Summary
- League of Legends is adding a new PvE mode.
- League of Legends experimented with cooperative game modes like Doom Bots and Star Guardian's Invasion in the past.
- Riot Games has unveiled a Bullet Heaven-style survivor PVE mode for League of Legends, offering a casual take on the game with a unique gameplay experience.
League of Legends developers announced plans to add another PVE game mode. The upcoming mid-year event for League of Legends promises to provide plenty of new content for Riot Games' popular online multiplayer online battle arena, with new events, balance changes, and a visual update for Lee Sin.
Though League of Legends is primarily known for Summoner's Rift's 5 versus 5 format, it has dabbled in cooperative game modes before. Most notoriously, Doom Bots previously pitted players against AI-controlled champions, with the twist being that these enemy characters were given ridiculously unbalanced abilities and were assisted by a gigantified Devil Teemo at the end of every match. Star Guardian's Invasion and the Odyssey: Extraction events additionally played with elements of cooperative bullet hell-style gameplay, wherein a team of players would have to fend off wave after wave of enemies while simultaneously avoiding an unending tide of projectiles. Now, Riot developers teased more details about another completely new PvE game mode, which is set to come out at the same time as the looming mid-year update.
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Developers Selena Liu and Eduardo Cortejoso touched upon Riot Games' upcoming League of Legends projects, which included a brief glimpse at a planned PvE bullet heaven-style survivor. Cortejoso additionally revealed players can tackle the yet-to-be-named mode either by themselves or with a group of friends and that the gameplay experience will feel notably different from previous PvE events, though the developer also did not elaborate on the possible changes.
Not much is known about League of Legends' upcoming PVE feature. However, developers gave fans a brief look into the feature's ongoing development with a screenshot that depicted the champion Jinx surrounded by a horde of enemies, an image reminiscent of other Bullet Heaven-style games. The game mode was announced back in the January 2024 developer's update, and it was reportedly designed to be a more casual take on League of Legends -- one that was intended to be less tense than the Arena's chaotic 2v2v2v2 duels while still providing a unique core gameplay experience.
League of Legends' Hit or Miss Game Modes
It remains to be seen if the planned Bullet Heaven survivor PVE will resonate with League of Legends' player base. The MOBA has seen the rise and fall of multiple game modes since it was released in 2009 with only 17 champions. While some like Ultra Rapid Fire and One For All have found success with the community, it should also be noted that several of those featured modes either only ever return for short periods of time or were dropped entirely from the game due to low player populations.
League of Legends
- Released
- October 27, 2009
WHERE TO PLAY
League of Legends is one of the best MOBAs in the world, allowing players to duke it out against each other or bots in a variety of game modes. There are tons of champions to choose from in LoL, with favorites like Yasuo, Graves, Nasus, Poppy, and more, with new champions like Vex and Viego recently joining the crew.
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
- Developer(s)
- Riot Games
- Publisher(s)
- Riot Games
- Engine
- Proprietary
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- League of Legends
- Platform(s)
- PC, macOS
- Genre(s)
- MOBA
- Metascore
- 78
