Legends of Runeterra Dev Tracker

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.

Naming is the hardest problem >.<. For example, our Unranked queue is still called "ForFun" in our game data because that's what it was years ago and it never changed haha.

Sure thing! Thank you for the thoughtful questions <3

Hi, thanks. That's not a bug but a design we are trying out. The idea is you can view your quests while on deckbuilder, rewards or other screens (which is also why it's thin). So you can see your daily quest and navigate to another tab without having to close and reopen the menu.We'll monitor how its used over the next couple patches.

Hello, this is not a bug but a design choice for the quest menu we wanted to try. We moved it to the side so you can be able to look at it in deckbuilder, rewards or other screens.
The thinking is you could open the menu, see you have a Fearsome quest for the day for example, navigate to deckbuilder without having to close and reopen the menu, and put together whatever you need to complete your quests.

We'll be seeing how people feel about it during the next couple patches. Thanks!

Yea, if/when we bring this back as a feature, we'll have to add filtering so you can't traumatize your opponents with your deck name.

absolutely! people enjoying the game and it's world are the reason I get out of bed in the morning!

Lazy and I can't read. I'm a mess, coach.

That's a good idea.