One of most anticipated features of League of Legends Season 13 was arguably the new AFK player detection. The fact of not no more having to wait for too long minutesthe possible return of a player who would have anyway lost his lane in early (at the same time getting to lvl 1 when the opponent is lvl 3 doesn’t help), was rather a good thing. Only part of the community feels that Riot Games has gone a little too far, and part of this new feature is a little abused.
Why are AFKs detected in training mode?
Some players have decided to go and try the new items for season 13 in training mode, in order to discover them or even try some builds to see whether or not they are effective. It was then that they were surprised to see afk popup open in this mode, where they have no opponent. They then expressed their incomprehension and some form of dissatisfaction following this addition, wondering why Riot Games put pressure to move in a “solo mode”.
Even though no manager has spoken yet about this, many players have theorized that this feature was there for fight against some bot which remain afk in this mode, for the sole purpose of overloading the servers. Although this reason seems perfectly valid, several doubts have been expressed as to its relevance. Code a bot who would just random moves would not be much more complicated, and in the end it risks more to annoy players than to fight bots effectively. One of the solutions could be to reset this timer to a longer duration in training modein order to let players breathe, if at all possible with the League of Legends code.
Too fast detection even for classic games?
The new detection also hinders a minority of players in PvP game : hands Teemo. The latter are accustomed at the start of the game, to stand still in a place to take advantage of their liabilities which makes them invisible. They therefore sometimes trigger the AFK alert, while they are in front of their PC. It seems the best way to avoid this without breaking their invisibility either drop a random ping, just to show the game that there is indeed a player behind the screen. Thanks to this information, you will no longer wonder why your Teemo top asked to bait at the T2 mid level at 1 minute of play.
Spamming emotes and/or laughs, taunts and other mirth could also be an option, but it’s likely no Teemo player will decide to listen to the Yordle if there’s no opponent to trigger. .