Rioters making changes randomly and without a comprehensive plan
something new, I didn't expect it at all
Almost never randomly. If there is anything Riot could be accused of it is overthinking rather than underthinking.
There is a TLDW on the website with every Dev Update!
Wow, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's summary.
u/RiotMeddeler What about reducing the amount of s grades needed for mastery grades after minestrone 4? I saw a rioter saying you will be changing it in the next patch but no announcement in the update worries me a bit
The change was decided after filming. It will be in the next patch!
It is hard to sell League for newer players when the game is so big and there are so few in game resources for newer players.
On top of games going between 20~40 minutes.
We'd like to make League a more welcoming game to interested players who haven't yet tried it.
Working on a bunch of new and returning player experience stuff. Planning to have it roll out of over time.
The recently improved bots and custom games are some of the more obvious manifestations of the longer-term plans we have. Other stuff is quite under the hood, like new player MMR changes, or not as obviously directly related but quite helpful, like Vanguard.
Later stuff will be aimed at better onboarding players into the core game and introducing our systems more gradually than today. League is very deep, which is cool, but we need to build and appropriate shallow end for folks to find the fun.
Read moreWill look into this tomorrow morning!
League of Legends is simply a game too difficult to start with, let alone mobas not being a popular genre at all like.
This is easily fixable with voice acted tutorials that have real game uses. Putting new players against dumb bots will never help improve their skill. Like take a look at Rocket League how many shooting/defending scenarios have they got? All the tools you will use can be practiced over and over.
This is not the case in LoL they just go well get in there you little go getter you. They need to have scenarios where you get ganked from lane or scenarios where someone flashes over the wall to gank you but you get to see them at the start in a vision ward so it teaches players the fundamentals of ward placement. Then you can replicate this with 5-10 different scenarios per lane/role.
I could go on and on i have 100s of scenarios that would improve the base line of the player 10 fold over being able to just afk mid lane and win against bots and get rewarded for genuinely doing nothing.
I do not think that new players are struggling with ward placement or being ganked.
I think they are first struggling with an unfamiliar control scheme, then the RPG power curve (presented through XP, gold, leveling, and items), overall game flow & objectives, what any of these 160+ champs is going to cook them with before they can react etc.
You are describing actually pretty advanced techniques from the perspective of a pretty advanced player. I am not against in the long term systems that would allow folks to become more advanced in League, but those are very likely not our first priority. (The stuff I listed above is)
Read moreI am glad you found it helpful :)
Diana. Hands down.
Bat signal for /u/RiotAxes
By chance are you also interested in Bugs/Inconsistencys? If so I've a 4 page google doc of Neeko bugs from Game Crashes, Funneling, to just passive issues.
I personally care but have little ability to help here because I don't work on the right team. If you DM me the link I will happily send it to the designer I know who loves Neeko the most though.
Got it, spellthality
We’ve got some plans here.
It’s important that Mastery not be entirely tied to game outcome (win/loss/placement) and have a performance component attached. Good performances are usually followed by good game outcomes, but I think we can recognize that’s not always true. Arena has different performance indicators than does SR or ARAM, so while placement might be an input it’s unlikely to be the only one.
This is incredible work. It's slightly more impressive than knowing how to play Aphelios.
OP or anyone else that has a game where a player displayed this behavior, please DM me with details. We'd very much like to see them.
Are you kidding? This happens all the time!
Pls send details about a game where you experienced it.
So what is the point of sending tickets? Does the customer support with clip attached isn't enough for you? Or you basically didn't care to look at them.
Looking for help through player support (PS) is a worthy use of your time!
What I am looking for is gameIDs so we can figure out specific behaviors and map them to game triggers (or see where they don’t map) to improve our systems.
We can get some of this from PS but not all! Ticket volume sometimes makes it hard to parse through.
That was a lot of inside baseball, but the gist is we are talking about improving some of these systems and the info helps. Team tells me it’s been surprisingly hard to find solid examples given the number of times people make the complaint of people skirting AFK detection.
Read moreI think my enemy afk'd and had no punishment, but cannot verify as replays seem to be broken this patch? When i download them i get a 2.5-5MB file (ones from the past are like 15-25MB) and when i launch them the game just says the file is corrupted
Don’t need replay file, just need to zero in on the specific game. If you DM me your game name, region, and around when the match occurred we can look you up and do the rest.
I don’t normally talk about features before we release them for lots of reasons, but this seems relatively harmless:
We have a ticket on a team right now to add a small lockout to a champion the first time it enters the bench (3s) so that it cannot get snapped up.
It’s not like in the deep backlog, it’s coming up in the next couple of sprints if I recall correctly. I will check on it on Monday.
Now watch me reallllly regret saying this if team has to jump on something more important and people be like Barack lied he always lies 😿
The first few weeks something like this comes out, we spend a lot of time watching and thinking and talking and planning.
We will share more when there’s something concrete to share, but I just wanted folks to know that everyone on the team is paying attention. We certainly want ARAM players to have a good time.
Are you also interested in this behavior in Coop games? Cause I've seen it more than once recently. I'm not sure I could find the gameID because the last AFK I saw was more than week ago, but if I see it again I can send it to you if interested.
Any game mode will work!