These past few patches have been disasters...

City of Toronto·10/10/2014, 12:29:58 PM·1 votes·465 views

Please Riot, hold off on the innovating and focus on fixing your issues and putting out working, functional patches.

These last few patches have been a little off the edge, including but not limited to the:

  1. Anivia Q cast bug
  2. Tristana attack speed bug
  3. Gangplank ultimate bug
  4. Azir Jayce Gate bug
  5. Nidalee swipe, Talon rake, and Kassadin Force Pulse direction bug
  6. Sion passive teleports Sion to friendly spawn in Dominion when killed by Nexus laser
  7. Sion no damage smite bug
  8. Viktor no damage taken bug

etc. etc.

like, what's going on?

5 Comments

Sadistic Cheese10/10/2014, 12:39:35 PM1 votes

I know Gangplank is disabled, and I know they did some stuff for Anivia's Q. But the rest I have frankly never really seen. Part of bug-fixing, as well as troubleshooting of any kind, is to make sure you can reproduce the problem consistently so you can discover where said problem is coming from.

Plus to be fair to Riot's technical department, coding ANYTHING isn't exactly a walk in the park. Coding or fixing code in this game and making sure it doesn't make OTHER bugs happen? That's likely quite a challenge. As I understand it from a friend who does that kind of work consistently, very rarely is it a case of just 'oh this doesn't belong, I'll just delete that and everything will be fine.'

If you want them to fix the things, my suggestion would be to document each and every time they happen to you, and send a ticket in to Riot. You have to give them resources to work with in terms of where and when and under what circumstances these things happen. For example the Sion bug: you say it's just being killed by the Nexus laser, but what if the reason is really that they're killed by a Nexus laser while being marked by Grievous Wounds caused by Tristana? They could spend days, weeks, trying to replicate the bug and not get it, not realizing that the conditions aren't right to make the bug appear.

Bugs are annoying, but if you feel Riot should fix them just complaining about it only helps so much. They cannot make bricks without clay.

City of Toronto10/10/2014, 12:51:20 PM1 votes

Just because they have not happened to you/you have not observed them doesn't mean they aren't common or don't happen.

People are already letting Riot know of these issues, but the problem is that so many issues are slipping through PBE and making it to live servers. That's what the PBE is for.

OJ19110/10/2014, 1:09:52 PM1 votes

whats wrong with azir+jayce?

also to be fair to riot coders, the original code base was made when they were basically a tiny start-up and not expecting to get anywhere near this huge, I have heard many rioters talk about how messed up some of the old code can be to deal with and fix.

junglerboy1610/10/2014, 2:44:01 PM1 votes

Um, if you have a bug to report, then report it already. If you are just here to rant, then please just stop now. There are a lot of bugs going around now, and with the new preseason soon, there will be even more. Riot is fully aware of this and said in the preseason change discussion that EVERYONE should expect A LOT OF BUGS. They are aware of most of these and are working on a lot of it already.