LoL PBE: New Loading Screen, Skins And Client Updates
Take a look into the PBE and some of the changes coming up.
Welcome to a new series of articles taking a look at the PBE, updates and new features. The main focus of this series is to give people a new look into the PBE as well as adding in some thoughts about how they look and feel. Feel free to get involved in the comments!
Being as this is the first of the series, I feel it would be a good idea to look back at a couple of older additions, such as the last set of new skins, the new loading screen background and some of the older implementations, such as the champion experience system. Then as we move along in updates and additions we will only be looking at the most recent changes.
Additions:
- New Loading background for Summoners Rift
- Champion Skins: Omega Squad Teemo, Guardian of the Sands Xerath, Guardian of the Sands Rammus, Arclight Vayne, Guardian of the Sands Skarner, all still waiting on splash art.
- Champion Mastery for all champions.
- Match details page now loads in client.
New loading screen for Summoner’s Rift looks awesome, as opposed to that standard plain black loading screen. Honestly I feel like this is a small change that goes a long way and I hope they change all the map loading screens to a splash art like this. Bravo Riot!
We have three new Guardian of the Sands skins, this time we see Xerath, Rammus and Skarner joining Kha'Zix with updated models and abilities.
The new Teemo skin, has a lot to it, changing the lovable yordle into a battle harnened commando. This skin is a complete overhall of teemo's abilities, sounds and animations.
Vayne is getting a makeover this time with a Vayne Arclight skin. The skin updates abilities along with a new back animation.
Now for some of the older additions as we shift focus over to the client and look into what riot has in store for upcoming changes. First on the list is the new champion mastery, now you gain experience and levels on specific champions the more you play them.
The match details have also moved into the client with the option to view in web browser still available.
That's all the changes for now. Come back next time as we look over the next set of changes.
