You forgot about Ryze's VU @IronStylus

FatTaco·12/12/2015, 1:31:00 PM·20 votes·1,947 views
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Hey Riot post Ryze update you mentioned the art team will work on his VU, where is it? Come on he still has a model from release (2009) with the same skeleton and animations, you gave him new spell FX due to his rework and painted over his original skin but that's just a texture re-balance. I know talking about Ryze is always a touchy subject because you can't balance his gameplay but at least make him look good. I was thinking we'd get a Heimerdinger treatment like change his kit or model first then vice versa but nothings being mentioned. IronStylus please don't make us Ryze players wait much longer.

UPDATE 13/12/2015: I was looking into recent developer questions and finding answers and I happened to stumble across this one that was brought up recently:

Quote: _Why are there reworks being shipped without a VU (Mordekaiser, Ryze, etc.) Some of your updated champions are in dire need of some Visual love and yet all they get are fancy looking VFX with a crappy model XD _

RiotScruffy's answer: ** "The team is working at capacity on the visual front, we will release visual reworks as fast and high quality as we can. That said, we don't think it should stop us from doing gameplay improvements when we can on other champs."**

Now this doesn't answer exactly what I wanted to know but it has made me think we need more developer posts and discussion from the art team. Sometimes players don't want to just talk about gameplay and with the game being as big as it is their needs to be more artists coming into the forums to listen to player feedback on the visuals and give us more information on what they are doing, I'm sure they could enlighten us and inspire a lot of upcoming artists who want to work in the games industry.

21 Comments

I7A6X2v212/12/2015, 2:20:20 PM14 votes

**So many champs STILL have their 2009 models Amumu Chogath Corki Fiddlesticks Jax Malphite Morgana Nunu Rammus Teemo Udyr Warwick Zilean Taric DrMundo Ryze ShacoBlitzcrank . THEY ARE VISUALLY UGLY, ON BASE MODEL AND ALL SKINS BELOW LEGENDARY... **

DwarvenGiant12/12/2015, 4:32:04 PM3 votes

His VU was put on hold due to a bunch of mysterious difficulties, unfortunately. :/ They intended to give him the Kassadin visual treatment if I recall correctly.

GreenLore12/12/2015, 11:13:02 PM3 votes

I remember that they actually talked about that recently(I think it was on twitter),saying that the Ryze VU proved problematic and since his Gameplay update is out already,he got less priority,causing it to be put on ice for now.

Though I am too lazy to search for the source...

Tesla Effect12/12/2015, 1:43:32 PM2 votes

Other VUs kinda got ahead of his in development so thats why.