[2021] I miss original Doom Bots

I know Riot said they wouldn't bring most RGMs back, but I really miss the original Doom Bots.

I am not talking of the Doom Bots with the Satan Teemo gimmick. I am talking about the original Doom Bots, which was actually just a regular Coop vs IA game mode... except you had to play against those overpowered cheating bots.

Despite seemingly being uninspired at first, I liked it because it was the closest thing we had to a hard difficulty Coop vs IA mode (something which has been noticeably asked for during a long time, even though Riot has higher priorities on their list). You could play against bots, but it wouldn't be just an auto-win because you could easily exploit the bots' AI.

It was released in 2015, so I am not sure if many people will remember. But I do remember it. And it was super fun. I used to play a lot of this game mode. I wish Riot brought it back (even though I know this will never happen).

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Originally posted by ToyZen197

You means this dooms bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7YGtxF1iGU

I watch LoL since 2015 but only play it in summer 2016.
I haven't got a chance to try, but it look better than "teemo dooms bot".

Story time.

I remember when we filmed this (it was the first mode I ever made on League of Legends!). We had initially wanted to film this on a stable internal dev environment, but due to the location, that wasn't possible. Unfortunately due to time constraints, we had to film this on actual PBE, which at the time was unstable due to an unrelated issue. For context, we had 'barely' gotten the PBE build to an acceptable state in time, and were furiously bug fixing in the background (EG: You can still hear a terrible audio clipping bug from the triple Victor laser doom).

I remember telling the film crew at the time, "There's an EXTREMELY small change that one of them could be DC'ed during this filming. Don't worry though, it's an infinitesimally small chance." We only had time to do one take, so we had to pray it didn't happen.

So of course /u/Zirene get's DC'ed just as the game is heating up (sorry dude!). -_- My heart sank. :(

While we're furiously try to reconnect him in the background, the film crew have the idea to just replace his camera slot with some poros at keyboards as the "Doom Bots". The other also casters helped play this off as "The Doom Bots DC'ed him coz he was too strong!" It covered up long enough for us to get him back in the game and they turned it around to win.

Thanks Dave, film crew and casters for the quick thinking. :)

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