End-of-year update on Project L, the Riot Games brawler in development.
Today Riot Games has published a new Dev Diary relating to Project L, a developing fighting game, featuring a video over six minutes long that showcases many new gameplay features. The Dev Diary is presented by Tom Cannon, Executive Producer, and Shaun Rivera, Game Director & Gameplay Design Lead of the game.
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A look at the gameplay: The gameplay of Project L is fast, dynamic, and flexible. Movements are fluid and varied, attack moves use "big buttons" (i.e. simple moves with high impact), and abilities have clear defensive counter-moves.
Preview of the Tag system: Alongside the main systems, which are easy to learn but hard to master, are some features that support Project L’s gameplay. The three highlighted systems (all names are WIP and not final) are:
"Assist Actions" (non finalised name): The moves the support champion can perform off-screen. Each champion has two, and some can be charged for a "charged assist".
"Handshake Tag" (unofficial name): If both samples are on screen at the same time, you can instantly switch between them to extend combos or save a low-health sample.
"Dynamic Save" (unofficial name): Project L’s “combo-breaker”. Dynamic saving allows you to interrupt a combo and push the opponent back, but if you’re too predictable, it can be effectively countered.
There are many other gameplay details still to be revealed about Project L, many of which are already shown but not explored in depth in the video.
In addition: At the start of the video, an update on a new champion, Illaoi, is shown. Also, a new set, at Ionia, is displayed.
Finally, Tom Cannon, our executive producer, wants to encourage members of the fighting game community (FGC) to share links to upcoming events, programs, and activities they’d like to promote to the wider community to help new players find a local scene, with the promise of further information about the upcoming game in 2023.
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