Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker




04 Nov

Comment

Originally posted by jokerony

Hi Erica

  1. Is there a way to complete the Soulful escort without a 1000+ crusader? It is a shame this blocks me from completing the achievements and getting the skin.
  2. Would you be planning a 1000+ EP requirements also on the future 6 tiers events?

And I vote for Gemthel

Hi jokerony,

1) If you don't have a projectile Crusader with 1000 EP, then no, you wouldn't be able to complete that objective this time around.

2) We probably won't do 1000 EP again, but it's quite likely that more objectives in the future will have base EP requirements.

Gemthel skin, noted!

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Originally posted by Bcadren

Can we get a timer on Mindy's mimic? Knowing exactly when the state will change would help the current max DPS meta (well, make it a little less annoying). IE:

Mindy copies the base formation abilities of 2 random adjacent crusaders at 150% strength, changing targets every 10 seconds.

Next target change: 5 seconds.

Currently copying: [Two other crusader's abilities].

For those odd times you end up mimicing more than 2 Crusaders?

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

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Originally posted by Bcadren

How is Crooked Crow not undead?

Its head is a skull. Also it's a little weird that it has no gender tag at all (in the company of only Aegis and the Evanescent at this point I think); instead of even nonbinary.

It's a solid crusader but did y'all just give it really few tags so it couldn't be in very many challenges? I'm confused. (Undead isn't even a challenge and neither is nonbinary, so...uhh).

We were going with minimal tags on Crooked Crow.

Ungendered is wholly different from Nonbinary, which is why they don't have the Nonbinary tag.

Crooked Crow will either find a place in formations or they won't, but who knows, we could always make objectives that only allow Healers.

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Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

Turn RoboTurkey into Gir-RoboTurkey so he can go, "IT'S ME! I was the turkey all along!!"

I also was surprised that Crooked Crow wasn't Undead. The bug consumption reminds me of Oogie Boogie and his creepy crawlies. Don't tell me that's what's underneath them bones and feathers!

Thanks for the chests!

Hmm, a Gir-Turkey. So like that Gir robot walking in a cooked turkey?

I do like that idea, that Crooked Crow is a pile of bugs.

You're welcome for the chests. :)

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Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

I'm largely ambivalent towards the Thanksgiving Crusaders, so I'll throw a random vote towards Gemthel purely to make or break a tie, since there seem to be two popular choices.

I'm currently really liking the EP returns with the Runes. Even though I only have 4 Crusaders with those runes at the moment, they're really helping make up some deficits I have on certain Crusaders and make the shorter missions a lot more beneficial.

How do you see the Slot 5 Runes coming out? I know that you mentioned they would be added in release order, but are you thinking you're releasing them in a full batch per tier, or a set number at a time, or what?

Also, any teasers you can drop about the new Talents?

Hehe, Gemthel for a tiebreak, got it.

Nice nice. Yeah, the more EP runes were a cool idea. I'm glad to hear they're helping out the players.

Probably in batches of 5 or 10 Crusaders at a time, but we'll see how it goes.

Nothing I can tease about the new Talents yet. :)

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Originally posted by zodiPhd

Glad you're feeling better.

Gemthel skin is my vote.

Thanks zodi!

Another vote for Gemthel, got it!

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Originally posted by Morigan_taltos

Thank you game successfully transfered!

Nice!

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Originally posted by _umdos

Hi Erika,

would be nice to have a rune bonus sorting button, that prioritizes rune bonuses for the specific mission you selected over ep and tags. Scrolling through all saders for every mission is kind of...

Also a calculation of the actual mission duration when speed-up saders are placed, would be great!

Hi _umdos,

Changing the sorting on the mission screen to accommodate runes is definitely coming up a lot. We'll try to look into that soon.

I'll add showing the duration change better to our suggestion list to look into.

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Originally posted by jojoga

Gemthel, because we actually use him her still.

or a skin for both, Paul and Petra, since you can't have one without the other! ;)

Gemthel skin, got it! Yeah, she is popular still.

A pair of skins for Paul and Petra, eh? We do only have time to make one skin with the event, but we'll keep the request to add both of theirs at once in mind.

Comment

Originally posted by MelaAniane

Hi, Erika! Thanks for the code! Enjoy your day!

Hi MelaAniane,

You're welcome for the code. Have a great week. :)

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Originally posted by Dragon97240

Hi Erika !

I hope the soon-to-be launcher will have the same performances than your other game (I didn't play it a lot but it looks like it has a better rendering than CotLI). And some graphics options like ... do we really need to see how much gold is dropped ?

Another point : it has already been asked but, with the runes system, we at least need a filter or priority button for crusaders with runes. If I want to use my crusader with a level 9 rune boosting EP rewards and have to check all the list because he has the most EP, it is fastidious.

(Thanks for the codes as always and good week to all of you !)

Hi Dragon97420,

The CNE Launcher will be exactly like the Steam version, just with a login to our Codename Games account system instead of requiring the Steam account login.

I'll add your votes for the not seeing gold numbers and sorting the mission list differently now that there are runes to the item on our suggestion list.

You're welcome for the code. Have a great week!

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Originally posted by Gourou666

Hi Erika,

Thanks for the chest, and hope you recovered well.
My vote for next skin would go to Gemthel the Gourmet.

Two more questions today.

1 - First, could we have a bit more sprinting areas?
At first, we could sprint to 3.500 (700 areas) and the max area was only 2.050 areas further. So the sprint was about 25% of the run.

Now, with the dungeons, we can sprint 700 areas to 3.500, but advanced players have to walk (or run) 7.000 or 11.000 more. So the sprint only represents 6-10% of the full run, which is very low. And spending more than 8h for a dungeon run makes it impossible to complete the 15 "free" weekly dungeons run, so buying extra runs is kind of pointless.

2 - With 158 crusaders now available, we do need 632 runes to have all our crusaders with at least all runes slots filled. At the current drop rate, it will take ages. Is it possible to have another source of (low level) runes?

Hi Gourou666,

You're welcome for the chests.

Gemthel vote, noted!

1) More sprint from a source is on my radar of things to add.

2) The rune system is meant to be a slow burn, but we'll keep the request in mind.


03 Nov

Comment

Originally posted by barawar

  1. The double drop runed siders don't stack multiplicativily with other double drop runed siders and at the same time the double drop per level is miserably low, it has to be higher.
  2. Can we have another double drop sider instead of Boggins because it overlaps with Larry (meaning same tags)?
  3. Can you add a tooltip when we hover over a sider to show us what runes and levels it has?
  4. Can you add a Search option in the Rune panel so when we type part of a sider's name the sider to show up? Otherwise it is very hard to find the siders we need because we have many siders. (yes, I know that in game there are 3 options to sort siders in the rune menu, but still I am lost when I search for siders there which is very frustrating).
  5. Can you add another Gold Healer sider or a skin/s that give Gold tag to Healers or a Healing tag to Gold finders because we need it A LOT and we only have bruno as such, which is totally not enough.
  6. Can the dungeon vouc...
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1) The Crusaders with the double drop runes are meant to have individual percentages. We won't be changing the power of them at this time.

2) As we continue to add new Crusaders, there will be some more double drop rune slots added.

3) The tooltip would be on the bench or on the mission screen, or both?

4) I'll note down the request for a search box on the Rune screen.

5) Part of the game is about making choices, but we'll keep the request in mind.

6) No, we won't be changing the chest types the Vouchers award.

7) Some players do need those items, so they will continue to make appearances in the season rewards.

8) Players have to make a choice between Idols or Dungeon Points this season. We may revise the points later in the season, but no guarantees.

Comment

Originally posted by rhn18

  1. What is the rationale for continuing with the percentage based Idol bonus in dungeons? A lot of us spent a lot of time trying to explain last season how it is impossible to balance and downright unfair for newer/lowergear/loweridol/non-exploiting players, since they basically get next to nothing. All you basically had to do was copy the boss idol drops.
  2. Speaking of exploiting, is this whole "shenanigan's" thing just going to continue as the new norm? Really ruins the simplicity and "idle'ness" of the game IMO.
  3. Could we please have propagating formation abilities show who they target? Mycall and Langley is reasonably easy to keep track of, but Tiernan is such a PITA, specially when Mimicked as well. Especially bad when formations are not neatly lined up. Would make making formations much less of a chore of trial and error.
  4. EDIT: What is the reason why you keep adding more and more benches, instead of populating the ones you have already added? Many ...
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1) The percentage Idol gains were popular, so we kept them. We may revisit again in a future season though.

2) There are still some bugs to be patched out, which we'll do now that season 2 and runes are out.

3) That is definitely a reasonable request. I'll add it to our QoL list.

4) We're keeping to 5 Crusaders a slot max in most cases, so that does mean new bench seats are required as we continue to add Crusaders. We also try not to put Crusaders in the same seat in back to back events, though there have been some exceptions there. We'll be filling out the seats with the remaining Tier 6 Crusaders this year, and add new as required.

Comment

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika,

Living Turkey with a knife, fork & wearing a bib, please (like he's about to be the one doing the eating)

Meanwhile: 1000EP as a gatekeep for an objective is an interesting idea, but I wish it had either been lower (maybe 600 so Crooked Crow could jump right in) or hadn't disallowed shared EP; it's ironic that "Share % of owned EP with others in your bench seat" is a Rune slot many Crusaders have but the Soulful Escort rules prevent players from making use of that feature just when it would otherwise have come in really handy.

EDIT: Oh yeah: This is probably on the "Been asked before" list in some form, but a double arrow on the Missions screen to skip across 7 portraits instead of the single arrow going along 1 would help speeding through the available crusaders.

Also, maybe "Crusaders currently on missions" might be a useful filter for the Rune screen.

For the edit, if you hold the Shift key while clicking the arrows, that moves the 8 portraits at once in the Crusader list.

Holding down the Ctrl and Shift key when clicking the arrow takes you to the end of the list.

Comment

Originally posted by rhn18

You need to make it clear that you can upgrade runes while slotted in crusaders. I personally thought that the solvents and its rarity was meant to make you think when and what you slotted.

We'll update the in-game FAQ with some more text on how to merge Runes.

Comment

Originally posted by Lamon72

I vote for a Gemthel skin

Thanks for the skin vote!

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Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika,

Living Turkey with a knife, fork & wearing a bib, please (like he's about to be the one doing the eating)

Meanwhile: 1000EP as a gatekeep for an objective is an interesting idea, but I wish it had either been lower (maybe 600 so Crooked Crow could jump right in) or hadn't disallowed shared EP; it's ironic that "Share % of owned EP with others in your bench seat" is a Rune slot many Crusaders have but the Soulful Escort rules prevent players from making use of that feature just when it would otherwise have come in really handy.

EDIT: Oh yeah: This is probably on the "Been asked before" list in some form, but a double arrow on the Missions screen to skip across 7 portraits instead of the single arrow going along 1 would help speeding through the available crusaders.

Also, maybe "Crusaders currently on missions" might be a useful filter for the Rune screen.

Hi Cassius,

RoboTurkey skin, got it!

If we allowed Shared EP, then the gate would probably have been higher, at like 3000 EP per Crusader, given how much EP can be shared on a bench seat.

Comment

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

can you confirm or deny the new T6 will be a native American ork?

Deny.

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Originally posted by PunkyKiss

Unrelated, but is there a limit to how many task masters you can own? I may have miscounted but there seem to be more available than there are spaces for in the collapsed menu, and I'd hate to buy a pack and not get the thing.

On topic, probably RoboTurkey

The taskmaster roster will reshape itself as you unlock more taskmasters. There's no limit on the amount you can own.

RoboTurkey skin, noted!