Please make all the P&Z champions still fit into the new canon. It's gonna be sad if we have another Shaco situation.
That's the plan. Will take a while in some cases, we want them to all feel like a cohesive part of that shared world though
Will we be seeing news on Shyvana soon? The changes at Riot obviously would have affected development on her so I hope her VGU is still in the pipeline and not impacted too heavily.
VGUs will also be part of seasons in the future. We still want to do Shyvana, but it'll be whenever that makes sense as part of the larger theme. She won't be part of Season 1 of 2025 for example, given she doesn't make any sense when we've got a heavy Noxus focus.
When we have a season that makes sense for her (e.g. themes of Demacia, dragons, transformation, Ezreal or whatever) she'll get her VGU.
Also since this is the last dev update of the year, would you know if the info regarding future plans for shows that Praeco talked about was pushed back or in a separate dev blog
Not something I'm the right person to comment on sorry. Potential future show thoughts or news will come from Praeco, the rest of the animation team, Fortiche etc, not those of us over on the game dev side of things
Only one champ per season?
Yes, though 3 seasons per year, so same number of new champs as this year
Outside of the first section are there any arcane spoilers? Haven't had time to finish it yet
Should be just that first section
Brave of you being on Reddit at all if trying to avoid spoilers though!
Hi guys, will elemental drakes still affect the map in the same ways as before?
Yes
I'm a little sad we didn't get any updates on ASUs but I imagine we'll be hearing more about them next year.
Larger champion updates will generally be tied to each season's thematic. Expect some details about the first of them in January as a result
So at the very least we know not to expect Shyvana's rework until the season changes, potentially to Demacia? If she is still being worked on at all. A mention would be comforting knowing the uy in charge got laid off
We'll still release a Shyv VGU at some point, as you say it will need to connect with a season's theme though. Wouldn't necessarily have to be Demacia specifically, could also tie into other themes too. We don't have any plans for a dragon focused season for example, but other themes like that could also make for a great moment.
When will season 2025 begin?
Ranked in 2025 will reset in early January if that's what you mean.
Or, if you mean the first season of 2025 that's focused on Noxus, that will also kick off early January. Thematic will change after 4 months, ranked won't reset until 2026 though
so her progress is stopped at the moment and we wont get any news for a while and she wont be in 2025? its sad you didnt inform us earlier about this cause some people were really looking forward to her vgu especially after the long wait...
Correct, she won't be in 2025. Completely agree the long wait here is a really poor experience for those looking forward to her update and our apologies. We're going to avoid revealing updates like this so far in advance in the future to avoid that broken promise feeling.
I don't mean to be mean so if I come off that way I apologize. I'm genuinely just confused how this is considered a vgu?? Only thing changing is his ult, and it's still mostly the same. Is this not more of an asu?
We did originally explore much larger changes to Viktor's kit. Reaction from Viktor players was pretty negative to a few different versions though. There wasn't a pressing game health or balance need behind those changes, so we concluded it was better to update Viktor's art, audio etc but keep his established gameplay.
Is VIktor Dead? I thought the ending was open, if they died, or they could be transported, time travel.
I think the fate of a lot of champions in Arcane 2 is open to interpretation
I get she doesn't fit the thematic but it feels kinda rude that Shyvana players have been waiting since 2019, were told she was getting worked on in 2022 and are now just left in a limbo for whenever the right theme rolls around
Yeah, we messed up on this one. We should never have announced her so far in advance, let alone without a committed direction or clear timeline. Feels like a broken promise as a result.
Hi Meddler!! I'll wait as long as needed for a super cool rework :D How does Ezreal fit in all this though?
Sorry, couldn't resist the old callback
They are replacing quickplay....they are killing team builder...again.
Why...the fuck...they always DO THIS! We had matchmaking tools, that ensures that you can play the champ you actually want to, twice now. Both times you guys removed it for "something better". For fuck sake stop doing this!
Let us play the champs we want in a normal matchmade que!
Swiftplay will still let you pick your champ in advance just like Quickplay today does. You'll also be able to select the same champ for both roles you queue as
Is there a prestige skin list for 2025..?
The start of January dev update video will include a list of Season 1's prestige skins.
The update didn’t touch on the Jinx exalted skin or nexus finishers. Are those still coming next patch or are they pushed back?
Still planned for next patch. Didn't have any additional updates to share about them, so spent our time elsewhere
Will arena be back soon?
We'll talk about modes a bit in the next video (start of January), including when in the year Arena will return
you probably won't read this but, the literal only other game i play on occasion is Sky: Children of Light, and i looove their 'seasons'
looking forward to it
:)
Can't read everything, do try to though on the day these videos go out at least
We’ve got a video coming next week that covers next season’s gameplay and other things