League of Legends

Ok let's move on from DotA. It was ok, but League of Legends is free and much easier to figure out the item store. If an item you want requires 2 or more other items, they will be listed, right there. Click on what you have money for and you're on your way. If you have the money for all of them, you'll just get it. They are also organized by what they do for you; defense, attack, manna, etc. There's no running back to base when you need to heal/manna up. Just hit the recall button, wait a few sec., and you're home. Let's get at least a round or two in, this time.
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I'm willing to give it a chance, but my heart has room for more than one. Variety is the spice of life.

Let me know how it goes, now that HoN is out of Closed Beta and you'll have to buy it to play it, maybe this'll be a good middle ground on this type of game, since i think most of the group is FPS and this type of game is just a good break in the action...

Twodavez wrote:

Let me know how it goes, now that HoN is out of Closed Beta and you'll have to buy it to play it, maybe this'll be a good middle ground on this type of game, since i think most of the group is FPS and this type of game is just a good break in the action...

agreed

This is completely free? I would vote for this at the Lan, if it doesn't have the big unpacking and Impulse background like Demigod, the installation of the game expansion and mod for DotA, or a price! It seems like we could get most of the people into it at the lan, if it's free and quick to install.

Leonresevil2 wrote:

This is completely free? I would vote for this at the Lan, if it doesn't have the big unpacking and Impulse background like Demigod, the installation of the game expansion and mod for DotA, or a price! It seems like we could get most of the people into it at the lan, if it's free and quick to install.

How they get away with free is mircotransactions. The characters you can choose from, change from week to week. But there's plenty to choose from, none-the-less. Every game you play you get points that you can use to buy one to use all the time, not just the week it's free to use. If you're impatient you can use Riot Points, which you use real money to get, to buy a particular guy. There's also other little upgrades and skins you can get with your points. They don't have much of an impact on the game. 1 percent or 2, overall. This game is upgraded a lot, but they don't change the installer as often. It would behoove everyone interested, to install and run the game before the party. That way it will have a chance to auto-patch. I don't think it'll happen very fast, the day of. It takes 15-20 min at home on Comcast. With 50 people, not so much.

I'm sure Wes or someone else could download the installer and put it on the file server for people to grab...

No offense, but did you even read his post? He said the slow part is updating, not installing.

I read the post and assumed that the latest installer would have the patches already solving the issueing of it taking time for everyone to download the patches and install them... Guess i should not have used the word installer and instead put "installer and patches" You'd think they'd be available for download. It's a feee game, you're going to want it very easy for people to share...

I know at Indysmash one of the guys were able to drag the updates for TF2 to save the time downloading them for a guy who recently bought the game...

I'm always up for any free game

Twodavez wrote:

I read the post and assumed that the latest installer would have the patches already solving the issueing of it taking time for everyone to download the patches and install them... Guess i should not have used the word installer and instead put "installer and patches" You'd think they'd be available for download. It's a feee game, you're going to want it very easy for people to share...

I know at Indysmash one of the guys were able to drag the updates for TF2 to save the time downloading them for a guy who recently bought the game...

Ah, gotcha. It's never a good idea to assume an installer has the latest patches, though. I'd say they usually don't, in my experience, even if they're recent.

I'm downloading as soon as my net loads the page.. on a side not Heros of Newerth is in open beta. as opposed to closed beta. check it out if you haven't already.

Twodavez wrote:

I know at Indysmash one of the guys were able to drag the updates for TF2 to save the time downloading them for a guy who recently bought the game...

I tried that with LoL, didn't work. Has to install the patches it's own way.

i thought it might be worth a shot...

user name vialdragon per usual

Dreyvas wrote:

Twodavez wrote:

I read the post and assumed that the latest installer would have the patches already solving the issueing of it taking time for everyone to download the patches and install them... Guess i should not have used the word installer and instead put "installer and patches" You'd think they'd be available for download. It's a feee game, you're going to want it very easy for people to share...

I know at Indysmash one of the guys were able to drag the updates for TF2 to save the time downloading them for a guy who recently bought the game...

Ah, gotcha. It's never a good idea to assume an installer has the latest patches, though. I'd say they usually don't, in my experience, even if they're recent.

Agreed, don't expect installers to be up to date. Found that out the hard annoying way with Steam, on dial-up, to install a game I had the disc for. Downloads, updates, updates, updates, just to install. I will be on high-speed the day before the lan, so I intend to patch every game that we will be using patched forms of (so not TQ or UT). Hopefully most people can do something similar so we are on level ground to start quick.

No mean to dp, but I got on and my username is leonresevil2 for LoL. Didn't know what the difference was between user and summoner name, so I made both the same.

Wow, you really don't want to play DoTA do you?

Not when the game is basically the same but better. Even the map is the same.