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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:

 

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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    They said you won’t, but you’ll be refunded coins you spend.

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Do you think this game is going to cannibalize tft players?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Do you have to be there to claim a drop from a stream or can I just afk?

    You should get an email.

  • _A_Small_Man

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    You have made me very happy! I can't wait. Muchas gracias a todo el equipo de riot!

    Of course!

  • _A_Small_Man

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    How would we go about connecting our Riot accounts to Twitch/Youtube?

  • _A_Small_Man

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Awesome job guys, can't wait to play it. Also your authentication server sucks.

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    When you say to watch streams, are there official streams coming up we can watch, or will they just be normal streets given access?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    will be crossplay region? because i'm in las and maybe the player pool could be a little smaller

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    So is this the official subreddit for this game?

    If you'll have us :D

  • _A_Small_Man

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Super excited for this. Do have one question off the bat: will there be draft/draft-like mode (IE. Like MTG Booster draft or Hearthstone Arena)? I'm a huge sucker for draft modes.

    Yup! Coming in our November preview patch -- check out the roadmap here: https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    How is barrier/overwhelm supposed to interact? Currently say a 9 atk overwhelm strikes a 4 defense defender with barrier it will break the barrier doing no damage to the unit and then deal 5 damage to the nexus. That doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I feel like it makes the most sense if no overwhelm damage happens since they are hitting everything into the barrier it just doesn't do damage to the unit. Or 2nd best option would be full 9 overwhelm damage if you want to say the barrier just counts as taking 0 damage and the rest bleeds over. It factoring in the barrier units hp/defense just doesn't make any sense.

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    i also love love love the VO and was wondering every character card have multiple voice lines? i saw a few responding to other card's lines in addition to the ones for being summoned. thats really really cool. will future cards have them too? isn't the amount of voice recording(production logistics) crazy considering the number of characters, and how fast number of cards grow in a card game?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    whoever decided to make Lucian able to proc attack rounds twice on your attack and once on enemy is a monster and i love them for it. that shit is op as fuck if he gets going and use the correct spells to buff his damage.

    yea, but she who wanders is still better

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    For the next five days, you have a chance to play a special “preview patch” of Legends of Runeterra

    so what after 5 days? servers go bye bye or is the game going public?

    servers go away until the next preview patch (nov 14-19)

    https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Hey LoR Team

    Just got my hands on the game today and had a blast so far :D

    Immediately i got a question, since I've played every major card game out there already.

    I'm a big big fan of draft modes.

    Is there a plan on having a draft mode in the game?

    What would it look like? Would it be either ghost drafting like HS Arena or Normal Drafting like in MTG?

    What would the payment for a draft game look like?

    Draft Modes would be a great way to support the constant progression in you guys aiming for, I think.

    Anyways, keep it up! This game has huuuuge potential

    draft mode is out during our second patch! (nov 14-19)

    https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Hey LoR Team

    Just got my hands on the game today and had a blast so far :D

    Immediately i got a question, since I've played every major card game out there already.

    I'm a big big fan of draft modes.

    Is there a plan on having a draft mode in the game?

    What would it look like? Would it be either ghost drafting like HS Arena or Normal Drafting like in MTG?

    What would the payment for a draft game look like?

    Draft Modes would be a great way to support the constant progression in you guys aiming for, I think.

    Anyways, keep it up! This game has huuuuge potential

    draft mode is out during our second patch! (nov 14-19)

    https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/lor-announce-faq

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    idk if you can say this or not, but my friends and I think Matthew Mercer voices the card Chump Whump. can ya'll confirm or deny?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Just barging in. I don't know if any significant number of players share my opinion but I'm a bit bothered by the fact that the board reminds me so much of Hearthstone.

    It may very well be some accessibility and familiarity design concern but the Ccg market is full of Hearthstone clones and Hearthstone derivatives. If we look at steam there are tons of other card games that rely on the same general layout. This is something that starts brewing an association with low effort and low quality (which isn't the case of LoR). Even good games like Eternal become lost among the rest because of this general layout.

    One thing I really enjoyed in gwent, MTGA and mythgard is trying to break a bit from asthetic of Hearthstone (mythgard a bit less then the first two). Lol has a great visual identity to be explored, I just don't know if the summoners rift reference is the one you should go with. It may get lost in the shuffle...

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Got a beta pass right away and have been playing nonstop ever since. Couldn't even manage to sleep. You've made a piece of art. There is still a long way to go, of course, but you're certainly in the right direction. I've complained a lot about the recently decaying quality of League of Legends' art on skins and such (oversexualization, inconsistency, same face syndrome, generally uninteresting content, interest in money over meaning) -- but the art is astonishingly beautiful in Legends of Runeterra. It has got none of those problems at all. If that's the reason League was recently decaying, then it was all worth it. Also, as a lore enthusiast: I'm dazzled by the depth it subtly added to the universe.

    And as someone who has played a lot of card games on a high competitive level such as Hearthstone, MTG and YGO in the past: I'm truly in love with the twists LoR has introduced. I'm really focused on trying to figure out clever ways to make Kat work rn, as miracle decks that function around recalling and smartly reusing resources are always my favorite -- also I love Noxus as a whole.

    Don't ever let the art quality decay, it's perfect as it is now. Keep improving. It's the first time I've felt truly happy with a game in a long, long time. From the bottom of my heart: thank you.

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Super excited, already signed up. I noticed in the video there was a win condition along the lines of "10 Mana Enlightment". Is this something similar to Honor and Enlightenment victories in L5R, where you stall the opponent and win without attacking?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    The board itself just feels bland. For example hearthstone has multiple boards with different things you can interact with in different ways. I like the little animals on the side but I wish they did more. In artifact the little goblin guys would move and taunt you and stuff and were very animated in comparison. It's all minor things but I think it adds a lot secretly. Again these are just my opinions. Magic arena has nothing like that and noone seems to care so I might be in the minority.

    I am loving the games I'm watching though and think all the rest of the art looks amazing.

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    The animations and card art are top notch for a card game. To be totally honest at the risk of sounding like a jerk the actual board could use some love though.

    I'm all ears! got anything in particular you'd like to call out?

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Will there ever be physical cards of the cards that are in the game that we could buy?

    even if those were boosters, i'd rip them until i found a she who wanders

  • w4ndr

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    I'm honestly shocked at how good this looks. Could be a real competitor to hearthstone and mtga. And the final nail in the artifact coffin. Pre registered on my Android and super excited to try it. Will pre register on my PC whenever I get back to it.

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Will this release on iPhones?

  • JeffExpress

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Anyone know if there are plans for a deck tracker in the works?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Is the current card pool the one the game will launch with next year ?

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    I am doing that as we speak! :D Guess I will just have to keep my fingers crossed then!

    I'm crossing mine for you too

  • DyQuill

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Any tips for getting into the beta apart from what is mentioned on the game´s website (Connecting your twitch and signing up for the game)? As a year one League player and someone who has tried most of the card games out there competitively I am super excited to see Riot´s take on the genre!

    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

    Posted 6 years, 2 months ago (Source)

    Is it PC specifically or will there be/is there Mac compatibility? (Beyond the iOS app)

    Unfortunately there aren't any current plans on the roadmap for Mac compatibility. Mobile devices (android & ios) are coming though!




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