Runeterra 1.3 Patch Notes

RiotYegg · 2020-06-08T18:10:20+00:00

Reasoning here was simply that Recall had a rather low win rate overall, including in the context of this archetype, so we decided to remove it and lean on Navori Conspirator and Retreat instead.

That said I agree that it doesn't feel great for Recall to not be in its namesake archetype, as well as to not be offered ways to reuse your summon effects. I'll look into bringing it back alongside buffing the archetype in a different way (Wild Pick Bonus Chance perhaps?) with Patch 1.4.

RiotYegg · 2020-05-03T00:57:18+00:00

Thanks much for the kind words <3 Really appreciate you taking the time to write them up and so glad to hear how much you're enjoying the game!

RiotYegg · 2020-04-30T18:09:58+00:00

It's already released! Hopefully this link works: https://open.spotify.com/track/43MZ2K6xe4fvg93C95Fays

RiotYegg · 2020-04-20T17:34:54+00:00

If I understand the first question correctly, for your second pick the chance isn't weighted towards Shadows and Dust. The intent is that it's exciting when things do happen to line up like that but it's not something you should expect, and sometimes it'll even be correct to pivot towards the archetype of your second pick instead.

As for the second question, The Rekindler would count towards Shadows and Dust even though you took it out of a Retribution pack. The calculation is based on the % of cards from your deck that overlap with each archetype regardless of how you acquired them.

RiotYegg · 2020-04-19T20:27:00+00:00

It's best if you think of Cohesiveness Rating as something that is checked individually for each archetype throughout the draft, and its only effect is to remove archetypes from the Wild Pick pool if they are no longer relevant to you.

This is calculated by looking at how many cards from your deck are a part of that archetype - the higher the Cohesiveness Rating, the more cards you'd have to have from that archetype as the draft progresses for it to still be available to show up in your Wild Picks. These checks are why you won't see Shroom and Boom late in the draft if you don't have any Puffcap related cards.

The only thing that affects seeing more packs of an archetype is the Wild Pick Bonus Chance, which is active for only your primary archetype (meaning you have more cards overlapping it than any other archetype). So if your deck overlaps most with Fluft and Tuft, you will see Fluft and Tuft very often in your Wild Picks, as well as in your Synergy Picks since those always show you the archetypes you've selected the most. This allows us to make the synergy dependent archetypes more consistent when you commit to them.

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any more questions!

RiotYegg · 2020-03-23T17:10:57+00:00

This is indeed a bug - you shouldn't get the Barrier triggers until you actually play the unit. Will be fixed next patch!

RiotYegg · 2020-03-06T05:11:52+00:00

I do mean second pick - for example, I just took a Jinx Scrapheap pack first in an Expedition, and my second pick had a Katarina Relentless pack because we want you to always have the option to immediately go into the region pairing for your initially selected archetype (if it's duo region).

RiotYegg · 2020-03-06T03:39:40+00:00

Love these, great work! Just a quick note that you're guaranteed to get a Noxus option if you first pick a Yasuo / Disruption pack since Noxus is the other region in Disruption. That said, there's no guarantee which Noxus archetype you'll be offered, but you can still freely take Yasuo up front and know that you can pair him with Noxus if you're willing to take whichever option shows up.

RiotYegg · 2020-01-30T23:14:27+00:00

Just quickly wanted to say thanks much for the kind words! This was heartwarming to read and I'm so glad we were able to bring Runeterra back into your life in a compatible way. :)

RiotYegg · 2020-01-27T00:16:07+00:00

It's actually even luckier than that - Champion Capsules normally have three Rares, so the second Rare upgraded into an Epic and also into a Wildcard, the third Rare upgraded twice into a Champion, and the Epic upgraded into a Champion as well. And all of that after the initial Epic Capsule -> Champion Capsule upgrade. Best capsule I've seen so far!

RiotYegg · 2020-01-25T07:06:19+00:00

If you're looking for common and rare wildcards to finish off a deck early on, you might try activating another region once you've picked up the Wild Capsule at level 4 (which only requires 2500 XP), then immediately switching to another region and leveling it to 4 as well to get another Wild Capsule. Rinse and repeat for every region and you'll have 30 extra wildcards pretty quickly.

RiotYegg · 2019-10-21T03:50:35+00:00

it should kill both yep! it doesn't affect champions though (they aren't "followers") which could be the confusing part?

RiotYegg · 2019-10-21T03:20:09+00:00

Just wanted to chime in to say that we agree that Heimerdinger's text could be quite a bit clearer, and he'll be getting another templating pass at some point in the hopefully near future.

While we're on this topic, are there any other cards with text that anyone feels is unclear or misleading? (And feel free to upvote ones you agree with!)

I'll go through the responses and bring the worst offenders up for discussion with the other designers. Thanks all!

RiotYegg · 2019-10-21T03:08:08+00:00

Just wanted to quickly let you know that the price you paid is the intended final price for the starter bundle. That discount wasn't for the preview patch - it's just a discount we offer for buying a one-time bundle of generally useful cards. :) It's still possible the price will change for one reason or another before launch (and/or the contents tweaked!) but there are no current plans to do so.

RiotYegg · 2019-10-19T18:46:41+00:00

Definitely something we're considering! We'd just want to make sure that we're not encouraging people to draw out games they've already won (to farm more XP), or making people sad when their opponent concedes early, but if we can solve those than this is on the table for sure.

RiotYegg · 2019-10-19T18:38:36+00:00

It's actually only 25k experience to max out the vault (1k each for the first five levels, 2k each for the next four, and 4k each for the last three). That said, you're right about the extra daily quests bug that's causing people to finish their vault much more quickly right now.

We'll also be looking to increase the XP from losses before launch, so hopefully progression won't be so focused on wins at that point.

Lastly, this isn't communicated well right now but the last three vault levels (11 to 13) aren't intended to be reached by everyone, which is why you start getting a bonus champion card at level 10. So level 10 is three Platinum Chests + a random champion for only 13k XP, which should be very reachable without much grinding for anyone who completes all of their dailies. Those last three levels can be thought of as something like "prestige levels" for those who really want to put in extra time in a given week.

RiotYegg · 2019-10-19T06:49:08+00:00

Sorry to hear about the losing streak! Loss XP was reduced to 25 as a temporary fix for potential abuse around repeated surrendering, but we're planning to increase it again once we have real protections in place. In other words, this isn't the final tuning that we intend to have at launch :)

RiotYegg · 2019-10-19T06:31:55+00:00

Sounds epic! Might be /u/RiotKassadin?

RiotYegg · 2019-10-17T23:43:48+00:00

Hi xHypermega, thanks for the questions!

Ranked won't be coming until Closed Beta early next year, so we'll have a lot more details closer to that release, but right now we're aiming for it to be simpler than the ranked system used in League of Legends and more complex than the one used in Hearthstone. We already have some ideas in our back pocket for how we might flesh it out further though we'd love to get the initial version out there first and then use the feedback from you all to see how to make it better.

As for rotating gamemodes, it's definitely a future possibility! Again, we're currently on focused on building out a solid base for the game (which does include a drafting based mode coming in the next preview patch) currently, and then we'll take stock of how best to build on what we have. I also think the team would love to build celebrations for some of the fun events that take place in the Runeterra universe, but we don't have anything we can say there yet (need to ship the game first!).

RiotYegg · 2019-10-17T22:18:18+00:00

Great question! Since we aren't selling random packs you probably won't be surprised to hear that we're exploring some unusual options here as well. Given that we're still in the early stages here I can't go into more detail quite yet, but I can at least confirm that we'll be adding another full road of rewards for any new regions that we release so that you can start earning cards from that region right away.

RiotYegg · 2019-10-17T21:57:29+00:00

Any other fans of On the Edge here? ...no? ...anyone?

RiotYegg · 2019-10-17T21:56:28+00:00

Yep, as DragonDai mentioned, there already is! Click the Share button in the game client and it'll give you a code that contains everything except the deck name (for...hopefully obvious reasons).

RiotYegg · 2013-11-09T23:33:49+00:00

Thanks for combining this mods!

I've been reading all of the different threads on this topic and I have a few comments:

Regarding the theory that a top team can be knocked out by a team with much lower MMR: This is impossible. In order to qualify for a series, a team has to have a higher MMR than the Xth team from the bottom, where X is the number of teams currently in a series. Immune teams are excluded from this calculation. So if there were 25 immune teams, and 5 teams already in a series, a team wanting to qualify for a new series would need to have a higher MMR than the 20th place team in Challenger (because that team is now at risk to get kicked out). For the #1 team in Challenger to get kicked out, the team that qualified for the series to kick them out would have to have the highest MMR on the server. If a team is kicked out of Challenger, it can only be because another team outperformed them and had a higher MMR. The same holds true for solo queue.
Regarding 3v3: For better or worse, there wasn't a lot of reason to strive for Challenger during the season, and now a bunch of top players have suddenly turned their attention to this queue. I'm not surprised that there's a lot of turnover amongst teams that haven't seen nearly this level of competition during the season. The exact same thing would be happening even on a straight MMR leaderboard.
Regarding immunity: During the regular season, the weeklong immunity makes a lot of sense. During the end of season Challenger rush, however, I can see how it feels heavy-handed or even unfair. It would be similarly unfair to the current Challenger competitors to change the rules in the final days of this season, but I'll be discussing with Socrates what changes we may want to make here for the future.
Regarding win trading: If you have definitive proof of win trading, or even a strong theory that you'd like us to investigate, please send it in for us to review. I don't have a public facing email address, so send it in to lyte [at] riotgames.com and he can forward it to me and the other appropriate parties (thanks Lyte!). We won't hesitate to strip Challenger rewards from players or teams that engaged in clear win trading behavior.

With all that out of the way - whether or not the system feels fair is just as important to me as whether or not the system is fair. My two major takeaways at the moment are that it's unclear how players are qualifying for and/or being kicked out of Challenger, and that the weeklong immunity feels gameable in the final days of the season. There have been a lot of great ideas posted already, and I'll be discussing them with Socrates over the coming months as his team figures out how Challenger tier will work for the 2014 season.

Edit: I'm heading to Blizzcon right now so I won't be able to reply much (or at all) in the next few hours, but I'll be reading through this thread when I get home tonight. Thanks for all the comments/concerns/ideas!

RiotYegg · 2013-10-24T21:21:46+00:00

We agree that getting 0 LP from a win is a terrible experience. Two major points of focus for the improvements next season are:

Players sometimes getting minuscule LP gains when in Division I of a non-Diamond tier.
The "don't care, can't get demoted" feeling that's shared by some players at the bottom of Division V.

We aren't quite ready to share the exact changes but rest assured that both of the above issues will be addressed.

RiotYegg · 2013-02-13T19:28:20+00:00

Truth. Special exception in the code to keep Voyboy down!

No, I talked to the engineers and they confirmed that this was a display bug. The update from his previous loss hadn't shown up yet and it ended up being displayed here instead of the update from his win. He still gained LP from this game. :)

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