Show Down and other Map types.

Al palz·1/3/2014, 1:39:29 PM·1 votes·475 views

I'm sure Riot has made an official statement before, however I am lost.

I logged on today to find Showdown missing. since the holiday season has ended we no longer are allowed that map type???

Dear Riot, I don’t understand why you are taking out Game types???

I understand that Snowy rift was taken out since maybe it had not been updated with the new bushes and jungle camps. This is understandable yet still disappointing. You are the pillar of free to play and online gaming right now, up there with Call Of Duty and World of Warcraft. so why cant we have a little more support on other game types?

Why cant you update the map type as you fix it? why remove it all together? And where is Magma chamber?... No I am not talking about that silly 1v1 thing, I’m taking about that massive piece of work with the 2 epic monster camps.

You can pull the "its not ready yet" card on new map types like snow rift and magma chamber, but you gave us one for all and showdown. Then took it away?

Id like to remind you that you were basicly an indie gaming company at one point in your life. Remember when you had one of the largest number of viewers during tournaments like Dream-hack and we didn’t even have a spectator mode? you had to use a 6th champion on each team to see what was happening in order to shout cast of season finals. talk about unprofessional... yet no one cared! we loved the game despite it's kinks.

So why cant we have showdown back? its basicly a finished product. sure it maybe extremely imbalanced or something like that but I enjoyed it a lot. Even if its only a custom mode game type id be happy.

Please Riot give us Showdown back now rather, then later. Or at very least a valid reason its not available right now AND when it will be.

Thank you for reading my post - Al Palz

P.S. I wanted to put this thread is Help & Support but it didn't really seem right.

4 Comments

Verandure1/3/2014, 1:52:39 PM2 votes

The entire point of the new game modes are for temporary release. All for One nor Snowdown Showdown were new maps, they didn't retexture a thing. For Showdown, they added vfx and different win parameters, FAR easier than changing the look of the map.

Magma Chamber is a NEW map, completely different environment rigging, different pathing, different ambient textures. The only similarity between Magma chamber and showdown is the win parameters. Everything else is an entirely new entity.

The winter map would have required the team to retexture every single square inch of Summoner's Rift which would have taken a lot of time resources out of other projects. They can't copy the mesh from previous years because they changed the map itself. Granted, they could probably butcher one of the old meshes to lay over localized areas that stayed the same (reducing the new work needed) but it'd still take a lot of effort.

GuardOfTheRift1/3/2014, 5:15:29 PM2 votes

It was just for fun.