Where is TFT right now? Teamfight Tactics struggled in early 2021 with a rather weak Set 4 and later with an equally mediocre Set 5. The mechanics were not well received by many players and randomness played far too big a role, even away from the selection of champions.

This changed with the current Set 6, which generated a lot of positive reactions:

• The set seems more balanced and has less focus on randomness
• The first promo tournament got good crowds despite low prize money
• The set brought back big streamers William “Scarra” Li and Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang
• In general, TFT also made gains on Twitch, cracking the 140,000 concurrent viewers mark for the first time in November 2021 since its release in July 2019, and that’s despite the 2021 World Cup already taking place in October (via Sullygnome).

The game has also made decent gains in terms of content. Thus, the Hyper Roll was released at the beginning of 2021. This is a kind of turbo mode in which matches last only 15 minutes and everything generally runs much faster. A little later, a special Spectator Mode for tournaments was implemented.

At the end of the year, the Double Up mode was launched as a beta. There you play in a team of 2 and can help each other out with champions and items. However, if one player drops out, the match ends for both.

What does the boss of the game say about TFT? Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer is the lead developer of TFT and regularly shares matches and glimpses of the future on his YouTube channel.

In his big year-in-review, he reveals that TFT 2021 has grown in the number of players and developers, and is also set to get content for decades to come (the relevant part starts at 1:12:10).

TFT to get some kind of 2.0 version, has firm plans for the next 3 years

What is planned in terms of innovations? As Mortdog reveals in the video, the developers are working on a kind of 2.0 version of TFT. This is not supposed to be a new game, but rather a further development of TFT:

I remember that Meddler [Anmerkung: Andrei van Roon, der Vice President von League of Legends] said, “We need to find a TFT 2.0.” I think this year has moved us very much in that direction in many ways. There will be some announcements early next year that I think will show what we are talking about.

According to Mortdog, there should already be a concrete plan for the next three years and for quite a few new sets. TFT is supposed to continue not only for years, but for decades, even if they could only implement half of their plans.

To that end, the developers have also increased the size of the team:

We have more people. We have a leadership team, new engineers, new artits, new designers. It feels like we’re moving up in 2022.

Already planned for 2022 are the release of Set 6.5 in February and the release of Set 7. One of these sets will include the character Silco from the Arcane series. In addition, there will again be some tournaments per set and a world championship, which already included a prize money of $250,000 in 2021.

Mortdog also emphasized in his video that he reads daily complaints from players who want better balance, bug fixes or a better mobile version. He sees a lot of potential to make TFT even better in the coming years.

What do you guys have to say about Teamfight Tactics? Have you played it in the last few weeks or did you quit at some point? What do you like and what do you dislike about the game? Feel free to write it in the comments.