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

Welcome Crusaders to 2022!

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 269!

Community Activity!

The Idol buff code from the Patchwork Medic colouring sheets is now available.

Stay tuned for a new colouring sheet coming next week.

Updates:

  • The Tier 7 version of the Princess' Pool Party event is currently running and ends Tuesday, January 18th at Noon Pacific Time (UTC -8.)

  • The Tier 7 version of the Carnage Cup event will debut around Thursday, January 27th, 2022.

  • In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube playlist.

 

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.

Question For You

For a Crusader that doesn't have a skin yet, which skin would you like to see as a reward from season 6 of the Dungeons?

 

Have a treat! HUGS-NETS-GNUS-OWLS awards 2 Tier 7 Pool Party Jeweled chests. Expires Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

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

Welcome Crusaders to 2022!

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 269!

Community Activity!

The Idol buff code from the Patchwork Medic colouring sheets is now available.

Stay tuned for a new colouring sheet coming next week.

Updates:

  • The Tier 7 version of the Princess' Pool Party event is currently running and ends Tuesday, January 18th at Noon Pacific Time (UTC -8.)

  • The Tier 7 version of the Carnage Cup event will debut around Thursday, January 27th, 2022.

  • In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube playlist.

 

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.

Question For You

For a Crusader that doesn't have a skin yet, which skin would you like to see as a reward from season 6 of the Dungeons?

 

Have a treat! HUGS-NETS-GNUS-OWLS awards 2 Tier 7 Pool Party Jeweled chests. Expires Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

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

Originally posted by May_Juggs

There’s a bug atm where a dungeon starts at a random level, a few people and myself have been saying about it on the discord, starting a level 4 and it changes itself to level 1 or 2

Thank you for the report.

That should have been fixed last night. Have you reloaded the game and tried starting a dungeon objective recently?

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

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika,

Any tips/advice for beating Tropical Flower Walk?

Hi Cassius,

Just making the best possible formation with all the Flora Crusaders available to you.

If you're really struggling, then looking at changing around Runes and Legendary gear, and maybe a couple of idol farms to get some other Talents purchased.

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

Originally posted by crenzz

I don't have a question, I just wanted to say thanks for adding clarification to the runes that affect the power given by legendary items (like Emo Werewolf's legendary cape)!

You're welcome! I'm glad it's helping. :)

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

Originally posted by Nerdz

Hi Erika,

I've been playing for almost a year, started back in April for the alien invasion. I'm starting to wonder what is the point to get huge dps numbers if the sprint meta is so efficient. FP is easilly capped and in dungeon, there is no big rewarding reason to push to your limit. Is there anything in your design philosophy that will address it or should I consider the game "won" at this point?

For a Crusader that doesn't have a skin yet, which skin would you like to see as a reward from season 6 of the Dungeons?

Zuczek!

Hi Nerdz,

We'll keep tweaking the dungeons to make having more power a good thing and we'll see what happens.

Zuczek skin vote noted!

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

Originally posted by dragonslayer_96

Thanks for the code and I hope you guys had a good break. I also hope that the streams can start up again, been looking forward to them but they keep getting cancelled.

Though I could ask a lot of stuff, I'll probably just stick with any changes planned for the next batch of dungeons? How long do you guys think the dungeon break will be this time? Also any eta for the chest opening thing you guys have been teasing for a while? Thanks for your time.

The break was good, thank you.

We did want to restart the stream this past Tuesday but Kat was unavailable. We should be able to do a stream on the 18th though.

We'll be changing the Playing Old School formation for season 6, and trying to make Sprint not the best way to earn points. Also, changing the dialog, so the bonus levels past level 25 don't make players stressed about so many levels of rewards to complete.

Trying to have the break as short as possible. I'll know more once Wilson starts on the changes to the dialog.

The chest opening thing is on the deck for this quarter after Carnage Cup and season 6.

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

Originally posted by Gerundij

Hi, Erica. Glad to see (read xD) you again. Hope, you and your team are full of ideas and you're motivated enough to bring us more pleasure and updates in our great game. The question is when do you plan to run a new Dungeon season?

And, answering your question about crusader without skin - Springy, the Patchwork Plush.

Hi Gerundij,

I'll pass it along to the team. :)

As short a break between seasons as we can is the idea.

Thanks for the Springy skin vote. :)

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

Originally posted by Croq360

I just wanted to say welcome back, and I hope that you all had a great holiday/time off!

Thank you. :) I hope you had a great holiday season as well.

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

Originally posted by antebus

Thanks for the code...wow 2022 I bet there are flying cars and moving sidewalks in 2022!

You're welcome for the code.

Soon hopefully! ;)

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

Originally posted by Jothda

Hi Erika,

can the reward for the last mission of the events be changed back to a crusader skin? A level 7 rune is a nice thing, but new skins added so much new possibilites for challenges. Of course the creation of new skins is a time consuming process for Kat, but I hope there is some way to get at least a few more than the last months...

Hi Jothda,

That's not a change we would do mid-way through the event cycle, but we'll keep it in mind for tier 8 events.

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

Originally posted by Halaberd85

Question For You

For a Crusader that doesn't have a skin yet, which skin would you like to see as a reward from season 6 of the Dungeons?

a RoboSatan skin for RoboSanta would be great, even more so if it's inspired by the Robot Devil from Futurama. (https://imgur.com/Fftf9hq)

or since i know Kat hates robots, Zuczek or Mycall

I wonder if RoboSatan will end up winning finally. We'll see what everyone else votes for.

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

Originally posted by Starsteph100

I don't suppose you're planning a flash sale including Artaxes' epic amulet? I've been playing non-stop for over a year now, and it's the last epic I need for the original 20; how else can I get it except being really lucky with jeweled chests or prize draws?

It should already be in the flash sale system and the challenge store rotation, but I don't think it would end up being an item that would be featured in a list of top GEs to offer first if we do a flash sale frenzy.

So it will show up in either system eventually. :)

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

Originally posted by xyzzex

How Did That Bug Suddenly Appeared Since It Hadn't surfaced Since This Season Started?

As noted in the change log yesterday, we made all the stats that were tied to only Season 5 season agnostic.

So there were a couple of places that got missed in changing what stats the system is supposed to look at.

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

Originally posted by LordSerion

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

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

Originally posted by Yetun

with dungen season 5 ending very soon, can you give us a hit on when season 6 is out?

As soon as we can, but I'm reluctant to commit to a date, since things happen.

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

Originally posted by sayoki

I am still missing Xochitl, La Llorona and Torakichi, The Greedy Tengu. Doing multiple dungeon runs for extra coins didnt get me Torakichi.

When can I unlock and play with these crusaders?

Torakichi just requires you to purchase him for 10,000 coins from the Dungeon Depot.

Xochitl doesn't have any recruit or gear missions yet, and neither does any other Tier 7 Crusader. We'll do a first batch of those soon.

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

Originally posted by Global-Quantity3849

There appears to be a bug with dungeon achievements, I completed the 10 x 20,000 levels on level 4 and now it says I haven't done any of the 1,000-9,000 ones on Tier 2-4 which I have. I don't know if it's something you're aware of. Thanks for the chests

Yeah, making them season agnostic didn't go as smooth as we expected.

The achievements will be fixed in our next update.

You're welcome for the chests.

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

Originally posted by taised

Hi Erika, one of the thing that makes me lose lots of time in this game is sending guys in mission. That's because we have now too many crusaders and finding the right one when you see only 8 of them it's hard. Most of the time infact i have to scroll a lot to the right just to find that useless crusader that can fill an already 100% mission. On mission screen i spend most of the time i play CotLI and it's frustating because it's time wasted.

I noticed that there's space on top and on the side of the mission screen, so i think you could enlarge mission window and just reduce portrait size to like 70% of current size, this would allow to fit three whole rows of 12 crusaders each. I made a mockup for this:

http://prntscr.com/26da1h4

This would not require too much effort I think. But if you found out another solution to fit 30+ crusaders on one mission screen, that would work too. Please, enhance this part of the game. Thanks

Hi taised,

Thank you for the mock-up. We'll keep it in mind when we tackle a mission screen update.

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

Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

Happy new year, welcome back, and thank you for the chests!

I really, really hope we'll get more multi-tag Crusaders or skins with useful tags that will boost Dungeon Points mission success rates. It's killing my Missions succeeded-to-failed average and it's frustrating to see a mission fail even with 90% chance of success...

So! Good timing with the Crusader skin question!

I'm up for any Crusader as long as they're given a tag to increase their versatility in a formation or missions. If I had to choose... Mycall!

Although I did have an idea for Odile. Either we see her as a normal school girl or a suped up Magical Girl transformation.

Happy New Year! You're welcome for the chests. :)

Part of the plan is to release some Crusaders to help with the Dungeon point mission completions, though like the tags required for Temple of Dumb, it may take a while.

Any Crusader, but Mycall or Odile, skin votes noted! :)

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

Originally posted by barawar

1 This season scaling rewards on coins was very low and at the same time the coins were on a very high demand and with the future seasons the demand will only get higher and much higher which will get too hard to impossible to follow for too many players, etc. Last 2 seasons there were 1300 dungeon coins total reward on the free reward track. This season only 300. Can you bring back the 1300?
2 Can you make the point missions to not disappear 1 week before the season/s end?
3 Doing like 12 runs per day (10k area), can't do overnights, up to 4 point missions per day (they don't come every day 4 for some odd reasons that I informed you earlier and many of them fail...) so will reach only level 60 without a pass. Just informing you to consider the next season/s reward level/s to be reachable...
4 Can we have another runic chests colouring sheet any soon?
5 Possible skin tag change you ask? Zuk, Garnet (human tag garnet like wandawision), Matt, royal/human adina, Mycall

1) We don't want players to have too large a stockpile of dungeon coins, but we are planning on tweaking the drops for season 6.

2) It's just the easiest way to deal with it, so that players can get their final missions done before the season ends and they don't have any missions completing after the season ends.

3) We only expected players to hit level 25 or level 40. The other rewards were just there as a bonus for players to get as they earned points from idol farming.

4) Maybe. We'd probably tweak how it works so there's more community involvement if we did it again.

5) Thanks for the Crusader votes. :)

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

Originally posted by HexxarTek

Hey Team,

A skin on mycall with a tag add/change would be cool, as would one for garnet as there really isn't any crusader that is comparable to her. We got one on Tiernan which is the other sader in that slot (mycall) that gets used frequently. Regarding tags by the way, when Kaala released, and we asked about an animal tag, you pretty aggressively responded that there were too many animals, yet the next 2 crusaders released had animal tags. What changed during the month spread of those 3 releases?

Looking forward to the chest opening as I'm creeping up on the 1.5 mil threshhold!

Cheers and have a good week,

Hex

Hi Hex,

Mycall vote, noted.

There's too many Animal tags because we've released those other Animal Crusaders.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by Goldchains74

This bug has not been fixed. There was a brief v314.2 update, but when you relog in, it reverts to the v314.1 and the dungeon achievements are not showing as completed. You can choose the correct difficulty, but the achievements are not correct.

The achievements display wasn't fixed last night. That will be fixed later today.

The fix for the dungeon difficulty being incorrect on starting an objective was just a server fix and didn't have a version number increase.

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

Originally posted by neverenoughpurple

Oh, and one more thing - would somebody please take pity on me and tell me how the whole coloring sheets thing works? Where should they be posted when complete, and where does one find the codes afterward? I've wandered around and looked, but never actually found it, and I don't know if it's because I get distracted before I find it, or I'm just not looking in the right places...

You can post them here on reddit, in the colouring sheet thread, or tweet them at us. Or you can email them in if you don't want to do either of those.

The codes get posted to the colouring sheet thread that unlocks it and I tend to sticky that post as the top comment.

So, last week players posted their Springy sheets to the Patchwork Medic reddit thread, and the idol buff code is currently posted there.

Players do share the code in the in-game chats and the discord, though if it's not labeled properly, it might be hard to know the source.

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

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

Would probably vote for a zuczek skin, because I would love more excuses to continue farming their stacks.

Thanks for the code!

Zuczek skin, noted!

You're welcome for the code. :)

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

Originally posted by ubi_contributor

Happy & Healthy 2022 , to one and all,

Hope you are in good form

wishlist for S6: new formations that may include extra slots (i.e up to 16 slots or more if your computer dares to handle

that is all folks.

Happy New Year! I'll pass it along to the team.

I dunno, 16 slots would be a lot of power, but I'll note down the request.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by LC125

Hi and welcome back!

A skin for Dr. Almquist is my vote.

:)

Hi!

Oooh, Dr. Almquist request, a neat one!

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

Originally posted by neverenoughpurple

Matt, Springy, or Zukzek, in that order.

Matt, with something that gives him something, anything, other than DPS, male, human, good. His attributes are so basic.

I could see Springy patched together as a robot or a zombie, or with flower quilt fabric to make him flora...

Zuczek, I don't even care. I use her so much, I just want an alternative look that swaps out attributes.

And I'm just gonna add this here, even though it's not really the answer to this question... I really, really, really want a feminine, "pretty" unicorn. Even though it would be a second skin for Bruno... or maybe, could you put the thought of "riffing on The Last Unicorn" somewhere among the storyline ideas? I'd take a second unicorn... and now that I'm thinking about that, a good skin / idea for it might be a seahorse unicorn...

(Total Last Unicorn fangirl here)

Oh man, a zombie version of Springy would look pretty cool.

Thanks for the skin votes!

We'll keep a pretty unicorn skin in mind, as either a Bruno skin, or changing up someone else's tags.

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

Originally posted by 100beep

Reminds me of the newspaper misprint years ago that advertised "sleighing with Satan" instead of with Santa. If this one wins, could you make a reference to that?

Maybe. The tech to rename some of the flavour when equipping a skin does exist.

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

Originally posted by 100beep

Some requests:

1.) Not every Crusader that's worth using uses fire runes. The three most important runes in most people's forms are Marzimallow, Zuczek, and Garnet, all three of which are fire. Bruno is important as well (earth) but that's still only two types of runes really being used. Now with the release of Ligeia, there's yet another crusader that wants more fire.

2.) On a related note: Ligeia is next to useless for me. In runs where I need a lot of DPS, Matt gives me an increase of nearly e4000, and I would need nearly 100K stacks with R11 in order to equal that, by which time you'd probably implement a cap on the number of stacks on her. If I could use Matt alongside Ligeia, then she might be usable, but as things currently stand, it's just not worth it.

3.) For Season 6 (and possibly Season 5 if you can), I'd like the points buff from the season pass to work retroactively. I'm currently at level 35 in the dungeons, and the 25% points buff would get me to a lot of runes at 39 and 40.

4.) The recipes in the Challenge Shop should work the same way as the recipes in the Dungeon Shop -- having a known recipe available, changing every two weeks. As things currently stand, it's almost never worth it to buy a random recipe.

Thanks!

1) Rune distribution is random when we make a new Crusader. It's just how things shake out.

2) Thank you for the feedback.

3) Interesting idea. I'll add it to our list to consider.

4) We show the recipe in the Dungeon Depot because the currency that purchases it is limited, and with not a lot of opportunities to earn more. We don't plan on changing how the one in the Challenge Token store works, since you will need to own all the recipes at some point, but I'll note down the request was made.

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

Originally posted by ryan92084

My vote for the skin is mycall. The little shroom has been a consistent workhorse even after being overshadowed by tiernan. Tiernan who stole their main ability, had a stronger accessory kit, stronger rune, and managed to get their skin first despite being released second. Yeah i think the little shroom deserves some new duds.

I'm curious as to the goal of the "DPS Buff" rewarded from doing "The One" objective. Since it doesn't actually increase your dps by e50, even a single level 1 sader makes the amount negligible at the point you acquire the reward, and objectives are difficult enough e50 would get you relatively few areas if you did run with 0 dps the use case seems limited at best

Mycall skin, noted!

We just hadn't given out anything that did flat DPS in all the years the game has been running, and it was an option we came up with when discussing potential new rewards.

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

Originally posted by rjakubec

Hi there!

I'm quite happy with the level I will end up with at the end of dungeon season 5. I'm glad the higher levels give only materials and runic chests, because it's a lot less stressful than the earlier seasons. So thank you for that!

I didn't even notice that Mycall has no skin. So I'll vote for him (Zuczek and Garnet are still rather new), let's see what kind of fun skin you'll come up with.

I'm looking forward for the mission screen overhaul, I haven't been doing gold or ep missions in a while. Please don't forget to make going deep on the challenges a bit faster. Also, any new talents on the horizon?

Cheers and HNY to everyone reading!

Hi rjakubec,

Glad you're happy with the season rewards. :)

Mycall skin, noted.

Not thinking about new talents at the moment, but there might be some this year.

Cheers!

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

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Happy New Year, and thanks for the chest code.

My wish for a skin would be a Quetzalcoatl skin for Draco is I've floated before, but I don't imagine that would be a popular choice.

Second choice reserved for an oft-used Crusader...maybe Thalia? Technically Thalia has a skin but it's an update of his base graphic, not a unique skin.

I had a third thought briefly, but it left, so I'll leave it at that.

Happy New Year!

You're welcome for the chest code. :)

Draco or Thalia, noted. Thank you!

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

Originally posted by Daurakin

Hi Erika!

Sorry for being late (as usual).

Hmm, I think a Robot Zuczek could look seriously cool (and would be mighty useful) so that's probably my number 1 vote. Alternatively: Leprechaun Garnet, going with some kind of prospector, jeweler or appraiser aesthetic could work, or a Dwarf Hildr with some viking-like aesthetics?

Hi Daurakin,

Robot Zuczek does sound like a pretty cool look. Thank you for all the skin ideas. :D

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

Originally posted by TheRealAnubischick

HNY to the team and hope the break was restful.

Re the Skin, I'm on board with an earlier suggestion, something for Mycall, that little mushroom has been stuck in the dark for a while, so something bright and sparkly.

The break was good, thank you.

Mycall vote, noted!

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

Originally posted by FrequentWay

Welcome back from the holidays. Hopefully you been well rested.

Hey Erika, as a possible QOL improvement would be a collect all missions rewards. I understand that each mission has its own rewards and items but at this stage can we get a summary screen showing all the rewards so that we can save 15 min of clicking thru a mission rewards when we have 16 missions running.

Hi FrequentWay,

Tackling the mission screen is something it would be nice to do this year, so we'll see what happens. I'll add your vote for the quicker completion to the item on our list.

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

Originally posted by AMQ_

Vote for Zuc, Garnet, or Matt please! I liked the balance we got for better rewards the deeper you go in the dungeons - I hope continue to see that for points and coins next season. Great for when I work all day!

Thank you for the skin votes!

New season, new drop tables, but hopefully not as bumpy as the start to last season. :)






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