Legends of Runeterra Dev Tracker

Hey, this is lovely! Just wanted to point out that the illustration is actually by SIXMOREVODKA and not an internal illustrator at rito!

Ha, yup, I getcha. I'm actually gonna update the matching bullet in our 1/22 patch notes with some additional context along the lines of what I mentioned above, so thanks for helping me draft that haha.

Hey folks, chatted with one of our tech guys about the background here, basically what this comes down to is that the friends list / chat is built on a completely different service than challenge functionality. Most pertinently, friends list / chat is shared between games (i.e. with LoL), while challenge (and matchmaking) is game-specific.

The team that owns the underlying friend / chat tech has specifically made improvements to it to support cross-shard friends / chat, while the only "improvement" to LoR's matchmaking breadth is relative to LoL's in that LoR has fewer, bigger (i.e. include more countries) shards than LoL. Unfortunately, we do still need to have at least a few distinct shards, which means separate matchmaking pools.

Still definitely get the annoyance, but hope this clarifies.

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Hey folks, FYI patch notes covering all changes to Anivia and other cards are coming on 1/22, so wouldn't speculate TOO much until then.

We don't currently have plans to directly support Mac OS, but we are potentially interested in Mac OS' new capability of running ipad apps on macs (https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/). Nothing concrete for now (we're super focused on OB start and mobile), but we'll let you all know as soon if that changes.

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Your previous one works!

Nope, that's accurate! Anyone who played during the preview patches or pre-registers by midnight PT on the 19th will get access at or shortly after 11 am PT on the 23rd. The gates then go completely open at 11 am PT on the 24th.

Big sorry, please forgive.

Hi! I'm Dovagedys, the Product Lead for "Sets" on Legends of Runeterra.

I think this is an awesome question and want to share some of our thinking regarding future champions.

Over time we hope to eventually include every champion in Legends of Runeterra. There are many factors that determine when we include a champion. The most important factors are gameplay and thematic cohesion. We want the champions to feel like they belong together, play well together, and are fun together. As we begin releasing expansions and add more champions, we want to ensure they’re exciting and fun for players, thematically fit with their expansion as a whole, represent new mechanics, and work well in an ecosystem with all the previously released champions.

As you mentioned, champions are often related to specific regions and we take that into account when considering which champions to include in future expansions. However, I believe there are creative ways to include champions t...

Of course! We're just happy to be out in the wild with you all :D Will be back with 2020 info as soon as we can.

We're on the same page!

Right now they're desynced because we're tweaking things to optimize around the 5-day previews. Once we're in closed beta they should all line up.

Matchmaking is based on number of Champions in your deck, and then sudden death. Losses/trade picks etc are not considered.

The trade picks at 6 wins are getting you caught up to the max number of trade picks you could have had in the run before that, so everyone is the same for that final battle.

Separate.

We had MMR based matchmaking in the last preview, but it was tuned VERY loosely, because we wanted to make sure players got into game.

For this preview, we tightened up the MMR matchmaking, especially early on in queue, and added some criteria that prevent players with very few games played from being matched into more experienced players. This latter effect falls off pretty fast after a player's first 5-10 games.

Glad to hear it feels like a more fair experience!

Yeah, we are investigating ways of making it more obvious that you are going to get a big burst of XP!

Rematches are blocked for a short period of time, currently 10sec in Normal PvP and 50sec in Expeditions.

Depending on when you're playing, your MMR and how many games you've played in that queue, it's possible that no better matches are being found before these expire. FWIW, we should probably increase the time in Normal PvP...I've noted it.

Thanks :)

Shard value for duplicates is one way to look at rewards, but it implies that a player only values Shards and not cards. That is a good model for the Limited-only player, but the numbers change quite a bit if you are a hybrid player and place value on at least some cards themselves.

It is always great to see players figuring out all the math so quickly! From my spot checks, what I see looks right to me regarding your math (though I could have missed something!).

The tricky thing to account for in rewards is the upgrades, though since we have published the upgrade chances then it should be possible to build the table.

Another thing you might want to consider for your analysis is accounting for agency: if you add in a multiplier to random rewards, but not to wildcard rewards, then you can see how the tables change for players that value random content at different levels compared to an equivalent wildcard.

Great stuff!

It is all based on the win record of the Trial itself, so yup you get it separately for each Trial in an Expedition