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We want to boost our enjoyment of the awesome LoL audio and champions' lore

SuDdEnPSyChOtiC·9/9/2016, 7:27:31 AM·3 votes·2,202 views

Dear Riot ,and LoL community In this suggestion I want to say that ;LoL has really amazing audio and champions' lore ; as a player I just love it so much when I'm playing a champ that I love and I hear him/her saying their quotes going with their personality. But I wanted to have a little more ,not but creating anything new ,I think what we already have atm is amazing especially with the new champs. But for example ;I enjoy Tristana's singing and quotes but she won't sing unless I press Ctrl+1 ,Ctrl+2 ,Ctrl+3 etc. (which kind of wastes precious team time to stop and press them) same with all other champs I love. What i am suggestting here is making the champions singing ,quotes and stuff go more.. just randomly ,as I am moving and auto-ing I want tristana to sing ,I wanna hear her Ctrl +1 Ctrl+2 etc. go off randomly all the time. Atleast make it optional for players who want it. Maybe I would not enjoy listening to my oponent's quotes and stuff ;so what I am saying here is that ,If my oponent presses Ctrl + 4 I can hear him laugh ,the Ctrl+1 ,2 ,3 ,4 maybe all players can still hear that ,And keep the awesome random many quotes going off ,which only myself can hear for my own champ (might be optional in audio controls for whoever would like that). I would really love someone from riot responding to the suggestion and discuss it. I want all the amazing audio alive , #RitoPlease you guys are loved :') yours SuDdEnPSyChOtiC,

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RiotC3Sound9/19/2016, 5:48:05 PM3 votes

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Dear Riot ,and LoL community ... I am moving and auto-ing I want tristana to sing ,I wanna hear her Ctrl +1 Ctrl+2 etc. go off randomly all the time. Atleast make it optional for players who want it...

Hey SuDdEnPSyChOtiC!

First off, thanks for writing in with ideas on how we can make the game better! We try and read as many of players suggestions as we can -

The heart of your idea is awesome. Inject more personality into the champion by having our favorite lines fire off throughout the game. It's a great suggestion - lemme see if I can shed some light on a few things the audio discipline in collaboration with the narrative discipline tries to accomplish with VO.

Gameplay supporting VO: We are currently shifting into a direction where contextual VO is a highlight of gameplay. We want the VO of the champion to reflect what you do in-game. Therefore, most VO is purposeful as opposed to random.
Expanding immersive VO experience: What this means for us is working with game designers and engineers to try and best develop a system for VO where we can really make some cool stuff happen with dialog between champs. We want to make the field "come alive" with interactive dialog that is not riddled with "conditional playback" complexities (i.e. you have to be within 500 feet, after using an item, in-between 4 and 5pm on a Monday, while its raining = play VO). We want these new types of VO implementation to feel natural and immersive. We are working on new tech and playback functionality with every new champion release! However, the goal is to hopefully re-build our system to implement dialog and develop a new, more flexible and robust, system to literally make as many options available to us as the developers and to you as players to experience your fav champs dialog as possible.
Allowing foundational playback functionality of VO to be modified by the player is hard: But not impossible. However, a lot of the functionality of audio playback is "hard-coded" to the point where there is the way you implement the audio, and that's the extent of the flexibility. Changing it must be made at the developer level, and literally can not be made at the player level. There are definitely options we can make available - and were continuing to try and figure out how to make more things than just volume level available to the players.

All this being said, we hope to continue to try and expand and develop VO for champions that strike at the heart of your suggestion. We are working on injecting more personality of these champs into the experience of the game more effectively, efficiently, and contextually. Keep playing the game and new champions, and you should see changes being made all the time to new and old champs!

And thanks for using my website to initially contact me! :D Good to see its getting use - I sure need to update that thing with content!

SuDdEnPSyChOtiC9/21/2016, 3:05:09 PM1 votes

Thank you very much for responding ,I find your respond very professional ,to the point and well... convincing xD and I'm sure you guys at Riot are headed for the right path ,thank you so much C3Sound you are one of my favourites now! xD