This time, for the upcoming new season, RIOT has made many changes to the game.
In the official forum's homepage update content announcement, roughly divided into seven update content, the first and second are normal, basically in the players' expectations.
Take the first “fine-tuning of some hero skills and attributes” as an example. Even before the arrival of the new season, RIOT game company has carried out relevant patch updates many times.
The general idea is to weaken which hero's OP (too strong); which hero is unpopular enough that no one cares about it and strengthen it slightly.
Among the weakened heroes, the most typical is probably Irelia, who has the nickname "Blade Sister".
Such a funny and ridiculous line has been circulated among countless players in the national server, but it also quite vividly summarizes the miserable experience of this hero:
"Sister Dao is too strong, let's weaken it."
"Timo is too strong, let's weaken Girl Sword."
"Riven is too strong, let's weaken Sword Sister."
"Crazyrobot is too strong, let's weaken the sword girl."
"Last night I lost sleep, let's weaken Sister Dao."
"Anyway, it's okay to be idle, let's weaken Sister Dao."
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The end result is the will of the blade. Irelia has been weakened from the hot fire when it was first launched to a hero who sits on the bench and is rarely interested in.
Therefore, for the updated content of the first article, most players pray in their hearts that RIOT will not convulse indiscriminately and not weaken their favorite heroes.
The third, fourth, and fifth update content can actually be understood together. The official explanation given by RIOT is the three update content. On the one hand, it is based on the repair and improvement of some bugs detected in the past season. On the other hand, it is to enhance the presence of the support in the battle and enhance the role and status of the support hero in the team.
The specific change rules need to wait for the version update at noon the next day to go in and experience it before you can really understand it.
Relatively speaking, Britz is more interested in Article 6 and Article 7 of this update.
The sixth update content, the participation standard of qualifying is reduced from 16 heroes to 10.
In fact, 16 heroes were originally set to be able to qualify, because considering that the 6 hero options have been removed during the ban process, the ten players on both sides then each choose one, which happens to be 16 heroes.
In other words, in the most coincidental state, a player can guarantee that he will never have no heroes available.
But this time the change takes into account the complaints of countless players in the forum.
Because in the game of "League of Legends. Holographic Reality", it is too difficult to save money to buy heroes. It often takes too much time and energy to collect 16 heroes' game coins, resulting in many players even After several months of matches, they couldn't start qualifying.
This situation will cause many players to lose their enthusiasm for the game.
Now, from 16 heroes to 10 heroes, RIOT has made more detailed supplementary adjustments accordingly.
In the matching process of the qualifying match, the system will not only consider the player’s segmented and balanced strength, but will also arrange players with low hero overlap as much as possible, so as to ensure that there will be no player loss. A situation where heroes are available appears.
Of course, if this happens, the system will automatically cancel the ranking and re-arrange the battle.
For this, Britz is quite happy.
Because a while ago, the teammates waiting for the team to enter empty-handed and urge it to start ranking quickly, and it only has 6 usable heroes, which is far from reaching the standard requirements for ranking. Now The standard is lowered to 10, then at most a month, it will soon be able to play in qualifying.
As for the updated content of the last item, RIOT only gave such a puzzling explanation:
[The game is not just about fighting, you will see a real Valoran continent in the near future].
Anyway, Britz didn't want to understand what this meant.
After scratching its head, it put these questions aside and continued to fight its own match.
Only seven or eight victories are needed to gather 2,300 energy points to activate the next heroic awakening.
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At 11:50 on the next day, the system issued an announcement on all game servers in the major area. After ten minutes, the matching and ranking function of all competitive stone platforms in the arena will be temporarily stopped for 5 minutes to complete the version update.
At this time, Britz had just finished a match match and withdrew from the battle room.
The heart of Valoran in the metal chest shook and trembled slightly.
2300 energy points, got together.
The new heroic awakening is about to be activated.
Listening to the system announcements that sounded constantly in the arena lobby, Britz directly chose to go offline and quit the game, returning to the chaotic space inside the Heart of Varoran.
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A dreamy band of light dancing in the void.
Nearly a hundred pictures of the hero's light and shadow that rotate continuously.
The sky exploded the scattered colorful light and dust.
In the end, only a huge heroic light and shadow hovered above Britz's head.
In the ear, a soft and kind female voice sounded:
"Randomly drawn."
"Heroes of Thorns. Zyra's Spirit Awakens—"
"Extent: 20%."
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"Gallen... we... this is... where are we going...?"
Walking on the main road of the Demacia city-state, Britz asked Galen beside him dizzyly.
"The flower shop!" Galen replied with a wave of excitement.
"Flower...shop?" Britz was puzzled.
"Today is Valentine's Day!" Galen looked at Britz with an idiotic look: "This kind of day is a good opportunity to confess. Of course I have to buy a bunch of flowers for Katerina to pass—"
Britz scratched his head: "Yes... this way..."
"Nonsense, on romantic days like Valentine's Day, girls' defenses are the lowest. If Catalina receives the roses from me, this confession will be successful!" Galen smiled triumphantly, and then seemed like Thinking of something, his face suddenly changed to a smirk and urged: "Hey, Abu, you can buy a bunch too."
"I... also buy it?" Britz was at a loss.
"Send it to Olianna. They are also robots. I want me to see that you two happen to be a couple-oh my shit, I kindly give you an idea, Abu, what are you doing with lightning!?"
"Is it...it...just...charged...too full...static field...not controlled by..." Britz replied embarrassedly.
Debon "thorns" flower shop.
"Oh, there are guests here, please come in, please come in—" The flower shop owner Jyla swayed her graceful posture, and welcomed Galen and Britz in with a smile on her face.
"Madam boss, I want to buy roses! Do you have any recommendations?" Galen, who entered the flower shop, looked around for a while.
Zyra smiled: "Is it for my sweetheart? We have all kinds of roses here, such as blue enchantress and champagne roses. You can pick and see for yourself—"
"Hmm..." Galen touched his chin and looked at the bunches before his eyes lit up: "That's it!" He pointed at a bunch of blood-red and quiet roses.
"Oh, guest, you really have vision. This bunch is called Crimson Heart, which symbolizes the deepest love between lovers~"
Galen nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, not bad, my love for Katerina is so deep, too suitable!" Then he took out his wallet with great pride: "Boss, how much is this bunch, I bought it!"
Zyra smiled like a flower: "The guest is really generous for his sweetheart, and I'm honoring eight thousand gold coins—"
"Eight thousand!!!" Galen's eyes straightened for an instant, and then he was furious: "Damn, you grabbed the money!? Eighty is almost the same, right?"
Zyra covered her mouth and smiled: "Oh, that's the usual price. Today is Valentine's Day. Of course, the price is different..."