Whaqt happened to visual updates?

Globuzzz·7/18/2016, 3:23:08 PM·1 votes·826 views

TL;DR Why did Riot stop doing VUs even though they are really necessary?

Back in the day in season 4 many champs got really nice visual updates since they didn't really need a gamplay update. Since the beginning of season 5 though, nearly no champs got a VU without getting a gamplay update aswell. Ofcourse I understand that many old champs need the gamplay update but at the moment we only get about 4 of those each year. At this rate I think League will never actually be uptodate ever again. VUs are just so much easier to make then the whole rework so we could actually have like 10 VUs each season. Through this League could atleast get all there champs visually quite fast.

Champs that I think need a VU: And actually those are just the ones that need a VU the most. There are many more champions which are far from the new champs

5 Comments

Photos of Ghosts7/18/2016, 3:55:35 PM3 votes

Not worth putting people on that. Half of those you listed are queued for a VGU.

GaleWinUnleashed7/18/2016, 4:13:38 PM3 votes

They're less inclined to do visual updates without any gameplay changes now. It's a more efficient use of resources to prioritize champions that need both visual and gameplay updates.

Visual Updates require:

new base model
and alterations/additions to that for all skins
new animation rig (most of the time)
new textures
new idle, movement, and recall animations
new animations and particles for all skills
new art assets
spell icons, splash art (loading screen slice and portrait too)
recording new voiceovers, then hooking them up in-game (often, but certainly not every time)
testing of all assets and interactions to be sure they got hooked up correctly and didn't break things

Visual and Gameplay Updates require all of those, plus:

new spell concepts
implementation of new spell mechanics
balance work
MORE testing to try and catch all of the bugs introduced by new mechanics

I may have (read as: "almost certainly") missed a few things, but I hope this helps clarify the magnitude of the undertaking to update an entire champion.

https://i.imgur.com/1HvNiEO.png?noredirect

Lost R7/18/2016, 3:34:32 PM1 votes

Have you been snorting bleach? Ryze's relaunch literally just came out this patch. We also had Shen and Poppy's VU late last year and earlier this year.

GreenLore7/18/2016, 4:04:09 PM1 votes

The reason is that it is much more efficient to do VUs together with GUs.

That way they can both add to each other and can be done much more efficiently.

Also pretty much every champ that needs a VU also needs a GU,so there is little point in doing them seperatedly.

Also you really think Kata needs a VU?She already had one which isn't that old.

And we'll get Yorick update this year and even Warwick if we are lucky(he'll come out either at the end of this year,or at the beginning of the next)