A new Dev Update video from Riot Games shares some of the upcoming content for League of Legends. A team of developers have shared an update on the game’s Arena mode, Lee Sin’s upcoming Art and Sustainably visual update, and a new “bullet Heaven Survivor PvE game mode for League of Legends during this year’s summer event.”
Vampire survivors was such a big hit that it inspired a slew of spin-off titles from other franchises, like the recent one Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Also called an autoshooter, the genre features a character who moves around the map dealing with endless swarms of oncoming enemies while periodically collecting upgrades and stat boosts.
The summer event was a typical time for Riot to try out some new feature-packed game modes, including the visual novel starring the well-known protagonist League of Legends champions like magical girls from Star Guardian, or the Ruination Lore event in the main canon of Runeterra.
Riot will release more information about the changes to the Arena game mode in a developer blog next week, but we’ll have to wait a little longer to learn more about the new PvE game mode. Riot has dabbled in PvE game modes before, including those tied to the alternate universes Star Guardian and Odyssey. It remains to be seen if this gaming event will include any of the existing lore in the game League of Legends lore, but it seems we have the Vampire survivors formula not quite there yet.