Two years ago, in 2019, we heard that the famous game company Riot had three mysterious projects codenamed Project A, Project F and Project L. Later, the first of these, which was described as “an elegant, competitive tactical shooter for the computer”, was revealed to be Valorant, and the second project, which was described as “a project that explores the possibilities of traveling the world of Runeterra with your friends”, has not yet been officially announced.
Finally, this weekend, new images came from Project L, a fighting game set in the League of Legends universe. In a new video released showing what we can expect from the game, Riot lead developers Tom and Tony Cannon gave some details about the team’s design philosophy for the game.
It’s still too early to give a release date.
Accordingly, the new fighting game; It will be a ‘co-fighter based’ game. In a blog post detailing the developer team’s intentions for the game; The goal of the game is stated to be to give players an “easy-to-learn but hard-to-master mentality” and to create “a super high-quality fighting game that the FGC (fighting game community) can invest deeply in, playing for years or even decades.”
That’s why the team, which aims to appeal to competitive gamers, is working on how to optimize the online experience. “We’re adding Riot’s existing technologies like RiotDirect, which does a great job at minimizing ping for League Of Legends and Valorant,” says Tom Cannon. Here’s a first look at the new fighting game set in the LoL universe:
However, it seems that it is not reasonable to expect the game to be released soon. Stating that one of the main purposes of sharing the video is to inform and update the fans about how the development period of the game is going, Riot Games stated that it is still too early to give an exact release date.
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