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All around good news except for no estimated release for Skarner still. Here's to the stopping with the pointless non-canon stories for this already fictional world.
Skarner - early 2024
All around good news except for no estimated release for Skarner still. Here's to the stopping with the pointless non-canon stories for this already fictional world.
Skarner - early 2024
one question but such cinematic is for next year season start? cuz that'd be a long time
For the upcoming January season start yeah
Could I also ask how Project L will play into the new canon, or would it be up to that game team to talk about it
Yeah, that's up to that team. Our central lore focused people, like Laura in the video, certainly also work with the Project L team too though for what it's worth!
You’re right... Because it’s actually Neeko!
BRB, asking if we can spend way too much money to create this as an out take...
Super lame they are removing blind pick for those that play it (honestly, I never did once I have draft) but quick play sounds nice. Being able to just skip like a solid 5-10 minutes of draft and just play sounds super nice
Quickplay and Blindpick over lap a lot in terms of the player needs they serve. We're confident at this point that Quickplay does so better however. That means we believe it's better to remove Blind Pick so that everyone's using the same queue, which allows better matchmaking balance and match times. Splitting the player base over multiple queues, even for a large game like League, comes with some pretty significant trade offs, so is something we want to avoid unnecessarily
Just wanted to say, i really like the dev update videos. Keep it up!
Appreciated and will do. We've got one more coming this year sometime in late November at a guess, then you'll see us again at the start of January with Season Start!
Wow i didn’t expect to get an answer. So glad that you answered and also glad to hear that Camille is not forgotten.
Glad to hear about Viktor too.
Maybe it is me being a bit too emotional about this but Arcane is my favorite show in years and it is the show that made me experience the same hype, emotions and joys when i first started watching anime a decade ago but eventually lost and now i am barely getting joy out of anything i watch. So I am really hyped for Arcane and wish with all my heart that it will be a grand success like its first season and its quality and story will live up to the expectations so i am/was kinda worried about the limitations that might come from having to have thinks match up to the characters in game.
Once again thank you so much for the answer
So glad you love it!
Having a shared world certainly brings some constraints and challenges for telling stories in things like Arcane. At the same time though we're pretty convinced it gives things a lot more resonance, helps build stronger again connections if you know the character development shown will also be reflected everywhere else etc.
NEW CUTE CREATURE CHAMP IS SHYVANA AND JARVAN 4'S BABY DRAGON EGG??
Lexi, Reav3, I think we need to re-evaluate our plans
there will still be some of the restricted chromas (League Partner program etc)
Aren't those usually available though, just for 10k BE instead of the regular price?
Ah crap, you're right. Ok, not the best example...
How does that work for future seasons though? And for Piltover/Zaun characters who are in the game but not in Arcane?
I fully support bringing certain things from Arcane to main canon (Silco, Vander, Jayce/Viktor friendship and creating hextech), but by this point the two timelines have already diverged a lot.
Echo's Forge game for example is literally impossible to coexist with Arcane in the same universe.
While Arcane doesn't show the full Piltover/Zaun cast, it's not intended to come across as characters not shown can't exist in that world at all. We don't show Mundo for example in Season 1, but that's not taking the stance that Mundo isn't or can't be a part of that shared canon, just that any given story can only include so many characters before it becomes overloaded.
Are you able to touch a bit on Legends of Runeterra? I know a lotta people are unsure if that game's events and stories are meant to be canon as sometimes it occasionally conflicts with established lore (The Petricite Colossi for example). Would be nice to know whether LoR's stories are also in this converged canon, or if there's any stories shown in that game that Riot would wanna retcon or change
A lot of LoR's stuff is consistent with this unified canon already. Some bits will need to be updated though whenever we next release something in those parts of the lore.
/u/RiotMeddler if you guys are moving away from short stories, what will become of the universe and the interactive map. I get those there niche outlets with engaging with IP content, but they were central hub for all League lore
They're not going anywhere right now. I say right now because at some point (ideas thrown around, nothing yet committed) we might go through and overhaul how we present lore stuff like that on the web. Current focus though is on getting the content and consistency right internally however and figuring out where that should be reflected in different games/other experiences, before looking at supporting channels like Universe
Not having to remember which list of chromas is available is so good. Super annoying saving essence only from those chromas to not be available
Obligatory note - there will still be some of the restricted chromas (League Partner program etc) that aren't emporium eligible regardless, so still won't be included, even if the full eligible range is.
Edit: As pointed out below, the LPP chromas are actually available just at a higher price than regular chromas. If you could pretend I'd used a better example that's actually restricted that would be much appreciated...
That's not what they said...
Arcane is canon. League is also in that same canon.
Is this a confirmation that Aatrox will be featured in a cinematic? Officially?
Because if so, I am fully onboard with the direction of how things are going. I hope he's included in the upcoming cinematic. I really, really do.
I mean, it's not just some random Aatrox image that got accidentally copy/pasted into that exact moment if that's what you're asking...
Arcane being canon is a VERY tricky one. Not only this means many champion as they say will need lore update (and if i did not miss it CAMILLE is one of them so i hope they won’t forget her) but also can we talk about VIKTOR ?
One of my limited problems (there are very few) with Arcane is that Viktor is portrayed too good to fall into the level of full machinery he is in the game. How will they even connect him to his game counterpart at this point without it feeling too forced or ruining his character ? Arcane is one of my favorite shows in YEARS and i would hate if the next season fails to live up the quality of the first one because they have to connect it to the game so i actually prefered when Arcane was its own thing so they were not fully bound by it. Now every playable character has to survive, Viktor has to become a machine and Jinx will remain on loose as the crazy person she is so the ending is already there and they have to obey it
Camille - yep, we'll definitely get her integrated into things. Still figuring out details, but confident we can make her feel a part of the cohesive whole
Viktor - I mean, can't spoil anything for Season 2 of course, but certainly more Viktor development to see. As per the larger lore conversation here we're also not going to be just picking one existing portrayal and forcing everything to move towards that, it's about doing adjustments where needed to get a cohesive whole. If that means some tweaks to game Viktor are needed, in ways that are still consistent with the core of who he is of course, definitely open to that too
Meddler, when are you filming the next dev video? I can't wait.
Planning on filming next week! So should be ready to post sometime mid October ish
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I'm dumb what do you mean by "like moving to bonus HP scaling from items only or whatever."
Right now the damage scales with your max HP, which means it synergizes really well with champs who stack health through their kits (Cho and Sion for example). Moving to bonus HP from items scaling would let us balance it around a wider range of champions, rather than it having to account for kit based health stacking and being significantly weaker on those without it
I just hope all the big changes will be released in one big patch with fast follow up in couple of next patches. This year it felt preseason was bleeding into like 5 patches afterwards.
That's the intent here. We were already kind of getting into a 'season start patch has meaningful gameplay changes' pattern beforehand, so there was like preseason 0.5 in November and 1.0 in January effectively. Trying to condense and then do really fast balance/meta follow ups through both hot fixes and the next patch or two post season start.