2XKO Panel Important Info

Riot Games is using Evo 2024 as a huge playground for feedback, as well as the marketing opportunity for 2XKO, their upcoming fighting game. Executive producer Tom Cannon and Game Director and Gameplay and Design Lead Shaun “Unkoncable” Rivera talked on some of the topics many of the fans are interested in.

Here are some of the most important points:

• The game will be free, as well as all the characters in it. You will have to grind “for a bit” to unlock them, though (and we imagine, you will have an option) to simply buy them anyway.

• Monetization will be talked about more in the future, but for now we know that the game will have paid skins and chromas (alternative colors) for them, as well as a battle pass.

• The game was going to be based on the P2P network initially, but after the switch to team-based structure, it was decided to move to server-based rollback for more stability, as 4 players will be in a match at the same time.

• Katarina, shown in the very first gameplay video for the game, will not be in the base roster. Jinx is still there, and will be presented soon enough.

• Riot Games doesn’t intend to come in and take over the FGC esports. The game will focus on the grassroots events support, as well as higher-level tournaments.

• The game will launch in more of a barebones state, and more game modes and characters will be added later.

• The main focus right now is to finish next step of the development and launch the public alpha.

Honestly, our excitement knows no bounds and we can’t wait to get our hands on it!