If you're going to do missions like Odyssey, add a group finder.

ModCaptainMårvelous·Sep 23, 2018·130 votes·20,097 views

Let me be real: This shit sucks. Here's how a usual odyssey mission goes...

Player jumps into lobby, spamming what mission they need.
One player instalocks a champ they need for a mission (Who also happens to be bad for other missions)
Players now fighting over how many augs they need.
As timer ticks down, players are forced to lock in or dodge.
One player afks because he didn't get his way and the surrender vote isn't passing.

Seriously guys, if you're going to add these missions and not give us a better way to pug than "Find a group, find 2-3 willing to do the mission, surrender and remake the party" then you shouldn't be confused when people have a shitty time.

55 Comments

TatsiannaSep 23, 201832 votes

Yeah, it's not only toxic. It ENCOURAGES you to be toxic. My options are: Leave lobby and take a 6 minute penalty until I find a team who happens to want to get my mission done, waste 20-30 minutes getting someone else's mission done, or lock in what I need and start a surrender vote after loading screen.

This is the worst implementation possible!

Dat KatSep 24, 20181 votes

Which is why I never bothered with the missions at all.

[cass-cry]

YiffMeImAFurrySep 23, 201820 votes

They shouldnt have made the mission "everyone needs to have X augments or less" it shouldve just been you.

Chembaron YamadaSep 23, 20185 votes

You have to admit, the missions would be way too easy. 1 guy having 2 augments and the rest of the team has 5 is practically already won. So you would just have to make a premade team and run 5 games so everyone gets this mission done extremely easy.

That's not how it was supposed to be. It should be a challenge. They surely could have made this better, but just requiring 1 guy to have fewer augments doesn't hit what they were aiming for.

CantripSep 24, 20184 votes

Easy missions ARE. NOT. BAD.

-What limiting augments really does- I'm going to take the best two augments on this character and never change them, or be called a troll if I wanted to use one of the other 13 augments for the champion. So they created a really cool system that I now cannot fully utilize, and causes contention between players going for different missions. It's very poorly designed

Chembaron YamadaSep 24, 20181 votes

I didn't mean that easy missions are bad. But the reward was simply too high for such a low skill level requirement.

Sure, they could have done the thing with just you yourself needing less augments. But then they definitely had made the rewards way worse than the Odyssey Gem we got from this event, because it would be too easy to accomplish and you don't give huge rewards for something that my 3 yo nephew is able to beat.

Like I said, they surely could have made it better. Getting the 2 augments mission was frustrating for me, too. But if they wanted to give out such rewards with the event, they had to make sure that it is hard to get in the first place.

SkencerSep 25, 20181 votes

Yeah but it's so bad I can't even get the 4 augment mission. I've had to play in 5 count it 5!!!! ziggs only games with 3 or less augs because people all want that one mission and then want to mix them and I either have to be a dick and say no I won't do it and then run a surrender vote or dodge. If you make a mission about a challenge ok sure, but make a way to get a group together for said challenge. not just make a random group who may or may not do the mission. I had 4 games in a row that we had to wait through champ select then we just surrendered because nobody was willing to compromise at all. I don't hate onslough (it's too hard for me though) but I do hate having to queue for it. I've had to be in surrendering games to requeue with a 3 man premade that was willing to take up whatever the others wanted and without fail two others refused to cooperate with each other.

Chembaron YamadaSep 25, 20181 votes

The mentality of the people is really a large problem. Everyone just cares for their own mission, which leads to them demanding that the missions done are combined and then you have to deal with stuff like all Ziggs 2 augments.....

Like, can't people realise that you shouldn't combine hard missions because they simply become impossible that way?

Ulquiorra0123Sep 25, 20181 votes

They shouldn't make missions at all where it needs team to cooperate because that cooperation is impossible to get out of the community.

HilsunSep 25, 20181 votes

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They shouldnt have made the mission "everyone needs to have X augments or less" it shouldve just been you.

THIIIIS. I thought this countless times as I tried queueing up for these missions. I was able to get 3 augs done eventually, but I couldn't find any teams willing to do 2 augs who were also skilled enough to finish it. Same with all Sona/Ziggs (srsly why do Ziggs NOT take Shorter/Bounce? Every time I tried all Ziggs, no one took those augs but me, and I was the only one clear over 1mil damage and over double any other players in the game).

Beatrice fallsSep 23, 201813 votes

I don't mind joining and doing whatever others want, but what I think is fucking ridiculous is ONE single guy can screw up over 4 other players because of a selfish childish behavior. Next time I hope it's going to be invidivual missions, yesterday I tried queuing and 4 times in a row a single guy was spamming ff and flaming everyone. I stopped trying to queue for this mode since

c001catdadSep 23, 20185 votes

u must have alot of time on your hands unlike the rest of us, we got jobs and shit u know? heck even high school kids that want to get into a CSU need to maintain a B average so ya might want to rethink about how you're currently spending your time.

imo ops right, atleast for onslaught mode, they should have added a list u can mark for which quest you need to get done or riot could have just matched everyone up automatically if they shared one similar quest.

Dr PoroSep 23, 20187 votes

Just add back public chat rooms.

In the meanwhile, I advise using league of legends discord subreddit. That's how I did mine. Finds teams in less than 2 minutes.

Its LokiSep 23, 20182 votes

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Just add back public chat rooms.

In the meanwhile, I advise using league of legends discord subreddit. That's how I did mine. Finds teams in less than 2 minutes.

do you have a link?

WimbledofySep 24, 20181 votes

type in google league of legends reddit discord

Dr PoroSep 24, 20181 votes

https://discordapp.com/invite/cy3Y7wm

ZertryxSep 24, 20186 votes

The worst part to ... is the game mode is LIMITED time, and honestly not even really all that fun in general after a few runs. It was cool the first 4-5 times but after that now its become a chore and really isn't all that entertaining, it really is a poorly designed bullet hell.

Biscuit BiteSep 24, 20186 votes

Riot Games, how to take the fun out of fun.

GripaAviaraSep 24, 20184 votes

I played dozen of Odyssey game and 90% of games were trolls or people that ruined the missions. Hence I'm still at 4 augs missions and it's getting frustrating

True GarenSep 24, 20184 votes

My idea was, create a Custom game titled ALL YAS ODYSSEY MISSION PLEASE, or something similar. And when the lobby fills, change it to Odyssey.

Demon King MaouSep 23, 20183 votes

#Just instalock what you need for the mission

That's how i got mine done. [slayer-jinx-wink]

ModCaptainMårvelousSep 23, 201822 votes

Then you have someone afk so you can't do the mission.

FegoneSep 24, 20183 votes

Yea Riot,, that was a totally fucked up plan, you couldn't anticipate that this is gonna happen? Because your testers were all in one room and spoke to each other and agreed to which missions to do?

WELL REALITY CHECK HERE: you just made this game 10x more toxic for specifically this game mode. Good job!

JohnnyNeverSinsSep 23, 20182 votes

Just pass the freaking mode through PBE..........................

The DreamwalkerSep 24, 20181 votes

They don't test the missions on PBE. They only test the mode on live, but they never actually test the missions.

c001catdadSep 23, 20182 votes

i just gave up past captain, been trying to tell em yasuo is the answer for onslaught but they either say 'yasuo is for noobs" or they don't know how to play him. imo the time sink isn't worth it unless u are a vet/longterm player gunning for a hextech/odyssey skin.

Z3SleeperSep 24, 20182 votes

You don’t need Yasuos to beat standard onslaught at all. Almost literally every synergistic augment build with any combination of champions works for clearing max aug onslaught.

FlemmanSep 23, 20182 votes

if only we had a board member able to pin an official "looking for teamate to do mission" thread like there was during the invasion event :p

SociaI JusticeSep 24, 20182 votes

i'm usually not one to suck riots dick but this time they actually made something great, sure the missions weren't ideally implemented but this was their first time doing something like this so we should stop complaining.

LumenPerSqrMeterSep 24, 20181 votes

No they did this with the star guardian thing too

SociaI JusticeSep 24, 20181 votes

i don't really remember that, don't think i ever liked it enough to play through all the missions so what was the bs in star guardians?

True GarenSep 24, 20184 votes

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i'm usually not one to suck riots dick but this time they actually made something great, sure the missions weren't ideally implemented but this was their first time doing something like this so we should stop complaining.

It's not perfect. It has a lot of flaws. But compared to what was served up at this time last year, it's a massive improvement.

PaladinNOSep 24, 20182 votes

May I have your highly unofficial permission to ignore mission wishers, and just play what I want for fun then? :)

Especially when I ASAP make it quite clear in champion select I want to play for fun - people are free to take it or leave it (literally).

AggressiveWolfSep 24, 20182 votes

I was extremely lucky to find two really nice fellas who I added and we basically completed every single difficult mission together. I cannot imagine how it must have been for the people who didn't find a nice group.

Smokin PenguinSep 24, 20181 votes

I just used discord.

And to be honest, the groups that i got on discord were 90% more successful than the ones that i created organically trough champion select and then /ff to invite them and then repeat the process until i get a full party, because even if i had 4 people and that one random guy trolled, people in my party would start to leave because the whole thing turns into a huge waste of time...

So yeah i agree that there needs to be a group finder but it would only come and go with the events, because otherwise you end up with the old chatroom problems.

agac4234Sep 24, 20181 votes

does anyone still wanna do the challenges? am on EUW and i cant find ppl to do it with

XhaidenSep 24, 20181 votes

Except for 5 Ziggs/Sona mission - i managed to do the rest after 70+ tries (took me 2 days).

FaengSep 24, 20181 votes

Well on the bright side, its surprisingly satisfying when i finally beat the 2 augs mission

OleandervineSep 24, 20181 votes

I stand by the idea that the rewards for completing Onslaught are too shitty. If the rewards were BETTER, such as getting 10 OE instead of 10 BE, people would probably be more inclined to stick with the games to the end, instead of trolling. The reason people troll and throw tantrums when they don't get their missions is because there's literally no other incentive to do Onslaught.

AviatanSep 24, 20181 votes

Looking for ppl for misison 5x Ziggs/Sona and 2 aug max ( with basic ) Please add me.

ForFoxSakesSep 24, 20181 votes

"2 aug or AFK" is all you see in most of the games

Shit is unplayable now except in full premades

URFAVEBOISep 24, 20181 votes

i mean there's discord for a reason or the boards its actually easier to do mission if you do a 5 man premade

twitch toxgamer1Sep 24, 20181 votes

add me Yasu0 St0p F33d im on aug4 mission right now with 5same champs missions

Legend of HonorSep 24, 20181 votes

PREACH!

Chembaron YamadaSep 24, 20181 votes

The sad thing is that I can't enjoy the game mode anymore now.

I did all the missions, so I would like to just play the onslaught game mode with 5 augments to just enjoy the overpowered feeling of them. It is fun for me. But this means that I ruin the fun of the other people in the team, since they want to do these missions with just 2 or 3 augments and if I take more then they won't get their rewards...

DràgoñSep 24, 20181 votes

i need a team to finish the 2 augments mission add me "Dràgoñ"

HollowchazzSep 25, 20181 votes

It's a cool game mode but i kind of miss Nexus blitz.

Nexus blitz doesn't punish me for playing lux or Xerath. Instead i have lots of fun sniping people and trying to get to the ON FIRE buff so i can basically play with URF cooldowns like a boss.

Project RivenSep 25, 20181 votes

OR JUST DON'T MAKE MISSIONS THAT REQUIRE OTHER PLAYERS TO MEET YOUR MISSION'S CRITERIA, SIMPLE.

SanKakUSep 25, 20181 votes

I played 9 waste of time games after beating Onslaught for the first time. To be real, there were a lot of super trash players on that first road. I finally dodged in the lobby of that 10th game and just started hooking up with people from reddit's discord. I found a few players that helped me pick up some mission completions, but when they were busy doing other stuff and I tried to find new people to play with, they were so amazingly bad.

mintietusOct 7, 20181 votes

in the old client there was an option to make and join rooms this shit is terrible can someone find me some group. i did the 2 augments missions 3 times for my friends now i am on the same mission and i don't have anyone to do it with :D