One of the most common complaints within the League of Legends community concerns game modes. From the middle of Season 8 until today, the only novelty the title has received in this regard is Grimoire Ultimate . A considerable lack of new features that Riot Games has made much more visible by eliminating almost all existing game modes. Instead of increasing the variety of options, the developer has closed in on giving players fewer choices than ever.
A game mode that Riot has not ruled out yet
In this context, a simple video shared on social networks has brought back a forgotten memory. We’re referring to Doom Bots, a temporary game mode that was barely available in League of Legends for a few weeks in 2014 and another handful of days in 2016, but which the community loved. It’s not the mode players spent the most hours on during their playtime — however, it’s a mode that almost everyone wanted to try to beat at least once on their highest difficulty setting.
For those of you who weren’t playing League of Legends back then, this game mode is exactly what you see in the video. Enemy champions were controlled by artificial intelligence and their abilities were enhanced. Lux’s ultimate was thrown in infinite directions, Blitzcrank’s grabs were thrown in infinite directions too, and Ziggs’ bombs released a second volley of explosives that took up the entire lane. Added to this are a few more curious situations such as the almost infinite range of Amumu’s ultimate or an Aurelion Sol which granted his W – Celestial Expansion to all his teammates.
In fact, Riot Games used this game mode to showcase all the insane things they could have created and its difficulty was so high that bots could even do Pentakills when in one-on-five situations. During the 2016 edition, which was held to celebrate the release of the Demonic skins, we were even treated to a giant Teemo similar to King Poro (we’ll tell you about that another day). With everything we’ve told you, you can imagine how much fun it was. We insisted on the idea that it wasn’t something everyone would play for days on end, but it was a mode no one wanted to miss due to the curiosity it aroused.
With the rise in popularity of Doom Bots, we wanted to check Riot Games’ opinion on the subject. With very little hope, we went back to see the official studio statement on the old game modes and were pleasantly surprised.
“Blood Moon Hunt, Sextuplet, and Chaos Bots: These three modes are much closer to our new direction, centered around the core League experience, and Blood Moon Hunt already plays the chAmplification (for assassins) Chaos Bots has some additional development challenges, as the AI work is very expensive, and keeping the mode interesting game after game would take a lot of investment. three modes are candidates for possible refresh in the future (in addition to the development of new modes!). Along with Bloodmoon Hunt and Hexakill, this is one of the most obvious candidates to return in the future. that the bots mode is “harder to develop” due to the AI work, however, she feels that this effort could be useful.”
The truth is, Riot Games has good reason to be wary of Chaos Bots. The mode was very complicated, but once you learned how to manipulate the AI to behave in the way most favorable to your interests, it allowed too much cheating. However, almost seven years have passed since then and it seems possible that the League of Legends developer may be able to fix this problem. With the end of season 12 so close, it may now be too late. However, new features in terms of modes have been planned for some time now, and 2023 could hold some surprises.
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