about 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 257!

Community Activity!

There's one more day to get in your Shir Brio colouring sheets to unlock a DPS buff for the community and rotate to the next buff reward in the cycle! Just 21 sheets to go!

Updates:

  • We've been working on Season 5 this week.

  • The Tier 6 version of Sasha's Schoolhouse Scourge is currently running and will end on Tuesday, September 28th at Noon Pacific Time.

  • Crusaders is about to have its first DLC Retirement Sale! Check out the blog for more details.

  • The recipes for the Schoolhouse Scourge Crusaders will be Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, October 12th, 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.

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. It will open a new window or a new tab in your browser and you do need to have cookies enabled.

 

Have a treat! DULL-GAWK-KELP-JURY awards 2 Tier 6 Educational Jeweled chests. Expires Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Update: Due to the office being closed next Thursday, the reddit Q&A will be on Wednesday, September 29th at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

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

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about 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 257!

Community Activity!

There's one more day to get in your Shir Brio colouring sheets to unlock a DPS buff for the community and rotate to the next buff reward in the cycle! Just 21 sheets to go!

Updates:

  • We've been working on Season 5 this week.

  • The Tier 6 version of Sasha's Schoolhouse Scourge is currently running and will end on Tuesday, September 28th at Noon Pacific Time.

  • Crusaders is about to have its first DLC Retirement Sale! Check out the blog for more details.

  • The recipes for the Schoolhouse Scourge Crusaders will be Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, October 12th, 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.

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. It will open a new window or a new tab in your browser and you do need to have cookies enabled.

 

Have a treat! DULL-GAWK-KELP-JURY awards 2 Tier 6 Educational Jeweled chests. Expires Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Update: Due to the office being closed next Thursday, the reddit Q&A will be on Wednesday, September 29th at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

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

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

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

Erica, hello!
Thanks for the last crusaders (both accumulating buffs with saving progress, and quickly accumulating a large boost), they will greatly help in the passage of Dungeons.
I wanted to clarify - are there any preliminary options for reducing the cost of Dungeon items from the first two seasons? Or maybe there will be additional ways to get Dungeon Coins (missions or talents)?
And as always - thanks for the chests!

Hi dimitrius5naj,

You're welcome. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the crusaders. :D

Since we're back to the Crypt theme for season 5, we're reducing the Dungeon Coin cost of the Lil' Reaper taskmaster from season 1.

We don't plan on adding more sources of dungeon coins at this time though, but we'll keep the request in mind.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by BreeUnderhill

Thank you all the team's hard work and for the chests! I got Brio's epic case from one of these chests :D

You're welcome. I'll pass it along to the team.

Nice luck on the Epic score! :D

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

Originally posted by Croq360

Thanks for the code!

I got my tier 5 objectives all done (took longer to do as I wanted to try and get extra materials from Material Mining by pushing past the objective areas where you could). I noticed that it pays out the extra materials every 500 areas, any chance you guys might consider having it pay out 1/5th of that amount every 100 extra areas instead?

Now sprinting until Dungeons Season 5 drops. Looking forward to another season of dungeons and the goodies it brings!

You're welcome for the chests.

Congrats on completing the objectives!

If there's enough requests for it, we may look at making Material Mining give out partial rewards instead of for exactly 500 areas.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

PS. And there was also an idea to distribute promotional codes to the DLC during streams, or in some other way (in response to my suggestion to repeat the distribution as before through the keys issued to various promotional sites). But as far as I can see, it was abandoned.

We're not planning on giving Steam keys to promotional sites for Crusaders DLC at this time.

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

Originally posted by Sarali1533

Hello Erica,

For when can we expect the beginning of the 5th season?

Hi Sarali1533,

We're still aiming for Wed Sept 29th, and we're on track so far, so cross fingers. :D

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

Originally posted by invento_kave

Hello! I wanted to report that the recipes for the ongoing event seem to be open already. I just recruited Aphelion and have gotten one of his rare recipes immediately after, through a recipe mission. Same for the common/uncommon recipes for Zoraeban. Feel free to ignore if the game is working as intended. Thank you for putting lots of energy and care into this game.

Hi invento_kave,

That would be a bug. We'll get them locked up for the next 2 weeks and change.

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

Originally posted by jambonatorrr

Hi!

Any tease about a new dungeon crudaser?

:>

Hi jambonatorrr,

The season 5 Crusader will be an Human Male Astronaut Crusader, which should be fun. :)

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

Originally posted by XZlayeD

Hi!

Can you give us some info on what is to come with the next dungeon season? what rewards/difficulties do we have to look forward to?

what about difficulty curve? the last season could be tackled to level 40 in less than 2 weeks, yet we had about 10 times that amount of time to get it done

Hi XZlayeD,

So as I've mentioned before, difficulty 4 will be there, and we've extended the amount of extra reward levels beyond level 25 so players can get some more prizes for their points. It's taskmasters instead of skins this season. The new dungeon Crusader astronaut friend.

Season 5 should not be finished in 2 weeks, since we've changed the drop scaling again, though I suppose someone could prove me wrong by spending all their dungeon coins on sprinting for points.

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

Originally posted by jagwatoof

I meant to write something about this earlier because now I've forgotten exactly which one, but Euodia's Heavenly Defender skin does not make her eligible for use on an objective that I did recently. Maybe the Hellmouth event for angel? Or something requiring having wings?

There was an issue with the flag for her skin, but we resolved that for sure on Tuesday with the game update we did.

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

Originally posted by jambonatorrr

I hoped more like a slot or a special/unique ability :>

I may tease more on stream next Tuesday.

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

Originally posted by Daurakin

Add me to the vote on 1/5 mats per 100 areas too for Material Mining.

Will do.

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

Originally posted by Nerdz

Add me to that vote. Would allign with other talents such as deep idol scavenger.

Noted. :)

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

Originally posted by DrStrangelove142

Perhaps one unintended effect of material mining is that I
have stopped doing objectives until the talent is maxed. Since you can’t do the
objectives twice, this is needed if you want to max out your gain.
No biggie, just OCD, but it got me thinking, more generally,
would it not enhance a lot the replayability of the game if we could replay
these objectives and try to beat our previous score, provided there would be an
incentive to do so? Of course to avoid abusive farming the original reward
should only be won once, and any additional reward from material farming (or
possibly others) won only if one does go above the previous score (e.g. reaching
6500 should net only one more bundle of materials if previous score was 6000). The
great advantage of this over dungeons (although these are great too) is that objectives
force us to play differently (different formations, special conditions, etc.)
and thus to boost and use different crusaders and tactics instead of relying
always on the same. In short, more variety. Is that perhaps something you would
consider in the future? Or perhaps it would be too complicated?

Thank you for the feedback on the talent.

We've had requests to replay objectives in the past, so I'll add your vote to that item on the suggestion list.

We don't currently store how far you got on an objective, just that you reached the area required to complete it and trigger the completed state, so beating your high score for an objective for Material Mining wouldn't be something we would consider adding.

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

Originally posted by FateIsEscaped

Every 100, or even 50, +1 vote.

50 is within doable range for pushing the extra distance. Buffs, legendaries, rune changes.

Interesting, thanks for the insight. :)

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

Originally posted by BreeUnderhill

Add my vote for partial rewards on that talent.

Will do. :)

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

Originally posted by Sarali1533

I vote for it too!

Noted!

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

Originally posted by Croq360

Thanks, I appreciate the consideration. Sometimes, 100 areas or so is really about the best you can do due to objective "extra complications" (slower speed due to available crusaders or things auto-killing, slots getting replaced, etc.), especially on the upper tiers. Or at least, you may not be able to get 500 more areas...

True, there are definitely those objectives that would be tricky, if the formation is full of escorts after a certain area, etc.

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

Originally posted by bippyarg

At some point, if you are looking for a massive release of "almost zero effort for dev" content for end gamers, you should add a T6/11th (or whatever) that resets ALL objectives. You would then have literally months of content for end game folks to go back through all the old objectives and try to max them for material mining. Maybe this is sadistic content, I'm not sure I have a bad filter for such things!

That definitely would be a lot of content, and a little sadistic since there's no sprint on objectives, but it would be an idea.

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

Originally posted by Azar-yah

But there was no incentive to surpass the completion area for objectives. In fact, for many objectives - especially in the early days - we were doing them when we were just barely able to complete them, certainly not going 500 areas further. AS there was no material mining then, it could just be assumed on the first replay that one's high was only to completion - and if you implemented tracking fairly quickly there would only be a very little overlap with some of the objectives done since the talent's recent release.
(And not everyone has bothered even on these recent objectives to surpass the goal far enough to use the new talent anyway. I haven't, anyway. And DrS above is waiting to max the talent - so would there be much double-dipping?).

True, assumptions could be made about the past completion of objectives.

I'll discuss it with the team and we'll see what happens.

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

Originally posted by DrStrangelove142

Tracking would be ideal, but if it is too difficult to implement, then an alternative would be a single reward when reaching a second "completion", very high area (e.g. the max 16000 of material mining). With some of the objectives that would be quite challenging even for veteran players. That said, I'm not sure materials (or rubies) would be incentive enough, perhaps some additional runes, rune chests, or challenge tokens?

There could also be intermediate rewards that can be won every time provided they are small (e.g. idols, given that, as it is, the gain of idols in objectives and even in freeplay is insiginificant compared to dungeons)

Incentives for going deep has been a consistent request over the years. I'll add your ideas to the item on the suggestion list and we'll see what happens.

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

Originally posted by tl93

Hi and thanks for the code,

I read the blog and while it had some good info, I don't feel that I know just what the "Flash Sale System" is and how taskmasters fit into it.

I gather that the Flash Sale System starts with the Flash Sales that we get periodically, but those items also appear in the Challenge Shop also. Is the Challenge Shop part of the "system" too?

As for taskmasters, I don't recall ever seeing a taskmaster in a Flash Sale, so we will see this in the future?

If not, then where can we expect to see them for purchase?


Picking up on the material mining comments, I'm most disappointed that the tier 5 objectives are capped at area 4,038 (if Oona is available and used). The talent talks about capping at 16,000 areas beyond, which of course is well beyond the normal cap of area 11,974, but the difficulty scaling of Tier 5 deprives us of more than half that much.

The idea of paying out materials on smaller increments is good, though I was hoping to get more than 60k materials per objective.


On the good/happy side, the Speedy Masters is a nice boost for when the formation is limited to make speed hard if not impossible. Runic Hoards is also quite nice as is Powers of the Old Renewed. Zuczek is also making light work of most non-Dungeon things.

Hi tl93,

You're welcome for the chests.

The Golden Epics from the item packs will start in Flash Sales only, like the normal Golden Epics from weekend promos and events, and may eventually get into the Challenge Store rotation.

The taskmasters from the packs going into the Flash Sales would be new tech, and those would remain Flash Sale only items.

There may be a DPS cap increase coming, and of course, with the max 16,000 areas cap, it covers the various range of players with objectives to complete, and if we ever go uncapped completely.

Yeah, on objectives where she's allowed, Zuczek can kinda flatten things at the moment. Glad you're enjoying the talents as well.

Cheers!

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

Update: Due to the office being closed next Thursday, the reddit Q&A will be on Wednesday, September 29th at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

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

Originally posted by crenzz

Thanks for the code!

Can there be an option to either filter out certain mission types (for example, gold)?

As well, is there a way to have crusaders with buffs to enchant points (from runes) featured first for enchant point missions?

You're welcome for the code. :D

Ideally, I'd like separate tabs for the various mission types but it's been a nice-to-have update we keep pushing off for other tech, like bug fixes and new content. One day hopefully.

Filters to sort the Crusaders in the list to send on missions is also something we'd like to add when we can. Thank you for the reminder. :)

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

Originally posted by BreeUnderhill

Would it be possible to have a way to filter the skins list, similar to the gear list? I don't think I'll ever need to change the base 20 skins off, so it would be nice to be able to filter the list so I can scroll through and see just the skins that change tags and make changes easier than the full list.

Yeah, there's a lot of skins now. Filters for what to show on that screen is on the QoL list to add at some point.

Cheers. :)

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

Originally posted by PunkyKiss

Langley skin in the shop when?

At some point. Thanks for the nudge.






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