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IM BACK BABY!!! As of last week, I’m the new Global Head of @TFT Esports at @riotgames. Words can’t properly express how excited I am to return to this game and community I love so much, with the opportunity to make things even bigger and better.
To be honest I don't think post helps at all, instead you have just created more frustration among the players by sending out the message buggy patches are ok if you just communicated more which I find pretty unacceptable.
We’re disabling ranked while we clean up the current issues.
For some context on what happened... 18.4 was the first patch since Set 18 launched where we shipped from the latest shared version of the game (what we call main) whereas for the first few patches of the set we were creating each patch from the one before it, so 18.2 was built from 18.1. While that live line of release was happening everything after 18.4 (patches, Set 19, modes etc) were being built in main. That meant devs had to work twice as hard and ensure they were making the same fixes in multiple versions, which was a messy process and made it harder to keep everything in sync.
This sucks and we should have told you ahead of time that this patch had a higher chance of being unstable. Not communicating this risk is on us and this patch experience is on us. This was a big hump to get over for our release process and we should have shared what was going on.
Patches going forward will be deployed from main again like it was for years. This should ensure we get back to the consistent patch-to-patch experience you expect and we need to deliver.
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Some things in Patch 18.4 seem to have been reverted back to 18.2B values, plus other apparent mistakes such as:
AP Gromp's 'buff' was compared to 18.2B, it's a nerf compared to 18.3.
Xayah's 4-star damage is actually 280 instead of the intended 175.
Brand new tft bug! Game loads in at 1-3 so entire lobby lost to creeps, and then you cant move units around other than W bench hotkey. I love set 18.
Out of all the things to complain about the new set, I find it weird that this many people are bitching about not having all their chibis/arenas available right away. When poe2 did the same, I felt like there was 0 complaining in that community. Wonder why 🤔
New set's units/trait web/visuals are all really good. However, the new engine is still really rough. The performance and input delay feels really terrible. Can't imagine new/casual players sticking around after a few games. Hopefully the the team can patch things up soon. Prayge
If bebe was born 2500 years ago, we would be mentioning his name among the greats like Socrates and Aristotle. #quittftandbuildacareerandreadbooks
My time at Riot and on TFT as a Game Designer has come to an end. Just under 10 years, and to be honest I thought it was going to be longer, but sometimes things change.
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I’m so grateful for what I was able to be a small part of, and able to accomplish in the last decade. It’s been a dream career, and I have got to do so much thanks to Riot. Even trying to list it all feels insane what I managed to do in this time. And the crazy 7 years on TFT where I got to design, balance, teach, lead, and more for my job, but then also build a community, stream, cast, go to events…it’s just been amazing. Ending on stuff like the Unlock system and a couple other things…I’m heading out proud.
To everyone I worked with over the years, thank you for letting me be a part of everything we accomplished. I hope I managed to teach you something or bring you joy in some way. I genuinely hope our paths cross again in the future.
To everyone who supported TFT or me over the years, you have no idea what it means to me. I cherish all the moments over the years, and they’ll keep me going. I am so blessed to have been a part of your lives and thank you for letting me bring some fun into your world.
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So…what’s next for me? I’m trying to figure that out.
First off, since I was on sabbatical and am terrible at relaxing/not working, I have been making my own small indie game. I’m about 2 months into development and have already had folks playtesting some early builds. I’d say the game is like 20-30% done, but my goal is to release it as a full game. It’s been fun keeping my skills sharp in a different space, and I hope to share it with you all someday.
Beyond that, I’m keeping my eyes open for other opportunities. I’ve had a few conversations here and there already during my Sabbatical. It’s a brutal industry right now, so I’m taking one day at a time and figuring out what’s next for me, whether it’s working on another studio’s game or even my own thing.
And I’d love to find a space to do some content creation and be able to share my knowledge of game development. But that may take some time to figure out how to do it right.
-------------------------------------------------------Again, thank you for everything these last 10 years. It’s a big change and I’m nervous but hoping it all works out. Until next time, take it easy!
-Mort
Brand new secret broken TFT tech just came out of EU! For all tournament players if you are ever stressed out or need more time to think about your board just pause for 30 secs! Abuse this before Riot patches it!! #tftacademy #brosephtech
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ROLES REVAMPED :D
outplayed.tv/league-of-legen…
twitch.tv/marcelp_tft/clip/T… BRAUMN THROWING AWAY UR ANVIL BUG IS BACK, DONT PLAY BRAUMN DURING CREEPS XDD
We need a @drewlevin on the TFT team. This man is the goat.
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Thanks to everyone who sent in info about both, and apologies for a rough day 1 of the new patch.
After playing this recent trial, I hope Riot will never do this format again. I feel like you 100% could have predicted all this with how many subregionals we had before with no rank requirement.
It was literally just 6/7 man lobby nonstop because lower ranked players just drop after one eif and they don't care if they get punished. The lobbies were not seeded by rank so you literally just hope you highroll a lobby with 7 emerald players while someone else get a lobby with all gm+ players. You literally need a 1.8 avp to advance. How hard you can stomp noobs and hoping you can highroll a lower elo lobby feels straight up terrible.
On top of everything you were literally punished for making final lobby, unless you were top 2 all 5 games to advance, making final lobby means you don't enough time to enter the que again to try again. You were literally better off just going 88 so you can enough time to que up again.
You can somehow load into a galaxy from set 13 on TR, don't know how this is possible imgur.com/a/S5yAWWs
There was a 4 man lobby, 4 imgur.com/a/jHwvk63
















