[2019] Why does Riot use rounds as an indicator in TFT missions when they use stages in the actual game?

I can shed some light on PART of this stuff as a writer person -- in the case of TFT specifically we were moving at such a fast clip that a lot of verbiage just wasn't hammered down until the very end of the line (in some cases after).

We're also learning how to do things for TFT on the fly, so some of it just might not be ideal in the short-term. I'm not sure what happened here (I'll poke around but it's probably just a case of us not fully figuring out the best way to communicate stage/round via mission text), but I'd expect this stuff to get smoothed out as we keep polishing TFT and the stuff around it. Consistency matters A LOT to us, but it's super difficult to track every word across every angle; a champion, for example, has V/O, ability text, narrative backstory, universe copy, spotlight script, gameplay trailer, sometimes a teaser asset, etc, etc, etc, and this stuff is touched by different writers plus designers and others along the way.

A lot of times the writing stuff isn't solidified until the LAST second (the Qiyana spotlight script doesn't have her ability names in it because they actually weren't set until after the record was due), and it's easy to drop words here and there :)

EDIT: Uh I might have confused the Morde script with the Qiyana one. One of those didn't have final names. I can't remember which.

Hello! I helped author the missions around TFT. This one is on me. We had a consistency atlas, and there were a few things that changed throughout the process due to that. This one just happened to slip through. Tummers does have it correct though that we were moving pretty darn fast. We'll make sure to pay extra attention to the verbiage in the future.

Its not that exciting honestly, just a good ol' google doc.

Looks like this!

It should be round 11.

A set bonus refers to either class or origin. Where there are 6 of either, this mission should work.

One thing to consider is that missions process after the game ends, not after you leave the game. This means that you should wait a bit after an early knock out to try and claim your rewards!

Which mission are you referring to exactly?

Thanks pikaluva13.

And that certainly was not our intent.

Looking into this now.

The elements thing is actually an interesting example of design vs. writing.

From the designer perspective, we want to say "river, brush, wall," because that's the actual thing in the game players are interacting with.

But from the writer perspective, "elements" sounds better when paired with "grass, water, stone/earth."

That's why you'll see a bit of both in the materials around Qiyana -- some cases we prioritized the sound, others the gameplay clarity.

Hey Kamui, as far as we are aware the mission is functioning properly. Multiple people have tested and reported that it completed for them.

The mission is supposed to be challenging, but should not ruin your game experience. If you continue to have an issue, please submit a ticket to player support.

Edit: we have found the issue with the mission and will be issuing a make-up mission to affected regions. You aren’t going to lose access to anything on the beta pass if you’ve been playing and completing missions up until now!

Round 11.

We did in fact detect both an issue with the mission and a separate problem that was masking it when we would test it. We are going to issue a mission to affected regions that allows them to make up the beta pass points they have lost access to.

Sorry for the radio silence on this one, but we wanted to make sure we had an answer before we said anything here.

That is correct.

The hotfix to the mission should be live in all regions.

The fix went live as of about an hour and a half ago.