New featured game mode idea: Hardcore League of Legends

SmoothBrainIdiot·7/19/2015, 4:10:09 PM·30 votes·2,062 views

The way League of Legends works makes for a good basis for making a hardcore mode. I feel like there are a lot of things that could be done to make the game even harder. Here are some suggestions for the game mode.

  1. Dim the map to only show vision of what you can see and what YOUR wards can see.
  2. Disable /all chat and only allow chat to be seen by Ally AND Enemy champions in 1 screens worth of range.
  3. No warning of Teammate death or objective secures.
  4. No pings are seen unless the friendly champion is in range to see the champion make the ping
  5. Minion deal double damage, causing last hitting issues and difficulty tanking minions.
  6. 1.5x Gold for killing a champion, and Killing baron restores team sight for 2 minutes.
  7. Loading screen to the enemy is completely blind.
  8. Skill shots hit your teammates. (not sure about this one, trolling etc)

I imagine this playing out with total chaos. The inability to communicate properly with teammates makes you have to take a risk to gank a lane, and you would have to take a visit to the tower and tell your team before you place the trap. Teams would have to stick a lot closer to each other to make communication crisp and clear. The team would have to explain what has been done around the map so time isn't wasted grouping for dragon. People could go 5 mid and the team wouldn't know until they see the teammate or realize the nobody is in the lane. I feel this adds a new dynamic and strategy to League and makes the game more interesting.

Note: This is a featured game mode and I am sure this would be hard to program and might get uninteresting quick once people find some new ways to win, but this can always be improved on and I am open to suggestions. I just want Riot to see the idea and see what they think.

15 Comments

Naramiel7/19/2015, 4:33:21 PM21 votes

Interesting idea, but out-of-game chat tools would completely break all the mechanics limiting communication.

Chaotic Reks7/20/2015, 1:41:24 AM8 votes

The inability to communicate properly with teammates makes you have to take a risk to gank a lane

this is already in a gamemode: solo queue

Vistha Kai7/19/2015, 9:06:59 PM4 votes

Take all my upvotes for map wide ping mute. http://i.imgur.com/k6WXzNc.jpg

SpecterVonBaren7/20/2015, 12:47:00 AM3 votes

I believe a better name would be Paranoia mode.

CubedJustice7/19/2015, 6:57:45 PM2 votes

So, they can't see you, they don't know who you are, or where you're at, and they can't communicate. All I can think is that Nunu would be a god.

Maliginant7/19/2015, 11:03:12 PM2 votes

Why not also make the game mode remove all summoner spells?

ElJanitorFrank7/20/2015, 4:51:23 AM1 votes

It sounds fun and all, but it really just seems like good players will be punished and bad players who ignore their teammates anyway will play fairly similarly.

R2D207/20/2015, 5:57:21 PM1 votes

This is like playing against 5 Evelynn's

Cleril7/20/2015, 6:36:06 PM1 votes
  1. Okay I guess. It just requires more communication.

  2. Range limited chat? How are you supposed to setup for baron/dragon then especially if allies can't see your wards?

  3. I don't see how this really makes it hardcore

  4. Ranged pings? Again, how do you into teamwork? What if my ally went to fountain and I arrive in their lane and unable to communicate!?

  5. This is fine

  6. So in order to have team vision I have to kill baron but I can't setup a baron kill unless I walk to each line to ping each laner towards baron and each of us has to have 1 ward in baron because we can't see each others wards. Then after killing baron I can see my allies for a massively long and rewarding time of two stinking minutes? That's dumb.

  7. Okay

  8. Seems like a buff to point and clicks and completely negates teamwork because how the hell are you supposed to teamfight if you're going to kill your own team?

Summary: Rename this to "Single Player League of Legends with bad AI"

Doctor Dyment7/19/2015, 10:58:15 PM1 votes

So, you want Realism mode from Total War? Hm... good jumping off point. Might want to iron out some of them though.

FierceViolinist7/21/2015, 7:42:11 PM1 votes

so cool rito plz

Daxterr7/19/2015, 5:27:44 PM1 votes

That's an awesome idea, it sounds a lot more fun than urf mode. I think instead of disabling /all chat they should just disable all the chat. People can only communicate with pings and they can only see/hear nearby ally pings. Also spells should be friendly fire for sure. Some champions might suffer more than others, but it's never been done before in league and it would be funny as hell. I was goona think of some restrictions for this but I've come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be any stupider than urf mode. Also people would love it!

tldr: give this mofo some upvotes
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