Dan_Felder

I don’t know how footage of our office raves keeps getting into the build.

I'm a bit confused. Your quote contains honest answers about the plans at the time, and plans can change. Alternatively, we can avoid saying anything definite until it's 100% locked in, which also seems to frustrate you.

I understand it'd be ideal to get very early info that never changes, but I'm not sure how to do that. We can learn a lot over even a few months based on player feedback, and new problems or opportunities can arise that we didn't know about ahead of time.

Absolute classic article, well chosen. I wrote up a related article collecting the underlying principles of LoR called "mana, cards, and life" to onboard new rioters that wanted to understand the resource puzzle that drives core archetype strategy in LoR. Maybe I should see about making a community-facing version as a resource.

Path of Champions is great for new players after they're comfortable with the basic rules of a normal game. Path of Champions layers on extra powers and progression during the game to turn it into a roguelite experience. This is great when you know how to play the basic combat, as it lets you test your skills against a variety of pve opponents and get more powerful over time; so it's hard to get stuck. You also get to try out a lot of cards. However, it's a lot to learn all the basic cardgame mechanics and the roguelite progression mechanics all at once.

Challenges can help a lot, certainly, in understanding various mechanics (though not all are relevant all the time, many are only useful in single decks; like Deep is a mechanic that only matters if you're playing a deep-focused deck).

Overall, the most confusing part is the card speeds. If you do nothing and your opponent chooses to do nothing (or can't do anything) the round ends; effectively both people click "pa...

Evelyn told me that she’s enjoying the pain of people wondering what it was. She made it very clear if I spoil that there would be consequences.

She can be a bit unsettling, not gonna lie. Like, we’ll be in line at lunch and she’ll point at someone and say “I know what they desire”. Yeah eve, they’re in front of the Boba food truck, I think they want Boba.

Okay.

Deal.

I'll read it.

Thanks for clarifying. Always good to find out what people enjoy. :)

When you say "old labs" do you mean specifically the lab of legends? The bilgewater one? TPOC 1? Other labs entirely? Just want to know what you enjoyed. :)

"Is it death that follows me, or peas?"

The rune war destroyed many agricultural products, but none were more beloved by the people of Demacia than one in particular.

What? This is serious lore! ;)

April Ludgate, is that you?

In testing many people felt bad about spending wild fragments because they were worried they might need them later, and often hoarded them like consumables. The goal was to encourage people to actually spend them to unlock champions and not worry about hoarding forever, so we added a cap. People started spending them once they hit the cap, unlocked and progressed faster, and generally it worked much better. There is no upgrade in the game right that costs more than 40 fragments.

Prozd says it well. I felt seen when he posted this.

And it’s a price well worth paying

Darius. You'll know it when you hear it.

Darius seems unfazed based on his voice line.

Delver in MTG doesn't play Delver anymore so...

We put a voiceline in the game about it.

• Mageseeker Persuader: "Control the mages..."
  • Mageseeker Conservator: "...keep the peas."

Here's a link). Page has a typo, but you can hear the clip.

Understood. Rotation is always a spicy topic, for the reasons you mentioned and more. Games that don’t use rotation tend to be more aggressive with bans or nerfs/reworks, which other players strongly dislike - because they’d rather play their favorite cards in some format than see a ban or redesign remove the chance entirely. No easy answers for sure. At least, not that I’ve seen. It’s a topic we’ll be paying very close attention to.

Just speaking as a fan and player of a whole lot of card games - it may not be the only way but it definitely helps. It feels weird when I pick up a new set of cards and realize I’d be better off continuing to play the same decks I was already playing. Rotation isn’t the only way to shake things up, but it does help.

More importantly, it also frees up design space! Many cool cards can’t be printed because they’d break the game with one specific other card. Look at vampire hexmage from mtg, which instantly turned the obscure “dark depths” into an eternal powerhouse overnight. The more cards in a format, the more design space gets eaten up because each one has exponentially increased chance of creating broken combos with something else. Rotation is one way to expand the cool stuff a game can explore, without being as worried about printing open-ended cards.

Again, this is just my observation as a player playing lots of different games - and from my time working on a f...