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Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



The Door Frame posted:

I give mobile games that do that a pass because they're mobile games and universally bad, but when there's $20 skin packs being advertised for what I'm supposed to buy with the crafting materials, why would I bother spending ~$15 on the pass to get access to my "bonus" crafting materials, instead of just buying the one I want?

Ever been to an all-you-can-eat buffet before? Event passes work off of the same principles.

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pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Some things are locked behind the event pass and can't be bought without it. If you don't want any of these (golden chromas), the event pass is still fun if you like to just get a bunch of stuff and don't care what exactly you get.

If you want some specific thing that can be bought directly, there's no point in getting the pass. If you hate the loot / gambling system, definitely don't get the pass.

strong bird
May 12, 2009

Vermain posted:

Ever been to an all-you-can-eat buffet before? Event passes work off of the same principles.

You don't have to cook the food or bus the tables at a buffet

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.
At least the All You Can Eat place doesn't tell me how much more food I could be having if I spent more money

If I've "earned" the tokens, then they wouldn't be behind a paywall

Libertine
Jun 21, 2004

When I die, I hope they say I made the eSports industry a better place than I made millions of dollars.
any system that makes you exchange money directly for multiple forms of fun bucks is meant to obfuscate your thinking while you are being taken for a ride. carnivals do it with tickets, casinos do it with chips, riot games does it with whatever multiple forms of things people are talking about right now.

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


I got a chest out of one of those envelopes. It had Pool Party Gangplank in.

I'm ehh about the passes, it's a F2P game so it doesn't annoy me like it would in some other games. I'd probably buy one if it was for an event with actual cool skins like Star Guardian.

Verviticus
Mar 13, 2006

I'm just a total piece of shit and I'm not sure why I keep posting on this site. Christ, I have spent years with idiots giving me bad advice about online dating and haven't noticed that the thread I'm in selects for people that can't talk to people worth a damn.
just do what i do and never ever give these shitbags a dime. gently caress loot boxes and passes and other manipulative bullshit

rabidsquid
Oct 11, 2004

LOVES THE KOG


Smol posted:

These red envelopes are so annoying. Just give me the 10 whatever tokens without any fuss lol

is this still going on?? do i still have time to get the pig ward???

Libertine posted:

any system that makes you exchange money directly for multiple forms of fun bucks is meant to obfuscate your thinking while you are being taken for a ride. carnivals do it with tickets, casinos do it with chips, riot games does it with whatever multiple forms of things people are talking about right now.

the best was xbox live which priced poo poo at odd amounts of points so you would always be stuck with 35 microsoft funbux or whatever, which is a great psychological motivator to get people to spend money to try and round it out to zero.

ungulateman
Apr 18, 2012

pretentious fuckwit who isn't half as literate or insightful or clever as he thinks he is
smh if you don't have 69 rp

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009



Is there any rhyme or reason to how stunned characters can still do stuff sometimes? I guess I can understand stuff like Sion's axe charge being uninterruptible but I just had a game where Singed would flip me even though it blatantly said "STUNNED!" over his head.

Lord_Magmar
Feb 24, 2015

"Welcome to pound town, Slifer slacker!"


Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

Is there any rhyme or reason to how stunned characters can still do stuff sometimes? I guess I can understand stuff like Sion's axe charge being uninterruptible but I just had a game where Singed would flip me even though it blatantly said "STUNNED!" over his head.

If an ability cast animation starts it will always go through.

Sexpansion
Mar 22, 2003

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Verviticus posted:

just do what i do and never ever give these shitbags a dime. gently caress loot boxes and passes and other manipulative bullshit

I basically do this, I have probably spent $30 max on this game and have enjoyed eons of entertainment from it and I have tons of skins and poo poo. if you enjoy playing the game you don't really have to spend money on it.

Boxman
Sep 27, 2004

Big fan of :frog:


And Sion’s Q is interruptible - IIRC, the bit where he’s winding up is a channel, so anything that breaks channels (stuns, silences, Kass Q) still stop the skill from going off.

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

Is there any rhyme or reason to how stunned characters can still do stuff sometimes? I guess I can understand stuff like Sion's axe charge being uninterruptible but I just had a game where Singed would flip me even though it blatantly said "STUNNED!" over his head.

It's just the end result of input buffering. If you queue up your ability at the right time the animation and ability itself goes through and you shave off some of the time you would've spent doing nothing. It's pretty important for trading on a bunch of champions especially toplaners who can go CC for CC like Singed and Renekton.

Elephunk
Dec 6, 2007



CYBEReris posted:

It's just the end result of input buffering. If you queue up your ability at the right time the animation and ability itself goes through and you shave off some of the time you would've spent doing nothing. It's pretty important for trading on a bunch of champions especially toplaners who can go CC for CC like Singed and Renekton.

Is it possible to queue abilities in LoL? Shift-clicking like Warcraft 3 doesn't work..

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

Elephunk posted:

Is it possible to queue abilities in LoL? Shift-clicking like Warcraft 3 doesn't work..

It's just input buffering the game does automatically. It used to be really inconsistent and mostly applied to edge cases like Alistar's combo but its been kinda adopted as a mechanic and made more reliable.

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


Yeah usually it's predicting the CC and starting your escape ability at the right time so the animation is rolling when the CC actually lands. You see it a lot with Tristana and Ezreal players using rocket jump and arcane shift to move out of attack range even if a stun landing is inevitable.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



njsykora posted:

Yeah usually it's predicting the CC and starting your escape ability at the right time so the animation is rolling when the CC actually lands. You see it a lot with Tristana and Ezreal players using rocket jump and arcane shift to move out of attack range even if a stun landing is inevitable.

It should be noted that there's usually a second component to this that could roughly be called movement buffering. Any ability that translates the character's position like a dash, blink, or displacement is called a "movement block," and the most recent movement block overrides the last one. If Thresh hits his Q before Tristana's W movement block is executed, she'll jump away harmlessly; if it hits after Tristana's movement block is executed, the hook will work like normal.

Sexpansion
Mar 22, 2003

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The Morgana visual update looks so stupidly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qbXRm4Jnas

Sexpansion fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Feb 26, 2019

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Sexpansion posted:

The Morgana visual update looks so stupidly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qbXRm4Jnas

Yeah, it's boss as hell. It's a shame they aren't doing particle updates for cheap skins on VGUs going forwards; I think they only caved this time because they hadn't explained the policy publicly much, and the outcry was big. I expect they might have to violate their policy on Morde, too, just because he's got so many loving flea market skins that'll look weird with his basic skin's particles, assuming they keep similar color schemes.

Firebert
Aug 16, 2004
Wings on your butt
Wings on your butt
How could you fly
With your wings on your butt

pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Sexpansion posted:

The Morgana visual update looks so stupidly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qbXRm4Jnas

I don't like that she lost her unique ballgown shape, that the bewitching / blackthorn skins lost a lot of detail, and that her wings appear to be growing out of her butt now. But the new model is certainly not bad, and I don't play her much so I don't really care.

New Kayle looks awesome

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
Not a huge fan of the buttwings on morgana, but at least she has feet now and they accomplished their goal of easier cheesecake cosplay morgana costumes that can move through doors without getting stuck.

Old classic kayle looks better then new classic kayle, but the transforms and skins mostly all look better then the old skins.

duck trucker
Oct 14, 2017

YOSPOS

She looks like she should be related to Eve instead of Kayle. But overall better besides butt wings.

But I kinda admire that someone in the art department suggested butt wings and got it all the way through. So I'm torn.

henkman
Oct 8, 2008
Butt with Butterfly Wings

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.
League of Legends Season 9: I'm Going to Put These Wings On My rear end

TastyLemonDrops
Aug 6, 2008

you said "drop kick" fyi
So is Morgana part slinky in the lore now? What's with the ridiculous bouncing and compression going on with her spine.

ungulateman
Apr 18, 2012

pretentious fuckwit who isn't half as literate or insightful or clever as he thinks he is
squash and stretch animation is cool, and good

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


I saw one of the animation guys on Twitter answer that they have to do weird animation things to make certain motions visible from the game perspective. Like Aatrox looks loving hilarious during some of his animations because he stretches up to be taller than towers. Basically these models are not designed to be seen from any angle other than top down.

Camel Camus
Jun 16, 2009

Mais, non, je suis fantastique!

I love the tips that explain lore to just give me all the latest retcons. Tell me thread, which of the following did I just learn?

A. Volibear and Anivia are siblings

B. Aurelion Sol created Bard

C. Singed turned Sona mute

D. Orianna was betrothed to Viktor

Verviticus
Mar 13, 2006

I'm just a total piece of shit and I'm not sure why I keep posting on this site. Christ, I have spent years with idiots giving me bad advice about online dating and haven't noticed that the thread I'm in selects for people that can't talk to people worth a damn.
true ice cannot be melted. dark ice is true ice that has been corrupted. trundles club, boner, is made out of true ice.

Verviticus fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Feb 27, 2019

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer
miss fortune's gun was made by gangplank who then used it to kill himself and that's why he's a ghost

somethin like that i dunno

Verviticus
Mar 13, 2006

I'm just a total piece of shit and I'm not sure why I keep posting on this site. Christ, I have spent years with idiots giving me bad advice about online dating and haven't noticed that the thread I'm in selects for people that can't talk to people worth a damn.
old league lore was complete trash but occasionally fun things popped up, like shaco's character description being written by a 7 year old or gragas' lore of getting drunk on magic beer, going to town and beating everyone up and running away over and over

new lore is indefensibly bad in every single aspect

pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Verviticus posted:

old league lore was complete trash but occasionally fun things popped up, like shaco's character description being written by a 7 year old or gragas' lore of getting drunk on magic beer, going to town and beating everyone up and running away over and over

new lore is indefensibly bad in every single aspect

I enjoy some of the lore, like how Tryndamere is naked because he used all available materials to make his sword.

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011

pidan posted:

I enjoy some of the lore, like how Tryndamere is naked because he used all available materials to make his sword.

I prefer his old lore, one day some strangers killed everyone except a baby tryndamere, the end.

Karthus lore, one day a wizard drowned in a swamp, the end.

Killed By Death
Jun 29, 2013


They removed the lore where Blitzcrank punches Singed in the dick. Bastards

porfiria
Dec 10, 2008

by Modern Video Games
Out of all the Champions in the League of Legends who is the most likely to be a Trump supporter?

Lord_Magmar
Feb 24, 2015

"Welcome to pound town, Slifer slacker!"


porfiria posted:

Out of all the Champions in the League of Legends who is the most likely to be a Trump supporter?

Probably Camille.

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


porfiria posted:

Out of all the Champions in the League of Legends who is the most likely to be a Trump supporter?

Garen.

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el dingo
Mar 19, 2009


Ogres are like onions
None of them, trump does not exist in the league universe

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