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Is Anyone Else Feeling That This Star Guardian Event is Just Unfun/ A Flop Right now?

Forhonor321··7 votes·966 views

And I'm not joking when I say that. It's hasn't even been a full day since this started and already I'm feeling that this is one of Riot's worst, if not the worst, event right now.

First, Onslaught feels near impossible to progress through, at least up until the second run mission with the million Vel'Koz shots coming at you from top, bottom left, right, and out your own ass even, just making it a living bullet hell since they chunk you for your health. Hell, the final boss isn't much better either. It just shoots out those projectiles and your only defense is to stay around the pillars, but at the same time you sooner or later have to deal with the millions of other enemies swarming at you from across the map. On top of this are the constant barrages of Rek'Sai knock ups Skarner's dragging you away or into death, and those fucking medic units that prevent you from killing enemies unless you kill them first. It's a nightmare to play.

Second, the mission are ungodly horrible. It's bad enough to try and play through Onslaught as mentioned above for these missions, but trying to gather 4 other random people or friends together to try and complete these missions is just unacceptable! Most of my friends have stop playing League or aren't all on at the same time even. And I barely trust trying to group up with random people to try and win a ridiculously hard mode. But worst has to be the Hard Mission: Win Onslaught in a 5-man premade with out playing any Marksmen (Ez, Jinx, MF) Mages (Lux, Syndra, Ahri) or** Utility (Lulu, Poppy, Janna, Soraka). HELL! FUCKING! NO!** This goes beyond what missions in League should be. Try winning a game without any consistent damage dealers or even healers/shielders?!?!?! Just.....no.

Finally, the purchases of these skins is just plain stupid. The only way you can get the loading borders is through either the mega bundle with the ward, or the individual bundles. But here's the thing (and I've already posted about this) **the single bundles cost you more money! ** You're paying an extra 175 RP for the loading border if you chose to buy an individual pack. Why? You're already making us pay for the bundle and the stupid icons that you made only available through these things (or crafting as I found out), so why charge us more on these individual bundles already? To make us buy the Mega Bundle and actually have us save some RP? Maybe I don't want all the champ skins. Maybe I don't want the ward skin. Maybe I don't want the stupid icons in these bundles and wish I could just buy them separately. I don't know who at Riot thought they were a good idea but with this and the recent bitching about runes refund pricing, I can almost guarantee this is going to piss off players more.

I don't understand what is going on over there at Riot. Yeah they're a business but for fuck sake they're starting to piss me off with a lot of their decisions and presentations lately!

TL;DR : Onslaught feels too hard/frustrating, missions are horribly designed, pricing on the bundles is a scam, event is Riot's worst right now

5 Comments

Tormentula2 votes

So true all the way

Riot is going to kill their game if they keep this kind of shit up. A new game mode is fine, if it needs tuning then so be it but it doesn't change LoL for you unless you enjoy it and spend more time... but forcing players to do this kind of shit is ridiculous.

Doombots didn't require you to play max difficult for anything, you did it because you wanted to.. and doombots wasn't even bad. Nobody wants to play this game mode and instead of simply not playing, they're pressured due to a limited time exclusive ward skin available strictly through missions for the game (or token from those missions, potato patoto). Seriously who would play this mode after the 2nd loss for any other reason in its current state? They're literally bargaining players to play this mode because they know players will just go back to rift and riot put too many resources into this free to play mode for that.

I'm inclined to believe missions are the single worse thing riot has ever done because of how they're abusing them. Missions/quest are nothing new, but in other MOBAs they don't pressure you into having to do them.. in smite you get some favor, maybe some gems or a chest, but that's it.. meanwhile at riot games "you HAVE to play kayn/ornn right now or else miss out on their icons, so don't buy a champion you saved for. You HAVE to play this new game mode for an exclusive ward skin which we're sure is of less value then limited ward skins like victorious ones to begin with, you HAVE to buy this arcade mission scam pass that loses value the later you purchase for the event icon.'. Be different if maybe a mission gave 1000 IP or 20 RP and the missions influenced us to play better (like better last hitting in a time threshold)... but this is flat out cheese.

Lets not forgot about them scamming us.. +175 RP to buy borders? What the actual fuck.. I already know a discord server boycotting the skins because of this, and frankly I don't blame them because if we vote with our wallets, and buy the skins anyway riot is going to think this shit is ok in the future.. its not. Its actual robbery... We got project skin borders for free by just buying the skin.. we got borders for the riven and yas skin for free by playing the game... why the fuck are we being forced to pay for a border that simply says "I bought these skins when they were more expensive". Not cool.

Add in runes getting refunded by less then 1/4th their value...

Yea riot is going to be a dying company in no time like a lot of gaming companies if they continue this. Riot has successfully stayed consistent on the marketing part of their business, these past few months have broken that rep.

Riot is better then this, was better then this.. idk if its because they're going into debt now that people just use hextech for free content or what, but riot needs to find different methods to keep going.

The Deckowner1 votes

This event is quite obviously just a cash grab. The game mode is boring and poorly made, the skins are poor in terms of quality, the missions rrquires you to play this boring game mode while giving trash rewards. Arcade probably didn't get Rito as much money as they wanted, so now they are more aggressive.

La Bello1 votes

I think Invasion mode is more akin to artificial difficulty (If you played Dark Souls 2 and experience Capra Demon n Doggos/Bed of Chaos you know what I mean here) where RNG is the main factor in deciding the winner at least more so than skill and winning becomes a tedious chore of just kiting out beefy mobs.

I dont know why suddenly Riot is charging extra for loading screens when they have always been free before (PROJECT,DAWN/NIGHTBRINGER,) My guess is RIot is hoping for suckers caught up in the SG Hype wouldn't notice they were being charged for something that was normally just a bonus for purchasing the skin during its release event.

The rewards are pretty whatever too. what happened to the free legacy skin shards? Dawnbringer event and Arcade event both offered skin shards. I already own all champions so there wasn't really any push for me to continue playing once I got the ward skin. At least I got a decent ward skin though.

so all in all this event isn't BAD just a bit Underwhelming .

Xion The XIV1 votes

This game mode is just boring. I hardly ever play any of these champions outside of Machine gun lulu and Healbot Soraka. The rest of them just are not what I like to play.

Astropithecus1 votes

I am mostly a solo player, why do i have to be forced to play with other 4 players in a premade group and all get the picks required for the mission and win onslaught mode ? I can win it, i can dodge very well, but if i dont rely on my teammates too everything is doomed, and you have to start again. Lets say that i accept this, i play alone until i find the perfect players to play with so we can get the missions done, but what rewards do i get for grinding such hard missions? A mistery hextech champion shard? ((REALLY NIGA?!? ))...it seems like i dont have a lot from, i will do first 3 missions then get the ward, and forget about this mode, this is all you have to do. By the way, the very last mission, to win Onslaught with a premade of 5 and win it on S or higher and get an icon which is shittier than the first? haha thats a no from me dawg! I feel like the rewards are not that rewarding for what you have to play, i like the fact that is hard it reminds me of the oldschool games, but the rewards arent just worthy. Bye

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