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Rotating Game Mode brain dump: Round 2

RiotL4T3NCY·6/8/2016, 8:32:46 PM·55 votes·39,619 views

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Heya guys, it's been about a month since the last one of these I did. Got a good response last time to sharing so, in the spirit of transparency, thought I'd do another brain dump RE the RGM queue and alternate game modes. ^_^o

"My favourite mode is [insert mode here]. When is it getting added to the queue!?" I spoke to this briefly last time, so will recap again here. We're still forging the path atm with our current stable of modes, and are carefully looking at how each one is received and engaged with. The modes you've seen so far represent the widest spread of gameplay with strong engagement, which is why we chose them first. With that said, any game mode that we've previously done is a potential candidate for the RGM queue, so if your favourite mode isn't in there yet, there's a chance we could get to it sometime in the future.

"The time between reappearances of modes is too long/short. It should be shorter/longer." As you might suspect, this changes mode to mode and player to player, depending on what they like. We are interested though in seeing differing cadences could look like. For example, we currently have about 6 weeks between modes reappearing, but maybe we could shorten that to 4 weeks letting us focus on bigger updates to particular modes on a slightly longer cadence. Still iterating on this process to figure out what delivers the best updates to each mode when they come back.

"I work weekends and can't play the modes. When will you extend the queue up-time?" We currently have the queue up for 3 days at a time, kicking off with Friday. The RGM queue has been quite healthy, so we're investigating extending it to Monday going forward, making for a total of 4 days each weekend. As with all things, this is subject to change (you never know sometimes with gamedev) but we're looking into it right now. Soon(tm).

"When will Champion Mastery be added to ARAM/TT?" Got you covered fam. <3 http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/TwJZ1Upd-champion-mastery-in-aramtt-live-for-testing-on-pbe

I'll chill in this thread to catch any other questions. ^.^

268 Comments

JayHog19926/8/2016, 8:38:15 PM29 votes

Any possibility of doombots with new champions/effects?

People loved the crap out of that in the past and some newer players might want to enjoy it.

Beanok6/8/2016, 8:51:05 PM25 votes

I'd just like to add a vote for adding Nemesis Draft to RGM. It really opened my eyes to a lot of champions that I otherwise rarely/never see in games.

Sahn Uzal6/8/2016, 8:36:36 PM19 votes

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Sorry, couldn't resist.

ggGetJinxed6/8/2016, 9:00:53 PM18 votes

So I have been liking the RGM in general with the only exception being in certain modes things become so meta that you either have to ban them or get called...potentially rude things, for not. But even if you ban them, something else super powerful gets through so my question is, what is your opinion on ways to break these metas so the modes don't get stale because of them?

Otherwise I've enjoyed the game modes. Even the ones I was meh about before feel nice with the addition of Champion Mastery too since even if I lose I still feel like I am getting something out of it.

MagmaDragon126/8/2016, 8:38:50 PM17 votes

With there being a rotation on weekend gamemodes, could we get a rotation on the ARAM map between Howling Abyss one week, then Butcher's Bridge the next week?

Rebonack6/8/2016, 9:39:52 PM15 votes

So how did Defiantly Not Dominion turn out? Judging from the queues, it bombed pretty hard.

Speaking as a long time Dominion player on the higher end of the MMR scale, the map had quite a few systemic issues. Mostly problems with it being super one-sided since the team that lacks Windmill doesn't have a disruptive option to attack (bottom lane) to work toward dislodging the enemy team. Might I suggest opening up bottom lane and sticking another objective in the middle of it? The bottom lane should probably be focused on helping whoever is behind at the moment. I would go so far as to suggest not having the Minion Relic spawn for your team if you control Windmill.

Barring more Dominion fiddling, League desperately needs a fast, 'fun' mode that lets you pick your champion. Because right now we've only got one 'fun' map, and you can't pick anything there.

Srigimigug6/9/2016, 12:05:00 AM13 votes

WHERE IS BLACK MARKET BRAWLERS H E R E

I S

B M B

DJ S0NA6/8/2016, 8:49:21 PM12 votes

Black Market Brawlers. This mode is what i'm hunting right now! If this gets added, are you thinking of re tweaking the many custom minions and adding/tweaking items? I would love to use Globe of Trust again. The item was so satisfying to use as Sona <3

Erockandroll6/8/2016, 9:20:45 PM9 votes

I think every once and a while, Bring back the black market. (Not necessarily with Brawlers)

It seems like such a great environment to experiment with new and interesting items. And we even got one of those items permanently, Dead man's plate. It might even be a good testing ground for items already planned for the game.

Deep Terror Nami6/8/2016, 8:52:37 PM8 votes

Thanks again for the RGM. I can't seem to think of any questions about them, but I would like to know if ARAM will ever become truly all random; as in, all champions are unlocked. "ARAM" accounts that have only the best champions in that mode ruin the fun sometimes.

UTossedMySalad6/8/2016, 9:43:39 PM7 votes

Black Market Brawlers Please Black Market Brawlers Please [slayer-jinx-catface]

FLASH FLIP CTRL66/8/2016, 9:56:24 PM7 votes

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Heya guys, it's been about a month since the last one of these I did. Got a good response last time to sharing so, in the spirit of transparency, thought I'd do another brain dump RE the RGM queue and alternate game modes. ^_^o

"My favourite mode is [insert mode here]. When is it getting added to the queue!?" I spoke to this briefly last time, so will recap again here. We're still forging the path atm with our current stable of modes, and are carefully looking at how each one is received and engaged with. The modes you've seen so far represent the widest spread of gameplay with strong engagement, which is why we chose them first. With that said, any game mode that we've previously done is a potential candidate for the RGM queue, so if your favourite mode isn't in there yet, there's a chance we could get to it sometime in the future.

"The time between reappearances of modes is too long/short. It should be shorter/longer." As you might suspect, this changes mode to mode and player to player, depending on what they like. We are interested though in seeing differing cadences could look like. For example, we currently have about 6 weeks between modes reappearing, but maybe we could shorten that to 4 weeks letting us focus on bigger updates to particular modes on a slightly longer cadence. Still iterating on this process to figure out what delivers the best updates to each mode when they come back.

"I work weekends and can't play the modes. When will you extend the queue up-time?" We currently have the queue up for 3 days at a time, kicking off with Friday. The RGM queue has been quite healthy, so we're investigating extending it to Monday going forward, making for a total of 4 days each weekend. As with all things, this is subject to change (you never know sometimes with gamedev) but we're looking into it right now. Soon(tm).

"When will Champion Mastery be added to ARAM/TT?" Got you covered fam. <3 http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/TwJZ1Upd-champion-mastery-in-aramtt-live-for-testing-on-pbe

I'll chill in this thread to catch any other questions. ^.^

Does Riot have any intentions on making a brand new map?

Pentarina Only6/8/2016, 8:53:08 PM6 votes

When is Fizz's ultimate getting gutted?

Alüe6/8/2016, 8:39:03 PM6 votes

any chance you are going to be adding different mode preferences to avoid meta's being established? for instance urf with an all random feature added.

ModCaptainMårvelous6/8/2016, 10:10:41 PM6 votes

So, this is probably an unfortunate thing to ask but I'm curious: Do you find any "meh" in the game mode currently? Anything that lacks a large player base? From what I can gather, people aren't thrilled about poro king. Everything else seems fairly liked.

Fishy Warrior6/8/2016, 10:12:14 PM6 votes

Doom Bots anytime soon?

ShewT6/9/2016, 5:00:09 AM6 votes

Hey riot, have you guys ever though about making a 10 player co-op mode? Maybe something akin to a survival mode like this?

Players are in a room with a nexus
Survive waves of minions (with strength scaling with wave level) that may or may not contain jungle camps
All healing (health regen, life steal etc) are reduced by half
Between each wave, shop is open where you can spend gold to buy items or on health packs that scale in price with the wave level
Game is over when all players dead or nexus is destroyed (players are free to leave anytime without penalty once they are dead)

I will play this all day honestly if you guys made it

redniwediS6/8/2016, 8:38:47 PM5 votes

I'm sure it's been asked a thousand times already, but what's your opinion (official or your personal one) on allowing these game modes in custom games outside of their chosen weekend?

vz2SheUPGM6/8/2016, 9:34:10 PM5 votes

I have had a thought about a change to URF. By its very nature, it progresses much more quickly than a normal SR game. As such, it often feels like I should have homeguards well before the 20 min mark. Could homeguards possibly come earlier, say at the 10 or 15 min mark, to keep up with how "Ultra Rapid" everything is?

dragon1xx6/9/2016, 3:56:18 AM3 votes

I have a good reccomendation for RGM: Solo queue.

Sancre6/9/2016, 9:38:54 AM3 votes

I would like to give suggestion for my 2 favourite gamemodes

Black Market Brawlers Add at least a new minion Add not only new special items, but retired ones, like malady, zhonia's ring, deathfire grasp and innervating locket Add even some unreleased ones, like that ward that was on pbe for a while and pinged anytime someone got inside its radius Doom Bots Add new champions as doom bots Add another level, as hard as the last doom bots level, but with improved AI, so doom bots become inmune to splitpush, or can even do baron nashor Add not only other champion's abilities, but abilities that didn't reach live ever because they were kinda broken, like that Urgot's ult that multiplied any skillshot x3