[Game] League of Legends

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Hey,

Sinds kort ben ik dit spel tegengekomen. Tis van dezelfde makers als DotA.
De gameplay is erg leuk, en tot nu toe verveelt het me nog niet Het is trouwens ook gratis.

Maar ik vroeg me af of er hier andere mensen waren die het ook speelde, zodat we misschien een keer samen konden spelen.

Over het spel:

League of Legends is a game inspired by the Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne[3] developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows.[4] It was first announced on October 7, 2008 and released on October 27, 2009.[5] The game was in a closed beta from April 10, 2009 to October 22, 2009.[6] It then transitioned to open beta until release.[7]

Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, the previous designer of the popular Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map, DotA Allstars, and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon, the administrator of the former official support base for the map (Letter from Pendragon - dota-allstars.com), were involved with Riot Games in the development of League Of Legends.[8] Using the original DotA created by Eul (the original Defence of The Ancients map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos) as a base, Guinsoo made DotA Allstars by inserting his own mix of content, largely expanding the number of the heroes, and adding recipes, numerous items and various gameplay changes. Guinsoo then passed version 6 of the map on to its current developer, Icefrog. Pendragon, who is the Director of Community Relations for Riot Games, helped create the previous DotA Allstars website along with its forums.

Gameplay
General

Players are formed into 2 even teams with 1-5 champions on each team. Each team starts at opposing sides of a map, near what is called a "Nexus". A match is won when either the opposing team's Nexus is destroyed or the other team surrenders. To destroy a Nexus, each team must work through a series of towers called "Turrets". Turrets are often placed along a path to each base referred to as a "Lane". Along the way, each player must gain levels from killing the opposing team's "Champions" and "Minions" (small NPCs that constantly spawn and attack the other team) and defeating neutral monsters (some of which grant buffs known as Crests upon death). Also, champions purchase "Items" with in-match gold to improve their champion. In League of Legends, each player starts at level 1 at the beginning of the match and can obtain the maximum of level 18 with their champion, leveling 4 different champion-specific abilities.
Matchmaking

League of Legends is a session-based game. Matchmaking occurs based on the average Elo ratings of each individual players, with slight proprietary adjustments.

The game can be currently played in two different modes: normal and practice.

* In a normal game, the server tries to match up players of equal skill level. It is possible to enter an arranged team of players, in which case the arranged team is considered to be more powerful than the individual players; this increase to a team's rating is based on statistical data gathered by Riot Games. Additional prioritization is done slightly by level, significantly by the sizes of any premade groups, and very significantly by 'newbie'.[12]
* Practice mode allows players to create their session and set its properties, or find an existing session to join. Bots can also be added to fill in player slots.

There is a third mode currently in the works which will match players together in "ranked" matches. This will be active July 13.
Fields of Justice

Maps in League of Legends are called Fields of Justice.[13] There are currently two Fields of Justice that the players can choose from:

* Summoner's Rift resembles the DotA map. It has 3 lanes and supports 5 players per side.
* Twisted Treeline is a smaller map with only 2 lanes. It supports 3 players per side. Because of the shorter average lifespans of games in this map, you receive 22% reduced XP and IP when you finish the game.[14]

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, item shop and nexus. The two bases are connected by lanes. Periodically, waves of minions spawn from the nexus. Minions are AI-controlled troops that walk down the lanes, engaging any enemies they encounter. The lanes are lined with turrets that engage enemies within range. Once a turret is destroyed, it cannot be rebuilt. A new element in League of Legends is the inhibitors. Each lane has an inhibitor on both ends. If a team destroys the enemy inhibitor, more powerful "super minions" will spawn for that side. Unlike turrets, inhibitors respawn after a fixed amount of time.

Besides the lanes, the maps also contain "jungle" areas. Neutral monsters inhabit the jungle. These monsters can be killed by a champion for bonus gold and experience. Some powerful neutral monsters grant the killer a buff that will help them in battle. Another special terrain feature is the brush. Brush blocks the line of sight of units, allowing champions to hide and set up an ambush.

The goal of each team is to destroy the enemy Nexus. The first team to achieve this is the victor. It is also possible to surrender using a voting system.
Champions

Each player controls a single Champion. There are currently 53 different champions in the game, each with unique characteristics. Certain champions are tagged with properties such as 'tank', 'fighter', 'mage' or 'support' to describe their play style.

At the start of each battle, every player has the ability to choose a champion to fight for him in battle. The choice of champions is limited by what the player has unlocked. Each week, certain champions are made temporarily free so that players can try them out without unlocking them.

Champions gain experience by killing enemy minions, champions or buildings. After reaching a certain amount of experience, the champion levels up. Each level increases the champion's stats and adds an ability point that can be spent to improve one of the Champion's unique abilities. The maximum level for a champion is 18.

Players can gain gold by landing the killing blow on an enemy minion or by killing a champion. Some abilities and items also generate extra gold. The acquired gold can be spent at the item shop for various items. These items boost stats of the champion. Some items can be combined into more powerful items by following predefined recipes.[15]
Summoner spells

The Summoner can choose two summoner spells to bring with it into an in-game session on the Fields of Justice.[16] These spells significantly impact gameplay, and have a high cooldown while costing no mana.

All spells can be improved by masteries.[16] Before v1.0.0.63, Promote was an available summoner spell that would upgrade a minion, it was deemed too powerful when used in unison by multiple summoners.[17]


Bron: League of Legends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Meer screens: League of Legends Screens for PC at GameSpot.

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