Legends of Runeterra Dev Tracker

No worries, I appreciate you taking the time to reply! The internet can be a tough place, and I can understand your skepticism. Thanks for taking the time to ask questions and learn <3

You got it. :)

Not the easiest to find, but we do support this (because you're absolutely right, knowing the base health matters!).

Check out this button on the detailed view of a card: https://imgur.com/a/uj4ZZqi

Pressing it gives you this view of the undamaged (and unbuffed) base stats: https://imgur.com/a/OtbGcnL

On behalf of the Labs team... You get us.

Same (chill)wavelengths.

Sure thing! "Win with Shadow Isles" is one of the quests touched by this change since it checks if your deck has Shadow Isles cards in it, but if Win with Braum also didn't work after playing a round that would be unexpected ^ ^ ;

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Hey folks! Quest design owner here! Quests should still all be completable vs friends (except for queue specific ones that ask you to play a specific game mode) but we did make a change to how a few quests track progress.

Previously, any quest that checked the contents of your deck (quests like winning with a specific Region or specific card(s) in your deck) did so at the start of the game.

With the introduction of Labs, sometimes unusual things happen to your deck at the start of a game (fun fact: before you mulligan in ARAM, your deck is entirely composed of Champions!). To give Labs more space at the start of the game, those quests now check when you draw your first card of the game on Round 1.

So, if you were not getting quest progress and were snap surrendering during mulligan, that would be why. But, if you are seeing other quests not progress during Friend Challenge, please let me know, because otherwise quests should work the same as before!

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Thanks for the suggestion! An overall goal of giving more info to players on hover is one I totally agree with especially since top level info can get so dense and complicated. One tricky thing with hover (there's a lot!) is that it isn't as useful for touch based devices (especially smaller ones) since we have to bring up the hover card itself and often that card will be on top of the targeting lines.

In terms of highlights we actually really try to only use 2 highlight colors Blue and Gold. Blue being the standard highlight color which means something is playable and Gold being something is playable with a special effect. I imagine you're more talking about the color of the target wisp or trail. In those cases we've mostly stuck with Blue for a couple reasons: Color can be tricky for colorblind people. Color can be very hard to balance on the various playmats plus during Oracle's eye

In any case that's a whole bunch of blah blahs & excuses, when...

Hiya, Jeff here from the LoR audio team. I'm really happy to hear how much you're enjoying the music direction for Labs! And I'm right there with you, playing the music on repeat to bring some chill vibes to my day.

This track has a working title for the moment, but I love the suggestion of 'Beats to experiment and hextech-trasmogulate to'. You'll see that it's already made its way to YouTube, and there are plans for sharing the music of LoR more widely later on.

I especially want to call out the efforts of composer Clément Belio whose delightfully inventive music has given the Labs a feeling all their own. Now...back to looping this tune one more time.

In the past we tried several strategies to make it easier to tell who “owns” which spells on the stack. Color was one of the first we tried, but I found that not only did it not help make things clearer, it actually made spell clarity much much worse. Also color can be tough from an accessibility standpoint for colorblind folks

I definitely think you all are right that situations like in the one pictured clarity gets pretty bad and I think we can make improvements for sure. We built some tools like showing hover states, and of course Oracle’s Eye to help. Thanks for bringing this up! I’ll certainly keep a lookout and make sure our clarity bar doesn’t slip. I appreciate the feedback

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I'm an engineer actually, so I meant build in the more physical sense. But I do work closely with design so I can answer briefly without going deep into design philosophy.

1) It is totally random within the chosen regions. We could have gone very deep on ARAM and made buckets with specific cards so that you never got anything that was non-synergistic, but opted not to. A designer would likely have a better explanation, but two reasons are that Labs modes are very short lived (we plan to make a lot, release them quickly, retire them just as quickly), and the theming of ARAM is randomness, rather than consistent synergy.

The randomness can lead to some duds for sure, but it can also lead to card combinations you wouldn't normally ever see in something like Expeditions or Constructed. Hopefully that helps explain why we don't have consistent buckets.

I think if we end up bringing ARAM back again one day, or do something similar, we would look into buckets to se...

I think one of our next labs might be more your style, if the RNG is not your thing.

Thanks Riversong!! I was excited to build something chill / lower stress, because I think there's a lot of players out there that want to relax rather than compete sometimes.

Lots more crazy stuff to come, now that we have the foundation in place.

Hahaha I'm glad you liked it, I stayed up late one night to have the time to sneak this one in.

Hello, you can close it from any screen using the "Scroll" icon in the top right (the same icon you see on the home screen button. You don't have to navigate to home to do it.

Thanks for all the feedback, we can tell this button is not clear to players as it is right now.

It rewards XP, which is our vehicle for delivering new cards to players through reward roads and vaults, similar to how a competitor may reward 1 pack for a special mode.

Our philosophy of not having highly limited card access may make our rewards for any one given activity look worse, but we believe it rewards you more regularly for playing the game any way you like.

Oh my dear that is both beautiful and awful all at the same time!! Thanks for sharing!

For these, it is actually all the same AI, but we modified the difficulty by changing up the deck contents themselves.