League of Legends

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18 Nov

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Originally posted by crazyike

The market for this (“high quality adult focused animation”) didn’t exist before Arcane

Aand Riot in China and Japan just went bankrupt.

In the West (that was the feedback we were getting when looking for distribution partners).

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Arcane was always written to be two seasons.

The confusion is because internally there was a budget conversation about “approving 5 seasons” - which simply means we were setting aside a bunch of money for lots of development and is completely irrelevant to the Arcane creative. The creative and making something great is what the priority should always be for Riot and our teams.

We have also always envisioned telling more stories and continuing to expand the universe. That hasn’t ever changed - people just jump at rumors or misleading headlines and Riot didn’t correct them - but given those rumors gained momentum, happy to clarify.

Just because that is our intent, doesn’t mean it’s easy or that we can pump these things out like a factory - just like making games that are worthy of players time / love is really hard, so too is telling great stories and making incredible shows / films (especially when we are building it from scratch for the first time).

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17 Nov

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Originally posted by ElderTitanic

August also unironically wears a "uwu" beanie so he is not to be trusted

true


16 Nov

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Do you hear Jinx say anything? Does it appear to load? What are your system specs? Thanks in advance.


14 Nov

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These answers aren't really correct. You can look at the the players at the top of the ladder and almost all of them will be roughly around +-20.

The reason they don't get higher is simply because they are winning just as much as they're losing (50 percent winrate), because they aren't maintaning a 65% WR when they're at rank 1. They might have been when facing master, gm but not at the top.

Part of this is also because if they are actually that good (eg. Say they are 4000 mmr when the other 9 players are closer to 3000), then the teams will be balanced such that each team has a 50% chance to win (ie. The 4000 mmr player will have the lower players on their team). If the player is good enough, they'll be able to maintain that higher winrate and start to push the boundary (similar to what srtty was doing last season on NA)

Another interesting case study would be if you were to put a soloq god like showmaker or canyon in a much weaker server, you'd see the lp ...

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Originally posted by DSDarkShadow

download: 928Mbps
upload: 949Mbps

Whoa! It should have loaded in under 30s for you! Something weird was going on there.

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Originally posted by DSDarkShadow

It worked, thanks! It took about 10 minutes and it started to load

What's your usual connection speed when you do a Google speed test?


12 Nov

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Hello! League sound designer here chiming in to add to this discussion. Like you pointed out above, it would add a lot of unnecessary noise into the game that is already hectic and filled with lots of auto attacks, skill shots and voice lines firing off.

Gameplay clarity is key - we only add footsteps to Spells that convey movement (Nunu's W, Mordekaiser's W, Warwick's W, Teemo's W... wait, why are all Footstep sounds on W?) or sometimes as flavor in Homeguard animations as champions are seen running out of the Base.

Sometimes, in rare cases, Kled has footsteps because it's part of his gameplay to know if he's on Skaarl or not.

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Have you tried Exiting from the client and logging back in? If this continues to be an issue, we'll look into it!

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Originally posted by alexnedea

First rule of fight club, we dont talk about fight club

Client improvements are on the docket too

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Originally posted by LumiRhino

Some of the stack counters are nice, but one in particular I honestly wouldn't want it for is Xin Zhao. One of his common plays is to Q then AA something twice, then engage on a target with Q3. That play becomes much more telegraphed if he has a marker for that. This isn't something that would affect his winrate, but it does remove some skill expression unnecessarily.

(Note, we actually won't be doing the champion secondary resource QoL this patch, gonna let it cook a bit more internally):

As of right now, all of these changes are player-only. So in the Xin Zhao case, enemies would not see you charge up to your knockup via this UI. It's meant to help the player, not the opponents.


11 Nov

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Originally posted by Heyoni

Not enough to get his wife excited. Back to the sound lab!

fair enough!

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Originally posted by Swoody11

I have a pretty solid 5.1 surround system with a quality receiver.

In DDD+ the sound quality of Arcane is unmatched. It is, by all means, a masterpiece. I had my wife come listen to one of the battle scenes just to show her. She was… not as excited as I was, but acknowledged it did “sound really good.”

glad to hear it. i know the sound team would agree that we really took arcane's sound to another level this season. primarily because of the tight collaboration between composers and sound designers, which even on the highest budget movies simply do not happen.

episode 209 will go down in history as the best sounding television episode ever. Mark my words.


10 Nov

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Originally posted by Moonboy65

will the next dev blog also mention who's getting an ASU next or will that be till season start?

We’ll save the next update announcement for the earlier January dev update yeah


09 Nov

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Originally posted by SGKurisu

I don't think any place with that amount of homeless people and 1%ers can be close to the best place in the world. Climate wise it's fantastic, the public transit is... serviceable (bad compared to the rest of the developed world), food scene is pretty good. But from my experience IMO it's basically just a worse version of the greater Sydney area 

Agreed that we need to provide the people with affordable (better yet, public) housing. But that’s a national issue, not just a city issue.

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Definitely something we could/should add. I’ll make a note

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Originally posted by LunekJones

Will you discuss secret Arcane VGU in the next dev blog?

We will in the next dev update yeah (which should come out shortly after the Arcane finale)

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Originally posted by doublegunnedulol

Outside the arena with the massive crowd in the cold night air was a genuinely magical experience. Me and my best friend screamed our lungs out that night.

That’s where my friends and I were too :)

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Originally posted by JPLangley

northern california is the best place in the world when you don't have some nerd from arkansas yelling that it sucks into your ear

They’re just jealous of YAY AREA 🤧