Do you ever see yourself coming back to Champions? Or like is there a scenario where this “emergency” modes team staffing from the champions team might be slowly reversed?
for the foreseeable future, League is heavy on modes, so I don't think that's getting reversed anytime soon. I loved working on champs, probably the most fun I've had as a game designer, but it's also good to let others get a crack doing it while I help out where I can
He's apparently on the Modes team rn so good for him! (and players)
Unfortunately there’s onnnnnnne more in the pipe for later this year >:D
I've also seen people dc'ing during the augment phase and somehow being able to select 2 on reconnecting
yep, we're aware of this one, working on a fix.
Buying navori and selling it causing you to retain navori passive :o
Yep, working on this one today
You have high expectations I see.
But seriously we’re going to try and address all the ones we’re aware of
Any significant bugs/exploits will be resolved before live. We are aware of all the major ones afaik.
You have high expectations I see.
wait you only started working on this -after- the backlash for no cinematic and people realising riot had done nothing for years? What was the original plan for releasing anything ever lmao
I started work on the prototype at the end of last year while the rest of the team shipped the ARAM changes. The goal was to ship it at the end of this year but the backlash pushed the time forward, that’s all
"Learn as much". You guys didnt learn it with the aram changes, especially you were the one turning down every feedback from the community. Deathtimers too long? "they are doing what they are supposed to do [..] stopping game from stalling to infinity [...]". Yeah right. Clearly you were wrong and you didnt accept any feedback of it.
We changed a bunch of the ARAM stuff, how didn’t we learn from it? My goal when I talk on social media is to explain our thought process and why we made the decisions we made to create a conversation. Like I say every time; if something doesn’t work, we change it, and clearly we are willing to change the very things you’re talking about. But it’s really hard to talk about the design and discuss it with y’all when people are so hungry to throw you into the fire.
Doubt you'll see this, but I'm really trying to tell Riot whenever I have an opportunity. I'm a long time player and this game mode is a blast. Easily one of the most interesting things you've done since maybe the Nexus Blitz attempt, and it's a lot of fun. I've been spamming this on PBE and I have never done that for any champion or game mode before.
Is the mode imperfect and in need of balance? Sure. But that is a relatively easy fix compared to the mode itself being fundamentally unfun, which it is not. Aside from individual champion balance, augments can always be tweaked and added or removed over time.
I appreciate it! Thank you for the kind words.
Should definitely hold Riot to a higher standard.. They've been working on this game mode for literally years. It's kind of pathetic... I get the excitement for new content in a familiar game, but it really feels like riot did the minimum here.
Other than some unnecessary flashy visuals, it really feels like a half cooked concept with way too much RNG.
How is there 1 perk that's just ocean soul when you can get one that rolls 3 random souls..
We started dev on this mode like seven months ago and rushed it out so that players would have something sick for the summer event. Definitely agree there’s stuff that we can improve, and I’m hopeful people give the mode a shot so we can learn as much as we can for a second swing
New augment just dropped
Furiously scribbling notes over here
Duos later?
Most arenas have two (one only has one) and they respawn very slowly, if they're supposed to make up for ranged vulnerability they don't feel like it, especially when tanks take so long to kill the arena will shrink to minimum size and force you into melee range at the end. I played against a Sion Shaco duo that basically didn't fight until the arena was the size of two boxes, and if the firestorm "kills" Sion his team doesn't lose until he dies the second time.
it's one of several mechanics. Flee is better for running away, ranged characters get more stats from the passive buffs. Definitely not going to say its perfectly balanced, but there's a bunch of stuff in there to help.
This looks absolutely amazing (and wood tier is fantastic)
Question about some of the augments that replace Flee, will Zoe be able to steal those with Spell Thief or will it just be the flashes?
Yep
Can you share whats the map name for mode now or is it just called the Arena
The Rings of Wrath!
It seems like not being able to play with more than one friend might hurt the popularity of the game mode, and the answer to three of your four common questions is "yes, if the mode is popular".
When you ultimately decide if the mode is worth keeping will the idea that "only being able to queue with one friend might hurt the modes popularity" be taken into consideration?
We'll also be measuring player sentiment. If the numbers are fine but there's a huge indication that more people would play with a different feature set, we'll take another swing.
I absolutely love this. Maybe you could just link this comment to the ARAM team as a little hint how to do balance in different game modes?
Hey, thanks for the feedback, Maxw3ll from the ARAM team here. We've got some balance tweaks we want to do for ARAM, but a lot of our bandwidth has been eaten up by this mode. Once we've shipped it, we'll start working on some more deep ARAM balance work.
I absolutely love this. Maybe you could just link this comment to the ARAM team as a little hint how to do balance in different game modes?
I'll let them know.
Are there also multiple Shaco clones running around and attacking people?
(eyes flair suspiciously)
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no?
I wanted to know if there will be another spell to be used instead of flash, some champions like shaco, hecarim, rammus and yuumi don't like flash.
There is not, although some augments do take advantage of you having flash.
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