So Riot has nerfed the OP, featured a cheaper skin set, nerfed Killjoy and Raze, introduced more agent composition variety by nerfing Sage out of being a must pick, and released a new map 3 months ahead of schedule?
Yeah stop your bitching about how they aren't listening.
This map was originally going to come out in Episode 2 as planned, but many of us on the project felt it was worth buckling down hard and getting it finished to release it early. My role in that process as a researcher was understanding how players felt about it, and when it was clear to us how badly y’all wanted a fifth map, it was easy for us to get this schedule upheaval prioritized.
Riot’s not perfect - we’ll continue to make mistakes, but at the very least I hope you all can trust that we genuinely do care and we do listen.
ah yes the next phase of the avalanche gun skin reveal campaign - the devs loved the guns' origin story so much they built a map
Can I also just say that game dev (in a pandemic) takes time but as Joe and Anna have said, we build this game with you, and sometimes that means changing plans made pre-launch to meet evolving needs. We're always listening, so please be patient. Or as all the corporations say, we're in this together in unprecedented historical times so now is the time to buy a burger and side of curly fries avalanche gun skiiiiiiin babyyyyyy.
The original plan was 3 agents an act and 1 map an episode. But they might have switched the order to 2 agents and map per episode (3 Acts).
A map release doesn’t necessarily mean that there won’t be an agent release in that act, too. We were initially planning on launching icebox with another agent at the Episode 2 drop, sooo...
Will this affect future map releases? Will there even be a new map in Episode 2 since the Episode 2 map got moved up to Episode 1?
To be completely honest stuff like this is still getting figured out and I’m not qualified to speak to it since I’m not in deep on production schedule work. In general though, we’re working to get you all maps sooner rather than later, and we want to avoid that “empty episode” scenario as much as we can. I wish I could give more details here but I’m just not the right person to speak to it!
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