How is it that this dude makes like no mistakes with all of these? Seriously, they have improved like 15+ champions so far I swear, and all of them have been perfection.
that's awesome to hear - but it's a group of very talented Rioters not just 1 (which I agree would be really hard to do alone!!). Each of them are passionate about making these improvements.
I am in fact the guy working on fantasy - there will be an update this week
Does Travis not have access to the Commisioner's theme song? This feels like an oversight.
God Bear
How did you become a Q/A anaylst at riot? What was your path to get there?
A while back I was living in Boston working on my doctorate degree in structural engineering. I had been living there for a few months and didn't have many friends because a lot of the graduate students I was working with were a lot older than me. Wound up going to a World's viewing party at a local bar to try and make some friends.
There, I met some Rioters that were in town recruiting interns and visiting the local universities. I befriended RiotAugust there and we kept in touch. He came back to visit a couple of times and eventually he encouraged me to apply to the Playtest team.
I decided to go for it, despite being in the middle of grad school, and actually got rejected after my second phone interview. It was a bit disheartening, but I loved what I was doing so I was mostly alright with it.
At some point, I finished my Master's degree and got a nice job offer back in my home state so I stopped pursuing the doctorate and moved back home with my Master...
Read moreSince spectator has a bunch of its own visibility rules, the death realm is a big visibility system puzzle, and engineering bandwidth was tight, we decided not to do a spectator-facing version of "seeing into" the death realm. So spectator will always show Summoner's Rift. The spectator will see a ghostly version of whoever's in the death realm. This is not the same as the wisps that players in Summoner's Rift see. The spectator ghosts will animate, cast spells, and you can see the effects from those spells. Whereas the wisps that players in SR see just move around (so you can position appropriately).
This is really cool that riot lets you use their resources to better hone your skills. As a QA analyst were you familiar with scripting prior, or are you learning as you go? What do you see yourself doing with the info you learn from this project?
I already had some experience scripting from my past career/grad school (structural engineer!) and so I mostly understand the concepts just have to relearn how to apply them. A lot of what I've learned is self taught, but I have had a lot of mentoring/help from the designers here. :)
There's a number of things I'm trying to get out of this project, but most relevant to what I do: By improving my understanding of how we make champions and whatnot, I believe I'll be able to better triage/investigate bugs, potentially be able to fix some of them myself, better understand the riskiness of something we're making (how likely it will cause something to break for example), etc.
Read moreThanks for the response. Don’t take the title too harshly, I may have made it a bit more clickbaity than needed.
Glad to hear about the knockback increase. Interesting to see how things have changed, I always remembered how Orianna’s ult would pull champs a flat distance from their original location, sometimes throwing enemies in the center to further from the ball than they were originally. Anything that makes it clearly feel like a knockback rather than a knockup is fine by me. Do you know if that increase to 500 units will ship to PBE so we can test it out?Edit: Apparently the increase mentioned above is already on PBE, but isn’t large enough the be noticeable. Still major problems with this.
- I’m a little disappointed about losing blob generation while fighting a single champ or while hitting non-champs, since that was one of the major gripes after the rework was not being useful enough outside of teamfights...
I’ll try to get a video of the animation bug. I was able to reproduce it on the practice tool by spamming flash during the ult, but maybe it’s only reproducible if you flash multiple times during the
Thanks for writing back!
Heyo, I'm Riot Maxw3ll, the designer responsible for the Zac Revert. Figured I should go through this point by point to hopefully clear some stuff up.
Knockback Distance:
Number of Blobs:
Thanks for chiming in August, glad to hear you hear the community's feelings
"Chiming" in.
I see what you did there
I share the worry that her power curve is currently too sharp. Have been working on a changelist that fiddles with things to give her more options in lane at the expense of late-game power. Will put it on PBE to collect feedback once I'm confident it's in the right direction. There's a difference between being weak in lane while still having things to do and being so weak that there's nothing to do except farm Klepto procs.
No guarantee that anything changes (I'm not shipping anything that isn't a clear improvement to the champion), but your concerns are heard and being thought about.
United we stand. United we fall.
Slay the spire is the game I choose!
Love that game.
It's weird that this doesn't show up on Twitch page itself.
You should be able to see it in two places.
my favourite part about accounts like yours is when they blind pick their tried and tested turbofeed irelia instead of playing a champion they can win games with like maybe at some point you just have to accept that being good at irelia is not your destiny
never
I got Battle Academy Ezreal, which I already own, so I just refunded the Ez and used the skin shard. Free 1820rp :D
Damn that's some value.
Do you see this /u/WizardCrab
I see this!
Good, if you ask me. }:)
j/k I love cats and I love Yuumi
That's fair, but oh shit that is going to kill Yuumi's quite consistently.
Good, if you ask me. }:)
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