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I love the positivity in this sub. We are all very satisfied with this game and that´s a great thing. But i think once in a while we can also handle a bit of slight criticism.
1.0 is great and i absolutely adore this game and the new set. To me the only thing missing in the latest update is client bugfixes. Afaik we now have even more bugs in version 1.0 than we had in the beta. Ofc that is only subjective perception and i could be factually wrong, but every single bug i noticed in beta still exists in 1.0. And it´s not like only i noticed them, i see posts about them here in this sub on a daily basis.
Especially the deck editor is by far the most buggy thing in the game. The 3 point count under the cards is bugged in many ways, when importing decks or adding cards to your deck too fast it will visually bug out for example. Misclicking and hitting a spot next to "Done" in deck builder throws a card out of your deck and you don´t know which one it was. Every time you change to another tab in the main menu (from "Start" to "Play" for example) you have to click the deck you want to select two times instead of once. Problems like this are super obvious and i just can´t imagine no one at Riot noticed them yet, especially when they constantly get posted here.
Some posts with a good amount of upvotes here even stated that the "visual experience bug" Riot even acknowledged in the main menu isn´t only visual and you actually really get the wrong amounts of experience. We are 5 days into 1.0 now and this kind of game breaking bug still persists. In a time when many new players try the game out this is especially bad because they will be turned off by inconveniences like this very fast.
Of course 1.0 introduced many new bugs, especially a number of game breaking card interaction bugs, but it´s expected for big updates to create new problems. They are more than i was hoping for but i´m certain Riot is taking gameplay related bugs very seriously. But in this post i´m mainly talking about persisting quality of life bugs that were here long before 1.0 and that i would have never thought would still be there after release.
I´m not saying this game is a buggy mess, that´s not the case at all and i love everything about LOR aside from its bugs. I´m only saying i was hoping for 1.0 to bring us a bit more polish. Maybe we will get that in the next update, we will see. But a bit of communication from Riot would be neat so we at least know that they are aware of those problems. Not fixing such obvious and seemingly easy to fix flaws for such a long time draws the picture of Riot not having noticed them yet.
Tl;dr: This game and the 1.0 update are great but i was hoping for the release update to sort out more of the bugs that are being posted here on a daily basis since months.
Edit: Some of the commenters are saying that 1.0 also feels a bit lackluster feature wise, aside from the great new set. It isn´t the BIG release update that people expected, with lots of quality of life improvements, a better deck builder, the option to plan decks with cards you don´t own, etc. But i agree with another commenter who mentioned that this could very well be because of the current pandemic which slowed down development. That would explain a lot to me. Still, a bit of communication from Riot on this topic wouldn´t hurt.
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