League of Legends
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:31 am
Does anyone here play it? I gave in to my brother's pressure and started recently and it's lots more fun than I had anticipated.
League of Legends is a standalone free to play DOTA clone. Lots of elements that really annoyed me about DOTA have been removed.
No more denying.
No more gold loss upon death.
Games also tend to be a lot quicker, with most lasting between 25-45min, 30min being a good avarage thus far.
A surrender option.
Very noob friendly - there is also a tutorial that explains the basic game mechanics.
Matchmaking system that pits players of equal skill against each other. The process is quick and keeps track of leavers etc.
If you have a shitty internet (like me), you can rejoin the game after getting disconnected.
Whenever someone leaves or gets disconnected, rest of the team gets 10% more experience.
Every hero in the game gets two universal skills that can be picked from a list of 15 or so. Examples include, Heal, Cleanse, Cripple, etc.
In addition, every hero also has a Teleport to Town skill so you won't need to buy those pesky scrolls like in DOTA.
New gameplay element is bushes: you can hide in bushes and everyone outside a bush won't see you. Adds a lot to tactical gameplay.
The shop has been revamped, items are cheaper, less powerful and easier to acquire.
There is also a list of recommended items for each hero to help newcomers.
In addition, League of Legends has an account system.
Every time you play a game, your account gets experience and levels up. Per level up, you get a Mastery point that can be allocated into any of three trees (like talent trees in WoW) which give you minute bonuses, either Offense, Defense or Utility. The bonuses are really minor, i.e. ones that modify a spell or add something like crit (2% extra crit for 4 points)
While it is free to play, you only get about 10 free heros which change every week. However, you can buy heros for points that you get from just playing the game. An estimate: about 10 games played will let you afford a low-mid price hero. However, if you want to, you can buy a bundle of heros or skins, a single hero, etc. They are really quite cheap, just a few dollars per avarage hero.
If you haven't played DOTA before, it will probably take you a while to get used to this game and you'll spend some time sucking, but that's ok, there are loads of noobs who have just started playing as well, so you will not be overwhelemed by imbalanced teams. I highly recommend this game.
League of Legends is a standalone free to play DOTA clone. Lots of elements that really annoyed me about DOTA have been removed.
No more denying.
No more gold loss upon death.
Games also tend to be a lot quicker, with most lasting between 25-45min, 30min being a good avarage thus far.
A surrender option.
Very noob friendly - there is also a tutorial that explains the basic game mechanics.
Matchmaking system that pits players of equal skill against each other. The process is quick and keeps track of leavers etc.
If you have a shitty internet (like me), you can rejoin the game after getting disconnected.
Whenever someone leaves or gets disconnected, rest of the team gets 10% more experience.
Every hero in the game gets two universal skills that can be picked from a list of 15 or so. Examples include, Heal, Cleanse, Cripple, etc.
In addition, every hero also has a Teleport to Town skill so you won't need to buy those pesky scrolls like in DOTA.
New gameplay element is bushes: you can hide in bushes and everyone outside a bush won't see you. Adds a lot to tactical gameplay.
The shop has been revamped, items are cheaper, less powerful and easier to acquire.
There is also a list of recommended items for each hero to help newcomers.
In addition, League of Legends has an account system.
Every time you play a game, your account gets experience and levels up. Per level up, you get a Mastery point that can be allocated into any of three trees (like talent trees in WoW) which give you minute bonuses, either Offense, Defense or Utility. The bonuses are really minor, i.e. ones that modify a spell or add something like crit (2% extra crit for 4 points)
While it is free to play, you only get about 10 free heros which change every week. However, you can buy heros for points that you get from just playing the game. An estimate: about 10 games played will let you afford a low-mid price hero. However, if you want to, you can buy a bundle of heros or skins, a single hero, etc. They are really quite cheap, just a few dollars per avarage hero.
If you haven't played DOTA before, it will probably take you a while to get used to this game and you'll spend some time sucking, but that's ok, there are loads of noobs who have just started playing as well, so you will not be overwhelemed by imbalanced teams. I highly recommend this game.