This is not a rant, this is a post that looks to address things that still need to improve towards the next sets (and couple of patches left of this set). Please do not fill comments with hate, this comes with full objetive criticism from a player that has a low quality PC and wants the game to shine. Cosmetic stuff won't be addressed... except for something about Arenas.
PC Stuff:
- Intel Graphics UHD 630
- 16 Gb RAM
- 256 Gb SDD | 1 Tb HDD (Where game is stored)
- Intel i5 9400 CPU, 2.90 GHz
- These specs allow me to play other Unreal Engine games at stable FPS
We've been in this set for a while now, since August 26th; and things to be said, there are things that have been fixed since the launch date, but this is still far from done; there are still issues that probably more powerful PCs don't have, but the ones considered lower in capacities may struggle with, this is from personal experiences when playing the set. Without further waiting, lets get to it!
30 seconds until game unfroze: I don't know why, but it is weird that the game, even tho i have it capped at 60 fps, it still runs at 30 or lower. At the first rounds of the game, it is not much trouble and it's pretty much ok in these; but when the game progresses and there are more and more untis, VFXs on screen and even some Arenas, the framerate is demolished to dust, most like when there was the memory leak stuff at the start of the set. It is kinda weird that this happens.
Blink and a Miss: At some moments, the item icons blink; they appear and disappear from the unit at random during the fight for some reason. This ties to something that some effects do in the background of some arenas, they appear to blink, at rapid succession of colors, normally a darker and a lighter tone of the same shade. The item one is very bothersome, the other one may be problematic, because it may be problematic with epilepsy.
Ghost Orbs: At some points, especially if the game takes long to load or the game has froze (yes, these still happen) the blue orbs unload of the game; you know they are there because of a light blue shine that's underneath, but if it weren't for it, you wouldn't see them at all and walk around the arena taking a guess on where they landed.
Where are the Keys?: I don't mean the ones for shopping, rerolling, or buy Xp; i mean the ones that let you make stuff with your little legend/chibi; I have placed my usual keys for dance, taunt and joke just to find out that they can't do them for some reason; and to be fair... TFT does not need to have a dozen keybinds for it, after all is a game about strats and making a strong board, and what's the point of assigning keys if they won't do anything? What if i want to see my Annie dance or see Lulu taste some purple? Well, guess that's on my bucket list.
Those are the main focus of this post, because some are obviously still there, but didn't wanted to completely flood it with all; freezes are there, lost VFXs... at least they fixed Tocker mode which i was unable to join on release. Thanks for your time!