Can Rift Herald Have its Own Key

BrightWîngs·Nov 30, 2017·1 votes·1,287 views

Look we are all boosted sometimes we've all done it at least once we go to ward a bush after recently taking rift and boom your ward turns into a big ass monster my point here is it should just have its own key there are plenty of keys that are unused that it could be put on just to have access to your wards/sweepers while still holding rift I can't see any downsides to putting this in.

5 Comments

SamBunzlyNov 30, 20171 votes

This is kinda what makes the tradeoff between holding a giant herald of destruction in your pocket viable. You won't have any vision control until you use it. Likewise, those who DON'T have the herald only have wards. They have to take SOMETHING from you if you wanna hold onto Rift Herald until the last second. At least its not damage reduction.

ModThe DjinnNov 30, 20171 votes

I can't see any downsides to putting this in.

More Dev time to figure out the best key, code it, design art for the UI to accommodate it, and test the new functionality. That's an opportunity cost paid because you now can't use that time to design other things.
Potentially messing up some people's keybindings.
Creating a new button that isn't used for anything else in the game, and will be used by at MOST one person per game.

The best argument I could see is making Rift Herald an interactive icon like Kindred or Kayne have, where it's a special button on your UI that you click, rather than a specific key. That has the minimum impact on the game, although the tradeoff then is that you lose the interesting choice of "hold Herald or regain vision tools?" I'm not sure how valuable that decision IS overall (would have to analyze game trends), but it's possible that if accidentally Heralding is a big problem (and I'm not convinced that it is) that might be a good solution.

BrightWîngsDec 1, 20171 votes

this is nitpicking if i've ever seen it finding the right key? what? they don't need to do that at all they didn't do it with the vision ping just set it yourself lol and design art it can't just be a small box in the corner like all the other items? why are you acting like this needs a full time to put it in its one small thing one SUPER EXTREMELY small thing .

ModThe DjinnDec 1, 20171 votes

{quoted}why are you acting like this needs a full time to put it in its one small thing one SUPER EXTREMELY small thing .

Because I work at a software company, and even things that appear tiny can have big work on the back end when dealing with UI tweaking, testing, and complexities already in the code.