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Okay, thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood the original text so I'm happy to be wrong. Sorry!
All good and you're welcome
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.
/u/RiotMeddler are you able to share more info about the cadence of champ and champ updates and event structure with the new thematic seasons? Now that passes are tied to seasons, does that mean you guys are doing away with big event moments like summer event/worlds or finding a way to tie them with season starts. And for champs, it seems like general cadence has gone down a bit, was that a conscious choice?
PS is there any update on the Malphite VU, or would that be part of thematic season stuff too.
New champs - plan is one per season, tied to seasonal theme and/or narrative. As a result they won't be revealed as far in advance as we used to do (which also resulted in it feeling like we were talking about things so far in advance it then took forever for them to actually arrive)
Champ updates- also tied to seasons, though given no two updates are the exact same in terms of what changes, amount of work etc, there won't be such a fixed cadence. We'll have more than just LB this year when it comes to larger updates though. For Malph, nothing to mention there, that was never something we originally meant to announce, but instead internal experimentation that we accidentally leaked in a video and then felt we should acknowledge
Big moments like Summer and Worlds - still exist, will be tied in with seasons (not necessarily with a season start, but somewhere in it's arc certainly)
I'm kinda curious if the rift basic map we have now will be seen in some way or we won't see it again
It'll be seen again this year. We'll do a mixture of standard SR and visual treatments to SR at different times
ARENA ANNOUNCED
Called it on the S2 release. Now I’m just hoping it’s all of S2 like it was last yearEdit: see below clarification from Riot. Second half of Season 1. I mistook the naming scheme and forgot it was Seasons are a third of a year now
Just to clarify a little - Arena will be in the second half of this season, not in the next season. So more like early March than early May
Are they forced to work in an office with red lighting for the whole Noxus season?
I mean, with the current LA fires right now it does feel a bit like it today...
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!)