Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker




19 Dec

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Originally posted by Vaen29

Hello Erika/CNE,

I was wondering how you imagine the project life cycle for this game; it's been in beta state for over 5 years. Actions like this one(Crow nerf) in the middle of an long-term event reflects poorly on all the work done so far. While I accept the change, I truly believe it could have been done in a better way/moment.

I imagine not many players will go beyond lv 25 in this dungeon season, due to the lack of stimulation and also due to the fact that it's no quite possible anymore; personally I don't find anything worth after lv 21(maybe 22 if I would have bought the pass).

As suggestions:

  • mission that awards dungeon entries(1-2 per week)
  • feedback on formation save, counters resets
  • option to toggle the healing numbers off, same for gold picking

Regards, Vaen

Hi Vaen29,

Well, it's a live service game, so even if we take the beta warning off now, the numbers will still change as we continue to update it, fix bugs and rebalance it. Otherwise, the plan is the game will continue to receive updates as long as players are supporting it.

We lowered the big reward to level 21, in case players can't get to level 25, but the seasonal achievements are tied to the level 25 goal. The levels after 25 are just bonus, implemented for those players who capped season 1 and wished to be able to do something else with the points.

We'll be tweaking the rewards for both paths for season 3.

  • Interesting request. We'll keep it in mind.

  • So feedback when saving a formation, or when loading a formation, or both? Which counter reset?

  • I'll add your vote to the item on the suggestion list about turning those numbers off.

Happy holidays.

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Originally posted by Jiabae

Thanks for the raffle

You're welcome. :)

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Originally posted by Thowky

Just wanted to say a quick thanks for listening to feedback and introducing some interesting changes. It's encouraging to see the engagement with the community and the updates continuing on the game, despite all the frustrations people may occasionally have with changes when I compare the game now to the game I started playing I feel that it's definitely been going in the right direction (and was great anyway).

I'm enjoying Runes and am looking forward to the introduction of the 5th Rune slot runs. I'm still hoping for some other long term progression though that feels rewarding as it does feel like I'm going to hit a wall eventually where things start to feel repetitive (though I can't really complain given the thousands of hours I've spent running the game without really hitting that point yet).

One question around golden chests. A while back you suggested people save golden chests and rubies - is this still the case or are we now free to open them? I'm ge...

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You're quite welcome. :)

I'm glad you're enjoying the Rune system. It's definitely been interesting getting to that. We do plan to keep iterating on the progression system as well.

I had initially thought that runes might involve normal Jeweled chests, so I tossed out that warning just in case we did end up going that route. Instead we went with the new chest type just for Runes, so feel free to open that hoard of yours up.

With the idol bonus on the dungeons, they end up taking over from free plays once you've hit a certain threshold of Idols, especially if you're capping at e1100 on the free plays, but yeah, it will take a few iterations of them to get a nice rhythm going.

The crow thing could have been handled better, I'll admit that, but thank you for the understanding.

Happy holidays. :)

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Originally posted by kibrule

Iā€™m so sad for Crow... Shall my english word be one of those šŸ™

Thank you for the feedback.

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Originally posted by AerichV

Hi Erika,

I really, really don't like it when a game I often spend money in suddenly nerfs the best T6 crusader and forces me to charge with Rex again, which I thoroughly hate doing, especially on my phone. Please do reconsider undoing the changes to Crow, not only for the sake of my sanity but also for revenue.

Hi AerichV,

Thank you for the feedback on the Crow changes.

Play on your phone? So is that the Steam remote play in action, or just your own kind of remote desktop set-up?

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Originally posted by Iusedtodothings

I'm only lvl 10 on my season pass so I don't think I'll be able to get the skin this time around. I'll have to buy it next season. But I still need 3500 coins to buy the taskmaster from season 1. I'm having a difficult time saving enough coins to purchase runic chests and buy the unique season pass rewards. Will out of date season pass rewards receive a discount once enough newer seasons have come out? Or maybe a small coin compensation for runs you didn't attempt per week?

Reducing the cost of the past season items isn't something we're currently planning, but I'll note down the request and we can revisit it down the road.

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Originally posted by TylorkPlays

Are the Talents Update and Event Update the same day or just the same week?

They were the same day. :)

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Originally posted by PushPresto

Happy holidays and thanks for the chest

You're welcome for the chest. :)

Happy holidays. :D

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Originally posted by via_119

Happy holidays!

Happy holidays to you as well! :)

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Originally posted by dragonslayer_96

You know Erika, I do see that you are trying to say that CNE did not know about the imani/crow interaction any sooner than until CNE tried to fix the lag, but there are people who even have tickets that they wrote to CNE on the day of release asking CNE if it was intended interaction that imani affected crow as she does. It is one thing if you got no tickets regarding the interactions, but when we have proof that you had the tickets in since the day crow hit, it is not a reason for waiting so long to change how crow works. It is not even that you did not get stuff from these people because you answered later tickets from them. What was even worse is that you took the old ticket (that was 6 weeks old at this point) and did the blanket "oh, it was an unintended interaction" that you answered basically all of the crow tickets after the nerf. If CNE feels that imani affecting crow is a "bug", maybe before CNE releases a crusader CNE can do more testing than seeing if mindy breaks the g...

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts dragonslayer.

We definitely do appreciate the community's feedback, and a lot of additions have been added over the years, as we have time, based on player suggestions, all the way back from saved formations up to the Bossing Around talent and more Sprint.

I apologize for my mistakes with Crow, and we'll try to do better in 2021.

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Originally posted by spudly-55

English like color vs colour? Or maybe fries vs chips or hood vs bonnet or ...................

English is definitely a fun language.

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Originally posted by HonourAmongThieves

A murder of crows is the collective noun for a group of crows.

Yeah, that's always been a cool bit of trivia.

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Complex

Not sure if this has already been discussed, but anything new that we can expect for Season 3 of Dungeons?

We're aiming to launch some 5th rune slots in conjunction with season 3 along with tweaking the rewards for the passes again, but nothing else major planned, since most of the work will be with the 5th slot runes.

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Originally posted by Nikalord

Merry Christmass! a random sentence for the raffle? hmmm, let me think about :

Don't shoot the crow :P

As a mid/near-late player my grind is ruined... impacting all I've learnt, all my presets, all my goals, and all I expected to hardly reach within the next 6 months... (then all my hype/motivation :/ )

But thx for the code anyway. Now after few years of unlucky rolls, Mr Random God, please let me win that...Golden Clover ;)

regards.

Merry Christmas!

Well, hopefully the new Bounty of Idols talent can help you out.

You're welcome for the chest code! :)

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Originally posted by bobbanks77

This comment has eight English words. Thank you!

You're welcome.

Happy holidays. :)

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Originally posted by -FeniXbane-

Hi Erika,

I echo the community response to the crow situation. Hopefully you can find a way to make him useful again.

That said, I've enjoyed watching you and Kat on the weekly streams. Hope you both have a great Christmas.

Hi FeniXbane,

Noted about Crow.

Yeah, the streams have been funner than we both anticipated.

Merry Christmas. :)

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Originally posted by f14m3

Xmas ftw

Christmas is definitely a fun time. :)

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Originally posted by BladeGrip

Make Crooked Crow great again!

That's all I want to say.

If you manage to pull it off well enough to make me happy, I'll buy something from the pack list.

I think we're done tweaking Crow for now, but we may revisit them later.

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Originally posted by Ka0tikus

Thanks for the chest and the giveaway!

You're welcome. :)

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Originally posted by Super_Ad_5599

Happy holidays

Happy holidays. :)