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The latest season Crusader stars in our Spaaaaaace colouring sheet, now available on our website.
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We'll add the sheets to next week's challenge as we work towards the buff!
Read moreHi and thanks for the code,
I read the blog and while it had some good info, I don't feel that I know just what the "Flash Sale System" is and how taskmasters fit into it.
I gather that the Flash Sale System starts with the Flash Sales that we get periodically, but those items also appear in the Challenge Shop also. Is the Challenge Shop part of the "system" too?
As for taskmasters, I don't recall ever seeing a taskmaster in a Flash Sale, so we will see this in the future?
If not, then where can we expect to see them for purchase?
Picking up on the material mining comments, I'm most disappointed that the tier 5 objectives are capped at area 4,038 (if Oona is available and used). The talent talks about capping at 16,000 areas beyond, which of course is well beyond the normal cap of area 11,974, but the difficulty scaling of Tier 5 deprives us of more than half that much.
The idea of paying out materials on smaller incremen...
Hi tl93,
You're welcome for the chests.
The Golden Epics from the item packs will start in Flash Sales only, like the normal Golden Epics from weekend promos and events, and may eventually get into the Challenge Store rotation.
The taskmasters from the packs going into the Flash Sales would be new tech, and those would remain Flash Sale only items.
There may be a DPS cap increase coming, and of course, with the max 16,000 areas cap, it covers the various range of players with objectives to complete, and if we ever go uncapped completely.
Yeah, on objectives where she's allowed, Zuczek can kinda flatten things at the moment. Glad you're enjoying the talents as well.
Cheers!
Tracking would be ideal, but if it is too difficult to implement, then an alternative would be a single reward when reaching a second "completion", very high area (e.g. the max 16000 of material mining). With some of the objectives that would be quite challenging even for veteran players. That said, I'm not sure materials (or rubies) would be incentive enough, perhaps some additional runes, rune chests, or challenge tokens?
There could also be intermediate rewards that can be won every time provided they are small (e.g. idols, given that, as it is, the gain of idols in objectives and even in freeplay is insiginificant compared to dungeons)
Incentives for going deep has been a consistent request over the years. I'll add your ideas to the item on the suggestion list and we'll see what happens.
But there was no incentive to surpass the completion area for objectives. In fact, for many objectives - especially in the early days - we were doing them when we were just barely able to complete them, certainly not going 500 areas further. AS there was no material mining then, it could just be assumed on the first replay that one's high was only to completion - and if you implemented tracking fairly quickly there would only be a very little overlap with some of the objectives done since the talent's recent release.
(And not everyone has bothered even on these recent objectives to surpass the goal far enough to use the new talent anyway. I haven't, anyway. And DrS above is waiting to max the talent - so would there be much double-dipping?).
True, assumptions could be made about the past completion of objectives.
I'll discuss it with the team and we'll see what happens.
At some point, if you are looking for a massive release of "almost zero effort for dev" content for end gamers, you should add a T6/11th (or whatever) that resets ALL objectives. You would then have literally months of content for end game folks to go back through all the old objectives and try to max them for material mining. Maybe this is sadistic content, I'm not sure I have a bad filter for such things!
That definitely would be a lot of content, and a little sadistic since there's no sprint on objectives, but it would be an idea.
Thanks, I appreciate the consideration. Sometimes, 100 areas or so is really about the best you can do due to objective "extra complications" (slower speed due to available crusaders or things auto-killing, slots getting replaced, etc.), especially on the upper tiers. Or at least, you may not be able to get 500 more areas...
True, there are definitely those objectives that would be tricky, if the formation is full of escorts after a certain area, etc.
I vote for it too!
Noted!
Add my vote for partial rewards on that talent.
Will do. :)
Every 100, or even 50, +1 vote.
50 is within doable range for pushing the extra distance. Buffs, legendaries, rune changes.
Interesting, thanks for the insight. :)
Read morePerhaps one unintended effect of material mining is that I
have stopped doing objectives until the talent is maxed. Since you can’t do the
objectives twice, this is needed if you want to max out your gain.
No biggie, just OCD, but it got me thinking, more generally,
would it not enhance a lot the replayability of the game if we could replay
these objectives and try to beat our previous score, provided there would be an
incentive to do so? Of course to avoid abusive farming the original reward
should only be won once, and any additional reward from material farming (or
possibly others) won only if one does go above the previous score (e.g. reaching
6500 should net only one more bundle of materials if previous score was 6000). The
great advantage of this over dungeons (although these are great too) is that objectives
force us to play differently (different formations, special conditions, etc.)
and thus to boost and use diffe...
Thank you for the feedback on the talent.
We've had requests to replay objectives in the past, so I'll add your vote to that item on the suggestion list.
We don't currently store how far you got on an objective, just that you reached the area required to complete it and trigger the completed state, so beating your high score for an objective for Material Mining wouldn't be something we would consider adding.
Add me to that vote. Would allign with other talents such as deep idol scavenger.
Noted. :)
Add me to the vote on 1/5 mats per 100 areas too for Material Mining.
Will do.
I hoped more like a slot or a special/unique ability :>
I may tease more on stream next Tuesday.
I meant to write something about this earlier because now I've forgotten exactly which one, but Euodia's Heavenly Defender skin does not make her eligible for use on an objective that I did recently. Maybe the Hellmouth event for angel? Or something requiring having wings?
There was an issue with the flag for her skin, but we resolved that for sure on Tuesday with the game update we did.
Hi!
Can you give us some info on what is to come with the next dungeon season? what rewards/difficulties do we have to look forward to?
what about difficulty curve? the last season could be tackled to level 40 in less than 2 weeks, yet we had about 10 times that amount of time to get it done
Hi XZlayeD,
So as I've mentioned before, difficulty 4 will be there, and we've extended the amount of extra reward levels beyond level 25 so players can get some more prizes for their points. It's taskmasters instead of skins this season. The new dungeon Crusader astronaut friend.
Season 5 should not be finished in 2 weeks, since we've changed the drop scaling again, though I suppose someone could prove me wrong by spending all their dungeon coins on sprinting for points.
Hi!
Any tease about a new dungeon crudaser?
:>
Hi jambonatorrr,
The season 5 Crusader will be an Human Male Astronaut Crusader, which should be fun. :)
Hello! I wanted to report that the recipes for the ongoing event seem to be open already. I just recruited Aphelion and have gotten one of his rare recipes immediately after, through a recipe mission. Same for the common/uncommon recipes for Zoraeban. Feel free to ignore if the game is working as intended. Thank you for putting lots of energy and care into this game.
Hi invento_kave,
That would be a bug. We'll get them locked up for the next 2 weeks and change.
Hello Erica,
For when can we expect the beginning of the 5th season?
Hi Sarali1533,
We're still aiming for Wed Sept 29th, and we're on track so far, so cross fingers. :D
PS. And there was also an idea to distribute promotional codes to the DLC during streams, or in some other way (in response to my suggestion to repeat the distribution as before through the keys issued to various promotional sites). But as far as I can see, it was abandoned.
We're not planning on giving Steam keys to promotional sites for Crusaders DLC at this time.
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