Heimerdinger Walking/Taunt Animations... (And a few other possible fixes for the client)

• Intro:

Hello, I'm Swore and tonight I thought it would be best to contribute to helping better the experience for all League players, and their enjoyment for the game. Though many concerns I may have are minor in comparison to ones of greater importance, such as balancing the game, or making sure everything runs smoothly, I do believe each and every issue/question someone has for the game is answered in some way to the best of the developers ability. Going off track for a sec, I say this because I hope to work at Riot some day, and appreciate every bit of help they have given me whether to answer my own questions, help me in making sure my account is safe, or just being cooperative in general has always been something I'm thankful for and always will be. I hope that if I ever reach that goal of working at Riot, I would gladly do the same for others as well. This is my first time posting in the forums here, and or in any forum really, I do believe. I've commented before, but it's been over 5 years. I've always been redirected here when sending in a ticket, but never felt confident about my issues/statements I have considered making, so I'm adding them, as many as I can, tonight. Please feel free to comment, or go about whatever it is you do here, in contributing to this post.

• Heimerdinger:

This is what I sent in for the support ticket a couple of days ago. So here I am with my issue as follows:

'When walking between turrets, from his new passive that gives movement speed, Heimerdinger has an inconsistent taunt/walk animation that is not properly represented throughout the game. I'm not sure what the issue is, but it's pretty annoying. I like to represent classic Heim, so I taunt I switch on the walk. However with the new update, it's not working probably with his movement speed it seems. Kinda sucks when I can't style on the enemy (lol) like I want to, and instead look super goofy going back and forth between his taunt and normal walking animations. That's about all I see wrong. Another question, while I'm at it is, could be it possible to keep the Heim walk after death? I'll die and have to switch it back on. This could be also be happening to someone playing Neo Vi, or Nighthunter Rengar with their toggles, and want to keep their glasses/hood on. I would want to keep it on consistently if I preferred that 'look'. I don't know if they have that issue, but I'm just assuming here that that is the case. Anyway, thank you, and I appreciate it guys. Keep it up!'

This is basically talking about Heimerdinger with his update on the new passive he received awhile ago. I remember reading about it a several weeks ago, but can't place a time frame on it. (Sort of lazy right now, I would usually use Surrender@20 for something like this.) I haven't played it until this week, and noticed immediately that his animations were so out of order. It tends to default towards his normal walking animation versus his taunt, but also goes back and forth between the two when simply walking past a turret. Not sure what else to say. I would add a clip or something, but ability to do that is lacking since I am pretty crap at not being able to work with that sort of stuff, and even if I could... This computer probably wouldn't handle it well. Anyway, the main point of focus is consistency. I can't tell if it's intended, and haven't seen anything on Reddit about it, though it probably wouldn't be a very big topic. The other thing I mention is if this could work with other toggle features such as ones on certain skins. I'm told, since I haven't checked, or tested it on anything else, that it is not possible. This the response I got from the helpful Riot Support:

'On the toggle stuff, at the moment there is no way to keep it on, but that's a cool idea! We can't pass feedback reports directly to the development team here in support, but I recommend posting to the Boards. The team is always looking at the Boards to get a feel for things players think could be improved.'

Not the whole conversation obviously, but that was mentioning the toggle part. I feel it would be really cool to implement, but maybe there are those who DON'T want the feature to be like that at all. I have no idea. Please give feed back.

• Client:

Alright, as for the client, I have minor stuff that I'll be going over that mostly concerns my personal issues that I am dealing with.

Icons:

First off, the icons. It's a bit picky, and I understand that, but I also saw mentioning of fixing/adding to the icons later down the road. For instance, the descriptions with each one. I have this one icon, the 2016 life preserver icon, that has been out of order ever since I've had it. I like timelines, I like to visualize, and be able to look back on things I've done, or witnessed. Sort of like trophies on PS, or Achievements on Xbox, it's satisfying. Usually when you get an icon, it tends to represent a timeline, and when earning a new one it tends to add it as the first in your list. This one has remained the 'first one' since I got it, and yes, again, very picky of me, but it sort of digs at me a bit. (Recently upon purchasing the new Rift Rivals icons, it actually pushed it back, but still remains out of order.) None the less, perhaps going back and showing ALL the icons could be an option to possibly implement as a sort of... Museum? Say I still don't own all the champions, and it's faded it, but I can see all the descriptions still, on how to get it, or whatever. Obviously adding a way to filter everything would probably be needed, like showing only icons you have. Again, think of the champion example. I just really like to 'collect' or earn icons, I and would appreciate a big update on them. I remember waiting for the longest time to be able to get some other than the default ones, so it's nice to see others asking for this as well. There could be more to be said, but moving on to the other topics for now.

Personal Post-Game Issues:

This one is a bit more concerning, but I really don't see anyone else with this problem at all. I think it started with when the game ended, everything was good, but the client ALWAYS went from 1600x900 to 1024x576 in Window Size after each game. It's happened for almost two months I believe, and I've tried re-downloading, reinstalling, but I can't fix it. I don't know where to start. It's not as bad as the next problem I started getting next, though. After every game, I began to not see the client at all. It was like looking through a transparent piece of paper right onto my background picture, however it was still there. It was up, running, and making noise, but I can't see a thing. I can drag it around, and have the 'transparent paper' sort of snap shot my back ground, but once goes off the side, it distorts the image, (and tends to be pretty funny). I did sort of lie about not being able to see anything, though. If you try to close the client, in the top left. there is a super small rectangle that appears to be the, 'Are you sure you want to ext League of Legends' message. I can't do much with it, as it's way too difficult to interact with, if at all. Yet, closing it is just as hard to do, since I have to force a shut down. Even that takes awhile, and makes restarting everything a real drag. Luckily, when I use the closing the client during the game, and reopening it afterwards option, I don't run into the issue. Still takes a while to bring up, but it's better, and also sadly didn't fix the Window Size. The last point is, I still have to force shutdown everything after watching a replay. So, it's still not flawless in the current option I'm working with. This probably, going off assumption, also means I have to force shutdown when I spectate a live game, considering it works in the same way. Haven't tested it, but I could bet money on it, haha. Again, mostly just happening to me, but I can always reach out for help.

Profile -> Match History -> Recent Activity:

Another small thing, may just be me having a question about it, but the Recent Activity seems to be off in the Match History section. This is where the percentages of roles you've played is measured. I remember it to be more... Accurate? It seems totally off, unless they changed the way it works, algorithm wise, at some point. I say this because the way 'recent activity' is put, might be confusing me. The way I think of how that phrase works might be different than what is portrayed. Let's say 'recent' is more like the last couple of days instead of my last 20 matches. That would make sense to me as that is the way it seems to be representing the data. However, I remember it working with all 20 matches in calculating my percentages. I played Galio at some point. It has been a bit, but within the last 20. Though it mentions my tank as 0% in recent activity, despite Galio being a tank. Could me just being stupid, but I took note of it.

Report a Bug Option:

The last thing I'll get to tonight, is the reporting a bug feature. It's sort of... Unrewarding? Maybe not, but it's not quite like the Support Ticket. I get it's meant to be that way, and I understand EVERYTHING can't get a response/be touched on by that team. I just want to know I'm at least getting my pitch in, though I'm sure everyone else needs/wants to as well. I've sent in multiple things through it, and some of those cases are finally being brought up through this forum, such as the Post-Game issues I've been having. Perhaps I should not be so negative, and have no idea of what goes on through that system, but I also prefer confirmation on my submissions further down the road, I guess is what I'm trying to say. I do believe after you send in a report, it tells me to head to the forums as well, but that would be my fault. Until now, that is. What I'm tying to say is, I'd love to see the client improve for the better, since many tend to not like the new one really as much. Which is a shame to hear.

That's all I have for tonight. Pretty lengthy post, especially for a first. I don't know what else to put for now. Maybe if this goes well, I can keep adding, or further bringing up previous issues I've forgotten about at this time. I would really love some comments, if not, totally understandable, but it would be super rewarding to know someone at least saw this. Also let me know if my formatting/presentation is any good, if I need to word more appropriately, (I've been doing the ....Word? a lot so... Yeah... I should know better having taken AP English), or if I'm missing key information that would help further get my point across/issue to be a bit more comprehend-able. Thank you, have a good night, and I appreciate you for reading my post.

*Grammar fixes are appreciated, too