about 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 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.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 225!

Community Activity!

You have another day to get your Busy Bee submissions in. Thank you to those of you who've submitted some already: they look awesome!

Updates:

  • The 5th slot runes will debut with season 3 of the Dungeons.

  • There is currently a break between season 2 and season 3.

  • The Tier 6 version of Carnage Cup will launch around this Thursday, January 28th, 2021.

  • The recipes for the Princess' Pool Party crusaders will be available at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8) on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021.

  • The Tier 6 version of Merci's Mix-Up will launch around Thursday, February 11th, 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 shortly.

Questions for You

1) What Merci's Mix-Up Crusader would you like to see get a skin: Rocky, Sally, Warwick, Katie, Frankie or Alacrity?

2) What Frequently Asked Question do you see a lot that should be in the in-game Guidebook, but currently isn't?

3) What tags or upgrades would you like to see for the upcoming Merci's Mix-Up crusader?

 

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! ANOW-GLEG-BREI-DUSK awards 1 Runic chest. Expires Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 at 9:59 am Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 at 10am Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

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

Originally posted by Stormcrow-69

Thinks for the chest, my skin vote goes to Alacrity.

You're welcome for the chest.

Alacrity vote noted. :)

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

Originally posted by fareider

Skin for Sally

Oooh, thanks for the vote!

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

Originally posted by harimau2

Hi Erika,

Great that the game survived the killing of Flash.

As the stand alone app works fine now Kevin will maybe have some time to improve the chat. Being used to the Kongregate chat there are some improvements possible to make it working.

Some suggestions:

— The player box is unnecessary long, 11 names could shrink to 5 or 7.

— The player’s names, please list them alphabetically.

— Make it possible to make players friends who then are listed first.

— Possibly enable private whispers to other players.

— Have text from players start with a local time stamp, it’s not inviting to react to a message if you don’t know how long ago it was posted.

— Can the announcements get a toggle in options? Not everyone is happy with the pop-ups that someone you prob don’t know got an epic hat for Squiggles. I know it’s mutable, still…

— Thanks for the mute function.

— The text entry field could use some more lines, at least three. The current single line feels clumsy .

— Also there are people who see white text on a black background and other players see black text on a white background. This makes the coloured messages unnecessary hard to read for some (fe blue text on a black background). Maybe choose for an unchangeable background?

— I miss chat room 3 already. It would be nice if you could choose for a certain room, even if there are less players at some time.

Hi harimau2,

Yeah, it's doing OK so far after the death of Flash.

We would like to make some improvements to the launcher chat system, and we'll keep your suggestions in mind, though things like whispers and friending players are probably not going to happen.

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

Originally posted by 100beep

1.) Can CarPet get a level rune? It would be good for Power of Two. Ignore this if you're customizing runes to fit each crusader.

2.) My vote for the skin is Alacrity. They're the only one that mid-high level players use.

3.) When can we expect T4 11th for Mugwarts, and/or a new campaign?

1) The 5th slots runes will be custom to each Crusader. We'll keep the request to have Power of Two buffed on Carmen and Petunia.

2) Alacrity skin, noted.

3) Once season 3 is out, some more objectives for the permanent campaigns is on the list of tasks.

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

Originally posted by SpareLiver

A Katie skin that replaces the Angel tag with something (maybe human?) would be pretty funny. I'd say hold off the Rocky skin for when (if) you start doing skins which do something more complicated than just changing tags because his would need to give a significant boost.

A Human Katie could be neat.

Yeah, poor Rocky, the butt of a lot of jokes.We'll definitely keep that idea in mind for when skins have effects.

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

Originally posted by Gagaking1

Will it ever be possible to fuse multiple sets of runes at once?

For example, if you have 30 level 1 star (soul) runes, can you make 10 (or 15!) level 2 soul runes in one go instead of having to drag the level 1 rune to the merge button 10 times?

If you have a lot of level 1 and 2 runes, it can be a bit tedious when you want to make level 5 runes or above.

Yeah, we'd like to add a way to speed up the crafting of low-level Runes. Thanks for the poke!

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

Originally posted by jazelock

Hi, sorry if this is overstepping, but I was just curious if there are any plans to change the two Yogscast crusaders in any way, given the misconduct allegations that led to the removal of these exact two members from the Yogscast IRL.

Hi jazelock,

We aren't currently planning on changing any of the Yogscast crusaders.

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

Originally posted by 50phie

Double and Triple Ditto to what Hari said.

However, the stand alone is not working that well for me. But... it's working.

Improvements to the launcher chat, noted.

The stand-alone works in mysterious ways, and depends heavily on how much CPU and RAM you have, as well as the age of your CPU, and if you're using auto-clickers at all.

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

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika,

I know Kat doesn't like gender swaps, but an Incubus skin for Sally would be in-character for a seductive demon (and hey, if Alacrity gets to switch between three options, a male skin for Sally can't be unfair, right?). Might mean gender-swapping certain of her effects, though (Seduction, Jealousy, her Whip)

As for the new mystery Crusaders upgrades, we're overdue a new clicker, but an upgrade that boosts familiars click damage (perhaps by +100% per familiar in play, multiplicative? ) might suffice.

Hi Cassius,

Skin for Sally, noted.

A new clicker Crusader eh? Sure, we can try again.

So you want taskmasters to be able to compete with, or overtake, projectiles in a sense? Because taskmasters already click 6 times per second with your click damage amount, and they do crit as well.

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

Originally posted by Sjinkogaming

Hello Erika.

I wanted to ask if it's known around what time the Nate's Candy Conundrum will be this year? Seeing as it sometimes in March and sometimes in April.

And my vote is for Alacrity.

Hi Sjinkogaming,

The event start dates are definitely one of the easier things to plan.

Nate's Candy Conundrum is tied to Easter, which is why it moves around.

Looking at the calendar, Easter is the weekend of April 2nd, so I've started the Nate's Candy Conundrum event on March 25th.

Alacrity skin, noted!

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

Originally posted by LordSerion

I vote for a skin for Alacrity

Thank you for the skin vote!

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

Originally posted by Daurakin

Hey Erika!

VOTE: I'm torn on the vote. Katie, Frankie and Alacrity all sound good to me.

MERCI CRUSADER: A tag-combination I'd love to see some is some kind of demon clicker-tank. A chubby, four-armed devil, maybe having skills related to taskmasters and eating the monsters in a gluttonous fashion?

Just have a question about Dungeon Season 3:

Is it gonna be a bit less... intense this time around? Season 1 was already harsh, and season 2 was even moreso. While I did get a few idol runs in the very end, the point-farming prior to that was not particularly fun, to be honest.

My suggestion for dungeons: How about cutting points needed down by about half - BUT - also reduce the amount of runs you can do per week by about half? That way, the time required is significantly lessened, but it also makes idol-runs less cheap, since you'd need to use a lot of dungeon coins to farm idols a lot - which might be harder to come by with fewer free runs.

Hi Darukin,

Votes for all 3 then. :)

Oooh, a squat demon, that could be fun. Thanks for the suggestion!

We're taking into account the completion stats for Season 1 and Season 2 in planning the final points requirements for the levels for the rewards, and how long the resets take. It might end up a little less intense than season 2.

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

Originally posted by Armyegg11

https://www.reddit.com/r/lostidols/comments/l5kqxs/idea_for_new_merci_mix_up_crusader/

I decided to make a new crusader concept based on the "What tags or upgrades would you like to see for the upcoming Merci Mix up crusader." its a completed concept with a name, upgrades, formation abilities, gear, legendary effeccts, the mission tags, the story of the crusader, and if you guys at Codename want to use any of my ideas, your very welcome to!

Very thorough design. We'll keep it in mind.

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

Originally posted by Armyegg11

oh yeah. i vote Alacrity.

Noted!

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

Originally posted by Azar-yah

Leaning towards Katie. Though poor old Rocky, it might be nice to see him get a really cool skin - as compensation for all jokes about his uselessness.

Well, Katie and Rocky can both have votes, and we'll see what happens.

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

Originally posted by gragatrim

My vote is for Alacrity.

How's the S3 of dungeons coming along? Any chance you have a rough idea of when it'll be dropping?

Alacrity skin, noted.

Season 3 is coming along OK. Not dropping this week, but it's our top priority to get out as soon as possible.

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

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

I still use Alacrity a fair bit, so I'll vote them on the skin. I haven't the foggiest what I'd want to see as a variant, though.

Don't really know about the guidebook question.

Merci's Mix-Up crusader thoughts...I'm just gonna braindump here. Robot learning to love! I'm thinking straight support for this one. As for FAs, I'd like to see one that increases global DPS by like .1% multiplicatively for every buff used, with no reset.

Alacrity skin, noted! True, what do you make the demon with 3 looks? Heh.

Support robot with a heart, cool cool.

Every buff card used? Or every buff activation, like from missions too?

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

Originally posted by Idolgrl81

Vote for either Katie, Frankie, or Alacrity

Thanks for the votes!

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

Originally posted by rjakubec

Thanks for the runic chest.

Based on the other comments, Alacrity seems to be the winner, but I'll still put in my vote for Katie with a Demon Flora tag.

We haven't had a clicker in a while, and we only have one female clicker, but I'll let you figure out how to make her meta. :)

Cheers!

You're welcome for the chest.

Alacrity might get vetoed by Kat, depending on how she feels about her time before the event. Katie skin will possibly win then. Demon/flora is a combo we haven't done yet for sure.

Another female clicker, interesting. We'll keep it in mind.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

My vote's on Alacrity. It'd be interesting to see the different appearances depending on the formation.

For crusader tags, I'd like to see more versatility for both formations and missions.

  • (Human) Tank and Healer
  • Royal, Magical, DPS
  • Perhaps more DPS/Support
  • More double tags like the Twins or the Orcses
  • More hybrids (human/animal, robot/floral, alien/bot)

I've sort of had an idea floating around for a human/tank/healer. The Shieldmaiden whose barriers bolster the defense of her fellow crusaders as well as herself based on what element she's using. She saps energy from monsters and heals herself and her fellow crusaders (the effect increases when the formation is under attack). In addition her barriers rotate between boosting DPS/gold find/increasing the effect of certain Crusader's abilities.

Thank you for the chest!

Alacrity skin vote, noted.

Thank you for sharing the tag combos you'd like to see.

Oh, that's a cool idea for a Crusader. We'll keep it in mind.

You're welcome!

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

Originally posted by Brianp45344

when we will get 11th Objective T4 after Grimm Idle Tales's Deadly Tales? Please advise... thanks...

It's on the to-do list for after we get season 3 out the door.

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

Originally posted by TheRealMcradden

Hi Erika,

One of the rune slots allows extra things to happen while your crusaders are on mission. Is there going to be a way to quickly find these crusaders while on the mission list? The icon is handy as is the mouse-over, but I still have to scroll back and forth to find them!

Hi TheRealMcradden,

Yeah, a better way to find Crusaders with Runes is something we want to look at adding to the mission screen. :)

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

Originally posted by tstevs

Would love a new skin for alacrity, they're one of my favourite crusaders

Noted. :)

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

Originally posted by Bocian00000

Can you add in the runes the ability to choose your favorite crusaders as it is in the missions ?

That's a cool idea for the rune screen.

I'll add it to the suggestion list to consider.

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

Originally posted by 100beep

Another question: Do you have any plans for adding talents etc. to the game to make more missions available, recruit missions more often, be able to skip missions, etc? I'd love to be able to skip the useless recruit missions (I just got Petra recruit) and gear upgrade (ALL the useless saders I have). Thanks!

More missions from a source has come up. It's not currently on our radar, but I'll add your vote to the item on the suggestion screen, as well as to the one for rerolling the missions.






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