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Today we will discuss reasons why we update client, and our plans about system reports on the resulting damage.
Why you need a new client?
Many developers do not need to change their client to the new. But League of Legends is working for you for 10 years already, and age of the few elements are old enought and they need to be replaced.
We did our best from the old client, but technologies of the past will not allow to us to release a big League of Legends updates. This why we need to update the client. Our new program was created from zero. Client affected to not only our game, but to every aspects of our relationships with League of Legends: Shop, Lobby, Chat, Champion choosing process and many more.
Improved design and more advanced technological base – that’s the first thing that players will notice in the new client.
Design
Just look at the old client. No, seriously, open your profile page. What we have here, scrapbook for wizards? And now switch to the rune page. Question: Why at magic resist runes are drawn seashells? Answer: Nobody knows. All page do not follow to entire style, because they all were done in a different time. In updated client we with some special magic make all perfect, and now is look fancy and beautiful, just take a look.
Technology
Old client work on the Adobe AIR technology and in 2009 that was really cool. Our new client will work on a Chromium technology base. By that we will add some new features in our LoL Client like replays and more.
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When system reports on the resulting damage will work correctly?
In short, the system reports on the resulting damage have several serious problems that complicate the introduction of new products and support of this function as a whole.
You may remember that we have significantly upgraded posthumous summary of last year. We managed to make the information in it more reliable (no more “death” from the Flash), but reached an impasse: without full rework our post-mortem reports would require a significant investment. We are already seeing that the system begins to fail again.
If work on summary of the resulting damage will resume, then we will remake it from zero, in order to avoid the appearance of the new problems. So far, we have postponed work on the summary, because it would take too many resources, which we have already sent to a priority address.
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We try to read all questions, but we just can not answer to all of them. To some of this question you can find answers in other articles. This rubrick is not the best place to announce our new features.
But we will hear you, so continue asking! And we will address your question to our employee, that works in that sphere.
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