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Don't worry she is still is development. I know you are all excited as the rework is really cool. But the tech for it is more complex then most mid scopes so she is going to take a little longer. Should hopefully be out sometime in spring

We do have a few designers/artists from SR working on the game mode, but none currently from Game Loop.

Yes of course. But you have to hire and then ramp people up. If we just starting hiring for the gamemodes team, by the time we hired all the people needed and then ramped then all up we would have no hope of shipping a game mode this summer. You have to bring over veteran people that are already experienced in our tools and design principles. It's not always a question of how much staff we CAN hire, but of actually hiring good people and then getting them trained up onto a team. That takes time.

Milio, the Darkin and the jungler have not been delayed, it's things past that

FYI, it will effect this year as well. When Gamemodes came over to the gameplay initiative it has lost a lot of its team members. We felt it was important to still try and get a new game mode up and running for the Summer Event. In order to do that we had to pull people from many teams on the gameplay initiative (And also people from other places around Riot) in order to quickly beef up that team. The cost of this was that some other things in development for the year (like Champions) will be slowed down or in some cases delayed. So you should also expect to see less Champions this year then last year as well.

Good point. We’re looking into this

Some will be this year, some bigger investments will be further. I want to get a devblog out in the near(ish) future to talk about some of it

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I was talking about LoLPC specifically, not other projects

I mean I can understand why people would draw that conclusion, though I can assure you that we are not. Me saying it isn't going to convince anyone of that though. Like many companies we lost a lot of talent during Covid, where many people took the WFH situation as a opportunity to look for different paths in life. It was rough all around the industry and Riot was no different. It wasn't because Riot intentionally cut budget or scope for LoL. To put it more eloquently, sh*t happens.

Also we have been investing into so bigger things that won't ship for quite some time. But words won't change how people feel, and certainly this random reddit response won't either. The only thing that will change peoples opinion is when we ship content.

Well the video covered a bunch of teams, and I'm just the Lead Producer of Gameplay. So I'm not involved in and of the skin/asu stuff PIE is working on. I am very involved in everything Gameplay is working on though. Some of the newer stuff I'm excited about and got rolling once I took this position isn't really ready to talk about yet though, but I'm excited to start talking about it in the future.

Damnit August

I'm good! Don't worry I'll still be in future videos. Wanted to let some of the new Producers get a chance to talk to players as well

He's probably the lowest right now, but still probably medium complexity overall. Roaming is kind of a higher skill thing to understand. I think all Assassins benefit from roaming, but Talons reliance on it keeps him out of the "Simple" category imo.

First of all I don't think ability description lengths have anything to do with how simple or complex a champion is to play. Jhin has one of the longest ability descriptions in the game but I would consider him fairly simple to play.

Naafiri is meant to be the simplest Assassin in the game. In 2021 August made this complexity matrix and we realized we didn't have a low complexity Assassin or a High Complexity tank in the game. We made K'Sante to be a high complexity tank and Naafiri is meant to be a low complexity Assassin.

That being said Assassins are one of our higher complexity classes, so I wouldn't expect a Champion as simple as Garen or Annie here, but something closer to like a Master Yi (skirmishers also being a generally higher complexity class)

Sorry I meant the game modes team, not the events team. I edited my comment to fix it

PIE is the personalization team, they make skins, among other things. The issues with game modes has not been a issue of them being a money sink or low priority. Towards the end of last year that team lost a lot of people, through either leaving Riot or moving to other teams. They lost basically their entire leadership team shortly before moving over to gameplay.

We staffed it up as quick as we could, through either hiring or transferring people from other teams as we believe game modes are still high value. That being said even when you add people to the team to cover the losses those people can't hit the ground running, they need to ramp up onto the team. That takes time. We basically had to cut everything except the ARAM changes the team was working on after taking the losses.

That being said the team is starting to ramp up and we are aware of the loss of trust with the team right now. We want to get a devblog out soon to let you all know what the team is up to.

The game modes team recently moved from PIE back to the gameplay initiative. We were re thinking the teams goals and mission back when these were recorded so didn’t want to discuss anything at that moment. We have since done that and should have an update on modes sometime early this year.

Asol was not a midscope he was a CGU

Idk? Probably Yorick? I hear he has descent sewing skills