Teamfight Tactics Dev Tracker

It's much less about units or traits that are problematic. When we start developing the mid set, its likely too early to tell what was problematic long term anyway.

The primary goal of a mid set is to create a good moment for players to consider coming back (ranked has reset, and there's a bunch of new stuff to play with), so our goals are often around making sure the set feels different. In Galaxies, we didn't quite achieve this since Jinx carry (as an example) still dominated so games felt pretty similar. With Fates, we ended up swapping out a lot of the carries, which let to them feeling very different.

And yeah, it can feel bad if your favorite carry rotates out, but our hope is there is something new you can play with as well.

Typically we try to avoid major trait shifts like this unless they are absolutely necessary, as the learning cost to players is extremely high as well as the domino effects it has to the rest of the trait system.

The obvious swap here would be Riven becomes the Skirmisher and Nidalee becomes the Legionnaire...however that leaves Skirmisher with ANOTHER melee champion which they already struggle with having too many, and Riven's spell would likely need to be redesigned since getting more AD would make her spell unsustainably powerful.

If we ABSOLUTELY had to make a change like this we would, but I'd also ask the team to retro how we ended up in such a dire situation where it was necessary to make such a large change.

The honest truth here is that there is a LOT of work to be done to bring back an old set. Even just basic stuff like getting it up and running again and updating some of the code, then there are the more complex questions like "Should the items be the same as they were for that set?" If yes, thats a ton more work. Should Launch Set board size be used? Etc. So it is a TON of work to get right.

Then assuming we did all that, the question is how valuable is it? I think playing Launch Set or RoTE for a weekend or something sounds awesome, but we see this with other games like HS or MTG that the appeal very quickly loses its luster. We also likely wouldn't have ranked queues for multiple sets at the same time, and we know players really lose motivation without ranked.

All that being said, it's still on the wish list. Lots of players didn't start TFT until Galaxies or Fates, so giving them a chance to try the old stuff would be fun. We just need to find the right time to ...

Hello!

The spectator we are building, or better-named esports camera, is only being built for broadcast and tournament purposes. Unfortunately, this will not be a feature we make available for the everyday TFT player.

I am very curious though what you would find valuable or you would enjoy from a player facing spectate a friend option?

No new news yet! I really want to, and I hear you all who have asked for so long for official iPad and Tablet support. TFT really is a great fit for those devices! But it will be a little ways away until we can grow the team and tackle some of our more emergent work as well as keep shipping you all awesome sets!

We think the new "Emblem" system helps a lot with initial readability and learning the system, and especially with 16 spatula items. So we will likely be continuing this system moving forward with every set. We know its not perfect right now (Looking at you Dawnbringer vs Nightbringer), but things like the colors we added near the end of PBE should help it out a bunch.

For Revenant Spatula, it's a slightly more complex GA since you need the trait to activate it AND it comes with the 30% damage increase which can open up some cool strategies with champs who can lifesteal it back up.

Finally for the extra chase traits, we didn't want to overload the set at launch, and were finding things like Ironclad 4 were confusing players asking "How do I get this, there are only 3 champions?" To be honest we probably should NOT have shipped Abomination 5 at launch. All that being said though, or plan is to add these once the set has been live for a bit, looking to be likely aroun...

Hi Frodan!

We plan to give a formal update soon in an upcoming dev video! But things are moving along, I currently have no reason to believe the Reckoning finals timeline is at risk but if that ever changes I will let you and the community know :) We are just chipping away at making it posible for an observer to control the camera!

I know using big words like "strawman argument" can help try to make a bad argument sound valid, but what you're arguing for is a different game.

TFT is closest to things like Poker or a Magic the Gathering Draft. They are not "fair" by design, and the skill expression is measured in how you use what you are given. In such a system there are going to be moments where someone else had an extreme moment of luck (perfect drafts, hit on the river, etc). Doesn't mean you played bad, but also doesn't mean "Every game should give everyone the exact same thing".

In any individual game, luck will play a factor. Over the course of many games, consistency and skill play a much larger factor. When this happens to an opponent, your goal is Top 4.

Something we need to work on making clearer is that Top 4 is A WIN, not just 1st place.

You're exactly right! Thanks for making this point.

For a long time, I've very much wanted to turn on champ inspect in the carousel, but right-click (and tap on mobile) is an overloaded action in shared draft. It's move AND inspect. We have spiked this before internally, and it wasn't too bad on mobile, but it felt a bit weird on PC because the champ inspect card moves in a circle along with the champ, and trying to hover the item icon of a moving target wasn't great. I think we have more work to do before we can ship a good solution.

BOW DOWN TO YOUR ITEM OVERLORD

Get it...? Bow?!

LOL

Ofc no problem :)

Ah, my bad I should've specified that's for PC.

For IOS, we're currently having an issue with store items, see here: https://twitter.com/RiotSupport/status/1387460987570192387

Are you on android or ios?

Battlepass should be up now if you're in riot regions :)

Pass is up for NA, will be up for rest of riot regions shortly (excludes garena & tencent).

of course, npnp

Might not be completely updated yet, it should happen soon(tm). You may need to manually go check in your app store for updates. We don't force updates until Thursday.

Mobile too!

With the patch, early morning on the 28th your local time.