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No mention of any changes to TP like Phreak and August were hinting at throughout this year?
This was also mentioned by Meddler here.
I hope this doesn't mean changes to Teleport are scrapped?
No mention of any changes to TP like Phreak and August were hinting at throughout this year?
This was also mentioned by Meddler here.
I hope this doesn't mean changes to Teleport are scrapped?
We missed TP changes while working on this. :( perhaps someone from the team can weigh in?
I can't watch it til I'm back in like 5hrs yo, the wait is gonna kill me
Then boy do I have a TLDW for you.
The way they're describing Seasons makes me think of the way Sentinels of Light/Ruination worked; having all the champs that year (Viego, Gwen, Akshan, Vex) all revolve around Viego's attempts to cause the ruination.
That sort of thing yeah, though trying to do a much better job (fingers crossed) on how we go about doing it. I think some of the Sentinels/Ruination arc was quite good (the new champs, the set up etc). I think we dropped the ball when it came to the sort of story we told, the tone of some of it (inconsistent, sometimes too jokey), which existing champs were/weren't involved (Yorick where?, the mediums we were story telling in (a MOBA + text isn't the way to try and resolve these big arcs) etc.
It almost definitely is, since they're adding 12 free skins/year.
I think this year we only got Sivir and Singed? So I can't imagine that they're just going to give 10 more out without taking some away
There is some shift from free rewards as chests to free rewards coming from the free track of the always on battle pass as part of this yeah.
meddler in the dev video is said that the this season cinematic will be focused on noxus
so its safe to assume that every season will have their own cinematic ?
We will have a big cinematic at the start of the year like we've done in (most) recent years.
We won't have cinematics at that same scale and fidelity for every season during the year though (we can't triple down on that sort of production alas)
Please make all the P&Z champions still fit into the new canon. It's gonna be sad if we have another Shaco situation.
That's the plan. Will take a while in some cases, we want them to all feel like a cohesive part of that shared world though
Will we be seeing news on Shyvana soon? The changes at Riot obviously would have affected development on her so I hope her VGU is still in the pipeline and not impacted too heavily.
VGUs will also be part of seasons in the future. We still want to do Shyvana, but it'll be whenever that makes sense as part of the larger theme. She won't be part of Season 1 of 2025 for example, given she doesn't make any sense when we've got a heavy Noxus focus.
When we have a season that makes sense for her (e.g. themes of Demacia, dragons, transformation, Ezreal or whatever) she'll get her VGU.
Also since this is the last dev update of the year, would you know if the info regarding future plans for shows that Praeco talked about was pushed back or in a separate dev blog
Not something I'm the right person to comment on sorry. Potential future show thoughts or news will come from Praeco, the rest of the animation team, Fortiche etc, not those of us over on the game dev side of things
Only one champ per season?
Yes, though 3 seasons per year, so same number of new champs as this year
Outside of the first section are there any arcane spoilers? Haven't had time to finish it yet
Should be just that first section
Brave of you being on Reddit at all if trying to avoid spoilers though!
Hi guys, will elemental drakes still affect the map in the same ways as before?
Yes
I'm a little sad we didn't get any updates on ASUs but I imagine we'll be hearing more about them next year.
Larger champion updates will generally be tied to each season's thematic. Expect some details about the first of them in January as a result
So at the very least we know not to expect Shyvana's rework until the season changes, potentially to Demacia? If she is still being worked on at all. A mention would be comforting knowing the uy in charge got laid off
We'll still release a Shyv VGU at some point, as you say it will need to connect with a season's theme though. Wouldn't necessarily have to be Demacia specifically, could also tie into other themes too. We don't have any plans for a dragon focused season for example, but other themes like that could also make for a great moment.
When will season 2025 begin?
Ranked in 2025 will reset in early January if that's what you mean.
Or, if you mean the first season of 2025 that's focused on Noxus, that will also kick off early January. Thematic will change after 4 months, ranked won't reset until 2026 though
I feel in my bones that my collection of skin shards gonna be erased 😢 😭
Nope! We’re not touching any skin shards in your inventory! (Skin shards also aren’t going away)
so her progress is stopped at the moment and we wont get any news for a while and she wont be in 2025? its sad you didnt inform us earlier about this cause some people were really looking forward to her vgu especially after the long wait...
Correct, she won't be in 2025. Completely agree the long wait here is a really poor experience for those looking forward to her update and our apologies. We're going to avoid revealing updates like this so far in advance in the future to avoid that broken promise feeling.
I don't mean to be mean so if I come off that way I apologize. I'm genuinely just confused how this is considered a vgu?? Only thing changing is his ult, and it's still mostly the same. Is this not more of an asu?
We did originally explore much larger changes to Viktor's kit. Reaction from Viktor players was pretty negative to a few different versions though. There wasn't a pressing game health or balance need behind those changes, so we concluded it was better to update Viktor's art, audio etc but keep his established gameplay.
Is VIktor Dead? I thought the ending was open, if they died, or they could be transported, time travel.
I think the fate of a lot of champions in Arcane 2 is open to interpretation
I get she doesn't fit the thematic but it feels kinda rude that Shyvana players have been waiting since 2019, were told she was getting worked on in 2022 and are now just left in a limbo for whenever the right theme rolls around
Yeah, we messed up on this one. We should never have announced her so far in advance, let alone without a committed direction or clear timeline. Feels like a broken promise as a result.
Hi Meddler!! I'll wait as long as needed for a super cool rework :D How does Ezreal fit in all this though?
Sorry, couldn't resist the old callback
They are replacing quickplay....they are killing team builder...again.
Why...the f**k...they always DO THIS! We had matchmaking tools, that ensures that you can play the champ you actually want to, twice now. Both times you guys removed it for "something better". For f**k sake stop doing this!
Let us play the champs we want in a normal matchmade que!
Swiftplay will still let you pick your champ in advance just like Quickplay today does. You'll also be able to select the same champ for both roles you queue as
Is there a prestige skin list for 2025..?
The start of January dev update video will include a list of Season 1's prestige skins.
The update didn’t touch on the Jinx exalted skin or nexus finishers. Are those still coming next patch or are they pushed back?
Still planned for next patch. Didn't have any additional updates to share about them, so spent our time elsewhere
Will arena be back soon?
We'll talk about modes a bit in the next video (start of January), including when in the year Arena will return
you probably won't read this but, the literal only other game i play on occasion is Sky: Children of Light, and i looove their 'seasons'
looking forward to it
:)
Can't read everything, do try to though on the day these videos go out at least
One question about storytelling: I hope I didn't misunderstand, but each season is connected to each other right? Will the champions also be loosely connected/share a story or will each season tell an independant story
Some seasons will connect to others, some won't. That variability is another reason we didn't want to use terms like chapter or act instead of seasons, given it implies they're all part of larger whole, rather than separate but often related experiences thematically.
In terms of storytelling, there'll be some linear story at times definitely. Linear storytelling isn't our only, or necessarily even primary goal though. We also want to do things like deepen connection to factions, to characters etc that won't always mean narrative. What a part of the world feels like etc
Out of curiosity, how come Ambessa wasn't pushed back into the Noxus season?
Given Ambessa's role in Arcane we felt it was best to launch her before Arcane Season 2 was released. There's another Noxus associated character we were also already planning to do for the champ slot early next year.
Will Syndra appear in the cinematic? 😭 she has potential to be a big thing like Viego but yall ignore her.
We'll be focusing on Noxus primarily in the cinematic (not exclusively, but primarily). No Syndra this time sorry.
So then what about more fringe champs in need of VGU’s, when is someone like Nocturne who doesn’t fit into regions well supposed to get a VGU?
Theme for a season won’t always be focused on a faction necessarily, so non faction affiliated characters should still have opportunities