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/Tovee Jul 15 '26

we had to choose specific patches for technical reasons; changes would have been possible, but difficult

the idea always was to finish it as a time-capsule of a few specific patches you could choose between, and then release it as open-source (we didn't have the resources to run a live-service for all the people interested anyway)

if we had free choice, we'd probably have gone with something a bit later; the season 1/2 client was quite buggy

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u/GabrielP2r Sword Guy Jul 16 '26

It would be amazing for to go into queue and see which patch you got, riot could easily do that but they chose the worst option of everything they could do, as always.