Thanks for the feedback.

I want to address a few things here about communication directly.

" It really hurts me to get on Reddit and hear all the negative feedback. It hurts because I agree with them. It hurts because they're right. "

Every developer in the studio feels the same as you. We are reading all these posts, and have been since Thursday (and before as well). The hardest part is the "it hurts because they're right". It sure does, and we know you are. No developer ever wants to launch their work to see this reaction. It's like a swift punch to the gut for each of them.

Right now, I'm working with them to make sure that all of this feedback is sorted and addressed, but it can be very overwhelming for us, not as devs, but as people with feelings. We're doing our best to respond, but we don't have the capacity to respond to every single thread, but we will continue to put out pinned updates. A lot of this stuff gets compiled into a weekly commu...

Oh, turns out you will be able to change your loadout (to all level gear) while on an island in Private Hunting Grounds in 1.6.1.

Thanks a ton for writing this all down. It was all super succinct and easy to read.

I've passed it on for the team to read over and I think it's a great summary of the last year. We've been trying a lot of new things, and not everything has clicked. This sort of measured feedback really helps us understand what is resonating with our fans.

Thanks again!

Hey there,

Yes, this isn't ideal, and it's something we want to change going forward. Right now, we have some other priorities on the go.

Rest in pieces, old Ramsgate <3

Trust me, it's much better to launch with a healthy system that players enjoy than have to undo our mistakes.

We want players to be happy when they get a new content drop. The fact that this topic has overshadowed our wound, pike, trials, and HG work is not the way we wanted it to go.

This was not the intended course, and we want to improve these systems so players are happy :)

Good news! We're eradicating crystals so it will be just one currency going forward.

Hey there,

I can't speak too much to this because I'm not a designer, but I know the intent of this system was to offer some risk versus reward to players. This probably works better during a private hunt at this time.

We wanted players to explore these structures and learn their importance through experimentation, so this can lead to some players not know how they work. The intent is that over time, the majority of players will know how these work and understand how to handle them. It might take some more time.

For now, I've passed on your feedback to the team!

We're having a lot of conversations around challenges right now and making sure they ask for a proper amount of time for our players.

We haven't locked in anything yet, but we want to take away all pressure to log in every single day.

2019 was before my time at PHX but from my understanding, those weekly challenges didn't give players enough flexibility to play when it was most valuable to them for the Hunt Pass. Back then, Weekly Challenges were the only way to get HPXP and they were pretty restrictive. Hence, the Bounty System (and its iterations).

Now that we have the Bounty System for HPXP and it provides the flexibility to players for that, we wanted to bring back a more structured system for earning cosmetic content. Bounties provide the "stacking" part of the content. The goal of Challenges is to get week over week engagement from players while making sure they are rewarded for their playtime. Daily is too aggressive and not aligned with how we wan...

Yup, a new Radiant HG is in the works and coming in 1.6.3.

It's looking glorious!

Sorry, but Urska has nothing to do with Embermane's model, it's just another four-legged mammal, so I understand the confusion. Completely new rig and set of animations.

We're putting out a making of video soon, so it should give some insight into the development of this Behemoth.

Thanks for the feedback, and I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the other mechanics in 1.6.0.

We'll do our best to tweak the cache to be more player-friendly and respectful of your time.

tbh, i'm not feelin super-intelligent right now

you've been warned

Hello Slayers,

1.6.0 launched yesterday, and we’re getting a ton of feedback in our channels around the state of this patch and Dauntless as a whole.

We’ve been pouring over Reddit since the launch of 1.6.0 and reading all the feedback coming in. Yes, there is a lot of it! It’s kicked off a ton of conversations within the Dauntless team. We’re in the process of identifying the major points of friction and coming up with our plan around them.
Overall, our goal with the Reward Cache was to let all players identify which items they valued and give a clear course to earning them. We thought this would be a better experience for obtaining rewards that Slayers wanted. Right now, the rate at which you earn these items, and the current Hunt Pass offerings, still need some work and tuning. We hear that.

Minor bugs aside (which are being logged and prioritized now, and you can follow them all on our Favro board), here are the major concerns we are hearing from ...

Thanks for the feedback! We're going to take these out tomorrow.

Investigating this bug currently. Thanks for the info!

Investigating a fix right now. Thanks!

Yup, looking into it!

Thanks for the report! We are looking into this now!

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