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| 1s | good afternoon everybody and welcome |
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| 4s | back to another last Epoch de |
| 7s | stream as usual I'm your host Mike |
| 10s | hello how how's everybody doing today |
| 14s | feeling good feeling |
| 16s | fine you may |
| 19s | notice I remembered this week medic I |
| 23s | remembered and definitely not cuz Aaron |
| 26s | reminded me like 20 minutes ago I swear |
| 28s | okay fine Aon thank you for reminding me |
| 29s | like 20 minutes ago |
| 31s | uh and I may still use |
| 34s | my |
| 36s | uh keyboard and mouse a little bit here |
| 38s | and there |
| 40s | but we're playing on a controller today |
| 43s | we're we're going to give a shot we're |
| 44s | going to see what happens um the one one |
| 46s | problem that I do have here is that uh |
| 49s | the button layout that it's showing me |
| 51s | on screen is for an Xbox uh |
| 54s | controller and you may notice this is |
| 56s | not an Xbox controller layout we are |
| 59s | using a |
| 62s | switch controller |
| 65s | layout so I might get a little confused |
| 67s | from time to time I |
| 73s | apologize oh that's that okay |
| 78s | yep I may have to switch my uh my my my |
| 82s | key my my control layout |
| 86s | here uh just so just so I you |
| 89s | know can figure my stuff out a little |
| 92s | bit all |
| 98s | right okay what this is this is okay |
| 101s | that's that's death seal that's good all |
| 104s | right cuz yeah n none of the none of the |
| 108s | keys uh cor relate one to one I don't |
| 111s | think right |
| 115s | now but that's just because I've uh set |
| 118s | things up terribly on my for trying to |
| 120s | play other games uh with controller so |
| 123s | we're going to have some fun with it |
| 124s | it's going to be going to be good screen |
| 125s | I'm going to die a bunch I've got I got |
| 127s | stuff for when I die it's going to be |
| 129s | great it's going to be great I'm looking |
| 130s | forward to it I hope you all brought |
| 131s | some wonderful questions today if this |
| 133s | is your first time here welcome glad to |
| 135s | have you with us my name is Mike I'm a |
| 137s | senior developer for 11 th games in last |
| 139s | Epoch and uh I'm going to play some |
| 141s | games while I answer your questions if |
| 143s | you have a question you'd like me to ask |
| 144s | answer please put at last Epoch game in |
| 147s | the question so I know you want me to |
| 148s | answer it ultim I'll get behind it's all |
| 152s | good um and what else oh yeah we stream |
| 155s | for charity boom Child's Play It's Our |
| 157s | charity of the |
| 160s | month okay I'm going to die here this is |
| 163s | going to happen I should probably go to |
| 164s | an easier spot cuz I'm not as good with |
| 165s | the controller as I am with keboard |
| 167s | mouse yet just cuz muscle memory is not |
| 169s | there yeah |
| 174s | there's okay um I do I really like it |
| 178s | like I I just need to get my muscle |
| 179s | memory down um and and like everything's |
| 183s | going to be |
| 185s | great I'm just it's so ingrained in my |
| 188s | brain I think I need to |
| 191s | change main attack from right trigger |
| 194s | cuz my fingers are going to get tired at |
| 195s | this |
| 204s | rate I was kind of nice with like reap |
| 207s | and harvest on the |
| 209s | triggers well |
| 210s | see what I |
| 212s | do death will not take |
| 216s | me I almost |
| 219s | want transplant on left bumper though |
| 222s | cuz that way I'd have like both my |
| 223s | movement abilities on that like right or |
| 225s | that left index |
| 227s | finger there's going to be a little bit |
| 229s | of me figuring out how to do this |
| 233s | properly all right we do have a question |
| 235s | here good evening Mike good |
| 237s | evening uh |
| 240s | Don't Die |
| 243s | Mike it is also a little trickier to |
| 245s | keep up with questions CU I won't have |
| 246s | my hand on my keyboard and mouse and the |
| 248s | scrolling is not easy to keep up with |
| 251s | sometimes but today might be a little |
| 252s | slow we'll see we'll see uh good evening |
| 255s | Mike my question today is in regards to |
| 257s | collaboration and what you personally |
| 259s | would like ooh I like personal questions |
| 262s | um if oh to to a degree uh if given the |
| 264s | chance to collaborate and integrate an |
| 267s | outside Universe lore and characters |
| 269s | into last epoch with respect to staying |
| 271s | true to ich G's |
| 273s | vision and lore what Universe would you |
| 275s | like to bring into a tera in my mind |
| 277s | something like the Warhammer fantasy |
| 279s | series or The Witcher Universe would be |
| 281s | good air quotes examples of universes |
| 285s | collabing H very interesting question |
| 288s | one that I thought of many |
| 291s | times um I think it's really I think |
| 295s | it's really tricky to come up with like |
| 297s | a version that like that actively works |
| 300s | mostly cuz we're pretty small like in |
| 302s | the grand scheme of things um lasty is |
| 305s | not some Mega this button yeah it's that |
| 309s | button figure it out first try it's not |
| 310s | some like Mega franchise yet yet |
| 315s | um so so the like the the realistic |
| 317s | options are tricky I think um but |
| 322s | like P in the sky whatever whatever say |
| 325s | it goes you know just like just go for |
| 327s | it |
| 328s | Mike um I I think it would |
| 331s | be and and I I know I'm dancing on this |
| 334s | topic the topic is fairly uh personal |
| 337s | for me right now because I play a lot of |
| 340s | magic uh and there's a lot of uh stuff |
| 343s | happening |
| 344s | regarding |
| 347s | um I IP collaboration in Magic right |
| 350s | now good and bad um and so it's it's |
| 355s | it's it's a tricky topic I think for me |
| 358s | right right now to like separate my my |
| 359s | own own feelings from from that a little |
| 362s | bit uh I think like Chrono Trigger is |
| 367s | the is the easy answer here but it still |
| 369s | I think would be great cuz like I think |
| 371s | you could put so many similarities you |
| 373s | could and you could like almost talk |
| 377s | about like other worlds other versions |
| 379s | of of reality and like I I think it's I |
| 382s | think you can almost make it fit because |
| 383s | they are like ones ours so inspired by |
| 387s | uh Chon trigger I think there there's |
| 388s | there's a lot more room there |
| 392s | um has but but then yeah but then like |
| 396s | there's there's some other ones that I'd |
| 397s | love to see too and and I think having |
| 398s | some that are a little less on the nose |
| 400s | might be good too I don't |
| 402s | know it's a good question I like |
| 407s | it I don't think I'd be super quick to |
| 410s | like jump into bed with um some Modern |
| 414s | Mega franchise like Marvel for example |
| 418s | um |
| 422s | but maybe like I mean how do you say no |
| 423s | to something like that right like if if |
| 425s | they came to us and we're like we want |
| 426s | to do a collaboration like okay right |
| 429s | like how do you turn that |
| 431s | down um so I don't know I think there |
| 433s | there's lots of really great options |
| 436s | um something simple if it was just like |
| 439s | a I I I don't know uh like like a a |
| 442s | weapon a single weapon that showed up in |
| 444s | the game of ours and a single weapon |
| 445s | that showed up in the game of theirs or |
| 446s | something like that or even if it like |
| 448s | wasn't an explicit reference but it was |
| 450s | just like a oh it's kind of like it fits |
| 452s | and we each do the sort of thing to like |
| 453s | cross over the games um like Zelda would |
| 456s | be would be a oh my god really yes uh |
| 460s | type situation for me |
| 463s | personally turn the heat off in my |
| 465s | office is getting |
| 471s | warm okay I need to figure out a |
| 475s | way to scroll chat from the controller |
| 479s | worthless anyway I Noe not that button |
| 482s | uh here's the here's the how do you open |
| 485s | your inventory this one this one this |
| 487s | one NOP uh this one nope this one nope |
| 491s | uh I know I can do it this way I I |
| 494s | thought there might be a hockey there we |
| 498s | go um no wrong |
| 501s | thing this is just me not knowing the |
| 503s | controls right now come on get this |
| 506s | button |
| 511s | [Music] |
| 515s | there it is okay I got it no problem |
| 530s | fixed okay yeah that makes |
| 532s | sense uh and quick move to stash is X |
| 536s | which is |
| 538s | y tab is full |
| 543s | we're not we're not we're not figuring |
| 544s | out how to add new tab |
| 556s | uh to keep things |
| 558s | moving cuz I'm just not familiar with it |
| 562s | yet it's been a while I I don't think I |
| 564s | played uh with a controller for more |
| 567s | than just like hey let's test and make |
| 569s | sure this abity |
| 570s | Works um like actual full play sessions |
| 572s | with the controller since we did the |
| 574s | like pry sizable update to the controls |
| 579s | gem it feels so much |
| 583s | better just got to get that muscle |
| 585s | memory down oh this going to be |
| 588s | great okay hey Mike any updates on merch |
| 593s | uh I did talk to someone about it I I |
| 596s | have been following up this is not |
| 597s | something that i' let laps and just and |
| 599s | just walked away from um I I don't have |
| 604s | any I didn't get any firm information so |
| 606s | I'm I still don't know anything |
| 611s | um but I know there's it's not just me |
| 614s | that's being like come on let's do it |
| 616s | come |
| 619s | on there are champions on your side |
| 630s | oh thank you very much medic has resed |
| 634s | wonderful and arrow Weir too 18 months |
| 637s | oh it's a big one and ail oh my goodness |
| 640s | 17 months and and Vapor Vader has raided |
| 643s | us what is going on here I just missed |
| 645s | all of them am I just am I just |
| 646s | oblivious I am thank you so much |
| 649s | everybody was |
| 653s | tight uh thank you for trying a |
| 656s | controller you are |
| 657s | welcome I'm curious medic is the um I |
| 660s | I'm curious on the motivation around uh |
| 663s | wanting me to try controller so bad cuz |
| 665s | I know you've been really vocal at me |
| 667s | wanting me to try controller for like a |
| 668s | month now um so I guess I'm curious is |
| 671s | this you play with controller and you'd |
| 673s | like me to experience it so I maybe fix |
| 675s | something uh or is this you're wondering |
| 678s | how it plays and you want to see me play |
| 680s | with it before you possibly get a |
| 682s | controller or uh like like what's what's |
| 684s | the what's the hey I want to see |
| 686s | controller gameplay really badly |
| 688s | motivation for you personally I'm |
| 694s | interested oh |
| 699s | wonderful I'm really liking |
| 702s | it like like every second longer that I |
| 704s | play it's just like a little bit cleaner |
| 706s | a little bit smoother feels |
| 710s | good mer stuped wi oh I hope |
| 718s | soon I need to get some I need to get |
| 720s | some bigger shirt or smaller |
| 726s | shirts swimming in this 2XL |
| 734s | now oh it's the harest SP I didn't even |
| 737s | look this is so this is such a like |
| 740s | getting getting a um a shrine that |
| 743s | matches your primary damage ability is |
| 745s | so |
| 748s | good uh just feels amazing you're like |
| 750s | all right I guess I've just got Auto |
| 752s | attacks |
| 755s | now your death has |
| 761s | come picked up an extra thing there |
| 763s | thank you very much we gift a sub to |
| 767s | Kane Community manager needing Subs |
| 769s | gifted from the community what's going |
| 771s | on thank you very much I appreciate |
| 774s | it as always alter charity as well so |
| 777s | it's good |
| 778s | anyways um |
| 780s | uh uh hi Mike any updates on road map uh |
| 785s | nothing as of yet sorry to |
| 789s | say |
| 791s | um I know I know I know it's still being |
| 793s | worked on |
| 799s | um I'd love to get like even just an ETA |
| 802s | on like when a new Ro Maps cuz cuz there |
| 804s | like we're going to we're going to |
| 805s | refresh the road map I I don't think |
| 806s | that's a surprise to anyone at this |
| 808s | point um like it probably is but anyone |
| 811s | who's uh probably in here paying close |
| 813s | attention is probably not a big surprise |
| 816s | too um |
| 819s | and I don't know when that's going to |
| 821s | happen I hope |
| 823s | soon cuz I love I love getting info out |
| 827s | there and Kane's gifting the subs |
| 829s | forward congrats risen oh |
| 832s | risen o okay don't die |
| 836s | Mike going do a death seal just a pop |
| 839s | dots going |
| 847s | off the targeting system |
| 851s | for um bone |
| 856s | curse is really |
| 859s | frustrating um it's not that I'm |
| 861s | exaggerating quite a lot it's it |
| 863s | actually works fine with the build cuz |
| 864s | I've got the auto recast on melee um so |
| 867s | when I start meleeing things it like |
| 868s | Auto recasts in place anyways but I'm |
| 871s | finding that like it's casting way far |
| 873s | away and not hitting anything so it |
| 874s | needs to actually like have a little |
| 875s | smarter targeting which is exactly the |
| 877s | sort of thing we're working on for |
| 878s | controller uh inputs right now is skill |
| 880s | specific smarter targeting um so so um |
| 884s | bone curse is going to have a uh |
| 887s | different targeting options based on how |
| 889s | you specialized it and it's going to |
| 890s | modify how it targets enemies based on |
| 892s | how you specialized it as well so it's |
| 894s | um going to be a lot better hopefully |
| 896s | soon |
| 923s | that's what happens when you inhale |
| 924s | water whoa |
| 933s | sorry about that my |
| 936s | goodness I went right down the wrong |
| 940s | pipe oh calm |
| 945s | down uh hey Mike from one person that |
| 949s | works at a computer to another hello |
| 952s | what are ways that you avoid SL remedy |
| 954s | carpal tunnel at the office while |
| 956s | creating the |
| 957s | game uh |
| 960s | I'm actually you know I so so I I don't |
| 963s | actively consider carpal tunnel as |
| 965s | something that needs to be um oh no like |
| 968s | this |
| 969s | is that's something that needs to |
| 973s | be reformed to save my |
| 976s | life uh that's something that like needs |
| 978s | to be |
| 980s | done i' I've never had issues with |
| 983s | repetitive strain injuries um and |
| 985s | something I should probably pay closer |
| 986s | attention to in all reality but uh not |
| 989s | so something that I've I've ever taken a |
| 992s | very responsible look at myself |
| 995s | um however as I as I was about to say |
| 998s | all that I had reperform too as I was |
| 1001s | about to say that I realized that I have |
| 1003s | a standing desk uh and I spend uh right |
| 1007s | now I spend about 6 hours a day standing |
| 1010s | and then another like 3 or 4 hours a day |
| 1012s | sitting um and so like I think that and |
| 1017s | and it's not like all in a big Clump |
| 1018s | I'll do like 2 hours and 1 hour and 2 |
| 1020s | hours and 1 hour type thing and I think |
| 1022s | that like the angle that my wrist is at |
| 1026s | like when I'm sitting is probably |
| 1028s | different than the angle that my wrist |
| 1029s | is at when standing I don't know what |
| 1030s | that angle is um but I bet that change |
| 1033s | is like enough to just like make it so |
| 1035s | it's not really a big issue for |
| 1038s | me so I think I'm just really |
| 1044s | lucky open the door it's really hot in |
| 1046s | here |
| 1058s | oh it's like borderline concerning the |
| 1060s | the the difficulty I was I was having |
| 1062s | like breathing there for a |
| 1067s | second we good now |
| 1070s | though all right hey M have a nice |
| 1073s | stream thank you very much uh I have a |
| 1075s | question for |
| 1076s | corruption uh can you tell us how much |
| 1079s | corruption has the best difficulty to |
| 1081s | drops ratio |
| 1083s | um well it's it's not a uh linear scale |
| 1088s | but it is a smooth |
| 1089s | scale |
| 1093s | um so it's it it all depends there's |
| 1096s | there's a solid answer to this there's |
| 1097s | not there's not a number I can say um |
| 1099s | cuz it all depends on how fast you uh |
| 1103s | you actually can complete individual |
| 1107s | Echoes so let's say you've got |
| 1112s | um there's me discovering the evade |
| 1115s | button so let's let's say you you're |
| 1117s | able to uh increase your corruption so |
| 1120s | that you get 100% more uh more stuff |
| 1123s | dropping like so your drops are |
| 1124s | increased by |
| 1127s | 100% um now if that if you can do |
| 1130s | that faster |
| 1133s | than uh half as |
| 1137s | fast like if if it didn't if if youve |
| 1139s | doubled your drops but you didn't double |
| 1140s | your time so like if the ratio of time |
| 1144s | of of average Echo completion time is |
| 1146s | not going |
| 1148s | up uh faster than the rate of your |
| 1151s | increased drop rate is going up then you |
| 1153s | should increase corruption more um so |
| 1156s | it's it's a bit of an experiment Point |
| 1157s | you're going have to find for every |
| 1160s | character um and I think for a lot of |
| 1164s | like I'd say like the typical build um |
| 1167s | with like a an like experienc the RPG |
| 1170s | player and like uh with with like a a a |
| 1174s | good endgame build but not one of the |
| 1176s | like broken op builds um I think you're |
| 1179s | probably looking in and around that like |
| 1182s | 3 to 500 corruption range depending on |
| 1185s | many factors but that's that's probably |
| 1188s | where the top end sort of caps out for a |
| 1190s | lot of players I think |
| 1193s | um which is good because that's where we |
| 1195s | stop adding new stuff to the game uh |
| 1198s | from just like corruption break points |
| 1200s | on things for example there's uh like |
| 1202s | you don't get any new um new blessing |
| 1205s | selections per uh per boss kill and and |
| 1209s | you don't get any new um like there's |
| 1212s | not new items that start dropping or new |
| 1214s | like boss item Kill Boss kill items that |
| 1216s | start dropping things like that so |
| 1217s | there's |
| 1219s | um it's kind of naturally designed to |
| 1222s | hit those similar break points |
| 1233s | hey Mike Aaron says I have to ask a |
| 1236s | normal question today Aaron party |
| 1240s | pooper so is there any info on the |
| 1242s | campaign expansion people have been |
| 1244s | asking for it I assume so they can ask |
| 1246s | to skip |
| 1249s | it yeah I mean so the |
| 1252s | um I don't I don't have any updates |
| 1254s | specifically on uh the eventual uh |
| 1257s | campaign update uh the only information |
| 1259s | that's out there on the um the next step |
| 1262s | of the campaign is what we put out in |
| 1263s | the uh in the now out out of dat road |
| 1266s | map um that showed uh some ancient era |
| 1270s | teases for um campaign |
| 1276s | updates uh yes the road map is |
| 1278s | significantly out of date now um death |
| 1280s | has come |
| 1283s | and uh we are still working on the |
| 1285s | campaign there's there's it's |
| 1286s | interesting so there's there's a lot of |
| 1287s | things |
| 1289s | you may if you've been let me start |
| 1291s | again for like the fifth time in the |
| 1292s | sentence sorry if you've been around |
| 1295s | watching last for a little while you |
| 1296s | probably remember uh we've done a |
| 1299s | few uh big chunks of campaign updates |
| 1303s | that have |
| 1305s | happened when it's sort of gone from |
| 1307s | like uh Hey wow the the quality level of |
| 1308s | most of the campaign just took a big |
| 1310s | jump forward um and like there's still |
| 1313s | there's still room for improvement for |
| 1314s | sure and usually one of those big jumps |
| 1317s | coincides with some new piece of |
| 1319s | Technology we've invented not invent uh |
| 1321s | developed um for the game |
| 1326s | um invented sounded weird cuz other |
| 1328s | games do similar things in most of the |
| 1330s | situations so but yes developed for |
| 1332s | lasto specifically |
| 1335s | um and uh we're kind of in the middle of |
| 1338s | doing that more right now as well we're |
| 1341s | we're focused on improving the gameplay |
| 1343s | experience for the campaign um and the |
| 1346s | game in general so that um I think and |
| 1349s | this this is a very big conversation |
| 1350s | about the campaign skips that you |
| 1352s | mentioned as well that people often |
| 1353s | bring up is that um I really want to |
| 1357s | improve that campaign experience and the |
| 1359s | gameplay experience as a whole um just |
| 1361s | so that |
| 1362s | the like even if we do decide to |
| 1365s | hypothetically put some sort of um |
| 1368s | alternate leveling experience into the |
| 1369s | game uh that the campaign is still |
| 1371s | awesome that we're not putting that |
| 1373s | experience into the they're not putting |
| 1374s | that if we were to put that alternate |
| 1376s | leveling experience into the game IE |
| 1377s | campaign skip it's not because the |
| 1380s | campaign sucks it's because we just |
| 1383s | think there's another cool thing to add |
| 1385s | and |
| 1387s | um because because adding that because |
| 1390s | the campaign's not good enough I don't |
| 1392s | think is a good reason that makes any |
| 1394s | sense um and I think we are more than |
| 1397s | capable of getting the campaign to a |
| 1399s | point where um you know like going |
| 1403s | through the campaign a fresh character |
| 1404s | each season season that's |
| 1406s | like um me |
| 1409s | will will will be fun and interesting |
| 1411s | and uh and and like different enough |
| 1412s | each time that it's like hey there's |
| 1414s | this experience is varied and fun and |
| 1417s | you know like it's it's not just a a |
| 1419s | chore that you have to do at the start |
| 1420s | of each of each new season or something |
| 1422s | like |
| 1424s | that um and we're looking at all sorts |
| 1426s | of options and ways to make to improve |
| 1427s | that um but also improve the |
| 1431s | like other stuff too that goes with it |
| 1434s | around like making new characters and |
| 1435s | stuff and we I I think we've shown that |
| 1436s | we are trying to improve that experience |
| 1438s | especially for making alts um with the |
| 1440s | changes we made to to end game and you |
| 1443s | know like with with other changes |
| 1444s | that'll be coming too um I think there's |
| 1446s | there's a lot of room for improvements |
| 1448s | to the system overall um that we are |
| 1451s | targeting before uh directly releasing a |
| 1454s | new campaign I |
| 1457s | think or or sorry sorry before we try to |
| 1460s | do a uh alternate like leveling |
| 1464s | experience that makes sense |
| 1481s | all |
| 1483s | right hey Mike hi uh hope you're doing |
| 1488s | good I am doing good thank you for |
| 1491s | asking hope you're doing good |
| 1495s | too oh uh fun new |
| 1499s | just popped in my head so I'm just going |
| 1500s | to say it right now I'll answer your |
| 1501s | question in a second sorry uh we are um |
| 1506s | we we are moving forward with getting |
| 1507s | new people uh as as as other ehg staff |
| 1511s | on uh as co-hosts for the stream um |
| 1516s | mostly mostly it's just like a a like a |
| 1519s | guest spot for for one stream or two |
| 1520s | streams something like that um so people |
| 1522s | can like come in and uh hang out get a |
| 1524s | taste for it see if they like it and |
| 1527s | uh you know people can get a chance to |
| 1530s | ask some some new people questions cuz |
| 1532s | they'll have awesome answers to topics |
| 1535s | that I just say I don't |
| 1538s | know and we'll we we'll try and announce |
| 1540s | ahead of time who that's going to be |
| 1547s | um that was close I think I just came |
| 1550s | really close to dying |
| 1555s | there all right uh with for/ r and |
| 1559s | people being sometimes negative and just |
| 1561s | want more and more and more and now they |
| 1562s | call the game Dead how are you guys hope |
| 1564s | it is the right word uh coping and |
| 1567s | staying positive I only love you guys Le |
| 1570s | is amazing have a good future in airG |
| 1573s | space thank you very much um there is a |
| 1575s | like uh how do I say this marketing |
| 1577s | works really really really well uh if if |
| 1581s | it's done right I know nothing about it |
| 1583s | but like um there there is a very |
| 1587s | noticeable difference |
| 1589s | in |
| 1592s | um player count based on marketing I |
| 1595s | think that's I think that's something |
| 1596s | that |
| 1597s | is uh something that I |
| 1599s | underestimated in that uh before we |
| 1602s | started this and we haven't really done |
| 1605s | a ton of marketing since 1.0 launched um |
| 1610s | the marketing the marketing that went |
| 1612s | out for 1.1 was Tiny by comparison tiny |
| 1615s | tiny tiny tiny tiny um |
| 1618s | and so I think |
| 1620s | it's understandable why on on the |
| 1622s | outside looking it might look like we're |
| 1625s | uh like what like the game's just |
| 1628s | naturally falling off on player count |
| 1630s | which it is the the player counts |
| 1631s | compared to 1.0 obviously significantly |
| 1633s | lower |
| 1635s | um but I don't think it's |
| 1637s | unexpected um and I while I have no say |
| 1641s | over the how the marketing system works |
| 1643s | whatsoever uh if I had to guess I would |
| 1646s | expect there to be based on most mostly |
| 1648s | mostly based on like the what's |
| 1650s | happening at 1.2 and how long it's been |
| 1651s | since a major release and things like |
| 1653s | that I would expect the marketing uh |
| 1655s | plan to be significantly more prominent |
| 1658s | than it was in uh |
| 1661s | 1.1 um so I'm hoping that that |
| 1665s | is uh going to going to assuage all the |
| 1669s | fears that people have |
| 1671s | regarding |
| 1673s | um longevity of the game cuz I'm quite |
| 1675s | confident I'm going to be here for I |
| 1677s | you're you're going to try a lot harder |
| 1678s | than that to get rid of |
| 1679s | [Laughter] |
| 1683s | me medic you answer my question |
| 1685s | wonderful thank you very much uh play |
| 1687s | controller you play controller |
| 1689s | exclusively and there are abilities I |
| 1691s | wish that could be better not a fan of |
| 1693s | the uh State leap is in and if I get Deb |
| 1696s | to look at it may fix it ah okay great |
| 1698s | that was that was one of my one of one |
| 1699s | of the options that I thought you might |
| 1700s | be hoping for well I'm not playing the |
| 1704s | specific one you're having issues with |
| 1705s | but I can tell you that that is the |
| 1707s | exact sort of thing that we are |
| 1708s | targeting for our next controller update |
| 1711s | is |
| 1714s | um uh fix uh skill specific targeting |
| 1717s | systems for controllers so that they are |
| 1719s | smarter the the short version just um |
| 1726s | yeah because yes traversal skills are |
| 1728s | especially traversal skills that are um |
| 1732s | uh Target or position |
| 1734s | targeted |
| 1735s | are very tricky to do with a control |
| 1739s | like that that's transplant and it goes |
| 1740s | like half the distance of what |
| 1742s | transplant could |
| 1746s | do so we'll we'll we'll see uh how it |
| 1749s | all shakes out and it's is going to be |
| 1751s | something that once we do release that |
| 1752s | first version of it and we have the the |
| 1754s | system the underlying system we're |
| 1755s | building for it has a um a a three tier |
| 1759s | targeting priority so there's um each |
| 1763s | ability will get one primary targeting |
| 1766s | we're creating a bunch of new targeting |
| 1767s | methods for controllers |
| 1770s | so like uh nearest enemy largest clump |
| 1773s | of enemies uh farthest enemy within a |
| 1777s | range |
| 1778s | um you know just uh fixed distance in |
| 1781s | front of you |
| 1783s | um like there's there's all sorts of |
| 1786s | different variants we're doing for all |
| 1787s | these things and like when we come |
| 1789s | across a new uh a new ability that we're |
| 1791s | like hey this one doesn't really fit |
| 1792s | into the existing ones we make a new one |
| 1794s | for it um and so every skill will have |
| 1796s | like a primary one and if there's no |
| 1798s | valid Targets on the primary one it'll |
| 1799s | go to a secondary one if there's no |
| 1801s | valid Targets on the secondary one it'll |
| 1802s | do whatever it does now at with the |
| 1804s | controller that's the fallback um and |
| 1807s | then as you select nodes in your skill |
| 1809s | tree it'll be able to pick out new |
| 1812s | um it'll actually actively change the M |
| 1815s | the mutator for the abilities will |
| 1816s | change what you are what those targeting |
| 1818s | priorities are um based on which ab |
| 1821s | which nodes you've taken like if you've |
| 1822s | taken a channeling node suddenly the the |
| 1824s | targeting changes if you've taken a um |
| 1827s | like a turns off Ral turns on traversal |
| 1830s | uh those will all affect the targeting |
| 1831s | systems that are used at priority and um |
| 1835s | I think there's going to because there's |
| 1836s | so many abilities and so many nodes that |
| 1838s | can change that there's going to be ones |
| 1840s | we miss in the first pass we're we're |
| 1842s | going to be relying heavily on uh QA and |
| 1844s | then the CT program to get as many of |
| 1846s | those but like there's combinations of |
| 1849s | abilities that someone won't just won't |
| 1851s | play because there's so many |
| 1854s | combinations of abilities um just |
| 1856s | someone will miss one of those |
| 1857s | combinations and |
| 1858s | um so we are going to be looking heavily |
| 1860s | at feedback when 1.2 comes out for um |
| 1865s | specific skill combinations and node |
| 1868s | selections that don't work quite as well |
| 1870s | as we' hope it to um and we'll be |
| 1873s | updating those individually on the |
| 1875s | fly so I would expect I can't guarantee |
| 1878s | but I would expect some of the first hot |
| 1879s | fixes from one do to include some of |
| 1881s | these um targeting updates |
| 1889s | Med it continues I have carpal tunnel |
| 1891s | and it's been a God sent to me after |
| 1892s | converting to |
| 1894s | controller I uh want the world to try it |
| 1899s | yes can I just keep playing if I don't |
| 1901s | click over there oh I can that works |
| 1906s | nice um like crafting materials so we're |
| 1910s | going to go this |
| 1911s | way hey hi I asked to stream many months |
| 1915s | ago and thought I would toss this one at |
| 1917s | you again any plans on when the |
| 1919s | Cosmetics store will see some |
| 1921s | new items specifically Cosmetics for |
| 1924s | abilities and |
| 1925s | spells uh I'm All About The Bling and |
| 1928s | 99.9% of endgame to me is |
| 1931s | bling hey fashion show endgame is a real |
| 1933s | thing uh in in many many games uh so I I |
| 1938s | I fully understand where you're coming |
| 1941s | from um we are very actively working on |
| 1946s | uh new Cosmetics right now the next time |
| 1948s | they'll come out is probably not until |
| 1950s | 1.2 so |
| 1951s | q125 um but there are quite a few |
| 1958s | um |
| 1960s | and at least one new |
| 1963s | category of |
| 1965s | Cosmetics |
| 1970s | um yeah I think I say that sure I |
| 1972s | already said it so I guess I have to one |
| 1974s | new category of Cosmetics will be |
| 1976s | included as well |
| 1978s | so when I say category of Cosmetics I |
| 1980s | mean like helmet would be a category of |
| 1982s | cosmetic like one of the one of the |
| 1984s | slots that's in |
| 1989s | there in that |
| 2002s | UI I think it's just one at Le I'll say |
| 2005s | at least one might trying to think if |
| 2007s | there's more than one the least |
| 2014s | one out of gills St try breath water ah |
| 2017s | never you can't make me um all right can |
| 2021s | we plan on a more uniform launches every |
| 2023s | 3 months every 4 months or will it be |
| 2024s | more along the lines of when uh ready |
| 2026s | season comes out you know um we |
| 2029s | definitely have oh no come on come on uh |
| 2033s | what's what is it that's potion found it |
| 2037s | um |
| 2039s | I was bleeding out there I had no idea |
| 2041s | what my potion key |
| 2042s | was H okay um reliability of |
| 2048s | um uh content release intervals is uh |
| 2052s | something we we've I think struggled |
| 2053s | with a little bit since since 1.0 came |
| 2055s | out it was something we were actually |
| 2056s | really good at before 1.0 came out |
| 2060s | um and and as we're growing we've had to |
| 2062s | adopt some new um some new systems |
| 2066s | and uh you know it's there's a bit of a |
| 2069s | learning curve on getting on getting |
| 2071s | that to be a little more smooth we are |
| 2073s | we we've been aiming for that same uh 3 |
| 2076s | to four month window this entire |
| 2080s | time um I think we'll have |
| 2084s | more uh I think we'll have a better |
| 2086s | image on how we're going to approach |
| 2088s | that timing um consistently after 1.2 |
| 2096s | drops all right I know it's ear in your |
| 2098s | stream you any teasers for later I do |
| 2100s | have teasers for later I do I have I |
| 2103s | actually brought two teasers this time |
| 2106s | yeah they're really good ones |
| 2112s | too well they're my favorite type of |
| 2114s | teasers put it that way some sometimes |
| 2115s | people don't like this type but I love |
| 2117s | this it's my |
| 2126s | favorite you have lost the spell |
| 2128s | speculate |
| 2132s | on and part part me doesn't want to post |
| 2134s | too early cuz I don't want to have to |
| 2135s | dodge questions about |
| 2139s | them but we'll we'll get one up not too |
| 2141s | long here we we'll let it sit for a |
| 2143s | little |
| 2145s | bit all right remember to add me to the |
| 2148s | Ping yes please put at lasty game in the |
| 2150s | question so I know to answer it CU see |
| 2153s | how people have side conversations St |
| 2154s | like that |
| 2165s | come on get some heals a too slow |
| 2171s | Mike reperform is an interesting Beast |
| 2174s | I've been I've been thinking about it a |
| 2175s | lot lately and the like popping out of |
| 2177s | Reaper form and sitting in human form |
| 2180s | for so long |
| 2182s | is uh It's Tricky if you if you fall out |
| 2184s | in the middle of a an |
| 2186s | echo it's very cuz I'm so vulnerable |
| 2189s | right |
| 2205s | now |
| 2212s | okay and I'm I'm like been trying to |
| 2214s | find a way to make it cuz so you kind of |
| 2217s | have to put a cool done on it because |
| 2218s | Reaper is it's a ghetto jail free card |
| 2221s | you cannot die when you're in Reaper |
| 2223s | form so there has to be |
| 2225s | some uh some something you |
| 2234s | know don't the best way to do |
| 2238s | it uh will melee minions be air quotes |
| 2242s | fixed so they don't just Stack Up and |
| 2245s | only kill enemies one at a time um |
| 2249s | um that is too this is a tricky one |
| 2251s | because it does it implies the the |
| 2253s | creation of an existent like a uh a |
| 2258s | collective controller for uh for minions |
| 2262s | something that says like like coordinate |
| 2264s | so they're like hey you3 go that way and |
| 2267s | you two go that way um each minion right |
| 2270s | now is actively controlling itself and |
| 2273s | picking out a target for itself it |
| 2274s | doesn't have someone um deciding where |
| 2277s | it's going to go for |
| 2279s | it which also means that it doesn't know |
| 2282s | what every other minion is |
| 2294s | targeting and I'm also thinking as well |
| 2296s | like sometimes you really want your |
| 2298s | minions to focus fire the same |
| 2303s | Target and having them be smart enough |
| 2306s | to to know which like |
| 2309s | nodes you have selected that like |
| 2311s | determine if you want it to be Focus |
| 2313s | firing or |
| 2316s | not that's |
| 2321s | [Music] |
| 2329s | tricky yeah I don't know the best way to |
| 2331s | to improve |
| 2333s | [Music] |
| 2336s | that but I don't think we have any major |
| 2338s | changes for for like a group |
| 2339s | Consciousness like a a hive mind or |
| 2342s | something like that to start |
| 2347s | working |
| 2349s | right any updates on the dragon |
| 2354s | class no I have no information on any |
| 2357s | potential uh new classes coming |
| 2364s | sorry that was a fun conversation last |
| 2366s | stream but I I don't want anyone to |
| 2368s | um get ahead of themselves on on |
| 2371s | anything we were talking about it's |
| 2373s | mostly just for |
| 2380s | fun all |
| 2385s | [Music] |
| 2389s | right more questions Mike hi Mike |
| 2394s | hello uh a few months ago I felt like uh |
| 2397s | I felt that the greatest and lowest |
| 2399s | values in the tiers were rolling less |
| 2401s | often than others uh now I don't feel it |
| 2404s | is something changes in the random or |
| 2405s | was I unlucky yes something did change |
| 2407s | in the way randomization was |
| 2412s | calculated you were right it was uh |
| 2415s | rolling middle numbers more frequently |
| 2417s | than higher |
| 2423s | numbers or lower numbers and now it's |
| 2427s | more uh more more evenly |
| 2430s | distributed all right I recently came |
| 2432s | across a last Epoch discussion video uh |
| 2436s | and on the topic oh is game balance I |
| 2438s | was wondering about your definition of |
| 2440s | class and game balance oh my gosh |
| 2446s | um h a definition okay let's let's let's |
| 2449s | try and craft the definition for game |
| 2451s | balance right now your death has come so |
| 2454s | what's the goal when trying to balance a |
| 2456s | game the goal when trying to balance a |
| 2457s | game |
| 2458s | we're going to do this we're this off |
| 2459s | the top of my head I I I'm not going to |
| 2461s | claim this is the correct answer or the |
| 2463s | official answer uh to this question uh |
| 2466s | but we're going to see what we come up |
| 2467s | with and we'll give you my personal |
| 2469s | answer on the |
| 2470s | Fly um so I think it is creating an |
| 2476s | environment in which players have the |
| 2480s | opportunity to express |
| 2483s | creativity uh |
| 2485s | and Gain |
| 2489s | advantages over the |
| 2493s | um the naive case that's not bad |
| 2499s | actually so when I say the naive case |
| 2501s | it's a player who um has no experience |
| 2504s | with the game uh picks things at random |
| 2508s | uh it's kind of like uh I like red so |
| 2510s | I'm going to pick Fireball cuz Fireballs |
| 2511s | red um you know like like not taking |
| 2514s | game balance into consideration like the |
| 2515s | opposite of M maxing so if you're if |
| 2517s | you're really trying to just do whatever |
| 2520s | um having having opportunities in your |
| 2522s | decision making to get to get edges over |
| 2525s | players like that so that there is uh |
| 2527s | and this requires imbalance in a system |
| 2528s | because if a balance if a system is |
| 2529s | perfectly balanced um it doesn't |
| 2532s | actually matter what you pick because |
| 2534s | every decision is every option has the |
| 2537s | same maximum potential um so you you you |
| 2540s | you want imbalance in the game but |
| 2542s | having that |
| 2544s | imbalance um be I guess carefully |
| 2547s | curated is is what's going to get a a |
| 2550s | fun and interesting system to play in |
| 2553s | um so yeah I I can't some someone |
| 2556s | clipped that cuz I think it was actually |
| 2558s | a good |
| 2560s | sentence and I can't remember exactly |
| 2562s | what I said now but I think it was |
| 2563s | pretty |
| 2564s | good I'm I'm going to I'm just going to |
| 2566s | move on cuz I I think that's |
| 2569s | uh I think I'm happy with that somehow |
| 2573s | there's probably okay there's probably |
| 2574s | some I'm thinking that there's probably |
| 2576s | some like random game design like extra |
| 2579s | credits video extra credits is fantastic |
| 2580s | if you've ever seen them um that that |
| 2584s | probably said something very similar to |
| 2585s | that and it's probably just like coming |
| 2586s | out of the back of my brain um so I may |
| 2589s | not have come up with that off the top |
| 2590s | of my head I don't know where I came |
| 2591s | from if I |
| 2597s | didn't all right I see a few Doritos in |
| 2600s | the beard |
| 2605s | really I haven't had Doritos in years |
| 2613s | um actually thought I just |
| 2617s | uh was looking pretty I I did |
| 2621s | have some like shredded carrots with my |
| 2627s | lunch maybe there's like a little piece |
| 2628s | of carrot in my beard I hope |
| 2635s | not now you got me all self-conscious |
| 2637s | with my we having stuff in it oh |
| 2640s | gosh not trying to win any food eating |
| 2642s | contests |
| 2645s | here I love that guy |
| 2648s | um all |
| 2655s | right |
| 2657s | ooh couple distinguished |
| 2661s | ones death has come |
| 2667s | okay more questions Lots here I'm ready |
| 2670s | uh how long before 1.2 releases will you |
| 2673s | announce a date 1 month two months I |
| 2675s | don't know um I hope I hope |
| 2679s | uh I I |
| 2682s | like it's it's a tricky balancing act on |
| 2685s | when to announce stuff like that because |
| 2691s | um you want to stay flexible enough that |
| 2694s | if something goes wrong or really right |
| 2696s | you can adjust um but there's but having |
| 2699s | that information out as soon as possible |
| 2701s | is probably the best thing for the |
| 2702s | community |
| 2706s | um so |
| 2708s | like it's it's delicate delicate |
| 2710s | Balancing Act I'd love to be able to to |
| 2712s | give like a tentative date right now cuz |
| 2715s | we we know probably within like a 3- |
| 2718s | week window of of where it's likely |
| 2720s | going to be I think at this point |
| 2724s | um you know given given no other changes |
| 2727s | in in what's happening around the the |
| 2729s | market and that sort of stuff and like |
| 2731s | uh no major problems and things like |
| 2732s | that so so like I'd love to be able to |
| 2736s | uh to be a little bit more like yeah |
| 2738s | it's probably going to be run this time |
| 2740s | like more narrow than 3 months but get |
| 2742s | it down to 3 we window I think would be |
| 2743s | really |
| 2745s | nice um but it's really tricky to do |
| 2747s | that because |
| 2752s | um you know if you're ever in a |
| 2754s | situation where you change what you've |
| 2755s | said on a release date it's not great |
| 2759s | right |
| 2762s | um so keeping that window vague until |
| 2764s | you know for sure is the safe |
| 2775s | bet okay |
| 2778s | uh word on the street is MTX skills |
| 2781s | coming to the shop for season 2 can you |
| 2783s | confirm I can neither confirm nor deny |
| 2785s | that at this time |
| 2793s | but just hypothetically if there |
| 2795s | was uh like a skill MTX a skill that |
| 2799s | you'd really love to see have |
| 2801s | MTX I'd be interested to know what that |
| 2803s | would |
| 2813s | be these little munchkins |
| 2818s | spawning dudes making it so I can't pick |
| 2821s | stuff up so I got to sort my |
| 2831s | inventory I will have Vines I will have |
| 2840s | satisfaction |
| 2845s | okay we're out of the woods |
| 2849s | let's hope that doesn't count as using |
| 2850s | an |
| 2851s | ability transfer |
| 2855s | sort we we'll check it out eventually |
| 2857s | okay sure we'll grab that we'll grab |
| 2859s | this I'm going to get another question |
| 2863s | going and we're going to change this |
| 2866s | screen so I stop seeing stuff |
| 2870s | scrolling mat you know I'm streaming oh |
| 2874s | my |
| 2876s | gosh no oh this |
| 2883s | one but I put down the |
| 2886s | controller all right uh okay ever |
| 2891s | thought about allowing Falconer to |
| 2893s | replace the Falcon with a cosmetic pet |
| 2895s | yeah absolutely um like the the insta |
| 2899s | best-selling cosmetic of all time on our |
| 2902s | store would be a phoenix Falcon |
| 2904s | replacement like that's I I don't think |
| 2906s | I don't think anyone is under any |
| 2908s | Illusions to the contrary like it would |
| 2911s | it would be immediately |
| 2918s | popular I I don't think anyone's |
| 2920s | actively working on that right now but |
| 2922s | like if if you said hey Mike snap your |
| 2925s | fingers and there's a specific MTX in |
| 2926s | the store it can be anything you want |
| 2927s | that's what it would be uh all right hi |
| 2930s | Mike please tell us that q125 is January |
| 2933s | and not longer I refuse to give you any |
| 2935s | information on the spe specific timing I |
| 2939s | apologize uh once there is a large list |
| 2941s | of cosmetics in the game will we |
| 2943s | eventually see discounts on small groups |
| 2945s | of Cosmetics every so often I think yeah |
| 2947s | I think I I don't know for sure I think |
| 2949s | sales uh like cosmetic sales for things |
| 2952s | like that is a pretty common practice |
| 2953s | for um like a bundle pack or something |
| 2956s | and like a hey you know this has been |
| 2958s | sitting on the store for a couple years |
| 2960s | and um May maybe it's less popular but |
| 2964s | we we'll bundle it together with all |
| 2965s | these and they're all half off or |
| 2966s | something like that I don't know I I |
| 2967s | feel like that's a a thing you do in a |
| 2969s | store like in a physical store anyways |
| 2971s | right like it's it's the same thing as |
| 2973s | like uh so many things um I I I don't |
| 2978s | see why not um but there might be some |
| 2981s | reason I don't know of why not you know |
| 2983s | we have the |
| 2986s | technology which is all I really get to |
| 2988s | concern myself with on melee minions |
| 2991s | they could just decide based on how many |
| 2993s | other minions NPCs are already targeting |
| 2995s | it they don't have that information |
| 2997s | unfortunately so we'd have to have a |
| 2999s | central hive mind that that tracks what |
| 3003s | everything is |
| 3004s | targeting and the way that the targeting |
| 3006s | system works in the game is it's |
| 3008s | actually uh it's it's kind of every |
| 3011s | single time that they go to use an |
| 3013s | ability uh they pick a new Target right |
| 3015s | then they they reselect their target |
| 3017s | with each ability use um so it's not |
| 3019s | like a hey I'm targeting this enemy I'm |
| 3021s | going to use abilities on it it's hey |
| 3024s | I'm going to use this ability who's my |
| 3025s | Target and so that like list of who's |
| 3029s | targeting what |
| 3031s | changes |
| 3033s | um it's it's not really it's not really |
| 3035s | consistent you know there's not like a |
| 3036s | sticky targeting thing um I mean we we |
| 3040s | could like we could maintain a list of |
| 3042s | like the the most recent enemy that each |
| 3045s | minion has targeted um like P like |
| 3048s | report that back to the caster and then |
| 3050s | when they go to like to to try and grab |
| 3051s | a Target having to check that list I |
| 3054s | think there's |
| 3055s | like I I feel feel like there's |
| 3057s | performance concerns happening somewhere |
| 3059s | on that chain |
| 3062s | um and I feel like there's also like |
| 3064s | weird interactions that would happen |
| 3066s | like unexpected and like individual |
| 3071s | minions would just like run off in |
| 3072s | search of a new Target in situations or |
| 3074s | something like that like it feels |
| 3077s | messy but maybe awesome so um there's |
| 3080s | possibly room for something great |
| 3085s | there I do really like the idea of of |
| 3087s | getting a little bit smarter AI I also |
| 3089s | like the idea of uh some AI having these |
| 3093s | like smart things to them and other ones |
| 3096s | like intentionally not uh you know I |
| 3099s | kind of like the idea |
| 3101s | of |
| 3103s | um I don't know enemies enemies just |
| 3106s | being like skeletons for example being |
| 3108s | just like really |
| 3110s | dumb |
| 3112s | um and just having no sense of what to |
| 3115s | do or or you look at the other way and |
| 3117s | it's like um the skeletons are maybe |
| 3120s | should be the smartest ones because |
| 3122s | their actions are completely controlled |
| 3124s | by the thing that summoned |
| 3126s | them go over here and get this get you |
| 3130s | back and and so like like oh uh because |
| 3133s | because the the acolytes actually what's |
| 3135s | controlling the skeletons um like |
| 3137s | psychically or something that they they |
| 3140s | they're perfectly coordinated and it's |
| 3142s | the uh the companions |
| 3144s | who um are are less coordinated because |
| 3148s | they're like they're all they all have |
| 3150s | their own personalities and egos or |
| 3164s | whatever yeah there there there's room |
| 3166s | for some some like logic oh my goodness |
| 3169s | I'm just getting my but handed to me |
| 3174s | here okay Mike actually Dodge things |
| 3177s | don't stand in the fire purple is |
| 3183s | bad |
| 3188s | wonderful |
| 3190s | uh any plans SL talks about things like |
| 3194s | private leagues or race events ehg wants |
| 3197s | to run like a side League that you can |
| 3199s | only use x unique in the build stuff |
| 3201s | like that yeah I think that this is um I |
| 3205s | think this is something that's been very |
| 3206s | successful ful in other games that have |
| 3208s | done things like it and |
| 3212s | um uh and I think we'd be foolish to to |
| 3215s | ignore it as an |
| 3218s | option um so I'd really like to |
| 3221s | see I'll fix it fix it and |
| 3224s | post um so yeah I'd really like to |
| 3228s | see some more options there I think |
| 3231s | there's I think there I think there's |
| 3232s | some cool things we could do uh yes |
| 3234s | we're interested getting the |
| 3237s | the |
| 3238s | [Music] |
| 3242s | um I I I think that's a a little bit |
| 3245s | down the road option type thing I don't |
| 3247s | think it's a right now |
| 3252s | [Music] |
| 3256s | option would you guys consider adding a |
| 3259s | toggle feature for minions to focus |
| 3261s | Elite slashmagic mobs versus staying |
| 3263s | around the player and being defensive um |
| 3266s | I I will'll consider just about anything |
| 3269s | um yeah this this kind of ties into the |
| 3272s | I guess the minion conversation we've |
| 3273s | been having here on stream and I think |
| 3275s | there's I think there's room for more |
| 3276s | stuff we talked about having like stance |
| 3278s | toggleable stances for minions before um |
| 3282s | kind of kind of akin to what you'd find |
| 3283s | in like a like a basic um like use I |
| 3287s | don't know wow as an example where you |
| 3288s | get like your your pet and there's like |
| 3290s | a aggressive defensive stand ground you |
| 3293s | know that sort of stuff passive mode |
| 3297s | I think I think having things like that |
| 3298s | is I think would be really good I'd |
| 3300s | really like to see it |
| 3303s | still we almost did it oh quite a while |
| 3306s | ago after finishing a mono why isn't |
| 3308s | there a way to regain our missing |
| 3312s | potion or before fighting aboth builds |
| 3315s | like wraith Lord or sacrifice necro just |
| 3317s | use Jungle Queen with experimental aics |
| 3320s | uh of zombie on potion use um we got to |
| 3324s | port to another Zone to stock up |
| 3335s | yeah I think |
| 3338s | there's there's there's sort of this |
| 3340s | like H what say there's a there's an |
| 3344s | issue with |
| 3345s | making |
| 3348s | uh pre like pre-combat Buffs like |
| 3352s | pre-buff stuff a little too convenient a |
| 3355s | little too powerful a little too |
| 3359s | expected |
| 3363s | um and there's kind of two ways to |
| 3365s | approach cuz I think we're we're we're |
| 3366s | in sort of a weird middle ground right |
| 3368s | now I don't know if it's great there's |
| 3370s | kind of two ways to approach it one is |
| 3371s | just like yeah make it super duper |
| 3374s | convenient and and have it be almost |
| 3378s | expected um the issue with that is that |
| 3381s | maybe maybe it's not intuitive enough |
| 3384s | and uh if it's if if the build is |
| 3387s | balanced around that happening it puts |
| 3389s | this burden of optimal play in the in in |
| 3392s | uh uh in the player's hands that we |
| 3394s | don't really like um take me and that |
| 3399s | burden is worse the more advantageous |
| 3402s | the uh the option is and less uh |
| 3406s | convenient the option |
| 3408s | is so like an example from another game |
| 3410s | that I I think is frustrating to need to |
| 3413s | do um is like is and |
| 3418s | don't feel bad about saying this cuz |
| 3419s | it's one of my favorite games of all |
| 3420s | time uh in diabl 2 if you're going to if |
| 3422s | you're if you're wearing |
| 3425s | smoke as your |
| 3428s | armor I think it's smoke |
| 3433s | um oh that's going to H me him wrong |
| 3435s | stealth one of the one of the one of the |
| 3437s | armors um you you go and stand in act |
| 3441s | four and just literally stand in a fire |
| 3443s | one of the little fires at the at the |
| 3444s | wayp point for River flame and you just |
| 3446s | like sit there and you wait until it |
| 3447s | triggers fade and then you take the gear |
| 3449s | off and you put your real armor on |
| 3451s | you've got fade for the fight and you |
| 3452s | run into the |
| 3454s | fight and |
| 3456s | like it's this weird pre-buff technique |
| 3460s | that um if you |
| 3463s | don't uh if if like if you if your build |
| 3465s | needs that it's really important to do |
| 3469s | um and if you don't know about this |
| 3471s | weird thing it's kind of a pain to set |
| 3474s | up right like it's not it's not obvious |
| 3476s | it's not intuitive |
| 3479s | and I I really want to avoid situations |
| 3481s | like that becoming common place I think |
| 3484s | is I think is a big thing |
| 3489s | um so I don't know if so I think in this |
| 3492s | specific situation having the potions |
| 3494s | refill is a good thing um and I think |
| 3499s | fix if if the burden is too too much for |
| 3503s | uh this specific situation fixing in a |
| 3505s | different way is probably ideal |
| 3511s | yeah don't forget to put at last OT game |
| 3513s | in the question so I see it please any |
| 3515s | plans for console edition uh it's it's |
| 3517s | it's on the table um we're definitely |
| 3520s | we're looking towards consoles as as a |
| 3521s | really solid option here for us in the |
| 3523s | future um I've been playing with a |
| 3525s | controller this whole time uh it's it's |
| 3528s | a like this is the first this is the |
| 3531s | first step in getting it on consoles is |
| 3532s | making sure it works well with |
| 3533s | controller and we are very intent on |
| 3536s | making it work work um with controller |
| 3539s | oh my God game design is about having |
| 3541s | balanced imbalance mik 2024 oh God I |
| 3544s | mean I don't hate that quote that's the |
| 3546s | weird |
| 3549s | part there's there's some there's some |
| 3552s | YouTube video that I saw years ago that |
| 3555s | Bas that's basically the thesis sentence |
| 3556s | of the video um I don't remember what |
| 3559s | it's |
| 3561s | called or who made it or whatever but |
| 3563s | like there there's something in my brain |
| 3565s | like i' I've watched some long for video |
| 3566s | about this that was like an hourong |
| 3569s | video essay or something that that's |
| 3570s | basically what it boiled down |
| 3573s | to just teasing the food and the beard |
| 3575s | oh thank God I love alen you guys are |
| 3577s | great thank you very much I appreciate |
| 3579s | it I I appreciate the follow I was |
| 3581s | pretty sure there was nothing there cuz |
| 3582s | I can see a little little tiny preview |
| 3584s | of me I couldn't see |
| 3587s | anything I just showered this |
| 3590s | morning um all right it's good okay mik |
| 3593s | you're stunning thank you feel so good |
| 3595s | today go gos ah Golems |
| 3598s | Golems oh these are abilities that |
| 3600s | people want to see um Cosmetics for yeah |
| 3603s | what what specific Cosmetics you want to |
| 3605s | see for the golems and flurry I think |
| 3607s | that was another one for the same thing |
| 3609s | what specific cosmetic do you want to |
| 3610s | see for |
| 3611s | flurry |
| 3615s | beer like just just a bunch of bees in a |
| 3619s | clump or just go whole Hive on |
| 3623s | it all the Minions really yeah yeah the |
| 3626s | minions minions are a tricky one minions |
| 3627s | are one of the hardest ones to do uh |
| 3629s | Cosmetics for um and like we're |
| 3633s | obviously doing Cosmetics for for all |
| 3634s | the skills and like we'll get there |
| 3635s | eventually and when we do I think some |
| 3637s | of them are going to be really amazing |
| 3639s | um but I think the some of those are the |
| 3642s | longest to do because they because if |
| 3643s | you convert let's say you convert a |
| 3645s | minion you also have to convert some of |
| 3646s | the abilities that the minion does to to |
| 3648s | make sense with that |
| 3649s | conversion and so like a minion cosmetic |
| 3652s | conversion can take like I don't know |
| 3655s | how much like I'm not one of the people |
| 3657s | that that creates those things but my |
| 3658s | knowledge of what's goes into each one |
| 3660s | of those I'd say 10 times as much work |
| 3662s | to convert a minion with Cosmetics than |
| 3664s | it is to convert a fireball like I can |
| 3666s | do the fireball one pretty and like my |
| 3668s | my bfx skills are not fantastic um |
| 3671s | minion would take me a long time |
| 3674s | probably maybe it's just like a texture |
| 3675s | change though there's probably there's |
| 3677s | probably like different tiers of it so |
| 3678s | like if you did like just the texture |
| 3681s | probably wouldn't be that bad like |
| 3683s | converting the bear to to be like a a |
| 3685s | polar bear probably would be pretty easy |
| 3687s | to do um but then if you start adding |
| 3690s | like little V effects that goes with it |
| 3692s | and then you change the abilities to to |
| 3694s | also be to be blue and like Frost and |
| 3696s | white and that sort of stuff and like |
| 3697s | all these little things that that stack |
| 3699s | up and and and build up to make it |
| 3701s | actually quite significant I think um so |
| 3705s | we we'll see we'll see I think the |
| 3706s | minion ones will come slower what we |
| 3708s | might |
| 3710s | guess for MTX skills I see any minion |
| 3714s | build any minion based skill would |
| 3716s | benefit fit immensely from customization |
| 3717s | options yes we want |
| 3719s | golems in later hosen oh my goodness |
| 3722s | golems in later |
| 3724s | hosen I understand why and I love it um |
| 3728s | skill MTX for Locust inside swarm blade |
| 3730s | to be look like bees that's a good one |
| 3732s | it's a really good |
| 3735s | one these are great these are great |
| 3740s | ideas community on point speaking of |
| 3744s | community and having great ideas cuz our |
| 3749s | community does have great |
| 3750s | ideas um I know we are uh we are in the |
| 3754s | process of uh looking for another |
| 3757s | gameplay |
| 3758s | developer um I should I should post a |
| 3761s | link uh Kane if you're here can you post |
| 3762s | the link for the uh job posting for the |
| 3765s | gameplay developer if you're not and you |
| 3768s | don't I'll I'll post it later it's fine |
| 3770s | um but we are yeah so we are we're |
| 3772s | looking to hire a gameplay developer |
| 3774s | someone who um |
| 3777s | has like he's very um like a coder |
| 3781s | someone who's who who knows how to make |
| 3783s | video games in unity like that's their |
| 3785s | primary stuff but I think the the ideal |
| 3787s | person for this is someone who has a lot |
| 3789s | of experience in args and hopefully a |
| 3791s | lot of experience in in last defog too |
| 3793s | if we can find someone who is like part |
| 3795s | of the Le community that wants this that |
| 3797s | would be ideal I |
| 3799s | think |
| 3801s | um but yeah basically um myself and a |
| 3805s | couple other people who are |
| 3807s | um doing implementation stuff we need |
| 3809s | more help to implement cool fun things |
| 3812s | um so I know we we're just putting out a |
| 3813s | job posting either today or yesterday or |
| 3816s | tomorrow it's like just going up right |
| 3817s | now |
| 3820s | um and yeah some someone |
| 3824s | who's uh first and foremost a developer |
| 3827s | but like also likes design stuff and um |
| 3830s | I think that's really the key thing is |
| 3831s | that having someone who is um |
| 3836s | like who understands RPGs and hopefully |
| 3839s | also last defac uh a fair bit would be |
| 3841s | someone who you know like you get a node |
| 3843s | to implement and and it says like uh |
| 3847s | plus plus 80% crit and you're |
| 3851s | like well that's not right you just know |
| 3853s | that it means plus 80% increased crit |
| 3856s | you just you just can like intuitively |
| 3858s | tell these issues things like that I |
| 3860s | think would be uh with the sort of |
| 3862s | person that we're looking |
| 3864s | for um |
| 3866s | so if that sounds like |
| 3869s | you uh and there's a link in chat which |
| 3872s | hopefully there is I'll check right now |
| 3875s | um please go |
| 3876s | apply I'd love to talk to |
| 3882s | you uh where how do I keep my place and |
| 3885s | not |
| 3892s | lose I don't lose my place |
| 3897s | I see a |
| 3901s | link oh it's a poll careers yes there it |
| 3904s | is wonderful thank you very much |
| 3908s | people awesome you know what I think |
| 3910s | this sounds like a great time to also |
| 3912s | toss up a little teasy |
| 3917s | cheese b |
| 3921s | boom okay |
| 3928s | uh oh which one is |
| 3932s | it open right in the center of my screen |
| 3934s | isn't |
| 3937s | it oh Mike why do you do this to |
| 3942s | yourself it in |
| 3949s | there oh was good good thing I didn't |
| 3951s | open it all right volatile reversals |
| 3954s | second combo ability now now jumps you |
| 3956s | forward in time to your Target location |
| 3959s | instead of |
| 3961s | backwards lines our second combo jump |
| 3963s | forward and plus 6 seconds cool down one |
| 3965s | point future |
| 3966s | Focus oh what does that |
| 3969s | mean second combo ability in |
| 3972s | VR what |
| 3978s | what if you can't tell by now uh this |
| 3981s | along with last week's image um Vol |
| 3984s | reveral is getting some pretty |
| 3986s | significant changes in its base |
| 3987s | functionality and skill |
| 3990s | tree um and we'll we'll have we'll have |
| 3992s | more details on exactly how that's going |
| 3994s | to shake out as we go forward little |
| 3997s | step that down in the |
| 4005s | corner uh can you confirm that Heron uh |
| 4008s | will be streaming still when season two |
| 4012s | drops I think I think Aaron should set a |
| 4015s | hard limit on the new year I think you |
| 4017s | should say the stream ends in 2025 at |
| 4019s | the at the absolute latest um I don't |
| 4022s | think I don't think it'll go that far |
| 4024s | but maybe I don't know I think it would |
| 4026s | just be or like Christmas or something |
| 4027s | like that so he can spend Christmas with |
| 4028s | his family not Stream Christmas or |
| 4030s | something |
| 4032s | um I I I Aaron I'm impressed with the |
| 4035s | dedication my friend it is uh it's been |
| 4038s | a lot it's been |
| 4042s | great I hope you're not I mean this in |
| 4044s | the best way possible I hope you're not |
| 4046s | not still |
| 4047s | streaming uh when season 2 drops cuz |
| 4050s | that would |
| 4052s | be that would be |
| 4056s | wild even even if season 2 dropped |
| 4058s | January |
| 4060s | 1st that would be crazy |
| 4076s | all right more questions I can do this |
| 4077s | can't I uh cathic fissure seeing |
| 4082s | Karen oh with a ship sailing through the |
| 4084s | fider would be cool yeah that would be |
| 4086s | neat I like that |
| 4095s | idea |
| 4096s | uh hi Mike where are the twitch sub |
| 4101s | badges uh I have no idea |
| 4111s | I'm not going to try and figure it |
| 4114s | out right |
| 4116s | now because I am not familiar enough |
| 4119s | with how that works from this end uh to |
| 4123s | fix it if there's something wrong |
| 4125s | there at least not on the |
| 4129s | Fly |
| 4132s | uh ker everal if uh if either of you are |
| 4137s | knowing what's up there I'd appreciate a |
| 4139s | little little [ __ ] |
| 4142s | there that was a weird that was weird |
| 4144s | you see that animation it was like |
| 4145s | really slow I think it was cuz I used |
| 4147s | reap right as I came out of Reaper |
| 4150s | form that was weird that was weird |
| 4156s | okay |
| 4158s | uh would uh would minions be able to see |
| 4163s | Who enemies Target or last targeted |
| 4166s | because you could at least make a more |
| 4167s | defensive AI for some of |
| 4170s | them |
| 4173s | um like targeted or targeting is not a a |
| 4178s | a a value or a stat like |
| 4184s | it's it's it's not it's not something we |
| 4187s | track ever for anything play our minion |
| 4189s | anything nothing has like a what am I |
| 4191s | targeting um value so like we we could |
| 4196s | we'd have to develop that it's it's not |
| 4198s | impossible we could make it um but right |
| 4200s | now as it stands there's there's no |
| 4202s | information on what anything is |
| 4203s | targeting ever to use in any |
| 4215s | way so it's a little tricky to do things |
| 4217s | like |
| 4220s | that um probably the best way is yeah |
| 4224s | like a like a last Target hid like just |
| 4227s | tracking on the actor class what the |
| 4229s | last thing it attacked was or tried to |
| 4231s | attack |
| 4236s | was it would probably yeah yeah I don't |
| 4239s | think there's any other way to do |
| 4247s | it so this is what happens sometimes I'm |
| 4249s | like how could I set that up and I'm |
| 4251s | like well there's a huge uh performance |
| 4253s | cost to that one huge performance cost |
| 4255s | to that one |
| 4257s | it's going through my head right |
| 4262s | now uh except for Fenton of course he |
| 4265s | would just run as far away from you as |
| 4267s | possible yes if you don't know Fenton is |
| 4270s | there are oh there are um |
| 4274s | different names you can get for your |
| 4277s | minions basically every minion in the |
| 4279s | game I think has random alternate names |
| 4283s | that it can have um |
| 4288s | and uh one of the wolf random extra |
| 4291s | names and and all of only one of them |
| 4293s | does anything mechanically Fenton is the |
| 4295s | only one the wolf Fenton is the only one |
| 4298s | that actually has uh a mechanical |
| 4302s | difference based |
| 4305s | on |
| 4307s | uh its name and it's from a from a dumb |
| 4310s | video that's hilarious um where the an |
| 4314s | owner is chasing after a dog just |
| 4316s | screaming Fenton and it's just running |
| 4318s | as fast as it can away from the owner so |
| 4320s | that's what Fenton in the game does is |
| 4322s | it just it just bolts the other side of |
| 4324s | the |
| 4327s | screen let's how the |
| 4334s | map this as as this |
| 4340s | um uh as this controller set up for this |
| 4343s | build is is I'm getting more comfortable |
| 4345s | with it |
| 4346s | it's smooth feels |
| 4354s | great I know I know I'm not playing |
| 4356s | optimally yet but |
| 4359s | like so much better than it was 6 months |
| 4372s | ago okay don't get sucked into the |
| 4374s | gameplay mik and answer questions that's |
| 4376s | what you're here |
| 4379s | [Music] |
| 4381s | for will there ever be a mecha class um |
| 4385s | like Mecha strian no |
| 4390s | um I think |
| 4393s | there's I think we would likely try and |
| 4396s | do a like fantasy version of it before |
| 4400s | we did a technology version of it um so |
| 4405s | like like turning assemble Abomination |
| 4408s | into an Iron Man suit is probably more |
| 4410s | likely than having a full class based |
| 4412s | around it but you never know cuz there |
| 4414s | are some really interesting mechanical |
| 4415s | things you can do with |
| 4416s | it and uh you know it done right you can |
| 4421s | I think you could have some really cool |
| 4422s | fun with |
| 4423s | that so we'll see treachery is the arm |
| 4426s | of the prox F too oh my god of course it |
| 4428s | is thank |
| 4430s | [Applause] |
| 4432s | you shame Mike shame all right uh will |
| 4436s | haringer uh boss items stay locked to |
| 4439s | those bosses after the season ends and |
| 4441s | will the season content items uh being |
| 4445s | tied to their bosses be a common theme |
| 4447s | across Seasons um I switched cycle up |
| 4450s | for Seasons there cuz there new name for |
| 4451s | everything |
| 4453s | um right so right now like there's |
| 4458s | no um there is no there are no items |
| 4461s | whatsoever that are exclusively |
| 4463s | available to the ladder characters to |
| 4466s | the season characters to the cycle |
| 4467s | characters all items are available on |
| 4469s | all characters right now nothing is |
| 4472s | restricted just to get that clear up |
| 4474s | right away um reference time stamp 2 |
| 4477s | p.m. I'm only 15 minutes behind |
| 4479s | schedule a record for me this point |
| 4483s | um so yeah so so the all the items are |
| 4486s | for everyone completely just to clear |
| 4488s | that point out cuz I think that might be |
| 4489s | a confusion point in the question but |
| 4491s | I'm not sure um in the future |
| 4496s | uh if there are if there do end up being |
| 4499s | items that are locked to the cycle um if |
| 4504s | a when a character moves from the cycle |
| 4507s | to or the season if there's a charact |
| 4508s | there there are items that are season |
| 4510s | locked if an if a character moves from |
| 4512s | the season |
| 4514s | to |
| 4515s | um to to like uh to to to |
| 4519s | Legacy um then they will be the items |
| 4523s | will go with them they're not going to |
| 4524s | lose those items so you're going to keep |
| 4526s | those items so at the very least those |
| 4528s | items will um transfer to um Legacy at |
| 4533s | some point I I I don't other than that I |
| 4536s | don't have much in the way of details |
| 4538s | cuz we don't have any of those planned |
| 4539s | at the |
| 4542s | moment and you know like once we do if |
| 4545s | if we do eventually plan something like |
| 4546s | that the um how we how we treat them |
| 4550s | could |
| 4552s | change uh have you improved the menu |
| 4554s | system for controller so it's a smooth |
| 4555s | as D4 using D4 as an example only I've |
| 4557s | never played D4 with controller so I |
| 4560s | don't know um if you mean this menu it |
| 4563s | is super smooth and I love it |
| 4572s | um I'm finding this fantastic |
| 4576s | in Yep this is great that was fantastic |
| 4581s | that's the first time I tried to |
| 4581s | allocate passives with my controller in |
| 4585s | at least six months and it went great uh |
| 4590s | yep uh so it's definitely been some big |
| 4592s | improvements in that category um I can't |
| 4594s | directly compare it to D4 I'm sorry cuz |
| 4596s | I never played D4 with controller maybe |
| 4597s | I'll maybe that's what I'll do this |
| 4598s | weekend I'll play some D4 with the |
| 4599s | controller and I can compare |
| 4603s | them water |
| 4605s | yes with the memory of |
| 4608s | blackberry uh I get the D2 reference |
| 4611s | having to do all that to do a fight but |
| 4613s | about um the potions the build revolves |
| 4615s | potion use because this experimental |
| 4617s | aects on zombie on potion use yeah I |
| 4619s | just wasn't sure if there's um |
| 4622s | specifically any prep happening with |
| 4624s | that right now it's not I agree it's not |
| 4626s | it's not if it's just that you want to |
| 4627s | have full potions to go into the fight |
| 4628s | with it's not bad at all like that's |
| 4630s | that's a there's nothing that needs be |
| 4631s | fixed there other than you need to be |
| 4633s | able to have full potions to go in which |
| 4635s | isn't a big deal can't remember why we |
| 4637s | set going to town didn't refresh your |
| 4642s | Potions there was a good reason for that |
| 4644s | we almost had a found for a while in |
| 4646s | town as well I think we may have |
| 4647s | actually had a fountain in town for a |
| 4651s | while golems and later hosen that's two |
| 4656s | requests yeah reskin likeing Grandma's |
| 4659s | void to have different color elves on |
| 4660s | different levels of the game be cheap |
| 4663s | and it wouldn't cost too much at this |
| 4664s | late stage |
| 4667s | development you you can reference that |
| 4670s | that movie to me any point in that movie |
| 4672s | any day and I will know exactly what |
| 4674s | you're talking about |
| 4675s | um that's one of those movies that like |
| 4678s | if it's playing in the background I I |
| 4680s | don't think I can do it when it's not |
| 4681s | playing but if it's playing I can say |
| 4683s | every line as it's happening definitely |
| 4685s | every single line every song everything |
| 4687s | no problem without it actively playing |
| 4690s | in the background I don't I think I'd |
| 4691s | miss the order of things I think I'd get |
| 4693s | stuff out of order um but yeah I've seen |
| 4695s | the movie way too many |
| 4697s | times uh the polar R skin already exists |
| 4699s | and I occasionally snapshot it so |
| 4701s | definitely that one is easy MTX Target |
| 4703s | the like we bear has that but does |
| 4709s | summon bear have |
| 4728s | that what am I doing |
| 4736s | think I was just pressing something |
| 4738s | wrong some really obvious button that I |
| 4740s | was |
| 4744s | missing or some button that I remapped |
| 4747s | that that's that's probably what was |
| 4748s | happening there |
| 4750s | actually I before so a few days ago I |
| 4753s | was trying to um make it so that the |
| 4758s | prompt Keys would show up as the right |
| 4761s | like abxy would show up correctly as cuz |
| 4763s | right now every time it says a i press B |
| 4764s | and every time it says b i press say and |
| 4765s | X and Y are also |
| 4768s | flipped um and so I was trying to REM |
| 4772s | like to flip the controller mapping in |
| 4775s | the controller |
| 4777s | software and then uh flip the mapping |
| 4781s | back using |
| 4783s | steam's |
| 4787s | um uh switch controller integration |
| 4790s | mapping that it |
| 4793s | has um so that it would like because it |
| 4796s | flips twice it would be the right |
| 4800s | positioning on the on the face but |
| 4802s | because the the game would have thought |
| 4805s | that it was |
| 4806s | flipped uh it would have also given me |
| 4808s | the correct button |
| 4810s | layouts uh it didn't work |
| 4816s | unfortunately but it makes sense CU we |
| 4819s | didn't design it for switch controllers |
| 4820s | we designed it for Xbox and PlayStation |
| 4823s | controllers Eng generic one |
| 4829s | too oh love this |
| 4832s | one the motion uh not that chaos bolts |
| 4836s | goes on is something that we took a long |
| 4838s | time to like went through a lot of |
| 4840s | iterations on how that motion works and |
| 4842s | I really like where we got to with |
| 4853s | it get more questions |
| 4856s | uh what's a neat idea is you know how |
| 4859s | after we hit 100 but the XP bar keeps |
| 4862s | going and resets it'd be cool if there |
| 4864s | was a little bonus after maxing that bar |
| 4866s | like plus one to attributes or something |
| 4868s | yeah so that's that's called the Paragon |
| 4869s | system from |
| 4872s | D3 |
| 4877s | um it's not intrinsically uh like a a |
| 4881s | bad thing or or whatever um I actually |
| 4883s | think it was it by the time D3 was like |
| 4886s | nearing its end I think it actually had |
| 4888s | evolved into something that was quite |
| 4889s | good |
| 4891s | um the initial version |
| 4894s | was had some issues that that it's not |
| 4897s | really important |
| 4902s | um we |
| 4904s | don't we've tried not to |
| 4907s | encourage |
| 4909s | um really deep like power gains from |
| 4913s | really deep leveling |
| 4916s | that makes any |
| 4920s | sense |
| 4923s | okay now those are all spawned and |
| 4926s | done we are going to open our |
| 4930s | inventory oh that button |
| 4932s | first h i see what I was doing wrong |
| 4934s | that was user |
| 4936s | error I was trying to be all like oh |
| 4939s | fast just pressing the wrong buttons |
| 4946s | all |
| 4947s | right who are you H Run Fly you |
| 4952s | fools |
| 4953s | um yeah I'm lukewarm on that idea |
| 4963s | personally oh yeah he doesn't like me |
| 4965s | using the controller at the same time uh |
| 4968s | I have a request which is not exactly |
| 4970s | MTX but it is related uh for when |
| 4973s | example I put down three cathartic |
| 4976s | fissures cathic fissures uh I want them |
| 4979s | on a hoof or a triangle shape just for a |
| 4983s | fun of |
| 4984s | it I get that's also changing how the |
| 4986s | skill works but it might but might we |
| 4990s | see something of the sort one day um |
| 4992s | okay so like um mechanically that that |
| 4996s | that is possible yeah it would be like |
| 4997s | on an item or on a a skill node or |
| 4999s | something like that um it's it's |
| 5003s | possible I I I don't want to give you |
| 5005s | hope and say like oh sure I'll do it or |
| 5007s | something like that it's not it's it's |
| 5009s | it's mechanically possible to do um |
| 5014s | and uh it could be a cool thing so I I |
| 5017s | don't want to give you a I'm I'm trying |
| 5019s | to be as neutral in the response as |
| 5020s | possible apart from it's technically |
| 5029s | possible I hope you understand |
| 5048s | all right I will come on board strictly |
| 5050s | to bug fix part |
| 5052s | time who are |
| 5054s | you I mean not what we're looking for |
| 5057s | right now but yeah I mean we do probably |
| 5059s | need more of that too |
| 5066s | uh hey hope you guys are doing fine |
| 5069s | thank you I am doing pretty good today |
| 5071s | have uh have you ever talked about |
| 5073s | disabling the plusus 20% damage range on |
| 5076s | the target dummy I don't think that's |
| 5078s | ever come |
| 5080s | up I could be |
| 5083s | wrong not that I know of |
| 5085s | though cyber war is telling me you did |
| 5088s | in the past but I don't trust |
| 5092s | him um |
| 5099s | there was some changes to the the way |
| 5101s | Target dummies handle it it used to okay |
| 5104s | I know I know what this was the target |
| 5105s | dummy used to not have any um like any |
| 5110s | any enemy Dr so like bosses and enemies |
| 5113s | have um stats and Dr and things like |
| 5115s | that for just being high level um and so |
| 5119s | for a long time the target dummies |
| 5120s | didn't have that which means that you'd |
| 5123s | get really w wildly off results for when |
| 5128s | you were testing on the |
| 5130s | dummy and it is possible that I'm |
| 5133s | forgetting about something from like 5 |
| 5135s | years ago you |
| 5146s | know lovely |
| 5158s | really hungry all of a |
| 5162s | sudden don't give him an |
| 5178s | out season 2 January 1 confirmed no I'm |
| 5182s | willing I'm willing to cut that day I'm |
| 5184s | willing to say will not be January 1st |
| 5186s | it will not be New Year's Day that would |
| 5187s | be |
| 5193s | insane I mean everyone has it off |
| 5200s | right what day what day of the week is |
| 5202s | New Year's Day |
| 5204s | anyways it's a |
| 5206s | Wednesday we don't release on |
| 5209s | Wednesdays do we I don't know if we do |
| 5211s | or not all right has the menu system |
| 5214s | been looked at for a controller to make |
| 5215s | it easier to interact with I I I it |
| 5217s | looks different than the last time I |
| 5218s | used |
| 5219s | it I know there's a team that basically |
| 5221s | does controller UI um as like 80% of |
| 5225s | what they do so like definitely still |
| 5227s | being worked on and it's definitely had |
| 5228s | a lot of changes uh what portal skin is |
| 5231s | that one called it looks like a new void |
| 5233s | portal style yeah let's |
| 5236s | uh I can |
| 5240s | look I've just like realized that I just |
| 5243s | defaulted to using my keybo M cuz I'm so |
| 5245s | ingrained that |
| 5248s | way uh yes it is called crest of the |
| 5251s | Void |
| 5260s | Walker since there's a black hole spell |
| 5263s | in the game will there ever be a |
| 5264s | supernova or while or white hole skill |
| 5267s | in the future I think there's a |
| 5268s | supernova node in black hole |
| 5275s | but |
| 5281s | maybe I figured it out I pressed the |
| 5284s | button it told me to that was right on |
| 5285s | the |
| 5289s | screen aren't you proud of |
| 5293s | me all right is the current plan still |
| 5297s | to have all season content available in |
| 5299s | Legacy through 1.4 or has that changed |
| 5301s | with the road map |
| 5302s | changing um I I think the I I don't |
| 5305s | think we ever said that explicitly was |
| 5307s | the case for the record just |
| 5309s | uh yeah |
| 5312s | um I don't know if what will happen with |
| 5316s | um past 1.2 basically it's I don't think |
| 5319s | there's as far as I know there's not any |
| 5321s | plans to make um season specific content |
| 5326s | specifically uh for 1.2 I don't |
| 5331s | think um |
| 5335s | I I I I'm really unsure on this one so I |
| 5339s | I think I think it's |
| 5341s | um at most basically what we did with |
| 5345s | 1.1 as far as season specific |
| 5350s | content i' i' like I've changed my |
| 5353s | personal tune on this so many times back |
| 5356s | and forth back and forth everything |
| 5357s | should be available always to everyone |
| 5359s | oh no there seasonal content is really |
| 5360s | important we have to have it |
| 5363s | um and like I I flip-flop back and forth |
| 5366s | on this so |
| 5368s | hard which is so unhelpful I know um |
| 5371s | right now I think I'm in I'd really like |
| 5374s | to see seasonal content um I'd really |
| 5377s | like to see seasonal content in the |
| 5379s | sense that it |
| 5380s | is |
| 5382s | um specifically things that that are |
| 5385s | that are really good for um the like |
| 5388s | that that really stand out and shine in |
| 5390s | the campaign |
| 5392s | actually um |
| 5396s | as as and like what we did with 1.1 the |
| 5398s | SE the seasonal season specific content |
| 5401s | was actually um hyper endgame for like a |
| 5404s | 24-hour period because it got beat |
| 5406s | really quick and then we un we opened it |
| 5407s | to everyone so we we we dipped our toe |
| 5409s | into that a tinest possible amount um |
| 5414s | but I think I think I really like having |
| 5415s | it be in the uh in the campaign |
| 5418s | specifically where it like starts like |
| 5421s | if if we're going to do that I think I I |
| 5423s | would want it to start in the campaign |
| 5424s | person |
| 5427s | um uh and and part of this comes on the |
| 5430s | heels of um like playing the most recent |
| 5434s | Poe League I think was like going |
| 5436s | through the campaign again was a lot of |
| 5438s | fun because of the new stuff they added |
| 5439s | to The Campaign which they do every |
| 5441s | every League I know |
| 5445s | um but I really enjoyed this |
| 5451s | one and uh |
| 5455s | I know I think I think a lot of the |
| 5457s | conversations around the quality of the |
| 5458s | campaign and redoing the campaign um |
| 5462s | specifically where it's focused on the |
| 5463s | seasons seasonal characters as the |
| 5465s | people who are doing the campaign the |
| 5466s | most I think um I think that's where the |
| 5469s | biggest benefit to campaign improvements |
| 5472s | happens or or temporary campaign changes |
| 5474s | to keep it fresh happens is is is in the |
| 5475s | new cycle or new season uh content |
| 5478s | that's that's where I'd like to see it |
| 5479s | the most I don't know if it makes sense |
| 5481s | to make that a Content a season specific |
| 5483s | mechanic though whether or not that's |
| 5485s | just like every season the campaign |
| 5487s | changes and maybe those things like and |
| 5489s | there's like a new theme to The Campaign |
| 5491s | every single time um and something that |
| 5494s | affects most of the campaign so it's |
| 5495s | interesting and new and different uh I |
| 5497s | don't know if that needs to be season |
| 5500s | specific or not yeah that's kind of |
| 5503s | where I'm trying to decide personally |
| 5505s | for myself um and what that means for |
| 5507s | what we actually end up doing in last |
| 5508s | Epoch is a whole other conversation |
| 5518s | all right I'm specifically talking I |
| 5521s | specifically was talking about game |
| 5523s | options and the system |
| 5525s | menus okay like like this |
| 5528s | menu like these |
| 5538s | settings do a little bit higher on the |
| 5540s | music a little lower on the sound |
| 5541s | effects probably |
| 5548s | like it feels it feels |
| 5566s | good oh I like that way more |
| 5574s | it's a little |
| 5575s | slower maybe I don't like |
| 5586s | that I yeah I think I I wanted to like |
| 5589s | just like I'm just flicking the joystick |
| 5590s | up and I'd want it to go immediately |
| 5592s | when I flicked it instead having to |
| 5594s | like yeah H I like them both I don't |
| 5597s | know we'll see oh h |
| 5610s | so I just get into it playing the game |
| 5612s | again and I'm going to answer some |
| 5613s | questions |
| 5618s | instead that that that crate was Marked |
| 5620s | for Death I had to I had to take it out |
| 5622s | a responsibility to the crate killer |
| 5624s | Guild of the |
| 5627s | world all right |
| 5635s | we're going to actually get out of |
| 5639s | that drugs are bad |
| 5643s | okay that purple stuff looks awful |
| 5646s | suspicious |
| 5654s | okay so going to town should and does |
| 5657s | refresh your potions so does any zone |
| 5660s | change with a few exceptions however not |
| 5662s | all of these are in |
| 5665s | all those are intentional team is aware |
| 5668s | and working on it though |
| 5670s | oh oh apparently there's some bugs in |
| 5672s | there my |
| 5674s | bad uh that's why I was confused |
| 5677s | apparently can you please give a quick |
| 5679s | summary of what you guys are working on |
| 5681s | now H yeah okay I can do that |
| 5686s | um |
| 5688s | uh okay yes I should I can I can do this |
| 5691s | and I'm like wait a minute am I allowed |
| 5692s | to say any of this crap |
| 5696s | um oh there's a great line in in the we |
| 5700s | we had we had a post |
| 5702s | recently that had a oneliner that was |
| 5705s | just like it just summed up everything |
| 5706s | we were working on so well and didn't |
| 5708s | spoil anything but the big things are |
| 5711s | like um like systematic endgame |
| 5715s | improvements um that's that's start that |
| 5719s | affect the entirety of the end game |
| 5722s | um gen gameplay improvements bug fixing |
| 5727s | uh just game quality in general |
| 5730s | improvements |
| 5732s | um I'm like trying to think of vague |
| 5734s | terms for things that are |
| 5737s | coming |
| 5741s | um like six things I can't say that I |
| 5743s | want to say that it would be great to |
| 5745s | say right |
| 5746s | now um |
| 5756s | other cool stuff sorry I don't want to |
| 5760s | get in |
| 5761s | trouble I I have been I will say this |
| 5764s | okay so I have I I'll I'll I'll sidestep |
| 5766s | half this question for now and uh I |
| 5770s | will uh I will say we are actively |
| 5772s | working |
| 5775s | on I can't say that either |
| 5782s | crap oh |
| 5785s | there's a little bit of uh filament from |
| 5789s | uh a 3D print that I did recently that's |
| 5791s | sitting on the ground it looked so much |
| 5792s | like a |
| 5795s | spider I'm starting it's it's only |
| 5797s | partially printed I got one and two half |
| 5801s | of the the sides going but this is the |
| 5802s | going to be the head of a very iconic |
| 5805s | mace from a very specific fantasy |
| 5810s | series like 4 and 1/2 ft long in the end |
| 5813s | uh um sorry threw me off completely uh |
| 5821s | the yeah summary stuff we're working |
| 5825s | on lots of cool stuff well well I I did |
| 5828s | okay so I asked for I I remember I was |
| 5829s | going to say I recently asked for a list |
| 5831s | of like things I'm allowed to say in |
| 5832s | this exact category and hopefully I'll |
| 5834s | get that list soon so I'll try I'll try |
| 5836s | and get that updated soon but you know |
| 5837s | what I'll do right now a little bit of a |
| 5840s | low uh here's another here's another |
| 5844s | teaser uh this time for a long requested |
| 5847s | node that I know uh some people will be |
| 5850s | very happy to see uh here is an update a |
| 5854s | new node for |
| 5856s | RVE and the real short version of this |
| 5858s | node is full void conversion cross the |
| 5863s | board finally doing it so I'll just I'll |
| 5866s | leave that for a second uh some more |
| 5868s | questions had to gift a sub when you |
| 5870s | recognize Grandma's Boy like you did |
| 5871s | thank you very much uh yeah wonderful I |
| 5874s | I miss that but thank you very much |
| 5876s | congrats to Aon who got that well done |
| 5879s | um yeah love Grandpa's |
| 5883s | boy I I I watched it's been like a month |
| 5886s | since I've seen it okay I'm going to |
| 5887s | watch it again tonight it's one of my |
| 5890s | like it's kind of like that and |
| 5894s | Voyager |
| 5895s | [Music] |
| 5896s | um and like Battlestar Galactica are |
| 5899s | things that I like put on in the |
| 5900s | background while I work that like I |
| 5901s | don't need just the audio and it's like |
| 5904s | brain's watching it in the |
| 5906s | background all right I think last stream |
| 5908s | you explained the original purpose of |
| 5909s | CMG was supposed to be a progression |
| 5911s | system that rewarded you but it is uh |
| 5914s | too good um with Buffs |
| 5918s | Etc it in a good place now uh it's in a |
| 5922s | good place now I think are you cooking |
| 5923s | up something else for progression after |
| 5925s | level 100 um I think we're |
| 5929s | we're |
| 5931s | um we are cooking up a system that |
| 5937s | is uh late game |
| 5940s | progression uh that is decoupled from |
| 5943s | level and uh there's still stuff to do |
| 5946s | Post 100 in |
| 5949s | it that's awesome |
| 5953s | yeah switch controller sport wi switch |
| 5956s | is not one of the one of one of the |
| 5957s | systems we're targeting for uh the |
| 5961s | eventual um uh console push when we do |
| 5965s | when we do get there when we start |
| 5966s | looking at consoles switch is probably |
| 5967s | not one of the ones we're targeting it's |
| 5969s | probably just going to be um the latest |
| 5971s | PlayStation and Xbox releases um not |
| 5974s | specifically like their Pro variants but |
| 5976s | like the latest Bas version so like PS4 |
| 5979s | not PS5 type thing um sorry PS5 not PS4 |
| 5983s | um and I don't own an Xbox so whichever |
| 5986s | one of the Xboxes is the new one um and |
| 5995s | uh I don't I don't think switch is on |
| 5996s | that list so I doubt switch controller |
| 5999s | support specifically but you never know |
| 6000s | we might expand that list um I it's what |
| 6004s | I what I'm doing is a me problem not a |
| 6006s | game |
| 6011s | problem I'm going to shove this down to |
| 6012s | the controller and the corner and I'm |
| 6014s | going to keep playing and answering |
| 6016s | questions don't know if it's ever been |
| 6018s | asked before but why do loot lizards |
| 6020s | sound like wow NS uh some bought assets |
| 6024s | no that is uh a fully |
| 6028s | unique and fresh asset uh that we made |
| 6032s | specifically for that I don't know why |
| 6034s | it uh sounds familiar for that |
| 6037s | I now that you say that I'm like oh my |
| 6039s | God it does doesn't |
| 6045s | it yeah it kind of |
| 6052s | does I I think I think it's just there's |
| 6054s | only so many sounds and things sound I |
| 6056s | bet if you put them side by side it' be |
| 6059s | more obvious that they're different I |
| 6061s | don't know it's been a |
| 6066s | while I haven't like played played Wows |
| 6069s | since |
| 6075s | wrath that was that was that was a dark |
| 6082s | time okay boss right I'm I'm going to |
| 6085s | let my I let this fall and specifically |
| 6088s | get there we're going to do this boss |
| 6090s | before the game I'm going to do the the |
| 6091s | boss in in controller be great going try |
| 6095s | and catch up on some question we're |
| 6096s | going to Rapid Fire some questions here |
| 6097s | and then do the boss uh what's the most |
| 6099s | annoying bug that either that you either |
| 6101s | have fixed an Le or have tried to fix |
| 6103s | that still |
| 6104s | exists |
| 6105s | [Music] |
| 6111s | um there is a |
| 6114s | there was um actually don't know if this |
| 6116s | got fixed I assume it did I haven't seen |
| 6118s | it in Forever |
| 6120s | um that I was briefly assigned to fix |
| 6122s | that I never fixed myself um when you |
| 6126s | transition zones in a party sometimes |
| 6129s | the the the party frame UI in the top |
| 6131s | left corner would just vanish and it |
| 6134s | wouldn't vanish for the entire party but |
| 6135s | it vanished for some people in the party |
| 6136s | it would come back randomly that was |
| 6139s | that was one of my most frustrating ones |
| 6140s | that I ever tried to work on um I never |
| 6144s | solved it but I haven't seen it in a |
| 6145s | long time so I think it might be solved |
| 6147s | anyways |
| 6151s | um yeah I'm going to say that one it's |
| 6153s | it's the it's the |
| 6155s | intermittent yeah that's a few there's |
| 6157s | few of them they're like anything that's |
| 6159s | intermittent and not reproducible so |
| 6162s | like I get bugs assigned sometimes and |
| 6163s | it's like I go test them I'm like it's I |
| 6166s | can't make it happen if you can't make |
| 6167s | the bug happen in the first place um |
| 6171s | it's so hard to fix cuz um you have to |
| 6175s | have a consistent reproduction steps in |
| 6177s | order to be able to test it after you |
| 6179s | fixed it to make sure it's actually |
| 6180s | fixed and so you're just be like like |
| 6182s | sure you can you find a bug that's like |
| 6184s | oh this is the there a node that's |
| 6186s | supposed to give 100% more damage and |
| 6188s | instead it's giving uh negative 50% less |
| 6191s | damage type thing instead and it's like |
| 6193s | that's really easy to test cuz you can |
| 6195s | just see the numbers changing um but |
| 6198s | like if the numbers weren't changing and |
| 6199s | you it's still really easy bug to fix if |
| 6202s | you know what you're looking for but |
| 6204s | like if you can't test it you can't make |
| 6206s | sure and that's the frustrating |
| 6210s | part all right uh my bad it wasn't you |
| 6214s | it was Justin 6 months ago that said |
| 6216s | thing about dummies with damage variance |
| 6217s | my memory isn't perfect |
| 6219s | haha Vindication that's fine don't worry |
| 6222s | about it uh I'd like the seasonal |
| 6224s | content if we knew well in advance that |
| 6226s | it was going uh away just so it could |
| 6228s | plan personal life okay yeah if we did |
| 6230s | do um a seasonal explicit content that |
| 6233s | was Vanishing we would definitely be |
| 6235s | clear about that well in |
| 6237s | advance |
| 6239s | um how far up the priority list is |
| 6241s | fixing specifically crash problems game |
| 6243s | freezes movement ability bugs that |
| 6245s | causes death I'm hardcore player 90% of |
| 6247s | my deaths are these things extremely |
| 6249s | high extremely high extremely high |
| 6252s | extremely |
| 6253s | high uh what are some of the upgrades |
| 6256s | coming with unity 21 that you're excited |
| 6258s | to do with Ellie I mean the biggest |
| 6259s | thing that I'm really excited for is |
| 6261s | dlss and FSR |
| 6263s | there's a lot of like behind the scenes |
| 6266s | stuff that doesn't really affect you |
| 6268s | directly as a player but uh trust me |
| 6270s | it's |
| 6271s | great uh what do you mean it's a bug |
| 6274s | with |
| 6277s | potions I don't know sorry I was reading |
| 6280s | a |
| 6281s | comment uh from from everal I think it's |
| 6283s | I think this is in relation to a bug |
| 6285s | with certain zones not refreshing your |
| 6286s | potions when they're supposed to I think |
| 6288s | that's what it |
| 6290s | was uh don't forget to mention him but |
| 6292s | yes more teaser please yes I did that is |
| 6295s | that a Zelda maze uh it is not |
| 6300s | Zelda it's it's the it's hard to see |
| 6304s | what it is cuz you it's only on screen |
| 6307s | for like 5 seconds in the |
| 6313s | movie right at the |
| 6316s | start probably 3/4s to the third one for |
| 6319s | a little bit as well |
| 6324s | Jo Mike looking smug you working out or |
| 6327s | switching the diet hands Some Devil |
| 6329s | thank you very much a lot of |
| 6333s | both uh has there been any thought on |
| 6335s | creating an alternate leveling method |
| 6337s | for alt yeah we talked about this earli |
| 6339s | in stream I can talk about it again a |
| 6340s | little bit like a 1 to 56 monolith |
| 6342s | system I literally do not play alts in |
| 6344s | games that Force campaign run through |
| 6346s | every character cannot stand it more |
| 6348s | than once lol um see I I'll talk a |
| 6352s | little more I'll |
| 6354s | um I think want to hear loot lizards is |
| 6357s | hoger is stealing my loot any plans on |
| 6360s | changing Lich such as making it so you |
| 6362s | can die in Lich form which then you can |
| 6365s | reduce the cool down much lower possibly |
| 6367s | it's what I was talking about a little |
| 6368s | bit earlier in the Stream um there's |
| 6369s | there's there's something there that I |
| 6371s | think needs to be done with it because |
| 6372s | yeah it is really I'm playing it it is I |
| 6374s | pop out of L and I'm like okay I'm going |
| 6375s | to run around in a circle and try not to |
| 6377s | die um I just what just want to say I |
| 6381s | enjoy the campaign and dungeons more |
| 6382s | than the monoliths uh just want to |
| 6384s | provide positive feedback for something |
| 6385s | the vocal minority seems to hate however |
| 6389s | likess Arbor's dungeon mechanics can die |
| 6391s | in a bit please find another way of |
| 6393s | depleting ambers other than receiving |
| 6394s | damage SL hits um just so you know with |
| 6397s | that one you can if the if the Amber's |
| 6399s | not on you physically hits don't reduce |
| 6401s | it so you can like throw it out with the |
| 6404s | D key and it um your hits don't reduce |
| 6407s | it then so just try not to be carrying |
| 6409s | it when you're going to take a |
| 6411s | hit uh is there by any chance by CH is |
| 6416s | there by chance a pet cosmetic to make |
| 6418s | our squirrels into void instead of |
| 6421s | shrines |
| 6424s | no there's not one that I like ready to |
| 6427s | go or anything like that I don't know |
| 6428s | there might be one being made but I I |
| 6430s | haven't seen one uh LR yes you Tarzan me |
| 6435s | Wayne love it uh you are correct it is |
| 6439s | Lord of the Rings s's mace yes s facts |
| 6442s | it's just the it's just the head it's |
| 6443s | it's going to be a lot bigger I ran out |
| 6445s | of filament and I more of it's showing |
| 6446s | up |
| 6450s | tomorrow uh all |
| 6452s | right the part of you I think is not |
| 6454s | fixed oh |
| 6456s | God see you |
| 6458s | frustrating all right let's talk about |
| 6462s | alternate leveling systems while I try |
| 6463s | and beat this |
| 6466s | boss okay so |
| 6471s | um we have try one thing we're we're |
| 6475s | really interested in doing is making the |
| 6476s | leveling |
| 6477s | experience um something that is a fun |
| 6481s | part of the |
| 6482s | game I don't think it's like a |
| 6484s | controversial thing to be like yes we |
| 6485s | want leveling a new character to be fun |
| 6487s | ha um I know a lot of people for for a |
| 6489s | lot of people like a c a static campaign |
| 6491s | experience is not a fun thing to do |
| 6493s | multiple times um and there's there's I |
| 6496s | think a lot of |
| 6499s | um baggage that goes with uh maybe |
| 6503s | having done that in other games before |
| 6504s | as well that that that puts a lot of |
| 6506s | negative spin on that even before we're |
| 6507s | out of the gate I'm not saying ours is |
| 6508s | significantly better or anything like |
| 6510s | that but just there's a lot of |
| 6513s | um |
| 6515s | uh I don't know Prejudice might be the |
| 6517s | wrong word it seems too strong but like |
| 6519s | I think it's the technically the right |
| 6520s | term I think there's a lot of um refug |
| 6524s | is by it's I think it's difficult to |
| 6528s | have people come into it with with if |
| 6530s | they if they really dislike that in |
| 6532s | style thing in general |
| 6536s | um yeah and and so yeah we we we really |
| 6539s | want to have that leveling experience be |
| 6541s | something that is fun oh my God I just |
| 6543s | like got moved right at the start lost |
| 6545s | my Reaper form right |
| 6548s | away okay this is going to be |
| 6555s | tricky all right can we even do this is |
| 6558s | it possible |
| 6565s | um okay |
| 6567s | the I'd really like us to have an |
| 6570s | alternate leveling experience system I |
| 6572s | don't think that the current setup for |
| 6576s | monolith |
| 6578s | is perfect I I |
| 6581s | don't think the current setup for monus |
| 6583s | is actually good enough um to be to be |
| 6587s | that that leveling experience as well as |
| 6590s | the primary endgame system I think the |
| 6592s | the monolith themselves need a lot of |
| 6594s | work to really shine in in either of |
| 6596s | those |
| 6598s | situations um and we are working on that |
| 6601s | and doing a lot of things that are going |
| 6602s | to make that leveling and um especially |
| 6605s | early late game experience a ton better |
| 6608s | and late late game experience too |
| 6619s | um it is hopess uh so yeah we we are |
| 6623s | this is this is stuff that we are |
| 6624s | working on and we're laying the ground |
| 6625s | work for I think alternate leveling |
| 6627s | systems to be um more approachable more |
| 6630s | accessible more |
| 6632s | fun |
| 6636s | and dang it I got greedy |
| 6659s | oh you just come off cool down I think |
| 6663s | it's too bad um I think I can do that |
| 6666s | with keyboard mouse just cuz I'm more |
| 6668s | used to it we're we'll try again we'll |
| 6670s | try |
| 6671s | again how much do I need do need more |
| 6674s | still good |
| 6676s | okay |
| 6677s | uh can I |
| 6683s | uh character there it is okay |
| 6685s | resistances are stacked that is not the |
| 6688s | problem we need more Health we need more |
| 6691s | attack |
| 6693s | speed uh what am I |
| 6696s | doing okay we're going use this keyboard |
| 6698s | and mouse just cuz I'm uh so much faster |
| 6701s | at it and I want to get through |
| 6703s | this that's a really nice |
| 6706s | one he done do we have any room for |
| 6709s | forging potential that we can pull |
| 6711s | something impr |
| 6713s | [Music] |
| 6717s | no |
| 6719s | no one forging potential hey Vitality is |
| 6726s | Vitality I mean can we roll those |
| 6736s | better they're |
| 6740s | decent probably won't roll those |
| 6744s | oh our Gear's uh not not got a lot of |
| 6747s | room for a wiggle in there does it okay |
| 6750s | ignite and ell res that's bad for us cuz |
| 6752s | we have so much ell |
| 6755s | reses uh Fire Res kind of |
| 6758s | wasted poison res wasted poison res |
| 6763s | wasted Vitality is nice |
| 6769s | regardless armor it's kind of useless |
| 6780s | oh poison we dropped below the line |
| 6785s | okay |
| 6787s | apparently uh we had a lot of poison |
| 6789s | writing on |
| 6793s | that okay what uh what Idols do we have |
| 6795s | here |
| 6807s | profane Veil not using |
| 6812s | it damned on hit transplant CDR that's |
| 6817s | not |
| 6822s | bad his spell uh we don't do much of his |
| 6826s | spell crit crit crit yeah we like crit |
| 6835s | do we just do we just slap a bunch of |
| 6837s | crit on |
| 6838s | there the play we can do one of we can't |
| 6846s | do no that doesn't work I'd rather have |
| 6849s | this one I think |
| 6852s | yeah it's |
| 6859s | fine |
| 6861s | uh try to do this quickly and I'm not |
| 6863s | finding really great stuff why why don't |
| 6865s | I have amazing Idols that are just like |
| 6867s | ready to |
| 6870s | go oh just like a little minion doing |
| 6873s | something just Mark for death |
| 6877s | yeah okay where's where's our |
| 6885s | health I want to beat this |
| 6890s | boss uh come on Vitality I just want I |
| 6894s | want lots of |
| 6898s | health give me some amazing Health ones |
| 6901s | come |
| 6908s | on why did my Idols all |
| 6911s | suck |
| 6913s | why what did I |
| 6919s | do oh there we go that one's going in |
| 6922s | for sure yes yes yes yes yes |
| 6930s | yes uh 5% that's going |
| 6936s | in 5% that's going in |
| 6939s | okay um where can I wiggle that in |
| 6956s | there poison is |
| 6963s | low all |
| 6965s | right it's an |
| 6970s | improvement and you know it's it's funny |
| 6971s | now we're now we're out of |
| 6978s | potions that's more questions |
| 6981s | here uh okay so just talking about the |
| 6983s | alternate leveling stuff for a second |
| 6984s | the dungeons um part of what the |
| 6987s | dungeons were supposed to be was an |
| 6989s | alternate leveling experience and and |
| 6991s | they kind of do that but they're really |
| 6993s | crap at doing that um and so improving |
| 6995s | the dungeon experience is going to be a |
| 6997s | big thing that's going to help with |
| 6998s | improving the alternate leveling path |
| 7000s | for especially for um for experienced |
| 7002s | players and um one of the big things |
| 7005s | that dungeons like like that that that |
| 7007s | process of going through the dungeon |
| 7009s | when it's that static layout with |
| 7010s | blockers in the way it like like I think |
| 7013s | we've proven that's not fun for the vast |
| 7015s | majority of players um and so when we |
| 7017s | fix that that's going to be a huge boost |
| 7019s | to the way dungeons function we're going |
| 7020s | to be able to add so many more Dungeons |
| 7022s | and you're going to see a natural |
| 7023s | alternate leveling path that doesn't |
| 7024s | rely so heavily on the campaign and also |
| 7026s | alternate paths for getting the bonuses |
| 7028s | that would be available in the campaign |
| 7030s | that are going to just make the whole |
| 7031s | process blow wide open I think really |
| 7033s | quickly um I think there's room for |
| 7036s | really |
| 7037s | awesome alternate leveling paths that |
| 7039s | don't just say hey you're in the |
| 7041s | monolith now um um that can be I think I |
| 7045s | think the big key thing for them is they |
| 7046s | can be varied I think they can be |
| 7048s | heavily varied in the path you choose I |
| 7050s | think the original vision for dungeons |
| 7052s | as an alternate leveling path is still |
| 7053s | really great I think we we pumped the |
| 7056s | brakes really hard on them because |
| 7057s | dungeons themselves weren't fun enough |
| 7059s | and I think we're finally getting to the |
| 7060s | point where dungeons are going to be fun |
| 7062s | enough that that alternate leveling path |
| 7063s | is going to be really positive |
| 7064s | experience for people that are really |
| 7065s | seeking that I want to do something else |
| 7067s | other than the campaign I want to I'm be |
| 7068s | able to choose my own adventure as I'm |
| 7070s | leveling a character still um but still |
| 7073s | having that experience be different from |
| 7074s | just hey you're straight into endgame |
| 7076s | already um I I think it's I think it's |
| 7079s | getting really positive experience I |
| 7081s | could be wrong about this um and we're |
| 7082s | seeing people that are hopping into Mon |
| 7084s | level 20 already like it's really not |
| 7086s | that long um especially on all |
| 7088s | characters but I think the key part for |
| 7089s | a lot of players is not those old |
| 7090s | characters but rather those new |
| 7092s | characters who are starting fresh on the |
| 7094s | season starts that want that experience |
| 7095s | to be fun still and we want that |
| 7096s | experience to be fun still um and that's |
| 7099s | definitely the direction we're going |
| 7100s | Something That We're heavily working on |
| 7102s | um I this also comes hand inand with |
| 7104s | seasonal mechanics things that are fun |
| 7106s | to slot into the campaign experience |
| 7108s | that that make it different that make it |
| 7109s | feel different that add new themes add |
| 7111s | new people add new um ideas mechanics uh |
| 7115s | activities you know all these things |
| 7117s | that you can you can make that leveling |
| 7118s | experience uh new different fun prepare |
| 7121s | you for endgame mechanics that are going |
| 7123s | to be integrated into a system at the |
| 7124s | whole once you need to use them fully um |
| 7127s | and and having that that gradual |
| 7128s | introduction process in the campaign is |
| 7130s | going to be really positive for players |
| 7131s | to uh learn those systems uh not in a |
| 7134s | high stakes environment so to |
| 7139s | speak okay let's |
| 7142s | go is there any chance uh right that I |
| 7146s | may have a have very rarely and on rare |
| 7149s | occasion sometimes possibly perhaps |
| 7152s | allegedly sent bug reports which I may |
| 7154s | or may not have realized afterwards that |
| 7156s | were strictly technically speaking |
| 7158s | idiotic uh of me to send may I please |
| 7161s | request forgiveness for past |
| 7163s | transgressions absolutely and I just |
| 7165s | noticed your name which is kind of funny |
| 7167s | in this context um but yes you are |
| 7173s | forgiven no problem I would much rather |
| 7176s | people send in uh like like four bug |
| 7179s | reports and only one of them actually be |
| 7181s | and like and then realize the next day |
| 7183s | that three of those were kind of crap |
| 7187s | um and and uh and be like oh one of |
| 7190s | those three was good those one of the |
| 7191s | four was good with the other three were |
| 7192s | crap like I'd rather that situation than |
| 7193s | just like didn't send any bug reports |
| 7196s | you know like we can we can filter stuff |
| 7198s | that's not great uh there improvements |
| 7200s | to steam de performance someone last |
| 7202s | week was saying that you didn't have to |
| 7203s | use Crow utilities anymore um not sure |
| 7206s | but yeah it's something we're working on |
| 7208s | uh based on previous answers given is |
| 7210s | there Poss a possibility of defining |
| 7212s | soon I'm sorry there's |
| 7215s | not knowing you are working on an |
| 7217s | alternate leveling method is all I need |
| 7218s | to hear and to know you can uh know you |
| 7221s | are actively finding something that can |
| 7223s | check all the boxes of leveling is great |
| 7225s | thank you you're welcome I hope we come |
| 7226s | up with something awesome for you uh |
| 7229s | suggesting The Forum thread to instead |
| 7231s | make dungeons that takes any key and |
| 7234s | grants you some idle slots and passive |
| 7236s | scales with level uh so it's a baseline |
| 7239s | environment for anyone trying to uh |
| 7241s | speed level uh would that be something |
| 7243s | you would add instead dungeons are |
| 7245s | already an all leveling tool and that |
| 7247s | way you don't have to fix patch uh have |
| 7249s | a fixed path to follow just random |
| 7252s | yeah so that that that those last two |
| 7255s | words that you just put in that sentence |
| 7256s | are like the the the hardest part of |
| 7259s | that whole thing and I it seems really |
| 7262s | innocuous um like just random levels |
| 7266s | like yeah great super easy um oh my God |
| 7270s | that's a mega mega mega massive project |
| 7272s | that takes a lot of people and is really |
| 7275s | really big and we're working on |
| 7280s | it uh any PL for a mini game to be added |
| 7284s | to the main game uh Creator collector |
| 7286s | card games some sort of thing I would be |
| 7289s | over the moon if we did this uh this is |
| 7293s | like the we're talking dream come true |
| 7296s | feature for Mike here um I've uh yes I I |
| 7301s | I don't have I've I've not been told I'm |
| 7303s | allowed to start making one yet um but I |
| 7306s | will break them one |
| 7309s | day uh is a big fan of Elliot 2K hours |
| 7312s | wow that's a lot I I wonder if Rune |
| 7314s | Master will return to its past Glory |
| 7317s | it's kind of confusing when the Mastery |
| 7318s | came sorc was bad and the only strong |
| 7320s | sorc builds were actually sorc with the |
| 7321s | Run Master passives uh now it is the |
| 7323s | opposite no run Master builds only sorc |
| 7325s | using some Rune Master skills and |
| 7327s | passives I think the um in both cases |
| 7331s | there was a disproportionately powerful |
| 7334s | thing pushing one half above the other |
| 7337s | and the tendency for only whatever is |
| 7340s | the absolute best to be populator um |
| 7343s | was um kind of pushed to the extreme |
| 7347s | and |
| 7349s | um we ended up with a very lopsided |
| 7354s | results on |
| 7360s | um on on on on the the the stats on what |
| 7363s | people were |
| 7364s | using uh and I think that |
| 7368s | it's uh a matter of just you know |
| 7370s | getting a little bit better balance uh |
| 7372s | and we'll see a little bit better spread |
| 7378s | um it's a really tricky combination of |
| 7381s | oh can |
| 7383s | we um it's a really tricky |
| 7388s | combination to to to balance nicely the |
| 7392s | they're so similar and they have so much |
| 7394s | natural overlap that quite often when a |
| 7396s | mechanic's really strong on one it's |
| 7398s | really strong on |
| 7399s | both um |
| 7407s | I popped that way too quick I double |
| 7409s | tapped |
| 7414s | it magic has |
| 7416s | no |
| 7420s | perish this right there finally |
| 7425s | Co that great was |
| 7428s | great uh yeah skill shards |
| 7436s | feeling good about |
| 7443s | that those are supposed to stick around |
| 7445s | I don't know whether or |
| 7451s | not bone does a lot of |
| 7454s | [Music] |
| 7455s | damage all |
| 7457s | right |
| 7459s | well oh you're allowed to make a mini |
| 7462s | game one day there now someone just told |
| 7464s | you said said it to |
| 7466s | you thank you very |
| 7469s | much uh well I had a great time I hope |
| 7473s | you did too I will be back same time |
| 7475s | same place next week uh if I missed your |
| 7478s | question I apologize it was not |
| 7479s | intentional please head on over to our |
| 7480s | Discord and I will try to answer it |
| 7482s | there we've got an ASDF Channel |
| 7485s | um we got a couple last second ones in |
| 7487s | here uh if uh I'll be back same time |
| 7490s | same place next week hopefully with a |
| 7493s | guest I think we're if if not next week |
| 7495s | the week after we're going to start |
| 7496s | doing guests um I really want to get |
| 7498s | this as a regular thing we do frequently |
| 7501s | um and yeah I hope hope you all have a |
| 7503s | great |
| 7506s | day thanks for stopping by appreciate |
| 7508s | [Music] |
| 7513s | y'all and let's go let's let's see let's |
| 7516s | see if anyone's doing anything fun right |
| 7520s | now uh |
| 7525s | oh someone someone's |
| 7527s | [Music] |
| 7531s | going let's let's see who this let's see |
| 7533s | who this person |
| 7536s | is that a good stream I felt I I really |
| 7539s | enjoyed playing with the controller this |
| 7541s | time so thank you very much uh for for |
| 7544s | for pressuring me into uh into giving |
| 7546s | that a shot I really enjoyed it see you |
| 7549s | next week |