League of Designs

usul1202 said () :

Getting a skin like that would be out of this world

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Maybe AstroBard?

I think I'm just being greedy though - I've got AstroNautilus, after all.

Current plan is to ship a few QoL things around 9.17 or 9.18.

Instead of a regular champion roadmap our next couple of blogs will be detailed dives into how the Fiddle and Voli VGUs are progression as followup to the recent VGU voting. Will be a while until the next standard roadmap as a result. First Voli/Fiddle update should be pretty soon though.

Current plan is any champ or VGU that's in the game by 9.17 at the latest will be playable at Worlds. If Panth's in 9.17 or before, he'd be eligible. Not gonna comment on when his VGU release is though, that you'll have to wait and see on!

Draft of the blog got written this week. Not certain on exact release date yet, still aiming for late July as per that quoted post though.

I understand the frustration bugs create and how it's disappointing to not get responses about them. I apologize that I'm not answering those questions. I'm not the right person to handle specific bug responses at this point though, my day to day's just not involved in that part of the game dev workflow at all and I can't justify the time to go chasing individual bugs down. Feels bad having to say that, but hope it's a bit more helpful than silence.

Definitely, wouldn't hold off on those on power grounds.

Combination of:

• 3 week patch cycle, so more stuff just ends up being ready
• Last patch before we enter a low change/stable period for the year
• A number of champs who needed larger work in addition to usual balance changes

Fair, should be a good point to talk about him now. I'll get some stuff together for a post next week (need to talk with some folks on the SR team to get additional context first).

Support items are still a likely part of preseason. Details aren't solid enough yet to get into though. I don't believe we've got any plans for Resolve right now.

Oh, no worries, fair question. I've dropped down to one post a week since I got back from paternity leave instead of the two I used to do. That's a combination of:

• New baby = less time in general for everything else
• Mid year tends to be somewhat quieter in some respects, so sometimes less to talk about/more work to find stuff to fill posts
• My role at work's expanded somewhat this year as well (getting more involved in some non game design stuff too) which also takes additional time

It's not something we've got any plans for at present. For one thing the way our internal tools are set up means it'd be a really large job to get some form of them that could be player facing. Wouldn't rule out the possibility of it some day of course, never say never and all that, but think it's very unlikely for quite a while at least.

We're planning on doing it. Not sure when though, needs some work on visual effects, audio and other art. The folks who'll do that work are currently busy however.

Qiyana wise:

• We expected her to have a significant learning curve and so look weak initially. That does seem to have been the case.
• Her performance is improving as we'd expected pre launch.
• No balance changes planned at present as a result.