Okay, I’m thinking of giving this a shot. Is there a way to sort of practice and figure out what I’m doing without just jumping into a multiplayer game full of people who will yell at me? I mean, I played a bit of Demigod so I think I kinda get it, but there are a jillion chracters and items to learn and so on.
I’ve found the newbie community to be extremely nice, everyone is wandering around like drunk children at low levels. That said you could try a custom game thats been setup for the strict purpose of training newbs.
At least its been my experience so far that this community is almost a 180 of DOTA’s. I can’t comment on high level play though.
Yeah, you can set up a practice game against bots and in a few days, supposedly, you can join a game with other people playing against bots. A few may still yell at you, but it should be minimal. Also custom games with other people with noob-friendly titles. Just don’t jump straight into matchmaking pvp games and you should be fine.
I’ve found it as mixed as any other community for online games. Some people have been cool and some have been complete tools. I’ve been told I’m really good for a new player and been told I shouldn’t have been allowed to play anything but tutorial missions until level 10. I’m level 9 now and my record is 24-9 so I think I must be doing something right, even if sometimes I do terrible. I also find I tend to mostly do well on the 3v3 map and mostly bad on the 5v5 map.
bluemax
5065
3v3 is practically a different game.
Okay, installing now. The launcher updated a bunch of times, and now it’s downloading a preciously small amount of data at a ridiculously slow rate (0.06MB left, 5KB/sec).
My name on there is JasonCross00 (that’s a double zero at the end)
A different game that is not as balanced or fun to play.
Jason, keep in mind that’s your login name. When you fire the client up first time you’ll be able to pick an In-game name which is what everyone will know you by.
I mean nothings stopping you picking the same thing, but just filling you in :)
Hanacker
5069
It’s fun for a change of pace or when you only have 30 or so minutes to play. One bad teammate really screws things up though.
Chaplin
5070
ugh… NOT a fan of the IP changes so far.
McKnight
5071
Riot have apparently posted that it was bugged and they will be fixing it. Smells like a quick turn around on what they were hoping would be a nice money making change for them.
Calistas
5072
They have never been short of money though. Sounds like a bug as stated.
McKnight
5073
That’s true, but at the same time the initial change was purely to make more money so… Hard to say.
Calistas
5074
I can’t rage about a free game :)
No, that’s my game name as well. Anyone here should feel free to add me to your friend list.
I played the first 5-on-5 vs AI that they do with the tutorial thing. It’s actually kind of straightforward, if you’ve played Demigod. I can already see ways is which is “clearer” and more polished, and also more complicated. But I get the general idea.
Ultrazen
5076
I filled out the survey for them, and in the comments section I said something to the effect of ‘you’d better figure out a way to charge me for something, because at the moment I’m having way too much fun for free’.
I still stand by that, LoL is way too much content for free. There really is no reason to ever spend any real money. While that’s nice and all for me, it doesn’t do much for Riot.
I’m really surprised that the top tier champs are even available at all through won points. If I were Riot, I’d give you the scrubs for free, the 2nd tier earned through points, and all the rest only for real money.
I would have easily bought at least 5 or 6 champs by now, if in the back of my mind I wasn’t thinking that at some point I can get them for free.
It’ll take you quite a long time to earn all of those champs, you can pay if you don’t want to spend a year and half grinding out money.
copet
5079
You should learn Nidalee. She is easily the most fun character to play (basically 8 skills) and she is very useful for a team :)
There are countless “free to play” games out there with as much or more content.
There really is no reason to ever spend any real money. While that’s nice and all for me, it doesn’t do much for Riot.
By playing LoL, even without spending a single cent, you are contributing to the welfare of Riot; games like LoL require, first and foremost, a very active player base, without it there are no game queues, no countless adversaries for you to play against. Their model is sound and reasonable: if you spend real cash you get an edge on your adversaries (extra rune pages, runes and champion faster unlocks etc) but you can still play without spending a single cent and effectively become fodder for the paying customers.
Let me just make clear that although I’ve yet to spend a cent on it I do encourage people to buy the game and spend money on it, after all without profit no company can provide the service they do.
