RiotMeddler

99% sure Quick Play is set up so they can still be a thing, double checking though

Keeping our games accessible to a wide range of hardware (and operating systems) is a big goal for us, be that League or anything else we make. At this point though we just can't justify the limitations that imposes on development for 99.99%+ of the playerbase hence the update

Hey, if it's deliberate and with other consenting adults, go nuts...

Video doesn't work well without the accompanying blog (which has some concept art of VGU Skarner). He's still very much a scorpion, not humanoid. We're working to get that blog posted as soon as we can now. In retrospect what we should have said instead in the video was that it was the current execution on scorpion that isn't compelling, not that scorpion couldn't be a compelling core for a champion.

They'll be a fairly regular thing, though not on an exact fixed schedule since we'd rather do one a little earlier or a little later depending on what we've got to say. At a guess, that probably means something like every 4-6 weeks or so, but that's a rough approximation, not a hard rule

And yeah, current thinking is these replace LoL Pls, given there's a lot of overlap otherwise and LoL Pls has some limitations to it we're looking to move away from (overly focused on good news only, slower production/release times)

You know what, I like this version better.

Sure, nip slip.

Short version - a lot of stuff had to be manually implemented every time we ran it. Took a lot of time, was error prone (given a lot of data entry to get wrong) etc. Needed to be rebuilt in a better manner

Don't worry on that front at least, we're very much sticking with a creature scorpion, not going human with scorpion elements

Yeah, not the ideal choice of phrasing in retrospect. What I meant to convey was that "now that Yuumi's not taking bandwidth away from other midscopes and can be addressed through the balance process again", rather than "now that Yuumi's totally fixed forever"

For what it's worth I do think this verison of Yuumi will be meaningfully more balanceable, agree that what shipped at a minimum wasn't tuned right though (to state the obvious)

Video was meant to go out at 12.30pm PDT, not 12:30am PDT. We're working to get it and the blogs up properly now, apologies for the mess

To clarify - champ and role are individual picks. You're doing things like choosing:

1. Mid - as Zed
2. Support - as Blitz

Not going to get assigned Zed as support as a result

It's really unfortunate the video went out early without the dev blog to accompany it, given the comments in the video don't stand on their own as well without all the extra context. We're working on getting everything posted properly now, some bits from the blog while we wait though:

"With Skarner's update, we wanted to take the chance to revisit the Brackern and reinvent what they are as a species, while maintaining their immense power and presence in Runeterra.

Where we landed was making the Brackern Runeterra's first earth elementalists, dating back to pre-civilization. Ancient and powerful, they're revered for their primal knowledge of earth, which they taught to the people of Runeterra long ago."

"Skarner currently resides in Shurima. However, with a new direction for the Brackern, we thought that Ixtal, with its deep connection to elemental magic, would be the perfect region for them.

With the Brackern as the first earth elementalists, we're e...

Hey folks

So uh, this was meant to go out at 12.30pm PDT, not 12.30am PDT, hence the lack of the mentioned blogs, lack of any of us replying on social media, video being set to private etc. We're going to stuff posted properly as soon as we can, apologies this process has been extra messy today...

Heavy changes and/or reversions to death timers and tower rubble

VGUs and ASUs are separate

Ranks will go up faster if you're winning certainly, they'll also go down faster if you're losing. This is about people getting to a representative of their skill rank faster, not about inflation

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/113vg8k/champions_lore_modes_more_dev_diary/j8svg1x/

:)

I'm very excited about this too, I think long term it'll be great, does mean some slow down right now as we get stuff figured out however.

And yeah, we'll also still have some degree of adaptation to any given medium of course. There's a lot of stuff that's just part of gameplay, or just memey fun, that can and should diverge. I don't think anyone's getting confused over whether Yasuo dying 10 times in 15 minutes is canon or not for example

The process of making a new champion is a pretty long one, so moving people to other projects today probably won't affect 2023 champs at all (so much of the work has already been done there).

At a very rough guess, probably something like 3-4 new champs in 2024. Not sure yet for 2025+ and we've got some time to figure out what makes sense for the longer term like that

This is a reduction in new champs specifically in 2024 (and potentially beyond). We're not reducing investment in VGUs