If I could get away with it as a backend dev at riot I would name every variable intentionally troll like "LOSERS_QUEUE" ,"RP_THRESHOLD_WINNER_QUEUE" and "BAD_TEAM_MODIFIER"
Every year I pitch that for April Fools we add a separate "Ranked Winner's Queue" and "Ranked Loser's Queue" you can select in the client in place of Ranked Solo/Duo but they all matchmake to the same place. Someday...
Could be that as well, could also be what someone else pointed out and be the lock out for too many login attempts since the fields around it mention alot stuff like device trust which sounds like login services.
This is just the internal name for a login pattern thing, yeah.
I dunno though, I think actively tracking ult cooldowns is too much now. That's part of game skill to be able to track that sort of thing, especially with ally callouts of ultimates, so having a program calculate when the ults are up again is cheating in my eyes. Maybe not all of Blitz, but that aspect is just as bad as scripting. It might not be move your character for you, but it is parsing all of the game knowledge so that the player isn't required to have as much game knowledge to do well, especially when it's giving you a huge edge that other players without Blitz do not have.
From what other folks are pointing it out it sounds like there's some pretty major differences in how Blitz specifically interacted with Rivals vs how it does with League.
We agree though that having a tool that tracks enemy ult cooldowns crosses the line in providing information that's not available in game. Generally we don't want apps pulling in gameplay information that provides a competitive advantage that isn't just extrapolating from information we already provide (e.g. converting a radial timer to a numeric one). If it feels like you start to "need" it to be competitive, then we're likely to take some action there.
Mind messaging me your username so I can look into it?
Here's a good resource to start with on general principles: https://youtu.be/-pglxege-gU?si=-E5Xl8mCMTFdFDiU&t=0
I've posted comments on how League matchmaking works in the past, mostly in the 2023 timeframe if you look through my comment history. This is a reasonable summary
Depends on if you want to keep it "pure summoners rift" but faster or not. If you add too much it becomes a half baked LTO game mode.
Also as a primarily ARAM player, and as someone who has been playing since almost launch on league in general, be very careful with the adjusted nerfs and buffs please. Unless someone becomes an absolute menace it feels really bad to pick up a favorite champion (Sivir, Ashe, Teemo, etc) only to find out they're hyper nerfed, although obviously makes sense in ARAM. On the flip side, you don't want to bait new players into enjoying a champ only for them to find out how much more buffed they are than normal (Akali, LeBlanc, etc)
I can speak a lot on this, but those are the absolute top thoughts I can think of.
Currently trying to stay close to being able to call it a Summoner's Rift experience rather than some other game mode. Hear you on balance changes that are too significant being warping, overall it's looking like we'll just need small tweaks since the characters are already designed and balanced for base SR as opposed to something like ARAM that puts really different demands on every champion's kit to perform equally.
How about the mastery grading bugs, are you guys looking at it?
The other day it was stuck giving D- to everyone no matter what, and then after it was giving A to everyone, it was working fine like a week ago but then something happened that broke it.
We had some issues over the weekend yeah, are you still seeing unexpected mastery grades currently?
Some sort of "late" game escalation mechanic with a non-gold output.
something like clash towers rotting away after a set time.
Or maybe you get a rift Herald with your baron, like in Ultimate Spellbook.
Just some way for a winning team to close out a game once we are past the intended game time.
Yeah for sure hear ya, those are the types of things we're looking at right now!
Given Swiftplay is part of the core SR experience, is there any concern that it havibg its own specific balancing might be confusing for players or add complexity
Not a ton of concern but those are costs, yeah. Balance bands are broader than standard SR, similar to ARAM, and we'd stay away from doing anything that changes a champion's identity. There is a responsibility to balance this mode since everyone has the ability to choose specific champions without bans as a release valve, and winrate data, so it'd be pretty bad for the experience if there were a 58% winrate Kayle in every game you play.
Following thread. Interested in if you think Swiftplay is for you, what you think could be better about it.
Biggest thing gameplay-wise on our minds right now are outlier game lengths. The game length is on average shorter than standard SR (excluding surrenders for both, yes) but the experience breaks down a bit when everyone on both teams gets to full build and then are there for a long time. Those 40 minute Swiftplay matches shouldn't really be happening.
why would they not mention anything about swiftplay matchmaking?
no ways its intended to be this terrible
There were some pretty severe bugs on launch, as of a few hours ago those should be fixed. Doesn't mean everything's perfect for sure, but should be meaningfully better.
eternals still don't level up in swiftplay, but mastery and challenges do. is this intended?
It's not, sorry. We were able to resolve Mastery and Challenges like you noticed, Eternals are still in progress but we didn't forget! Hoping to have that fixed today for the weekend.
This has to be a bug, I recall seeing a rioter stating you can lvl up eternals, mastery etc. on this subreddit
Yeah, we're looking into it now.
Should've just been fixed. If you're still can't see them, can you try relogging and tell me what server you're on?
Clarity: "Am I a joke to you?!"
Clarity's gonna get an update too
Thank you Auberaun :) That was my only issue here tbh. Hope you and the team at riot have a happy holidays.
You too!
These were accidents btw, should be reverted next deploy
They all look dulled down. I assume it's probably the images that they used for the post for some reason being like that, rather than how they will actually end up looking.
Yeah that's correct, they're not actually dulled down side-by-side in game or client.
Please pull the graves nerfs. Not because they arent justified or good for the game, but because i personally want graves to be OP forever.
I respect the honesty
Good catch, she still had her manual overrides from launch, this'll be fixed for 14.24.
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