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Hello from the LoR team!
Hey everyone, greetings on behalf of the Legends of Runeterra team!
If you somehow got here without knowing what that is, LoR is our new digital card game set in the League of Legends universe—you can check out this video explaining the game to get caught up.
Here’s the big headline: For the next five days, you have a chance to play a special “preview patch” of Legends of Runeterra. Go to www.playruneterra.com and pre-register for a chance to play (not to mention get an exclusive Moonstruck Poro guardian once we launch).
You can also link your Riot account to your YouTube and Twitch accounts, then watch streams of LoR to increase your chances of getting access.
Full list of LoR channels you can check out:
- Site: https://www.playruneterra.com
- Discord: https://www.discord.gg/LegendsofRuneterra
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/LegendsofRuneterra
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LegendsofRuneterra
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/LegendsofRuneterra
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PlayRuneterra
- LoR support: https://support-legendsofruneterra.riotgames.com/hc (please also send bug reports here!)
We also worked with Mobalytics to help them set up a comprehensive card database & deckbuilding site: http://lor.mobalytics.gg/. You can also see their Twitch extension in action by checking out LoR streamers. And for community developers out there, we just opened up the LoR section of our Riot Developer Portal: https://developer.riotgames.com/lor.
Finally, I’d like to talk a little about what you can expect from the the LoR team on this sub. I handle communications on LoR, which, among other things, means I’m the point person for wrangling how our team interacts with you all here. Basically, if you want to talk about the game with the team, talk to the devs; if you want to talk about how the team is communicating on this sub (and in other places), I’m your guy!
A few expectations I’d like to set right up front:
We didn’t build our own community platform for LoR—we want to go where you are, which means here (and Discord, for instance, despite the fact that I’m getting older and Discord scares me a little). Similarly, we can’t wait to get involved with any new LoR community sites and developers.
We’re just guests here, and we’ll take our lead from you and the mod team when it comes to how this community is run. That said, we’re so excited to hang out here with you all, and I’d love to be as involved as you’d like me to be in making the sub a great home for LoR players.
Assuming they return my calls, I’ll be in regular touch with the mod team, and 100% transparent about our interactions. Mostly it’ll be routine stuff—flair requests, visibility on upcoming posts, etc.—but like I mentioned above, I’d love to exchange cool ideas for the sub, both yours and ours. So far, I’ve spoken briefly with u/adagiosummoner and u/HarleyWorking to share some of what I’m saying here as well as flair / banner art, and I look forward to meeting the rest of the mod team as well as any new mods who join.
I’m also very happy to discuss or elaborate on any of these points—just let me know!
As you can expect, the team is gonna be pretty busy for a bit, which is why we’d like to hold an AMA here and on Discord at 1 PM PT on Thursday 10/17. I’ll work with the mods to get it set up, and we’ll probably post a little early to let you all start chucking questions. And don’t worry, we’ll still hang out here when we can today to answer questions.
Thanks everyone, we can’t wait to hear what you think of LoR!
_A_Small_Man
We're not sure yet whether we'll reset before the next preview patch in Novermber, will let y'all know asap. We're DEFINITELY gonna reset at least once prior to launch, and possibly more.
_A_Small_Man
Hey we're just happy to be in a world with multiple games :D But honestly, we expect a lot of folks who came in to League for TFT might also like LoR, and we can't wait to hear what they think!
_A_Small_Man
You should get an email.
_A_Small_Man
Of course!
_A_Small_Man
https://www.twitch.tv/settings/connections
_A_Small_Man
Haha, thanks and sorry, as you can probably expect it's getting a HELL of a beating atm. Glad you're excited!
_A_Small_Man
We've still got an official stream going right now, but anyone playing LoR will work as long as both you and the streamer have linked your accounts on Twitch.
_A_Small_Man
No crossplay between shards, but the shards for LoR are also going to be more geographically widespread than LoL's -- we don't have to worry about latency as much. LAS players will play on the Americas shard, along with everyone else in North & South America + OCE.
_A_Small_Man
If you'll have us :D
_A_Small_Man
Yup! Coming in our November preview patch -- check out the roadmap here: https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq
w4ndr
the barrier blocks the damage that would otherwise be taken by the unit. So if the character can block 4 of the damage (which gets absorbed by the barrier).
the way i think about it is "all damage resolves like normal. my unit takes 0 damage"
w4ndr
we're hoping our VO is one of the places we're able to shine! We've got over 3.5k lines in the game right now, and we're only gonna keep going up from here.
and you're totally correct! every character with VO in the game generally has about 16 voicelines, but some characters have anywhere up to/over 50!
w4ndr
yea, but she who wanders is still better
w4ndr
servers go away until the next preview patch (nov 14-19)
https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq
w4ndr
draft mode is out during our second patch! (nov 14-19)
https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq
w4ndr
draft mode is out during our second patch! (nov 14-19)
https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq
w4ndr
some of our VA's have gotten harassed in the past, so we don't reveal who did the VO for a character. It's usually up to the VA's themselves to reveal who/if they voiced
w4ndr
You're right that the current board is supposed to be reminiscent of summoners rift, more than anything! What aspects of the board remind you of hearthstone?
w4ndr
i'm gonna let /u/riotstrokke do the talking here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegendsOfRuneterra/comments/disial/thank_you_riot_for_making_beautiful_card_art_and/f3zebv8/
w4ndr
I don't think there's an enlightenment win condition
Enlightened just means you've unlocked all 10 mana crystals (eg, reach round 10). There's a chance you were looking at karma, who's level up condition is to be Enlightened (and you're probably gonna win prettttty quick at that point)
w4ndr
take a look a the roadmap here: https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq
this preview patch is designed to focus on the gameplay/acquisition more than the other bits you're calling out, but we have boards/guardians on our roadmap. Hope we exceed your bar on this :)
w4ndr
I'm all ears! got anything in particular you'd like to call out?
w4ndr
even if those were boosters, i'd rip them until i found a she who wanders
w4ndr
Thanks!! I've gotten the honor of working with some of the best vfx artists and animators in the industry, and I'm glad it's showing!
JeffExpress
Yes. Our roadmap is right here
https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq
JeffExpress
The awesome folks at mobalytics built a deck tracker for streams already. Building an in-client deck tracker has been a topic of discussion for awhile and I’ll leave it at that. Ha!
riot_kuaggie
There is a high chance some cards will change based on what we learn from our two 5-day closed betas, but I would expect this to be the set of cards you'll see at launch.
DyQuill
I'm crossing mine for you too
DyQuill
Be sure to watch LoR streams on Twitch for the drops! I can't explain exactly how it works, but we'll be paying attention to which players are watching...
riot_kuaggie
Unfortunately there aren't any current plans on the roadmap for Mac compatibility. Mobile devices (android & ios) are coming though!