PSA: Riot is incapable of doing "reverts"

Paroe·May 25, 2017·1 votes·442 views

Riots coding practices regarding champions and items are NOT modular. Theyre linked all over the place and "reworking" a champion is far easier and takes a lot less work than "reverting" them.

In order to "revert" riot has to save a copy of the game itself and re-apply ALL patches - patches that again are not modular- one by one. Its not a simple process due to riots design practices. So when you demand a "revert" know this; A reversion is a rework to make something similar to what it was before. Riot isnt capable of an ACTUAL reversion. Just changing what exists already.

14 Comments

Laxfan52May 25, 20176 votes

They kinda reverted kogmaw

undesirable teamMay 25, 20171 votes

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They kinda reverted kogmaw

they pretty muchdid only changed his r they even gave him his atk speed on his q back XD

CrazFight May 25, 20175 votes

There is so much wrong with this i cant even.... https://i.imgflip.com/xfk8y.jpg

ParoeMay 25, 20171 votes

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There is so much wrong with this i cant even.... https://i.imgflip.com/xfk8y.jpg

Riot has flat said that the way they code champions makes reversions take more effort and resources than reworks.

CrazFight May 25, 20173 votes

KogMaw and pretty soon Malzahar

PennsMay 25, 20171 votes

I cant believe that because you have to think about and design a rework while a "revert" is basically just a rework without the designing-part.

dakota saturnMay 25, 20174 votes

Obviously a revert isn't a copy-paste of old code. They would re-write the code to match the old values.

And they HAVE done a revert before: KogMaw

-_-

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xelakerMay 25, 20172 votes

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Riots coding practices regarding champions and items are NOT modular. Theyre linked all over the place and "reworking" a champion is far easier and takes a lot less work than "reverting" them.

In order to "revert" riot has to save a copy of the game itself and re-apply ALL patches - patches that again are not modular- one by one. Its not a simple process due to riots design practices. So when you demand a "revert" know this; A reversion is a rework to make something similar to what it was before. Riot isnt capable of an ACTUAL reversion. Just changing what exists already.

riot reverts stuff in pbe all the time

Miror BMay 25, 20171 votes

PSA: a way of saying "pasta" for those afraid of the word "at". [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

GULAG 4 UMay 25, 20171 votes

Let's pretend like Kog'maw never happened : ^)

ParoeMay 25, 20171 votes

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Let's pretend like Kog'maw never happened : ^)

But that wasnt a revert - that was riot "reworking a rework" to be similar. WHen people ask for a revert they dont mean "rework this so that its similar to what is was before", they literally mean "I want the changes undone".

Riot is incapable of doing that. Due to their practices, UNDOING something is an entirely different beast than CHANGING WHAT EXISTS.

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riot reverts stuff in pbe all the time

PBE is a different build entirely and is much cleaner than live.

KoKobotoMay 25, 20171 votes

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CrazFight May 25, 20171 votes

Look im not saying your stupid.... but you have problems when it comes to thinking.

ZT XperimentorMay 25, 20171 votes

However they have referenced that they keep backups of previous patches. So yeah they still have the data; they just don't want to admit they're wrong.