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SR Beta Looks.....

Modmar·11/15/2014, 11:02:17 AM·4 votes·1,026 views

Honestly, the main things such as towers/inhibs/minions look amazing, everything else looks pretty bad especially on low settings. The trees look like decent quality clip art from Microsoft Word on Very Low and only slightly better on Very High from what I could tell. I understand it's supposed to look better and be easier on toasters (Which I lost a few frames when playing on a toaster, and lost about 40+ fps on my high end)

With the beta it looks like you spent days and days drawing red buff and its spawn but 30 minutes drawing the trees and bushes in the rest of the jungle. Are there plans to improve this being as it is only Beta or is this final form we are seeing right now? I can live with it and it doesn't really alter how I play but it isn't quite what we were promised and expected.

All in all, I like most of what you did but want to know what happened with the low quality stuff (Was S5 coming too quickly and it needed to be rushed out?) Hoping for a red reply but others feedback and experience is appreciated too.

EDIT: I've asked some friends and they all think minion attack animations seem off and they seem to be much much much harder to last hit for some reason.

7 Comments

Xypey11/15/2014, 11:46:41 AM2 votes

They need to just nix the idea and keep the map they have but update the turrets/monsters. The new map is the entire problem, the new turrets/monsters are actually nice.

Kaleidos11/15/2014, 11:38:37 AM1 votes

Not to be rude, honestly, but why wait so long into the SR update's development to chime in with this criticism? It's been on the PBE for ages now, if it's on the live servers that's pretty much the end of the development cycle barring minor tweaks.

Axiom Prime11/16/2014, 2:30:17 AM1 votes

I agree with everything you said, and I'd like to add my own personal flaw. The map feels so much smaller now..specifically as a jungler main, the environmental objects like walls and trees just seem short and thick, even though the actual jungle lanes seem to have remained the same size in width. I don't really notice the "Clarity" they spoke of all I see is a thicker environment that annoys me. The walls specifically in the jungle make me question whether I can flash, or use a dash move to get over them.

MotherChurch11/18/2014, 3:58:50 PM1 votes

Yea I am not a fan of the changes by and large. They should have just updated the well liked current SR. Instead it feels like we got a muted copy of the Dota 2 art style.

I posted feedback months ago that I thought the map was a step in the wrong direction, abandoning the cartoony/bright/vibrant art style that LoL had cultivated. The map feels like it belongs in a different game tbh.