u/RiotMeddler please tell us more about where is dumpling darling seraphine... it's very frustrating for us players who bought RP and were waiting for the release.
Apologies there, we ran into a major last minute problem. That is being worked on, and the skin should still be coming with some adjustments to correct the issue. We'll share an update on when as soon as we've got that figured out
Before we get a new champion can we make sure that Mel has her Icon and Emote like every other modern day champion first?? Her not having a illustration icon in the store and a release emote feels super messily handled.
Mel's emote will be in the Act2 battle pass (didn't want to spoil her in advance hence it wasn't in the Act1 pass since that released before she was revealed). Will double check on icon, pretty sure same answer though
/u/RiotMeddler are you able to share any updates on bio updates like Camille, Seraphine and others with the new approach to narrative with thematic seasons?
Should be able to talk about our plans with bio updates in the next video, and will probably pair that with at least 1 or 2 updated bios as well. Camille's is almost done, Seraphine is underway. We'll tie bio updates to season thematics where we can but we'll also just be catching up on long needed ones like those two as well even if it means we're not always matching seasonal themes.
will we see our next champion with a season 2 start or will it be later? Can you tell us his/her class?
They'll release during the season, rather than right at season start. Shouldn't share class yet, though will confirm they're not a mage at least, acknowledging that we've been mage heavy with recent champion releases.
I haven't played clash ever, but do they change it every time it's on? Why would the dev team being focused on something else mean it can't happen monthly?
The way Clash functions behind the scenes means it does need some hands on work each time unfortunately. Certainly wish that wasn't the case and we definitely have some reflections there on what we'd do differently if building a system like that again
Okay, thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood the original text so I'm happy to be wrong. Sorry!
All good and you're welcome
Unlocking new champions via blue essence wasn't meant to get harder.
This is a joke, how can he even say this? They removed so many many ways to get BE/Champ shards and replaced them with hardly anything to compensate. Like it doesn't take a genius to have some foresight here?I misunderstood a line.
Changing BE access to champs wasn't a goal we ever discussed internally. Digging in right now to understand whether any increased difficulty there is the result of something being bugged, miscalculation(s) somewhere on BE income or something else along those lines again.
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
Is LB getting any changes to her abilities, or just visuals?
Just visuals from memory (or if there are ability tweaks in there, they're small)
Basically Splits are now called Seasons, and these new Seasons (splits) will be divided in Acts (this one being divided in 2)
The old thing that was called Seasons is probably just gonna be called the Year now...
So for the Year of 2025 we'll have the first 3 Seasons of this new model, each spanning around 4 months, and each being divided into Acts (I think they'll usually go for 2 acts per season with 2 months each)
I'm wondering if they'll go Noxus, Demacia and Ionia for the first 3 seasons this year, these being the regions they mentioned they wanna explore in future shows based in the Runeterra universe
But from the sound of it they'll also mix some random thematics for seasons inbetween the ones that actually explore the actual lore of the canon universe... so yeah, we'll probably have a bee season someday lmao
Not sure we could/should stretch bees to a full season's worth of theme, though it's now slightly tempting to try...
For 2025 we'll be sticking fairly close to core Runeterra when it comes to season themes. In 2026 we're thinking we'll try a bit more of a mixture of core Runeterra and alternate universe depending on the season, though still working on the details there so that's very much WIP thinking
I saw the fire in the news, hope everyone is OK and pls stay safe.
two questions
will we get a vgu or asu with every season or when will we get news about next 1
with mel, we had 3 mages in a short time, where are the assassins, supports and skirmishes? :(
We've had some people have to evacuate their homes already. I'm packed and watching the news (latest fire is a pretty close to home, though still small so far at least).
Champ updates will be tied to seasonal stuff too. It's not just LB this year, details to come later beyond that though
Mages - will confirm other two new champs this year are not mages. Agree we've been a bit heavy on that playstyle recently. Aurora was originally more of a skirmisher but a more mage like playstyle ended up working better for her. Mel we wanted to release close to Arcane.
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