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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 11d

those champs are more alluring for designers because they are more interesting problems to chew on; i don't think players actually like consistent FTK champs so much as they like quick rewards. also players are smart and would def break current Fiora w/ relics + even the weakest deck/powers

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 14d

LoR players tryna get me in trouble with the wife smh

a chatter asking if i'm single on our live AMA

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Riot Lopeeee @lopeeee.bsky.social · 17d

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 22d

our eng team seems determined to prove that nothing is ever too complicated to fix and so far they've been proven right, but realistically it'll be hard to prioritize this anytime soon

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 22d

we wanted this as well, but encountered technical difficulties as OG Kindred's marks are tangled up in being associated with that card's cardID. new kindred's mark system is more generic/robust, but we can't just slap that on old kindred freely.

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 22d

daw appreciate it! sent this compliment to the chefs :D

Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 23d

yeah it's a rough anchor to break from. examples are in the realm of current expensive/long conditional outputs: ledros, watcher, warmother's call, etc. could also see it more like a planeswalker ult: units cost 1 for rest of game. huge power jumps but you still play it out

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 24d

if you come at me about the american date format i will tell you that us in the states are not doin so hot right now so please just let us have this

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 24d

happy pythagorean triple day! (9/16/25)

"every triangle is a love triangle when you love triangles"
-pythagoras

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 24d

oh yeah don't worry, we also don't want to ship boring stuff. we can tolerate one (1) OP space dragon but that's it

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

liking them as support champs highlights how the concept is really best in small doses: a rare dream that you occasionally pull off next to a more robust game plan

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

also balance would be extremely critical: too difficult and you won't even try for it, so the dream is completely lost. too easy and you're back to that one note feeling. that balance has to scale for all adventure difficulties

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

my issue with keeping the insta-win is that because the game ends the same way every time, you need to get all of the variety out of meeting the condition. otherwise every game will feel incredibly one note

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

1) same conditional, not an insta-win (but still exciting/powerful!)
2) harder conditional (scales with adventure difficulty), but insta-win
3) it's champ dependent (e.g. fiora should stay 4 kills, but ryze should stay destroy nexus)
4) abandon these designs and come up with something new

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

while they are cursed, we do want them in the game eventually, so question for my player followers: do you feel its more important that the conditional stays the same difficulty/play pattern, or that the output is an instant win?

some options below

Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

each time we pick out future champs for path, we occasionally succumb to considering the "cursed" champs: ryze, fiora, katarina

they have alt win cons or go trivially infinite with relics so they'll take much more effort than other champions, but that's also what makes them so alluring

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

it's this xkcd for LoR designers xkcd.com/356/

Nerd Sniping

xkcd.com

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · 25d

each time we pick out future champs for path, we occasionally succumb to considering the "cursed" champs: ryze, fiora, katarina

they have alt win cons or go trivially infinite with relics so they'll take much more effort than other champions, but that's also what makes them so alluring

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Sep 10

The unlock process should happen when your inventory is fetched, try closing and reopening the app or playing a game and let me know if that unlocks them for you

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Sep 10

signal boosting from the official LoR twitter:

"Hey folks! Glory Store prices are currently incorrect. Please hold off on spending in the Glory Store until we can send through a fix. We will notify y’all once this comes through!"

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Aug 25

i should put Freestyle Solo and Aid a Spirit in the adventure pools, pretty happy with how they turned out

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Aug 25

i thiiiiiink we have this one tracked but let me double check with QA. ty for the report!

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Aug 19

added a comment about how the Glory Store tuning error happened, for those curious

www.reddit.com/r/LegendsOfR...

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Aug 19

www.reddit.com/r/LegendsOfR...

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Aug 15

could tweak to "the train always leaves at 8pm" or whatever is 2 hrs before usual bedtime and get the same result tho!

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Brian Kopleck @bkop.me · Aug 15

i'm not usually the type to rain on parades, but dishwashers are weirdly prone to catching fire. we had ours catch fire while we were out of the house and it was only because we came back to grab something we forgot that we were able to stop it getting worse

www.kplctv.com/video/2024/0...

Dishwasher causes kitchen fire in Kansas, Firefighters warn against running appliances overnight

www.kplctv.com

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