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tfw only the TFT news mattered to me
Thank god, galaxies kind of sucks. lol
What is it you don't like about Galaxies?
tfw only the TFT news mattered to me
Thank god, galaxies kind of sucks. lol
What is it you don't like about Galaxies?
i'm a dum dum who can't understand graphs, is the surge for low play rate champs like kindred really that high?
Yeah, these are hard to follow the exact details on, especially without access to the tools directly unfortunately. In Kindred's case the number of people playing them has increased to 250% of previous values and the number of games per person is around 170% of previous values. A very substantial jump in overall engagement with them as a result.
Is it that the Morde ult needs to have its own new map to line up with the new NB map? Or is it that his ult could break certain events? Or both?
It's not a separate map, just some adjustments to his scripts so they also understand how to function on Nexus Blitz (he's already got scripting that accounts for SR versus ARAM for example)
1st time buying pass is it still 1650rp? and next patch is 22th right?
Yes and yes.
So is the event pass coming out on next patch?
Yes, Spirit Blossom kicks off next patch and will include an event pass.
Morde is likely because of the way his ult works with maps, no clue about Ivern except maybe his passive but afaik he currently just kills them like every other champ
Yep, Morde ult and Ivern passive. We'll get them working there, lot of other things that have had to come first though (overhauling a map's a big job!) hence they won't be in patch 1 at least.
I hope they get the advanced Tooltips in soon. I really like that and it feels better than having to go to the wiki to check things all the time
Lillia will be the first as mentioned. After that we'll be aiming to ship tooltip updates to multiple champs per patch.
Good, hopefully they find a solution that won't f**k over a ton of people who played 1 or 2 games of TFT. I don't see why they can't just make them a toggle-able feature for ARAM.
Yeah, in retrospect our proposed refund criteria were pretty off. Apologies for that, we should have identified clear issues internally.
In terms of next steps, we're still figuring out what's feasible, what meets player needs without screwing over other groups. Unclear right now what exactly that will entail. Could be modified functionality on ARAM but still visibile to everyone. Could be a better refund approach that's fair to people who've played some TFT and some ARAM. Could be some form of hiding LLs from many players on ARAM. Could be something else again. Details to come for discussion once we've got a revised plan together.
Can't make promises, but will be chatting with people about that one.
What's there to discuss? Just add a check box asking if player wants to get TFT mission notifications. It's not rocket science.
Actually, it's probably just as hard, considering we're talking about Client team.
Yeah, it's not about what we want to do, but about when it will be feasible to do it. And, as you note, the Client is not an easy thing to work in unfortunately.
What about oddissey skyline? As I can remember both oddissey and galaxy slayer zed was poppular(feels like every kayn and zed mains use this legendary skins), this skinline gonna have new ... skins? u/RiotMeddler
Odyssey's on our list of thematics to return to at some point.
At least seperate TFT and League missions, pretty please.
I tried TFT and never want to play it again but it keeps popping up in the missions tab.
I just want to see my League missions seperately.
Yeah, that's a fair call on the missions tab especially, that's not a good enough experience right now.
Can't make promises, but will be chatting with people about that one.
i feel like SG Urgot is an exception, because that was such a huge meme
Fair. Corgi Corki's another similar case, including being well loved amongst even non Corki players for what it's worth. Beekeeper Singed and Beemo older but good examples too.
What have been the relatively newer skin lines that could be looked at for continuing development? I was trying to think the other day what new skin styles have come out and I can mostly think only of continuations of existing themes
We've got a handful of completely new skin themes you'll be seeing over the second half of this year.
For recent ish skin lines I'd call out Coven as a strong example of what good looks like personally.
Do any Meme like skin lines such as Sugar Rush, Pool Party ever do that well compared to the more serious skin lines? Also isn't a lot of the hunger linked to the champs? Other than Braum, Eve, Zilean and Ivern are all hugely unpopular, so surely the skinline would never sell well because it has no additional lore/in depth skins live Coven or SG and the champs selected didn't really fit the theme and were unpopular? Probably can't say but is there any correlation between skin theme and champ popularity? I'm wondering if you gave sugar rush to Ez, Yasuo and Lux, it would be the best selling skin line yet.
Some meme skins do well. Star Guardian Urgot's a great recent example.
In terms of hunger and popularity - our expectations for player interest in a skin are based off the popularity of the base champion, so we're not expecting Ivern, Zilean, Braum etc skins to be as popular as those for Vayne, Lux, Lee Sin etc.
Lack of depth/lore for some skin lines - agreed, and that's where the reboot approach comes in to try and get depth like that into skin lines that would benefit a lot from it.
theres no potential for TFT to get its own client? like its not a different game mode like aram or treeline, its a completely different game
It's not impossible we do so some day. TFT and LoL MOBA share an awful lot of functionality though. Disentangling the two would mean a substantial amount of dev time as a result. From the player perspective that means the benefits from separating the two would need to be higher than the benefits from having those same devs work on other stuff for both TFT and the MOBA side (new features, bug fixing, performance improvements, new content etc).
Any idea on if they'll bring back Battle Academia skins? I imagine they did quite well.
As per another comment here somewhere - yeah, we expect we'll do Battle Academia again someday (though won't be this year).
I love how they never gave Battle Academia a chance. The majority of Katarina players in my games use her black chroma which looks really good and I see a lot of Graves players use his teacher one whenever I tune in a stream. Strange how it works.
Even sillier is how they are beating Blood Moon. Yeah, most of them look good but this years was fanfic tier.
It won't be this year, we expect we'll go back to Battle Academia at some point though. It wasn't one of the absolute strongest thematics, but was well loved by a fair number of players and we think it's got a lot of untapped potential too.
This here is a very important point to which Riot needs to answer
Btw thank heavens LL are being removed from ARAM. Such visual clutter
They finally realized after poor sales of LLs for TFT. Now they will make better quality LLs
LLs on TFT have been going fine for what it's worth :)
I hope they remove the LL egg from battle pass missions too then
Ah, good call out. I'll check with the team, make sure we do that if it's not already planned. Will probably leave LLs in the token store, since that's purely optional by contrast.
They’re gonna talk about visual clarity and skins in the same blog post, but not mention how awful visual clarity OF skins has degraded over the last couple years?
Of course everyday players may not have problems but I play this game on again and off again repeatedly and every time I come back there are champions I can’t recognize that blast me with skills I’m not expecting because I think they’re someone else.
Even while I’m playing, dumb translucent sparkly effects harass me all day in ARAM because of how poor the visibility is. There’s no definition to these effects, and while it may be somewhat clear that something is flying towards you, it’s hard to tell what it is or how exactly large it is.
Skin clarity's very much on our mind and being worked on too, though there's no single change as stark as 'we're removing something from a mode' to message right now. We didn't want to leave this LL change to just patch notes, in terms of both visibility and highlighting it well in advance, hence the call out here.