Doom Bots Q&A 7.23 2PM PST

Riot·7/22/2014, 10:31:04 PM·3 votes·9,491 views

The team responsible for unleashing the doomiest bots ever is hosting a Q&A session, so come armed with your game mode questions and ideas! Oh, and if you have any horror stories about your slaughter at the hands of the Doom Bots, please share them! The team feeds on your tears.

Learn more about the Doom Bots of Doom here.

451 Comments

Nice one Cyril7/23/2014, 12:19:02 AM127 votes

But what if I wanted to ask an important question here. Like where's URF? And where's the Q&A for the design team behind URF. Why is Urf dead?Warwick Can he be brought back to life?Zilean item 3026Viktor And how hard is it to make one of these game-modes?

lethrblaka7/23/2014, 1:35:34 AM39 votes

Game mode with friendly fire.. 'Nough said

Binge Gaming7/23/2014, 1:01:51 AM37 votes

Honestly, how much of the community needs to beg for Riot to bring URF back before your company decides to do so? Literally every Riot post has multiple people wanting URF mode to come back, so why not just make it a permanent game-type? You have nothing to lose? THE CODING IS ALREADY THERE, you don't need to put additional man hours into it, just release it permanently end of story and you can make thousands more happy. If you have the ability to make more people happy without negatively impacting the community, why don't you do it already? Instead of wasting your time releasing skin after skin that a couple people might enjoy, why not release a gametype that thousands of people can play on a regular basis?

Please read and upvote if you agree, thanks for your time.

chubby coconuts7/23/2014, 1:32:46 AM33 votes

What if you add a mode similar to Doom bots, where players get to design their champion. You can only have one passive, one q, one w, one e, and one R, but these abilities can be taken from any champion. It's highly unbalanced but should be interesting.

YOLOxSTARSHIP7/23/2014, 12:39:06 AM19 votes

I really enjoyed seeing garen spinning at me from out of the bush. It is so unexpected. The lighting was great, too.

Worlds Worst Top7/23/2014, 12:49:40 AM18 votes

Doom Bots was good on paper, but when you actually play the game it is more frustrating than fun. You cannot play most of the champions in the pool as they will just get dominated in lane, and throughout most of the game, you are stuck playing as champions that don't need to be in a fight to deal damage, melee champions had no effect in late game, and the only strategy that seems to work is to split push.

vfd12347/23/2014, 12:23:09 AM17 votes

I don't know if you are the same team that made all the other featured game modes or not, but I really want a combination of a lot of these game modes. So i think it would be really cool if you could coordinate with the other teams to make an EPIC game mode. You probably have heard all the people saying to give doom abilities to the players, and that would be fun, but i think what would be even better would be something like URF and those abilities together. Maybe you could even add the Hexakill and one for all aspect to it too. I love all the featured game modes and I can't wait to see more. Keep up the good work!

9Ricky27/23/2014, 12:19:49 AM13 votes

A gamemode that could be really cool, could be a game where maybe players resive +5% movespeed per level. This could be a test to see if faster champs are more fun. to clarify, so when level 18, your champ would have 190% movespeed that you have in a normal game.

RustyIsOnline7/23/2014, 1:15:16 AM13 votes

Why complain about any game mode that is meant to take our minds off the regular game modes? All of these extra modes are fun and quite unique in their own ways. How about people spend less time raging to riot about nonsense like "I want URF back, all the rest sucks", and thank riot for taking the damn time to give you guys something new to play!!

HeartlessWytche7/23/2014, 12:35:39 AM12 votes

The people complaining about Doom Bots being "A sure loss" and thus "not fun" must be doing something wrong, I've beaten the DoomBot gauntlet twice (level 1->2->5) and haven't lost a single game. Yes the doom bots are OP, but waveclear champs and split pushing make it incredibly easy, they are bots and don't prioritize well.

They also ignore pet aggro (AD Malz and AP Heimerdinger OP.), don't dodge skill shots beyond a certain range away (Ziggs and Lux can hit them around the edge of vision and the bots don't even try to dodge.)

Additionally they lack the focus to kill certain melee hyper carries (Yi, Aatrox, Fiora, Tryndamere.) resulting in these champs utterly destroying the bots in the mid-late game.

To summarize, it's fun to fight their OP AF abilities, but the AI is still so exploitable that the games are no match. Humans still most OP.

Vulcans Falcon7/23/2014, 12:27:23 AM7 votes

This gamemode is no fun cuz its HARDER THEN RANK

VenomLB7/23/2014, 12:52:23 AM5 votes

I think a fun gametype would be to have a Simple game where everyone starts off at lv 18 but they have to get the gold and items like normal. This kills half the frustration because you can't complain that someone beat you because they were 4 levels ahead of you the whole game. The game would all be determined by skill and items (but mostly skill). Granted this isn't as creative as Doom bots or URF (RIP in Peace), I feel that it would be fun (imagine the invades at the start lol)

Quick. Simple. Fun!