Tired of waiting for NA EAST? Play on LAN! A simple how-to guide.

Impossum·10/14/2014, 4:50:22 AM·7 votes·11,912 views

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An upwards to 100+ ping got you feeling left out?Live on the east coast? Then look no further! Latin America North is Riot's closet server to the east coast. However the client forces you to Spanish, but you can change that pretty easily.

Here you can see an unaltered version of LAN.

http://imgur.com/KICQYSp.png

Step 1 If you haven't already changed regions to Latin America North, do so now. As you can see you cannot change the language through the client itself.

http://imgur.com/Fjg1ZS9.png

Step 2

Next go to your local drive, which is probably (C:), the "Riot games" folder will be here. It will not be in Program Files.

http://imgur.com/NbQaRDr.png

Step 3

Once you've opened "Riot games" you're going to open the "Rads" folder next.

http://imgur.com/RINllAC.png

Step 4

The next folder you'll want to open is "system". Ignore the other subfolders as they won't be needed.

http://imgur.com/QhN7Sdh.png

Step 5

You'll see six files, next you'll want to select "locale.cfg" Make sure you right click and select edit.

http://imgur.com/mSmYufQ.png

Step 6

~~A notepad will open up with the text, "locale = es_mx" ~~ ~~You're going to change that to "locale = en_us" (Obviously without the quotations.) ~~

http://imgur.com/HWkLvNA.png

Step 7

Once you open the launcher you'll see the Latin America North server in English.

http://imgur.com/BZS2Hie.png

Notes

If you change servers after these steps you'll have to follow this guide again, each time. The language will always be set to the default for that region. If you haven't created an account for LAN you can do so here.

https://signup.lan.leagueoflegends.com/es/signup/index

Nombre de Usuario: - Username: Correo Electrónico: - Email: Contraseña: - Password: Confirma Contraseña: - Confirm Password:

For the two check boxes all you need is this one.

Estoy de acuerdo con los Términos de servicio(I agree to the Terms of Service.)

14 Comments

PoisonedPeace10/14/2014, 9:06:57 AM4 votes

My ping is 40 lower on LAN....WOW

Redamntion10/14/2014, 5:01:41 PM2 votes

You can modify your locale.cfg file to READ ONLY. Then you won't have to modify the file everytime you swap servers. You do however, still have to re-open the application. Still, this saves one step for those that swap often.

ccseancc14310/15/2014, 7:25:27 AM1 votes

Game feels the same but different at the same time. I usually sat aroudn 90 ping but on Lan im around 40

Kat Head10/15/2014, 7:46:19 PM1 votes

Bump

Impossum10/18/2014, 2:44:58 AM1 votes

bump

Large Leader10/18/2014, 2:47:13 AM1 votes

I don't know what's up, but I've been getting ping spikes up to 300 constantly throughout the game.

Info: I live in Miami, I shouldn't have this problem...

Hrothgar the red10/19/2014, 2:28:39 PM1 votes

wonderful just wonderful i love you to bad rito can just make a nae server

BLACKPlNK LlSA1/4/2015, 5:02:47 PM1 votes

I've been having problems to change this. I follow it step by step and save the folder the exact way you put it but every time i relaunch the client it still has everything in spanish.