Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Gourou666

Quick thoughts to share. Even if most of those have already been said previously.
In the last months, the meta has been mostly fixed. No major change, just some small adjustments.

We had lots of new crusaders that went out almost as fast as they went in.
None could fit in the meta except for a few hours/days till they have been "updated".

Generally, when I start a dungeon run, I first charge Odile for about 1h (2h now because Agent 79's Ricochet Training), then I sprint till area 5,000 for one hour... Then I load my DPS team and let my speed team run for about 8 hours till area 15,000.

Thanks to the Discord community I could learn a bit about the propagation chains and their constant efforts allowed me (and others) to reach area 15,000 "easily" in dungeons runs.
For some players, it is not difficult to reach e3,000 DPS and run to area 15,000. I even reached area 19,000 for fun once, even if it is totally useless and time consuming.

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Originally posted by These_Panda_878

Hello, Erika.

• We want to see revamp of underperformed crusaders after Marzimallow nerf.
• Agent 79's Richochet ability should not be mimicked and propagated.
• Let's hope for UI revamp for crusader missions that would make it easier with roster of crusaders rather than single row.
• Hoping for next 5th tier objectives in Grim's Idle Tales and beyond. I would like to see I Like Potatoes with abilities, speed buffs and legendary item effects disabled for I Like Potatoes 5th tier objective as an example.
• I can't wait for next bunch of 8th tier talents and the future 6th tier talent of active tree will be seen but no concrete plans as of yet and we are not ruling out any ideas.

Originally posted by bippyarg

Grag just posted a very good illustration of the power available in the game without marzimallow, if you have the correct GLs. When Marzimallow was released, I thought you were doing a very clever meta reset that breaks you out of the GL dominated propagation pre-mime setups.

As released, Marzimallow certainly did that. We are able to build competitive forms without the huge propagation chains and hence without the complete GL domination.

But you nerfed Marzi to the ground, as it were, and now you are looking to add more power back. If you do this, please do the tests, with the real meta forms, and different amounts of GLs to get a truly competitive crusader. Getting e4000 to e5000 is really not a big deal. You don't need more than e2980 to cap dungeons so everyone is already just hitting 15k and the meta is about getting there as FAST as you can. Odile allowed even newish players to cap dungeons at the cost of stacking for an extra half hour per run.

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Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Hi, Erika. Thanks for the chest code.

You mentioned in another reply that you were going to be brainstorming with the team for dungeons Season 4 ideas. If I might make a suggestion: why not get some player feedback as well? I think we'd all be interested to hear what different ideas you have and to provide our opinions about what might work better or might not feel so good, from the standpoint of people who are playing and paying.

One interesting idea I've heard about is difficulty scaling, where the difficulty increase per wave and the subsequent rewards could be adjusted to a variety of levels. Maybe not in a strictly 1:1 sense, but perhaps like a 5% reward boost for a 25% difficulty boost or something like that.

I saw you mentioned only using a subset of crusaders for dungeons in another reply. I'm not so sure this would come off well, as it sort of defeats the purpose of dungeons as an alternative to challenges, which already have limitations like t...

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Originally posted by TFahab

I apologize in advance if those sounds more negative than intended, intricacies of text-based communication and whatnot. But that answer brings a couple more questions to mind.

#1, does anyone from the CNE/CoTLI team check the discord? It's widely used by a fairly decent number of players who rapidly test and figure things out (and submit bug reports where they feel necessary), and this particular interaction has been around long enough that it was part of all the "0 DPS" forms used to charge Odile since about a day after Odile was released.

#2, and I know this might be asking to peek too much behind the curtain of game development, but does anyone on the team play the game? It seems like a significant number of crusaders released over the last year have had to be significantly tweaked within days (if not hours) because of unanticipated interactions that could have been caught by play-testing, or lacking that if there's not resources for a robust-enough test en...

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Originally posted by billyjoe99

Hi Erika,

Thanks for the code.

I'm sure you'll get a few comments today about Marzi, but here's my contribution.

For a short spell it looked like we had something new to play with, something to get us out of the prop/GL rut that we've been in for some time, but then that was sadly removed from us within a day on some belief that it was to OP. This belief is however unfounded as many can get e5000/e6000 DPS already with what we have, so Marzi was going to make very little difference to people in that respect. Please consider putting it back the way it was and then maybe engage with the community as to ideas as to how to get away from the current meta.

A79, why was she nerfed, if the only reason was to make hippo farming evening longer than that seems a little petty, more so given the nerf of Marzi, which would have given people a chance to reduce/abandon such farming. Please revert back to the way she was.

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Originally posted by isawbones

Hi Erika,

Have you considered having a set of beta testers who are super active in the community? A lot of games have a small subset of active players they can bounce ideas off of and test new things before they come out. This might help you and the team avoid things like Marzi and Crow before they ever go live to everyone.
We want the game to be as awesome as possible so please bounce your ideas off of us and we will give your our honest feedback.

Originally posted by staryteresy

Hi Erika,

I have a question: version 0.287 from 25.03.2021 - Added Gear and Recruit missions for Odile, Ursula, Pascal and Rosoideae. But I don't have any new gear upgrade missions for those crusaders. Why?

Best regards, Piotr

Originally posted by TheKnoticalMenace

Hello, Erika! I want to say thank you for giving us the very first Animal Crusader that has the Clicker tag! (Of course, it's a skin for RoboRabbit, but still! That's awesome!)

Anyways, is there a possibility that there will be a small update that is performance-related? I really don't like it when there are a lot of numbers popping up when there's a lot going on. So, will there be an option to disable gold text and health text?

Hopefully you can understand what I said.

Also, marshmallows! They're brutally delicious.

Originally posted by invento_kave

I have experienced a baffling phenomenon: a mission failing when 100% of the requirements were fulfilled. Is there still a small chance of failure even at 100%? Was it a trick of the eye? I'm roughly at 2200 missions completed.

Originally posted by EvilHoodieNinja

Hey Erika! Long time player. While this is super out of season (By a year or so) I was out when Morrigan the Furious was introduced. About three years ago during your 65th Q&A I requested a leprechaun DPS. I'm happy that my suggestion was finally fufilled! :D I'm offically putting in my request for a new support leprechaun, a leperchaun robot, a leprechaun angel, and a leprechaun demon so in another three years I can tote that it was my suggestion if any of them are made :P

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika,

1) If you're going to do an objective where only one ability can do damage (as Eat Your Carrots does with Biff's Carrot) please ensure that one thing is activated automatically at start. Having to manipulate Gold Find & burn warps just to get out of Area 1 was not pleasant...

2) Can you unnerf Ricochet please? It's Agent 79's best (and main) trick and 100% bouncy-bouncy is a thing of beauty (especially when combined with the likes of Arachnobuddy and Greyskull who can really pump out the blasts...). If we can't have it at 100%, maybe a cap at 80-90%?

Originally posted by TFahab

Since the Marzi topic is covered, I'll ask this one: why were Agent 79's abilities modified?

Originally posted by genner13

Hi Erika. Hope you are all ok. I have a question regarding the Agent nerf: why? It wasn´t necesesary, only goes to make longer farming.

Despite all of that, have you consider to do a mantis for gardeners, it's been a long time since we have a guardian character. I watched these movies last weekend, i haven't do it before, and I think she has some intersting quirks that can translate cool into a crusader

Originally posted by gragatrim

I wrote this below before seeing the Q&A pop up, so I see you already plan on re-adjusting Marzimallow, but I still wanted to post it in case it helps in any way. Thanks for all the effort you are putting into this crusader! On that note, I guess there isn't much you need to say about the below, so anything you want to share about S4 of the dungeons?

I wrote a very long post with some of my thoughts regarding the current meta, but I wanted to post a smaller bit of data here. The concern shown over the amount of raw power Marzimallow gave the players I think possibly wasn't looked at with enough context. As a test I decided to fully stack Odile(which I never even need to come close to doing to reach area 15k) and see how much DPS I could get and compare it to the DPS another player had achieved using the exact same formation, just they had no relevant GLs, while I had GLs on Mindy, Langley, Tiernan, and Hildr. If you take a look at this image

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