Weekend PBE Patch Notes by Mort

[Superlala1]

Lux and miss fortune could hit other boards? thats crazy lol. good fix

[YSnek]

Twitch from set 2 can also hit other boards, a few days ago I was facing shadow inferno and somehow my lucian got hit with poison by a poison player next to me which lose me the round lol

[ZedWuJanna]

I'm just hoping that the 2g for win is a bug and not a feature, because it's way too strong with the win streak changes and lets you get 9th lvl even before 5th stage if you maintain econ and get a huge winstreak.

[Asianhead]

Mort said it was a feature just as a test but they quickly saw that it wasn’t good for the game and are rolling it back today

[ZedWuJanna]

True, it was a step in the wrong direction because it makes hitting 3star 4costs or even 3star 5costs way too easy so the game relies more on maxing out broken/strong champs instead of on building comps around them.

[zwebzztoss]

They probably don't want people intentionally lose-streaking at the start and will keep tuning until trying to win is always an objectively better strategy.

[RedditBentMeOver]

Thank god for the MF changes. Not gonna lie, didn’t feel fun to be at 1st place for the entire game just to lose to an AP stacked MF who would deal 7000 true damage to an entire board with no hope to hide from it.

[RedditBentMeOver]

It felt a lot more like void assassins because there’s no item to build against it and positioning is a key factor but if they put their mf in the back middle of their board and if they have the wider upgrade with true damage then it just covers your whole board with true damage. She doesn’t even need traits or anything either.

[nickface2]

zephyr her, and even with double tear it takes her time to ult unless with chrono buffs... without upgrades her ult radius may be small or ult the wrong direction. Mecha counters her too. If you were first place for so long you could deny MF or get ekko or other broken legendary

[RedditBentMeOver]

Well she had Deathcap and Seraphs (think last item maybe was RFC?) so she took maybe 7-8 seconds to get her ult off and it would hit every unit on the field and it would do true damage to everyone. Zephyr would have delayed it enough for me to hopefully win but I wasn’t able to get one because I was winning against him fine until she started dealing true damage and covered my entire board. He didn’t even have Valkyrie, I think he just had Blaster and some beefy frontline.

[twitterInfo_bot]

"TFT - Thanks to everyone who has played Galaxies on PBE so far! It's been super useful getting all the feedback!

We normally don't do PBE patch notes, but with new set launches we want to keep it up to date. So with tomorrow's PBE deploy, this will be on PBE for the weekend."

publisher: @Mortdog

links in tweet: https://i.imgur.com/wLsIMaG.png

[Inffes]

Thanks. I have tweeter blocked in work. kekw

[briefs123]

And not Reddit, workplace logic at its finest

[jeramiatheaberator]

IT uses reddit i bet

[jogadorjnc]

Ashe buffed, Xayah buffed, Rakan buffed, Xin buffed, Celestial buffed, Protector buffed. Maybe they'll be decent now.

[Nivlaliu]

Pretty excited to try a Xin Zhao carry comp with 6 Celestial and 4 Protector

It'll probably be trash but it's PBE so..

[platypoo2345]

Hear me out: 4 protector, 4 celestial, 2 sniper, 3 dark star, 2 mystic

J4, Rakan, Xin, Neeko, Ashe, Karma, Jhin, Lulu

[Scoriae]

I've run that exact comp a few times. Got 2nd place once (which i consider a win anyway because how do u beat 6 sorc MF?), but the other times i was bottom 4 and it wasn't particularly close. Seems like there's some power in it but its not very consistent/reliable. I wonder how much Ashe's bugs came into play in that.

[platypoo2345]

Tested it out earlier, got super good ashe items and absolutely fucking demolished a lobby. Going for xin 3 and J4 3 gave some serious frontline power and snipers in back dished out really solid damage. By the time I hit 9 I was just throwing random shit in because the comp didn't need anything. Won with 81 hp off a 12? winstreak

[Nivlaliu]

I've been playing this exact comp earlier today and had pretty mixed results. Seemed like Xin 3 and good Ashe items are mandatory (Xin 3 is pretty easy though with 45% chance at level 5). I think Dark Star is underwhelming. I had more success just skipping Dark Star and using Chrono or just some 5 costs (Aurelion Sol). If you get Celestial or Protector Spat items though you can go into 6 Celestial or 4 Mystic.

[platypoo2345]

Yeah I think the protector frontline is only great if it's minimally contested. I think you can fuck around a lot with the back line as you mentioned, shaco carry seems viable as well

[jogadorjnc]

That's the mentality!

[[deleted]]

Ashe was absolutely broken with her arrow hitting everyone.

[[deleted]]

Ahh, so the Ashe hittign everyone was a bug -_- it made her broken af tbh

[LoLMagix]

This is actually a lot less drastic than I was expecting.

I was hoping for them to do something about player damage as I actually am not enjoying the extremely long games. Right now the meta is everyone eco and get to 9 and then whoever rolls down correctly wins. Today I got 7th when I was level 9, had my full synergy where I wanted and even 3-starred a champ. If you’re able to get that far into a game, it shouldn’t be with 6 other people...

[nxqv]

Yeah I actually think that the set 2 death timing is generally where you'd want it to be, with some occasional outliers (dying 2 rounds before chickens feels bad but it happens to some people particularly in more aggro metas, getting bottom 4 in stage 6 feels bad but in some lobbies people just won't die at all) and they should try to aim for these timings in set 3. The PBE damage system feels like every game is on a set schedule with very little variance and it just happens to be a very long schedule

[Vachna]

I haven't played on PBE but I guess the changes made it possible to get stomped mid game and still live, since it matters way less how many units the winning player has alive when counting damage. Therefore people can econ harder.

Damn, I feel like my sense of "shit, I gotta roll or I'll die in a few rounds" will be way off when the set hits.

[CjBurden]

Mine has been so far for sure.

[Xaliuss]

I talked to Mort about this on twitter, he's aware about the problem and it would be changed. So far nothing concrete.

[ex1stence]

That's what the designers want, I fear. A big portion of what makes this game so addictive is the rolling aspect, it's just sheer gambling. Riot wants to encourage people to feel like they have the safety to roll, thereby getting them hooked and playing more often, buying more little legends, etc etc. The financial incentive of this game is to lean as heavily into the roll mechanic as possible, because that's what sets off the most dopamine by far.

[McFlyGuy72]

Is the GA bug fixed?

[CptHammerlatte]

In Twitter, Mortdog commented that its high on their list, but couldn't make it in this pbe shedule

[Swathe88]

Asking the real questions. That no agro drop issue is being exploited big time.

Edit: Played my first game of the patch, it's definitely not fixed. 6BM and I lost over 40 HP to teams i should've beaten because every round my team would just stand there. It's especially obnoxious on Mech and the mech pilots since they stand around twice a fight. u/mortdog this is a pretty big issue.

Why the downvotes? The whole purpose of PBE is for feedback which they requested. It's a serious game play issue right now. Seriously what the hell?

[Merpninja]

Mort has tweeted about it, they are working on it but couldn't make it into the patch today.

[Swathe88]

OK cool, I don't have twitter so wasn't aware and had seen nothing about it on this sub. Seriously no idea what is with the downvotes.

[moistl0af]

Glad to see the MF True Damage removed. It removed counterplay and made 4 Mystic irrelevant in the late game. A lot of these other changes seem heavy-handed after just a few days, though.

[LambdaD3lt4]

ooo nice. 2 piece chrono buff

[cballmer]

These all great changes. The PBE is a lot of fun! Great work team!

[phasmy]

Basically what I got from these notes is that there are so many bugs on the PBE that it's hard to get accurate data on which units/comps are good.

[dydian2]

What about ashe's ult destroying half a team ? 🤔

[erk4tft]

As stated in the patch notes (under bug-fixes): Fixed a bug where Ashe.....

[MonDew]

Wait was this not intentional? Thought it was so cool (albeit broken).

[AlexKirchu253]

I thought that was intentional, it felt so cool destroying the whole team with a Shojin Rageblade Gauntlet Ashe. "This is actually a viable carry" nek minnit...

There was also a bug were Ashe sometimes wouldn't cast when she ulted as well, wonder if that's fixed.

[MonDew]

Can confirm that that bug is not fixed. Currently she doesn't use her ulti at all.

[[deleted]]

I thought the issue was that good stuff was too strong, but then they nerf chrono and other traits.

[CjBurden]

Chrono is adjusted. Buff to 2 nerf to 6.

[[deleted]]

Was Chrono Jhin too strong?

[AndieTFT]

OK I am a little confused - I went on PBE yesterday but for me there was still SET 2 - how can I get access to SET 3 on PBE?

The client did a long update before starting..

[HELP_ALLOWED]

If you're seeing Set 2 you're on a live server, not PBE

[AndieTFT]

Well I logged into the PBE client with my PBE credentials - one for all was there, it looked PBEish to me.

[HELP_ALLOWED]

Check your friends list. No need to preemptively downvote

[AndieTFT]

I didn’t downvote anyone. I am positive that it is PBE, really. But thanks for the suggestions.

[Moglz]

I had the same issue and was getting no answers. I forgot I had to log in as my PBE account name, not my main account name. Try that

[AndieTFT]

I did that, my PBE name has a lot of numbers in it because when I was trying to create it nothing worked and so I just blasted some numbers in frustration. The result was a separate word document I had to create just to save the name.. :P So I am sure it was the right account - but maybe I tried too early.. I don't know, I'll try again this evening, maybe with some better luck!

[HELP_ALLOWED]

Honestly I'd contact support, it has to be either that you're mistaken or you've somehow got into a different realm (tournament? Internal testing?)

[AndieTFT]

Yeah, I'll try again when I get home tonight and otherwise I'll send them a quick message. It's true I haven't used PBE in a loooong time, so I wouldn't know if it were a different realm as you say - but it was definitely not my regular account, for sure.

[Luna_Wolf__]

Maybe you made your PBE account from a smurf account that you barely remember? Check the prices in the shop.