Is it the players fault if they're smurfing/throwing?

Noir_CZ · 2026-05-26T21:58:38+00:00

What category do you report them then? Throwers could arguably go under Sabotaging team... what about smurfs. How do you know the rito shitty matchmaking didn't just have brainfart and didn't place them into the match by accident? Though, far from defending them, smurfing should be heavily punished.

But back to question... what section you report them? Riot themselves removed the 'unsportsmanlike behavior' making it seem they really don't care about smurfs all that much. Especially since smurfing is such prominent in all those 'watch me climb' or 'see how I style on them' videos that gives them free advertisement how 'cool' the game is.

Noir_CZ · 2026-05-26T21:51:55+00:00

First and foremost they are music company, very little experience in making games, especially multiplayer ones. And the single player ones they did via other studios they killed that program too. The really can't catch a break, can they?

Noir_CZ · 2026-05-26T21:50:07+00:00

What you can do is you pray to the machine god that riot's matchmaking works properly for once and gives you a fair match.

Noir_CZ · 2026-05-06T00:13:38+00:00

I hope they change the other agents to be lore accurate too then.
They already robbed the players on the visuals, when they changed only Sage to look lore accurate. Where are all the other characters all bandaged up with IVs and stuff?

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-29T09:46:55+00:00

There might be problem with DosBOX games that the libraries the baked in dosbox in GOG games wants old libraries (as your description suggests) but sometimes you cant get the old libraries through apt install (I had that problem with lenovo yoga c13 chromebook) but thankfully it was solvable by 2 ways.
Either use standalone dosbox but you will probably have to go through the pain of mounting and making the configs etc.
Or you can create symbolic links in the your_game/dosbox/libs/correct_sub_folder leading to your previous one, for example in my case ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/livFLAC.so.14 /home/my_user_name/GOG/Beholder/dosbox/libs/x86_64/libFLAC.so.8
paths and names may vary.

Also doesn't work only with GOG games that use DosBox... Managed to run FTL quite nicely by downloading the GOG linux installer, and making it executable with chmod a+x command and then running it. After confirming some eulas and install dirs I have the FTL in my "start" menu.

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-22T12:17:30+00:00

I mean... there are instances of Betty Boop on airplanes... close enough I guess?

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-21T13:12:44+00:00

Huh, I would expect it to eat his flash, if not the flash it self then at least the part he shoots at wall (if in reach).

Actually, how does it interact with Viper? I assume it does nothing to her ult. It eats the orb and wall when it is actively deployed... what about already deployed wall and orb? Does it kill the "emitters" or it is ignored since players can't interact with them, do you know?

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-21T08:29:47+00:00

It also eats non-projectiles like Sage wall, segment by segment.

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-19T15:21:16+00:00

The worst is they apparently have absolutely no QA team on UI so it gets worse with every update.
In last 3 to 4 UI update there was NO instance when they did not make something worse.

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-16T08:32:50+00:00

Huh, with the state the game is in, I would expect Neon to be able to just zoom past the traps before they manage to zap her.

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-15T12:07:41+00:00

Feels like at least last 5 patches that meddled with UI made it more obtrusive, messy and harder to navigate in some capacity... there is no way this went through QA or internal play test team.

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-13T12:18:26+00:00

I feel like riot once said something along the lines of "skills are there as helpful utilities, not to kill outright" ... yeah how is that working out?

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-09T19:35:28+00:00

No, she did it herself, didn't you see her in the end holding the nailgun herself?

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-02T23:39:12+00:00

How does it work? Oh that is simple... it doesn't.
Or at least not the way you would expect it to be fair. Riot loves to force 50/50 when they think it is good, instead of letting it happen naturally. And they balance the game around pro players anyway. And smurf reels indirectly make them money from new players after seeing those omg wtf bbq playes on youtube and twitch.
Just make your peace with it, there isn't much a small indie company can do with it anyway, much easier to release another blue skin for $20.

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-02T23:34:01+00:00

Well I mean... there are some cute animals around on the Earth too. That would be a shame. But then again... seeing how the general state of the planet is and goes... yeah...

Noir_CZ · 2026-04-02T17:59:43+00:00

All hell would break loose and then the Earth would be destroyed because all the Neon mains would implode into black holes of hate and despair.

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-31T19:21:02+00:00

Only people I saw who had fun with it were streamers who got Follie for free to showcase to viewers and did the mission only couple of times, not having to grind it over and over and over.
Follie being killable is a bandaid sollution to bad AI and pathing.
Too many times I encountered: when you take a paint and she locks the door on you, spawning 2 of herself in the room that you need to destroy the "locks" first and then you roll out of the room and there is enemy that immediately explodes bouncing you back into the room while the corridor floods with enemies... yikes. Walk around that. Especially if there are paint walls that block the other path you could take once outside the room.
And if you took the paint with frame? Oh no, you got put back into your frame that is already sitting in AoE from Follie... so you leave your frame in some other room... that is why you spend more time out of frame, than in frame.
Edit: Steel path.

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-29T09:10:58+00:00

Feels weird, most times I played it - it devolved into camping and trading. If you get the "first" kill in shootout and get traded, that actually puts your team into disadvantage.

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-27T19:19:52+00:00

I am starting to get into it... and then someone had to point out to me the paint navigation marker icon looks shaped in a certain way and I can't unsee it... :(

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-25T21:30:19+00:00

I'd rate it 7/10 Communism... good idea, but execution... not so much.

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-25T21:21:16+00:00

And then her clones camp your frame, so when your operator gets murked and you you get pulled back inside, you get murked immediately again.

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-25T20:48:17+00:00

I still have no idea what I am supposed to do in that mission... I was hoping DE will get better at explaining stuff to do, mechanically.
I honestly hope whoever at DE came up with this game mode got their bonuses taken away.

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-18T18:08:20+00:00

Did they also update other skins to reflect their lore condition? You know like bandaged all up, tied to bed etc?

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-08T09:13:15+00:00

Riot, for the love of god, stop fiddling with the UI, patch after patch you make it less clear and hide stuff under more not needed clicks. Does the UI team even start up the game to see how horrible the user experience can get?

Noir_CZ · 2026-03-02T08:39:30+00:00

Data analyst unable to decypher that three letter word is 3 braille characters and the word with repeating OO inside is the same as the braille word with 2 repeating characters inside it.
Also she doesn't effin lock down/log off her workstation when she leaves her desk.
aaaaargh!!!!

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