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Viego and Sylas will not be in the queue on launch, but Sylas might be close to being enabled.

We have a basic pattern for spells to work thanks to the previous tech clean up efforts they did to make Sylas even work in the first place. :)

Viego's main issue is actually handling his invisibility and unique playstyle. Currently we focused on making the tooling sustainable so we picked champions that can work pretty well with the generic behavior trees first before moving on to more custom playstyle champs.

Ult skins will totally be available for them to randomly select!

For Ult Lux though, my gut says she probably would not select a variant in game since that sort of thing requires bespoke code.

Duuuuuude you do not know how much we were like 👀👀👀👀👀 when someone said "okay we will hear more tomorrow". :)

Currently the bots do not use wards yet. Given the bots will be opponents, the player normally will not actively see their opponents warding in comparison to allies. We do have it for consideration for adding post-launch though!

Beyond that, our team is looking at other opportunity spaces to help better teach more strategic or nuanced elements of League, and when in the player live cycle learning those would not feel like "information overload".

Hello!

The (ideal) intention for Intro/Beginner is to not make them harder than the current bots but more catered and focused on New Players learning League. For Intermediate, we tried to intentionally make intermediate only slightly harder than they currently are, but not significantly harder as new players are at a much lower skill bar than even Iron ranked players. Regardless of our current expectations, we do want to iterate on this new experience with new players though so we are excited to hear feedback on how we can better tweak the queues!

And yes, for Intermediate queue we have bots using skins and chromas!

Yay! Glad we can finally talk about it. :D

Thanks! You should see some bigger comms real soon.tm from us as well :)

For our current status & timeline, I would expect a more widely communicated update within the next month or so.

So yes! News soon and thank you for your patience and excitement.

We are excited to see what players think :)

I checked the AMA a few times and saw no questions towards bots so I did not tag in to answer any questions.

For our current status & timeline, I would expect a more widely communicated update within the next month or so. :)

Hello! You should hear more Soon.TM! So close that I rather not say more :D

(...But I will! You should hear more probably within the next month or a tad after that!)

Hiya! Late response but found my name on this thread and confirming this is something we actively tried to address with the new bots.

After we launch the new bots, please let us know if you experience any other similar problems!

My vacation was built around going once I scored tickets! Worlds hype is real and I love joining the hype traiiiinnnnnnn for Finals. :)

Hello! I just got back from vacation, so sorry for the delay in response (where I did indeed go to Worlds so congrats to T1!)

The PBE went really well for us! We got exactly what we needed from it in terms of technical viability measures and player feedback. Due to this, we are currently building out additional behaviors for the Advanced queue as we only demonstrated the Beginner queue (we will remove features for Intro as Intro has a specific new player focus.)

That said, we are on track for a release of Intro/Beginner/Advanced Queue set up for a full release in early to mid 2024. Pending timing of other big beats + building out those advanced behaviors and integrating some of the new SR map changes. (Ex: Driving Shelly)

Expect an article from us early next year with more info on what we are building and hardened dates!

Yep yep! We are a bit saddened, but we are super jazzed to get back to developing since we had to pause a bit for the PBE. Plus we were delaying some larger refactorings that we knew would make the bots worse before making them even better long term, and we have already begun those refactorings so that we can hopefully launch sooner! (ex:pathing system improvements/threat evaluation improvements).

That said, we might try to bring it back sooner rather than later solely so we can try to make it up to all our lovely players who are willing to hop onto the PBE and play. Just depends how easy the fix is and when it makes sense.

Thank you again for playing and we really appreciate all the feedback!

Hello! Yea, we had to take it down as we changed some code for the bots that was affecting the way champions were working on the live servers. Since this is the Worlds patch, we had to act quickly to ensure the game was working as expected for players across the globe.

When we started working on the fix, we were hopeful that we could undo these flags and keep our queue up, but due to some underlying code issues, this caused our queue to begin crashing-- you can see a report in this thread of games not starting.

After about a day of triaging with about 3-4 other teams, I decided to make the call to cut the test short and take our time to find a fix for the underlying issues instead of doing any sort of short term fix for the additional days of the test.

Overall, I know the team is a bit bummed that we couldn't complete the full two weeks, but Worlds takes priority for sure. Plus now we have a lot of great feedback we want to act on, so hopefully we can do ...

Thanks for flagging! This should be fixed.

Thank you for flagging! We are investigating now

Thank you!

Hello! Can you try the bots again and see if anything feels differently?