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Further down the line are champion reworks planned to be tied into seasons? I'd love to see the Shyvana rework tied in with a Demacia season.
Most at least will be tied in with a seasonal theme. Still discussing whether it'll be all or just most.
Further down the line are champion reworks planned to be tied into seasons? I'd love to see the Shyvana rework tied in with a Demacia season.
Most at least will be tied in with a seasonal theme. Still discussing whether it'll be all or just most.
This is in bad taste. Unless you’re trying to make a political point, in which case working for riot is laughable.
Not sure I follow sorry? We can literally see smoke and fire from both the office (which is close to an evacuation border) and from where I live (as is the case for many other Rioters, some of whom have already had to evacuate their homes).
Interesting, any teasers or the other 2 planned champs? Or will there be another dev update video later in the year teasing them?
Plan is that most of the details about them will get revealed as part of their season's reveal or arc (champs won't necessarily be start of season releases each time).
So just Mel this year?
3 seasons per year, so 3 champs in 2025
u/RiotMeddler we getting ARURF “next patch”, by next patch you mean tomorrow 25.S1.1? Or the next one on Jan 23?
25.S1.2 (so yes, two weeks from now)
This is crazy to me that you're talking about potentially having to evacuate from fires and then in the next breath go back to explaining game updates to redditors... Godspeed champ, hope everything is okay, and thank you for your time!
Appreciated. One of the trade offs to living in LA. Helps to have stuff to do while waiting and I generally like chatting about the game of course :)
Great dev video, lots of content. I was sad not to see a champ teaser for second season/not to hear more about the mysterious symbol at the end of the season start video but I'm guessing the storytelling of season 1 will slowly build up to 2nd season and hopefully then more will be revealed
Mysterious symbol - yep, deliberately mysterious for now. Will certainly become clear over time though
Second season theme and champ - plan is to save many of the details about that until close to the start of said season
Last I've heard is alledgedly the SEA server merge will come out at start of 25.S1. Thanks for the confirmation though, at least now that I know it's not abandoned
Was just told that's still the target by someone closer to that work, so fingers crossed should be live this week
Is LB a VGU or ASU?
It's an update to her visuals and audio, with no or minimal gameplay changes
Saying it that way because at this point the definitions of VGU, ASU, midscope, other update etc feel super blurred because we've taken different approaches based off what makes sense for any given champ. I'm not convinced they're very valuable terms at this point as a result
Are there any news on the SEA servers merge or was it scrapped altogether?
Last I heard work on that was still underway (merging some of the smaller regions together for better matchmaking etc, larger regions like Vietnam would still be separate servers). Will double check that though
there is no way a highly secret cabal would invite his goofy ass. Renata is at least rich and influential
Oh cmon, you can't imagine any reason the Black Rose might stand to benefit if Ezreal were to be present at an event they hosted?
(agree on Ezreal being goofy FWIW!)
but is it a sword cause it looks like two daggers or swords (sabers?) together to me with an eye in the middle (idk if you can answer if its a sword)
Going to have to leave that unanswered sorry, don't want to undercut the stuff we've got planned that will reveal what that is over time
And it make sense why kat is there. Thank you for remembering our fav noxian assassin the cinematic was cinema
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Please, continue your partnership with Fortiche for the series/films and cinematics. It's just an awesome work, and I/we can't be more excited.
We'll definitely keep partnering with them on various things, they're fantastic to work with and we love the stuff we get to make together.
will there be another cinematic for season 2, 3 etc or will there only be this 1?
We've got a range of different things planned for seasonal theme and storytelling throughout the year. Won't always be in cinematics, will also be using other approaches too (think we're talking about that a bit in tomorrow's dev update video, so being a bit vague)
I assume I know the answer but any comment on if that icon at the end is supposed to reference Riven's sword?
No comment, though you'll certainly learn more about it this year
Ezreal got the masque of the black rose skin but didn't show up on the cinematic, does that mean him being there is canon or just a skin?
Champions in that skin line like Ezreal who aren't shown in the cinematic were invited to the masquerade. Skins reflect what they'd look like if they chose to attend. Whether they attended is being left unclear at least for now.
Hey Meddler was the decision to include Katarina a nod to her scrapped portion of the 2023 cinematic, or it a newer storyline
Our starting point was the themes/stories we wanted to show a bit of from Noxus. Kat made sense in that regard hence her inclusion.
We've used a variety of different cinematic styles over the years and will continue to vary things in the future. In this particular case given the follow on to some of the events in Arcane we felt partnering with Fortiche, in this style, would make a lot of sense.
Regarding the intent of the cinematic, our goal was to set up some themes for Noxus for the season and a plot line that'll be continued this year in game/around game materials (not a tv show to be clear).
He is a younger Darius, his fight against Trundle is during the times Boram Darkwill sent him to conquer Freljord, That Darius is not a part of the trifarix.
Can confirm this is indeed a deliberately younger portrayal of Darius than seen in game.