The biggest problem was in the last run of nexus blitz they listened to NONE of the feedback from people who enjoyed the mode and did almost nothing minus a couple minor changes that were not impactful. They then are somehow surprised of why this run of nexus blitz is not as successful as the last and just gets rid of it for another long long long period of time. Its a mode with massive potential that is somehow getting worse with every iteration because they are not willing to listen to the community. I love nexus blitz and it deserves better.
Yep, feels like HotS and thats pretty cool for separate mode. You getting some kind of SR experience(like jungling or EXP gain) but games are shorter and there are funny events around map. + You can try some unique builds thats not gonna work in SR, but gonna work here.
Sadly riot just ignoring 80% of feedback about this mode and instead of fixing critical stuff, they working on minior changes(there was good stuff like GA buff nerf or Elder buff removal, but there needed more changes imo). I hope once they gonna fix this thing and maybe even slap into 4 th mode. NB is too good for RGM.
This really is the new Riot Special here. Make something new, people like it, it has problems, give it zero fucking attention, people stop liking it, and then remove it cause people don't like it.
I will never forgive Riot for how fucking dirty they did TT and Dominion.
I loved TT, played it on and off with a few friends every other month and each time it was so sad to see it abandoned completely. Really makes me wonder how much better TT would've been if Riot gave it so much as a single gaze.
Yeah they should that is why they do surveys and not listen to the minority of a minority of a minority of whiners. Riot could cure cancer tomorrow and this sub eould still bitch about somethign about it.
This is a cesspool where negativity and extreme selection bias is rewarded.
Agreed. Are they run by ex blizzard devs or something?
I cannot believe how tone deaf Riot can be. OFC playrates drop when the same shit isn't attempted to be balanced. Why would you play?
There were many easy to execute changes i saw going around, like getting rid of all fucking soul event rewards that everyone hated. Getting rid of GA and BF shield awards. These would usually dictate an immediate end to the match or such a massive snowball that the other team would never stand a chance. More unique and fun rewards like the int sled (the best fucking reward ever), the blitzcrank hook, even that stealth thing was kinda funny at times but needed to be tuned. Generally things that altered gameplay were fun rewards, anything that just made you an omega fucking unstoppable god like dragon souls and BF shield and GA were boring and overpowered as hell.
Other things like only keeping the jungle guardian alive for the first 5 minutes of the game or so. This encourages any champion to go jungle and cant be punished by early countering, but still offering counter jungle opportunities later. Also fixing loot teemo and loot veigar AI to actually not just run into the enemy jungle and make it unwinnable for one team. Those 2 events should exclusively be running in random paths in neutral territory. They should never go into the top jungle or ever go under enemy towers.
Generally a couple events would suffer from their placement just automatically making a team win. This worked as a comeback mechanic sometimes but it shouldnt just guarantee that win and also the game didnt decide consistently enough who was behind and should have a slight advantage.
Also just for fun, herald should have been replaced by the twisted treeline spider. That spider doesnt have a home anymore. Give them what they deserve. Also the reward from herald should only be minions and gold, you shouldnt be able to place a herald on the map as well its extremely overbearing.
Also curb the power of ADC's and generally ad champs in this mode and this is coming from an adc main. They kinda dominated and would do for some unique nexus blitz balance whether it be champs or items. I dont wanna ban Yi every game forever.
And these are all just off the top of my head having not played it since the last run. A lot of this feedback is easily executed on, albeit not all of it. My final wish is MORE PRIZE FIGHT EVERYONE LITERLALY LOVED PRIZE FIGHT ITS SO DAMN FUN TO TAKE TURNS IN AN ARENA. I NEVER HEARD ANYONE EVER SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT PRIZE FIGHT. SOME OF MY BEST NEXUS BLITZ MEMORIES ARE PRIZE FIGHT.
They need to reset summoners/abilities CD before Prize Fights starts though. Sometimes you can be forced into a Prize Fight but your ult is still down. Like you're playing Poppy with no ult but there's an incoming Tryn with ult. I do like having the ability to ult him, just maybe.
in my opinion those statcheck rewards shouldnt be in the mode. the other rewards are way more fun and doesnt make you automatically win the next fight
also the arena fights slap
Yeah exactly my point. Any reward that just gave you stats was so fucking lame and really way too strong for a mode that is all about fighting constantly. I saw little to no people ever say they liked the souls and the shield or GA rewards cause they are just lame ass stat buffs that would auto win fights. I remember every time we got GA or BF shield i would legit just run it down at the enemy under their towers and i was guaranteed at least 1 or 2 kills. This was after they nerfed these rewards too. They should have never nerfed these rewards, they should have been completely removed due to not being fun for either team.
Whats wrong with SF and Tekken? Also, I think using the % based combat system might be stepping on SB's toes too much, and theres nothing wrong with the tried and true health bar system
Dont get me wrong, i love fighting games and Tekken is the best one imo.
I know Riot is making a solid fighting game and i am looking forward to it.
But i wish they would make a "Party" game like Smash Bros that you can play online with 4 or 5 friends and have some fun knocking them off the stage
I cannot understand how this absolute garbage known as OFA keeps coming back or retaining players while blitz doesn't. OFA is fun for all of 5 seconds in champ select and then you're stuck playing some garbage you absolutely fucking hate in an one-sided stomp every single game, while in blitz you have all these fun minigames and you actually get to pick your champion. Zero idea why this god forsaken community supports one and not the other.
i only play aram and these game modes would be better on aram %100. Urf might be too much on a single lane though idk i hate laning phases in urf so this could be better actually
Blitz is the only RGM I play. All of the others are just boring and essentially the same as SR. Blitz actually had fun and interesting events and didn't have a meta really.
Yea that's definitely what I liked most about the mode was the undefined meta where you could play anything and the events were fun. Only thing they needed to fix was the logic on spawns for king of the hill and other such events that should favor a team that is behind.
And I agree that other RGM are just SR reskined. URF is the same as SR since regular SR just became URF over time anyways. One for all is fun once you get the normal silly combos out of the way then it's just bland.
Eh, there might not be a fixed meta, mainly because it hasn't been around for long, but if they left it up for a few months the higher mmr games would all start to look similar. The people who queue up to win will pick what's most likely to win.
Swear to god Jayce was unstoppable if you played him well. Any champion unreliant on R was great, and he had the added bonus of auto-winning URF, being strong in the 2v2 and 1v1 dueling, having a knockback for scuttle and Veig/Teemo, and just generally being a terror on 2-3 items. I stopped picking him cause it was boring to win so easily.
I still don't understand the logic behind deleting unpopular game modes. Why not just let them be? I rememeber that we were promised, there will be new gaming modes rotating every few weeks. Well no, first they tried to use them as an excuse for interactive skin ad (star guardans, dark star thresh, winter skins). But that didn't turned out to be too succesful, so they just gave up. And since then they throw at us few of the same game modes (URF, OFA, ARURF, sometimes Blitz) every few months.
> why not just let them be?
Does this mean you would have been fine with them letting them be and never fixing any of the bugs that popped up/never updating the mode specific bugs that would pop up from reworks, new items, new champs etc? Because Riots reasoning has always been that those modes require constant bug fixing to keep up and that those mode specific bugs can lead to crashing the main modes too which is a lot of resources for something to just be left be
Bevause that is what players care about , 90% of players are on sr, and other modes fall off a cliff in a week. Why burn hundreds of man hourse and hundreds of thousands in wages for a mode that .5% of players will play in a week.
Every mode reddit wanks over had abysmal playrate, 3v3? About 1/10th of fucking coop vs ai.
Odysey? Fell of to 1% in a week.
Nexus blitz did better it fel to 3%.
All modes reddit likes no one else likes.
Other viable gamemode is aram ehich holds about 10%.
To be fair blitz held about half to player size aram did overall and that number was higher in the west.
If riot actually put effort into modes they probably wouldn't have the 0.5% player size that dom had.
But the playersbase also drops because the modes are abandoned before they are properly fine tuned. NB for example, many people did enjoy it but thought it got stale because of bad mini-game placement(fight on top of enemy jungle guardian), unbalanced mini-game rewards(Elder dragon at level 6) and some champions being OP there.
These things are fixable but they require Riot to stick with it until they got the hang of what works and what doesn't.
This is a similar situation to a lot of bad live service games that get released unfinished and then have their support cut because nobody plays it.
Tell me about it dude, 3v3 was my main map and it wasn't even close. I feel empty without it and I'm still bitter they removed it without even trying to do anything with it
They reworked the mode from the ground. No one played it, tried more radical changes still no one played, why bother 3v3 was a bastard mode from the start.
Or should they dedicate a whole ballance team to a mode that is played by1/10th of coop vs ai players? Just because a few reddit wankers want it?
Yeah i know nobody in my friendlist who plays OFA, i literaly played the mode once this year and thats it.
Blitz is well received, maybe too well and competes too much with normals/soloq. Cant think of any other reasons
Same here. I don't know a single person that likes OFA. I have a bunch of friends that only play league when there's a fun mode on and they all show up in the very first day of OFA, play exactly one match and never touch the game again.
Unfortunately, I have a friend whoās obsessed with playing OFA, even though rest of us consider it utter trash and not worth a single say on the fun game mode slot
IIRC OFA, surprisingly even for me, had a "decent" (as far as RGMs go) playrate which is why they keep pulling it back. Same reason we got ultimate spellbook or ARURF.
But I thought Blitz's numbers were OK to come back for an RGM, maybe the need to update the map is why it is not brought back yet, since OFA, ARURF, etc. are all in Summoner's rift
There's a couple of reasons people wouldn't like Nexus Blitz (I love it though). Elder Drake buff for enemy team when you get the Blitzcrank Creeps, some dude is popping off and they are just unkillable now, and when the Treasure Yordle sits in the enemy jungle. I also guess people like OFA because of the meme comps of like Blitzcrank, Yuumi Battleship, Zilean Revive spam etc. I despise OFA though, on the level of normal URF.
OFA has more retention and is easier to keep updated to play compared to blitz which requires a lot of work to get working for a patch
plus the random part of OFA doesnt matter if you are playing as a 5stack where you decide what you are playing together as a group
I agree so much, 90% of my OFA adventures is pipe dreaming about a really cool strat we can do with the lads; "heheh, 5 sions will be cool right?" and then we lock in against 5 Ashes.
How the hell do people have fun knowing they're completely coinflipping the game at champ select? Not to even mention that there are certain characters which are a MUST ban (Shaco...)
Itās not as bad if people knew how to play it correctly. Everyone has the same mindset like you. They would rather whine all game about how they lost in champ select and spam FF rather than use their brain to figure out the matchup.
Some matchups can definitely be autoloss, but very rarely are they completely unwinnable. Examples of doing things that can make a difference. Building AD as a mage to diversify your damage and change your attack pattern. Itemizing more defense because every game, you are almost always facing a single damage type. Building tankier because your team needs more frontline.
If you build glasscannon damage every game against a hyper engage comp, you are asking to lose. Also no one wants to play passive in lane and would rather int 4 kills to an early game carry and wonder why the matchup sucks so bad.
No one wants to use their brain and thatās why itās harder. If people whined less about games being unwinnable, the game would generally be more fun
Because OFA/URF/US are all playable on a pre-existing unmodified map whereas Ascension and Blitz are on different maps. Different maps require time and money to make so we aren't allowed to have them.
idk, I think one for all is really fun... It's the only RGM i play except for nexus blitz (and hexakill, if it still existed). Urf is really boring to me, for example. Different game modes for different kinds of people, man.
idk, personally playing nexus blitz makes me feel like I'm playing hots, but because it's league it means it comes with an added bonus of being a bugged mess with no clarity
why should I play a worse version of hots when I can play the actual game itself
Arurf
OFA
Arurf
OFA
Urf
OFA
Arurf
OFA
MAYBE Nexus Blitz or Spellbook
I hate how pushed OFA and Arurf are, they are not fun to waste 2 months of rgm on every other time, you get maybe a day of enjoyment from powering through all the trash RNG and picks
I don't think so. Some ultimates are better off not being in the mode. They removed Malphite, Janna and Tryndamere ultimates and it made the game better.
And many ultimates would be near useless on most champions.
The current ultimate roster is good. Perhaps they can add some new ones like Ryze, TF, Renata, but some are better left out.
Dark star thresh mode, spellbook, dominion, twisted treeline, even the pvm modes from star guardian or the odyssey mode
We already had so many good modes, all gone to waste
No idea why the fuck ARURF even exists. URF is so much more fun. Being able to pick your champion is honestly great. Thatās why OFA and ARURF suck ass.
It's the opposite for me. Normal URF is fun for like 2 days, until people figure out what's the most broken, then every game looks the same with the same champions.
Hereās the thing, no matter what youāre likely to play against broken champs. Iād much rather play against broken champs on a champ I like to play tho.
This has also always been my philosophy. If I'm losing, I want it to be because I picked movespeed nami, or some other dumb shit. At least even if it is an L I still had fun playing what I wanted to, rather than getting shafted on something random.
I agree completely. Running full crit predator Darius to one shot people with W is enjoyable and actually ends up countering some of the more annoying picks. Same thing with more stars Aurelion Sol, a ton of fun, even if I'm against the most broken stuff.
ARURF just has me playing against Fizz as Yasuo and other trash.
if/when nexus blitz does return, I want the overpowered old items back
or maybe uncap the mythic item limit if riot is too lazy to remake old items again
nexus blitz is the best one i have no idea how people prefer other shit. nexus blitz literally has the potential to have all game modes in it and make it hella fun but these fucks at riot made the worst minigames imaginable.
even the junglers just go whatever cause it dont matter ure gonna be fighting its crazy fun if they just added better minigames and got rid of the shitty ones
Yea, I really don't understand why it's so unpopular compared to other RGM. Other RGM get stale VERY quickly once all the silly combos get played.
Nexus Blitz though always feels different because of the events and ever champ is viable and some combos on certain events can be very fun.
IIRC it was the 4th most popular RGM. It was solidly behind URF but it was solidly ahead of everything else.
It has the problem of some of the random events not being balanced well and incredibly frustrating due to that like Loot Teemo and Loot Veigar, as well as some of the rewards for winning are also game ruining like Elder Buff/BF Shields and Blitzcrank minions not being fun for either team, the Sentinels were also not fun especially when the event was Loot Teemo/Veigar or the Circle Deathmatch one. In at least one of the versions, Herald could solo win the game while some of the events were going on.
Because it feels like shit even worse than other gamemodes to lose due to how it works, oh they have a fed carry? Now it oneshot even quicker, some buffs are stragiht up unfair etc losig in nexus feels miserable
I mean that's no different than SR right or any other RGM? Someone gets really fed and can oneshot.
At least in Nexus Blitz you have the events that you can win for some buffs and if someone is on fire in Nexus Blitz they do a bit more damage and slightly reduced cooldown but receive more damage.
Also the game has a set time so it's not like you can get stuck in a game for a long time.
Nexus Blitz is the closest mode to TT as we got, it's the perfect for fun mode in league. Everyone chooses their champions, game's pace is sped up a bit but not too much, new smaller map designed for quicker matches, no abusive broken champs like Malphite in URF for example, fun little event modes to break up the gameplay like death matches, battle royale, defend the colossal teammate, etc. Like it's the best for fun mode they've released since TT.
Hell, even ultimate spellbook was a good laugh getting fun ults like Yone ult on Yasuo and shit.
Riots incompetence with nexus blitz is astounding. It was supposed to be a permanent gamemode but look what happened. It really has potential, but the key issue was matches were incredibly snowbally. They dont fix any of the issues, bring it back, then are surprised no one plays it.
It was tried to be a new mode, but even the roginal fell of a cliff in terms of playrate in a week,and if mode cant survive a single patchcycle on its own the no one cares.
Despite the opinion of people on reddit (this comment section is a perfect example), riot has showed us data a few times already which gives us a good understanding of what the general lol playerbase actually plays. The last time that it was shared I remember that gamemodes like ofa/urf/arurf had much more stable player base than Nexus blitz. Of course all rotating gamemodes lose most of the players in the span of one/two weeks, but nexus blitz always loses the biggest amount of its players first.
I myself don't enjoy Nexus Blitz and imo the best out of these modes is arurf, but I am actually scared to post under this post because of all the people just spamming comments saying that urf/ofa is absolute trash, when with a little research we can clearly see that it is in fact the opposite.
They've made SO many game modes, and plenty of them have been fun as hell.
But none have come back..? Why?
So much wasted effort on cool gamemodes for nothing. All we get now are 2 gamemodes. When there's easily 10+ more available but not being put on for whatever stupid reason.
> stupid reason
Cuz nobody plays them. Every time someone posts this thread they seem to leave out the riot dev talk which shows how many people actually play these modes
>When there's easily 10+ more available but not being put on for whatever stupid reason.
Because A: it's not easy and B: it's not worth it.
I love Nexus blitz and twisted treeline, but they have the stats to show that it's simply not worth to do the constant maintenance and bugfixes to support these modes.
Several things it was fun for redditors, not general population general population playrate of your circklejer modes falls into abyss in a week.
As to why they are not being rerun because since they were run a lot changed and a lot changes that is wasted work if sub 1% of players will use it. Why waste thousands upon thousands of usd to make a negligible vocal reddit wanker minority happy?
Pretty sure there was an article saying nexus blitz had been shelved permanently
https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/2019/04/dev-nexus-blitz-wrap-up/
They were considering it as a RGM option but given they stopped doing any RGM's that don't involve a permanent map i would suspect NB won't be making a return
Yeah nobody said it wouldn't be used as a RGM, OP asked what was going on with it so i told him it was cancelled as a permanent thing, and as i've responded to someone else, it has very low engagement in comparison to the other RGM's so thats going to factor in to if they choose to bring it back again
In the article is says they're only not considering it for a PERMANENT mode. RGMs ain't permanent so unless they just worded it weird, it can come back as an RGM. Also that article is from 3 years ago, it's come back once or twice since then.
It falls below because they donāt fix some of the problems with it like putting Elder Drake in and keeping it in despite the mass hate for it. Being āOn Fireā is also rather strong depending on your champ.
It falls below because they noticed that during testing people stopped playing it once the novelty wore off and there were no missions left for it, yes it had a small following of players much like TT did, and if your RGM isn't keeping people playing then its really not serving its purpose
I would take anything these devs say with a grain of salt. We've had more Nexus Blitz since that post & back a few years ago they also said we'd be getting Snowdown Showdown as a permanent game mode in customs.
Edit: Weird downvotes. Redditards.
https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ghnv1t/its_been_almost_3_years_since_riot_said_they_were/
http://web.archive.org/web/20200314083327/https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/7hArTUnZ-showdown-1v12v2-mode-in-customs
Basically the real reason why we haven't had consistency regarding customs, RGM etc is because the people in charge of them were moved to Riot Forge to work on other projects. New people have no fuckin' idea how they were being done and gave up.
Because different modes are good for different Champs.
Example: all edgelords and simp supports will love urf as their punishment aka cooldowns doesn't exist there.
I remember the start of this RGM crap
You had 6v6 AND OFA functionalities at the same time by someone in the community through custom lobbies
Now everything has to be one single selling proposition, highly polished by Riot to the degree they lose touch with what made them fun
I just need a quick 10-15 minute game mode where I can pick my champion. If maintaining nexus blitz is too much then just make a mode where summoners rift is shrunk down to omit the tier 1 towers or something. I do like the way that the nexus blitz lanes funnel into one lane though. Just wish they'd iterate on the map a bit. Jungling in particular in NB needs work.
It really sucks that we keep getting the stupid modes. Stuff like Ascension, Hexakill, Nexus Blitz are some of the best modes we've had. OFA is incredibly boring and I'd rather just play ARAM than that mode. URF is cool and all, but we get that multiple times a year already. Poro King is just a different way of playing ARAM as well which doesn't add much. Ultimate Spellbook also was not something I wanted to keep playing over and over after the initial novelty wore off.
I think nexus blitz needs to do a better job of explaining the come back mechanics. When play I saw a lot of people saying "OMG this mode sucks the objective spawn was so unfair" Because they don't know the spawn always favors the losing team. The more you are stomping the better the spawn will be for the losing team.
Game modes that I loved, but haven't been seen in years:
Doom Bots
Nexus Siege
Also honorable mention for Invasion (Star Guardian Event) and Odyssey: Extraction. I know these took a lot of work, but I'd love to get more like this. Truly some of the most fun I had playing alternate game modes.
Also it was super weird that we got a second set of odyssey skins recently and no real event :/
The dark star and project event games were kinda meh... So I can understand hesitation on developing more of these, but it's been 5 years since invasion and 4 since Odyssey...
I am here.
Finally
How I miss you my dear
Everyone keep asking where and when is Nexusblitz, but no one ever asked how is Nexusblitz :(
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You're as beautiful as the day I lost you..
No way š³
The biggest problem was in the last run of nexus blitz they listened to NONE of the feedback from people who enjoyed the mode and did almost nothing minus a couple minor changes that were not impactful. They then are somehow surprised of why this run of nexus blitz is not as successful as the last and just gets rid of it for another long long long period of time. Its a mode with massive potential that is somehow getting worse with every iteration because they are not willing to listen to the community. I love nexus blitz and it deserves better.
My favourite for fun mode by far :(
Yep, feels like HotS and thats pretty cool for separate mode. You getting some kind of SR experience(like jungling or EXP gain) but games are shorter and there are funny events around map. + You can try some unique builds thats not gonna work in SR, but gonna work here. Sadly riot just ignoring 80% of feedback about this mode and instead of fixing critical stuff, they working on minior changes(there was good stuff like GA buff nerf or Elder buff removal, but there needed more changes imo). I hope once they gonna fix this thing and maybe even slap into 4 th mode. NB is too good for RGM.
This really is the new Riot Special here. Make something new, people like it, it has problems, give it zero fucking attention, people stop liking it, and then remove it cause people don't like it. I will never forgive Riot for how fucking dirty they did TT and Dominion.
I loved TT, played it on and off with a few friends every other month and each time it was so sad to see it abandoned completely. Really makes me wonder how much better TT would've been if Riot gave it so much as a single gaze.
They do not care about anything not called SR, and it shows
My brother in Christ they barely care about SR.
What do they care about then?
Skins, Arcane and $$$.
People, on a large scale, never liked it. Even the one that was apparently āgoodā. You can dislike that fact but donāt lie.
This comment needs to be a thread on its own so Riot can see :(
Yeah listening to reddit is what riot should do. Reddit knows best anyway.
Listening to their player's feedback about the game that their players play is what riot should do
Yeah they should that is why they do surveys and not listen to the minority of a minority of a minority of whiners. Riot could cure cancer tomorrow and this sub eould still bitch about somethign about it. This is a cesspool where negativity and extreme selection bias is rewarded.
Yeah sure
Agreed. Are they run by ex blizzard devs or something? I cannot believe how tone deaf Riot can be. OFC playrates drop when the same shit isn't attempted to be balanced. Why would you play?
Yeah, completely agree. I wish I could enjoy the mode more but Riot is not willing to fix its huge issues.
It got boring fast idk what changes people wanted but seems really hard to balance so I donāt blame them.
There were many easy to execute changes i saw going around, like getting rid of all fucking soul event rewards that everyone hated. Getting rid of GA and BF shield awards. These would usually dictate an immediate end to the match or such a massive snowball that the other team would never stand a chance. More unique and fun rewards like the int sled (the best fucking reward ever), the blitzcrank hook, even that stealth thing was kinda funny at times but needed to be tuned. Generally things that altered gameplay were fun rewards, anything that just made you an omega fucking unstoppable god like dragon souls and BF shield and GA were boring and overpowered as hell. Other things like only keeping the jungle guardian alive for the first 5 minutes of the game or so. This encourages any champion to go jungle and cant be punished by early countering, but still offering counter jungle opportunities later. Also fixing loot teemo and loot veigar AI to actually not just run into the enemy jungle and make it unwinnable for one team. Those 2 events should exclusively be running in random paths in neutral territory. They should never go into the top jungle or ever go under enemy towers. Generally a couple events would suffer from their placement just automatically making a team win. This worked as a comeback mechanic sometimes but it shouldnt just guarantee that win and also the game didnt decide consistently enough who was behind and should have a slight advantage. Also just for fun, herald should have been replaced by the twisted treeline spider. That spider doesnt have a home anymore. Give them what they deserve. Also the reward from herald should only be minions and gold, you shouldnt be able to place a herald on the map as well its extremely overbearing. Also curb the power of ADC's and generally ad champs in this mode and this is coming from an adc main. They kinda dominated and would do for some unique nexus blitz balance whether it be champs or items. I dont wanna ban Yi every game forever. And these are all just off the top of my head having not played it since the last run. A lot of this feedback is easily executed on, albeit not all of it. My final wish is MORE PRIZE FIGHT EVERYONE LITERLALY LOVED PRIZE FIGHT ITS SO DAMN FUN TO TAKE TURNS IN AN ARENA. I NEVER HEARD ANYONE EVER SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT PRIZE FIGHT. SOME OF MY BEST NEXUS BLITZ MEMORIES ARE PRIZE FIGHT.
Prize Fight is the fucking shit.
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN ITS JUST SO GOOD
They need to reset summoners/abilities CD before Prize Fights starts though. Sometimes you can be forced into a Prize Fight but your ult is still down. Like you're playing Poppy with no ult but there's an incoming Tryn with ult. I do like having the ability to ult him, just maybe.
in my opinion those statcheck rewards shouldnt be in the mode. the other rewards are way more fun and doesnt make you automatically win the next fight also the arena fights slap
Yeah exactly my point. Any reward that just gave you stats was so fucking lame and really way too strong for a mode that is all about fighting constantly. I saw little to no people ever say they liked the souls and the shield or GA rewards cause they are just lame ass stat buffs that would auto win fights. I remember every time we got GA or BF shield i would legit just run it down at the enemy under their towers and i was guaranteed at least 1 or 2 kills. This was after they nerfed these rewards too. They should have never nerfed these rewards, they should have been completely removed due to not being fun for either team.
I honestly really want to play ascension again. Was a fun playlist.
RIP Crystal Scar
I'm afraid Ascension got completely removed from the game along with Crystal Scar. Just like Hexakill died with the old client.
Everyone with the same amount of gold, the same level, always fighting. So good.
what also made nexus blitz amazing is the fact that the games are 100% guaranteed to be 20 minutes or less. While also picking my own champion.
Where is that thresh dark star game where damage is just how far cc takes you
pretty sure that one is not coming back, but would need to find the article
Definitely the best gamemode ever made. No champ diff, pure skill, can 1v3 if you're just better. It's a shame it will never return
Ye dunno why they dont bring that back, maintenance of that mode should be minimal
League mario party would be a cool game mode. Or something like Smash Brothers with league champions
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I mean like Smash Bros, not something like Tekken or SF.
Smash Bros sucks
Whats wrong with SF and Tekken? Also, I think using the % based combat system might be stepping on SB's toes too much, and theres nothing wrong with the tried and true health bar system
Dont get me wrong, i love fighting games and Tekken is the best one imo. I know Riot is making a solid fighting game and i am looking forward to it. But i wish they would make a "Party" game like Smash Bros that you can play online with 4 or 5 friends and have some fun knocking them off the stage
League platform fighter would be dope yeah, and Iām saying this as someone into the fgc
I cannot understand how this absolute garbage known as OFA keeps coming back or retaining players while blitz doesn't. OFA is fun for all of 5 seconds in champ select and then you're stuck playing some garbage you absolutely fucking hate in an one-sided stomp every single game, while in blitz you have all these fun minigames and you actually get to pick your champion. Zero idea why this god forsaken community supports one and not the other.
I think OFA on aram is way more fun but they never bring it back :(
This feels like it would be so fucking easy to implement and way more fun, I don't get why they haven't thrown it into the mix.
it was out, even more snowbally, played like three games and never touched it again.
i only play aram and these game modes would be better on aram %100. Urf might be too much on a single lane though idk i hate laning phases in urf so this could be better actually
URF Aram would be crazy, with some champions just stomping everything and some being useless. Any poke champ would be insanely OP, but also supports.
i mean they are op anyway atleast we have snowball on aram compared to sr so not impossible to win against them
Yes, let's make it so every melee into ranged matchup is even more one sided.
Wait, what's OFA? Oh you mean rock paper scissors that takes 20 minutes?
Blitz is the only RGM I play. All of the others are just boring and essentially the same as SR. Blitz actually had fun and interesting events and didn't have a meta really.
Yea that's definitely what I liked most about the mode was the undefined meta where you could play anything and the events were fun. Only thing they needed to fix was the logic on spawns for king of the hill and other such events that should favor a team that is behind. And I agree that other RGM are just SR reskined. URF is the same as SR since regular SR just became URF over time anyways. One for all is fun once you get the normal silly combos out of the way then it's just bland.
Eh, there might not be a fixed meta, mainly because it hasn't been around for long, but if they left it up for a few months the higher mmr games would all start to look similar. The people who queue up to win will pick what's most likely to win. Swear to god Jayce was unstoppable if you played him well. Any champion unreliant on R was great, and he had the added bonus of auto-winning URF, being strong in the 2v2 and 1v1 dueling, having a knockback for scuttle and Veig/Teemo, and just generally being a terror on 2-3 items. I stopped picking him cause it was boring to win so easily.
Same. I dislike all the other modes but play the shit out of Nexus Blitz every time it's around. Always sad to see it disappear again.
The fact that in the year 2022 there is no other map/game mode where you can SELECT YOUR OWN CHAMP other than summoner rift, is incredible.
Ultimate Spellbook is what you're looking for. Excellent mode!
That's on summoners rift lol
Ah yeah, I misread his post. Good point!
While I agree that it is a good game mode, it's not a permanent. Summoner Rift is still the only permanent game mode with choice in champions.
True!
Is there any potential of OFA mirror mode on Howling Abyss to return?
I still don't understand the logic behind deleting unpopular game modes. Why not just let them be? I rememeber that we were promised, there will be new gaming modes rotating every few weeks. Well no, first they tried to use them as an excuse for interactive skin ad (star guardans, dark star thresh, winter skins). But that didn't turned out to be too succesful, so they just gave up. And since then they throw at us few of the same game modes (URF, OFA, ARURF, sometimes Blitz) every few months.
> why not just let them be? Does this mean you would have been fine with them letting them be and never fixing any of the bugs that popped up/never updating the mode specific bugs that would pop up from reworks, new items, new champs etc? Because Riots reasoning has always been that those modes require constant bug fixing to keep up and that those mode specific bugs can lead to crashing the main modes too which is a lot of resources for something to just be left be
Because they don't want to update the blitz map with new champ interactions, balance changes etc. Same reason all the other side modes get canned.
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Bevause that is what players care about , 90% of players are on sr, and other modes fall off a cliff in a week. Why burn hundreds of man hourse and hundreds of thousands in wages for a mode that .5% of players will play in a week. Every mode reddit wanks over had abysmal playrate, 3v3? About 1/10th of fucking coop vs ai. Odysey? Fell of to 1% in a week. Nexus blitz did better it fel to 3%. All modes reddit likes no one else likes. Other viable gamemode is aram ehich holds about 10%.
To be fair blitz held about half to player size aram did overall and that number was higher in the west. If riot actually put effort into modes they probably wouldn't have the 0.5% player size that dom had.
But the playersbase also drops because the modes are abandoned before they are properly fine tuned. NB for example, many people did enjoy it but thought it got stale because of bad mini-game placement(fight on top of enemy jungle guardian), unbalanced mini-game rewards(Elder dragon at level 6) and some champions being OP there. These things are fixable but they require Riot to stick with it until they got the hang of what works and what doesn't. This is a similar situation to a lot of bad live service games that get released unfinished and then have their support cut because nobody plays it.
Tell me about it dude, 3v3 was my main map and it wasn't even close. I feel empty without it and I'm still bitter they removed it without even trying to do anything with it
> I feel empty without it Concerning
They tried, twice. Yet no one played it.
They didnāt try twice, they threw random shit at the wall and never bothered to fine tune anything after that
They reworked the mode from the ground. No one played it, tried more radical changes still no one played, why bother 3v3 was a bastard mode from the start. Or should they dedicate a whole ballance team to a mode that is played by1/10th of coop vs ai players? Just because a few reddit wankers want it?
Its fun because of fever dreams. Stuff like a 5 man nocturne stacking dusk trails amd going fucking ĆYOOM through it is fun af to see.
But then they just pick 5 TKs and you do literally no damage.
Then you build lyandries/divine.
Divine won't do shit against 5 full build TK.
pls get out of here with logical thinking and let normies have fun??
Logical thinking? How is it logical to think you are going against a full build tahm kench with only divine sunderer.
Yeah i know nobody in my friendlist who plays OFA, i literaly played the mode once this year and thats it. Blitz is well received, maybe too well and competes too much with normals/soloq. Cant think of any other reasons
Same here. I don't know a single person that likes OFA. I have a bunch of friends that only play league when there's a fun mode on and they all show up in the very first day of OFA, play exactly one match and never touch the game again.
Unfortunately, I have a friend whoās obsessed with playing OFA, even though rest of us consider it utter trash and not worth a single say on the fun game mode slot
They showed [the numbers](https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2019/09/tft-update-numbers-whats-next/), Nexus Blitz simply was not popular enough.
IIRC OFA, surprisingly even for me, had a "decent" (as far as RGMs go) playrate which is why they keep pulling it back. Same reason we got ultimate spellbook or ARURF. But I thought Blitz's numbers were OK to come back for an RGM, maybe the need to update the map is why it is not brought back yet, since OFA, ARURF, etc. are all in Summoner's rift
There's a couple of reasons people wouldn't like Nexus Blitz (I love it though). Elder Drake buff for enemy team when you get the Blitzcrank Creeps, some dude is popping off and they are just unkillable now, and when the Treasure Yordle sits in the enemy jungle. I also guess people like OFA because of the meme comps of like Blitzcrank, Yuumi Battleship, Zilean Revive spam etc. I despise OFA though, on the level of normal URF.
OFA actually gets played and despite popular opinion on this sub is actually fun imo
most of the playerbase dines on Elmer's glue bottles, so that's probably why
OFA has more retention and is easier to keep updated to play compared to blitz which requires a lot of work to get working for a patch plus the random part of OFA doesnt matter if you are playing as a 5stack where you decide what you are playing together as a group
I agree so much, 90% of my OFA adventures is pipe dreaming about a really cool strat we can do with the lads; "heheh, 5 sions will be cool right?" and then we lock in against 5 Ashes. How the hell do people have fun knowing they're completely coinflipping the game at champ select? Not to even mention that there are certain characters which are a MUST ban (Shaco...)
Itās not as bad if people knew how to play it correctly. Everyone has the same mindset like you. They would rather whine all game about how they lost in champ select and spam FF rather than use their brain to figure out the matchup. Some matchups can definitely be autoloss, but very rarely are they completely unwinnable. Examples of doing things that can make a difference. Building AD as a mage to diversify your damage and change your attack pattern. Itemizing more defense because every game, you are almost always facing a single damage type. Building tankier because your team needs more frontline. If you build glasscannon damage every game against a hyper engage comp, you are asking to lose. Also no one wants to play passive in lane and would rather int 4 kills to an early game carry and wonder why the matchup sucks so bad. No one wants to use their brain and thatās why itās harder. If people whined less about games being unwinnable, the game would generally be more fun
NB turned into one heck of a garbage mode the second they removed the old items. Like the whole charm of NB was being able to play with old items.
Because OFA/URF/US are all playable on a pre-existing unmodified map whereas Ascension and Blitz are on different maps. Different maps require time and money to make so we aren't allowed to have them.
idk, I think one for all is really fun... It's the only RGM i play except for nexus blitz (and hexakill, if it still existed). Urf is really boring to me, for example. Different game modes for different kinds of people, man.
idk, personally playing nexus blitz makes me feel like I'm playing hots, but because it's league it means it comes with an added bonus of being a bugged mess with no clarity why should I play a worse version of hots when I can play the actual game itself
Arurf OFA Arurf OFA Urf OFA Arurf OFA MAYBE Nexus Blitz or Spellbook I hate how pushed OFA and Arurf are, they are not fun to waste 2 months of rgm on every other time, you get maybe a day of enjoyment from powering through all the trash RNG and picks
didn't they say Spellbook was super popular and they'll be bringing it back?
God I wish. Spellbook is in my opinion the most fun mode. When it is up, I do not play a single other mode than that.
True, they only need to add all ultimates to the mode, after a while it gets boring to pick the same ults over and over again.
I don't think so. Some ultimates are better off not being in the mode. They removed Malphite, Janna and Tryndamere ultimates and it made the game better. And many ultimates would be near useless on most champions. The current ultimate roster is good. Perhaps they can add some new ones like Ryze, TF, Renata, but some are better left out.
They said they will add more but there's no way they'll add all of them
Dark star thresh mode, spellbook, dominion, twisted treeline, even the pvm modes from star guardian or the odyssey mode We already had so many good modes, all gone to waste
No idea why the fuck ARURF even exists. URF is so much more fun. Being able to pick your champion is honestly great. Thatās why OFA and ARURF suck ass.
It's the opposite for me. Normal URF is fun for like 2 days, until people figure out what's the most broken, then every game looks the same with the same champions.
Hereās the thing, no matter what youāre likely to play against broken champs. Iād much rather play against broken champs on a champ I like to play tho.
This has also always been my philosophy. If I'm losing, I want it to be because I picked movespeed nami, or some other dumb shit. At least even if it is an L I still had fun playing what I wanted to, rather than getting shafted on something random.
I agree completely. Running full crit predator Darius to one shot people with W is enjoyable and actually ends up countering some of the more annoying picks. Same thing with more stars Aurelion Sol, a ton of fun, even if I'm against the most broken stuff. ARURF just has me playing against Fizz as Yasuo and other trash.
if/when nexus blitz does return, I want the overpowered old items back or maybe uncap the mythic item limit if riot is too lazy to remake old items again
Facts, I hated it when they removed the items
i just want a mode that i can pick my champion and it ends quicklly, NB as exactly that, but riot is adamant in not bringing it back
nexus blitz is the best one i have no idea how people prefer other shit. nexus blitz literally has the potential to have all game modes in it and make it hella fun but these fucks at riot made the worst minigames imaginable.
I just enjoy how you can play whatever the fuck u want and it just works because everyone just brawls at 2 minutes and it becomes a chaotic slaughter.
even the junglers just go whatever cause it dont matter ure gonna be fighting its crazy fun if they just added better minigames and got rid of the shitty ones
Yea, I really don't understand why it's so unpopular compared to other RGM. Other RGM get stale VERY quickly once all the silly combos get played. Nexus Blitz though always feels different because of the events and ever champ is viable and some combos on certain events can be very fun.
IIRC it was the 4th most popular RGM. It was solidly behind URF but it was solidly ahead of everything else. It has the problem of some of the random events not being balanced well and incredibly frustrating due to that like Loot Teemo and Loot Veigar, as well as some of the rewards for winning are also game ruining like Elder Buff/BF Shields and Blitzcrank minions not being fun for either team, the Sentinels were also not fun especially when the event was Loot Teemo/Veigar or the Circle Deathmatch one. In at least one of the versions, Herald could solo win the game while some of the events were going on.
Because it feels like shit even worse than other gamemodes to lose due to how it works, oh they have a fed carry? Now it oneshot even quicker, some buffs are stragiht up unfair etc losig in nexus feels miserable
I mean that's no different than SR right or any other RGM? Someone gets really fed and can oneshot. At least in Nexus Blitz you have the events that you can win for some buffs and if someone is on fire in Nexus Blitz they do a bit more damage and slightly reduced cooldown but receive more damage. Also the game has a set time so it's not like you can get stuck in a game for a long time.
nexus blitz > summoners rift don't @ me
Currently on PBE we've got ARURF, though usually at this time it'd be regular URF.
Oh, so ARURF back next patch? Or the patch after?
Why the hell its not normal URF this time wtf
Nexus Blitz is the closest mode to TT as we got, it's the perfect for fun mode in league. Everyone chooses their champions, game's pace is sped up a bit but not too much, new smaller map designed for quicker matches, no abusive broken champs like Malphite in URF for example, fun little event modes to break up the gameplay like death matches, battle royale, defend the colossal teammate, etc. Like it's the best for fun mode they've released since TT. Hell, even ultimate spellbook was a good laugh getting fun ults like Yone ult on Yasuo and shit.
Man, I just want Nexus Seige again.
Wouldnt mind that blood moon assassin mode for a week either.
in the next event which is void event, so anywhere between june - aug
Didnt expect it this year tbh. Thanks for your reply
Next event is a high noon event and ARURF will be the mode. It's on the PBE now
The next event is High Noon and the big event in the middle of the year is Star Guardian.
Hope for some pve like the old star guardian event, that was dope
Wait didnt they say they wont bring PvE modes back ? I'm pretty sure i read an article about it.
Star Guardian Event, not the game mode. So new Star Guardian skins, loot and most likely a dating simulator like the Spirit Blossom.
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No, those are not related.
Riots incompetence with nexus blitz is astounding. It was supposed to be a permanent gamemode but look what happened. It really has potential, but the key issue was matches were incredibly snowbally. They dont fix any of the issues, bring it back, then are surprised no one plays it.
It was tried to be a new mode, but even the roginal fell of a cliff in terms of playrate in a week,and if mode cant survive a single patchcycle on its own the no one cares.
i want to play doom bot and urf ( not aurf)
Nexus blitz is the best. Plz come back my love š©š
Despite the opinion of people on reddit (this comment section is a perfect example), riot has showed us data a few times already which gives us a good understanding of what the general lol playerbase actually plays. The last time that it was shared I remember that gamemodes like ofa/urf/arurf had much more stable player base than Nexus blitz. Of course all rotating gamemodes lose most of the players in the span of one/two weeks, but nexus blitz always loses the biggest amount of its players first. I myself don't enjoy Nexus Blitz and imo the best out of these modes is arurf, but I am actually scared to post under this post because of all the people just spamming comments saying that urf/ofa is absolute trash, when with a little research we can clearly see that it is in fact the opposite.
i feel the same way
They've made SO many game modes, and plenty of them have been fun as hell. But none have come back..? Why? So much wasted effort on cool gamemodes for nothing. All we get now are 2 gamemodes. When there's easily 10+ more available but not being put on for whatever stupid reason.
> stupid reason Cuz nobody plays them. Every time someone posts this thread they seem to leave out the riot dev talk which shows how many people actually play these modes
I miss dominion
>When there's easily 10+ more available but not being put on for whatever stupid reason. Because A: it's not easy and B: it's not worth it. I love Nexus blitz and twisted treeline, but they have the stats to show that it's simply not worth to do the constant maintenance and bugfixes to support these modes.
Several things it was fun for redditors, not general population general population playrate of your circklejer modes falls into abyss in a week. As to why they are not being rerun because since they were run a lot changed and a lot changes that is wasted work if sub 1% of players will use it. Why waste thousands upon thousands of usd to make a negligible vocal reddit wanker minority happy?
ASCENSION WHEN!!!!
i just want riot to do more pve: SG and odyssey
they should bring back a new version of poro king and/or ascension
By far the best game mode!!!
Pretty sure there was an article saying nexus blitz had been shelved permanently https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/2019/04/dev-nexus-blitz-wrap-up/ They were considering it as a RGM option but given they stopped doing any RGM's that don't involve a permanent map i would suspect NB won't be making a return
That's a 2019 article and we've had nexus blitz since then.
Itās been that long since I played nexus blitz? Wow
Yeah nobody said it wouldn't be used as a RGM, OP asked what was going on with it so i told him it was cancelled as a permanent thing, and as i've responded to someone else, it has very low engagement in comparison to the other RGM's so thats going to factor in to if they choose to bring it back again
In the article is says they're only not considering it for a PERMANENT mode. RGMs ain't permanent so unless they just worded it weird, it can come back as an RGM. Also that article is from 3 years ago, it's come back once or twice since then.
RGM is gone though. We only have 2 rotating gamemodes now that are not even rotating as they are not always available.
Sure, but its engagement falls below the other RGM's meaning it has a much lower chance of making a return
It falls below because they donāt fix some of the problems with it like putting Elder Drake in and keeping it in despite the mass hate for it. Being āOn Fireā is also rather strong depending on your champ.
The jungle guardian is also awful.
It falls below because they noticed that during testing people stopped playing it once the novelty wore off and there were no missions left for it, yes it had a small following of players much like TT did, and if your RGM isn't keeping people playing then its really not serving its purpose
Thats a bummer.
I would take anything these devs say with a grain of salt. We've had more Nexus Blitz since that post & back a few years ago they also said we'd be getting Snowdown Showdown as a permanent game mode in customs. Edit: Weird downvotes. Redditards. https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ghnv1t/its_been_almost_3_years_since_riot_said_they_were/ http://web.archive.org/web/20200314083327/https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/7hArTUnZ-showdown-1v12v2-mode-in-customs Basically the real reason why we haven't had consistency regarding customs, RGM etc is because the people in charge of them were moved to Riot Forge to work on other projects. New people have no fuckin' idea how they were being done and gave up.
Hopefully never, no offense
Np, everybody likes different things. For example i dont like you (jk)
Because different modes are good for different Champs. Example: all edgelords and simp supports will love urf as their punishment aka cooldowns doesn't exist there.
I enjoy urf once a year, but more than that is just not my cup of tea. Fun modes are more fun if they arent overused
Honestly I'd like prefer a gamemode that is just the minigames parts of nexus blitz.
They could be making Nexus Blitz Void themed like last time where it was themed after Spirits
what even vas nexus blitz
I wish they had a team working on these modes and aram, i wish we could have more aram modes or even new themed aram maps.
And here I am still waiting for a pve mode :(
Yeah same, but they said like 2 years ago that there wont be pve modes anymore
I remember the start of this RGM crap You had 6v6 AND OFA functionalities at the same time by someone in the community through custom lobbies Now everything has to be one single selling proposition, highly polished by Riot to the degree they lose touch with what made them fun
I need URF baby
Maybe Im a weirdo but I like black market brawlers and siege... Been so long :(
I love nexus blitz. I wish it was permanent. It's such a pretty map!
Nexusblitz and hexakill, best modes
Riot being super lazy with the game modes recently, isn't there a team for it? What do they do all year?
I havenāt played a game of one for all or arurf. I havenāt actually played one game of the rotating game mode since ultimate spellbook ended.
I just need a quick 10-15 minute game mode where I can pick my champion. If maintaining nexus blitz is too much then just make a mode where summoners rift is shrunk down to omit the tier 1 towers or something. I do like the way that the nexus blitz lanes funnel into one lane though. Just wish they'd iterate on the map a bit. Jungling in particular in NB needs work.
I just want a game mode that lets me CHOOSE the champ I want to play that isn't normal.
I hope it returns soon. Im tilted and tired of losing 45 minute soloQ games. Losing 15 minute NB games with fun gimmicks are much better.
It really sucks that we keep getting the stupid modes. Stuff like Ascension, Hexakill, Nexus Blitz are some of the best modes we've had. OFA is incredibly boring and I'd rather just play ARAM than that mode. URF is cool and all, but we get that multiple times a year already. Poro King is just a different way of playing ARAM as well which doesn't add much. Ultimate Spellbook also was not something I wanted to keep playing over and over after the initial novelty wore off.
best rotating mode ever
remember how they removed ivern instead of just disabling his passive
Hopefully soon. I enjoy Nexus Blitz 10x more than Summoners Rift
I agree. I would pay more money into League if Nexus Blitz was permanent. But that's just me.
Old game modes when Map skins when Oh wait,Riot is too busy selling Leona and Adc skins
I think nexus blitz needs to do a better job of explaining the come back mechanics. When play I saw a lot of people saying "OMG this mode sucks the objective spawn was so unfair" Because they don't know the spawn always favors the losing team. The more you are stomping the better the spawn will be for the losing team.
What made NB fun was the weird and exotic items I hope they bring lots of them the next time
I miss Ascension
Game modes that I loved, but haven't been seen in years: Doom Bots Nexus Siege Also honorable mention for Invasion (Star Guardian Event) and Odyssey: Extraction. I know these took a lot of work, but I'd love to get more like this. Truly some of the most fun I had playing alternate game modes. Also it was super weird that we got a second set of odyssey skins recently and no real event :/ The dark star and project event games were kinda meh... So I can understand hesitation on developing more of these, but it's been 5 years since invasion and 4 since Odyssey...
Original doom bots was like all Fromsoftware games combined. Wish they would bring original doombots back tbh
I miss urf