[2020] AMA | 1.5.0 and Reforged

Originally posted by Ze_Deviljho

Will the next weapon be a bow?

Yes I know it’s not about reforged but it’s been eating away at me!

Originally posted by Darkmight6

Not a question about Reforged, but i hope all of you are having a nice day

Originally posted by PianoCrab196963

are the islands going to eventually spawn frost and radiant variants when frost and radiant escalation come out? or are there going to be new islands for those?

Originally posted by theallseeingpotato

So how about that Frost Escalation? You do know its winter and almost Christmas...

Originally posted by ihovo

Will you rework the dropbox system, so we can use it more than once per island to switch our equipment?

Originally posted by llMagicianll

Can we get a repeaters buff?

Originally posted by Handrax1251

Why does sky fishing say shelved? I hope you didnt scrap the idea

Originally posted by Ichigatsuu

Are there any plans for breakparts in end game where you have all weapons etc. And don't need them? Selling for rams, or something new?

Originally posted by TheMajestickKitty

Will the weaopn leveling become easier? I think that after every reforge you should get an xp bonus for that weapon so that you can go back faster :P

Originally posted by b33fm1lk

Do you think escalation bosses could be special events for the higher level islands

Also (off topic) but would you ever consider adding more dye channels like for example the regular hellion gear has that silver metal that you can’t dye and adding a forth dye channel so that we can dye it

Can we get rewards for getting high reforge levels like after 10 or something like an exclusive weapon skin or dye or crown just something to work for cause a 5% power boost is basically nothing

Originally posted by serveringalloy43

Is fresca planned for this hp yet? Seems kinda a waste to not get it with all the frost stuff on this update

Originally posted by SirKeksalot

A lot of people clearly don't like the reforging system, and I attribute this to how it really just feels like you lose something in the short term without a super meaningful compensation. In exchange for all the offensive and defensive power you spent so much time working for, you get one aetherheart, which only provides a comparatively small power bonus for one piece of gear and one or two perk points for one perk; a permanent buff from the Path if you're at a certain number of reforges, which you don't get with every reforge; and a rather small upgrade to some icon nobody ever sees.

Going forward, how do you intend to address this? Because, going forward, you can either make the grind less and less time-consuming the more reforges you do, or you can make each reforge feel more valuable, and each route will bring its own pros and cons.

I ask this because we clearly need a compromise between where you want to take this game and where most of us want it to go. If reforging is here to stay, it needs to be rethought, because right now, it just feels bad to throw away your hard work for such low short- or long-term compensation.

Originally posted by viperkilgannon

Will you be reassessing the compensation player got for the progress made pre 1.5.0 as most endgame players are having issues with not getting even close to enough resources for the work they put in? Any talks about a change to reforgeing ie not having to grind 20 levels or making that grind quicker?

Originally posted by WildRynoMk2

On the Slayers Path, there appears to be 3 different types of glider frames. Are these supposed to individual gliders that we can choose from, or are they stacking upgrades for the glider in general?

Also, would it be possible to have the Keystone Behemoths spawn in the Hunting Grounds as specials events, or are they going to stay exclusively to Escalation?

Originally posted by ttrixy

Have you guys considered an overflow xp system? I have made a suggestion but got no response alas. If no, why not?

You can read the entire idea right here!

I would love to know your input, as this would make the grind much more enjoyable for many people. No need to make it shorter or anything, just fun to do imo.

Originally posted by Russta

1. Can you please consider removing stamina from gliding? At the very least give us more juice.
2. Plunging attacks? It somehow feels wrong to not be able to release and hit the enemy when over them
3. Any chance of making chests appear on the compass once somebody has located it?
4. Can you allow supply chest to regenerate over time?

Originally posted by -HulkNorris-

Is there any updated info about the missing migration escalation break parts?

Originally posted by Brainzaw

Are there gonna be any NEW Monsters in the future?
Not just some elemental reskin or Escalation boss :)

Originally posted by chankster9

For slayers who had armor gear in the +11-+14 range, are there plans to give us a meaningful way to regain our strength??? (we didn't receive aetherhearts for this tier of equipment)

Originally posted by rainycakee

I can ask super serious questions but instead I'll ask this question that I personally care about.

Why do gliders use stamina at all? Sprinting when your weapon is out costs stamina because it would be used in combat. Why do the gliders need to use stamina?

Oh and since bounty tokens are super important now, are they still gonna be reset after the hunt pass or are there different plans for that?

Originally posted by Magnamarak

is the weapons rework still happening? The sword rework was a success, so i wanna see what could be done with Hammers and repeaters.

Originally posted by MrFrettz

How seriously has the dev team been considering decoupling armor strength from weapon skill level?

Originally posted by Darkmight6

Not a question about Reforged, but i hope all of you are having a nice day

Originally posted by FluffyPhoenix

What do you think the strongest and weakest part of 1.5 are?

Originally posted by BossofMASS

While I love the hunting grounds my biggest issue with 1.5 that makes me frustrated to play is the fact that +3 armor perks are now locked behind reforging.

Before 1.5 I could still run full +3 perk builds with my armor at +10. Now getting +3 perks or even slightly upgrading lower level armor that is considered "tier 1" is locked behind a reforge and getting my weapon back from 1-20 again. To upgrade an entire build would take a massive amount of time.

Would it be possible to consider a mid ground upgrade alternative to make the +3 perks available outside of a reforge and powersurge? Thank you!

Originally posted by Pwague

Do you plan on adding gliders to ramsgate, I know a lot of people want this

Originally posted by mixout99-

Do you plan to make party limits to 6? or possibly make private hunting grounds?

I enjoy playing with strangers but occasionally like to keep to just my friends. would love to make my group 6 people instead of 4.

Originally posted by Yenna1557

Are there any plans to add an “open 10” cores (open multiple cores) or something along those lines. It’s so much easier to get cores now, so an addition like this would make things a lot easier!

PS: I had over 600 cores before reforge and now it’s just getting out of hand 🤣

Originally posted by Manujiiva

Can we get another way to get aetherheart outside reforging? , because i am getting tired of nerfing myself and going back to beginner state over and over :,)

Originally posted by Alternative_Safe_407

First of all, I would like to say that I loved this new type of hunting and opens up incredible possibilities for gameplay. So, I would like to know: is there any possibility of adding missions with the direct participation of NPCs? We saw an example of this on Hunting Grounds with the new NPC. It would be amazing to see NPCs helping slayers to face Behemoths. Some escort missions would also be incredible, like: escort Granny Strega from point A to point B. Placing some creatures during the journey and some behemoths. This would give the game a lot of immersion and give NPCs greater depth. In advance, I thank the developers for responding.

Originally posted by P_alladium

Reformed seems like it took quite a lot of time to develop from start to finish. What's the next big goal in mind for Dauntless? Could we be getting something new other than Escalations?

Originally posted by iaeration

Will there be more Borders for Reforge level after 50?

Originally posted by Brainzaw

How come GLIDERS were added but not sky fishing?
Would love fishing more than gliding around. Especially when we have the vents, to jump around

Originally posted by Paradox_Wolf

Does the team honestly believe they were erring on the side of generosity with the transition of players' items to this new update?

Originally posted by rockfroszz

Will the Slayer's path tree contain more ways to get power when we get more difficult content in the future, or will power come from gear at that time.

Originally posted by Yenna1557

Are there any plans to add an “open 10” cores (open multiple cores) or something along those lines. It’s so much easier to get cores now, so an addition like this would make things a lot easier!

PS: I had over 600 cores before reforge and now it’s just getting out of hand 🤣

Originally posted by P_alladium

Reformed seems like it took quite a lot of time to develop from start to finish. What's the next big goal in mind for Dauntless? Could we be getting something new other than Escalations?

Originally posted by jonathanhighwind

Are there any plans for what us slayers can do with the abundance of extra behemoth parts we dont need. In hunting grounds it we constantly get to see all these parts we are earning, but eventually they aren't something to look forward to receiving. Being able to sell them for rams once again would be a simple solution, but I've also thought about being able to toss them into the reforge machine to compress them into an aetherheart. You would simply toss the parts in until the meter filled completely and then maybe have it cost some aethersparks as well. Higher rarity parts could increase this bar more effectively. This would help alleviate the complaint that there needs to be more than one way to earn aetherhearts, particulary one that doesn't require a grind that may feel overly tedious for some players that don't want to keep reforging their weapon or leveling different ones. I also think it feels more natural for the this genre too, as it generally is built around increasing your character power through gathered and earned crafting materials rather than a leveling system.

Originally posted by mixout99-

Do you plan to make party limits to 6? or possibly make private hunting grounds?

I enjoy playing with strangers but occasionally like to keep to just my friends. would love to make my group 6 people instead of 4.

Originally posted by scrubtonian

Is there a way to reach 600 or 700 power to align with Trials power levels? I feel like it's currently capped at 540

Originally posted by -SpaceShorts-

Now that reforged has been delivered, what do you plan to work on next, aside from escalations?

Originally posted by xXMyMeanAccountXx

Before 1.5.0 I had a lot of gear at +10, which gave me +3 perk economy for each item. Once we got 1.5.0 that gear was taken away, and I no longer had access to the gear/perk combo that I had before. Why was it determined that I no longer deserved the gear/perks that I had earned?

Originally posted by craftyninja227

Could there be a slayer's path-type type upgrade system for guilds? It would work if you are planning a customizable guildhall. Any news for guilds is also fine :)

Originally posted by LuigiSavior

Do you think Dauntless will ever reach the same level of recognition as Monster Hunter?

Originally posted by MrFrettz

A lot of players were initially put off by the large of effort required to unlock some of the most expensive nodes in the Slayers' Path, as well as the disconnect between the small (at times) benefit of Power Surging a weapon vs. the amount of effort to level a weapon back to 20.

Can you talk about the purpose of these systems (long-term goals vs. immediate rewards) in theory vs. how they have turned out in practice, a week into 1.5?

Thank you!

Originally posted by Hercules0W

What inspiration did you use when it came to designing the landscapes of the isles for the stronger behemoths?

Originally posted by VorrtaX

Hello. Are you aware of the ever returning Chainblade Q-ability jump bug that is now more present than ever before? I recorded a video of it and will upload it to youtube if you don't know what I am talking about. Basically, I get stuck midair about 90% of the time I try pulling myself back onto the Behemoth. This bug is most apparent in the Hunting ground, less in escalation. (It even happens on the Training grounds, which is where I recorded the video) and I think it is related to a certain amount of players in the lobby as well as a specific build combination.

Originally posted by the_math_problem_guy

Pleeeeeease give us more rams and why the heck do behemoths not give you rams? It's been a think forever. And please also a better way to get patrol keys. That would be pretty sick.

Originally posted by NickyNicklas

I feel like we should get a slight exp boost from reforging our weapons. I've been playing a bit of payday 2 lately, and it has prestige mechanincs too. It is way more enjoyable to prestige because of the slight exp boost you get. Is there any chance we could something like it?

Originally posted by thedeathecchi

Will you be working on fixing the UI in the Hunting Grounds? It’s harder to locate teammates than it should feasibly be, especially when they’ve been downed and the indicator disappears when they’re in the sight line. Will the party limit also be expanded to include 6?

Originally posted by Gangsterbra123

Will the weapon xp grind to get aether hearts be decreased a bit so it can be more bearable or could it be possible that we do not lose our overall power when we reforge as it stops you from being able to do most activities such as escelation 10-50 if you can only use one weapon.

Originally posted by wulf2468

Account-based time out issues, when bug fix?

Originally posted by Xardas_88

When will we get the missing materials from escalations? Please take into account i don't just miss the parts from crafted items, i also miss the parts i saved for a possible 8th weapon. Before the patch i had crafted: all legendary armor pieces, all legendary weapons for each kind of weapon and saved for a 8th one (8x4 escalations).

Originally posted by Szymon205HK

Will there be more island variation, and will there be any higher difficulty islands in future?

When new behemoths? (escalations don't count)

Will you please make the islands bigger, or at least add some smaller islands around the main one?

Originally posted by WeeSpeckyFella

Immortality bug makes the game pretty trivial right now. Feel scummy for using bulwark tonic right now whenever it goes off and switching islands to remove it isnt the best experience. ETA on a fix?

Originally posted by azbybsv2

Since the hunting grounds can reconnect to ramsgate and new sessions fast why do trials still take forever to load/retry?

Originally posted by 123qwet12

Can you look at the cell crafting system? I feel like the 2 day crafting time is a bit much, especially if you only have one slot which buying more is a bit pricy at 500 plat. It's really stagnated my progression due to having no good cells and that was before the 1.50 rework, which I feel has really trapped me even more. I can't get an aetherheart without reforge and I can't unlock reforge because I need to earn weapon exp and the only good weapons I have are strikers, but I can't reforge them to start earning weapon exp in order to unlock reforging.

Originally posted by WeeSpeckyFella

Immortality bug makes the game pretty trivial right now. Feel scummy for using bulwark tonic right now whenever it goes off and switching islands to remove it isnt the best experience. ETA on a fix?

Originally posted by unilordx

Any updates for players who are stuck with everything greyed/disabled and are unable to play at all except running around Ramsgate?

Originally posted by Maxenin

is there any thoughts from the team about not being so severely handicapped when you reforge? feels bad going back to level 1 each time. Other than that, I know its too soon after the rollout of this system but do you have any loose goals for the release cadence of new islands of hunt grounds or adding events to the existing ones? In additions I wanted to say thanks I have my issues with the update (Mostly that I have to reforge multiple times to get my armor sets back to the +3 they had compensation WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH) however, the hunting grounds feel very good and theres less down time which is really nice.

Originally posted by Threef

Why there is a snow on the forge building?

Originally posted by BatInSpandex

Are you looking to tweak burning/fire damage? Even at max 20, and with Iceborne, this hits much harder than it did pre-1.5

Originally posted by Duff-Zilla

Are we going to get more things to do in Ramsgate? After I've collected all they daily stuff I just don't know what to do with myself.

Originally posted by Lucari10

Will there be additional ways to get aetherhearts? If reforging is the only way to get them it'll be kind of unfair that old players got dozens of additional ones that new players will never be able to get. Also, are there any plans to increase exp gain on higher reforge ranks? After promoting in other games it usually gets considerably easier to level back up, but it doesn't feel like that in dauntless.

Originally posted by Agar_ZoS

Can you please add a map of the world where we can clearly see where each esca and hunting ground is; The current setup isn't the most immersive imo

Originally posted by DragonFire7125

Is there a chance of ever getting a neutral escalation? It would be pretty interesting 😂

Originally posted by Dragonhawk999

Will Shock Escalation be receiving unique behemoths like the other escalations? As the oldest escalation new behemoths might add some incentive to go back and try it out.

Originally posted by Xannthas

Just two questions:
1. Are there plans for the exotic weapons/armor to get reworked to be more useful/fun? 1.5 made reforging them almost worthless, too, so they get left even further behind.
2. What are you going to do about the heart/shard/ram economy? Practically 100% of the playerbase thinks the economy is totally busted right now.

Originally posted by Jhairce

It is noted that weapon experience gained from a behemoth 5 levels above you is going up to 225 for patch 1.5.1. However, the issue of having no way to fight behemoths 5 levels above you is almost impossible once you reach lvl 15+ due to hunting grounds not spawning high enough behemoths stays afloat.

Is this issue getting addressed as well?

On a second note: New experience values now make it so killing a behemoth 5 levels above you is worth slightly more than a bronze bounty. However, silver and gold bounties are still worth A LOT of grinding time.

Do you think the value of a bounty token is gonna be on a better (balanced) spot post 1.5.1?

Finally, the core gameplay loop, to me, feels a few hundreds of orders of magnitude more fun than pre-reforged. The biggest issue that remains is that there are ZERO restrictions/ruleset for WHO can enter the different gamemodes. This inevitably leads to a very poor user experience for everyone involved. Im inclined to believe this was an oversight, but it does bring up the question:

What is the plan of action to take on this issue? Is there a runner up that you can share with us?

Originally posted by GreatMadWombat

Could I suggest, in order

1. Making the reforges a bit faster/less dependent on bounties? A major part of the contention around the reforge(besides the whole "temporary loss of power" thing) is that the difference between a 1-20 playthrough where you have a large amount of tokens and a 1-20 without those tokens is significant. If a baseline reforge was like..3 hours of play and a bountied reforge was 2, that would feel a heck of a lot better.

"I stop working at 5pm, I eat dinner at 6, I log onto Dauntless, reforge, and I've experienced every island by the end of my gaming time" feels a hell of a lot better than "I reforge and I'm doing this thing all week to upgrade 1 item".

and/or

1. Put some system in place where two friends of different levels can play together in a satisfying way. If I'm logging on and my sword is lvl 14, and everything else is 20, and my friend is logging on, and they're just starting out in the game, either I'm reforging to play with them, or I'm pausing my time ingame to help my friend catch up. Neither option feels good

Originally posted by -SpaceShorts-

Players that had functional sets of +10 gear have to do a lot of grinding now to get back to where they were before the update. You took that work away from them. They should be compensated for their time, unless you want to keep losing players because they feel that you can just take away the hours they put into the game at any time.

Originally posted by wulf2468

Repeaters are already boring, since they have no combos. You just hold attack to fire and spam the 2 abilities when they are off cooldown. The modular system at least made it possible to build the type of gun you wanted. Element, UE, abilities. If that's removed, repeaters are going to be even worse in the fun category. Unless you're talking a full rework, which I feel like repeaters are last on the list of weapon reworks.