Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker




08 Dec

Comment

Originally posted by Axed_

Hi Erika!

Hope you and your family are doing well.

I had an idea for a talent. Essentially it is a talent that gives starting gold on certain types of runs (Free Play, Dungeons, maybe Challenges?). This would be similar to Cash in Hand. I was thinking rank 1 could give 1e10 gold and scale up an extra e5 per rank up to e100? The main idea is to make the beginning of new FP/Dungeon runs a bit less annoying as you'd be able to unlock the crusaders and get some upgrades unlocked right away.

Hi Axed_,

We're doing well, thank you. :) I hope you and yours are doing well too.

It's a talent idea that comes up on occasion. Given all the early tiers of the Talent tree are full now, I'm not sure it really makes sense to add in the Tier 7/8 range, but we'll keep the request in mind.

It also stops being useful once you've got enough Idols to be buying the Tier 7 talents, since the gold find from the Idols can get your formation set up before area 5.

Comment

Originally posted by Croq360

Resurfacing my suggestion on a similar graphic in the game to indicate that "Phase Shift" happened on an area in place of the normal "Area Complete" message.

Actually on the to-do for the Talent update, if we get to it. :)

Comment

Originally posted by SanjeepTheJeep

Thank you. Sometimes there are crusaders at or near the end of the list that I want to use and even jumping by 8s takes a little while at 150+ crusaders.

As cubert notes, you can hold Ctrl + Shift while clicking the arrow to move from one end of the list to the other immediately.

Comment

Originally posted by Sylexy

The discord coloring sheet is coming along but won't be ready this week (probably the weekend or early next week), are we going to get a Kat sheet this week? :)

The final Kat sheet of the year will be Snowball Fight.

Looking forward to seeing the Discord sheet. :)

Comment

Originally posted by Croq360

Hey Erika, thanks for the code! Hope all of you are well at CNE.

A couple of suggestions.

  1. For the missions screen, a suggestion for the eventual reworking of that. If you're setting up an EP mission, if you have a bunch of them with the same number of tags to contribute, being able to have the ones with EP buffing runes show up first in the list. That may not be something for everyone, but maybe a way to turn on/off prioritizing of rune mission buffs. Just a thought...

  2. Any chance we might get the ability to "de-merge" a rune? Like turn a lvl 2 into two lvl 1 runes?

Hi Croq360,

Yeah, we're doing well over here. :)

I think we do need to figure out how to fit some extra filter choices somewhere on the screen, because there's the ascending/descending EP, and now rune effects, and I know not all players use the game's suggestion for filling the mission spots, so maybe a toggle for turning that off as well. Adding the request to the rework list. :)

We don't plan on allowing runes to be unmerged.

Comment

Originally posted by cubert73

Hi Erika, any chance we could be able to see EP on the Rune screen? I keep having to go back to the crusader list to see which crusaders I want to buff with "share more EP with bench". I would also really appreciate the option to list crusaders by slot on the Rune screen, for the same reason. 43G1S to Tiernan is quite a long scroll.

Thank you!

Hi cubert73,

Hmm, that is a good idea. Looks like there is room on the Rune screen to have it surfaced somewhere. I'll talk to Kevin about it.

Bench Seat could make a good filter. I'll poke him about that too.

Comment

Originally posted by Made_In_The_80s

hello erika,

as always thanks for the code.

i have read that the fifth rune slots will be released step by step.

any info on who will get fifth rune slots first? original 20? T1?

any chance for an early jiao rune slot?

will the newest crusaders be the last to get their slots?

and i have read that the fifth rune slots will buff crusaders' formation abilities.

i guess with more than 150 crusaders and a max rune level of 15 nobody can really balance things out.

especially for crusaders like mindy.

she only has one formation ability to buff and it already is very powerful as it is now.

but will there be rune slots that are super powerful compared to others to make so far unused crusaders more useful than now?

something that will change things a lot?

or are you trying to balance the buff from the fifth rune slot so that the buff will be ~ the same benefit for every crusader?

im really...

Read more

Hi Made_In_The_80s,

You're welcome for the code.

The plan for the 5th slot runes is in batches by Crusader ID still.

The 5th slot runes will buff one of the 6 upgrades on a Crusader, as appropriate. Unlike the current runes, which have the same scaling for every Crusader, the 5th slot runes will have to have a personal scaling for leveling up as well, so depending on which upgrade we've chosen it doesn't get crazy big.

Comment

Originally posted by FarmBoy1970

Is there an indication when a mission returns double rewards? I haven't a lot of %age chance of it out there yet, but I'm not sure if I've not yet been lucky, or have had a hit and not noticed.

Also, which missions can be doubled and which not? I'm guessing the EP missons not as that has a separate rune boost (or can both hit?)

Yeah, if it doubles you'll see the text "Double Success" instead of the normal "Success" text when you complete it.

All missions can be doubled, even the EP missions with a extra EP Rune Crusader on them, if you send a Crusader with a double success rune on it and get lucky with the chance to double applying.

Comment

Originally posted by SanjeepTheJeep

Erika,

Any chance for a slider to move through crusaders in the missions screen rather than clicking the arrow?

Hi SanjeepTheJeep,

I'll add your vote to our potential improvements list for the mission screen.

You can use the mousewheel to scroll the list, or hold the Shift Key while clicking the arrow to move 8 Crusaders at once.

Comment

Originally posted by Legitimate-Guitar786

Greetings Erika

Can we ask why the Kat hates Christmas, or is that none of our business?

Hi Legitimate-Guitar,

You can try asking Kat why on stream, but no guarantees she'll share.

Comment

Originally posted by Environmental_Nerve2

Yo Erika

Since it’s the last stream ever this week will you be showing the new T6 and Skin respectively?

Hi Environmental_Nerve2,

It's only the last stream of 2020. We'll be back in 2021.

We will be teasing the Christmas Crusader, as the stream is a week out from the event.

We might tease more about the skin other the tidbit that we shared that Xander is getting the skin.

Comment

Originally posted by belkak210

Hello, Erika. Hope everything is alright.

Anything you can tease about: 1. Momma's Monster's buff

2.Talents

  1. The new sader ?

Hi belkak210,

Everything's fine, thanks for asking. I hope you're doing well.

1) Coming.

2) Still just teasing female on the Christmas Crusader.

Comment

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

Hey Erika

  1. So will we have new objectives by this time next year?

  2. Could we ever see an upgraded version of Idols Over Time? Like “Even More Idols Over Time”

Hi N00byDoobyDoo,

1) I think we can add more permanent objectives over the course of 2021.

2) We aren't currently planning on doing something like Idols Over Time, but there's always a possibility. I'll add it to our list of requested Talents.

Post

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 through...

Read more External link →

03 Dec

Post

Well met fellow adventurers!

Create your own version of a Festive Dinner with our latest colouring sheet, now available from our website.

 

If we get 50 coloured sheets shared at us on our Twitter or here on reddit with the hash tags #lostidolscolouring and #fantasydinner by Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 at 4pm (16:00) Pacific Time (UTC-8), then we'll release a code for a 7 day long 200% Spawn Speed buff redeemable by all players. We'll be combining the sheets collected last week w...

Read more External link →
Comment

Thank you to everyone for the creative submissions! Those monsters turned out quite unique!

Unfortunately, we didn't meet the goal this week, but we'll keep aiming for the 50 or more coloured pages with our next colouring sheet!


01 Dec

Comment

Originally posted by Bcadren

When will we be allowed to do more missions at a time? All possible missions out with 44/124 possible crusaders on mission is getting silly.

It's still an item on my to-do list, don't worry!

Comment

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Hello! Thanks for the Runic Chest.

I don't have any pressing matters, but I think it would be neat to see a Quetzalcoatl skin for Draco for the next time that event rolls around, or in the case of a new batch of skins dropped in a shop.

Hi DoctorNovakaine,

You're quite welcome.

Oh, that would be cool. I know last year we got some requests for a Naga version of Draco. I'll drop a Quetzalcoatl one on the list too.

Comment

Originally posted by Sarali1533

It lags with the formation full, I didn't notice anything with the formation empty, but that might be me missing it. I try to use them while idling. It's all the buffs, it especially happens at the very end, when I buff my formation to grasp some last areas before resetting.

Full formation at the end of the reset gets a starting point for checking out the potential memory leak. We'll take a pass at it.

Comment

Originally posted by belkak210

Hello, Erika. Unfortunately there is some terminology that's similar so I would like to clarify.

By 'upgrades' do you mean specifically the round ones that say Upgrade, like Gemthel's spices, or does that include FAs as well?

Internally, they're all upgrades, even the formation abilities.