Death Recap Rework Please Riot
Okay so this is my first post here on the Boards. Firstly, I gotta say, I love the work you guys have put in here Riot, both in the game and in the Boards. League started out as a great game back when I started playing, and has gradually improved ever since. Also, if this is already being talked about somewhere else, I'm sorry for setting up a second thread on it, and please ignore it. However, I have a couple of suggestions in regards to how Death Recap could be improved.
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There are a lot of bugs in Death Recap. Sometimes I've seen
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It would be really great to list everybody and everything that played a role in my death. The current limit of listing my killer and the two greatest assisters greatly limits the information that could be provided. Maybe have a "see more" button or a second row of information that continues listing champions/towers/monsters that damaged me. You could easily fit six champions on a death recap screen, making the screen about the size of the Shop UI. The sixth champion slot could be shared by towers/minions.
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Please let death recap damage total 100% of the damage dealt, it would make things a lot easier to put into perspective. This would be assisted greatly by implementing #2.
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Allow each piece of information to have a small tooltip that shows more specific information about it. If I died to Karthus and got hit by Lay Waste 5 times during the fight, allow me to hover over Lay Waste in the Death Recap and see that I got hit 5 times. If I stood in Defile for 4 seconds, allow me to hover over it and see that I took damage there for 4 seconds. Having more information always feels good, and for many of us wanting to improve our play over time, information like that could be incredibly useful as a wake-up call on the areas of our gameplay that need work. (If you're me, though, then you know that every area of my gameplay needs a lot of work hehe). This would also be useful to let me know how many times Caitlyn got to auto-attack me in the fight, and possibly (hopefully) even let me know how much damage her auto-attacks are doing and even if she crit me.
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Maybe have a small bar at the bottom of the Death Recap that shows abilities that effected your death somehow. but did not do damage to you. If you have a Soraka who used Astral Blessing on you (unfortunately it wasn't enough), that could be useful information. You could hover over its icon in the Recap and see how much she healed you for even, maybe. If Nunu uses Bloodboil on the enemy Vayne, and she kills me, it would be nice to have a small tooltip saying who Nunu used Bloodboil on, even if I have to hover over Bloodboil's icon to see it.
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It would be nice to be able to continue viewing Death Recap even after I respawn, especially early game. There are times early game where I die at the 3 minute mark or something and only have 8 seconds or so to take in all information about the jungler gank or my ill-fated level 3 tower dive. I get that I should be buying/going back to lane, but it would be nice to at least have another couple seconds in the screen as an option.
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It would also be really nice for the "Mixed Damage" skills to be broken down. I would love to be able to hover over a Mixed Damage ability and find out how much of each type of damage it did to me.
Anyhow, I'm sorry for going on and on and on. I hope I hit on everything important here, if anybody (Rioter or communty) has any feedback or suggestions or anything, please let me know. Thanks for bearing with me through my rather lengthy post guys, and as always, have fun and good luck on the Fields of Justice :)