over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Welcome Crusaders!

Before we begin: I hope you're all staying safe and being kind.

 

For those of you who are joining us for the first time, I'm Erika, the Live Services Manager for Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and I will do my best to answer your Crusaders questions. This Q&A is so you know where to find one of the team to chat Crusaders weekly.

I will be answering questions live for the first hour and then checking back throughout the week.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 252!

Community Activity!

This week's colouring sheet is Coffin Shopping! Thank you for the submissions we've received so far, especially for such a detailed sheet!

Updates:

  • We're working on the Summer Sabotage event this week.

  • Season news: Due to popular demand, we'll be extending the current season so there's less of a gap between season 4 ending and season 5 releasing. We'll be giving season 4 an extra 3 weeks. Stay tuned for that game update this afternoon!

  • The Tier 6 version of Littlefoot's Big Adventure ends today at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, August 17th, 2021.

  • The Tier 6 version of Dr. Evil's Summer Sabotage will launch around Thursday, August 26th, 2021.

  • The recipes for the Littlefoot's Big Adventure crusaders will be available after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021.

  • In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube playlist.

  • Stream news: The Crusaders livestream is cancelled for this week and next week, and will return on Tuesday, August 31st at 4pm Pacific Time (UTC-7), its new time slot.

  • Q&A news: To accommodate the change in day for the stream, the reddit Q&As will move to Thursday mornings at 10am Pacific Time (UTC-7) starting on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021.

End of Life for Flash in Browsers

Crusaders is available to play through the version on Steam, and through a downloadable launcher on our Codename Games website.

Note: The launcher will work with Wine to run the .exe on Linux. Otherwise, you can try using the Steam version.

 

Please put in a support ticket if you've found a bug with the game. You can submit a ticket using the "Contact Support" button from the Guidebook/Support menu in the game. You do need to have cookies enabled.

 

Have a treat! BLUE-CUBS-GLID-PITA awards 2 Tier 6 Bigfoot Jeweled chests. Expires Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, Aug 24th, 2021 at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Edit: Thank you for the questions during the live hour!

External link →
over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Welcome Crusaders!

Before we begin: I hope you're all staying safe and being kind.

 

For those of you who are joining us for the first time, I'm Erika, the Live Services Manager for Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and I will do my best to answer your Crusaders questions. This Q&A is so you know where to find one of the team to chat Crusaders weekly.

I will be answering questions live for the first hour and then checking back throughout the week.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 252!

Community Activity!

This week's colouring sheet is Coffin Shopping! Thank you for the submissions we've received so far, especially for such a detailed sheet!

Updates:

  • We're working on the Summer Sabotage event this week.

  • Season news: Due to popular demand, we'll be extending the current season so there's less of a gap between season 4 ending and season 5 releasing. We'll be giving season 4 an extra 3 weeks. Stay tuned for that game update this afternoon!

  • The Tier 6 version of Littlefoot's Big Adventure ends today at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, August 17th, 2021.

  • The Tier 6 version of Dr. Evil's Summer Sabotage will launch around Thursday, August 26th, 2021.

  • The recipes for the Littlefoot's Big Adventure crusaders will be available after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021.

  • In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube playlist.

  • Stream news: The Crusaders livestream is cancelled for this week and next week, and will return on Tuesday, August 31st at 4pm Pacific Time (UTC-7), its new time slot.

  • Q&A news: To accommodate the change in day for the stream, the reddit Q&As will move to Thursday mornings at 10am Pacific Time (UTC-7) starting on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021.

End of Life for Flash in Browsers

Crusaders is available to play through the version on Steam, and through a downloadable launcher on our Codename Games website.

Note: The launcher will work with Wine to run the .exe on Linux. Otherwise, you can try using the Steam version.

 

Please put in a support ticket if you've found a bug with the game. You can submit a ticket using the "Contact Support" button from the Guidebook/Support menu in the game. You do need to have cookies enabled.

 

Have a treat! BLUE-CUBS-GLID-PITA awards 2 Tier 6 Bigfoot Jeweled chests. Expires Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, Aug 24th, 2021 at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Edit: Thank you for the questions during the live hour!

External link →
over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Doctor_Arkeville

Season extension! Epic win! Thank you!

You're welcome. It made sense to do when we talked it out. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by arcaine666

Thanks for prolongation!

You're welcome. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Goran369

Like this,from one season to another without breaks.

Thanks

Some players mentioned still wanting a bit of break to do the things they don't tackle while the season is running, but we'll see what happens.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by isawbones

SEASON EXPANSION!!!! Awesome change. Actually gives me something to do now!

Thank you to the players for bringing it up on the livestream last week.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Alimoria

Aw, bit sad about the live stream change. As I think 4pm pst is 1am Denmark time. :(

Yeah, we understand it might not work for some of our regulars who come by while we're live.

We'll give it a quarter or so of time and check the stats on how the change in time is working out. It may move again in the future.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by rafcio39

Thanks for the code. I have one question, when can we expect new talents and tier 7 events?

You're welcome for the chests.

Well, we're almost at Carnival of Sorrows time, so getting pretty close to Tier 7 events.

I have a talent update in planning for this fall, so that's also soon. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by moonmorphr

The recipes for the Littlefoot's Big Adventure crusaders will be
available after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, August 17th, 2021.

Today? Really??

Thanks for the dungeon extension and the code!

No, not today. Copy/pasta fail. >.<

August 31st for the recipes.

You're welcome for the code.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by XZlayeD

with the season extension could there be some kind of points carrot at the end of it? some players has been points capped for months already.

No, we won't be adding extra rewards, just changing the end date.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by BazzTurd

Extended season, why?

No.

You could rerun season 1 instead, to let those new people who haven't gotten the chance to get the achievements in that one a chance to get them, and/or the other previous ones

There isn't really a "rerun" of a season. Even though season 5 will have the flavour of The Crypts again, it will still be a new set of data.

The season completion achievements are only available for players who were playing at the time to achieve which is why they get hidden if you didn't earn them while the season was running.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Croq360

Great news on the season extension! More idols FTW, though it is going to delay my doing the new T5 objectives and other non-dungeon stuff... Not that I'm too worried about it, will still have enough time to get everything done. Thanks!

You're welcome.

Yeah, there will still be a break between seasons, just not as long, so you should have time. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Due-Satisfaction3141

ty for a great event ,will dungeons be extended by a week,also is there any plans to star selling the weel long dungeon points buff in the shop please?

Glad you enjoyed the Littlefoot's event. :)

The dungeon season is being extended by 3 weeks.

We don't plan on offering a dungeon points buff for tokens, but I'll note down it was requested.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by H4ppyfunb4ll

Langley skin is BEAST, more please!

Nice! I'll pass it along to Kat. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by H4ppyfunb4ll

Here's what would make me very happy (upvote if you agree):

A countdown timer for cost reset on Legendary Catalysts so I know when I can upgrade more epics.

I'll add your vote to the item on the suggestion list. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by avan16

My thoughts about dungeons. I spent about a month to complete 9 levels, since i had only 10 billion idols. Now i don't see, why should i waste my time on rather useless reward, like small idol buff, or few Torakichi recipes, or few tokens for jeweled chests. There are better rewards on higher lewels, but it could take me another month to get to them. So I think on every level of dungeons there should be some really special and useful rewards. Now I would rather concentrate on remaining main campaign objectives, there are better rewards at least and it would take less time.

Thank you for the feedback on the dungeon rewards from a lower idol count perspective. We'll keep it in mind when finalizing the rewards for season 5.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Travkeymaybe

Hello Erika,

Thank you so much for the season extension. I'd like to know with regards to challenges when can we expect some changes to occur there specifically for the tier one only challenge since it's a possibility for this week.

Another question is when can we expect new talents. I feel like with the season extension talents are going to need to be more of a priority given how many idols were gaining per season.

Is it possible for one of the 11th objectives to perhaps add one more get per week to the challenge shop since we now have one week where we have 2 GE's and one where we have one ge. I'd also love to see perhaps an 11th objective that could give us GE's for the challenge shop since if we have the passes for each season there's not much worth it to spend our dungeon tokens on.

For the pass for next season can we expect to have rewards to the end of the track on the paid pass version?

Just a personal question here but when will the next batch of crusader recruits come out I missed Qadir when my laptop died. the points buff a lot of us now don't have anything to work towards with the extra time could we perhaps have a repeating reward like maybe have a permanent 50k material per 50k points at the end so if we have finished getting all the normal rewards our extra points we'll have will still mean something.

Pass reward wise the most useless item especially since dungeons are meant for the late game was the dungeon vouchers as there are not really any items atm I'd like to spend them on. I also wasn't the biggest fan of having the Tora chests in there since it was much easier and cost-effective to just buy the recipes since we'd do that anyway given how many coins we have saved up.

The biggest request for next season would have to be more rune solvents ik you mentioned before it's a weird situation there but for me, I find I never have enough. I'd also love to have more fire runs in particular since end game the majority of the crusaders were using their 5th slot rune is fire.

The biggest request for next season would have to be more rune solvents ik you mentioned before it's a weird situation there but for me, I find I never have enough.

Hi Travkeymaybe,

You're welcome for the season extension.

No ETA on any challenge changes, but I'm hoping to squeeze it in this year.

No ETA on talents, but coming soon.

We aren't currently planning on adding any more GE options to the challenge or dungeon store, but we'll keep the request in mind.

I'm planning on the recruit/gear mission addition after all the Tier 6 events are out, but we'll see if we do Qadir earlier.

There's been a couple of requests for more rewards on the paid track, so we'll discuss what makes sense.

The reward levels from 26 to 40 are supposed to be the extra points sink, so it sounds like I might need to play with point scaling for season 5.

More rune solvents and more fire runes, we'll keep it in mind. :)

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by dragonslayer_96

I do have a good question regarding rune merging. As of right now, there is no way to break down runes if you make a high rune. Since runes are one way, a lot of people do tend to want to not put all of their runes into one huge rune but have a vast majority of them at a certain level, like level 4, 5 or 6 for example. With how the rune merging system is, it is geared to make high runes unless you want to waste resources opening slots, merging in slot and then using solvents to take them out of the slot if you want to have them at some lower rank. Since the introduction of rune merging, quite a few people have voiced that they thought rune merging would just let them combine the runes in their inventory faster and be able to take for example all their level 2 runes and turn them into level 3 runes with some sort of merge option, not just make a slotted rune bigger.

What I do want to ask is can some option to merging runes in your inventory faster be implemented? As of right now the rune merging mechanic seems half done with it only being able to do slotted runes. Tbh, since runes have came out I have wasted more time in the rune screen getting my runes to level 5 than I have trying to get my few level 11 runes. Where we keep our runes at and getting them to that level is where all the tedium is and complaints for faster merging came from, not making one huge rune so that is another reason why it feels like this was not properly implemented.

No further changes planned to rune merging at this time, but we are aware of your request, and we'll try to slot it in for a future QoL update.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Bcadren

Any word on my buffing 1st/2nd tier crusaders suggestion? It obviously doesn't need to be as complex as the draft I put in; but too simple while buffing enough to be usable at endgame would look, very strange. (Yes, this buffs farthest away crusaders by 2.0e20%, directly).

It's an idea for dealing with the old Crusaders that we'll keep in mind if we do decide to implement a system for powering them up. Thank you again for sharing.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Either-Antelope-4330

Thanks for the chests, Erica.

What are your favorite formations or missions? Which ones do you feel you guys really nailed? Or conversely, are there any that you wish you could do over? If so, what tweaks would you make?

You're welcome for the chests.

Oh boy, off the top of my head, I'll go with Mme. Finklebottom's formation, and I'm still impressed that we go the oxygen mechanic on the Everest objective to work.

While I did like the concept of the original style of Get Me Out of Here, it did end up being very computer dependent to complete the objective within the time limit, so I'm glad we ended up reworking it to not be timed anymore.

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Nerdz

Hi Erika, thanks for the chests :)

Would it be possible to add QoL feature to the chat?

  • Sort the user alphabetically

  • Add a "friendlist". For example, have all you friend at the top of the list

  • Add timestamp next to people chatting

HI Nerdz,

You're welcome for the chests.

I'm not sure if those features are possible, but I'll add them to our chat update list to look into.

Cheers!

over 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by CotliGamer64

Is there a possibility to get guilds or some sort of group forming in the game? I think this could benefit the community feeling even more as rn there are a chat community and a discord one, but it's not often joined I believe. Maybe this would help strenghten a sense op accomplishment together and more people would have a reason to stay longer (if that is even necessary). Still would like to see such a thing.

It could be a typical boss to fight as a group and then get % of your idols, some plain old stat boost for certain things or some unique objectives that you can get skins in etc.

Made_In_The_80s#6625 also suggested a competition to engage the players more if they want. They imagined a tracking of the idols your group earned in a month and then the top groups get rewards (this could be done with %) This may mainly be for higher lvl players tho unless you seperate it into leagues for certain Idol ranges maybe.

Maybe an objective with harsher scaling would fit this where a score is measured by the % of max area reached.

P.S: If this gets added the turtle empire shall rise!

The Turtle Empire would be the guild name?

We don't really plan on adding multiplayer elements to Crusaders aside from the event areas cleared goal at this time, though it might be fun to brainstorm what systems would be possible one day. I'll note it was requested.

Cheers!






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