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07 Sep

What I think Dauntless will become

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Originally posted by Meirnon

Been here since the first reveal at The Game Awards, GTez, and I have always appreciated PHXL's attempts (successful or otherwise) at transparency and valuing their community.

You should be proud of your studio. I'm always glad to be here.

Thank you! <3

That reveal was so nerve wracking. Both times I've been up on stage at the game awards I blacked out from the nerves. Don't remember a second of it. Last year all I remember is from a few minutes later sitting next to the Dead Cells guys, who are super inspiring btw.

What I think Dauntless will become

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Originally posted by Meirnon

Let's see... PHXL has:

  1. Removed lootboxes from the game before the controversy. Then refunded the platinum spent on them. Then let people keep what they got.
  2. Compensated players who made purchases for features that are no longer in the game, such as style hunter and guild charters.
  3. Normalized their premium currency to a 100=$1 standard so that there is no obscure value headmath going on when trying to figure out "how much is XXX platinum really worth" in the store
  4. Gave extra goodies, free of charge, to players.
  5. Extended hunt passes regularly whenever bugs cropped up.
  6. Finished all players huntpasses and granted them all the associated rewards regardless of their progress when the servers had to be taken offline during the final week of that huntpass.
  7. Recently changed transmog stones so that they're permanent unlocks of gear skins instead of one-swap-per-use.
  8. Are giving people who lost their transmogs 10 free...
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Our goal is to always do right by the players. Can't say we're perfect. But we always try our best, and commit to owning up to and making right our mistakes.

Teleports and Lag

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Originally posted by SpanishHunter

Thanks... I wish PXL said something about the problem of SA and European Servers

We have -

European servers shouldn't have any issues. Nor are we seeing wide-spread reports. If you're specifically having a problem please reach out to Customer service so we can investigate further (we need account details etc which shouldn't be posted to Reddit)

For South America, as I've said before, our hosting provider is having issues, and so users are routed to the next best region. I have no ETA on a resolution as it's not ours to fix.

That said, we're actively working on finishing the work to enable dodging to be client-side with server fixups instead of serverside with client fixups. This is pretty tough as it breaks a bunch of core assumptions we have in the game. It's been moved up in priority and is in active development.

What I think Dauntless will become

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Originally posted by B1G_MACC

Honestly, this is one of the games I feel where they do the balance between paid and free players right. All paid content is either cosmetic or is balanced out once free players reach endgame (i.e. more dust for middleman). The only complaint I really have is the hunt pass length reduction.

The only complaint I really have is the hunt pass length reduction.

Totally hear ya here. We're trying to find the right balance in both our patch cycles, content production cadence, and financials. We're looking at finding a way to slow down again for Season 7 and still hit our dates.


06 Sep

Excuse me wtf

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Originally posted by Yogibareass

Oh they work properly now. The problem is that anyone who used a stone before this patch had all stone transmogs removed. Either because the developers are sleazy money grubbing assholes or it's a bug. Take your pick.

Def slezballs jerk faces.

Dauntless Lore -- Ask Me Anything!

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How bad is it to work at Phoenix Labs since I moved my desk near you last week?

Dear God, it's about time

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Originally posted by Constantglitches

i've spent around 300 and I'm far from owning everything.

Thank you <3


05 Sep

Gauntlets confirmed in Nintendo Direct

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Originally posted by Praxxah

The game runs like shit on pc too. I used to have a 1030 and it ran at 1080p half-res with dynamic resolution and all settings on lowest and you could barely see 50fps in squad screens. It runs pretty well on an Rx 480 but I still think they've got a lot of room to improve. A f2p game really needs to be more accessible just for profitability IMO.

Huge focus for the team right now. More than 10 folks entirely focused on performance improvement. Each patch should see significant improvements this year.

Gauntlets confirmed in Nintendo Direct

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Originally posted by AodanGaming

Have you taken up the leaky lobster mantle? Seems like it. Are we to call you Leaky Crab now?

Best make haste about your moniker.

I'm very interested and wondering what "evolving" armor means.

He doesn't get my title until her earns it. Leak more JPow.


30 Aug

For how long do we have to endure this? I've had it hit 100 just standing not even moving.

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Originally posted by Mr_TakeYoGurlBack

i7-8700K 16gb DDR4 GTX 1080 Ti

It started happening in this patch, everything was perfect before hand

Thanks for the report. We'll take a look!


29 Aug

For how long do we have to endure this? I've had it hit 100 just standing not even moving.

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What type of PC do you have? We only see this, internally, on PCs that are below min spec or have some other weird thing like a VPN or Anti-Virus going nuts.

I love the styxians and the concept of hostile wildlife.

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Originally posted by Meirnon

The devs are absolutely going to add more aggressive and passive fauna, and have them inhabit the islands at some point. That was part of their pitch to the community when adding them to the roadmap, and they haven't backtracked on it at all.

There won't be a large styxian pack leader as a behemoth because styxians are fauna, not behemoths. Behemoths aren't animals. That doesn't mean there won't be a behemoth who doesn't use them as a mechanic in the future (Boreus psionically dominates the minions it calls, which are simply fauna, not behemoths themselves, for example), but it won't itself be a sharkcat.

There won't be a large styxian pack leader as a behemoth because styxians are fauna, not behemoths.

I'd be totally down for a big Styxian with little ones encounter!

Are SA servers still down?

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Yes, SA servers are still offline, and folks are being routed to the next fastest regions. Our provider is still having issues providing the service we need in this area. I don't have an ETA. We're also working super hard to get local hit detection fully debugged so we can roll it out which will dramatically reduce the challenges that come with above average ping.


21 Aug

South American server issues?

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We're investigating a number of hosting provider issues we've been having over the course of the last while. We've rerouted some folks to North America who would normally be in our Sao Paulo region. I don't have an ETA on the fix as it's a hosting issue not a Dauntless code issue. I'm sorry for any issues this is causing folks , we want to deliver the best experience we can at our scale.

Dauntless surpasses 14 million players

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Originally posted by divinecake

I guess this is the reason the game is literally unplayable lately :( I get shitty latency and extreme delay in the Asia region. Regardless congrats Phoenix Labs!

Where abouts are you? Nothing in our Singaporean servers should have changed for the worse.

Day 1 - 0:56 Dauntless Kharabak | Week 6

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Originally posted by -SpaceShorts-

Are you able to spectate on runs in progress, or are you watching twitch streams?

We have the ability to record matches for later viewing, but it's a data storage nightmare, so we don't turn it on for production matches.

In this case I have a TV at my desk and twitch was running.

Shamelessly plugging a little app I wrote. Twitch Dashboard App allows us to have TV's playing streams all day throughout the office.

Dauntless surpasses 14 million players

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Originally posted by SirKeksalot

inb4 people keep saying it's gonna die for some reason

EDIT: Why you booing me, I'm right!

HashTagRIPDauntless :(

Edit: woah formatting fail

Day 1 - 0:56 Dauntless Kharabak | Week 6

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Originally posted by AodanGaming

Thank you to Repeath, Predhelt, CoroMaru, and Spaceshorts for strats, practice and accomplishing the Sub 1 on Day 1

Very beatable, we feel that a 0:40 or even a high 0:30 is possible. Hopefully we will see some different strats, we spent about all day on discord theory crafting options. We spent about a good 2 hours together doing runs before we got the sub 1 run. Theory Crafting helps a lot with eliminating options.

Spent the day watching folks - man some great fights today.

Dauntless surpasses 14 million players

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Originally posted by Vilrein

This is really awesome, and I'm happy to see that the hard work the people at Phoenix Labs have put into dauntless has made it such a hit. Just wanted to also say that I love all you people in the community, and I look forward to seeing the community grow even further <3

Much love. I look forward to continuing to bust my ass for you all.

Please tell me I wasn't the only one that thought about this.

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We called this feature the Mayo Vs Ketchup feature, after Splatfest inspiration. I loved Splatfests and thought they had an awesome association feeling.