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@tft
@riotgames
//TFT updates on main channel, Prism takes & behind the scenes (with occasional rock climbing posts) here // he/him 🏳️🌈
A restart and a couple dozen space heaters should fix that. 🥶
Don’t miss the full Dev Drop on July 14, right after the Tactician’s Crown. The tournament begins at 4:00 am PT.
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The only thing I'd like to add about the 13.13 Draven meta is a reminder for the next time.
When we make a mistake, we'll fix it.
Mistakes do happen. Trust in the process and continue to provide feedback respectfully.
Thank you.
6 years ago from today I visited riot games with the goal of getting a job. It only took 5 years and 10 months to go through grad school and get appropriate experience, for me to accomplish this goal.
#easygame
🚨BREAKING: TFT to hire 6 million music majors with the intention of changing Ranked to award LP based upon how good your jam is rather than your placement.
Jhin is expected to have the highest LP delta per lobby.
Starting next patch, we're disabling my favorite Portal, Treasure Golems.
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It's our least popular portal, and most actively dislike it, but I still love it and will be sad to say farewell.
o7 Treasure Golems
Quick clarification on communication for TFT. When there is an exploitable bug like the Sett one we do not communicate about it via popular channels when we can avoid it until we ship the fix. This is intentional to not spread the use of the bug while we work on a fix (1/3)
So many content creators telling you how to win in tft and none are telling you how to make 7 other people's day better by getting 8th.
Be the nicer person, people.
My dad talking about the game I work on:
"It's fighting tactics."
"Rodger works on team fighting tactical."
"My son works on fight tactics teamwide."
"Rodger works on League of Legends."
He's always too close for me to correct.
My partner has been one tricking jazz bard Headliner and has never read the Headliner ability.
He had no idea bard stacked doots.
He is in gold I with quite a few games.
This is for sure a player experience.
It’s TFT’s first mid-set revival, and we’re returning to the stars with the Galaxies mid-set! Check out why we chose this mid-set, and how we’re updating in with patch 14.02!
Lastly, with how easy it was to exploit the Sett bug, we're grateful and proud of our community for in large part not doing so. There were disappointing exceptions, we know em', and ill have to make a sad music mixtape for them soon. But a big thanks to the rest of y'all! (3/3)
We realize from the outside it seems like we aren't doing anything, but just like Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can prevent the proliferation of immortal Sett bug abusers." When you see an exploit, don't spread it, instead report it to us! (2/3)
As a reminder, patch 13.23 comes one day early, meaning Remix Rumble launches on Tuesday (early am PT). The shop will be updated Tuesday at 11AM PT! Patch notes come Monday.
I've been thinking about how to better serve the TFT community, and I think I've got it.
We don't need patch notes... we need a calendar full of bathroom selfies from myself.
Alright, PBE gamers, I'm writing up the patch notes, and I want to hear your craziest Artifact cooks... who knows, maybe I'll call out the strategy in the notes.
It's all good if you want to keep your OP strat to yourself, just DM me instead—I can keep it a secret for our LP
This is an amazing community effort. Huge congrats to all the folks who're supporting this process and a big thanks to those who've helped make the Wiki such an incredible resource in the past, present, and future!
Shoutout to
@CadenHouse
for leading the efforts of riot's side.
Announcement Time: The League wiki is leaving Fandom and moving to a new one hosted by Weird Gloop and backed by Riot! It's free from the intrusive ads and pop ups and has an improved mobile experience
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You are in your lane, uncontested, starring up your carries with perfect econ while win streaking; it's the freest first of your life.
You finish the game first place---nicely done! Look to see how much LP you get... and realize you accidentally queued Normals...
A special thanks to those who already understood and trusted the process of game Dev and rose to be upstanders in the community. That was amazing to see.
And finally, thanks to those who have shown growth during this time---being wrong is hard but it's the only path to growth.
The TFT team just deployed a fix to a bug that was causing the Yordle trait to spawn Yordles in a specific order in certain cases.
So if you've been seeing Poppy poppy-ing up a bit too often that's why.
Everyone on tft is working their ass off right now (and for like the past forever but especially right now).
Please forgive any unhinged tweets this week and up until we go to pbe.
You'll know them when you see them.
There's never been a better time to play TFT!
If you're new to the game welcome and be sure to check out our updated website with Runeterra Reforged info. If you are already a veteran, please stop contesting me.
We got data for the popularity of Region Portals on PBE. There are 7 region portals that are picked less frequently than Stillwater Hold (the no Augments one)...
What do you think is least picked?
All our Headliner rules will be discussed in the release patch notes globally (Monday). These are already available in different nooks and crannies of the internet, but here they are in one shot.
The team took such care in setting up Easter eggs and secrets throughout this one. Enjoy some bts photos with our writer,
@skwestwrites
and the EP at midnight bloom, Brian Joe, a long time pal.
This Remix Rumble rager has been amazing, but it’s time to head home and settle in… grab a cup of tea… maybe change up the playlist a bit… what do you think?
Stay tuned for more on TFT’s next set, Inkborn Fables, in the coming weeks!
Work Life Tip
#51
: Sometimes, it's good to let your teammates feel like they carried, even though you were perfectly capable of stabilizing by yourself.
The team is aware of and working on two nasty bugs right now. Will have comms from main channel closer to when we can ship the fix. As for now, feel free to use this thread for cathartic "fix your game, bro" comments.
My partner has been one tricking jazz bard Headliner and has never read the Headliner ability.
He had no idea bard stacked doots.
He is in gold I with quite a few games.
This is for sure a player experience.
Play tft? Having trouble understanding the banking crisis? It's like you and a few other players are holding Bel'Veth, and then the game decides she's actually a 1 cost so you try to sell before everyone realizes it. But the bank doesn't have the gold to buy all the belveths back
We're re-evaluating our frameworks around the base stats of 4 and 5 costs relative to the rest of the roster next patch.
As time has gone on, and the resources in the game have been optimized, player expectations around 2 and 3 cost reroll power has changed. Way back in the day
Hey Tacticians, I'm working on an official TFT video and need a clip from the community of something very specific: an Ashe Arrow from set 3 hitting another board. If you have that and are okay with it being used in one of our upcoming videos, let me know! Sharing is appreciated!
My Job is not directly impacted.
Friends and teammates I know have been impacted. If you're one of those and you're reading this, I'm a DM away. Feel free to connect here or on Linkedin (same name/PFP).
Well, the "Emerald is Here" announcement is officially gone.
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Which is why, from this day, to the end of days, I'll be dedicating myself and this account to letting players know that EMERALD IS HERE!
You're welcome.
TFW we told everyone what the mechanic of Inkborn Fables was 3 weeks ago, well before our set announcement.
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Truth be told, we've been sneaking secret spoilers into these articles for a while now.
Hey folks, we're still working on QAing the final B-patch changes before shipping them to live. Hold tight and thanks for your patience.
Our QA process is to ensure we don't accidentally ship any unintended bugs along the way (and ultimately avoid a C patch).
Amplifying what I admire.
Mort is doing a charity stream for Gamers Outreach () and if you want to watch TFT's Game Design Director roll down for good you should stop by. It's tomorrow on
@Mortdog
's stream!
He's too modest to repost, but sharing helps.
@KeeangaYamahtta
@olivertreanorm
People mad at this dont understand how folks are forced to do this. This wouldn't be done if we had ubi or similar protections during a pandemic.
I've been on TFT for 3 years this month.
I started during Fates, the set that brought Chosen, and 6 sets later, we are about to ship Remix Rumble which takes the greatest mechanics and learnings from across TFT's set-span. Seeing TFT grow like this has been amazing.
The live team is analyzing feedback/data from the weekend to then test changes on Tuesday, and ship live on Wednesday. This will be a small B-patch to ensure as many comps are viable over Winter break. The next full patch following 13.24B, will be 14.1 in the new year (Jan 10th).
I'm going to go the entire set of Dragonlands without using the pun "drag on," as in, "don't let this tweet drag on too long," not because I think I am better than the pun, but because the TFT devs are the most player-focused devs in the world and I want to embody that energy.
I've gone full Poro. Poro Legend, Poro Tactician, Poro Boom, Poro on a waterslide Arena, Poro Brain. Everything is Poro now. I am a Poro. Pour one out for the Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Also, I hit Diamond. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro. Poro.
The Dawn of Heroes Ranked skill tree ladder is live on pbe. Be sure to give the team feedback as we're working to have this ship on the 25th (next patch but late afternoon) when the revival goes live!
Lots of changes in patch 12.14, but the most important one is right here. I've been a Rioter for a while now, but as a writer, I've struggled with character count (and so has my name). My old name was mostly a League reference, and I wanted one that referenced TFT and more.
Our Singapore team fixed a bug for patch 14.13 that I'm sharing on their behalf cause it's wild. Every now and then House of the Golden Rabbit and Dreams of Earth would become WAY too bright. The bug is due to a different arena, the Neon DJ Arena. Here's how it happens (1/3)
Im sure you are aware of the controversial wild rift imagery. While all Minions are paid fairly, we are aware of 8 work place safety violations in this picture and looking to address the issue. We're also looking into poro saftey practices. If you are hot they are hot.
You may not like this, but this is peak physical (and magical) form. Give this guy some bows, and he'll put the flex in bow-flex. Activate Trickshot, and he'll prove you got no shot. He's friends with the most storied heroes (Kayle) and the most Legendary of dudes (Hwei).
ICYMI, 3.5 Revival mode has been extended by one patch (ends with the conclusion of 14.4 now)! The Lunar Festival event still ends at the end of 14.3
More context in comments.
It's A-patch day, the last day for the Devs on TFT to make numerical changes for balance on Dragonlands before the set goes live with patch 12.11. We're excited to see what comps you discover come the 8th! As a reminder, Poggles will be available later that day at 11am PT.
When it comes to the last patch of a set... the team gets a bit unhinged.
@Mortdog
adds Bruiser 3 to kill memes.
@kentwuhoo
adds AD Soraka to make memes.
Yes, pbe will be up this afternoon (pacific time). No precise timing will be provided from the team as there are variables with the window. There's still a full patch of fun for Remix Rumble as well, with tomorrow (14.5) bringing Crab rave to Crab rave, Moesher 8, and more!