[2021] Crusaders Community Q&A #233 with host Erika

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

Welcome Crusaders!

Before we begin today, I hope you are safe wherever you are, and that you are in a position to take care of yourselves during this time of change.

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 232!

Community Activity!

Just one more Gwen sheet and we unlock the code for the DPS buff on Thursday! Thank you all for sharing your talents!

Updates:

Tier 5 Ghostbeard's Greed objectives and the next batch of 5th slot runes drop this Thursday.
We're currently drafting the plans for season 4 and the next update.
Additional 5th slot runes will be released in batches over the season. It's the plan to have them all released by the end of it, and then new Crusaders going forward will debut with their 5th slot rune.
The Tier 6 version of Hermit's Premature Party is ends today, Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 at 1pm Pacific Time, because Daylight Savings Time.
The Tier 6 version of Nate's Candy Conundrum will launch around Thursday, March 25th, 2021. We'll also be doing a recruit and gear mission update for past Tier 6 event Crusaders.
The recipes for the Hermit's Premature Party crusaders will be available at Noon Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 30th, 2021.
The Tier 6 version of Superhero Spring will launch around Thursday, April 15th, 2021.
In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! The streams are at Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time (UTC-8.) VODs are available on Twitch and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube channel on the Friday following the stream.

End of Life in 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.

If you didn't have a chance to link your account, we'll be setting something up to help you transfer soon.

Please put in a support ticket if you've found a bug with the game. How to submit support tickets: Click here for the instructions.

Have a treat! YMPE-RESH-PIPS-KNOW awards 2 Tier 6 St. Patrick's Jeweled chests. Expires Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 at 9:59 am Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 at 10m Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

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

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

Originally posted by [deleted]

[deleted]

Like actual buttons to toggle the level up amounts?

If you hold the Shift key and click, you can level Crusaders x10.

If you hold the Ctrl key and click, you can level Crusaders x 100.

If you hold both the Shift and Ctrl and click, you can level Crusaders x 25.

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

Originally posted by MikeOxsbig

Is there a way to be provided an alternate award or not asked to do rare recipe missions if we already have all the ones for our current crusaders? Besides the completion count, it seems to be a wasted effort.

The mission system isn't very smart.

If you have another recipe mission running, but that isn't completed yet, it will see "Oh, you're missing a recipe" and offer you another mission, which if the currently running mission succeeds, can then potentially reward nothing.

The unnecessary mission still counts a completed mission towards the Mission Impossible achievement, and grants you the mission adrenaline buff.

Or you can choose not to run it and let it expire to get it out of your mission list.

It's really only a problem if you already own basically all the recipes in the game, so we don't really plan on changing how it works at this time.

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

Originally posted by [deleted]

[deleted]

You're welcome. :)

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

Originally posted by Low-Anywhere8422

Thanks for the chests, I got my last epic piece for Gwen out of them :D

That's awesome, congrats! :D

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

Originally posted by eternalgoatslayer

any chance teir4 the machine stops has been fixed to where the debris from the sky despawns? I cannot run that mission currently as every few levels i have to restart ( last attempt by me was two days ago.)

Thank you!

Should be fixed as of yesterday morning, if you've reloaded the game since then.

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

Originally posted by ZellZoy

Would it be possible to add a "Crusaders with 5 slot rune slots" filter to the rune screen?

Since all Crusaders added to the game after the final large batch of runes will debut with a 5th slot rune, the filter would be pretty temporary, but it is something that has come up a bunch lately. We'll see.

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

Originally posted by gragatrim

When a weekend buff applies to a crusader, it doesn't also apply to mindy's mimed copy of the FA. Is that intended? Similarly, it seems that when mindy mimes a crusader with a 5th rune, she doesn't mime it with the effect of the 5th rune. Is that intended?

Looking forward to seeing the next batch of 5ths!

Yup, both of those are intended. She's OP enough already. :)

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

Originally posted by genner13

Hi Erika. Long time since I wrote in here, too much to do at work that I . Hope everyone on CNE is doing alright. Can you tease something about superhero spring? Is more marvel or dc...

Hi genner13,

Work is important, so no worries. Everyone at CNE is doing well. :)

The Superhero Spring Crusader might have a bit of Marvel influence.

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

Originally posted by 50phie

Hello,

Thank you for the chests and for your efforts to keep up with all our requests.

I am curious as to why the change in the listing order of the chests.

Echoing other's requests: Can the chat space/method be addressed? Bumping players; time stamp; chat input space too small; players "disappearing" from chat room, etc...

Thanks,

Sophie

Hi Sophie,

You're welcome for the chests.

If you reload the game, the chest order should be back to normal. It was just a temporary bug that got fixed yesterday.

I'll add the votes to the chat improvements list. We'll be making some time for improving that soon.

Cheers, Erika

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

Originally posted by ManInTheBox42

I was just finishing a few missions and noticed a few possible options for improvement:

I was doing recruit Tiernan and the zero DPS reduced the amount of gold I received from an 8 hour mission to: *drumroll* zero gold and this wasn't the first time I accidentally clicked while DPS was zero. Could we get at least an: "are your sure" there perhaps?

I was also completing an idols mission and a ruby mission. For both I have no clue how many I actually received (and yes: I am curious :P ). For the experience points you get an overview of the results; could we get something similar for the other mission types?

and last: I'm not a pro in this game so I usually have trouble finding on which slot a crusader "lives" or finding a crusader with e.g. elf or projectiles. A search option would be much appreciated!

I mean, the "Complete Mission" pop-up is your "Are You Sure?" message, though I get the #feelsbadman of getting 0 gold because you're clicking on auto-pilot.
If you press the P key on your keyboard, you can bring up the player-facing play history and see the gains, but it's something that would be nice to see, for sure.
I'll add your vote to the item about a search bar for the Crusader bench.

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

Originally posted by XZlayeD

won't that lead to a hell of a lot of confusion when the runes come in and people start trying to use the runes as they're written, just to have little to no effect with mindy?

We can certainly update the tooltip for Mimic to explain.

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

Originally posted by ZellZoy

Maybe a "Crusaders with empty 5th rune slot" then? That way it would be useful forever (almost).

That might make more sense.

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

Originally posted by Global-Quantity3849

Still enjoying this Dungeon Season, I think you've finally hit the sweet spot thanks. My query is on a certain mission. The cooldown for "geo caching" seems disproportionately long, although you get twice as many idols for it than "A hidden stash", the cooldown is about 36 hours so often there is no benefit to it, in fact I can get more idols from constant "hidden stash" missions. Any chance you can reduce the cooldown for "geo caching" please.

Glad you're enjoying the season. :)

The varying mission cooldowns are to give variety among the missions that you do receive, but I'll make a note to look at it.

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

Originally posted by pibedetorres

Hi Erika, thanks once again for the code!

I recently did T4 of The Lost World objective in Idols Through Time and for some reason it was really buggy, because the asteroids were visually staying on the crusaders even after changing area (the crusaders' DPS came back though, so it was only a visual bug), but what really made it an issue was that monsters would stop spawning if I opened any in-game menu (like missions) or put the client in the background to check my browser. It might be related to the asteroids since they had some heavy animation, can't say for sure though.

On a different note, I know this was asked by others already but it would be really appreciated if a "Refresh" button could be added to the game in a future update, so that we wouldn't have to close the client and open it again (one step instead of the current two).

Thank you in advance for your reply!

Hi pibedtorres,

You're welcome for the code.

Yeah, there was a bug with the falling items that snuck out in .285.1 last week, but got resolved yesterday morning.

A refresh button isn't something that the game would support, which is why you have to close and reopen the game.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by XZlayeD

why have Mindy scale with gear specifically, but not runes then? from how formation abilities are being described there's no distinction between the two and how they interact with the game.

Hmm, true, Mimic does just say it copies the BASE formation ability from adjacent Crusaders. So technically it shouldn't be mimicing the gear bonuses either. I don't think we'll be making that change at this time, after so long.

At this time, Mindy doesn't need more power, so she won't be updated to mimic rune bonuses.

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

Originally posted by tl93

Hi Erika,

Thanks for the code and glad to hear that you're doing well.

Also glad to hear that another batch of 5th slot runes will drop soon. Can you share how many we can expect?

I expect Karen and Exterminator will be in the batch. Mindy should have a good chance to be too.

thanks, tl93

Hi tl93,

Like, the 2nd batch, this 3rd batch includes 30 Crusaders, since I want them all out before the season ends.

So yes, this is the batch with Karen and Mindy.

Cheers, Erika

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

Originally posted by These_Panda_878

Hello Erika,

1. Any idea that players with 1e17-1e21 idols would wait for the 5th rune slot for next batch of Crusaders, to try Evil Scheme objective out to make it easier? (Some players with 1e16 idols and no 5th rune idols tried their attempt to finish Evil Scheme but it did not make it but they need to grind more idols) Seems like I am saving geodes for important, popular crusaders like Arenvarr, Gwen and to lesser extent, demon/evil crusaders...

There's a couple Evil Crusaders in the 3rd rune batch, so that might help.

We may revisit the difficulty of Evil Scheme when we release the Tier 5 11th objectives.

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

Originally posted by Kite-sama

Good day.

- Would you guys consider adding an option for merge runes so we can click and just go click on the runes we want to merge instead of taking them to the place to merge them?

- Any options in the future so we can just pay "The Waterways Pass" directly from steam so we can pay on our designated coin region?

Hi Kite-sama,

We are going to look at making merging runes quicker. I'll note down your idea as one to consider.
We don't currently plan on making a DLC item for the season pass, since we'd need to create it and retire it every season, as DLC can only be purchased once. We'll stick with in-game using Steam conversion for now.

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

Originally posted by Kite-sama

Then is there a way be able to pay on our currency?

We only use Steam's conversion from USD to local currencies, if it's a currency they convert to.

If you live in a region they don't support a conversion for, then no, we don't use local currency.

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

Originally posted by Kite-sama

Mine is Argentina and it doesn't convert it, why's that?

Edit: Argentina has currency on Steam

It's possible that in-game transactions are still not converted after the Steam change in 20219, but the DLC do get converted.

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

Originally posted by 0EC0D3

As I didn't generate a link code from Kongregate, am I completely unable to play at the moment?

i.e., I can't transfer my progress to Steam? Even through support e-mails or whatever?

You can open a ticket from the game on Steam, or email in, with your Kongregate account name.

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

Originally posted by ProShashank

Hi Erika! Thanks for the free chests !

I noticed a bug in the game. I unlocked Cindy's 5th slot rune since it gave a boost to Storm Rider. I had placed Lvl 6 Air Rune which increased the effect by 1500%. However, after I reset world, the rune effect seems to disappear. In my next free play run, I could not see this increased bonus from the rune applicable. So I upgraded the rune to Tier 7 and the bonus was now effective. Please check this bug and act on the same at the earliest.

Hi ProShashank,

You're welcome for the chests.

Yeah, seems like Cindy + Storm Rider Rune is acting how legendary items first acted when buffing Storm Rider back in the olden days, with the buff not sticking around properly after closing the game. It's currently on our fix list to get sorted out this week.

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