League of Legends Mid-Season Update aims to find a new direction for some of MOBA’s most powerful elements. Speaking in a developer update, the developers at Riot Games explain that they are not happy with the state of League of Legends Mythic items in their current form and outline the first big wave of changes. There’s also news about the upcoming leaderboard reset, bot ban waves, and new champions.
“Overall, we’re not very happy with the current state of Mythics as a system in general, and based on your feedback, many of you are too,” says Andrey ‘Meddler’ Van Roon. . Lead Gameplay Designer Brian “Axes” Salvatore explains that mythos often feel overly complex, force players to buy less interesting items instead of their “coolest option,” and can create “major player health issues.” game”. champions paper makes an item too strong.
As such, the new goal is to “test a version of the system where mythic items should have powerful and very satisfying build-defining effects,” prioritizing fun and satisfying items, even if it means that a given champion will almost always builds the same mythical. . in every game. For starters, the team is making focused changes in three key areas: ADC items, enchantment items, and lethality items.
ADC Mythics will remove the current pair of parallel paths; instead, Infinity Edge, Navori Quickblades, Guinsoo’s Rageblade, and Galeforce will become new Mythic items, while Kraken Slayer and Shieldbow will be reworked as Legendary items. Salvatore notes that players can expect Rageblade to “feel a lot more like its previous versions” and notes that Statikk Shiv returns with a new stat profile.
Lethality items get specific changes, Rogue Claw loses momentum to Legendary, Draktharr’s Duskblade gets an overhaul, and Youmuu’s Ghostblade gets Mythic status. Elsewhere, various elements of Enchant are being revised to make them “more enjoyable and fun to use”.
“If, after the changes we’re making to them, we see a lot more perspective in vintage items, we’ll continue to solidify this new direction,” Van Roon says. But if the proposed changes still don’t work, the team will change direction again and “explore much more different approaches,” such as drastic changes to how Mythics works, or “perhaps just removing Mythics as a concept.” ”
The developer update also touches on other news, such as reminding players of the upcoming soft rating reset in July. Jeremy ‘Brightmoon’ Lee says another big wave of bot bans has started which should make his game more fun, while on the other hand, improved bot AI for practice games is coming to PBE later this year. .
The end of support for 32-bit systems has allowed for an expansion of the emoji system: this will start with an expansion from five slots to nine, says Van Roon, but there is the possibility of other changes, such as additional emoji pages. The team also went “about a third” of the way to fixing some 4,500 broken voice lines and interactions, so you might hear conversations during matches that you don’t recognize.
Finally, Ryan “Reav3” Mireles teases that Naafiri’s “killer pack” is about to appear, while the Briar jungler is currently being held back, but “her bloodlust won’t be contained for long.” The summer update brought a promising 2v2v2v2 mode with its own new map and finally, while there is sad news that Skarner VGU has been delayed until early 2024, there will be a visual update for Jax.
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Source : PC Gamesn
