VIDEO GAMES: League Of Legends

League Of Legends

League of Legends (LoL) , is a game of the genre MOBA developed by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and OS X . At first the servers were housed in the company GOA and recently announced sale to Chinese company Tencent Holdings Limited . On October 7 of 2008 was announced the launch scheduled for September 2009 . Finally the game entered beta closed on April 10 of that year . The game was designed for the operating system Microsoft Windows and Apple released a beta for OS X leaving shortly after the draft next one . This beta has been improved by the users of the game, making it possible to play an updated version of League of Legends. It is also possible to play it in the operating system GNU / Linux through third party applications. In October 2012 , already has 70 million registered players. It is a highly competitive game being one of the most popular games of electronic sports (e-sports).

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General:

Players are formed into 2 teams of Champions (Champions or champs), 3 on 3 or 5 on 5. A July 22, 2013 there are 115 champions available, but this number increases regularly. Each team starts at opposing sides of a map in an area called Spawn , near what is called Nexus (or Nexus). The object of the game is to destroy the opposing team's Nexus. To destroy a Nexus, each team must reach eliminating the enemy base turrets that protect it.

Each player gains levels from killing subjects ( NPCs that constantly spawn and attack the other team) the opposing team and defeating neutral monsters. Killing monsters and pull enemy champions gold provides turret Champion needed to improve and facilitate the battles.

Game modes and matchmaking:

The game can currently be played in five different modes: Tutorial, Custom, op VS AI, Normal and Qualification:

Custom Mode : allows players to manually create custom game sessions that other players can find in the game list and join.
Normal: Two teams compete to destroy the opposing team's nexus.
Co-op VS AI: players compete against a team of BOTS.

Qualification : Only available to players of level 30, the maximum possible. This game mode has special characteristics, for example at the end of each game will give or take away points to players, ranking them in an online ranking. In addition, each team can see the champions that selects the opposing team and can veto a 3 champions, with a maximum of 6 champions banned per game. Is the gameplay used in competition.
Tutorial: Explains the controls and goals of the game for those who start.

The Matchmaking is the matching system, ie determines which players play against one person. This system is based on MMR, hidden numbers determined by wins and losses, and against whom they played. The MMR indicates your level as a player, and the system matches you with people with like MMR. This also applies to the computers, where the team MMR is the average of the respective MMR players.

Fields Of Justice

5VS5 MAP Summoners Rift

3VS3 MAP The Twisted Treeline

Maps in League of Legends are called "Fields of Justice". Currently there are four Fields of Justice that the players can choose from three different maps of 5-on-5 and a single map to 3-on-3. A match puts two teams with a fixed number of players against each other. Each team has its base, which contains the re-spawn point, shop, 11 towers, 3 inhibitors and nexus. The two bases are connected by lanes. Periodically, waves of minions (called minions) leave the nexus, AI controlled by 3 lanes, attacking enemies that are (either minions or champions). In each lane there are a total of 3 towers that attack enemies within range. A turret once destroyed, it can be reconstructed. Each lane has an inhibitor at both ends. The inhibitor is a building that keeps out the enemy team "super minions" who follow the same logic as the common but have more damage and are harder to kill. The team that destroyed an inhibitor will gain a temporary advantage, but the inhibitors reappear after 5 minutes. Besides the lanes, the maps also contain an area called "jungle", which contain neutral monsters that give bonus gold and experience. Some powerful neutral monsters grant the murderer a plus temporary help them in the battle. Another feature is the bush land where blocking the line of sight of units, allowing champions to hide and set up an ambush. The objective of each team is to destroy the enemy Nexus.The first team to achieve this is the victor. The victory also achieved if the opponent surrenders, using a voting system where 70% of the team must agree (May 4 players usually), but only after 20 minutes has passed since the start departure.

Dominion: The Crystal Scar

The domain is a game mode released by Riot Games in September 2011. Domain brings the action to a faster pace and gameplay different tactic. The map is called "Crystal Scar" and has a new capture and play. Inhibitors and Turrets have been removed - instead, the map has five Capture Points. Capturing one of these points become a turret and allow start minions output. The availability of the item varies on this map. A new summoner spell called Garrison was set for this game mode. The Teleport summoner spell is not available in Dominion. This game mode is meant to be much shorter than conventional games 30-45 minutes as the dominion lasts an average of 15-25 minutes duration.

Aram:

ARAM stands for "All Random All Mid" is the latest game version released by Riot for which he developed a new map called "The Howling Abyss" or "Wailing Chasm". In this game mode face 5 on 5 in one street in which you must destroy four towers, an inhibitor and nexus. What really makes this game special is that you can not return to base to buy items and heal, only be after death, healing that applies to the champions is reduced, the increased mana recovery and also account with gold and experience segundo.En ARAM should take into account the difference in power of the champions on each side, as can occur in both teams inequality.

Persistence and meta-game:

The Summoner acts as the persistent element in the game, used to track statistics and scores for each player. Summoners gain experience points and "points of influence" (game currency) for each battle they participate. They level up by getting enough experience. The caller can choose two summoner spells. These spells have a significant implication in the game, and have a high cooldown no mana cost. All spells can be improved by masteries, taking place in a skill tree. The masters are benefits that affect gameplay, structured in a skill tree. All masteries are passive effects although some may increase summoner spells, which can be activated. They are grouped into categories offensive, defensive and utility. The master can be redistributed at will between the two battle. As with the master, the runes do not affect the game much. Runes are categorized into Marks (offensive), Seals (defensive), Glyphs (magic) and Quintessence (utility). Runes must be unlocked in the store and may have more than one more of the same. The player must arrange their runes in the Runebook to adapt its use. The Runebook has limited number of slots for each rune type, but more rune pages can be purchased with Influence Points or Riot Points. Combining two equal level runes produces a random rune of the same tier, while combining 5 equal level runes produces a higher level rune. The League of Legends Store allows players to purchase additional options through Riot Points (RP). Riot Points must be bought with real money, while Influence Points are earned by playing the game. The moderation is conducted through a democratic system known as The Tribunal. In this system, players reporting (those reported) are reviewed by other players on a case by case basis. Players must revise and submit their opinions on the legality of the behavior demonstrated. A consensus makes the final decision. It is notable that players are unable to be permanently banned through this system, since "all permanent bans are distributed manually." Reviewers receive a grade of Justice on the basis of their accuracy, if the right choice is rewarded with points of influence.

Tournaments:

League of Legends has long been a focus of public competition. The 2010 World Cyber Games Grand Final in Los Angeles organized a League of Legends tournament, in which teams from China, Europe and the United States competed. CLG Team North America won the tournament, winning a prize of $ 7,000. The competitive game reached new heights in the first World Championship in June 2011. The event, held at at DreamHack in Sweden, USA offered $ 100,000 in prizes. The European team Fnatic defeated teams from Europe, USA and Asia to win the tournament and received U.S. $ 50,000 in prizes. Over 1.6 million viewers watched the streaming broadcast of the event, with a peak of over 210,000 concurrent viewers in a semifinal. After season 1, Riot announced that the U.S. $ 5,000,000 would be paid over Season 2. Of these 5 million, 2 million is for Riot partners including major eSports IPL and other associations.Another 2 million will season 2 playoffs and championship Riot. The end of one million is intended to apply small organizers to hold tournaments Riot League of Legends. After a series of network problems during season 2 on the eve of the World Cup qualifiers which led to several matches being delayed, Riot revealed on October 13, 2012, a special LAN-based client had developed rapidly, designed for tournament use in environments where the effects of lag and other network problems can be detrimental to the proper organization of an event. The LAN client was deployed first during the first quarter-and semifinal matches played following the re-scheduled, and was in use during the finals. The October 13, 2012, the professional team Murderers Taipei Taiwan (TPA) surpassed South Korea Azubu Frost 3-1 in the final of the World Championship season 2 and said the $ 1 million prize. From 2013, League of Legends is the most popular game e-sports in South Korea. The March 23, 2013, the film studios in Rome hosted the presentation Italian League of Legends, more than 1,500 people were present, along with Riot Games developers, journalists and several guests. The show schedule included a cosplay contest and challenge match between two Italian clans.

Development:

Riot Games was co-founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill. He teamed up with Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, the previous designer of the popular Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map Defense of the Ancients, and Steve "Pendragon" Mescon, the administrator of the former official support base for the map (www. allstars.com endowment) to develop League of Legends. Using the original DotA created by Eul (the original Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos) as a base, Guinsoo made DotA Allstars by inserting his own mix of content, greatly expanding the number of the heroes, and adding recipes, numerous items and various gameplay changes. Guinsoo then passed version 6 of the map to a new developer, IceFrog. The idea of a spiritual successor to Defense of the Ancients that would be its own standalone game with its own engine, instead mod of Warcraft III began to materialize in late 2005. League of Legends was born "when a couple of members of the very active DotA community believed that the game was so fun and so innovative that it represented the spawning of a new genre and deserved its own professional game with significantly enhanced features and around- gaming services. " Riot Games officially opened its office in September 2006 and currently has about 100 people working on League of Legends ", including their robust technology platform to address and manage the game, and a team dedicated to relationships the community. " According to Marc Merrill, when creating the various champions in the game, instead of letting the champion creation to a few people, they decided to open the champion creation process to everyone in the company based on a template where they could vote in which were champions in the game. The game was in a closed beta from April 10, 2009 to October 22, 2009. Then the transition to open beta until release. In March 2013, Riot Games released a beta version of a client of OS X, in addition to its Windows client.

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