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

Hail and well met!

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 274!

Community Activity!

Code for an Idol bonus unlocked from the Audre submissions!

And you can now submit your Zephoralei colouring sheets!

Updates:

  • We're currently working on the mega chest opening.

  • The Tier 7 version of Merci's Mix Up event is currently running and will end on Tuesday, February 22nd at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The recipes for the Carnage Cup crusaders will be available Tuesday, February, 22nd, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The mega chest opening feature will debut around Thursday, February 24th, 2022.

  • The Tier 7 version of Hermit's Premature Party will debut around Thursday, March 3rd, 2022.

  • The recipes for the Merci's Mix Up crusaders will be available Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The winning skins for the skin store are currently penciled in for a Thursday, March 17th, 2022 release.

  • The Tier 7 version of Nate's Candy Conundrum will debut around Thursday, April 7th, 2022.

  • We're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last, and will no longer be posted to Youtube.

  • Monday, February 21st, 2022 is a holiday in Canada, so the office will be closed and will be open again on Tuesday, February 22nd.

 

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! AXES-ARMS-AUNT-LEAH awards 2 Tier 7 Valentine's Jeweled chests. Expires Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

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

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

Hail and well met!

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 274!

Community Activity!

Code for an Idol bonus unlocked from the Audre submissions!

And you can now submit your Zephoralei colouring sheets!

Updates:

  • We're currently working on the mega chest opening.

  • The Tier 7 version of Merci's Mix Up event is currently running and will end on Tuesday, February 22nd at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The recipes for the Carnage Cup crusaders will be available Tuesday, February, 22nd, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The mega chest opening feature will debut around Thursday, February 24th, 2022.

  • The Tier 7 version of Hermit's Premature Party will debut around Thursday, March 3rd, 2022.

  • The recipes for the Merci's Mix Up crusaders will be available Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The winning skins for the skin store are currently penciled in for a Thursday, March 17th, 2022 release.

  • The Tier 7 version of Nate's Candy Conundrum will debut around Thursday, April 7th, 2022.

  • We're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last, and will no longer be posted to Youtube.

  • Monday, February 21st, 2022 is a holiday in Canada, so the office will be closed and will be open again on Tuesday, February 22nd.

 

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! AXES-ARMS-AUNT-LEAH awards 2 Tier 7 Valentine's Jeweled chests. Expires Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

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

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

Originally posted by Halaberd85

hi erika,

can we get a taskmaster that's a bouncing ball with a face on it, like Wilson in Cast Away?

for a fun easter egg you can call it Nick!

also, do you have anything fun planned in game for April Fools this year? if you're looking for ideas you should make all saders look like Squiggles.

Hi Halaberd85,

We'll keep the taskmaster request in mind, and see what happens.

We're still discussing what to do for April Fools, but all Squiggles, all the time sounds kinda fun. It was something brought up on stream a while back, so it might end up happening.

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

Originally posted by VioletHem

You know that event where we got to draw our own monsters or something and it played on the screen, were any of the drawings any good or were we the only ones who saw? (my pictures were terrible scribbles)

For the Monster Drawer April Fools events, only you saw your creations, unless you chose to post your favourites on any of the forums, like some players did.

It was definitely one of the funner April Fools events. :)

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

Originally posted by atxstranger

HI Erika:

I just wanted to take moment to publicly thank you for handling my issue with the sprint challenges. It's so great to get good customer service for such a small thing. Thank you so much.

Also mega-chest opening on February 24th?!? Happy Birthday to me!

Hi atxstranger,

You're quite welcome. And sorry again about the bumps with the Sprint for the first challenge.

Happy early birthday then. :)

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

Originally posted by Sarali1533

Hello Erika,

I'm pretty sure this has already been asked, but: how much begging is going to be necessary to consider having the Dungeons objectives benefit from the Free Play Sprint reward?

Hi Sarali1533,

It's not something that we're planning on adding at this time. If we did allow the extra sprint, then we'd need to rebalance the drops again to take into account the shorter time spent on the dungeons.

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

Originally posted by Xarth42

Just want to say thanks to the team for making dungeon points more achievable again this season. It takes a lot of stress off (for some of us) trying to get enough runs in.

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

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

Originally posted by barawar

I forgot to say the previous time that the game log is showing/keeping only 14 or so numbers in front of the e46+, so what is happening to the rest of our idols? They told me that the game kills them, so aren't they added to our total and counted for when we get new idol rewards and other stuff? https://prnt.sc/26xx1v1

Yes, when you're dealing with such large numbers, the game does round off the last few digits of the idols.

It doesn't make any difference in the leading digit of 3.45e46 for example, if you're earning anywhere from e43 to e45 Idols a reset for the digits in the under e12 range to effect anything.

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

Originally posted by Croq360

Thanks for the chests!

Since QoL type things came up in the recent survey, I wanted to get my vote added to one other particular thing with missions, and no, it's not auto complete or mass complete. :)

Someone a few weeks ago asked if the available missions list could show you all of the missions you have available instead of the current approach where often, you click to do a mission and another one pops in its place. This can be frustrating when you send off some crusaders only to have it load up a new one that would be better for the crusaders you just sent off (more ep, better dungeon mission odds, or a key crusader for the new mission is now gone because you didn't know it was coming and sent them off on a different mission, etc.).

Is that something you guys could look into?

You're welcome for the chests. :)

The mission spawning improvements is on the list to look at eventually, so we'll see when we get to it. Thank you for the nudge.

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

Originally posted by Sarali1533

I understand, but more than 24h for one objective is seriously to much T_T

That's why the points are so good deeper, because you are making that time commitment to get there.

I'm sure there's still a sprint meta, or a more balanced route to go, mixing in some longer runs.

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

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

Must say that I am very pleased with the changes to dungeons this season. I feel like the point and coin bump feel really good, and the rewards going above 40 but only listing until 40 feels much better than listing 100 levels and knowing that I have no chance of reaching them.

Only two things of feedback I thought I would bring up:

  1. rather than getting an epic item, I would prefer getting an epic recipe and craft it myself for the 100 materials etc, because otherwise we have to buy recipes for 1500 to fill in the missing gaps and can get useless recipes for reward items, so it ends up being a dead reward 90% of the time (plus I still have recipe gaps for previous crusaders so getting the desired recipe is even harder)
  2. Zephoriel continues a trend that some new crusaders have introduced: being forced to use a lower seated crusader to stack an ability. Are there any plans to release a character that unlocks multiple timed abilities? We now have crusaders that want constant uses of savage strikes, gold-o-rama, storm rider, and alchemy plus zuk farms fire storm, and legeia farms her own ability. The amazing players on discord make amazing formations that make these things work, but I find it a bit overwhelming on my own.

Sorry for the huge text, and a big thanks for the chest code!

I'm glad you're liking the drops and the hidden rewards. I'll pass that along to the team. :)

1) We can look at making it an Epic recipe instead for seasons going forward.

2) We hadn't considered making a multiple ability Crusader, but making it easier to charge two Crusaders by only needing one Crusader is a fair ask. I'll add it to the list of potential new Crusaders to consider. :)

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by arramdaywalker

Hey Erika,

No real requests. Just curious what your favorite mechanic from a crusader is!

Thanks

P.S. Farmer Brown crusader when!?

Hi arramdaywalker,

Boy, favourite mechanic. That's a bit tough. I guess I'm still pleasantly surprised that Garnet's Warp could be implemented, and it's pretty handy. Alacrity is a fun Crusader as a whole too.

Hmm Farmer Brown? Soon (tm).

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

Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

Adding Sprint to Challenges was a massive, massive time saver! Thanks so much for implementing it!!

Thanks for the chests!

You're quite welcome. :)

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

Originally posted by barawar

Erika, forgot to say and the TM's click very slow, 1 second delay till they click on an ability
and also many of the abilities can't be clicked during Sprint and
Transition areas and at the same time we have now many siders that
require abilities to be clicked MANY times so the siders can't work... . Zefoei the new dungeon dragon for example...

You can stack Zeph to max if you want, but they're also pretty powerful just from having two max level increase runes, and making a formation to boost their slot 2 rune. Then Me, Myself and I is just extra.

The taskmasters click on an active ability as soon as it's available, though it is kind of impressive that players can build speed formations where there's not even enough time for the taskmaster to click before it's transitioning again. We may look at what we can do there at some point, so we'll see what happens.

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

Originally posted by Bungobunce

Can you make it so all abilities are castable during area transition? Currently only Magnify and Storm Rider are, and they were a more recent change (maybe when Mycall was released, don't remember exactly when). Every other ability gets greyed out and is uncastable during transitions. If you can't or don't want to make all the abilities castable, could you at least make Savage Strikes castable, because that would really help Zeph's stacking FA.

Thank you for the feedback on active abilities and taskmasters. I'll add your vote to the item on our list and we'll see what happens.

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

Originally posted by icebergak1949

In the dungeon shop, I have 9 epic recipe tokens. There is an epic recipe available but only for dungeon coins. What are the epic recipe tokens for? I need some recipes for my dungeon crusaders.

Instead of running the missions for the Epic recipes for event Crusaders, you can buy them from the Dungeons for the Epic recipe tokens.

As the Dungeon Crusaders are in a separate recipe pool, those ones are only available from the Dungeon Coin purchase options.

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

Originally posted by AMQ_

Hey Erika! Random question. Are we getting more talents in the next few months?

Yup, we're planning on a talent update within the next few months. Tier 9 talents here we come!

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

Originally posted by barawar

Forgot and this: What's happened to the very old idea to remove/detach
all the abilities from the siders? and just give the saders that currently cast them an FA or upgrade that buffs the ability instead. that way, you can cast the ability no matter
who is in your formation, and if you want to improve the ability, you
have to use certain saders a bit like how storm rider is buffed by
several saders

Detaching the abilities was one of the more pie in the sky ideas I had and it probably would have worked if I'd had the time to tackle it back when I initially wanted to years ago, but I'm not sure if we'll actually get around to it at this point.

It touches so many systems, and would require changes to so many things, not just the Crusaders who have the abilities, but talent balance and Crusaders who care about the abilities for their upgrades.

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

Originally posted by barawar

Erika forgot and this about the low/very low idols from different Idol talents and level ups and objectives. Since the game doesn't account them or so, many of us stopped to level all and upgrade all, etc because all these Idols are not awarded at reset and the level all and upgrade all takes too long to calculate which is another issue that needs looking at. So, my point is can you make a talent or something that can transform all these idols from different talents and objectives that are not calculated from the game and not given to us anyway so they actually give us something meaningful when we reset? So, there to be a reason/s to level all and upgrade all...

The various Talents and objective rewards do serve their purpose in helping players get to the dungeons.

I'll add it to the suggestion list to make Crusader levels mean something more when you're in dungeons, and we'll see what happens.

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

Originally posted by icebergak1949

I do need some epic recipes for non-dungeon crusaders. Tur7tle to be specific. Will his recipe show up in the Dungeon shop? I don't see how to get it. Instructions please?

Yes, his recipes will show up there.

As noted in my opening text, recipes for the Carnage Cup Crusaders will be available again after Noon Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 22nd.

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

Originally posted by Traveledfarwestward

Planning on featuring this game in a year-by-year list of best games released over 40 years.

When was it originally available to play in some form for the public - 2015?

Oh that's neat.

The last week of July 2015 was when we launched the game.






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