If you're in the middle of combat and the game already knows the outcome is you losing the fight, you'll see the Recruit "button" appear on the right side of the field. Sucks to be "spoiled" :D
They create a cool mechanic that people enjoy and they just flood the game with it. Discover was really cool until seemingly every other card being released had the mechanic stuck on it. It definitely is different than Discover though since Discover just allowed for lazy design and stupid amounts of RNG whereas Rush at least feels like they have to think twice before putting it on a card.
Thankfully with Discover, Blizzard was able to tone it down by removing the class card bonus which hurt the effect across the entire pool of cards. Not really possible with Rush so they just need to slow down on how many cards get printed with it.
I think as long as they keep it to no more than 7-8 cards with Rush in each of the sets this year, things would feel better and maybe even force the game to slow down a tiny bit.
Also, I agree with KANSAS; They should really add another Charge minion into play. Yeah, Charge is kinda busted but if that really is their stance on it, rotate the rest of it to Wild and get it the hell out of Standard. Leeroy my son, you've grown too old and must go out on your own now.
I for one cannot wait for their announcements on what is happening with Standard this year. I'm really hoping we get some big changes to pull Hearthstone up and remove some of these dark clouds from the sky, paving way for a brighter future.
Yeah, I really love the way Riot communicates with players. League has had consistent patches for so long so it is a very welcome return for Legends of Runeterra. Hearthstone and Blizzard are such a joke when it comes to regular game updates... minus Heroes of the Storm but they killed that game so it doesn't really count.
Avalon, in my time seeing you on the forums and even looking at one of your deck guides, you've got a strong understanding of English! I may have made that requirement a bit too bold but at the end of the day, we simply want people who are able to get their thoughts expressed fluently.
Sinti made some great points on it that I'll save repeating them. If you have a desire to create content for the community, submit an app and tell us what it is!
Hell yes! Battlegrounds is such a good mode and with the constant updates so far, it gives us a lot of potential with the mode. Every time we post about Battleground they become some of the more highly trafficked articles.
We sent out a tweet and Facebook post 40 minutes before this article was published and so it was unaccessible. That was my fault since I did the scheduling on this article and for that, I apologize!
This is likely the last deploy of January 2020! I've split up our larger end-of-January site update into today's update and one that will arrive on Monday, February 3 (need Friday and the weekend to go over more major systems).
New Features
Forums
The great forum overhaul of 2020 has arrived.
Forum listing is no longer super simple, using a more table-like format.
You now see recent threads for each forum section.
Total replies and thread counts are also available. (Mobile these are hidden)
We'll bring back the "backgrounds" to make each forum look a little prettier in the future.
Dev Note: Originally, the goal was to keep the forum homepage very simple. This was ultimately a failure because it is more difficult to see how active each of the forums are. Attempts were made early on to display more information in the old format, but it was really ugly.
Sticky threads now appear more like normal threads
Dev Note: The original goal with stickies was to make them look different and more simple so that they didn't take away from the conversations below. This sort of worked but only in theory. In practice, our stickies are places where discussion is actively happening and this may have hurt it. To compensate a bit, padding has been reduced on stickies so they take up less vertical space on the view.
The latest comments areas now display avatars.
Dev Note: Sorry, this should have happened much sooner <3
Threads with more than 1 page now display pagination!
You'll see a maximum of 6 pages for each thread. The first 5 and then the last one.
Profiles
Member profile pages now display articles.
You'll see this page on any community member that has written front-page articles.
Legends of Runeterra
Decks now have archetypes!
You can search for decks based on their archetype.
Archetypes can be assigned on deck creation or editing. They are not currently mandatory though we highly recommend using them.
We still have to write the content for them, so don't expect much!
These also now display on card pages when a card is flagged with that keyword.
Changes
Legends of Runeterra
Region filter on deck listing now does an AND search instead of OR.
It is now infinitely easier to find decks from a combination of regions.
Bug Fixes
Legends of Runeterra
Fixed an issue where decks were sorting by the worst ones first (Runeterra Portal and deck listing)
Fixed an issue where the Runeterra card page displayed keywords that it shouldn't have.
General
Fixed an issue where post counts were wrongly calculated on the site.
Known Issues
There is a caching problem for forums with subforums. At times the forum listing will display a blank spot where "latest post" is. This will be corrected in a future deploy. This has been resolved.
The game has a lot of problems and I've been happy to see them get addressed, but it still makes me sad that it took them so long to stop being afraid of updating the game.
Some people got really lucky on their first vault and that's okay - this is the first vault of hundreds. Over time, everyone should be on a similar playing field with all the people that get to the same level of vault consistently having close to the same amount of rewards.
Getting random upgrades is a feel-good feature and it is important to have them in games. The rates are also high enough that it doesn't feel impossible to get upgrades, unlike Hearthstone which requires you to open a crazy amount of content to get something so vital to gameplay (Legendaries).
Now, I do think it would be interesting if they made it a bit more consistent and if you had earned three diamond chests, one would always contain an epic capsule. It would be a good reward for putting in all the extra time required to go from 10-13, though the diamond chests themselves already give a nice boost over the platinum ones.
Yeah almost certain this will be a Thursday patch
The current rotation started on December 10 and is the following sets:
If you're in the middle of combat and the game already knows the outcome is you losing the fight, you'll see the Recruit "button" appear on the right side of the field. Sucks to be "spoiled" :D
The deck is also seen on the Runeterra deck listing if you sort by the updated date.
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/decks/?sort=-updated_at
Its typical Blizzard design.
They create a cool mechanic that people enjoy and they just flood the game with it. Discover was really cool until seemingly every other card being released had the mechanic stuck on it. It definitely is different than Discover though since Discover just allowed for lazy design and stupid amounts of RNG whereas Rush at least feels like they have to think twice before putting it on a card.
Thankfully with Discover, Blizzard was able to tone it down by removing the class card bonus which hurt the effect across the entire pool of cards. Not really possible with Rush so they just need to slow down on how many cards get printed with it.
Thankfully, we'll be losing 41 cards with the keyword when set rotation happens in April. Almost a quarter of them (10) are Legendary.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/?collectible=true&card_set=31&card_set=32&card_set=34&has_mechanics=14&display=listing
The Year of the Dragon sets contain a total of 33 Rush cards with 6 of those being Legendary.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/?collectible=true&card_set=49&card_set=35&card_set=45&card_set=47&has_mechanics=14&display=listing
I think as long as they keep it to no more than 7-8 cards with Rush in each of the sets this year, things would feel better and maybe even force the game to slow down a tiny bit.
Also, I agree with KANSAS; They should really add another Charge minion into play. Yeah, Charge is kinda busted but if that really is their stance on it, rotate the rest of it to Wild and get it the hell out of Standard. Leeroy my son, you've grown too old and must go out on your own now.
I for one cannot wait for their announcements on what is happening with Standard this year. I'm really hoping we get some big changes to pull Hearthstone up and remove some of these dark clouds from the sky, paving way for a brighter future.
Yeah, I really love the way Riot communicates with players. League has had consistent patches for so long so it is a very welcome return for Legends of Runeterra. Hearthstone and Blizzard are such a joke when it comes to regular game updates... minus Heroes of the Storm but they killed that game so it doesn't really count.
The player base isn't 100 million players, that's just the total amount of accounts. Hearthstone at its prime, years ago, was maybe 60% of that.
Runeterra already doing work for Hearthstone! I love it!
Avalon, in my time seeing you on the forums and even looking at one of your deck guides, you've got a strong understanding of English! I may have made that requirement a bit too bold but at the end of the day, we simply want people who are able to get their thoughts expressed fluently.
Sinti made some great points on it that I'll save repeating them. If you have a desire to create content for the community, submit an app and tell us what it is!
Hell yes! Battlegrounds is such a good mode and with the constant updates so far, it gives us a lot of potential with the mode. Every time we post about Battleground they become some of the more highly trafficked articles.
That is awesome to hear! I've definitely seen a lot of Hearthstone faces enjoy Runeterra. I wonder how Blizzard is going to respond to it.
Probably too little too late LUL
Sure!
No plans on covering the game for the foreseeable future. It just isn't worth the core resources when we're still on the smaller side of things.
We sent out a tweet and Facebook post 40 minutes before this article was published and so it was unaccessible. That was my fault since I did the scheduling on this article and for that, I apologize!
Sad to see another old member of the Hearthstone team go.
This is likely the last deploy of January 2020! I've split up our larger end-of-January site update into today's update and one that will arrive on Monday, February 3 (need Friday and the weekend to go over more major systems).
New Features
Forums
The great forum overhaul of 2020 has arrived.
Profiles
Legends of Runeterra
Hearthstone
Changes
Legends of Runeterra
Bug Fixes
Legends of Runeterra
General
Known Issues
If any of my advice was ever considered by Team 5, this game would have been in a better place years ago lol
SIGN ME UP!
Hah, if only it was newfound =(
The game has a lot of problems and I've been happy to see them get addressed, but it still makes me sad that it took them so long to stop being afraid of updating the game.
I don't think it's that big of an issue.
Some people got really lucky on their first vault and that's okay - this is the first vault of hundreds. Over time, everyone should be on a similar playing field with all the people that get to the same level of vault consistently having close to the same amount of rewards.
Getting random upgrades is a feel-good feature and it is important to have them in games. The rates are also high enough that it doesn't feel impossible to get upgrades, unlike Hearthstone which requires you to open a crazy amount of content to get something so vital to gameplay (Legendaries).
Now, I do think it would be interesting if they made it a bit more consistent and if you had earned three diamond chests, one would always contain an epic capsule. It would be a good reward for putting in all the extra time required to go from 10-13, though the diamond chests themselves already give a nice boost over the platinum ones.