Fighting game League of Legends Project L is free-to-play or anytime it launches, Riot announced in a short update video. Project L Senior Director Tom Cannon said the team wants to continue Riot’s tradition of making games accessible to everyone, no matter where they live or how much money they spend on video games, and while Cannon hasn’t said so, the news naturally means the game is likely to have microtransactions. Cannon didn’t give a release date for Project L, but said the team has moved away from building foundations and is now developing champions and new mechanics to help expand the core gameplay experience. .
Elsewhere, Riot has posted a detailed dev blog that outlines the process of creating one of these champions in Project L: Illaoi. The team considered many factors when designing a champion for Project L, including his role in LoL, as well as personalities and abilities in other League of Legends features such as Cursed King and Legends of Runeterra.
The team wants to capture the essence of what makes a champion what it is and the potential of what it could be. Illaoi in Project L is actually larger than life, with bigger hitboxes and even more powerful attacks. He bashes enemies with her totem and, in keeping with her LoL variant, summons ghostly tentacles of Nagakaburos to aid her. This relationship went through several changes before the team settled on something that fit Illaoi’s personality, where she was the dominant power with the Nagakaburos power playing a supporting role.
It’s slow, but it can create gaps to hit opponents and keep them on the defensive. It’s also still in early development, so we probably won’t be hearing more from Illais or Project L any time soon.
Cannon said he’ll have another fighting game update later in 2022, but didn’t say when that might be. We’ve waited a long time for an update since the first Project L game, so expecting another update in the same year is pretty exciting.
In the meantime, if you’re wondering how much you’re likely to spend on Project L, there’s a great new way to keep track of how much you’ve spent on League of Legends. However, microtransactions are not always bad. Proceeds from the recent series of Star Trek skins for LoL have gone to charity.
Source : PC Gamesn
