HiImSoRandom

Why is lethal tempo disabled in ARURF?

I get ult hat, but having crazy attack speed at times is the type of thing that can make URF fun, it's not like everything oneshots you anyway

I'll try to dig for a video of why (will have to be after winter break though).

If I can find a video, you'll understand why we turned it off lol. :P

Imhotep0

Now that they'll be more sporadic, can we expect the gamemodes to run for the whole 2 weeks instead of just at weekends?

Also this kinda kills my hope for Hexakill to return :(

RE mode length: You might have noticed recently we've been trending to just leaving the modes on for "whatever the duration of an event" is (1 week, 2 weeks, whatever). It makes sense if there's missions for an event that you want to do in a mode, plus it might be thematic (Star Guardian, Project), so it should just be there alongside. We'll likely continue something similar to this (doesn't mean we might not just use a weekend if it makes sense though!)

RE Hexakill: Quite the opposite, this is a potential pathway to free us up to work on Hexakill. Much better chance than if we were still maintaining modes constantly each patch.

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Developing a new mode is definitely more difficult/time consuming than bringing back an existing one, but unfortunately those aren't completely free either.

With each patch, as LoL updates and changes, inevitably older things can become buggy (or break completely). That's just #gamedev. EG: Swain just got reworked, so when he comes out the next time in One For All, we have to completely revist him. Over time, all of those cool new things (Zoe, Ornn, Kayn, new runes system, champ reworks, etc) add up to a non-trivial amount of scripting to bring back existing modes.

That's what we're generally referring to when we talk about "required dev to bring back an existing mode".

Yeah ok, that's adorable. :3

Holy shit this is absolute gold. :D

[fully stacked tear]

ToyZen197

You means this dooms bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7YGtxF1iGU

I watch LoL since 2015 but only play it in summer 2016.
I haven't got a chance to try, but it look better than "teemo dooms bot".

Story time.

I remember when we filmed this (it was the first mode I ever made on League of Legends!). We had initially wanted to film this on a stable internal dev environment, but due to the location, that wasn't possible. Unfortunately due to time constraints, we had to film this on actual PBE, which at the time was unstable due to an unrelated issue. For context, we had 'barely' gotten the PBE build to an acceptable state in time, and were furiously bug fixing in the background (EG: You can still hear a terrible audio clipping bug from the triple Victor laser doom).

I remember telling the film crew at the time, "There's an EXTREMELY small change that one of them could be DC'ed during this filming. Don't worry though, it's an infinitesimally small chance." We only had time to do one take, so we had to pray it didn't happen.

So of course /u/Zirene get's DC'ed just as the game is heating up (sorry dude!). -_- My heart sank. :(

While we're furiously try to reconnect him in the bac...

No, thank YOU mysterious internet stranger.

CityofCyn_

First partner (and potential game) will be announced at the Game Awards, by the way

It's such a relief to finally be able to talk (albeit limited) about what you're working on. Couldn't be more proud for the partners we're working with too.

I'm so hyped for the TGA's this year. :D Can't wait!

kyoyaaa

Turn based RPG, can play as League champs, exploring Bilgewater, I’M ON BOARD

I'm on board with puns of this quality.

OnlyAnEssenceThief

EKKO SINGLE PLAYER ACTION PLATFORMER HERE WE GO

YOU THOUGHT WE WOULD ONLY TEASE ONE GAME?!? YOU SWEET SUMMER CHILDREN :D

JevonP

I’m so excited for some actual info about these games

Me too! wait...

Threads like this bring a tear to my eye. <3

Ragaga

Since you're here, just wanna say I miss your work so much :(

I miss all the rotating game modes that you guys managed to put out like Ascension and all, it was SO MUCH fun...

It feels so bad that Riot has moved away from these due to what I assume to be low play rates :/

I swear those rotating game modes like Black Market Brawlers/Invasion/Nexus Siege is literally all I want back ._.

I know you're at Riot Forge nowadays but if you have a way to communicate this piece of feedback internally please do, having custom made modes for events was the shit and made every events feel sooo much more special.

I might just be one small voice in an ocean of many but god do I wish those modes were still being made, honestly I think I've started playing League way way less around the time riot discontinued them, Odyssey was a ton of fun as well but after that, haven't gotten much afaik. Spirit Blossom was amazing but still, I would give anything for a PvE event or just any other modes to be back

I had a blast making them too, was almost 5 years of game modes and hard to pick a favourite. I'm not on LoL anymore, so not exactly sure where they're at with them nowadays.

I had to eventually move on though honestly. 5yrs was a loo-ong time to make game modes :P but the kinds of games I wanted to make I was never going to be able to do inside of 'League of Legends the PC MOBA'. Riot Forge though is exactly the kind of stuff I wanted to make more of. Indie games, single-player, more story driven, different genres.

+1 for co-op PvE modes inside LoL PC though. :)

I miss you too mysterious internet stranger. <3

Why is there a team from my hometown in MSI lol.

This is some bogan shit. I love it.

SteamMonkeyKing

Who would win PGG vs Rockingham?

Armadale wins. :| No-one invited them but Armadale wins...