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 weird time.

 

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 240!

Community Activity!

Wow! Thank you everyone for all the crazy and adorable Squiggles-colours sheets in this week's community activity catch-up round!

Updates:

  • We're currently working on season 4, and the dungeons will be back soon!

  • Garnet's 5th slot rune will be delayed for a bit, because we want it to affect her Warp ability and Wilson wants to take his time making sure that works properly.

  • The Tier 6 version of Gardeners of the Galaxy is currently running and ends today, Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 at Noon Pacific Time.

  • The recipes for the Gardeners of the Galaxy crusaders will be available Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

  • Update The Tier 6 version of The Hidden Temple will launch around Thursday, June 3rd, 2021.

  • The Tier 6 version of Alien Invasion Day will launch around Thursday, June 24th, 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 playlist eventually.

  • Note: Monday, May 24th, 2021 is Victoria Day here in Canada, and so the office will be closed. I'm cancelling the reddit Q&A next week as it will be a short week.

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.

 

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! YOLD-SYBO-RIME-UPDO awards 2 Tier 6 Gardener's Jeweled chests. Expires Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 at 9:59 am Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 at 10am Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

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 Abject-Army-657

Thanks for the chest. I am personally enjoying the break in between dungeons seasons. Gives the rest of us middle players time to play catch up.

You're welcome for the chests.

Glad you're enjoying the season break. :D

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

Originally posted by AerichV

Any ETA on Garnet’s 5th, or some info to tease?

The rough ETA is after season 4 and Hidden Temple at this point, just so Wilson has time to do it properly.

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

Originally posted by Darkliandra

Hi Erika,

Do we have an ETA for the "Unusual Friends" fix? :)

Thanks!

Hi Darkliandra,

I've had Wilson working on season 4 tech, just so we can get the dungeons out in a timely manner, but hopefully he'll be able to look at why Unusual Friends isn't saving properly soon.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by ropus1

Is ther any plan to increase the amount of ticket for event? I am a new player and I can´t open tier 6 crusader because i do not have enough ticket. I am loving the game, thanks a lot

We don't plan on increasing the amount of event currency for events.

There is the Head Start talent, that helps you out with 2,500 event currency right at the beginning of the event (if you own the talent prior to the event starting) so you don't have to wait for time to pass to start event objectives.

Time Warps also give event currency when used while an event is live. So if you use a Delorean you get 30 minutes of event currency, which is 60 currency.

We're glad you're enjoying the game! :D

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

Originally posted by I_ate_allthecheezits

What are the steams (and times) we can watch to get some free codes. I found out about this game through Idle Champions and there are many many streams which give codes ... but I haven't found many for this game.

By the way - I am really enjoying this game!

That's cool that you've come from Idle Champions and are loving Crusaders too!

Idle Champions has so many partner streams thanks in part to the D&D theme.

For Crusaders, we only have a few sources of codes:

  • this weekly reddit Q&A on Tuesdays;

  • piggy-backing on Champions of Psychology for as long as it has episodes, which airs Tuesdays at 11am Pacific time, on the CNE Twitch;

  • the Crusaders Thursday streams at 10am Pacific time on the CNE Twitch;

  • the weekly newsletter chest on Fridays, if you're signed up; and

  • the colouring sheet codes for the community activities when the goals are met.

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

Originally posted by xyzzex

about dungeons and incasing reward cap area:

power isn't issue, it's speed to reach reward cap in reasonable time
(sub 12 hrs w/o need to have all good gls). this season required mostly 2
idols runs per day to 15k to reach lvl 25 on rewards and that's not
easy when needs to do challenges (mostly no speed and no sprinting so no
wonder that many reset challenges after 100 tokens and go back to
dungeons or if no dungeons then fps) and event objectives (which tend to
be slow cause for some reason we can't use speedparty (drop rate) on
those). so at worst total of 2 days spent on non-dungeons.

Season 3 required 312,500 points to complete level 25, which meant an average of 1740 points if you used all 15 free runs in a week for all 12 weeks.

Without taking the dungeon points bonus objective, that meant hitting area 11,500 on each run in a week.

Taking the dungeon points bonus objective just meant sprinting and then running to area 6500 15 times.

And those numbers went down if you supported the game by purchasing the mysterious benefactors pass.

How players decide between idols and points is up to them and their math, but over a third of the players who participated in season 3 managed to get to level 25 rewards and beyond and still participate in events.

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

Originally posted by billyjoe99

I presume you mean after the start of season 4 and not after season 4 !!

Yes, after season 4 starts.

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

Originally posted by bippyarg

On the topic of chest opening, which just like many other topics, start out as not an issue and then grows and grows until the player-base outcry becomes unacceptable and it is addressed:

This has obviously been brought up by many players on the past year, wanting to open more chests with a single click, as the number of silver chests generated by active players is.. quite large.

Now as you have mentioned, we understand there is a very real technical limitation stopping you from simply upping the numbers and adding a X1000 open button. The way chest contents are generated requires a server-side operation and communication to the client. So x1000 (or more) is a no-go.

However, a perhaps better approach would be to introduce an available intermediate step via a new currency, call it a "Silver-cart". You can put all of your silver chests into the silver-cart and you get 1 silver cart for every 1000 silver chests you put in. Now the silver cart has a special property that it always contains EXACTLY the same contents. Namely it does NOT contain any gear for any characters, it only contains the statistically calculated average amount of gold, mats and trinkets that a player who already has all of the gear would get it they opened 1000 silver chests. The conversion of silver chests to silver carts takes minimal server interaction and practically no server load. And "opening" silver carts is also easy on the servers because it takes no calculation, it is a static content drop.

This would still allow players to open silver chests as normal, if they are still looking for gear and find it exciting, but also allow endgame players to churn through the huge hoard of chests and convert to mats, which is the only thing they care about at that point. It would be a big quality of life upgrade, and it would have the effect of REDUCING server load.

Just a suggestion for the LIST!

Gee this suggestion sounds familiar. I'll add your vote to the item on the LIST.

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

Originally posted by bippyarg

Hi Erika, would you be willing to share some preliminary info about dungeon scaling? Specifically, what would the difference in dps requirements be to beat level 15,000 between a tier N difficulty and a tier N+1?

e.g. Assuming Tier 1 is the existing dungeons, which needs ~e2990 dps to beat level 15k.

Hi bippyarg,

Tier 1 would be the existing dungeons, as that's base difficulty level for the game.

I'm still playing around with how much "hard" and "harder" will mean, since while grag and some others can hit e9000 plus DPS, those are still exceptions rather than the rule. So a balance between encouraging power and formation growth to complete it and squashing all progress to an impossible halt if you go for the hardest difficulty.

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

Originally posted by ubi_contributor

Hello team CNE, thank you for the chests during this weird time :-)

tip for Garnet's fifth would be to strengthen his 'capacitor' and simultaneously increase the warp areas, ever so slightly at each rune level. speaking of runes, I merged them all, now where did they all go ?

Hi ubi_contributor,

You're welcome for the chests. :)

Strengthen her capacitor?

I would like the rune to help players clear more areas in some way.

If you merged all your runes into the highest rune possible that you could currently make, then they're part of that rune. The list of Crusaders shows if they have runes equipped in their rune slots as well, if you did equip runes on any Crusaders.

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

Originally posted by Croq360

Related to dungeon scaling in season 4, I think I remember you saying that completing a certain area in a given scaling will unlock the next tier for that map. I'd like to suggest (assuming that it's not already planned to be this way) that for those that have passed 15K on the current maps, get "tier 2" unlocked automatically (even if they did it before season 4 started). Otherwise, there's going to be a big grind as you have to run all 10 maps again to unlock the next scaling/tier.

And related to scaling/points/rewards, is that still planned to end at area 15k or go higher? If it's going to go higher, is there anything planned that'll help you complete more areas in a shorter time? It's already pretty difficult to get in all the runs in a week, going to even higher areas is going to make that even more difficult/impossible to do.

It's only 10 dungeon runs to unlock Tier 2 on all dungeons, but I'll keep the request in mind.

New season, new end cap for the drops. There won't be any extra speed methods debuting with the launch of season 4, but some might arrive while the season is running.

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

Originally posted by Bcadren

Few Missions questions:

  1. Any plans to make the gold or materials missions more useful for endgamers? Neither has anything on cracking a couple hundred silvers right now. Not sure a gold mission even could unless it gave more than just gold . . . (maybe change the gold rune effect or something).
  2. When will we be able to do more EP missions at once or Idols missions more frequently etc. ? Still in a state of all missions out and less than a third of available crusaders for missions on mission. All they are really good for is stacks of Mission Adrenaline DPS tbh.
  3. How about sorting the crusaders in the mission panel? IE: 2x chance rune first or speedup rune first; instead of the current just plain (Most to Least Tags matched, Least to Most EP (for EP missions, opposite for all others)) we have now.

1) The more missions done, the more powerful some Crusaders will get. Still on the radar.

2) We're happy with the rate of Idol missions and don't plan on changing their frequency. One day there will be more missions for all Crusaders, one day.

3) Adding a dialog box for filtering Crusaders to send on missions is something I do want at some point. So many things, only so much time.

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

Originally posted by AllShallBeWell

Are you ready to tease anything about the next dungeon season?

Any new or reworked formations? Any details about how the scaling will work? Any more about the 'neat experiment' you referred to last time about the points/coins/idol rewards?

Fun and Games is getting the rework, as voted by the players.

The experiment will be seeing if players want to take the points bonus or the idols bonus, based on the new amounts of the points awarded for the area milestones.

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

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

Erica, hello!

What is the likelihood that talent performance rewards will appear in the campaign rewards of higher tiers?

Well, is there a doubling of the Sprint's effectiveness? And let there be also an increase in the efficiency of the Jeweler, for example. Or Cash In Hand? Or Scrap Hoarder. Or Head Start.

It would also be interesting (in my opinion) to be able to get the regular and jewelry chests of this event as a reward for killing bosses for the first time in free games with a certain degree of probability.

And finally - it would be just great if another free taskmaster appeared.

PS. Thanks for the code!

Hi dimitrius5naj,

I'm not currently planning on rewards that increase talents from the next round of 11th objectives, but it could happen.

Jeweler and Cash In Hand are already strong enough, so I don't see those getting improvements. Maybe Scrap Hoarder. I'll add it to the list to consider.

Event Crusaders are already fairly easy to gear up, especially if you already own all the recipes for all the other Crusaders. If not, there's hoards of time warps and you just need to reset the event free play after a save call to farm up those chests.

I'll make a note to have another taskmaster in season 5, if not sooner.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by Not_Pro

Hi Erika,

Are there plans for more Human support / DPS crusaders in the works? Currently, Imani / Twins / Odile / Langley seem almost mandatory to do The Machine Stops, which is a huge roadblock for someone who just missed on Odile the last time around.

Hi Not_Pro,

No planned humans in the next few events, sorry.

All of those Crusaders do have recruit missions available in the mission system, and if a player doesn't want to try using runes on Casey or Dr. Evil or the original Human crusaders, there's always the Crusader store if they're feeling generous and want to support the game.

Otherwise, there is the time to wait to get the Crusaders they're missing and finish the objective. The Tier 5 11ths aren't dropping in the near future.

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

Originally posted by ubi_contributor

by capacitor , I mean to hold his her stacks for longer, hence each rune can lessen current 2.5% diminishing rate of remaining warp stacks.

i.e level 1 2.45 , lvl 2 , 2.39 .. just as examples, toying with the idea. you're the experts :) & I was only kidding with the runes, I do have some lvl 7s and 8's already, it shrinks the remaining pool of runes by a good amount.

Thanks for clarifying.

I think I would do either costs less to warp or warp more areas, but not both, but we'll see. :)

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

Originally posted by Jay_Walker_254

When are you getting a mission but you don’t wanna completed the mission or you just can’t can you guys me so you can refresh missions Does missions you get diamonds from

I'll add your vote to the item about being able to cancel missions.






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