A faster way to travel

St0rmln·Mar 22, 2015·2 votes·894 views

I play hero's of the storm and i was wondering what riot would think of a faster way to travel that is similar to mounts in HOTS. it would help cut down on traveling into lane or across the map some. comments? ideas?

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67chromeMar 22, 20151 votes

item 3117 already do the same thing. While HoS grants the capacity for free, it's not like you can't access the same thing in LoL by swapping out the easiest, most customizable part of your build.

The main gameplay effect adding such a capacity on everyone would likely cause is this though: People would move around the map more but likely fight less due to the danger of every fight having 1-man disadvantage. Winning would also favor being able to sneak objectives and maneuver around opponents more-so than clashing head-to-head with such a change. And long-range siege strategies would be hit a little in favor of ham-tactics champions that focus on dodging things until they see an opening to rush into their foe. That said - more movement does increase the chance 2 teams walk blindly into each other to an extent.

As the fast-travel in HotS isn't that fast such changes would be at a minor magnitude of change rather than, say, never fighting until you're a man up. But it would push the game in such a direction.

As it would be a fairly neutral change, the main concern is basically hurting design (less is more), where adding more buttons makes things more convoluted and forced players to fight the controls more often than just seamlessly integrating into playing the game. Also, such a change requires effort, time, money, testing, user-interface work, and all for not really adding anything to the game.