Reverse Controls Node - SOP for Example
Hello Kabam, there are people with cognitive conditions also playing this game. It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re disabled but their brains and minds are wired a certain way. Of course, people with established brain may struggle with reverse controls but there are players with real conditions trying to enjoy this game and compete as well.
At times I feel some of these developers motive and intent for designing certain contents and champions is not genuinely to challenge players and bring out the best in their skill but to frustrate them. It’s like after the design, they sit back and laugh at those going to deal with it.
With that said, a node of mechanic that messes with cognitive functions is generally difficult, and extremely painful for those with certain cognitive conditions. If they motive is right, and you want the community to improve, what do you do? Introduce such ideas, in this case ‘reverse controls nodes’ in modes of the game that players can practice, explore and improve. That’s not the case here. Where do we find ‘reverse control’? Grandmaster fights, Necropolis, later stages of Incursion, etc, one mistake and you’re dead situations. How can this be a considerate design especially for people I’ve described earlier.
During my high school days, there was this dude, we called him Croc, who can read a book just once and recite it to you. He was won’t miss a single word, not even “is”. He score 100% in all written test, and struggled with maths. Whenever he scored 90%, it was intentional. Turns out he had a cognitive condition, he died in college. I don’t know how he would have performed with a node like this, maybe excel or maybe not at all. But every time I see reverse controls for some reason he comes to mind.
My point is, it’s good we have reverse controls immune champs, it makes it bearable to challenge the node for many. However, if we could improve and adapt our cognitive function to handle this, we’d want to try but not in modes like SOP and etc. Train us and let us work for it.
Suggestion: In ROL legends, introduce a feature where we can play it as it is or apply nodes either to the entire quest or each champ. It’s even time we have sometime like that to determine how new champions perform with nodes.
