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Riot Corporate Headquarters - Designer Camp. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A group of designers reworked the design around several heroes, and had a general orientation to the attribute indicators of each new hero, and the ghost crab sat in the position of the chief designer and meditated.

For veteran online game enthusiasts, the name Ghost Crab is almost unknown to everyone.

He used to be the chief system designer of Blizzard Entertainment's "World of Warcraft", and changed the entire PvP system of Warcraft beyond recognition.

What game is World of Warcraft? It's one of the top RPGs that once ruled all of Europe and Asia, and many people have played it.

At that time, many players complained that it was not Blizzard who ruined World of Warcraft, but Ghost Crab!

The Ghost Crab jumped ship to Riot HQ in 2013, and World of Warcraft players celebrated, but League of Legends players were depressed for an entire season.

For a long time after that, whenever a change in a hero was mentioned, the ghost crab would inevitably be dragged out and whipped.

But in fact, this is a very unjust thing.

Ghost Crab's title in Riot is called lead-system-designer, that is, the chief system designer, to put it simply, taking the setting of World of Warcraft as an example, the framework control of the entire game, interaction, interface system, such as task system, achievement system, professional talent, skill system, etc., all need the idea of the chief designer.

But! This does not include the balance adjustment of each class, which means that the changes to the skills of the heroes in lol or the modifications of talents, runes, etc. are not under his control.

As for why players always use ghost crabs to whip corpses, it's because real designers don't communicate with players on Twitter, and ghost crabs prefer to communicate with players, which leads to the reputation of ghost crabs.

Players know that the ghost crab is the designer, but they don't know the other designers, making the ghost crab a punching bag.

Now, there is a very big problem in front of the ghost crab.

He had to be part of the debate.

Because the first big change in the history of League of Legends is unfolding before his eyes.

Remove the blue bottle.

The ghost crabs laughed a little.

Every game has a blue bottle, whether it is an RPG or a game of this type, the blue bottle is a crucial thing, and as a result, at this time, there are designers who want to remove this equipment.

Could it be that the player named Winner bullied the designer with the three-blue Varus in the rankings?

He slandered himself.

Obviously, he is not in favor of removing the blue bottle.

Statik was the famous designer who advocated the removal of the Blue Bottle, and Statik's electric blade was named after him.

He stood up, tapped the table and said, "In the next version, we have strengthened a batch of mid-laner heroes, and we also have to change talents and runes, if the blue bottle is not removed, it will be difficult for the AD position to have a foothold." ”

Many people say that the S6 season is the era of ADC.

In the minds of designers, creating a balanced environment is king.

When one position is about to become stronger, it will strengthen another group of restrained positions.

The ADC position may be strengthened by the addition of several new equipment, so the mid-laner position needs to be strengthened to give the AD position a direction to be targeted, but the designers don't want the mid-laner hero to be too powerful, so they want to remove the blue bottle.

Of course, the last straw that broke the camel's back was none other than Jiang Yifan's Sanlan Varus.

This group of designers naturally depends on the competition, they generally rely on the competition to determine what heroes they want to strengthen next, what heroes to weaken, and then combine the player's experience to make a final decision.

Varus's combination with the Blue Bottle has somewhat disrupted the game's ecological balance.

In the eyes of the designers, this is a provocation from the players, so they must weaken the blue bottle.

"I think we can try to remove the blue bottle in pre-season, and if the response is not good, add it back, and if the player doesn't resist much, the blue bottle will be removed." Sheep knife said a compromise.

As a fellow designer, he is much more moderate than those radicals.

"There is another problem now, the NOE team has exposed too many routines, allowing us to see too many imbalances, and the winning rate of Fire Man is as high as 56% in the ranking, what an exaggerated number!" Tiamat pulled out a printout.

The above details the win rate and ranking of the hero Fire Man.

"Hanbok, a total of 3.91 million appearances, a winning rate of 57%, China server, a total of 57.23 million appearances, a winning rate of 56%, China's server, a total of 10.23 million appearances, a winning rate of 57.3%, this data is problematic and very controversial!"

The ghost crab said helplessly: "You can deal with these things, I'll design other things." ”

After saying that, he stood up and prepared to go to his office, and this kind of setting should be left to the professionals.

And the designers in the room continued to argue and quarrel.

"Ike's base damage design is too high, Ike, you get out of here, how did you design this hero? You ruined the balance of the game, you know? Tiamat scolded at Ike's nose.

Most of the heroes' names are taken from the designer, so some lazy designers just use their own names.

"Can I be blamed for this? I started with the idea of Ike taking on the image of a mid-laner assassin, and then what? You weakened him and made him lose his dominance in the mid lane, what happened to the player who developed the meat Ike to top the laner? Ike retorted, "Is that how you insult the player's intelligence?" ”

"Compared to Meat Ike, I think the hero of the Spear of Vengeance is also out of balance, and in the next version, I will weaken her along with her." Statik also produced a statistic to speak.

He lifted his black-rimmed glasses.

"In the king game, Calista's win rate is as high as 61%, and the normal win rate should be around 50%, which is too high, it can only mean that this hero has lost his due balance!"

Ike was a little upset about this.

"You know that the Spear of Vengeance of the King's Bureau has a high win rate because the players of the King's Bureau understand the positioning of this hero better than the low-end players? Why don't you say that in the bronze game, the Spear of Vengeance only has a 46% win rate? You are so weakened, why don't you go to heaven? ”

"Also, you're targeting the NOE team too much, aren't you? The nerfs are all heroes developed by the NOE team! ”

Tiamat snorted coldly and said, "It's not that we're targeting the NOE team, it's that the NOE team is deliberately provoking our designers, they have found so many heroes who have ruined the balance of the game, and they deserve to be weakened." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the computer in the center.

"Look, the first-ever World Finals 3:0 is taking place."

"And we are to blame!"

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... (To be continued.) )