Riot has released an updated look for the in-game scoreboard. What has changed?
The scoreboard is a really important part of gameplay. It informs you about the most important player stats, such as the number of kills, assists, or deaths, but also the number of minions killed or the build. It’s also where you can see how the two teams’ kills compare, who has more towers destroyed, and which team leads in the number of dragons.
It turns out that Riot is working on updating the scoreboard. Fans of the title have already commented on the new look. What do the developers’ concepts look like? What has been changed?
Scoreboard changes in LoL
The planned scoreboard changes were announced by Riot Games employee Jordan Checkman. He wrote that various players were allowed to comment on the update, which means that the developers gathered feedback directly from the community.
A screenshot of the changes posted by the employee looks like this:
Jordan Checkman wrote in his message:
This is a project we plan to release that shows how the markers for heroes who are invisible on the map should look like. We’ve been testing this internally and higher-level players have agreed that it works quite well.
We plan to make these changes in the next update. Thanks for your feedback.
It’s worth noting a comment that caused the above concept to be slightly reworked. One player on Twitter reported that the new scoreboard, is unfriendly to Daltonists, because the yellow question mark, especially on the portraits of characters that are in shades of brown/orange (e.g. Taliyah) simply blends together and is only moderately legible.
This is very unfriendly to people who can’t see all the colors. Make the portraits of the characters darker or the question mark lighter, because especially in the case of Taliyah it’s hard to see.
It turned out that the posted comment changed a lot, because just a few hours later Jordan Checkman published an update that looks like this:
As you can see, now the portrait is much darker, making the question mark immediately striking.