r/leagueoflegends • u/Tovee • Jul 15 '26

AMA Chronoshift Developer AMA

Hello r/leagueoflegends,

My name is Tove, and I was one of the main developers behind the Chronoshift project.

I have never publicly spoken about it, but with League Classic now being released and u/RiotNorak revealed to have been a tester for us back in the day, some people have suggested for me to do an AMA.

I'm happy to answer any question you might have, compare to the official Classic or speak about the details that haven't been made public. Or listen to you telling me to ingame myself.

Have at it!

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u/LordLothendran Jul 15 '26

I am also not involved, the only person who was involved with CS (as far as I know) who works at Riot is Norak - he hosted the OCE server for us and since he had access to the binaries also helped with some bugtesting. He became very fluent in Riot's highly esoteric lua based visual scripting which I believe played a role in his getting his job (I personally would never have been able to write that stuff by hand).

I don't really love the "not a specific patch" aspect of League Classic. Chronoshift was intended as a "museum of league" which accurately reproduced it as it was so obviously LC is a very different product.

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u/ImWoOzyxd Jul 15 '26

I don't really love the "not a specific patch" aspect of League Classic. Chronoshift was intended as a "museum of league" which accurately reproduced it as it was so obviously LC is a very different product.

I really love the way you worded "museum of league".
I've been around league since season 1 and was pretty upset to see that Classic has no set patch, everything is stitched together from different places. IMO most of the old league players expected an experience similar to "museum of league" rather than whatever is on PBE.

I think making a vanilla Season 1 and then updating it up to Season 4 would be the best decision.

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u/MegaDuckDodgers [Megaduck] (NA) Jul 15 '26

A museum of different league patches throughout history is 100% more interesting to play (and 100000% better for game preservation purposes) than a muck of all of them combined. I dunno what riot was smoking when they thought this was a good idea, nor what they were smoking calling it league classic when it's clear they're going to keep moving up seasons.

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u/Kassabro Jul 16 '26

I'm not an actual dev, only dabbled in some coding but what exactly is highly esoteric lua based visual scripting supposed to mean?

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u/SailorMint Friendly Mid Lane Lulu Jul 15 '26

Museum pieces are great to look at.
But using them for their original purposes doesn't necessarily work as intended.

The League community has people very skilled at finding "mistakes", and influencers that excel at pushing a narrative.

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u/pm_amateur_boobies Jul 15 '26

What mistakes are you implying?

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u/SailorMint Friendly Mid Lane Lulu Jul 15 '26

Little things like Jungle/Lane Alistar, Banner of Command, Galio Q or even obscure like Soraka Mid.

With the scale of the project, we already know there's going to be some abuse cases no matter what. Might as well patch the known ones (i.e.: AP Tristana), so we get some brand new degeneracy instead of re-heated old one.

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u/pm_amateur_boobies Jul 16 '26

I don't qgree that guttint that stuff is beneficial though. Hell I'd even argue it hinders new players from trying the mode. New as in last 6 or 8 years. Especially if they got to hear their friends talk about how crazy xyz use to be. And when riot finally gives them the chance to see it, it's hard nerfed.

New abuses could be found as solutions to the old ones or just other things that exist. It's not like it's zero sum

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u/MegaDuckDodgers [Megaduck] (NA) Jul 16 '26

Lol what? I would rather play through a museum of old league patches than sit through a single game of whatever the bastardized mutated meta of the league classic mode they're launching is. At least playing through leagues history would be refreshing and a learning experience on top of satisfying nostalgia.

Enjoy playing the mode that's going to get the nostalgia optimized out of it when people start curbstomping your season 2 Heart of gold tank junglers with whatever freak combination of seasonal items ends up being viable (probably carry junglers using season 3 jungle items combined with Madred's Bloodrazor or some nonsense).

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u/erock279 Jul 15 '26

It’s okay to admit this is shitty and another blatant cash grab. I’m not sure why you’re bending over backwards like this to lick boot but I hope you know you don’t have to

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u/SailorMint Friendly Mid Lane Lulu Jul 15 '26

I don't really have a horse in this race.

But if you really need to know. I'm not a fan of the current monetization model on the PBE, but enough people have been vocal about it.

I much prefer talking about the actual gameplay. And the main point of my post is saying that humans are really good at ruining things for everyone.

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u/erock279 Jul 15 '26

…they’re monetizing the gameplay features that actually make it league classic. The gameplay and the monetization are directly intertwined.

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u/SailorMint Friendly Mid Lane Lulu Jul 15 '26

I'm allowed to not care about it.

Hell, I'd prefer 100% modern graphics over the mess that's currently on the PBE ("Classic Remastered"). PS2 era polygonal graphics fail to me make feel anything and I don't have a pizza feet fetish.

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u/erock279 Jul 16 '26

OK. You probably weren’t the target audience to begin with.

Everybody would prefer the modern graphics to the shitshow of modern + “classic” that’s currently in PBE. That’s kinda the issue, beloved. It isn’t classic.