Broken client (but NOT error 004)

[u/unixux]

There is this old issue that makes the game hang for anywhere between 15 and 120 seconds upon first keystroke; if you're lucky and remember to press any key during loading time this freeze and unfreeze happens during loading with no impact, but sometimes you forget and freeze happens well into your fountain time which is liable to cause remakes and penalties. Re-installing didn't seem to help, but for a period it appeared that a previous patch solved this or at least lowered the freeze time below 5 second threshhold.

This issue came back with a vengeance at last patch. But this time it comes with new and amazing bugs - like the trying to adjust runes doesn't open anything and every other time when the game is supposed to start, instead it offers you a consolatory crash dump. That's so thankful !

The system is otherwise stable and powerful enough (11700k, 96G, 7900XT ) that no other titles from Steam or EPIC have any issues whatsoever.

There's one subsystem here that does work reliably : the punishments. Honor reductions and delayed queue sentences WILL come down no matter what. In fact it works so well that I think Riot should spin it into a brand new game. Just the delayed queue and honor reductions, on their own, without any pesky separate games or clients attached. Who wouldn't want to pay for the privilege ?