BarackProbama

Can't do that just yet but here's the process.

We have a list of things we would already like to do. Most of Q1 is accounted for, unless something really juicy comes up that makes us re-evaluate.

I (and others!) read these and capture them into a list, alongside our own ideas. We have engineers do some gut checks on cost and we ourselves do a stack rank of them in terms of how many players we think it will impact, what the magnitude of that impact is, and if there are any associated risks. This gets roughly flattened into a player value score.

We take the projected cost, plot against the player value, and look at them in a 4x4 grid. We select the highest value for the lowest cost (And some medium cost for high value as well), and put them into a backlog. The backlog goes through design to make sure everything is accounted for -- some things that make sense on paper end up not making sense once you've done a detailed design, or they blow up in size signif...

We hear you.

Aware that some events do not contain the level of novelty/excitement that they could at the moment. We are working on some short and long term investments to improve the quality of them going forward. This will involve more immersive experiences, changes to our event structures, and yes even modes.

I am not directly on the Moments team (They produce our events) or the Modes team (they make...the modes), but I've seen and played some of what they have planned and I'm pretty excited as a player. Best I can do is let you know that we're going to continue to fight with all of our souls to make the coolest stuff we can for y'all.

To cap it off I'll reiterate what Meddler/Brightmoon have said: Its going to be actions, not words that earn your trust back. You can and should continue to respectfully let us know where we have and have not hit the mark.

I am watching this thread closely.

ASU team is killing it here. Graphics are even beyond what I would expect out of an Unreal 5 tech demo.

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So the thing about bots is: it’s unlikely to ever be 100% fixed. It’s a constant war between very clever folks trying to circumvent systems and folks building systems to prevent exploits.

I look at the measure of success as more like: how likely are players to experience bots in their games. If the answer is “extremely f*cking unlikely” than we are doing a good job. If it’s “pretty likely” then we need to push harder.

It’s entirely possible that the bots you emailed someone about years ago literally no longer work due to the efforts of our anti-cheat teams. But in that same period, new bots and exploits were developed.

My perspective is that we can do better here, because of course we can always do better here. But I wouldn’t suggest we aren’t doing anything ever. The anti-cheat team is super talented and full of folks working very hard on the problem.

It’s not about how much you can lift (your winrate) It’s about how good you look (winning)

Note: I do not deal with balance don’t tell me what to do about balance poke Phrox or Phlox or some other weirdo with the same name.

Looking into it today. Thanks for the heads up.

This is part of the work we are exploring!

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Yeah. We actually do this slowly over time. We look at the system specs reported for players and as they change we also update our minspec requirements. We have guidelines related to the % of players on various hardware and how that impacts our decision making.

As a dev, it can be frustrating sometimes to look at the broad market and know you’re being compared to games that have double your minspec, but I’m also really proud that we can bring League to so many players worldwide regardless of what’s under their desk. I grew up with a really really bad computer that couldn’t run the games my friends were playing, so I feels it.

Nah we have chatGPT write those. /s

On the real I really like our editorial and publishing teams that put the deep dives together. Helps me appreciate how many people and how much work goes into even seemingly simple things.

Alternate theory: It was Saturday and I wasn’t going to ping a team to ask how it was going, so rather than saying nothing because I didn’t have that piece of info or putting a ton of pressure on them by promising a patch that didn’t match with the reality for I opted to leave that bit of info out.

Sorry about that. We will try and earn it back!

That team is so good. Its thankless work mostly, but they keep hammering away at the beast.

Gottem

Vlad Q.

Simple. Elegant. It suck.

Has a nice rhythm to it. I suck. I suck again. Third time run quick big suck.

Yes I know that is not an analogy but I own my mistakes god damn it.