It's official! Legends of Runeterra moves into OPEN beta on Friday, January 24, starting at 11:00am PT (2:00pm ET)! Since it is open beta, anyone who wants to play will be able to get access. Read all the details below.
See your opponent's Champions at the start of a match.
The new Social panel with chat and challenge features.
Important Dates
- 1/19 - Accounts registered by this date will get access to beta a day early.
- 1/22 - Full patch notes.
- 1/23 - Early access to beta.
- 1/24 - Open beta begins.
- Later 2020 - Official launch of LoR and mobile client.
Rank all the way to Master.
Runeterra Beta Details
- This isn't the "launch" (that will happen later this year on PC and mobile).
- If you played in the preview patches your account has been reset. There will be no more resets going forward.
- If you already played in the preview patches or pre-register an account on the official site on PC prior to Monday, January 20, you will get access to the game a day early on Thursday, January 23 at 11:00am PT (2:00pm ET).
- The open beta patch will include new features and content, such as, ranked mode, a friends list, challenge-a-friend functionality, and new boards and guardians.
- Updates to 20+ cards. Full patch notes available at 11:00am PT (2:00pm ET) on Wednesday, January 22.
- The beta ranked season will last through the entirety of open beta until launch. You can climb all the way to Master rank.
- Once you hit a tier in ranked you will hold it for the rest of the season.
- Anyone who plays during open beta will receive an exclusive Moonstruck Poro Guardian once the game launches later in the year.
- Multiple sets will release this year and each will add a new Region.
- When a new set is released each existing Region will get new Champions added.
- 3 new Guardians and each Region has a new board with unique music.
- Legends of Runeterra will launch on mobile later this year with full cross-platform play (trying to complete during first half of 2020).
New Guardians: T-Hex, Snapper, and Gromp Jr.
New Boards
How to Get Legends of Runeterra Beta Access
You can get access to the Legends of Runeterra Beta a day early by signing up on the website. You must signup before January 20. This gives you access on January 23. The Runeterra beta is open to everyone without signup starting on January 24.
Sign up before January 20 to get access a day early!
Comments
Is there a sizable amount of hearthstone players, or indeed users of this website, that will be participating on the open beta?
I wonder how much of a coincidence this is that the open beta starts near or on the day DoD's adventure opens.
Well, I can confidently say that I will make Hearthstone my casual area and play 3 games in a day most of the times (due to daily quests) and make my main focus on Runeterra since I am playing Hearthstone in meme-y way.
not having safezones for casual decks in hearthstone makes me mad at game even if love to play the game. So, I will try my chance with LoR.
And I will be in Runeterra in next week instead of Hearthstone. I might do quests for adventures and buy them with gold in time but really won't care about my Hearthstone collection anymore. I already got so wide Wild Hearthstone collection and it will help me enjoy playing hearthstone enough times in casual, i hope.
I can confirm that I have some form of godlike powers. I've been spending every night for two weeks staring at the LoR homepage and yelling 'LET ME PLAY IT' every hour on the hour, and hey presto, I'll soon be able to play it.
...This is how religions get started, right?
All aboard the HYPE TRAIN
OCTRAIN I would say.
Super stoked on this! And mobile right out the gate is great since these games are played 80% mobile for me!
Sadly, mobile is not ready yet. They hope to have it playable on mobile during the first half of this year. Right now it is only available on PC.
Possibly I'm misunderstanding you, but to be clear for others reading - mobile is not available on release and is expected to be launched later this year.
he just meant "mobile is about to come soon/sooner" by saying "right out the gate".:)
Because all was expecting them to release it for mobile later 2020 and now they said we try to complete it in first half of 2020 with full release. That's a big announcement tbh. Normally, game companies delays relaeses and Riot seems they are pulling all the times sooner.
It seems they were so happy with their game's stability on preview times. I can't deny it, it was so smooth without bugs and glitches/server issues for an alpha.
well I pre-registered yesterday just in case when there was announcement of the announcement, but seems like they were lenient...
Love the new boards and the social features.
I'm excited to play the game again as soon as the beta arrives.
Board seems great with musics etc but I am still waiting to see some card related cosmetics.
I mean, they won't be only shiny and animated cards probably if they still didn't show any. Something big they are planning for card cosmetics I would say.
And no card backs either. These are core cosmetics for a card game and they didn't show any.
The dedicated Hearthstone portal on the site is available if you don't want the mix.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/
Why did u felt the need to complain? Out of cards is not HS only. Don't treat Runeterra as a lesser game. You do realize its LoL which has one of the biggest communities in video games
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That's really great actually;
That means we will start to progress sooner and there will be more players in the game now.
I can't be happy more than this. :)
Edit: Oh Wow, There will be only 3 Servers to play like Hearthstone; Americas, Asia and Europe. That's really nice, I didn't expect this. I always think that there will be same server system with LoL. Please @neonangel, Add this to the article, That's really important for some people.
This is exactly what I'm feeling now: finally the time has come!
Sadly I'm pretty fed up with the current HS situation: the game has gone too far on a road I don't like anymore for many reasons and DoD Adventure it was probably my last purchase there. I've been in all of LoR closed beta and I've found it's pretty amazing and entertaining so I was really looking for the open beta to start (so that there will be no more account resets).
WAIT. theres no resets. NO WIPES!!!
this means the grind will matter. Im in