A list of quality of life changes - Cos we love clarity and little improvements amirite

Saixos··78 votes·4,103 views

So after playing the game for a while and reading through these boards a lot I realized there are a lot of little changes and improvements which could be made to league to make it more enjoyable. But there isn't a list or a collection of them or anything, so I decided to start making one. I'll update this with any improvements you put in the comments (Obviously I'd never be able to make a complete list on my own), and strike changes which make it ingame. Upvote to bring to riot's attention?

The List:

  • Change the loading screen to one that you can easily switch out of instead of fullscreen immediately, so that players can still do things like load up some music or whatever, then when it’s fully loaded switch everyone to fullscreen. Adding a chat window in the loading screen would be nice as well.

  • Add a range indicator to kalista’s jump passive when hovering over it.

  • Automatically remove the baron/dragon icon from the map if you get vision of the enemy team having either of the buffs (Cos I mean you can tell when it’s gone from that, and you can roughly tell when they got it too, so….what’s the point?)

  • Move all TEMPORARY passive effects (ex not dragon buff) into the middle of the screen (Quite honestly nobody glances at the left corner unless they want to see something specific like champion AD)

  • In the shop add an area below the item description which shows how the item would change the stats of the player. So for example, boots 335 Movement speed -> 360 Movement speed. Or IE 87 Attack Damage -> 167 Attack Damage and 0% Critical hit change -> 25% critical hit chance and 200% critical hit damage -> 250% critical hit damage

  • Allow players to have a customizable “Favorites” bar where they can favorite a champion they own (up to 9) and have them appear in a favorites bar next to the random selector

  • Allow the honor banners to go over ranked borders (with corresponding changes to the borders

  • Change the location of the options gear in the main launcher to the bottom right so that players can change filter/volume settings while in a match loading screen. Also allow players to change launcher options while ingame, and change ingame settings while in the launcher.

  • Add a ping meter to the launcher

  • Fix the dc (need to restart the entire game) if the IP of the player changes mid-game

  • Add a little ? mark on the death recap screen that opens a new window which allows players to read up on champion abilities: Would help new players like a LOT ...and also some long term players “WTF how does kalista work”

  • Add a nice glowing countdown timer (in seconds obv) on the shield that prevents you from exiting spawn at start

  • Do a similar thing for individual monster camps if you see them die

  • Allow players to mirror their HUD vertically

  • Add a timer next to the green dots which show when teammates have their ults

  • Allow players to mute each other during the champion selection

  • If leblanc is walking somewhere and uses distortion, it doesn’t interrupt her movement

  • Allow the “most played champions” to switch between normal and ranked on profile page

  • Add an option to the store “Show unavailable skins”

  • Sheen proc color changed to yellow? to differentiate from triforce better

  • Individual icons (The buff icon things) for tri, sheen, iceglove and lich instead of them all using sheen icon

  • Janna’s shield gives autoattacks a slight blue glow?

  • Sona’s q aura needs increased visibility

  • Nunu/ww/nidalee’s attack speed auras need some kind of different effect to separate them from sheen/tri more

  • Add a damage tag to ignite like with smite

  • Once orianna hits 6, add a glowing circle around her ball when her ult is up similar to rengar's jump which indicates shockwave range (only visible to ori)

  • Add an animated loading icon to the loading screen to make it easier to tell if league froze up on you

  • Once panth/TF/nocturne hit 6 they also get a glowing circle around them when their ult is up like rengars jump to indicate ult range (only visible to the champion themselves)

  • If a player declines a match the match is immediately disbanded instead of having to wait

  • update sion's passive and passive abilities to indicate level of attack speed increase, update nocturne passive tooltip to indicate how much nocturne heals

  • When the tribunal returns, record pre and post game chats and send those in as well.

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42 Comments

Wheatloaf17 votes

How have I lived without half of these...

Juggernaut Jesus8 votes

Loading screen needs an animated load icon so you know you're not frozen.

Panth/TF/Nocturne could do with a range indicator for their ultimates similar to Rengar's jump indicator.

Disband game immediately if someone rejects instead of having to wait for others.

Tweaking in-game settings from the launcher.

Saixos4 votes

[{quoted}](name=Zoro The Otter,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=gO9Q5n3I,comment-id=0006,timestamp=2014-12-17T09:50:52.138+0000)

Disband game immediately if someone rejects instead of having to wait for others.

Added all of these, thanks for this one especially - I remember that's pissed me off a lot but I forgot to put it on here :D

Kitsuki052 votes

This is actually a horrible idea, if there are any afkers in matchmaking, they'll just keep delaying the game from starting instead of being removes the first time a game is possible.

Tapu Fini1 votes

Yeah... That's in there so it cuts out all the people who are afk/decline, instead of making it multiple rounds of single popups.

Saixos1 votes

Maybe it would work better that well if we had a lot of decliners, but from my experience getting more than one decline per game is extremely rare, and so I feel as though this would work better. Personal opinion though, rito can decide

Tapu Fini4 votes

Individual proc icons for item 3057 item 3078 item 3025 , in addition to different visual effects :l (Yellow trinity, blue gauntlet, red sheen? change attack speed buff color?)

Saixos2 votes

Added :)

X SkeletonCandy2 votes

{quoted}

Individual proc icons for item 3057 item 3078 item 3025 , in addition to different visual effects :l (Yellow trinity, blue gauntlet, red sheen? change attack speed buff color?)

To sort of expand on this, make Sheen's glow blue, TF's yellow, LB's red, and FG's purple.

Dar Raksada4 votes

Hoe about this one: update Nocturne's passive tooltip to state hoe much he heals (now it just says he heals, very friggin useful). Do the same for Sion's passive's attack speed steroid (he attacks really fast, not vey useful) and his passive qwer (gains a burst of speed, but how much speed?)

these are the ones I can think of atm.

Saixos3 votes

Added :)

Kaisha3 votes

Fix day 1 bugs that are STILL in this game.

LLOLOLOLOL... who am I kidding! Fix bugs. Hell will sooner freeze over.

Saixos2 votes

If you list up bugs and stuff that are in the game I'll add them as well - likely many of them are simply forgotten, and that's what this list is for - to try and prevent riot from forgetting the 1000 little things that would improve the game and add them.

The Fat Punisher1 votes

{quoted}

Fix day 1 bugs that are STILL in this game.

LLOLOLOLOL... who am I kidding! Fix bugs. Hell will sooner freeze over.

name a day 1 bug

Kaisha7 votes

Off the top of my head, champ hit boxes still don't match their models.

SlimyDan3 votes

I agree, it would be useful to talk with your team mates during loading screen.

Cynetic2 votes
  • Add a damn range indicator to Orianna's Shockwave.
Saixos3 votes

Added :)

Cynas2 votes

Cannot upvote hard enough. I've often thought that it might be a good idea to nix the post-game chatroom, whilst simultaneously allowing players to chat on the victory screen - this gives the tribunal access to more trash talk that would otherwise go unheard as it's managed by the launcher. It may just cut out some of the all around unpleasantness involved when you have a bad game.

junglerboy163 votes

Except the tribunal is out of commission until further notice...

Saixos2 votes

I feel as though this would make things more complicated, so I added when tribunal is back record pre and post game chats as well

ImHerVoice2 votes

janna's sheild still doesn't buff my AD when Im autoing a turret as AP janna. God bless riots shitty bugs on poor gutted janna

TheRogueToad4 votes

{quoted}

janna's sheild still doesn't buff my AD when Im autoing a turret as AP janna. God bless riots shitty bugs on poor gutted janna

This isn't a "shitty bug", it's a feature you're clearly not aware of, and believe it or not you actually benefit from it.

"Damage to a turret is based on base attack damage plus the higher of bonus attack damage or 40% of ability power."

This means that AP casters (like your AP Janna) can do decent damage to turrets without having to build AD.

After checking your post history I see that you claim to have played "since closed beta". This is something you should know by know. Stop blaming Riot for your ignorance.

ImHerVoice1 votes

how the fuck would I know that off the top of my head? lmfao.

you could've just told me "Damage to a turret is based on base attack damage plus the higher of bonus attack damage or 40% of ability power."

then typed nothing else after. Dumb toxic trash ftw.

Xonra4 votes

{quoted}

how the fuck would I know that off the top of my head? lmfao.

you could've just told me "Damage to a turret is based on base attack damage plus the higher of bonus attack damage or 40% of ability power."

then typed nothing else after. Dumb toxic trash ftw.

Agreed with the "how would you know that" part, as I didn't even know that, not like it is pasted all over the place....but had to downvote anyways because your response was that of a 7 year old

ImHerVoice1 votes

I don't sugarcoat anything I type. Also respect is earned not given right away.

bunch of teenagers with their mommys paying for their connection is what the internet is today. Disgusting.

FantasySniper2 votes

It would be cool if we got range indicators for Champ attack ranges.

Maybe when you bring up the champion stat window and drag your mouse over your range.

Saixos4 votes

Press a :)

Glitter Spitter1 votes

+1 bump

flibitydoo1 votes
  • Allow players to have a customizable “Favorites” bar where they can favorite a champion they own (up to 9) and have them appear in a favorites bar next to the random selector

I mean this isn't a really well known feature, but let's say you really like playing Sona and Soraka Bot lane and you main support. "Sona|Soraka"

Copy paste what's in the quotation marks above into the search bar in champ select. Only Sona and Soraka will show up on the list.

You can use " | " (shift+\ ) to add more to the list.

So as another example, you could type in "Talon|Zed|Pantheon|Rengar|Kha'zix|Wukong|Lee Sin|master yi|Quinn" if you wanted to list some AD assassins.

Have that ready in Copy and Paste and you should be good to go.

Of course this isn't really well known as a feature and having a favourites section would make things a lot more easier.

Saixos3 votes

Yeah, most of these things exist as "features" of some sort, or can be done in a different way, like alt-tabbing out of the loading screen or timing rough baron/dragon times on your own by watching enemy buffs. These are just meant to make life easier :P

Brenticus123 votes

Yeah, but that's why adding a favourites tab would be a QoL change. Some of the things listed above could easily have been rectified with out of game means but it's better to have a hassle-free option.

FlubbyDG1 votes

Allow a 3 second item refund option for when you accidentally double-buy something.

Leena Guttal15 votes

There's a little arrow next to the "sell" button that acts as a refund button.

TheRobedNerd1 votes

Make it so when you move the chat it stays there for the next game!

Antemos Xaos1 votes

Most of these are okay, but giving out a panth/tf/noct ult range circle would kind of... gut them.

Saixos2 votes

The ult circles would only be visible to the champion themselves, no other players. I'll clarify this :)

brightawakening1 votes

I'd love for them to update the game mode selection colors too. Looks a little bit outdated with the old blue colorization in random places. Inconsistent with the current client. Shop, queue, etc as well are using old colors.

Nicktoons1 votes

Actually, the first one is called "Borderless fullscreen" and its already avaliable in the game, I use it alot.

TimTheEnchanter71 votes

Most of these may be good additions, I would only have a problem with the ult indicator range on some of the champs you listed. My computer normally runs LoL at 60 Fps, but I notice when you hover over an ult icon or use it to show range (say Panth), it actually really dumps your fps. Mine takes a solid 15 to 20 frame hit for some reason, and I don't know if showing this passive circle (or whatever you want to call it) would have the same effect. I couldn't imagine the effect this may have on older computers too. Other than that I don't really think it's that essentially anyways, and I might be a bit annoyed by it.

Budupops1 votes

about the first point, you can just click alt+tab to swicth screens

squiddlydoo1 votes
  • All I want is all Buff icon back in middle....why was it put on the left? This was really a useless change guys. It hurt the gameplay more then anything...

  • THE most annoying for me. I don't know about you guys, but my damn Chat Window keep resetting every single game. It's over my buff icon...like...wth. When someone talk I have trouble seeing their name. Having to move the chat windows every single game is starting to piss me off. Here's an example.. No matter when I put the chat window, when I start another game it's back there... http://i.imgur.com/6nhcN5X.jpg

  • Please for the love of god, put the damn icon back in the middle..........................

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