TL;DW: Dev Update: Patch Schedule, Champions, and Gameplay Changes

David “PapaSmoothie” Xu gives a quick TL;DW of his recent Dev Update where he gives some updates about patch cadence and gives a look at what's to come in 2023!
Game Updates

Hi folks, David “PapaSmoothie” Xu here. We saw our friends over on League PC do a TL;DW recently for one of their dev updates, and we wanted to try something similar! This will be short and sweet and give a rundown of all the topics I covered, in case you couldn’t watch.

  • We’ll be going from six patches a year to five patches.
  • No content will be lost, patches will last a little longer with more content in them.
  • We gave a Wild Rift game dev crash course, explaining how longer patches will help us deliver you all bigger and better content.
  • In 2023, you should still expect a champion moment, every single month.
  • Looking to do more updates to champions, similar to our Karma rework!
  • We’re still going to be looking at roles as a whole in 2023, with a focus on marksmen and assassins.
  • Ideation for the big gameplay update in 2023 is still in the works, but we’re looking to bring more variety game-to-game. While we’re still brainstorming, we can share that things are about to get chilly soon…
  • We’ll be looking to bring the chaos factor to all our current and upcoming game modes. You’ll get a taste of this in Ultimate Spellbook, let us know what ya think!

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  • Lastly, we wanted to let you in on a game we play on the dev team, and see a tiny snippet of an upcoming skin. Who do you think it is? My money is still on Caitlyn!

That’s all from us for now! Let us know what you think about this format of video and having the TL;DW along with it! We’ll see ya on the Rift!