Riot Games, which will release the open beta of its card game on January 24, presents all the changes.
Legends of Runeterra walks. The new production of Riot Games, which starts a new set of games beyond League of Legends, focuses on strategy and cards. Throughout these weeks, the American company has made a series of closed tests, but from January 24, all players will have the opportunity to try the open beta, which will be available until its replacement by the final version of the video game .
After the preview phase, the creators of LOL have pointed out the errors and presented all the news and changes that the beta will introduce. We expose them below.
System updates
Since last year's trial versions, the team has reset accounts for the last time and made a series of large-scale changes to the LoR economy that affect many aspects of the game, such as the relative cost of coins and the amount of experience received with each victory. These are the basic points that have been touched:
- All accounts have been restarted and all progress made during trial versions has been eliminated. This is the last restart they will make, so all the progress achieved after the start of the open beta will be maintained.
- The prices of the currencies and the purchasing power they grant have been updated so that they adapt to the standards of the Play Store and the App Store. During trial versions, they will use prices similar to those of RPs in League of Legends on a provisional basis. According to Riot, they now know that LoR will go on mobile this year, so they have had to establish their own and unique pricing structure. When designing this structure, they will also review the relationships between prices at the regional level (specifically, we analyze the differences between countries in the same region). This means that the magnitude of these adjustments depends significantly on the local currency. Some will find very similar prices (in the case of the euro and the dollar), while others will see it increased (Turkish lira, Brazilian real) or decreased (Japanese yen).
- Those who have purchased coins during trial versions should know that they have removed all content purchased with them and the corresponding amount of coins has been returned. The total amount of coins has changed, but you will have at least the same purchasing power as before (prices have also changed).
- The value of the fragments has been adjusted to preserve the 10-1 value relationship between coins and fragments. In addition, the relative values of the fragments have been slightly modified (for example, the fourth rare and epic copies are worth a little more; and the common ones, somewhat less).
- In relation to this, Riot has changed the prices in fragments and currencies of the content to adapt them to the changes explained above (common jokers, for example, are now somewhat cheaper, while epics cost more).
- The cash rewards, expeditions, the prologue and the chests in general have been updated. A large part of these changes have to do with the updates to the economy, but they also want the expeditions to be more accessible, so they have added an expedition to the level 10 boxes and increased the proportional amount of fragments obtained on expeditions
- They have updated the rewards of EXP to help us progress without having to spend the day playing. Now you can get a bonus for the first X wins of the day; We will also receive more EXP when losing. On the other hand, once you have exceeded a certain number of hours played in a single day, you will get less EXP.
Qualifiers
In the patch notes, the study states that from the beginning, they thought of an interactive card game that did not lose strategic depth in the face of its competitive side. The beta season is expected to extend until the final version arrives, at which time, participants will get an exclusive icon.
- The sort queue has been activated.
- The beta season, the first LoR qualifying season, begins with the open beta.
List of friends, chat and challenges
It is confirmed that it will be possible to chat with friends from the three regions where the title is available (America, Asia and Europe, although the challenges are separated regionally. The list of friends and the chat of Legends of Runeterra share the same system that League of Legends is divided into regions (although they are less and larger than LoL's), which means that the pairing queues and challenges are specific to each of them.
- The friends list has been added.
- It's multi-game: you can see if your friends are playing LoL or LoR.
- Friends chat has been added.
- The friendly challenge option has been added.
The social panel is still in development, so don't be surprised if you have any other problems at the beginning. Here you have a list of the most relevant known errors, which we plan to solve in an update that will arrive in two weeks:
- It may take longer for the account to add or remove names from the list of blocked players.
- You will not receive notifications of unread messages that have reached you while you were disconnected.
- Notifications of messages received in active conversations take a while to disappear.
- Occasionally, the client may stop responding by receiving or accepting a friendly challenge if you are taking more actions to the client.
Boards and guardians
- The collection tab has been added, from which you can unlock and manage dashboards and guardians.
- The equipment feature for boards and guardians has been added to all game modes.
- Six new boards inspired by the regions.
- The Hall of Valor
- Righteous Arena
- Top of the Children of Ice
- Cliff Monastery
- Hextech Laboratory
- Cursed ruins
- Three new guardians
- T-hex
- Junior Gromp
- Scaled dinosaur
Champions
Anivia (level 1)
- COST: 6 → 7.
- POWER: 4 → 2.
- LIFE: 3 → 4.
- OLD TEXT: Cannot block. Attack: Deal 1 damage to all enemies. (Last breath): Revivo como (Huevonivia).
- NEW TEXT: Attack: Deal 1 damage to all enemies. (Last breath): Revivo como (Huevonivia). Level rise: Accounts with Illumination.
Anivia (level 2)
- COST: 6 → 7.
- POWER: 5 → 3.
- LIFE: 4 → 5.
- OLD TEXT: Cannot block. Attack: Deal 2 damage to all enemies.
- (Last breath): Revivo como (Huevonivia).
- NEW TEXT: Attack: Deal 2 damage to all enemies. (Last breath): Revivo como (Huevonivia).
EGGNIVIA
- LIFE: 1 → 2.
- OLD TEXT: Cannot block. Level rise: Start of the round: I am again Anivia and I level up.
- NEW TEXT: Level rise: Beginning of the round: If you have Lighting, I will be Anivia and level up again.
EZREAL (LEVEL 2)
- OLD TEXT: Hit the Nexus: Creates 1 (Mystical Shot) (fleeting) of zero cost. When you cast a spell, deal 2 damage to the enemy nexus.
- NEW TEXT: Hit the Nexus: Create 1 (Mystical Shot) (fleeting). When you cast a spell, deal 2 damage to the enemy nexus.
VLADIMIR (LEVEL 1)
- OLD TEXT: Level up: You have managed to get 6 or more additional allies to survive the damage.
- NEW TEXT: Level up: You have got 6 or more allies to survive the damage.
TRYNDAMERE (LEVEL 2)
- OLD TEXT: (Overwhelm) (Afraid) (Stamina)
- NEW TEXT: (Overwhelm) (Afraid)
Adepts and spells
BATTLE HERRERO
- RARE: Common → Rare
PLUMAVELOZ TRACKER
- OLD TEXT: (Aspiring)
- NEW TEXT: When you invoke another ally, I get (Aspirant).
AVAROSANO HOME GUARD
- LIFE: 6 → 5
EON CATALYST
- COST: 4 → 5
WYRDIA STONES
- LIFE: 4 → 3.
SURCANUBES
- LIFE: 7 → 5.
- OLD TEXT: Spell (bursts) cost 1 less. (Lighting): They cost 2 less.
- NEW TEXT: Spell (bursts) cost 1 less.
MASCAFUEGOS!
- LIFE: 1 → 2.
TABERNERO DEL CALLEJÓN
- POWER: 2 → 3.
NOVATO OF THE BUM
- POWER: 0 → 1.
PUNK CARTERIST
- POWER: 2 → 3.
PUNK BURNS
- POWER: 4 → 5.
PARADE ROBOT
- POWER: 3 → 2.
- LIFE: 3 → 4.
GUARD OF THE PLAZA
- POWER: 5 → 6.
- LIFE: 5 → 6.
CHATARRERO DEL SUMIDERO
- LIFE: 2 → 3.
SELLER OF USED BARRELS
- POWER: 2 → 3.
FLAME CARRIER
- POWER: 5 → 4.
- LIFE: 5 → 4.
SPIRITS
- LIFE: 2 → 3.
- OLD TEXT: (Alliance): Summons 1 (Fog Spectrum).
- NEW TEXT: Afraid. (Alliance): Summons 1 (Fog Spectrum).
Visual issues, minor adjustments and clarity
- Updated visual effects: Heimerdinger's leveling effects have been updated.
- Now deadly super rocket! It takes less to take effect.
- "Play" → "Summon" (now you can clone, resurrect, etc.): General of the Legion
- Elder of Greenglade
- Now it takes effect when the target does not die (as with Tryndamere). Keep making a hiss if the target is eliminated: Vestige of the beyond
- Atrocity
- Ethereal transmitter
- Now you can play with the board full of units: Navori Conspirator
- Ravenous Butcher
- Ancestral crocolite
- Now requires a free unit space: Possession
- Prepare the attack -> (To attack) (keyword): Katarina (level 2)
- Lucian (level 2)
- Relentless Pursuit
- Lucian's relentless persecution
- Lightning fast
- Tianna Crownguard
- Garen (level 2): Now you take a break in the rounds in which you already have an attack token.
- Updated text to improve clarity: Shark Quadriga
- Flame bearer (we have also modified its statistics, you have them above)
- Change of rarity: Extensive avant-garde goes from being rare to common.
Attack and initiative icons
Riot has listened to fans and knows that the elements of IU to indicate the initiative of the round and assign the attack card are a bit confusing, so they have combined it into a single element that will appear in the place where it was previously placed the attack token.
The initiative icons (a shield and a swapping sword) have been removed from the board. A new indicator will now appear under the attack tab.
The visual effects of the attack token have been updated (next to the mana indicator and the button), which now also indicates the initiative of the round.
Visibility of the champions
As they mentioned in the previous version when they added the possibility of seeing the champions of a mallet in the starting inspection panel, one of the long-term objectives is to increase the emotion and strategic interaction around the champions that each player decides to take to the board. In this version, there are two new features with the intention of further highlighting the selection of champions and the progress of leveling up during the games.
- Ceremony of champions before the game:
- Now the champions of each player's deck will appear in their banner during the queue, and you will be able to see those of your opponent when you match them.
- Now, just before the mulligan, the champions and regions of both decks will be shown.
- The deck inspection function allows you to click on the portrait of a champion to see the text of his card and the associated cards.
- Pop-up windows in the mallet when progressing in the level-up condition:
- Champions who can progress from the deck (such as Ezreal or Hecarim) will activate pop-up messages to warn both players that they are approaching the level up.
- To avoid revealing information, these messages will appear regardless of the copies of a champion left in the deck.
Various
- RAM consumption has been improved.
- Keyboard shortcuts have been added:
- Spacebar: the button
- A: attack with all / cancel attack of all
- Esc: open options menu
- Local time zones have been added, so the missions and mission change options, the unlockable contents of the box and the availability of the expeditions are now updated according to the local time of the region in which you are playing (instead of always do it at the same global time).
- Expeditions: Archetypes have been adjusted.
- The logic of selection of exchanges has been improved.
- The tutorial has been improved and several letters updated.
- Optional tutorials have been reorganized to improve the pace.
Error correction
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the cash rewards to be claimed.
- Now the contents of the box can be claimed immediately if you are in game when the timer runs out; you will not have to log in again.
- Fixed a bug that caused that, sometimes, the tests of an expedition could not be completed after obtaining seven victories.
- Fixed a rare error that caused players to lose their deck list after a game.
- The tutorial letters that have narrative context now show it correctly.
- Heimerdinger's level-up mission in the tutorial now progresses correctly by killing spiders.
- Fixed some post-match delays for optional tutorials.
- Optional tutorials now grant the due amount of EXP.
- Visual effects of Suspicious Character now play correctly when it comes into play.
- The visual effects of the Sentence Vision ability, Destroy, are now correctly displayed on the cards in the hand.
