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Out of curiosity, what was the scrapped Disco ult like?
its on the list here, if you want to read the official description but tldr: It made enemies play a minigame where they could silence/disarm each other to avoid the damage from her ult
This is a great list!
Even though I designed (and thus scrapped) many abilities on this list - I had definitely forgotten about a few of them until i saw the description.
Ya Terra used to have a Banish and Da Ji essentially had Tyr Fearless combo lol
The most common one i talk about when asked about scrapped abilities is Discordia Ult - interesting but terribly frustrating
Id also like to add that there are many more than in this list, as this requires there to have been game data for them. As we have changed our dev processes over the years, these are harder to get now. As you might notice there arent any gods on here past Season 5 or so. Still a super interesting list tho!
Hello, fellow jousters!
We on the dev team have a strong fondness for the Season 3 map as well, and as was mentioned in Update Notes - we will be looking to bring it back eventually. We cannot reveal exactly when, but its something we definitely plan to do.
However, we are well past the point of "instead" - as used in OP's Title
Classic Joust is going live with Morgan Le Fay in 8.6. The Update is all packaged up and shipped. Its happening. Its likely going to be the default for a few months.
The balance changes to Classic Joust are quite significant, and a lot of the complaints seem to be overlooking them. Many content creators have taken a look at the map and noticed the difference. XP/Gold gain feels way better, turtling is significantly harder.
good lick and have fun in your 3v3s and 1v1s, i might even get matched up against you :)
Not saying you borrowed from this kit, just that someone else must have also had the same idea to bring Guan's ult back before Amaterasu's kit was a thing.
Fair enough, I just had the information on that specific part of your comment so I felt compelled to clarify.
Id have to ask around some more to find out about this kit, I know the team was not satisfied with a few iterations of Nox before they ended up with the current one. You really have unearthed an interesting fossil here lol!
For those who don't know, Nox had to be reworked back in 2015 because her original kit was an absolute mess (how bad you ask? she had an ability that countered her own ultimate). After several tweaks and minor reworks, she eventually got a full rework.
What most people don't know is that before her current kit was finalized, there was a whole other kit that got scrapped and never saw the light of day.
These are all leftover tooltips of that scrapped rework. Her 2nd ability would have been her current 2 (the aoe that silences you if you stand in it).
Edit - Something I forgot to mention: Her ult sounds familiar right? That's because it is Amaterasu's ult, which was originally Guan Yu's ult back when he was a guardian. Nox rework was done in 2015 while Amaterasu was released in 2016. Had this guardian kit come out, Nox would have been the one that brought old guan's ult. back.
I designed Amaterasu's Ult and I have never seen this ability description in my life. I can assure you Ama's Ult was not inspired by Nox in any way, it was 100% only inspired by old Guan and any similarities are pure coincidence. The rest of the team really liked the pitch as a reference to old Guan, so I don't think this Nox kit was intended to look, feel, or reference old Guan.
I also don't know much about this whole nox rework phase, as I hadnt joined the team yet, so I dont have much else to share on it.
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