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

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.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 215!

Community Activity!

Congratulations! From the submissions for the catch-up week and the Blood Voodoo sheets, you've unlocked the Gold buff! MYST-ICAL-CATC-HUP! Expires Friday, October 30th, 2020 at Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7).

We've also got the Taskmasters sheet running until next week, which will award an Idol buff if we reach the goal!

Updates:

  • The recipes for the Carnival of Sorrows Crusaders will be available Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 at Noon Pacific Time (UTC -7).

  • The Tier 6 version of Emo's New Moon will release around Thursday, October 29th, 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 are partnering with Desert Bus again this year, and are working on a new Crusader to give to players who donate to their campaign while it's running in November.

  • We will also be running an Extra Life Donation drive in November.

  • Season 2 and the rune system will be debuting this week!

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! CEDE-GLOM-ANNO-DUNS awards 2 Emerald Isle Jeweled chests: Expires Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 at 9:59 am Pacific Time (UTC-7).

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 at 10am Pacific Time (UTC -7.)

 

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

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

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

Hey Erika

Just wondering if you can share anything about the “mission rune” [rune that affects mission outcome]; as in is it number based, do you have to have slot 1 and 2 filled, because the mission one has to be in slot 3 or 4 or 5, or is it first come first serve?

Hi N00byDoobyDoo,

The rune slots on a Crusader can be unlocked in any order, so if you want to unlock the mission rune slot on a Crusader, then you can target that one first, if you're being sparing with your Catalysts.

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

Originally posted by Dartarus

Woohoo!

Just wanted to mention again, I'd love to see an update to missions. Even just multiple ways to sort the sader list would be so helpful.

Updating the mission screen is still on the to-do list. :)

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

Erica, hey!

And again I want to remind (especially before the upcoming event) that linking legendary effects on equipment to a specific crusader is not good. For example, a ghoul (with a flashlight) and Freight-o-throne (with a canister) have this drawback. You promised to fix it.

Thanks for the chests.

Hi dimitrius5naj,

If there's time, we'll make changes to some of the older Crusaders in the Emo's New Moon event, but no guarantees.

You're welcome for the chests. :)

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

Originally posted by XZlayeD

Hi erika!

Will there with the new season come a sink for all of the dungeon coins?

Hi XZlayeD,

Well, the rune chests will be one sink.

We may add more as the season continues. We'll see.

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

Originally posted by Dragon97240

Hello !

Is it possible to have a preview on the saved formations ? And a way to clear them (another Ctrl+click maybe, to change the save to delete) ?

And thanks as always for the chests !

Hi Dragon97240,

It's not currently in our plans to offer a preview or way to delete formation saves, but I'll note down your request on the item on our player suggestion list.

You're welcome for the chests. :D

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

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Eriika!,

Does "This week" for the rune system mean "Thursday along with Emo's New Moon"?

Hi Cassius,

No, it doesn't mean with Emo's New Moon next week.

It just means not today, but before Friday.

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

Originally posted by Cotlathi

Looking forward to season 2!

Should be interesting for sure.

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

Originally posted by Environmental_Nerve2

hey Erika

so does "coming this week" mean not tomorrow, but before Sunday?

Hi Environmental_Nerve2,

It means before Friday afternoon. We don't work weekends.

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

Originally posted by raxod27317

Hey CNE

How about to make HTML5-WebGL or Unity version of the game to continue playing on Kongregate and other sites?

Is it too hard for your programmers?

Hi raxod27317,

We don't plan on converting Crusaders to another language, as it is 5 years of code and we only have the one developer working on Crusaders.

We're keeping it alive through the downloadable clients through Steam or our Codename Games website.

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

Originally posted by algie666

TY for chests as allways hope you are all well,

if i may just ask ....on a small lap top as in memory and which plat form would be best for me to switch to from kong, thankyou for any advice given

Hi algie666,

You're welcome for the chests. We're doing well and hope you are too.

The launchers will be the same, aside from one requiring Steam to log in versus our Codename Games log in.

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

Originally posted by TFahab

I understand you can't give an exact day/time, but can you at least commit to not releasing S2 of dungeons right before leaving for the weekend? I think it would calm some folks down if we know that any bugs might get looked at before the weekend hits.

Should be out before Friday.

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

Originally posted by sqrzwol

Hi Erika,

Glad to hear runes are arriving this week. Any idea approximately when? Hopefully sooner rather than later, another weekend of broken missions or some such thing is not an attractive proposal :)

Hi sqrzwol,

Sooner than later indeed.

The missions system wasn't broken for a weekend, just overnight.

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

Originally posted by DragonFuhrer

Based on the little information release on the new rune system, this appears to be very costly. Doing the math, to get one item maxed to level 15 it will take approximately 68k materials (rubies and/or catalysts). Have you crunched the numbers yourself? Given the low level of rubies and catalysts (for this system) it will take years to get more than one maxed. Not sure if this is what you had intended.

Level 15 is the pie in the sky goal and is intended to take a long time to reach, which is why we chose it as the cap.

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

Originally posted by Legitimate-Guitar786

greeting and salutations Erika

so now that the runes are almost here can you narrow down the catalyst and ruby cost(s) for us? pretty please?

Hi Legitimate-Guitar786,

Like I mentioned on stream, a level 15 rune will take about 1,000 Catalysts to create.

The other costs will depend on your play style and goals.

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

Originally posted by D-J-Casper

Hi, Erika.

Since Friday's Update, the "Spend It All", and "Upgrade Them All" Notifications are still popping up, even after I tell the Game not to show them, again. I put in a Ticket, last night, just before I went to Bed, thinking it would be resolved, when I woke up, but it wasn't.

Can Kevin please look into this?

Hi DJ-Casper,

Yeah, we're aware that the messages are sticking around, but it's on the back burner until after we get Season 2 and the Rune system out.

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

Originally posted by Legitimate-Guitar786

also, will the rune slots be for all currently existing crusaders, or just base one, and early on event ones? or does everyone get slots, just not everyone gets runes they can put in the slots YET

Everyone has rune slots.

Not every Crusader will have a personal power for their fifth slot right away.

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

Originally posted by XZlayeD

are the rune chests an infinite purchase? by the end of the last season it's not hard to be sitting on more than 5k coins.

They're limited per week.

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

Originally posted by BenL7

How about adding a way of showing which saved formation is active?

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

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

Originally posted by BenL7

Is there anyway to persuade Steam to give me credit for objective achievements that I completed long ago on Kongorgate (or Armor Games)?

p.s. Thanks for the chest code

We'll be addressing the missing Steam achievements after more players have migrated.

You're welcome for the chest code.

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

Originally posted by gragatrim

Anything you can leak about the next T6? Have you come up with a final design(art and/or abilities) yet?

Art is all done for our bug-loving friend. Tech needs a pass by Kevin once he's done with the season and rune release, so can't tease that yet.

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

Originally posted by Tjeeffrey

Will the game ever go out of beta? What would be needed for the game to go out of it?

It would be fun to remove the beta tag, but we would still be live servicing the game, so there would still be bugs and fixes to be made to it and balance changes.

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

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

so lvl 15, does that mean you get 15 EP from a 1EP mission? or what kind of scaling are we looking at?

That would be rather a disappointing reward for the cost of a level 15 rune.

The scaling on the increasing EP from EP missions rune is an additive percentage increase per level.

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

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

And one more thing.

Do you plan to introduce missions for at least a minimum number of tokens (challenges and dungeons)?

Are there any plans (to a finite number) to increase the talent levels for strengthening Storm Rider?

No, there won't be missions for Challenge Tokens or Dungeon Coins.

We don't have any plans around Storm Rider at this time.

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

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

so uhm this is probably too good to be true, but i got to ask any way, would the mission runes also affect recipes and gear missions? guessing probably not

Like would the chance of double rewards affect those missions?

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

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

Last question.

Is it possible to write the date of their last completion in front of the challenges? You are welcome?

That's not data we currently track but I'll add your request to the list to consider.

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

Originally posted by BenL7

How large a sign do you need to wave to get more people to migrate? Get the Snowbirds to fly a sign?

We'll be putting up an in-game message about migrating in November.

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

Originally posted by Nikalord

Hey Erika!

As a completionist (and not alone in this case :D) I'm sad to see each day these unfinishable "Search For Simon" 's achievs (33k tokens one and the 2 T2 recruits for me, but I suppose some people have the T1 ones to clear too)

I Know you already spoke about this, and said there is 99.9% chances this event will never come back, so I hope you will add on your TDL to mind about a way to find an alternative for people who missed events to grab that ;)

some ideas:

- Creating exclusives quests/dungeon reward tiers? (strange but one of alternatives)

- Rename event/saders to permit the event have a chance to come back? (this should be remove laws/contract/TrademMark problems) (My favourite idea, if it's even possible/legal ;) )

- Just unlock/delete for all? (I don't like this idea, but it's an [easy/lazy] option :D)

- Hide them for people who don't have, but still effective for people who earned before; like blizzard's "Feat's of Strengh" or this kind of thing (I hate this idea! since I don't have all :p )

- Aviable in one of the currencies shops? (rubies or chall/dungeons tokens. Why not)

- Any other Idea? I know it's not a priority for you, but I hope you'll mind about it in the future ;)

Thanks for reading and the chest code ;) may idols be with you! Bye

Edit: wtf is this bot coment? It poped as soon as I posted the message... Reported as a spam, did I made right choice?

Hi Nikalord,

Thanks for the ideas about dealing with with achievements relating to the Search for Simon event. We'll keep them in mind when we look at tackling that issue.

Reddit has random bots that wander around. It's just a thing. Reporting it as spam is fine.

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

Originally posted by AllShallBeWell

Can you tell us anything about your current thoughts on adding 5th runes?

For example, are you planning on starting with older crusaders that need help, or with crusaders currently being used? Are you thinking about tying these to the event which released the crusader?

The current plan is in batches in Crusader ID order.

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

Originally posted by Nikalord

Ok, thx for reply ;) But last question above all, do you think the idea to "rename" event and crusaders could be a possible and legal move to hope to see the event come back? And if yes would devs be agree to mind it in (even far) future?

Thx for bot's hint too, it disappeared few minutes after my report ;)

Have fun, good night;)

We aren't currently planning on retheming the Crusaders and the event and bringing it back.

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

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

yes, would they?

Yes, the double reward runes will affect all mission types.

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

Originally posted by Xerxish

I would like to see challenges sorted by highest area reached if that's possible.

Now that we're gonna need a lot of cats, will the price for skins stay at 30?Is there going to be a way to earn more cats?

It would also be great if we could reset objectives to farm for rubies, mats, cats,...

Thx.

I'll add your vote to the highest area sort for challenges and resetting old objectives items on our suggestion list.

The extra materials from missions talent does apply to the Legendary Catalysts missions, so that's still a good source of catalysts, in addition to opening all the normal jeweled chests you find/earn.

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

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

except the crusader ones obviously right? although that would be amazing! unlock 1 crusader get 2-4 from that event

I think it still applies, but you do only get one copy of the Crusader in that case.






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