This is so lit, I was expecting another legacy titles kings promo and Im sitting here hit with this.
LEC production strikes back "lcs has cooler songs" - yeah not anymore, suck it up Quickshot!(was it him?). If this doesn't replace the silver scrapes when G2 FNC goes to 5 games in playoffs I riot.
To be very very clear - when I said LCS has better music in PGL it was the ad break music, the champ select music the general show music. Not the music videos we produce as supplementary content.
Is there a reason we cant get more Ezreal/Morgana styled updates for champions? So many champions have perfectly fine kits but have terrible models or animations that are just not appealing to look at or play with. Rumble comes to mind in terms of good kit but lack luster visuals
We talk about doing things like Morg/Ez a lot, and it's something we want to do more of in the future, especially as our outsourcing pipeline gets stronger overtime. It's difficult to do those completely in-house like we did for Morg/Ez because both had massive skin catalogs that need to be updated as well, so doing them means we would have to cut/remove VGUs or New Champs (sometime more then 1 due to the scope of remaking all their skins) from the schedule which we believe have a overall higher value since they also drive engagement (where as VUs dont actually drive engagement) But like I said we have been building a much stronger outsourcing pipeline in the last couple years which makes VUs start to look more reasonable. Can't make any promises but it's something we talk about a lot internally.
Hey Reav, I was wondering if the second rework of 2022 is still planned to be the same champion whose rework was started, or if it will be a new champion? Also which rework was your favorite? I know a lot of people have been yelling about reworks lately and just wanted to say that I and a ton of other people really appreciate all the work you do!
We still haven't decided what the 2nd VGU will be yet, we just have one slated. Who gets the VGU will depend on a lot of factors that we will consider once we get closer to starting ideation on it
Appreciate the communication. So without COVID, would there have been more VGU’s this year?
yes, that was originally the plan, that's why we said we wanted to do a VGU poll last year
I work in development as well and we havent really slowed down after everyone got used to working from home. So this is a bit odd to me.
More so, if they are working on new characters, why are vgu different(I am not saying this as if they arent but I wonder why other balance and updates arent being halted but vgu's are.)
At this point now that everyone is accumustmed and has things setup at home we are not really moving slower, that's true. The transition from office to WFH was where it hit us, and when you have many projects in development at once like Champs team does a week or 2 adds up to many weeks of lost time (Champs team usually has 3-4 champs in production at any given moment) That time has to come from somewhere, and with the lengths of time champ development takes the consequences are usually seen like a year later in the schedule, not immediately.
For those of us who are new or returning from very long breaks (I just picked up after a 6 year absence), can you define vgu? I can't seem to find a definition anywhere
Visual and Gameplay Update, its where we take a old outdated Champ and rebuild them from scratch as a new champion (basically) while trying to preserve the spirit of the old champion and as much of the old champion as we can in the process
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I'm not sure where this perception that Champs make so much more then VGUs came from. Some VGUS have made more money then new champs,(especially ones with big skin catalogs that get updated with the VGU) some niche champs make much less then the base line VGU makes. Also, after we VGU a champ we can still make skins for it, just like a new champ. At the end of the day it doesn't matter though. The Champions Team is part of the Gameplay initiative at Riot, whos main goal is engagement not revenue. Skins in general make waaaay more then any new champion ever makes, and it's not really a goal for the Champions team to make revenue. Our main goal is engagement, which is to say we want to make products that keep people playing LoL. One of the reasons we toned down VGUs was that we saw data that showed that whenever we do a VGU some amount of players quite the game completely, usually mains of the champ that don't like the rework. If we do A LOT of VGUs in a year like we did in the past...
Read moreSS CG?
the Season Start CG with Viego in it
/u/GreaterBelugaWhale also said they will look into Sett right after worlds patch after his last nerf. Right...after... worldspatch...
and he was looked at. champs a 50% winrate across the board in top lane with moderate pressence in pro - seems pretty ideal
How are people saying this makes sense? They’re still releasing 6 new champs? Why would VGU’s slow down?
Isn’t the argument people make that resources should be diverted from new champs to VGU’s? I’m so tired of corporations using COVID as an excuse.
The reason we had to delay the 2nd VGU on this year to 2022 specifically is because we couldn't really delay other new champs in the roadmap. We had already planned the Return of the Ruined King story, and as I mentioned in the SS blog the next 3 champs are also all related to the story of Viegos return. When Covid hit and effected our schedule it would have been very difficult to delay Viego who we were already making a SS CG for (Which takes along time to make) but also the 3 new champs after him were interconnected with his story. All champs before those 4 were already in production so cutting them would be a lot more painful then delaying something that had barely just started. We had to basically have some other team members help ship Viego and some of our other projects for the 2nd half of last year which had effects on the schedule for this year.
Had a question. There was a dev blog that stated: "We think rather than fully flatten the natural strategy and skill variety in LoL we would prefer to support the uneven role power but balance them into a tight spread so that all positions have the capacity to carry the game with good performance."
That is still the pillar for positional power right?
Think so
If Quickshot can be taught to scream you could get a pretty dope Beauty and the Beast style symphonic metal band from that!
I'm down. Andy, Drakos. Sign me up.
So you're saying there's a chance?
Honestly? I would love to sing that infront of a live crowd and have a stadium of people all screaming BACKSTABBED BETRAYED.
sh*t would be lit.
Very important question, Spotify when?
It's already on spotify chief. We have a great producer!
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wqp69umLgacuuvHgazEQK?si=-f6jz2DZTIeH5Abtz9aZ4g
Tell me it was inspired by BFMV
Was inspired by the song I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance ;)
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I mentioned this in another comment but we hire a company called Instant Waves to write the actual music for us. They've done that for a lot of our other songs too. It would take too long for us to write and edit a song from scratch. I can play it on guitar though!
It's also Ender, not Medic ;)
Did u guys also played the instruments? If so i want a live performance at the spring finals, you guys are actually too good. Much love<3
Haha nah. Drakos and I really wanted to but it would take way too long to do that + write lyrics, so we hired a company that we've used before the write the music (instant waves). We made some changes, I wrote the solo that you hear and Drakos + I write all the lyrics.
I can play it on guitar though, it's pretty straight forward!
Very curious about development of this type of content. Do the three of you spearhead this? Just curious where the ideas come from. Obviously takes a long time to produce?
We made this in about 3 weeks. It was an idea Vedius and I had, we worked with Riot Mooncake, an absolutely incredible producer, to bring the idea to life. Vedi and I wrote the lyrics and worked with a production partner to compose the song. Huge team effort, Vedi and I are super lucky to get to work with a production team as good as the LEC's
When we were doing research for the image we wanted to create, he was someone that showed up. Letter to Ashley was a great inspiration for what we wanted to make!
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