Hey all,
I wanted to continue the suggestion thread we had about map skin ideas over here so any region can comment on it :)
http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4217457
Would love to hear your ideas and what you think would be cool!
How about a....
###Shurima Map?
The jungle is replaced with a half-sunken tomb of sand and monsters. Beetles, scarabs, mummies, etc. All the creepy things you'd seen in any old Mummy movie.
The shopkeepers would be similar to the Howling Abyss: One side having an archeologist, the other having a tribesman who doesn't want his homeland disturbed by digging and explorers.
Baron/Drag are replaced. Dragon with a giant ant lion larva while Baron is replaced with a mighty stone colossus of a shurima ancient pharaoh.
Other than that, it's a sandy place with ancient towers and stone/sand.
Underwater and Piltover is our must-have. Shurima sounds cool too. But what about City-Fight themed? Red turned into Noxian part and blue into Demacian. It would be cool to see some architecture from those nations. ^^
Definitely "Rune Wars" skin. Depict how it could've been in the old times.
I would personally love a Void map, it would be interesting to me.
I want a Kayle/Morgana themed skin. A huge battlefield from their home world. One side angelic, the other fallen.
a Draven map skin, where towers are a giant draven statue, baron is a giant draven, dragon is a flying firebreathing draven with wings, etc. Because draven does it all with style
A howling abyss themed on the death star trench run. Call it hextech howling abyss or sci-fi howling abyss.
Battlefront skin. Depict a scarred landscape with large-scale fighting on the edges.
Dragon and Baron can look armored and patronized, or if we're feeling really extreme can be remodeled to assorted generals.
A candyland SR! Made for Lulu!
A yordle sized SR! Everything is small and tiny and so adorable you want to kill it (including dragon and baron, yorle-ized!)
I actually wanted to create a similar topic after I made a few map skins. I'm glad it already exists :3 I would have suggested Faction based SR skins:
**Freljord **→ A winter map with extra customization such as a Giant ogre/troll instead of Baron, White Dragon, Poro eaters instead of Wolf camp.
Noxus → A darker themed map with corpses here and there, a giant black Raven replacing the Dragon, Demacian rebels instead of the Elder Lizard camp and finally, the commander who was beheaded by Darius in giant Zombie form replacing the Baron.
**Kumungu Jungle **→ Welcome to the jungle, a map with a Giant Snake replacing Baron, a Green Dragon, Monkies instead of the Elder Lizard and leopards replacing the wolf camp.
Of course there are way more factions I want to see(Bandle city for example <3) :D
Anyways, I love the idea ^^'
Edit: Replaced Shurima with Kumungu since someone else already suggested it!
I think a metallic indoor training facility-type room would be pretty cool and different. Think X-Men's Danger Room. Baron and Dragon could be either holograms or robots (nice sparky and destructive particles, dented metal plates and pieces falling off as it gets weaker, little robot arms self-repairing it as it heals/resets, etc).
Perhaps it could be a joint Field of Justice created by the scientists and engineers of both Piltover and Zaun, with each side being themed after the other.
Piltover's side could be cleaner, whiter, maybe more Apple-esque in design (think iBlitzcrank splash).
Zaun's side could be dirtier, sharper-edged, not necessarily rundown but definitely not trying to hide the fact that this is a place to fight, kill, and be killed (perhaps there could be "stains" of the rusty brown/red type here and there on the walls and floor).
That goes for the shopkeepers as well, who could either be two different AI's or robots:
Piltover's could be a light-hearted, positive, and maybe even semi-sadistic version of GLaDOS (as opposed to fully sadistic...think a younger, less corrupt GLaDOS) "Oh, the Black Cleaver! Good choice, good choice! There aren't many better options to rip through your enemies and tear them apart limb from fragile limb, piece by delicate piece. Such brittle, frail lifeforms you all are... Well, good luck and have fun!"
Zaun could have a more aggressive, sinister, maybe even masculine AI, maybe something along the lines of MCP from Tron, or SHODAN (not exactly masculine but she is sinister). "Mm... Deathfire Grasp, I see, yes, a wonderfully efficient and compelling item, deadly, with a hint of surprise... Your enemies will never realize what slaughtered the lot of them. Very efficient, very compelling..."
Or two different scientists behind a blast window with all of the gear and shop items in storage boxes or whatever behind them, one from Piltover, the other from Zaun:
Piltover's scientist could be a colleague of Heimerdinger's, similar in extravagance and character. Either that, or some lady dressed professionally and with a pretty face assigned by Piltover to assist Champions with item selection.
Zaun's scientist could be an old, grumpy man (I picture David Bradley as Argus Filch from Harry Potter) who just wants the shopping Champion to hurry up and choose something and then get lost (if they were an enemy of Zaun or unrelated), or maybe they have a deep, repressed love for fine technological work, but they're a retired (brilliant) engineer which explains why he's there in the first place, and when someone comes to his shop that is a technological marvel or has something of the sort (Viktor, Heimerdinger, maybe he can comment on how brutish, barbaric, and "backwards" Freljord champions are with their big swords and bows and other old technologies) he still wants them gone, but he doesn't mind them so much if they took their time (just so he can look at the work done on their gear and such and admire it). Either that, or maybe some punkish and/or crass young biochemist lady with a sharp tongue. Think Zaunite Vi, maybe more rude.
Or It could change one match from an AI/robot to a living faction representative.
As for what the brush would look like in this "Danger Room"-esque SR...perhaps that could be a special hologram? I would suggest probably only on the Piltover side, but I understand there would be some consistency and readability problems there, so perhaps holographic brush all around (maybe a deep, bright red to stand out? Or a vibrant but dark green?).
I dont know, I think it'd be pretty neat, and a good way to get more lore out there for the players to soak up. :P
I know a lot of people would absolutely love it if we had map skins. IMO it'd be amazing if we had Harrowing and Snowdown map skins for the new SR. or have you guys already started doing something sneaky? :3
"Summer" styled SR Sand, Palm Trees, Umbrellas, base may be tiled like the bottom of the pool or outside of it, outside of the base, sand.
I can also see the new summoner's rift as a "Justicar/Archlight" style map skin
Dark "Space" type with moon surface
& Maybe a Magma Chamber skin for Howling Abyss
My idea is for a Twisted Treeline skin. The map would be redone to look like Viktor's lab. I think that it would be very cool to see the various parts and creations he has lying around. The camps in the jungle could be replaced with mechas or other inventions Viktor has made. I also feel like this would be a fun idea because Viktor is getting a rework soon.
I have an idea, but it might be a bit silly because we already have Howling Abyss, although I think it's a cool way to explore more of the Freljord in game, so I'll share it anyways: The map is set in the Freljord, within snowy mountains and frozen ravines, there lies in one side an Avarosan camp, and on the other a Winter Claw camp. On the sides of each bases/camps people from a base camp's tribe sit, forge weapons around or practicing in fighting. The shopkeepers and other tribe NPCs will encourage their tribe's champs while a bit annoyed if there are any champs from another tribe fighting for their side/camp. The monsters could be yetis, mutant (?) poros, maybe Freljord-themed golems, etc.. We know that there are (or at least were) dragons flying around the Freljord, according to Braum's tale of him saving a village from a dragon, so it could either stay a dragon, with maybe a frost look to match the Freljord's environment, or a completely different creature. Baron could be some kind of a Watcher that went mad and was diverted from the other Watchers that were/are working with Lissandra and her Frostguard, so it wouldn't conflict with Lissandra still being an ally of the Watchers. Also, I think that if the Watchers are intelligent enough to speak, then a Watcher boss monster should have its own dialogue.
If I'll have any more ideas, then I'll edit my post.
Lava map will be hot! HAHA get it? Hot... Lava..... ;)
I think an aether/floating in the sky skin would be cool. Perhaps similar in concept to the floating mountains and boulders with vines and stuff from Avatar. Lots of empty space, perhaps patchy ground where you can see the earth far below, other floating islands off in the distance from the edges of the map, etc.
I also still think seasonal maps would be awesome. Just summer/fall/winter/spring maps. I think the current version would be summer; spring would feature more colorful and budding flora; fall would obviously be red/orange/yellow with leaves; winter would have snow and ice with barren trees/bushes.
Map skins could also be totally client side. You choose the skin on which you wanna play. No influence to other players.
@Riot JxE: The map skin ideas threat was started back in January. Is it still only in a "gathering ideas state" or are you already working on some alternative skins? If yes, what's the theme chosen?
I would like too See maps based on the main cities of RuneTerra.
Demacia, Noxus, Bundle City, Zaun, Piltover and so on.
An underwater map might be pretty cool. A volcanic map, where baron pit is the volcano and the dragon pit is a lava pool. Floating rocks map like all the walls and stuff are just big holes where you can see the ground below and the lanes are rocks pushed together and floating. Rainbow map...
I say we have a Medieval Japan theme mainly because it seems a lot of champions(By that I mean more than a set of 5) are getting Blood Moon skins. Let's also throw in some Japanese mythos into the map has well because it will allow for better jungle camps. There would be lots of traditional lanterns everywhere. The blue side would be a town, while the red side would be a bamboo forest. The middle of mid lane would be a bridge over the river. You can see bedrock in the river to explain why you can walk over it. The blue buff camp would have haunted samurai armor instead of the golem things. The red buff camp would have Oni instead of those bramble creatures. The Baron could be the Mizuchi The Dragon could be the Onibi(Attacks would look like Vlad Q and BOTRK Active) The Wolves would be Okuri-inu The Raptors would be Tsuchigumo The Turtles would be Aoandō The Gromp would be an Akateko Blue side towers would look like those lions you see infront of some temples(Known has Shishi) Red side towers would look like Furutsubaki-no-Rei(Soul sucking trees) Blue side melee minions would be samurai, ranged would be archers, siege would use a catapult, and super would use a mech made of bamboo. Red side melee minions would be Yadōkai, ranged would be Ichiren-Bozu, siege would be a Sunakake Baba, and super would be an oni. Inhibitors would be floating pots containing spirits. And finally Nexus would be a shrine.
Besides skin ideas, it would be cool if you guys were to release maps in new areas (new maps that is). For example, a 1v1/2v2 map in Ionia or Shurima. I understand that making a new map would take a large amount of resources and time and therefore don't expect anything in the near future, but it would be cool to see a new one eventually.
I for one, would totally buy a team map skin (TSM,CURSE, SKT etc). You could even bundle the icons so they mean something in game as opposed to only being for flair.
As for map skins in general would it be possible to
Share map skins with other players (perhaps in team builder, have a map selector, since there is alot of waiting time. The team could vote on which map they want to play on based on who has which map skins.
Prevent Map skins in ranked - preserve the competitive and evenness. I know maybe it doesn't really effect the game, but I don't think ranked is the best place for map skins. Custom, normals, Team builder and ARAM are all good places tho.
IDK if this was already suggested or not on the other post, but what about a Lunar Revel Map Skin for 5v5 Summoner's rift? It could take place at night with a bunch of lanterns hanging around lighting the place up. You could also have Asian inspired traditional vendor carts for the shops, and also Baron Could be A Giant Chinese Dragon-Inspired Boss Mob (kinda' like kog'maw's Lunar Revel Skin, But bigger cuz' it's Baron!). There's a lot of cool possibilities there!
I wanna see a battlecast rift.
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I think lore themed maps would be cool, like piltover vs zaun or demacia vs noxus and stuff like that.
Also, Holiday skins would be a no brainer.
Also, and this is probably never gonna happen, but a map skin where literally every texture is replaced with Draven, thus truly creating the League of Draven
It'd be cool if at some point in the future you have a mentally unstable champion released, and as a teaser you create a themed map of how s/he sees the rift.
Give it a creepy or Salvador Dali feeling with;
-wasteland -inferno/vulcano -ice age -moon surface (or some planet... can eb taken even further away and make it space-map... champs walking in midle of vaccuum, stars instead of trees, asteroids instead of grass... astronautilus would be happy) -mecha -urban theme -boneyard/cemetry -cave -under the surface (water or earth)
and finally
-a jungle! (so even rango and kha can feel comfortable)
I don't really see the good vs evil with Noxus and Damacia. I find Noxus to be much more realistic and grounded in reality than the fairy tale like Damacia. To get people to see Noxus and Demacia this way you just have to make Demacia seem more realistic and you just have to show another side of Noxus through lore or another champion. Noxus vs Demacia Skin Rune Wars Skin Piltover Skin
Well...seasons sort of are a given. Besides that i would love to see some medival or praehistoric version of SR.
and a halloween map with minions in all sort of weird costumes, changing at random every wave.
Mecha SR? Everything, from the trees to the little creatures that run around, is replaced by machines.
How about a map designed to be a miniature of Runeterra? I know it wouldn't fit the in game design exactly, but it could be a cool idea.
:c I really liked and miss the frozen SR from awhile back.
Hmmm off the top of my head a hellfire SR where the river is molten rocks and the rocks are lava would be pretty cool, we never did get that lava duel map did we?
I was thinking of a Freljord Summoners Rift. The trees are would be replaced with Ice shards and snow. Baron could be replaced with a giant Yeti or the Abominable Snowman, who knocks up and slows heavily. Dragon could be replaced with an ice golem. I can picture the map in my mind, but I can't describe it well. Someone help me! lol
This is a really cool idea! I think you should make a few skins for big events in the year such as chrismas; Baron could be a huge fricking snowman, the dragon could be like a really awesome ice dragon. The river could be ice and perhaps some movement speed buffs from slipping on the ice! It could be constantly snowing making the nexus and turrets more snowy every 5 minutes( which could also be turned off if peopele don't have enough computer capacity to handle it). There could also be a twist on the normal SF music for a christmassy jingle-I don't know whether you already do this- I haven't been playing league for that long.
And the same for the Harrowing- A creepy twist on the music. The turrets could have pumpkin heads. U could replace the golems for witches and perhaps the wraiths could be ghosts! Maybe place Jack O lanterns that glow instead of the normal torches in game (if you know what I mean) Maybe the brush could have and orangey colour to them to make it look like that Autumn time. And because it's also the creepiest time of the year maybe the champions could have like a really demonic laugh when you press control-4.
I think the underwater idea of yours is awesome. maybe you could look like your walking in slow-mo because of the water-you could also do this if you were making a space skin for SF.
I know a few other people mentioned a void SF which I think would AMAZING and other key places in champions' lores like demacia, piltover etv
thks for reading if you read this far ;)
I'm interested in a freljord map other than the howling abyss
would love the halloween map hell i would pay 10-20 bucks just to play it all season long i dont care lol
How about a classic rift for those of us who played during season 4 or earlier.
I'm just curious what happened to the old Halloween map and Winter themed map that was around in like season 1 and 2? Every year I look forward to it =(
(EDIT: Every year since then* I looked forward to playing on those maps.)
