Originally posted by bridbirdbird

Instead of capping the stacks you could change what zuccerbergs 5th rune does

I feel like capping the stacks of a permanently lasting ability removes the fun of the ability in the first place

Originally posted by xyzzex

do you regret adding some sader to game like bruno, marzimallow, roborabbit, propagators?

also do you still stand behind those words that runes aren't needed for dps?

Originally posted by Bungobunce

Will you be refunding the 42.5k Deloreans I spent?

Originally posted by Glorium

so, ppl already burned 40k + delorians. whats the plan there , again?

Originally posted by Bluestblood5

Thanks for the code! Will there be any new ways to obtain runic chests available in the future?

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

I love these Q&A sessions, & thanks for the code.

I am concerned that within a week of releasing a new crusader, the team is looking to rebalance her... it seems to me that one of the biggest part of Zuczek's identity is her infinite potential using a moderately slow stacking method. She has been one of the first crusaders in quite some time that I have been excited about, and I am concerned that she will be rebalanced to the point of uselessness. This pattern of releasing crusaders to immediately make changes is worrying.

Switching topics slightly: what was the inspiration for Zuczek's design? When I first saw her she struck me as being very demon like.

Originally posted by bridbirdbird

It takes years to pile up so many warps, what other form of compensation are you thinking of thats gonna match that?

Originally posted by Vitalii-Aliluiev

Hi Erika,

Most players already have many years of experience with COtlI and almost forgot how it was at the beginning. Sometimes I wish to remember that and check how it was, but I don't want to create a new account for that.

So, I have an idea for the new challenge. Call it like "Nostalgy" or "Back to Future Past". Only 20 first crusaders will be available during the challenge. Also, idols, talents and artifacts should have no effects. Trinkets and buffs may be ok.

In that case, new and old players will have almost the same experience. Maybe we should have that challenge like something rare and start it once a year after the anniversary

Regards,

Vitalii

Originally posted by Impressive_Newt9990

Hello Erika,

Only question this week is if we can potentially have one more rune solvent mission or somehow have a way to get more of them. I have more geodes than I need same goes for catalysts but I'm completely out of rune solvents. It's the one thing in the game I feel like is slightly too limited given how we need to use a few every time the meta changes.

Originally posted by Not_Pro

I'm not surprised about Zuczek nerfs, although I was wondering if it could be done in a more elegant fashion, something akin to the Twins' Power of Two - using Firestorm grants a stack to the ability, and every power of two/three (since Zuczek is about threes)/ten (crabs have ten legs) grants a multiplicative buff of some kind, making initial levels easy to reach but making the insane amounts of DPS harder to reach.

That aside, where does the team intend to put the upper limit on the number of stacks at?

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Thanks for the chest code.

Just going to say don't be TOO aggressive when nerfing Zuczek. Let them still be powerful, just more reasonably so.

Doing some math: a stack cap of 30000 and a rune that increases 15% linearly per level would have, at rune level 15 and max stacks, a DPS boost of approximately e1212. This would be quite strong, but wouldn't overshadow current powerful crusaders or synergies - the sort of thing you'd want if you were looking to make a crusader than was powerful but not broken. They would be good, a desirable crusader to use, but wouldn't recentralize the entire game around them. (However, you might want to keep them out of 11th objectives.)

EDITED TO ADD: Just want to make clear, though, that I like the multi-stacking in principle. And I'd like to see more of that. It's just that the numbers need to be attended to. I proposed an idea for a multi-stack ability based on using buffs a while back, but the base there was .1%. That base with a half-million stack cap would be around e217, which would allow for decent freedom to build and buff with a primary legendary effect or 5th rune without being overpowering (probably not both though). I wouldn't recommend those parameters with Zuc because Fire Storm is way too slow to approach half a million stacks in any viable time frame, but it would work great with buffs, which are in fairly ample supply in general. But yeah, I like the idea, just think it's a numbers game.

Originally posted by Marena84

Can I just carefully ask that we keep the salt to a minimum?

I get that a nerf sucks, but Erika and the rest of the team are some of the most involved devs of any game I know. I think we should consider all the hard work they put into this (free to play) game, continuously keeping it interesting and entertaining and keeping in very close contact with the player-base.

Thank you Erika, and the other folks at CNE <3

Originally posted by Croq360

Regarding Zuczek, I hope that any adjustment to her doesn't nerf her to oblivion. I think there's a happy medium that could be reached where she's not game breaking, but still provides a significant DPS buff, something that gets her a place in the meta.

Originally posted by owpp

why not just change the multiplicative stacking for a additive stacking? like Qadir's Packed Curio Cabinets?

Originally posted by algie666

thanks for all the hard work guys ;}

and thanks to the players for there comments its great to read them :]

Originally posted by zenflip

As long as Zucs cap is set at something reasonable like 50k, I have no problem with this. I would like a refund of my geode though.

Originally posted by zodiPhd

Perhaps it's time to release the game out of Beta, then have a true Beta version where a cross-section of players can test new crusaders, abilities, formations, etc, BEFORE they're released. Then you will catch bugs or perceived game-breaking situations before the live version players see it; preventing a lot of disappointment from the players and developer regrets/needs for apologies, etc.

Other games that are released, yet still evolving, use a Beta version with volunteer players to work out unforeseen bugs / issues before the live version gets the new material implemented. Why not COTLI?

Originally posted by bippyarg

I suppose Zuc changes were inevitable. Hopefully you have a (mathematically defined) plan to refund delorians to folks who burned them, perhaps for nothing depending on if you nerf Zuc out of the meta.

 

I'll just take the opportunity to plug the community discord to the devs, where the Zuc scaling was discussed in depth for at least a week before release, might be worth taking a quick look there, you could head off quite a few math issues with Crusader design, lots of folks like to analyze the effect of new crusader abilities. Though scaling issues with this one was pretty obvious given it has a permanently stackable multiplicative buff. It would be a very small time investment, but you could gain huge insight into your crusader designs.

Originally posted by ChakatFirepaw

A couple shower thoughts on the Zuczek change:

Perhaps try a lower order curve, it's easier to keep quadratic growth in check. It also wouldn't be that hard to explain in the tooltip: "This ability applies its buff twice."

Another idea would be to take a page from Black Viper: The permanent part of the ability is linear, but it also has a strong exponential buff based on firestorms used in that run.

Originally posted by whywouldichooseaname

why do all of zuczek's legendary effects have linear growth when the effects aren't even good?

Originally posted by Witty_Newspaper_9693

Have an ideal, u dont need cap that stack. Just make it become diminishing return.

Originally posted by ubi_contributor

Hello Erika, a QOL feature I would wish to see, (perhaps already mentioned?) that is, currently at area wipe everything goes dark. I feel it is disenchanting the game experience further as time goes on. may you implement dark or grey on the swipe but only for formation/monsters, and not the bench or skills?(keeping the core visible)

Originally posted by iggir

Hey Erika and team, 9,352 hours into the game and still loving it (Steam). Wondering if there's a chance you can add remembering the UI scaling option as a QoL improvement.