassive" 200+ damage k

Altonius Amakiir8/11/2018, 5:18:06 AM1 votes

They were about to fix it, but then they determined resources for it were at odds with Nexus Blitz, and they refused to delay that. So now it's back to probably never.

Lush Father8/11/2018, 5:52:55 AM1 votes

I like dying to a Kled's "Zephyr" damage when a Janna is on the other team.

That one comes up the most.

Ranmiaku8/11/2018, 7:25:29 AM1 votes

yeah about time somebody brought this up, i dont think ive ever seen it actually be accurate, ive even taken damage from my own janna support before 0_o

kagepaladin8/11/2018, 10:35:02 AM1 votes

I mean tbh I agree, I don't even look at death recap anymore, haven't in a long time and with the death timers as they are I just browse reddit on my phone or play around with my music instead of looking at recap.

Wizard Blaze8/11/2018, 11:04:46 AM1 votes

You will never be killed by summoner 4 [zombie-nunu-bummed]