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Good morning!

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 Community Manager for Codename Entertainment, 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, up until Friday afternoon.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 208!

Community Activity!

Lots of sporty entries for the colouring sheet challenge this week, but 11 sheets shy of the goal of 50. We'll be rolling them forward to count with this week's activity.

We'll be releasing a new colouring sheet later today, so stay tuned!

Updates:

  • The Tier 5 version of Dr. Evil's Summer Sabotage is currently running and will end Tuesday August 25th at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7).

  • The recipes for the Littlefoot's Big Adventure Crusaders will be available today, Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7).

  • The Tier 5 version of Sasha's Schoolhouse Scourge will go live around Thursday, September 3rd, 2020.

  • The recipes for the Summer Sabotage Crusaders will be available Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7).

  • Season 1 of the Dungeons will be ending Thursday, Sept 17th, 2020.

  • The Tier 6 event season starts with Carnival of Sorrows around Thursday, October 1st, 2020.

  • 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-7).

  • We're currently working on getting Season 2 of the Dungeons ready, and Tier 6 events.

End of Life in Flash in Browsers

Crusaders will remain available to play through the version on Steam, and through a downloadable launcher on our Codename Games website (coming soon!)

You can currently link your accounts to those platforms, using the in-game Linked Account option. Generate the code in the game you want to keep and paste it into the game on Steam or CNEGames. The Linked Account option is available as soon as you complete the tutorial in the new version of the game.

 

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! GYAL-BROG-EMYD-JETE awards 2 All Tier Crusaders Games Jeweled chests: Expires Tuesday, August 25th, 2020 at 9:59 am Pacific Time (UTC-7).

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, August 25th, 2020 10am Pacific Time (UTC -7.)

 

Edit: Thank you for the questions during the live hour! I'll check back throughout the week!

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

Originally posted by asric

Will the MacOS app be upgraded to run in Catalina by the cut-off? Currently, I run the game on Kong with Firefox...

The Steam MacOS version should be Catalina compatible already, since we did the 64-bit build in October 2019 as Steam required.

Are you unable to run it?

We'll also make the CNE launcher Catalina compatible as well.

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

Originally posted by staryteresy

Hi Erika,

Could you do something with spam like this:

I lovе it when strаngers sее mе naked. Dо you want to sее my nudеs? It's оn sitе - ... etc?

Best regards, Piotr

Hi Piotr,

We at CNE don't have moderator power over the Kongregate chats, so everyone should just be using the Report feature and muting the spammer, until Kongregate can get around to dealing with the delinquents.

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

Originally posted by Croq360

Hey Erika, hope you guys are staying safe!

Had a question regarding the Steam version of the game. In Kongregate, you have the ability to reload just the game portion of the screen without losing chat or the rest of your window (right click on the brown bar at the bottom and reload frame). Is there some way to do the same type of thing in the Steam version? If not, is that something that could happen in the future?

Also, a suggestion. Not everyone reads these Reddit posts nor do they watch the streams (shocking, I know :) ). As the death day for Flash gets closer, you might consider having a periodic pop-up in the game reminding people that the Flash version is going away and a link to give them instructions on how to link to Steam (or your standalone program). Preferably, if such pop-up could suppressed for Steam users, it'd probably be best.

Hi Croq360,

We're doing well, thank you! I hope you are too.

I believe that is because of playing the game in the browser, but I'll ask Kevin if that's something that the Adobe Air version would support.

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

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Hi, Erika. I had a talent idea. Feel free to call it crazy if it is:

-Support Crusaders in the same bench seat as active crusaders contribute X% of their DPS-boosting formation abilities to the formation.

This would only affect abilities that specifically boost DPS (so not Gold Find or other abilities), would not be mimicked or propagated, and positional or tag-based abilities would use the layout of the current formation to determine their effect. It would also exclude equipment. Abilities that stack multiplicatively would have the % applied to the stack value, not the total. I imagine X would end up being no greater than 10% at max level.

I specify Support Crusaders because I think stacking the abilities of DPS Crusaders would get over-the-top. (Jiao and Morrigan would, uh, be a bit nuts as a combo, even at 10% effectiveness.)

It occurs to me that this might not even be mechanically feasible, but I thought it was an interesting idea.

Hi DoctorNovakaine,

It feels a bit crazy, if only because some bench seats have more Support tagged Crusaders than others, and so then those might end up being the Crusaders to use in formation, depending on the bonus you ended up getting from them with the Talent in play.

It would be a way to take advantage of all the benched Crusaders we got going on though. Hmm...I'll note down it's been suggested. :)

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

Originally posted by Sarali1533

Hi there! Any chance we could get some pictures of the crusaders from different angles somewhere on the website? Like a gallery or something? I'm trying to get the right colours for the different colourings, but the research is quite tough since the pictures or the characters on the game are pretty small, and they generally don't show much :'(

Hi Sarali,

I can ask Kat about how hard that would be.

We do have pictures of all the event Crusaders in all the event blogs already, and I believe Exterminator through Agent 79 are highlighted in the relevant 11th objective blogs as well, though that would take a bit of searching.

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

Originally posted by DandyMike

Hi Erika, thanks for the chests!

Wanted to ask if it was possible to change recruit missions so that they don’t offer crusaders from the next event? I just spent days waiting for my mission to expire because it was for an event crusader right before the event started :( maybe if you get the crusader while you have their recruit mission available the mission automatically switches straight away to a different crusader?

Hope you’re safe.

Hi DandyMike,

You're welcome for the chests.

The recruit missions showing up just before the event has come up before. I think it's something that could be possible, since we have the start dates for the events for the next year of events, it just hasn't been a priority over other quality of life items or bug fixes.

I'll note that it's been requested again. :)

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

Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

Thank you for the chests!

It's probably been suggested before for ideas for Tier 6 talents, but I was thinking maybe a talent that gives a chance to complete a mission instantly?

One month left for Dungeons. Where did the time go...?

Perhaps this has also been asked before but for the next season of Dungeons will we be getting new maps and formations? And will we get to keep our level? (Because I am nowhere near hitting level 25 and I won't be able to given the time limit.)

You're welcome for the chests.

I don't believe a percent chance of completing a mission instantly on starting it has been requested as a Talent before, just more talents for speeding up mission timers, and the idea of spending rubies to complete a mission if you need the Crusaders back. I'll add it to our Talent list to consider.

Yeah, time is flying by for sure.

There are a couple of formations that players would like to see changed out, so we'll do our best to do that.

As per the Dungeon/Season FAQ in the game, no, your progress towards the season pass will be reset with the start of Season 2.

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

Originally posted by gordond

The Phoenix objective From the Ashes seems way way WAY harder than it should be - like I've taken suggestions from so many people and have failed it -- for a tier 3 objective, it's impressive how awfully hard it is. It's harder than many tier 4 objectives that I have done and in events tier 5 objectives.

At this point I've done nearly every single other tier 4 objective. The furthest I've gotten in From The Ashes is 1324 which just seems laughably poor. I've even done it with Morrigan and I still seem to hit a wall. I'm not sure I even have a point other than... sigh. Sorry. It has been a struggle. 2.23e8 idols, for what it's worth.

We did mean for From the Ashes to be tricky to complete.

Though Morrigan did make it easier for players, and yeah, there's the RoboRabbit strategy.

It's more about Legendary items for beating it than Idols, though having levels in the Talents that increase the maximum level of the Crusaders does help in addition to the Crusader tricks.

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

Originally posted by _umdos

Hi Erika,
you want to keep the percentage gain of total idols on dungeon bonus for next season?
Cause Players idol counts will spread way more then, making it harder to implement reasonable new talents for most players
Wouldn't it be better to have a more linear idol gain for Dungeon Idol Bonus? like:
A percentage of best Bonus Idol drop on FP \ Challenge Tokens earned* from last week?
Additionally you could boost that percentage by a small amount for every 1k/5k dungeon areas reached.
So there would be more variation on objectives to get best idol gain.

-Or you just raise the FP cap by e600+ DPS on next Talents update ..Do ya?!

Hi umdos,

We aren't planning further changes to the idol bonus from the Dungeons at this time, but we'll note the suggestion.

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

Originally posted by ROKH777

Hi Erika,

Thanks for the chests. I'm a moderately new player (started during Hermit event). Could you please consider significantly lowering the cool-downs for crusaders and epic recipe missions? At the current rate of mission cooldowns, it will take me over 3 years to collect all new and missing epic recipes without blowing challenge coins on them. I have a decent enough roster that I have plenty of bench crusaders sitting around doing nothing, and I'd love this small catch-up mechanism that should only impact new and mid-tier players.

The starter packs were a great idea, and I've taken advantage of them, but help chasing down Mindy's hat and Imani's belt would be great.

Hi Rokh777,

You're welcome for the chests.

The recipes are more meant to be a secondary source to getting gear for Crusaders, with the primary source being the event chests and weekend promo chests, and then their specific gear mission itself, when those are available.

I'll note down the request for the increase in recipe rates though.

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

Originally posted by BazzTurd

Greetings.

In regards to dungeons.

I believe it was mentioned that it was primary for people in endgame, what is endgame for you e14, e16 or more?

And how many do you expect to reach level 25 dungeon in the alloted time?

How many have reached it by now, and how is the spread down the dungeon levels in regards to number of players?

Will we perhaps see another nerf to the dungeon in season 1, since you already nerfed it once?

We saw with the dungoen release here, and have seen it before, that CNE seem to put in things that give the players alot and then nerf it for the worse from a player perspective, is that deliberate?

Why not do it the other way around, release it on the harder side, and then nerf it easier, will make it better for the players I think, and you would not aggrevate the players that much.

Also, why release/nerf things before a weekend/prolonged weekend or holliday, that way you cant react to things if problems arrive, and it wont aggrevate the players that much.

Hi Bazzturd,

Endgame would probably be the players who were hitting the e1100 cap on normal free plays pretty regularly.

A fair number of players have already reached level 25, and more are on track to hit it as the season comes closer to ending.

We aren't planning any further changes to the Dungeons for season 1.

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

Originally posted by Croq360

Thanks for checking. I added a "suggestion" as an edit to my post, but it may not have been there when you went to reply. Didn't want you to miss that as I think it'd be helpful as the migration away from Flash gets closer.

Yeah, we'll be posting an announcement about linking in game as well, once we've heard from the relevant platforms.

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

Originally posted by Sarali1533

Thank you for your answer. Alas, the pictures on the blog don't feature a lot of angles, and we are left to guess many parts of their design. Eg, for Oona, we can't see the cushion she's sitting on, the back of her wheelchair, or her pants. Any chance we can have more illustrations?

Btw, I forgot to say how thrilled I am that this crusader is disabled! As a disabled person myself (though not in a wheelchair, but still), I find that representation pretty awesome ^

Yeah, it's really cool to have Oona in the game. I will pass that feedback along.

Kat has informed me that since we only do side and front views of Crusaders, and that sometimes the animations hide things, depending on the Crusader, not every part gets drawn, so she recommends just using your best guess for the hidden pieces.

She did say

But as a specific answer on Oona, her pants are black like the arms, the cushion and seat back were never visible in the in-game models iirc but I would have probably stuck with black, and maybe the silver of the frame for the back.

And followed up that she does visit the reddit a couple times a week to collect the colouring sheet entries, so if you post in the current week's thread, asking for colour clarifications for the Crusaders, she'll respond if she can.

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

Originally posted by FGG_31415

Hey Erika, its nice to talk with you again.

Can't say im really good today since i find out my ex-bf died yesterday from an accident.

How should i deal with that? Should I look for our old text mensages, try to remember the good moments and things we lived or should i try to anesthetize myself by seing, dunno, cat videos or something like that? I dunno what to do, its my first time dealing with mourning

The worst part for me is that we were separeted (by my initiative) and i even had the desire to contact he again and be friends but i thought it was not time yet... now i cant anymore.

Hi FGG_31415,

Oh wow, I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing someone close to you is never easy, especially if it's unexpected.

Unfortunately, I'm not really qualified to give out advice on how to mourn, especially since everyone grieves in different ways.

I would recommend reaching out to a local grief counselor if you can, if that would help to have someone to talk to.

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

Originally posted by Gourou666

Hi Erika!

Any plans for those who can not use Steam to play CoTLI?

https://i.imgur.com/nqHaAwc.png

Hi Gourou666,

Then that would be what the CNE Games launcher would be for.

What platform are you on?

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

Originally posted by PurpleOlolo

Damn, how can I spend it???

https://imgur.com/L7P7AIL

Coming up with other uses for Legendary catalysts is still on the to-do list.

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

Originally posted by SnooDoughnuts6987

hey Erika

any chance one of the T5 objective rewards could be something like "Free Play bonus Star" instantly turning blue? Or just an even shorter reset requirement than it is now?

Hi SnooDoughnuts,

So instead of having to clear areas or wait for the daily 5% bonus, once you've cleared an objective, the free play bonus would always be charged?

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

Originally posted by SnooDoughnuts6987

theirs a daily bonus? well maybe not always, just require fewer other area resets, to charge, doh instant recharge sounds nice, but obviously only in exchange for probably the hardest T5 objective you could come up with! gotta feel like I/we earned it!

ex. you did Worlds Wake, so its blank now, you do Ghost Beards Greed, reset, now Worlds Wake is almost fully charged, only needs 2-3 more resets on GG. but again, instant does sound nice

Yeah, all free plays get 5% daily in addition to the percent from clearing areas on other free plays.

So instant would be awesome, but otherwise, just an improved version of the Tier 3 11th award from completing Rewind, to have the bonus build up quicker.

Thanks for clarifying!

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

Originally posted by kurvazje

Thx Erika, looking forward to the standalone launcher. Am hoping it won't be too too network intensive to leave overnight at the office domain. will you have a paid version to disable any ads? I wouldn't mind that. I'll donate to your page regardless soon as it's out.

The launcher will run the same as the current Steam version as far as computer and network usage goes.

We won't have ads in our launcher, and we don't have a donation page, just our normal in-game purchases.

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

Originally posted by Gourou666

As a minority of players, I use Linux.

Ah, we're not planning on making a linux version, but Steam Play does allow players to use Steam to play Crusaders.

Go to the Steam client, then go to Settings -> Steam play -> Enable steam play for all other titles






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