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I can answer your third question! We recently pivoted away from streams in favor of creating more videos like Behind the Behemoth. We have a few more in the works...

That being said, I'd love to come back for more casual hunts on streams and answer some questions live.

At this time, no. This would really bring down performance for players in the city, and right now, it isn't a priority. NPCs do talk though!

Environmental hazards are a big possibility though, especially for mods and such.

The plan WAS a bow, but we've put this on hold while we tighten up other game systems.

I can take the first two questions!

We're currently reworking a lot of the progression in Dauntless and keeping an eye on power creep. I've heard conversations about making more difficult modes of Escalations, and it's something we're considering but haven't committed to. Bottom line: We want players who have hit max power to have activities that challenge them.

As for interacting with the relic... Stay tuned.

Yes! We're currently working on something that will be added to the Roadmap on Friday.

Basically, we want to add explorative islands where Behemoths of varying difficulty spawn, allowing players to hunt to their heart's content. We're currently running some prototypes of this and it's showing A LOT of promise. In the future, these could hold more events and activities outside of just hunting (think sky fishing).

The intent of this is to explore ways in which we can make a mode that's more engaging and fun than the current patrols and pursuits.

Check back on Friday for the Roadmap update :)

We've put weapon 8 on hold while we rework some of the core features of Dauntless. Once we're in a happy place with progression, current weapons, and hunt types, we'll be returning to add more.

We'd had some discussions around this, but for now, we've pivoted away from mobile while we work on the core features of Dauntless.

We may return to mobile in the future, but at this time, no one is working on it.

This is actually a really neat idea...

A lot of these things are still in early development and are being reprioritized and shifted. I'll do my best to put these under soon and far, but take it with a grain of salt.

Ramsgate Rework: Very Soon
Sky fishing: Launching with Ramsgate Rework
Social Systems: Small iterations will drop as improvements are made, but big items (guilds) are far.
Trials rework: Far
Cells 2.0: Far
Sword Rework: Soon
Complete weapon rework: Far

Hey Meirnon,

There are plans to expand the Training Grounds into more of a dojo experience for deeper theory crafting, but this may take a back seat while we work on other features. We put in the foundation in 1.3.0 for so new players could get a better handle of weapons before they go into the wilderness and getting wrecked.
There currently aren't plans to return to Shock Esca, but we've seen some desire for Behemoth variants. If we decide to go back, we'll let you know.

Ramsgate rework is RIGHT around the corner. Like crazy close. I can't give you a date on that, but stay tuned over the next few weeks. Sword Rework is in the final stages of testing right now, so they may land around the same time as Ramsgate. At this time, we're unsure what the next rework will be OR when it will be. The priority may shift to focus on other large features. Once we figure that out, we'll post it in the Roadmap.

I can answer the first part of this. Our video editor is hard at work on the Behind the Behemoth video for Thrax and a community video. Once these are done, he'll have some time to go back to the Q&A video.

For stats, we don't have this planned for the near future, but we may do something for FPS down the road sometime, but it's not a focus.

As for other cities, I'm sure we will hear about them :D

Hey everyone, you may have noticed that we've been adding a ton of large features to the Development Roadmap over the past few months. We thought it would be a good time to answer any questions you have around these features and the future of Dauntless.

Many of these items are early in development and are subject to change, so pick our brains! We're happy to answer any questions about the reasoning behind these features.

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The AMA has concluded!
We have to get back to work. We hope we cleared up a few of your questions, and we're sorry we couldn't answer them all. We'll be leaving this thread up for a bit, and we may pop back in to answer a few more questions throughout the day.

Thanks for droppi...

I don't like the imagery you've put in my head.

Thanks for the heads up. I've gone ahead and passed this along.

Welp, we're going to fix it lol

Just a reminder that Derp reached out to have his past scores removed from the leaderboards and apologized for using an exploit then.

Mean and green

Hey there, these are logged and we're hoping to have them fixed in the next patch. Sorry about that!

ALL HAIL THE ORB

Sorry for the confusion. This was unintended, We weren't aware until recently after some investigation after 1.3.0. Now we know what was going on behind the scenes.

Once again, sorry about the confusion.