League of Legends Dev Tracker

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Thanks for the kind words. Happy holidays. :)

I've never been more hype

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Thanks everyone for the kind words!

Thus is amazing! I'm an avid crocheter myself. :) I'd love to gift you something if you give me your IGN and region!

Yeah this design is so much better. Shifting the power to +AD and removing the silly damage-type constraint is better all around.

LETS GO! The popoff!!

another TorokArt traditional skin post

Yuumi W OFC. Not only does it disable her basic attack, it also makes it so she can't move!

Are you judging this in terms of winrate loss if the ability was removed?

Nexus Siege is unlikely to ever return. It's a very high cost mode to upkeep. Mostly in part due to the "game reset" part of it. And it wasn't really that popular.

Dark Star... I can't say for sure. Personally, I loved Dark Star. But it definitely got old fast. And this reflected in play rate as well. It was effectively a 1-weekend mode, in terms of a supportable queue size. It will definitely not return anytime soon, but I would love to be able to capture some aspect of it again eventually.

IIRC, Butcher's Bridge was built on a new renderer, so it could return. I would need to see where it's at though.

Crystal Scar is very unlikely to come back.

The Crystal Scar (and Twisted Treeline for that matter) were built for an old environment renderer that's no longer around. To return those maps, they will need to be rebuilt entirely. The only map so far that was built for the old renderer that was then rebuilt as-is for the new renderer has been Howling Abyss.

In turn, that old renderer also is unable to come back since utilizing it prevented League from adopting newer versions of DirectX. For maps, when things articles or comments mention the trade off between cost to keep around vs the popularity of the map or mode, most often that deprecation is one of the most significant costs we had to consider.

"SR variation" would be an incomplete analysis. Some of the least popular game modes, Nemesis Draft being perhaps the most extreme example, are also SR variations.

I also strongly believe that "SR variation" doesn't really capture why URF isn't played.

Our current hypothesis is that modes that present a strong - positive - gameplay fantasy are the most widely appealing and with an element of "changes every game" causes interest to stick. That is to say, folks play URF because they imagine all the cool sh*t they do in URF. They keep playing URF because each game has all the rest of the champions also doing cool sh*t (and different cool sh*t than last time), and that makes each game different and exciting. Really, the same is true with OFA as well.

That is to say, it's really about the champions. Not about the environment those champions are in. The environment, though, can be altered to support such spaces. "What does my champion ge...

For this run of Nexus Blitz, we're starting it knowing it didn't get enough attention, but that will be taken into account when looking at the data. We, simply, ran out of time but changes are still planned.

Nexus Blitz is not one of the more popular modes to begin with (OFA and URF are the current reigning champions there), at least in terms of % of people played or how much folks are playing. For every release so far that has been true. But it's also not unpopular so we are interested trying more on it. :)

Oh woah! This design space is wonderful and had not been considered yet. Awesome idea, /u/gramineous :D

They have. I won't go into much detail here, but the short of it is that it'll likely be awhile before we return to PvE modes and if/when we do, the approach will be something pretty different than Star Guardian or Odyssey.