League of Legends Dev Tracker

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Thank you for collecting and sharing all the details you have done. I wish I got to provide more first hand, but I tended to not notice threads like this until days after they went up. :(

The League engine in most significant ways is not the same engine that League shipped with. The collection of tools and systems that make up what could be considered the engine has had multiple renderers, VFx pipeline has been near completely replaced, UI tooling and its underlying tech has been completely replaced, audio systems, all complex game data has been supplanted into a new structure, localization systems has been replaced, and so on and so forth. The engine does have shortcomings, but it's also VERY good at the things it does do. Which is all optimized towards League and, now, TFT.

Most of the issues described are *not* Engine level issues. Weird, niche, and complex bugs also tend to not be an engine issue. Instead, generally, it's almost always a content issue of some kind. Or, they're issues that is so incredibly specific to League interactions that there really isn't a generalized solution within another engine. That is, the cost to "do good" is the same in the...

That's a VALORANT agent. Looks like our patch notes got mixed up...

There are not 15-20 ppl on the balance team (designers), there's significantly less, because it's the optimal amount and becomes too difficult to get alignment on anything. When the group gets too large, it's unwieldy. There are ~15 people in the room at the meeting. This is: data (though I also pseudo function as a data analyst), player comms, game analysts (the master-chall people that represent each role from a partner team), producers, QA, other designers from off-team (my boss, etc.)

Keep in mind that the balance portion of the team is only a small part of summoner's rift team's day to day function, given that things like Durability Update or Preseason take 6 months to a year of fulltime work with multi-disciplinary teams (art, engineering, sounds, qa, production, data).

this miiiight be because we actually exported the video at 60fps this time lol

Thanks for this!

I can’t confidently speak on behalf of every region, particularly in how they handle remote games due to COVID (as each region has a unique situation— we take 10 minutes because Berlin, as a city, has some difficult internet infrastructure to contend with at times).

But it should be fairly similar.

Players on stage wear heavily insulated headsets which include some baseline white noise to mask the sound of the casters and audience.

Hey there, I can't DM so just wanted to reply in hopes that you are able to check your reddit chat soon :)

Ahh this meant he'd 'rekindled' a set of Eternals and he was only mastery 5 with the champ.

Series 2 is nearly 100% implemented! Then, we need to go through and NAME them all, check their data to ensure they're working as we want them to and finally QA and bugfix them. On track before end of year certainly.

Hmm, it doesn't really work out that way. Once an eternal has a fairly consistent number of increments per game, then it's easy to map their milestones to 2, 4, 6 games etc. At that point, they're all the same difficulty so to speak.

Lol, their are definitely some “interesting” posts that never make it to the front page

I filter by “new” all the time

I can literally answer this question! Hardest: Samira.

Champion double kills during ult - lowest increment rate in the game (fiddlestick's It won't die is close 2nd)

Champions "juggled" with passive knock up extension - she can't actually do this one herself, so she needs allies with knockups to have a chance.

Ultimate projectiles blocked with W - if you're against ashe or jinx, you'll get 1-2 per game. If you're against Lucian or MF, it's more like 40-50 per game.

Zhonyas stops smite, but you do that to yourself. Which, incidentally, Inspired did to himself on an earlier Baron steal attempt.

I love this.

Sorry for the delayed update on this. The feature to automatically upload VODs to twitch after the broadcast ends was disabled temporarily on the backend, but should now be restored.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Lead producer of the LEC here. In general there is about 3-5 seconds between the live game and observer, so the audience in the studio sees the games virtually instantly.

The encoding process + stream output results in an additional 30-45 seconds. All-in-all, for live games on stage our delay to the average viewer is generally around or slightly below a minute.

In the LEC where teams may play remotely due to COVID, our observer delay for games is at minimum 3 minutes to ensure competitive integrity, but we usually do 10 minutes to build a buffer. We use those 7 minutes to skip over pauses on air whenever issues relating to the remote environment (like internet issues, etc) arise.

Broxah absolutely took over that game. He lead the humour, the stories, the gameplay, he seriously impressed me and it's so so clear his learnings from streaming came into full force. Omg what a game